About the day » Thursday November 17, 1904Calender converter

• Aleida Elisabetha Jansen, Valburg (Gelderland) († 1983)
• Abraham Lievendag, Borne,Gemeente Borne, Overijssel, Nederland († 1963)
• Aleida Hendrika Busscher, Losser († 1983)
• Adrianus Joannes Bernardus Claassens, Tilburg
• Adrianus Hubertus Bol, Naaldwijk
• Aaltje Hermina Olthuis, Heerde († 1978)
• van Boven, Oldebroek, Nederland († 1904)
• Alida Wilhelmina van Schaik, Jutphaas
• Anna Maria Spruit, Veldhuizen, Gemeente Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1911)
• Alcina de Andrade Palma, Santa Rita do Passa Quatro, São Paulo, Brasil

• Albertus Marinus Wildschut (34), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Jan Willem Melvill van Carnbée (75), Veenendaal
• Adriana Cornelia Catharina van der Maarel (1), Vrijenban
• Anna Judoca Hanjoul (86), Terneuzen
• Aagje Jacobs Groen (15), Egmond aan Zee, prov. Noord Holland
• Aleida Hendrika Dull (67), Brouwershaven
• van Boven (0), Oldebroek, Nederland
• Antonia Maria Stoopen (61), Poppel (België)
• Antonetta Meulders (55), Gemert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonia Vink (25), Tiel, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1901 » Lee Strasberg, Ukrainian-American actor and director († 1982)
• 1901 » Walter Hallstein, German academic and politician, 1st President of the European Commission († 1982)
• 1902 » Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1995)
• 1904 » Isamu Noguchi, American sculptor and architect († 1988)
• 1905 » Arthur Chipperfield, Australian cricketer († 1987)
• 1905 » Astrid of Sweden († 1935)
• 1905 » Mischa Auer, Russian-American actor († 1967)
• 1906 » Rollie Stiles, American baseball player († 2007)
• 1906 » Soichiro Honda, Japanese engineer and businessman, co-founded the Honda Motor Company († 1991)
• 1907 » Israel Regardie, English occultist and author († 1985)

• 1891 » José María Iglesias, Mexican politician and interim President (1876-1877) (b. 1823)
• 1897 » George Hendric Houghton, American pastor and theologian (b. 1820)
• 1902 » Hugh Price Hughes, Welsh theologian and educator (b. 1847)
• 1905 » Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, (b. 1817)
• 1910 » Ralph Johnstone, American pilot (b. 1886)
• 1917 » Auguste Rodin, French sculptor and illustrator (b. 1840)
• 1922 » Robert Comtesse, Swiss lawyer and politician, 29th President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1847)
• 1923 » Eduard Bornhöhe, Estonian author (b. 1862)
• 1924 » Gregory VII of Constantinople (b. 1850)
• 1928 » Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian author and politician (b. 1865)

• 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 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 9 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
• May 4 » The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
• May 9 » The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100mph (160km/h).
• 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 28 » The SSNorge runs aground on Hasselwood Rock in the North Atlantic 430 kilometres (270mi) northwest of Ireland. More than 635 people die during the sinking.

The temperature on November 17, 1904 was between 1.8 °C and 4.3 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.