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• Albertus Karel, Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland
• OTTEN
• Luttje, Ter Apelkanaal, Westerwolde, Groningen, Nederland († 1904)
• Adrianus Gerardus van Unnik, Zevenbergen, North Brabants († 1904)
• EILANDER, Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland († 1904)
• Aina Maria Heinänen
• Alfons Frans Willemen, Baarl Hertog (Belgie) († 1967)
• Aaltje Van Ruler, Barneveld, Gelderland, Nederland († 1989)
• Aagje van 't Hof, Jisp
• Adriana Johanna Lansdaal, Maurik († 1975)

• Aartje Sterk (64), Bergambacht
• Antje Oedzes Sengers (22), Velsen, Nederland
• Bartholina van Dijk (84), Stiphout
• * Adrianus van Oijen (80), Vlijmen
• Arie Langerveld (73), Velsen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Tjibbes Haasdijk (20), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Vanneck (82), Bellevue, Brown County, Wisconsin (USA)
• Arie Fokker (65), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland Nederland
• Antje Reinders Politiek (76), Wunseradiel, Friesland, Netherlands
• Adrianus van Oijen (80), Vlijmen

• 1898 » Ariel Durant, American historian and author († 1981)
• 1899 » Fred Astaire, American actor, singer, and dancer († 1987)
• 1900 » Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, English-American astronomer and astrophysicist († 1979)
• 1901 » Hildrus Poindexter, American bacteriologist († 1987)
• 1901 » John Desmond Bernal, Irish-English crystallographer and physicist († 1971)
• 1902 » David O. Selznick, American director and producer († 1965)
• 1903 » Otto Bradfisch, German economist, jurist, and SS officer († 1994)
• 1905 » Markos Vamvakaris, Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player († 1972)
• 1908 » Carl Albert, American lawyer and politician, 54th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives († 2000)
• 1909 » Maybelle Carter, American autoharp player († 1978)

• 1849 » Hokusai, Japanese painter and illustrator (b. 1760)
• 1863 » Stonewall Jackson, American general (b. 1824)
• 1868 » Henry Bennett, American lawyer and politician (b. 1808)
• 1889 » Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1826)
• 1891 » Carl Nägeli, Swiss botanist and mycologist (b. 1817)
• 1897 » Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino soldier and politician, President of the Philippines (b. 1863)
• 1910 » Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist and academic (b. 1826)
• 1945 » Konrad Henlein, Czech soldier and politician (b. 1898)
• 1945 » Richard Glücks, German SS officer (b. 1889)
• 1950 » Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian and bibliographer (b. 1883)

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 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 8 » Aceh War: Dutch Colonial Army's Marechaussee regiment led by General G.C.E. van Daalen launch military campaign to capture Gayo Highland, Alas Highland, and Batak Highland in Dutch East Indies' Northern Sumatra region, which ends with genocide to Acehnese and Bataks people.
• February 17 » Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.
• April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
• May 10 » The Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG is founded. It would eventually become the Audi company.
• October 4 » The IFK Göteborg football club is founded in Sweden.

The temperature on May 10, 1904 was between 5.4 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.