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• Adrianus van Loon, Drunen
• adriana marrigje slingerland, hekendorp
• Albertus van Veen, Hazerswoude-Dorp, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1990)
• Albertus van VEEN, Hazerswoude, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Kieft, Amsterdam
• Albert Elzinga, Appelscha, Friesland, Nederland († 1911)
• Agnes J Pennington († 1995)
• Aaltje Brevoord, Hattem, Gelderland, Nederland († 1904)
• Adriaantje Sija Noordzij, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands († 1958)
• Adriana Marrigje Slingerland, Hekendorp, Nederland († 1967)

• Albert Mennega (82), Assen
• Anna Petronella Baars (74), Arum
• Adrianus van Hooff (91), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Gerardus Johannes Verdam (0), Reeuwijk
• Arend de Vries (0), Uffelte, Westerveld, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Amédée Ferdinand Marie de Hemptinne (50), Gent,9000,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,Belgique
• * ANNA PETRONELLA Baars (75), Wonseradeel, Friesland, NL
• Arend de Vries (0), Uffelte (Havelte), Drenthe, Nederland
• Alida Margrieta Smit (38), Odoorn
• Adriana Holm (53), Rotterdam Zhl. NL

• 1900 » Adlai Stevenson II, American soldier, politician, and diplomat, 5th United States Ambassador to the United Nations († 1965)
• 1903 » Joan Whitney Payson, American businesswoman and philanthropist († 1975)
• 1903 » Koto Matsudaira, Japanese diplomat, ambassador to the United Nations († 1994)
• 1906 » John Carradine, American actor († 1988)
• 1907 » Birgit Dalland, Norwegian politician († 2007)
• 1907 » Pierre Pflimlin, French politician, Prime Minister of France († 2000)
• 1908 » Daisy and Violet Hilton, English conjoined twins († 1969)
• 1908 » Eugen Weidmann, German criminal († 1939)
• 1908 » Marie Baron, Dutch swimmer and diver († 1948)
• 1908 » Peg Entwistle, Welsh-American actress († 1932)

• 1881 » Thomas Carlyle, Scottish philosopher, historian, and academic (b. 1795)
• 1882 » Adolfo Rivadeneyra, Spanish orientalist and diplomat (b. 1841)
• 1892 » Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish author (b. 1807)
• 1915 » Ross Barnes, American baseball player and manager (b. 1850)
• 1917 » Jaber II Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ruler (b. 1860)
• 1922 » Christiaan de Wet, South African general and politician, State President of the Orange Free State (b. 1854)
• 1922 » Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Croatian engineer, invented the mechanical pencil (b. 1871)
• 1927 » Inayat Khan, Indian mystic and educator (b. 1882)
• 1931 » Athanasios Eftaxias, Greek politician, 118th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1849)
• 1933 » Josiah Thomas, English-Australian miner and politician (b. 1863)

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.
• April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
• 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.
• May 21 » The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
• December 7 » Comparative fuel trials begin between warships HMSSpiteful and HMSPeterel: Spiteful was the first warship powered solely by fuel oil, and the trials led to the obsolescence of coal in ships of the Royal Navy.

The temperature on February 5, 1904 was between 1.2 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.