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• Alice Van Walleghem, St Boniface, Manitoba (CAN) († 1961)
• Alberdina Johanna Holland, Moerkapelle († 1986)
• Albertus Cornelis Antonius van den Bosch, Schipluiden, Zuid Holland, Nederland († 1906)
• Anna van Berkel, Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg († 1981)
• Alida van den Burg, Noordwijk († 1972)
• anna cornelia van BUREN, rockanje
• Alvina te Grotenhuis, Sioux Center, Sioux County, Iowa († 1986)
• Anna Cornelia Nieboer, Nijkerk († 1904)
• Agatha Johanna Antonetta de Raaf, rotterdam († 1904)
• Adriana Sophia den Heijer, Scheveningen († 1983)

• Barta Regenspurg (86), Deventer
• Anna Maria Elemans (91), Huisseling, N-Brabant (NL.)
• Aafje Sleutel (69), Den Helder
• Adriaan Vermeulen (36), Oosterhout
• Carolus De Laet (77), Mol, België
• aaltje nieuwboer (68), staphorst (overijssel)
• Adrianus Froon (65), Utrecht
• Bavius Doekesz ROORDA (70), Friesland, Nederland
• Bernardus Johannes Wilhelmus MEULEMAN (2), Bergh, Gelderland, Nederland
• Arie Versteeg (64), Breukelen Nijenrode, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1893 » Magda Tagliaferro, Brazilian pianist and educator († 1986)
• 1903 » Boris Blacher, German composer and playwright († 1975)
• 1905 » Stanley Hawes, English-Australian director and producer († 1991)
• 1907 » Briggs Cunningham, American race car driver, sailor, and businessman († 2003)
• 1908 » Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician and theorist († 1971)
• 1908 » Ish Kabibble, American comedian and cornet player († 1994)
• 1911 » Choor Singh, Indian-Singaporean lawyer and judge († 2009)
• 1912 » Leonid Kantorovich, Russian mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1986)
• 1913 » Rex Ingamells, Australian author and poet († 1955)
• 1913 » Rudolf Wanderone, American professional pocket billiards player († 1996)

• 1865 » Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French philosopher and politician (b. 1809)
• 1869 » Carl Reichenbach, German chemist and philosopher (b. 1788)
• 1874 » August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet and scholar (b. 1798)
• 1878 » Henri Victor Regnault, French physicist and chemist (b. 1810)
• 1905 » Debendranath Tagore, Indian philosopher and author (b. 1817)
• 1906 » Bartolomé Mitre, Argentinian historian and politician, 6th President of Argentina (b. 1821)
• 1908 » Roberto Bompiani, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1821)
• 1929 » Liang Qichao, Chinese journalist, philosopher, and scholar (b. 1873)
• 1930 » Frank P. Ramsey, British mathematician, philosopher and economist (b. 1903)
• 1938 » Branislav Nušić, Serbian author, playwright, and journalist (b. 1864)

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.
• February 17 » Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.
• 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 5 » The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team (Welsh and Scottish players) in Central Park, Wigan, England.
• August 23 » The automobile tire chain is patented.
• December 7 » Comparative fuel trials begin between warships HMSSpiteful and HMSPeterel: Spiteful was the first warship powered solely by fuel oil, and the trials led to the obsolescence of coal in ships of the Royal Navy.

The temperature on January 19, 1904 was between -2.1 °C and 0.8 °C and averaged -0.5 °C. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.