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• Adriana Huiberdina Wagemakers, Loon op Zand († 1949)
• Aartje Arendse, Nijkerkerveen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltje Sterk, Franeker
• * Philippus Johan van Gelderen, Schoonhoven († 1985)
• Absalom Graves Willis, Lignum, Virginia († 1998)
• Vink, Herwen en Aerdt († 1903)
• Alberdina Maria UIJEN, Hees, 1437, Gelderland, Nederland
• Albertus Sipma, Harlingen
• Alberdina Maria Uijen, Nijmegen († 1988)
• Adrianus Jacobus MERTENS, Weelde, Ravels, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium († 1971)

• Amanda C Mills (62)
• Bauke Lammertsz Corée (73), Deinum, menaldumadeel, fr.nld
• Bauke Lammerts Coree (73), Menaldumadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Christiana FRANCKEN (83), Utrecht, 5553, Utrecht, Nederland
• Berendina Johanna Oosterink (77), Velswijk (Zelhem)
• Annegien NIEMEIJER (65), Groningen (Groningen, The Netherlands)
• Anna Maria Benardine de Cloedt
• Aartje Foppen (0), Harderwijk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anthonie Cingel, van der (0), Zierikzee gem. Schouwen Duiveland Zld. NL
• Antonius VAN HEYST (83), Gierle, Lille, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium

• 1898 » Clemente Biondetti, Italian race car driver († 1955)
• 1900 » Ruth Bonner, Soviet Communist activist, sentenced to a labor camp during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge († 1987)
• 1900 » Ruth Norman, American religious leader († 1993)
• 1902 » Adamson-Eric, Estonian painter († 1968)
• 1902 » Margaret Murie, American environmentalist and author († 2003)
• 1903 » Lucienne Boyer, French singer († 1983)
• 1904 » Max Factor, Jr., American businessman († 1996)
• 1905 » Enoch Light, American bandleader, violinist, and recording engineer († 1978)
• 1906 » Curtis Jones, American blues pianist and singer († 1971)
• 1906 » Marcel Carné, French director and screenwriter († 1996)

• 1850 » Honoré de Balzac, French novelist and playwright (b. 1799)
• 1886 » Eli Whitney Blake, American inventor, invented the Mortise lock (b. 1795)
• 1919 » Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian businessman and politician, founded the Seagram Company (b. 1841)
• 1940 » Walter Chrysler, American businessman, founded Chrysler (b. 1875)
• 1943 » Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Azerbaijani general (b. 1865)
• 1944 » Ernst Thälmann, German soldier and politician (b. 1886)
• 1945 » Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian activist and politician (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Paul Mares, American trumpet player and bandleader (New Orleans Rhythm Kings) (b. 1900)
• 1950 » Julien Lahaut, Belgian soldier and politician (b. 1884)
• 1952 » Alberto Hurtado, Chilean priest, lawyer, and saint (b. 1901)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Gerrit
8. Adrianus
9. Petrus
10. Jacob
11. Jacobus
12. Arie
13. Dirk
14. Wilhelmus
15. Hendrikus
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Jacoba
11. Petronella
12. Geertruida
13. Aaltje
14. Grietje
15. Neeltje
16. Trijntje

• 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.
• June 19 » Benito Mussolini, at the time a radical Socialist, is arrested by Bern police for advocating a violent general strike.
• July 23 » The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
• August 18 » German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
• October 6 » The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
• November 17 » The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups: The Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").
• December 17 » The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

The temperature on August 18, 1903 was between 11.6 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (4%).