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• Adrianus Haring, 's-Gravenhage († 1906)
• Anna Christina Oudejans, Hoorn, North Holland, Netherlands
• Albert Koopman, Weststellingwerf
• Henderikus Alberts, Emmen
• Alberta Hooijer, Zwartebroek, gem. Barneveld, NL
• Leijten, Tilburg (Noord-Brabant, NLD) († 1904)
• Anna Maria Cornelia Schurink, Utrecht
• Andries Nievaart, Leiden
• Abraham Mol, St. Philipsland († 1904)
• Abraham Massaar, Leiden († 1905)

• Arie van Hoorn (63), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Jans Draat (80), Diever
• Abraham Marcus Sanders (42), Rotterdam
• Antonius Heijnen (24), Emmen
• van Bladel (0), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arij de Jong (81), Brielle, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aloisius De Witte, Sint-Gillis-Waas, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• Agnes Wijckmans (0), Maastricht,Netherlands
• Anna Catharina Von Den Hoff (0), Bingelrade, Nederland
• Huibert Kiboom (88), Raamsdonkveer

• 1898 » Zhou Enlai, Chinese politician, 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China († 1976)
• 1900 » Johanna Langefeld, German guard and supervisor of three Nazi concentration camps († 1974)
• 1900 » Lilli Jahn, Jewish German doctor († 1944)
• 1901 » Friedrich Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg († 1971)
• 1901 » Julian Przyboś, Polish poet, essayist and translator († 1970)
• 1904 » Karl Rahner, German priest and theologian († 1984)
• 1905 » László Benedek, Hungarian-American director and cinematographer († 1992)
• 1908 » Fritz Fischer, German historian and author († 1999)
• 1908 » Irving Fiske, American author and playwright († 1990)
• 1908 » Rex Harrison, English actor († 1990)

• 1876 » Marie d'Agoult, German-French historian and author (b. 1805)
• 1893 » Hippolyte Taine, French historian and critic (b. 1828)
• 1895 » Nikolai Leskov, Russian author, playwright, and journalist (b. 1831)
• 1895 » Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, English general and scholar (b. 1810)
• 1907 » Friedrich Blass, German philologist, scholar, and academic (b. 1843)
• 1925 » Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician and engineer (b. 1859)
• 1927 » Franz Mertens, Polish-Austrian mathematician and academic (b. 1840)
• 1929 » David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-American businessman, founded Buick (b. 1854)
• 1934 » Reşit Galip, Turkish academic and politician, 6th Turkish Minister of National Education (b. 1893)
• 1935 » Roque Ruaño, Spanish priest and engineer (b. 1877)

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 8 » The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
• February 17 » Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.
• February 22 » The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina; the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
• May 4 » The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
• August 23 » The automobile tire chain is patented.
• November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).

The temperature on March 5, 1904 was between -0.7 °C and 3.7 °C and averaged 1.8 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.