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• Andriesje Franzes Dekker, Oosterzee, Lemsterland, Friesland, Nederland († 1960)
• Antonius Remigius Renaat Lauvrys, Herentals, België († 1955)
• Aart van Bezooijen († 1969)
• Albert Jan Moes, Assen († 1905)
• Alexandre HOROWITZ, Antwerpen,, Antwerpen, België
• Adriaan Hendrik Cieremans, Vrijenban
• Aleida Johanna Landhuis, Hospers, Sioux County, Iowa († 1976)
• Abraham van Diermen, Spakenburg († 1980)
• - levenloos - van Dieen, Hasselt († 1904)
• Albert Jan Harmsen, Vorden († 1970)

• Aukje Piers Fabryk (Fabriek Fabryck) (80), Noordwolde, Friesland, Nederland
• Arij MEIJER (83), Rotterdam
• Amelia Hayward (59), Londen, Engeland
• Schnieders (5), Erica, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• arij MEIJER (83), rotterdam
• - Levenloos - van Dieen (0), Hasselt
• Aukje Fabriek (80), Noordwolde
• Aaltje Wind (56), Genemuiden
• Houtepen, Goirle
• - levenloos - van Dieen (0), Hasselt

• 1897 » Wilhelm Reich, Austrian-American psychotherapist and academic († 1957)
• 1901 » Ub Iwerks, American animator, director, and producer, co-created Mickey Mouse († 1971)
• 1902 » Thomas E. Dewey, American lawyer and politician, 47th Governor of New York († 1971)
• 1903 » Adolf Butenandt, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1995)
• 1903 » Malcolm Muggeridge, English journalist, author, and scholar († 1990)
• 1905 » Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino author and diplomat († 2007)
• 1907 » Paul Sauvé, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Premier of Quebec († 1960)
• 1909 » Clyde Barrow, American criminal († 1934)
• 1909 » Richard Wurmbrand, Romanian Pastor and Evangelist († 2001)
• 1910 » Richard Conte, American actor, singer, and director († 1975)

• 1881 » Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist and mineralogist (b. 1817)
• 1882 » Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet and educator (b. 1807)
• 1887 » Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and critic (b. 1837)
• 1888 » Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)
• 1905 » Jules Verne, French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1828)
• 1909 » John Millington Synge, Irish playwright and poet (b. 1871)
• 1915 » Karol Olszewski, Polish chemist, mathematician, and physicist (b. 1846)
• 1915 » Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Anglo-Irish astronomer (b. 1848)
• 1916 » Enrique Granados, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1867)
• 1926 » Phan Châu Trinh, Vietnamese activist (b. 1872)

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 7 » A fire begins in Baltimore, Maryland; it destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
• April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
• May 5 » Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
• 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.
• November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
• 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 March 24, 1904 was between 1.2 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (48%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.