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• Aart Willem in 't Veld (in ’t Veldt, In ’t Velt), Lisse, Nederland († 1904)
• Adriana van Oorschot, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1905)
• Adrianus Petrus van Eijl, Oosterhout († 1922)
• Adèlaïde Baudry
• Alfons Horsmans († 1981)
• Albert Veen, Zuidveen, Steenwijkerwold,, Overijssel, Nederland († 1990)
• Aloys Segers, Hingene
• Anna De Rijck, Itegem, Antwerpen, Belgium († 1977)
• Aleida Catharina Morren, Amsterdam († 1994)
• Anna Maria Goedhart, Den Haag († 1972)

• Adriana Cornelia GOOSSENS (0), Wouw
• Aalt Aaltzoon Kos (11)
• Anna Catharina Ramaekers (65), Wellen, België
• Aaltje Rykeles Sytsema (74), Schoterland, Friesland, Netherlands
• Polman (1), Bocholt (Dl)
• Anna Bastiana Kooijmans (12), Velsen, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
• Annetje van Bijsteren (91), Harderwijk
• Abraham Verdouw (88), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Zuiderhof (82), Grouw, Friesland, Netherlands
• Aaltje Rykeles Sytzema (74), Schoterland(FR)

• 1901 » Jean Bruchési, Canadian historian and author († 1979)
• 1901 » Paul Willis, American actor and director († 1960)
• 1902 » Théodore Monod, French explorer and scholar († 2000)
• 1903 » Ward Bond, American actor († 1960)
• 1904 » Sharkey Bonano, American singer, trumpet player, and bandleader († 1972)
• 1905 » J. William Fulbright, American lawyer and politician († 1995)
• 1906 » Antal Doráti, Hungarian-American conductor and composer († 1988)
• 1906 » Hugh Gaitskell, British politician and leader of the Labour Party († 1963)
• 1906 » Rafaela Aparicio, Spanish actress († 1996)
• 1906 » Victor Vasarely, Hungarian-French painter († 1997)

• 1872 » Erastus Corning, American businessman and politician (b. 1794)
• 1876 » Charles Goodyear, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1804)
• 1882 » Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet and painter (b. 1828)
• 1889 » Michel Eugène Chevreul, French chemist and academic (b. 1786)
• 1909 » Helena Modjeska, Polish-American actress (b. 1840)
• 1915 » Raymond Whittindale, English rugby player (b. 1883)
• 1917 » James Hope Moulton, English philologist and scholar (b. 1863)
• 1922 » Hans Fruhstorfer, German entomologist and explorer (b. 1866)
• 1926 » Zip the Pinhead, American freak show performer (b. 1857)
• 1936 » Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1855)

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.
• 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.
• May 4 » The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
• May 5 » Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
• June 16 » Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
• July 21 » Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100mph (161km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brillié in Ostend, Belgium.
• November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).

The temperature on April 9, 1904 was between 5.8 °C and 11.1 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.