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• Anna Maria Wilhelmina den Hoedt, 's Gravenhage
• Antonius Theodorus Johannes Salman, Noordwijk († 2007)
• Antonia Petronella van de Wiel, Drunen
• Antje Grond, St. Jacobiparochie
• Anna Maria Joanna Gybels, Eindhout, België
• Aaltje van de Vosse, Heerde, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aafje Anna Teunisd de Vries, Alkmaar
• Antonius Alphonsius CORNELISSEN, Zandvliet, Antwerpen, Belgie († 1956)
• Antoinette Bongers, Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland
• Antoinette Petronella van Eijbergen, Amsterdam

• Antonius Joannes van Loon (0), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria Baeten (2), Lier
• Almeda Melissa Densmore (64), Montevideo, Chippewa, Minnesota, United States
• Adriana Elizabeth (Nicolaasd) Boeren (0)
• Koster, Rotterdam
• Adriana Cornelia Brouwer (0), Papendrecht
• Anne Oldersma (1), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Cornelis Leonardus Stijnman (0), Stompwijk, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Antje Wokke, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anne Elisabet Pedersdatter (73), Bodø, Nordland, Norway

• 1890 » Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, American author and activist († 1964)
• 1901 » Ann Harding, American actress and singer († 1981)
• 1903 » Louis Leakey, Kenyan-English palaeontologist and archaeologist († 1972)
• 1904 » Ralph Bunche, American political scientist, academic, and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate († 1971)
• 1907 » Albert Kotin, Belarusian-American soldier and painter († 1980)
• 1910 » Freddie Slack, American pianist and bandleader († 1965)
• 1911 » István Bibó, Hungarian lawyer and politician († 1979)
• 1911 » Nicholas Ray, American director and screenwriter († 1979)
• 1913 » George Van Eps, American guitarist († 1998)
• 1916 » Kermit Love, American actor, puppeteer, and costume designer († 2008)

• 1855 » Mariano Arista, Mexican general and politician, 19th President of Mexico (b. 1802)
• 1864 » Li Xiucheng, Chinese field marshal (b. 1823)
• 1893 » Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer and academic (b. 1854)
• 1899 » Jacob Maris, Dutch painter and educator (b. 1837)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Liebknecht, German lawyer and politician (b. 1826)
• 1912 » François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss limnologist and academic (b. 1841)
• 1917 » Edwin Harris Dunning, South African-English commander and pilot (b. 1891)
• 1938 » Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian actor and director (b. 1863)
• 1941 » Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1948 » Charles Bryant, English-American actor and director (b. 1879)

• 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 14 » The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor).
• May 29 » In the May Coup, Alexander I, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
• July 19 » Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.
• July 23 » The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
• September 27 » The Wreck of the Old 97, an American rail disaster that became the subject of a popular ballad.

The temperature on August 7, 1903 was between 7.3 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 14.7 hours of sunshine (97%).