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• Alida Maria Geertruida van Riet, Naaldwijk, ZH, Nederland († 1975)
• Abraham Isaac Van den Broecke, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1973)
• A.H. Bartels († 1990)
• "Gerharda Geertruida" van Assen, Apeldoorn (Beemte Gld Nederland († 1996)
• Roelof Schipper, Amsterdam († 1973)
• Albert T Kruse, Nobles County, Minnesota († 1995)
• Abraham Huijsmans, Achthuizen
• Abraham Isaak van den Broecke
• Albertus Michiel Binksma, Westerhorn o/d Lutjegast († 1910)
• Adelaïda Emma Wilh.Theresia Bentz van den Berg, Amsterdam († 1985)

• Aaltje Kok (53), Berkhout, Nederland
• Adriaan Jacobus Martinus Israel (54), Middelburg
• Adrianus Van Tilborg (47), Kapellen
• Lunenborg (0), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Anna Maria Klein (0), Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel
• Adriaan Jacobus Martinus Israel (54), Middelburg
• Antje VISSER (72), Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Netherlands
• Anna Vredeveld (0), Beilen
• Albert Wijnands (80), Dokkum
• Adrianus Olijslagers (2), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland

• 1898 » Ernő Nagy, Hungarian fencer († 1977)
• 1899 » Charles Bennett, English director and screenwriter († 1995)
• 1900 » Helen Morgan, American actress and singer († 1941)
• 1900 » Holling C. Holling, American author and illustrator († 1973)
• 1902 » Mina Rees, American mathematician (d.1997)
• 1902 » Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria († 1971)
• 1905 » Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer († 1963)
• 1905 » Myrna Loy, American actress († 1993)
• 1907 » Mary Hamman, American journalist and author († 1984)
• 1910 » Roger MacDougall, Scottish director, playwright, and screenwriter († 1993)

• 1889 » Eduardo Gutiérrez, Argentinian author (b. 1851)
• 1890 » Louise-Victorine Ackermann, French poet and author (b. 1813)
• 1903 » Edmond Nocard, French veterinarian and microbiologist (b. 1850)
• 1903 » Eduard Magnus Jakobson, Estonian missionary and engraver (b. 1847)
• 1913 » Ferenc Pfaff, Hungarian architect and academic, designed Zagreb Central Station (b. 1851)
• 1915 » John Downer, Australian politician, 16th Premier of South Australia (b. 1843)
• 1917 » Jaan Mahlapuu, Estonian military pilot (b. 1894)
• 1921 » Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor and actor (b. 1873)
• 1922 » Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-Canadian engineer, invented the telephone (b. 1847)
• 1923 » Warren G. Harding, American journalist and politician, 29th President of the United States (b. 1865)

• 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 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
• 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.
• 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 August 2, 1904 was between 11.7 °C and 24.1 °C and averaged 18.5 °C. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (74%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.