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• Adrianus van den Berg, Langerak († 1979)
• Albertine Janna (Tinie) Fels († 1990)
• Alfred Waterman, Iowa († 1971)
• ALICE MARIA LEOPOLDINA VAN GESTEL, Borgerhout
• Adrianus (Van den Berg *), Langerak († 1979)
• Aleida Mathilda Kinnaer, Bergh, Nederland († 1950)
• Adrianus van den Berg, Langerak, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1979)
• Agina Roelfina Assen, Dalen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1969)
• Albertina Cornelia (Tini) van der Heijden, amsterdam, Nederland († 1991)
• Van Tichelen, Essen, Antwerpen, België

• Anna Glas (73), Kruiningen, ZL, NL
• Abel Kuiper (27), Nieuwolda
• Algernon Seymour Tollemache (62)
• Anna Anthonijs Zandbergen (66), Vollenhove, Overijssel, Nederland
• PEGMAN (0), Groningen,Groningen,NETHERLANDS
• Albertus van Maasakker (57), Herwen en Aerdt, Nederland
• André Louis LAIDIN (83), Châteauneuf, 85710, France
• Anna van den Bosch (91), Harmelen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Elizabeth McDonald (71), Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Elisabeth Eurlings (74)

• 1899 » Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born novelist and critic († 1977)
• 1900 » Nellie Beer, British politician, Lord Mayor of Manchester from 1966–67 († 1988)
• 1904 » J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic († 1967)
• 1905 » Robert Choquette, American-Canadian author, poet, and diplomat († 1991)
• 1906 » Eric Fenby, English composer and educator († 1997)
• 1906 » Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten († 1947)
• 1908 » Ivan Yefremov, Russian paleontologist and author († 1972)
• 1909 » Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist and historian († 2001)
• 1909 » Rita Levi-Montalcini, Sephardic Jewish-Italian neurologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2012)
• 1909 » Spyros Markezinis, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece († 2000)

• 1877 » James P. Kirkwood, Scottish-American engineer (b. 1807)
• 1892 » Édouard Lalo, French violinist and composer (b. 1823)
• 1893 » Chaim Aronson, Lithuanian businessman and author (b. 1825)
• 1894 » Kostas Krystallis, Greek author and poet (b. 1868)
• 1896 » Thomas Meik, English engineer, founded Halcrow Group (b. 1812)
• 1908 » Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Scottish-English merchant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1836)
• 1925 » André Caplet, French composer and conductor (b. 1878)
• 1929 » Henry Lerolle, French painter and art collector (b. 1848)
• 1932 » Ferenc Oslay, Hungarian-Slovene historian and author (b. 1883)
• 1933 » Henry Royce, English engineer and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited (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 7 » The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
• 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.
• October 4 » The IFK Göteborg football club is founded in Sweden.
• October 27 » The first underground New York City Subway line opens, later designated as the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line.
• December 3 » The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.
• 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 April 22, 1904 was between 7.1 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (28%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.