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• Albert Bosarge, Lakeshore, Hancock, Mississippi († 1969)
• Alberta Mol, Rhenen († 1972)
• Aaltje Kruit, Emmen, Nederland
• Adrianus Luijten, Ginneken en Bavel († 1985)
• Pieter Brinissen Zijlmans, Vrijhoeve-Capelle († 1903)
• van Scherpenzeel, Wassenaar, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1903)
• Aalstje Triezenberg, Stedum, Westeremden († 1994)
• Adrianus Josephus Verbelen, Bornem,, Antwerpen, België
• 'Carlo' Charles Marie Joseph Antoine Hyacinthe BEECKMANS de WEST-MEERBEECK, Antwerpen, 2000, Antwerpen, Belgique († 1989)
• Adolphe B. AERTS, Zwijndrecht

• Anna Margaretha Stevens (34), Oberlangen, Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Alfons CASTELEIN (22), Markegem
• Aafje van Dijk (66), Buiksloot
• Adrianus Verhaar (0), Nieuwveen, Nieuwkoop, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Akke Gerrits de Vries (40), Tietjerksteradeel (Giekerk), Friesland, Netherlands
• András Lovász (72), Berettyóújfalu, Magyarország
• Anna Maria Van Genechten (85), Leopoldsburg, 3970, Limburg, België
• Berendina Meuleman (53), Laren, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana Anna van Dijk (0), Driebergen
• Berend Hoekert (0), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1900 » Herbert Bayer, Austrian-American graphic designer, painter, and photographer († 1985)
• 1900 » Roman Steinberg, Estonian wrestler († 1928)
• 1900 » Spencer Tracy, American actor († 1967)
• 1901 » Chester Bowles, American diplomat and ambassador († 1986)
• 1901 » Curt Bois, German actor († 1991)
• 1901 » Doggie Julian, American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach († 1967)
• 1901 » Melvyn Douglas, American actor († 1981)
• 1902 » Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Russian-American rabbi († 1994)
• 1903 » Marion Aye, American actress († 1951)
• 1904 » Richard Eberhart, American poet and academic († 2005)

• 1891 » Johann Hermann Bauer, (b. 1861)
• 1900 » Joseph Bertrand, French mathematician, economist, and academic (b. 1822)
• 1900 » Osman Nuri Pasha, Ottoman field marshal and the hero of the Siege of Plevna in 1877 (b. 1832)
• 1901 » Angelo Messedaglia, Italian social scientist and statistician (b. 1820)
• 1902 » Hans Ernst August Buchner, German bacteriologist (b. 1850)
• 1904 » Ernst Leopold, 4th Prince of Leiningen (b. 1830)
• 1904 » Frances Power Cobbe, Irish writer (b. 1822)
• 1906 » Eastman Johnson, American painter (b. 1824)
• 1914 » Bernard Borggreve, German forestry scientist (b. 1836)
• 1916 » Maksim Kovalevsky, Russian sociologist (b. 1851)

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.3 million citizens.
• January 4 » Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The Edison film company records the film Electrocuting an Elephant of Topsy's death.
• January 17 » El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
• April 29 » A landslide kills 70 people in Frank, in the District of Alberta, Canada.
• August 18 » German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
• November 17 » The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups: The Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").
• December 30 » A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.

The temperature on April 5, 1903 was between 2.5 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (67%).