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• Ada Elfreda Carmichael, Geelong, Victoria, Australia († 1969)
• Aaltje Klaasdr Wagenaar, Broek op Langedijk, NH, Nederland († 1987)
• Alvin Herman H Raohmöller, Missouri († 1920)
• Vos, Emmen
• Aletta Jacoba Francisca Johanna Frederiks, Losser
• Adriana Dubbelman, Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje Wagenaar, Broek op L'dijk († 1987)
• Anna Cornelia Maria Alders, Haarlem († 2001)
• Anna Deinum, Witmarsum († 1943)
• Adriana van der Sande, Helvoirt, Gemeente Haaren, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Anna Maria Ermans (0), Susteren
• Antonius Johannes van Rooij, Rosmalen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Annigje Harms Zuidinga (77), Groningen
• Anna Maria Coenen (31), Hunsel
• Barbera Steenkamp (27), Nieuwbuinen (Borger)
• Benjamin Kerrebijn (0), Semarang, Java, Ned. Indie
• Arnolda Brouwer (77), Maastricht
• Albert Bierenbroodspot (73), Zandvoort, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltien Gerding (27), Diphoorn, Nederland
• Bertha Stensen (0), Alphen-, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1899 » Piero Dusio, Italian footballer, businessman and race car driver († 1975)
• 1900 » Gerald Marks, American composer († 1997)
• 1902 » Arna Bontemps, American librarian, author, and poet († 1973)
• 1902 » Karl Leichter, Estonian musicologist and academic († 1987)
• 1904 » Wilfred Pickles, English actor and radio host († 1978)
• 1905 » Coloman Braun-Bogdan, Romanian footballer and manager († 1983)
• 1905 » Yves Allégret, French director and screenwriter († 1987)
• 1909 » Art Tatum, American jazz pianist († 1956)
• 1909 » Herblock, American author and illustrator († 2001)
• 1911 » Ashok Kumar, Indian film actor († 2001)

• 1882 » Arthur de Gobineau, French philosopher and author (b. 1816)
• 1890 » Samuel Freeman Miller, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1816)
• 1904 » Pavlos Melas, French-Greek captain (b. 1870)
• 1905 » Henry Irving, English actor and manager (b. 1838)
• 1909 » Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, Spanish philosopher and academic (b. 1849)
• 1911 » Sister Nivedita, Irish-Indian social worker, author, and educator (b. 1867)
• 1917 » Florence La Badie, American actress (b. 1888)
• 1919 » Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
• 1926 » Hans E. Kinck, Norwegian philologist and author (b. 1865)
• 1930 » T. Alexander Harrison, American painter and educator (b. 1853)

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 7 » The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
• May 15 » Russo-Japanese War: The Russian minelayer Amur lays a minefield about 15 miles off Port Arthur and sinks Japan's battleships Hatsuse, 15,000 tons, with 496 crew and Yashima.
• June 15 » A fire aboard the steamboat SSGeneral Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,000.
• June 16 » Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
• August 23 » The automobile tire chain is patented.
• October 20 » Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.

The temperature on October 13, 1904 was between 3.0 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.