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• Alida Gerardina Maria Catharina Gieliam, Almelo († 1907)
• Anna Maria Smit, Amsterdam
• Anthonie Pieter de Kok, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1905)
• Abraham Anne Venema, Hoogkerk (gem. Groningen) († 1905)
• André Coemelck, Menen († 1991)
• Anna Maria Bosch, Maastricht († 1909)
• Adrianus Petrus van Iersel, Made en Drimmelen
• Aart Mastenbroek, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Melanie Maria Swagemakers, Tilburg (Tilburg) (Noord-Brabant) († 1904)
• Anna Maria "Anna" Van Raemdonck, Tielrode (Temse), België († 1987)

• Adrianus Petrus Meijs (2), Nieuwkuijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Charles C. Abbring (1)
• Brigitte DE DECKER (85), Gent
• Agatha de Wolf (0), Leiden
• Adriana Mols (35), Tilburg
• Arie van 't Hof (58), Dubbeldam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana RASENBERGH (80), Nieuwer-Amstel
• Bertus de Weerd (0), Geldermalsen, Nederland
• Angenieta de Vries (0), Smallingerland
• Arie van der Meijden (74), Hardinxveld

• 1901 » Horace Heidt, American pianist, bandleader, and radio host († 1986)
• 1901 » Regina M. Anderson, Multiracial playwright and librarian († 1993)
• 1901 » Sam Jaffe, American film producer and agent († 2000)
• 1901 » Suzanne Lilar, Belgian author and playwright († 1992)
• 1902 » Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1974)
• 1902 » Earl Averill, American baseball player († 1983)
• 1902 » Marcel Breuer, Hungarian-American architect and academic, designed the Ameritrust Tower († 1981)
• 1903 » Manly Wade Wellman, American author († 1986)
• 1904 » Fats Waller, American singer-songwriter and pianist († 1943)
• 1904 » Robert Montgomery, American actor and director († 1981)

• 1894 » Émile Henry, French anarchist (b. 1872)
• 1894 » August Kundt, German physicist and academic (b. 1839)
• 1895 » Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1819)
• 1901 » Joseph Olivier, French rugby player (b. 1874)
• 1911 » Williamina Fleming, Scottish-American astronomer and academic (b. 1857)
• 1915 » Leonid Gobyato, Russian general and engineer (b. 1875)
• 1919 » Evgraf Fedorov, Russian mathematician, crystallographer, and mineralogist (b. 1853)
• 1920 » Venustiano Carranza, Mexican politician, 54th President of Mexico (b. 1859)
• 1925 » Hidesaburō Ueno, Japanese agriculturalist, guardian of Hachikō (b. 1871)
• 1926 » Ronald Firbank, English-Italian author (b. 1886)

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 9 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
• 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 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.
• May 9 » The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100mph (160km/h).
• 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.
• August 23 » The automobile tire chain is patented.

The temperature on May 21, 1904 was between 4.0 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.