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• Aleida Harmina Oonk, Winterswijk († 1960)
• Abraham Finsi, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Aad Adrianus-Antonius Biemans, den Hoorn (Delft ), Nederland († 1974)
• Alexander Filott, Susteren († 1919)
• Adriana Schipper, Bergschenhoek, Gemeente Lansingerland, Zuid-Holland, NEDERLAND († 1904)
• * Jacobus Johannes Veenmans, Weesperkarspel († 1958)
• Agatha van den Heuvel, Gouda († 1932)
• Adrianus Korsmit, Zevenbergen (NL)
• Albertus Johannes Koop, Mill en Sint Hubert
• Agatha Maria RAVEN, Sawa Lunto, Padang

• Christina MEESTERS (63), Mopertingen, 3740, Bilzen-Hoeselt, Limburg, België
• Aaltje Jonker (0), Assen
• Carolina Joanna Nicolasina Timmermans (0), Tilburg
• Adrianus van de Wijdeven (70), Erp, Nederland
• Antonius van Rooijen (79), Woerden
• Adriana Vermeulen (28), Sliedrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bouwe Marcusz Bouwman (59), Gaasterland-Sloten =Balk, fr.nld
• Berry Benton (Little Berry) Cooley (81)
• Christian Maubach (66), Vaals,Gemeente Vaals,Limburg,Nederland
• Arthur Ingalls Benyon (40), Newton Ward 1, Middlesex, Massachusetts

• 1896 » Felix Steiner, Russian-German SS officer († 1966)
• 1897 » Jimmie Guthrie, Scottish motorcycle racer († 1937)
• 1898 » Josef Terboven, German soldier and politician († 1945)
• 1898 » Scott O'Dell, American soldier, journalist, and author († 1989)
• 1899 » Jeralean Talley, American super-centenarian († 2015)
• 1900 » Franz Leopold Neumann, German lawyer and theorist († 1954)
• 1900 » Hans Frank, German lawyer and politician († 1946)
• 1908 » Hélène Boucher, French pilot († 1934)
• 1908 » John Bardeen, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1991)
• 1910 » Margaret Wise Brown, American author and educator († 1952)

• 1886 » Leopold von Ranke, German historian and academic (b. 1795)
• 1893 » Anton von Schmerling, Austrian politician (b. 1805)
• 1895 » Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician (b. 1798)
• 1906 » Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian director, playwright, and poet (b. 1828)
• 1908 » François Coppée, French poet and author (b. 1842)
• 1920 » Svetozar Boroević, Croatian-Austrian field marshal (b. 1856)
• 1921 » August Nilsson, Swedish shot putter and tug of war competitor (b. 1872)
• 1934 » Bonnie Parker, American criminal (b. 1910)
• 1934 » Clyde Barrow, American criminal (b. 1909)
• 1934 » Mihkel Martna, Estonian journalist and politician (b. 1860)

• 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.
• February 11 » Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna, Austria.
• February 23 » Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
• April 19 » The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
• July 4 » The Philippine–American War is officially concluded.
• August 3 » Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists for only ten days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.
• October 6 » The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.

The temperature on May 23, 1903 was between 9.4 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 13.3 hours of sunshine (83%).