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• Adriaan Antonie Schmidt, Rijswijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Sibijlla Smeets, Elsloo (Stein), Limburg, Nederland († 2003)
• Anna Catharina Sibilla Smeets, Elsloo († 2003)
• Aaltje Roosje, Wildervank, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Frumau
• Aleida Elisabeth Otten, Tiendeveen, Beilen, Denthe, Nederland († 1952)
• Albertje Wubs, Mussel, Onstwedde, Groningen, Netherlands
• Alberdina Sijp, Nieuwe Pekela († 1905)
• Albertus Johannes VLIEG († 1984)
• Anna Maria Koenraad, Rijen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1993)

• Margien Ketting (68), Groningen
• Bernard Christiaan Ledeboer (79), Loenen, Nederland
• Adriana Dekkers (14), Sprang, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aleida Elisabeth Boekhout (83), Munnekemoer, Vlagtwedde
• Anne Marguérite Smets (73), Sint-Truiden, België
• Abraham Lodder (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Margetha Gietman (44), Groesbeek, Gelderland,Netherlands
• Alida Elizabet Boekhout (83), Vlagtwedde
• Anna Margaretha Gietman (44), Groesbeek, NL
• Adriana Heintje Gardina van Tussenbroek

• 1900 » Maria Zubreeva, Soviet painter, graphic artist, and designer († 1991)
• 1901 » Preston Foster, American actor († 1970)
• 1902 » Carlo Gambino, Italian-American mob boss († 1976)
• 1902 » Fernand Braudel, French historian and academic († 1985)
• 1903 » Karl Hanke, German businessman and politician († 1945)
• 1904 » Ida Cook, English campaigner for Jewish refugees, and romantic novelist as Mary Burchell († 1986)
• 1905 » Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1974)
• 1905 » Siaka Stevens, Sierra Leonean police officer and politician, 1st President of Sierra Leone († 1988)
• 1907 » Bruno Giacometti, Swiss architect, designed the Hallenstadion († 2012)
• 1908 » Shivaram Rajguru, Indian activist († 1931)

• 1888 » Rudolf Clausius, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1822)
• 1895 » Albert F. Mummery, English mountaineer and author (b. 1855)
• 1923 » Kate Douglas Wiggin, American author and educator (b. 1856)
• 1930 » Tom Norman, English businessman and showman (b. 1860)
• 1932 » Kate M. Gordon, American activist (b. 1861)
• 1939 » Frederick Carl Frieseke, American painter and educator (b. 1874)
• 1940 » Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Polish-German technician and inventor, invented the Nipkow disk (b. 1860)
• 1943 » Antonio Alice, Argentinian painter and educator (b. 1886)
• 1943 » Simone Weil, French philosopher and activist (b. 1909)
• 1946 » James Clark McReynolds, American lawyer and judge, 48th United States Attorney General (b. 1862)

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 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 4 » The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
• 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.
• 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.
• July 21 » Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100mph (161km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brillié in Ostend, Belgium.
• 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.

The temperature on August 24, 1904 was between 8.8 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.