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• Aaltje ten Berge, Groningen, gemeente Groningen, provincie Groningen, Nederland († 1946)
• Adrianus Dirk Zwagemaker († 1994)
• Alfred Hector COOPER, Hexton, Hitchin, Hertfordshire
• Albert Wilting, Wachtum, Dalen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1969)
• Albertus Franciscus Chattelin, Semarang, Indonesië († 1966)
• Gerritsen, Maurik (GL) († 1904)
• Alice M Hartsell, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 1981)
• * Johannes van Keulen, Ammerzoden († 1983)
• Albert Wilting, Dalen,Drenthe,Niederlande,Wachtum († 1969)
• Albert Roke, Heerde († 1984)

• Anna Maria Roos (0), Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Doldersum (30), Emmen
• Achiel Joossens (30), Temse
• Antonius van der Heijden (1), Sint-Michielsgestel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bridget Boylin (103), Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
• Anna Catharina WILMS (81), Zandhoven, Antwerpen, België
• Aaltje Elzes Sennema (71), Niezijl
• Alberta Mol (0), Deventer
• annigje vogelenzang de jong (1), krimpen aan de ijssel
• Alida Everdina van Tol (5), Monster, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1902 » Rachel Messerer, Lithuanian-Russian actress († 1993)
• 1902 » Russell Reeder, American soldier and author († 1998)
• 1903 » Dorothy Mackaill, English-American actress and singer († 1990)
• 1903 » John Scarne, American magician and author († 1985)
• 1903 » Malcolm Dole, American chemist and academic († 1990)
• 1903 » William C. Boyd, American immunologist and chemist († 1983)
• 1904 » George Gamow, Ukrainian-American physicist and cosmologist († 1968)
• 1904 » Joseph Schmidt, Austrian-Hungarian tenor and actor († 1942)
• 1904 » Luis Carrero Blanco, Spanish admiral and politician, 69th President of the Government of Spain († 1973)
• 1906 » Meindert DeJong, Dutch-American soldier and author († 1991)

• 1883 » Alexander H. Stephens, American lawyer and politician, Vice President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1812)
• 1888 » Amos Bronson Alcott, American philosopher and educator (b. 1799)
• 1903 » Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English author (b. 1834)
• 1906 » John Schofield, American general and politician, 28th United States Secretary of War (b. 1831)
• 1915 » William Willett, English inventor, founded British Summer Time (b. 1856)
• 1916 » Franz Marc, German painter (b. 1880)
• 1925 » James Ward, English psychologist and philosopher (b. 1843)
• 1925 » John Montgomery Ward, American baseball player and manager (b. 1860)
• 1925 » Moritz Moszkowski, Polish-German pianist and composer (b. 1854)
• 1927 » Ira Remsen, American chemist and academic (b. 1846)

• 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 30 » The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
• May 9 » The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100mph (160km/h).
• June 16 » Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
• August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
• December 6 » Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.

The temperature on March 4, 1904 was between -0.8 °C and 5.4 °C and averaged 1.2 °C. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.