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• Adrianus van Loon, Drunen
• Aaldert Jan Duinkerken, Riegshoogtendijk, Hoogeveen († 1904)
• Aaldert Jan Duinkerken, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• adriana marrigje slingerland, hekendorp
• Aart Jan Teunis Verbeek, Elst, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1985)
• Aart Teunis Jan Verbeek, Elst,, Gelderland, Nederland († 1985)
• Adriana Maartje Van STRIEN, Abbenbroek
• Abraham Gerrit Boehle, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands († 1958)
• Dina Pol, Hoogeveen († 1956)
• Adolf Cornelis Visser, Opperdoes, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1993)

• Anna Vermeij (79), Sliedrecht
• Anna Catharina Habets, Kerkrade (L
• Antonius Caelenberghe (75), Zedelgem
• Aaltje Hendriks Spijkerman (42), Meppel
• Anthonie Schotel (47), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Gerardus Johannes Verdam (0), Reeuwijk
• Adriana Holm (53), Rotterdam Zhl. NL
• Arend de Vries (0), Uffelte (Havelte), Drenthe, Nederland
• Anthonie Schotel (47), Dordrecht
• Adriaan van Hooff (91), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1900 » Adlai Stevenson II, American soldier, politician, and diplomat, 5th United States Ambassador to the United Nations († 1965)
• 1903 » Joan Whitney Payson, American businesswoman and philanthropist († 1975)
• 1903 » Koto Matsudaira, Japanese diplomat, ambassador to the United Nations († 1994)
• 1906 » John Carradine, American actor († 1988)
• 1907 » Birgit Dalland, Norwegian politician († 2007)
• 1907 » Pierre Pflimlin, French politician, Prime Minister of France († 2000)
• 1908 » Daisy and Violet Hilton, English conjoined twins († 1969)
• 1908 » Eugen Weidmann, German criminal († 1939)
• 1908 » Marie Baron, Dutch swimmer and diver († 1948)
• 1908 » Peg Entwistle, Welsh-American actress († 1932)

• 1881 » Thomas Carlyle, Scottish philosopher, historian, and academic (b. 1795)
• 1882 » Adolfo Rivadeneyra, Spanish orientalist and diplomat (b. 1841)
• 1892 » Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish author (b. 1807)
• 1915 » Ross Barnes, American baseball player and manager (b. 1850)
• 1917 » Jaber II Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ruler (b. 1860)
• 1922 » Christiaan de Wet, South African general and politician, State President of the Orange Free State (b. 1854)
• 1922 » Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Croatian engineer, invented the mechanical pencil (b. 1871)
• 1927 » Inayat Khan, Indian mystic and educator (b. 1882)
• 1931 » Athanasios Eftaxias, Greek politician, 118th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1849)
• 1933 » Josiah Thomas, English-Australian miner and politician (b. 1863)

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

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

• 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 5.4 million citizens.
• January 8 » The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
• January 23 » Ålesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style.
• February 9 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
• February 22 » The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina; the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
• April 8 » The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
• November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).

The temperature on February 5, 1904 was between 1.2 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.