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• Adrianus Stuijt, Ursem, Koggenland, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1960)
• Aagje den Besten, Schoonhoven († 1995)
• Alphonsius Godefridus Nelen, Essen, België († 1987)
• Adriana Bouwman, Haarzuilens, Vleuten-de Meern, Utrecht, Nederland († 1988)
• Alphonsina Emerentia Spruyt, Antwerpen, België
• Adrianus Cornelis (Jos) Verschure, Waspik, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1987)
• Adriana Israëls, Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Hendrika Elizabeth Stam, Rotterdam
• Adriaan Gommers, wuustwezel († 1970)
• Abel Drok, Ommelanderwijk (Veendam, Groningen)

• Albrecht Friedrich van Sayn Wittgenstein (70)
• Antonie Slewe (69), Leiden
• Catharina Sophia Staal (74), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan de Klerk (79), Nieuw en Sint Joosland
• Arnoldus Bleecke (60), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Suijkerbuijk (78), Roosendaal
• Arnolda van Zetten (72), Buurmalsen (West Betuwe) (GL)
• Ann Celeste Nannie Allen (66), St Louis, St Louis, Missouri, United States
• Catharina Appolonia van Paasen (81), Monster, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Jan van der Zijde (52), IJsselmonde, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 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.
• 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.
• July 21 » Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100mph (161km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brillié in Ostend, Belgium.
• October 27 » The first underground New York City Subway line opens, later designated as the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line.
• November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).

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.