About the day » Monday May 9, 1904Calender converter

• adriaantje cornelia VISSER, rotterdam († 1990)
• Albert Thomas Oliver († 1975)
• Albert KOLK, Ruinen († 1988)
• Aagje Siefers, Vierpolders, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Maria Albertha van Straaten, Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth Cornelia Staubesand, Amsterdam
• Abraham Voogelaar, Rotterdam
• Adriana Irma van der Herten, Temse
• Adrianus Jacobus Jacobs, Tilburg († 1971)
• Anna Catherina KOKKEN, Roosendaal

• Catharina Holdijk (0), Brummen
• Aartje Johanna van Vliet (1), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Boukje Kruims (2), Kloosterveen
• Catharina Gerarda Maria Zoetmulder (76), Rotterdam
• Afien Postema (58), Peize
• Albert Buiter (46)
• Catharine Clara Antoinetta van Merkesteijn, Probolinggo Ned. Indië
• Cornelia Rottier (65), Ellewoutsdijk (Borsele), Zeeland, Nederland
• Afien Postema (58), Peize, Noordenveld, Drenthe, Nederland
• Cornelia Rottier (65), Ellewoutsdijk

• 1900 » Maria Malicka, Polish stage and film actress († 1992)
• 1904 » Conrad Bernier, Canadian-American organist, composer, and educator († 1988)
• 1905 » Lilí Álvarez, Spanish tennis player, author, and feminist († 1998)
• 1906 » Eleanor Estes, American librarian, author, and illustrator († 1988)
• 1907 » Baldur von Schirach, German politician († 1974)
• 1907 » Jackie Grant, Trinidadian cricketer († 1978)
• 1907 » Kathryn Kuhlman, American evangelist and author († 1976)
• 1909 » Don Messer, Canadian violinist († 1973)
• 1909 » Gordon Bunshaft, American architect, designed the Solow Building († 1990)
• 1911 » Harry Simeone, American music arranger, conductor, and composer († 2005)

• 1889 » William S. Harney, American general (b. 1800)
• 1906 » Oscar von Gebhardt, German theologian and academic (b. 1844)
• 1914 » C. W. Post, American businessman, founded Post Foods (b. 1854)
• 1915 » Anthony Wilding, New Zealand tennis player and cricketer (b. 1883)
• 1915 » François Faber, Luxembourgian-French cyclist and soldier (b. 1887)
• 1918 » George Coșbuc, Romanian journalist and poet (b. 1866)
• 1931 » Albert Abraham Michelson, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1933 » John Arthur Jarvis, English swimmer (b. 1872)
• 1935 » Ernst Bresslau, German zoologist (b. 1877)
• 1938 » Thomas B. Thrige, Danish businessman (b. 1866)

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 28 » S.L. Benfica is founded in Portugal.
• April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
• April 8 » The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
• May 10 » The Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG is founded. It would eventually become the Audi company.
• 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 9, 1904 was between 3.1 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.