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• Adriaantje Terpstra, Hantum, Dongeradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1998)
• Adrianus J.H. Langerwerf
• Adriana Stigter, Bodegraven, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Maria Catharina Theodorusd Zantman, Rotterdam, zh.nld
• Aaltjen Alida Maathuis, Hengelo († 1904)
• Alida Hendrika Koning de, Leimuiden († 1989)
• Adrianus Cornelis Catrinus van Winsen, Hillegom († 1965)
• Adriana Wouterina de Wit, Dussen († 1905)
• Adrianus Josephus Hubertus Langerwerf, Waspik, Provincie Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Alice Marie Demey, Sint-Kruis, Belgi († 1987)

• Albertje Mulderij (9), De Wijk, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth Jeucken (89), Rotem, Provincie Limburg, België
• arie van LEENEN (10), oud-beijerland
• Alida van den Brink (77), Jutphaas
• Anna Maria Verheij (79), Charlois
• Anna Cornelia Bulckmans (89), Zundert
• Arnoldus Hendricks (74), Kellen
• Anton Van Dreel (71), Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana Smits (58), 's Gravenhage
• Anna Cornelia Bulkmans (89), Zundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1900 » Adolf Dassler, German businessman, founded Adidas († 1978)
• 1901 » André Malraux, French historian, theorist, and author († 1976)
• 1901 » Leopold III of Belgium († 1983)
• 1901 » Lionel Hitchman, Canadian ice hockey player († 1969)
• 1903 » Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educator († 1981)
• 1903 » Walker Evans, American photographer and journalist († 1975)
• 1905 » Lois Mailou Jones, American painter and academic († 1998)
• 1906 » Julia Boyer Reinstein, American teacher and historian († 1998)
• 1908 » Bronko Nagurski, Canadian-American football player, wrestler, and coach († 1990)
• 1908 » Giovanni Leone, Italian lawyer and politician, 6th President of Italy († 2001)

• 1890 » Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Swiss National Council (b. 1811)
• 1891 » Louis Lucien Bonaparte, English-Italian philologist and politician (b. 1813)
• 1900 » Carrie Steele Logan, American philanthropist, founder of the oldest black orphanage in the United States (b. ~1829)
• 1914 » Georg Trakl, Austrian-Polish pharmacist and poet (b. 1887)
• 1917 » Léon Bloy, French author and poet (b. 1846)
• 1918 » Aleksandr Lyapunov, Russian mathematician and physicist (b. 1857)
• 1926 » Annie Oakley, American entertainer and target shooter (b. 1860)
• 1927 » Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod, Czech journalist and author (b. 1860)
• 1929 » Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet and educator (b. 1883)
• 1933 » Pierre Paul Émile Roux, French physician, bacteriologist, and immunologist (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 17 » Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
• 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 7 » A fire begins in Baltimore, Maryland; it destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
• 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.
• 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.
• August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.

The temperature on November 3, 1904 was between 5.9 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.