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• Alida Louisa Lantrok, Noordwijk
• Adrianus Harmsen, Willemstad, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1903)
• Adella Spieker, Kossuth County, Iowa († 1928)
• Andrej Georgijevitch de Beauharnais, Saint-Pétersbourg, Russie († 1919)
• Alberta Johanna Rombout, Buren,, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alberta Johanna Rombout, Buren
• Aartje Adriana Johanna van Engelsdorp Gastelaars, Amsterdam, Nederland
• Alfred William Edward Rosenwinkel, Addison Township († 1974)
• Achilles Souffriau, Denderhoutem
• Alphonsus Casimirus Josephus Danco, Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland

• Hekman, Winschoten
• Arie van der Kaa (14), Haarlem
• Antje Kloosterman (43), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Antje Sikkema (74), Dokkum (gem. Dongeradeel, Friesland)
• Albert Jans Bos (69)
• Aafke van der Meer (39), Franeker
• Bernardus Meijs (63), Haarlem
• Alexander Henry RUST (38), Springfield, Clark Co., Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• Adrianus Josephus de Raad (0), Ammerzoden
• Bastiaan van der Hoek (60), goudswaard

• 1901 » Barbara Cartland, prolific English author († 2000)
• 1902 » Peter Acland, English soldier († 1993)
• 1905 » Clarence Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player and referee († 1984)
• 1907 » Eddie Dean, American singer-songwriter († 1999)
• 1908 » Allamah Rasheed Turabi, Pakistani philosopher and scholar († 1973)
• 1908 » Minor White, American photographer, critic, and educator († 1976)
• 1909 » Basil Wolverton, American author and illustrator († 1978)
• 1910 » Govan Mbeki, South African anti-apartheid and ANC leader and activist († 2001)
• 1911 » John Archibald Wheeler, American physicist and author († 2008)
• 1911 » Mervyn Peake, English author and illustrator († 1968)

• 1856 » Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist and academic (b. 1776)
• 1880 » Paul Broca, French physician and anatomist (b. 1824)
• 1882 » Ignacio Carrera Pinto, Chilean captain (b. 1848)
• 1903 » Alphonse François Renard, Belgian geologist and photographer (b. 1842)
• 1927 » John Drew, Jr., American actor (b. 1853)
• 1932 » King Camp Gillette, American businessman, founded the Gillette Company (b. 1855)
• 1937 » Oliver Law, American commander (b. 1899)
• 1938 » Benjamin N. Cardozo, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1870)
• 1947 » Lucjan Żeligowski, Polish-Lithuanian general and politician (b. 1865)
• 1949 » Fritz Hart, English-Australian composer and conductor (b. 1874)

• 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.
• 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.
• August 2 » The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising against the Ottoman Empire begins.
• October 1 » Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
• October 13 » The Boston Red Sox win the first modern World Series, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates in the eighth game.
• November 3 » With the encouragement of the United States, Panama separates from Colombia.
• November 17 » The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups: The Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").

The temperature on July 9, 1903 was between 6.1 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (23%).