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• Aagje den Besten, Schoonhoven († 1995)
• Adriaan Gommers, wuustwezel († 1970)
• Alton Ramsey Todd ?***** († 1978)
• Adrianus Cornelis (Jos) Verschure, Waspik, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1987)
• Albertus Lette, Hengelo
• Alfons SERRE, Rillaar Vlaams Brabant († 1988)
• Albert Nijman, Bathmen († 1905)
• Wilhelmina Schillemans, Dinteloord
• Adriana Visser, Zwijndrecht, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Adriana Bouwman, Haarzuilens, Vleuten-de Meern, Utrecht, Nederland († 1988)

• Catharina Appollonia van Paasen (81), Monster
• Arnoldus Bleecke (60), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Beerend Meijer (47), Usquert
• Albrecht Friedrich Van Sayn Wittgenstein (70)
• Arnolda van Zetten (72), Buurmalsen (West Betuwe) (GL)
• Catharina Appolonia van Paasen (81), Monster, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albrecht Friedrich van Sayn-Wittgenstein (70)
• Angenis Walon (1), Leeuwarden
• Arie Jan van der Zijde (52), IJsselmonde, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Ann Celeste Nannie Allen (66), St Louis, St Louis, Missouri, United States

• 1894 » Mae Marsh, American actress († 1968)
• 1897 » Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player († 1941)
• 1897 » Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1978)
• 1900 » Oskar Loorits, Estonian author and academic († 1961)
• 1902 » Anthony Asquith, English director and screenwriter († 1968)
• 1904 » Heiti Talvik, Estonian poet († 1947)
• 1904 » Viktor Brack, German SS officer († 1948)
• 1905 » Erika Mann, German-Swiss actress and author († 1969)
• 1906 » Arthur Rudolph, German scientist and engineer († 1996)
• 1913 » Paulene Myers, American actress († 1996)

• 1880 » Edwin Drake, American businessman (b. 1819)
• 1911 » Howard Pyle, American author and illustrator (b. 1853)
• 1918 » Guillaume Apollinaire, Italian-French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1880)
• 1918 » Peter Lumsden, English general (b. 1829)
• 1919 » Eduard Müller, Swiss lawyer and politician, 26th President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1848)
• 1924 » Henry Cabot Lodge, American historian and politician (b. 1850)
• 1932 » Nadezhda Alliluyeva, second wife of Joseph Stalin (b. 1901)
• 1937 » Ramsay MacDonald, Scottish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1866)
• 1938 » Vasily Blyukher, Russian marshal (b. 1889)
• 1940 » Stephen Alencastre, Portuguese-American bishop (b. 1876)

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".
• April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
• April 8 » The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
• April 30 » The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
• August 23 » The automobile tire chain is patented.
• October 27 » The first underground New York City Subway line opens, later designated as the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line.

The temperature on November 9, 1904 was between 7.8 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.