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• Aaltje van Nieuwkerk, Haarlem,Noord-Holland,Niederlande († 1905)
• Alida Maria Nouien, Rotterdam († 1943)
• Aaltje Cornelia Bezemer, Overschie (gem. Rotterdam) († 1988)
• Aaltje C. Bezemer († 1988)
• Aaltje Arends, Dalen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1929)
• Aida Koncar, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil († 1990)
• Aldert van Weeren, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NL († 1983)
• Adrianus Kraak, Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland NL († 1990)
• Aaltje Arends, Dalen,, Drenthe, Nederland († 1929)
• Abraham Cornelis de Smidt, Axel (Terneuzen), Zeeland, Nederland († 1957)

• Albert Luitzens Antonides (67), Suawoude
• Anna Maria Hendrika Merks (67), Rotterdam
• Antonetta van Gemert (78), Gemert
• Annechien van Velzel * (80), Assen
• Adriana Cornelia Petronella Mooijman (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Angela Lüers (5), Stadskanaal gem. Onstwedde
• Albertien Rutgers (78), Midlaren, Zuidlaren, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adrianus Antonius Van Seters (0), Raamsdonk
• Albert Antonides (67), Tietjerksteradeel
• Annechien van Velzel (80), Assen,Molenstraat,des morgens ten vier ure

• 1896 » Philip Showalter Hench, American physician and endocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1965)
• 1898 » Zeki Rıza Sporel, Turkish footballer († 1969)
• 1900 » Wolf Hirth, German pilot and engineer, co-founded Schempp-Hirth († 1959)
• 1901 » Linus Pauling, American chemist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1994)
• 1903 » Vincente Minnelli, American director and screenwriter († 1986)
• 1906 » Bugsy Siegel, American gangster († 1947)
• 1907 » Milton Caniff, American cartoonist († 1988)
• 1908 » Billie Bird, American actress († 2002)
• 1909 » Stephen Spender, English author and poet († 1995)
• 1911 » Otakar Vávra, Czech director and screenwriter († 2011)

• 1869 » Alphonse de Lamartine, French author and poet (b. 1790)
• 1879 » Hortense Allart, Italian-French author (b. 1801)
• 1891 » George Hearst, American businessman and politician (b. 1820)
• 1916 » Henry James, American novelist, short writer, and critic (b. 1843)
• 1925 » Friedrich Ebert, German politician, 1st President of Germany (b. 1871)
• 1929 » Clemens von Pirquet, Austrian physician and immunologist (b. 1874)
• 1932 » Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer and academic (b. 1851)
• 1935 » Chiquinha Gonzaga, Brazilian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1847)
• 1936 » Charles Nicolle, French biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
• 1941 » Alfonso XIII of Spain (b. 1886)

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".
• February 9 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
• May 21 » The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
• June 15 » A fire aboard the steamboat SSGeneral Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,000.
• July 31 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Hsimucheng: Units of the Imperial Japanese Army defeat units of the Imperial Russian Army in a strategic confrontation.
• December 3 » The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.

The temperature on February 28, 1904 was between -5.2 °C and -1.6 °C and averaged -3.5 °C. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.