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• Adolphe Télesphore TURLOTTE, Mont-Bernanchon,62350,Pas-de-Calais,Hauts-de-France,FRANCE († 1968)
• Aaltje ESSER, Zaandam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1998)
• Abeltje Helweg, Beerta, Reiderland, Groningen, Netherlands († 1904)
• Agnes Lutgarde Putzeys
• (Stillborn) STEENBORG, Ommelanderwijk (Veendam) Groningen Netherlands († 1904)
• Ann-Elizabeth van Emden, San Francisco, California († 1932)
• Agnes Alida Maria van der Weijden, Woensel-Eindhoven († 1987)
• Alfons Frans SOETENS, Kieldrecht († 1966)
• Aaltje Veendijk, Tynaarlo, Drenthe, Nederland († 1955)
• Alfred Edward CRAM, Saint Louis, MO († 1946)

• Berend Hendrik Konings (63)
• Berend Jan ARINK (74), Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Albert Schreuder (75)
• Berendiena van Beverwijk (50), Enkhuizen
• Salverda (37), Makkum, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Welter (64), Hilversum
• Catharina Cornelia Hohlmans (53), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• (Stillborn) STEENBORG (0), Ommelanderwijk (Veendam) Groningen Netherlands
• Ardina van Cromvoort (36), Vlijmen
• Baltus Burgman (79), amersfoort

• 1898 » Berenice Abbott, American photographer († 1991)
• 1898 » Osmond Borradaile, Canadian soldier and cinematographer († 1999)
• 1899 » James Cagney, American actor and dancer († 1986)
• 1900 » Marcel Dalio, French actor († 1983)
• 1901 » Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet and author († 1938)
• 1901 » Luigi Chinetti, Italian-American race car driver († 1994)
• 1901 » Patrick Smith, Irish farmer and politician, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine († 1982)
• 1902 » Christina Stead, Australian author and academic († 1983)
• 1905 » William Gargan, American actor († 1979)
• 1910 » James Coyne, Canadian lawyer and banker, 2nd Governor of the Bank of Canada († 2012)

• 1883 » Tự Đức, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1829)
• 1885 » Jean-Charles Chapais, Canadian farmer and politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Agriculture (b. 1811)
• 1887 » Dorothea Dix, American nurse and activist (b. 1802)
• 1893 » Frederick A. Johnson, American banker and politician (b. 1833)
• 1894 » Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist and biologist (b. 1810)
• 1894 » Leconte de Lisle, French poet and translator (b. 1818)
• 1900 » Thomas McIlwraith, Scottish-Australian politician, 8th Premier of Queensland (b. 1835)
• 1907 » Hector Malot, French author and critic (b. 1830)
• 1912 » Henri Poincaré, French mathematician, physicist, and engineer (b. 1854)
• 1918 » Victims of the Shooting of the Romanov family

• 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 » Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
• April 30 » The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
• 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.
• August 23 » The automobile tire chain is patented.
• December 6 » Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.
• 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 17, 1904 was between 10.6 °C and 27.0 °C and averaged 19.8 °C. There was 13.9 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.