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• Aaltje van der Veen, Ane († 1996)
• Alida Niessink, Brink en Orden (Apeldoorn)
• Adriana Jacoba Maria de Bruijn, 's-Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Hendrik van den Bos, 's-Gravenzande, Nederland († 1926)
• Aaltje Alberts DODDEMA, Muntendam Groningen Netherlands († 1908)
• Adriana Jacoba Maria de Bruijn, 's-Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Alida Gezina Klaassens, Zuidlaren, Tynaarlo, Drenthe, Nederland († 1905)
• Adrianus Eugenius Petrus Moonen, Tilburg
• Albertus Knorren, Smilde († 1954)
• Albert Alberts DODDEMA, Muntendam Groningen Netherlands († 1959)

• Akke Kuijper (47), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriaan Josephus Janssens (65), Tilburg
• Agnes Henrica Mom (74), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Armgard van Veltheim (59)
• Kristelijn (65), Ellemeet, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Albertje Salomons (62), Hoogeveen, Nederland
• Albertje Salomons (62), Hoogeveen
• Adrianus Josephus Jansen (65), Tilburg, Nederland
• Adriaan Josephus Adrianus Janssen (65), Tilburg Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Andries Antonius van der Gaag (44), Loosduinen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1902 » Alexander Luria, Russian psychologist and physician († 1977)
• 1902 » Mary Philbin, American actress († 1993)
• 1903 » Carmen Lombardo, Canadian singer-songwriter († 1971)
• 1903 » Fritz Bauer, German lawyer and judge († 1968)
• 1903 » Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, German mathematician and engineer († 1974)
• 1904 » Goffredo Petrassi, Italian composer and conductor († 2003)
• 1906 » Vincent Sherman, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 2006)
• 1907 » Barbara Stanwyck, American actress († 1990)
• 1907 » Frances Horwich, American educator and television host († 2001)
• 1907 » Orville Redenbacher, American farmer and businessman, founded Orville Redenbacher's († 1995)

• 1868 » Dmitry Pisarev, Russian author and critic (b. 1840)
• 1879 » Edward Deas Thomson, Scottish-Australian politician, 3rd Chief Secretary of New South Wales (b. 1800)
• 1882 » Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States 1861-1865 (b. 1818)
• 1886 » Ned Buntline, American journalist and author (b. 1823)
• 1896 » Edmond de Goncourt, French critic and publisher, founded Académie Goncourt (b. 1822)
• 1915 » Ellen G. White, American theologian and author (b. 1827)
• 1917 » Philipp Scharwenka, German composer and educator (b. 1847)
• 1939 » Bartholomeus Roodenburch, Dutch swimmer (b. 1866)
• 1949 » Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1866)
• 1953 » Hilaire Belloc, French-born British writer and historian (b. 1870)

• 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 8 » Aceh War: Dutch Colonial Army's Marechaussee regiment led by General G.C.E. van Daalen launch military campaign to capture Gayo Highland, Alas Highland, and Batak Highland in Dutch East Indies' Northern Sumatra region, which ends with genocide to Acehnese and Bataks people.
• April 30 » The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
• May 10 » The Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG is founded. It would eventually become the Audi company.
• July 31 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Hsimucheng: Units of the Imperial Japanese Army defeat units of the Imperial Russian Army in a strategic confrontation.
• October 27 » The first underground New York City Subway line opens, later designated as the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line.
• 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 July 16, 1904 was between 13.6 °C and 25.3 °C and averaged 19.9 °C. There was 13.6 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.