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• Alfons Jozef Vandesande, Sint-Michiels († 1983)
• Albert George Alec WEEDEN, Kings Walden, Hitchin, Hertfordshire († 1977)
• 00 Cornelia Bastiana (2) Room, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, NL († 1994)
• Anna Maria Buijk, Steenbergen
• Albertus Johannes Marinus Warmelink, Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adriana de Keijzer, Werkendam, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1992)
• Aline Hoeller, Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Verenigde Staten († 1955)
• Andrew Schuttinga, Prairie City, US-IA († 1975)
• Abraham Oosterling, Breskens
• Alida Josephina Stoffels, Haarlem († 1994)

• Aloysius Handschoewerker (60), Pervijze, Diksmuide, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
• Arnoldus Jacobus Hoek (59), Den Helder
• Adrianus van Aelst (62), 's Gravenhage
• Aaldrik Aaldriks Warners (83), Sappemeer, Groningen, Nederland
• Aleijda Polak (76), Oude Pekela, Nederland
• Arnolda Berdina Duiveman (0), Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Arnoldus Jacobus Arendsz Hoek (59), Den Helder
• Arnoldus Jacobus Arendsz Hoek (59), Den Helder, nh.nld
• Arent Jan Oolbekkink (70), Holten
• Arent Jan Oolbekkink (70), Holten

• 1901 » Donald Bailey, English engineer, designed Bailey bridge († 1985)
• 1903 » Roy Acuff, American singer-songwriter and fiddler († 1992)
• 1904 » Sheilah Graham Westbrook, English-American actress, journalist, and author († 1988)
• 1904 » Umberto II of Italy († 1983)
• 1906 » Jacques Becker, French actor, director, and screenwriter († 1960)
• 1906 » Walter E. Rollins, American songwriter († 1973)
• 1907 » Fay Wray, Canadian-American actress († 2004)
• 1907 » Gunnar Ekelöf, Swedish poet and author († 1968)
• 1908 » Kid Sheik, American trumpet player († 1996)
• 1908 » Penny Singleton, American actress and singer († 2003)

• 1864 » John Hanning Speke, English soldier and explorer (b. 1827)
• 1883 » Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist and academic (b. 1801)
• 1893 » Thomas Hawksley, English engineer (b. 1807)
• 1915 » Ernest Gagnon, Canadian organist and composer (b. 1834)
• 1921 » Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Austrian-Russian general (b. 1886)
• 1926 » Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846)
• 1930 » Milton Sills, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1882)
• 1938 » Thomas Wolfe, American novelist (b. 1900)
• 1940 » William B. Bankhead, American lawyer and politician, 47th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1874)
• 1945 » André Tardieu, French journalist and politician, 97th Prime Minister of France (b. 1876)

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 8 » Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
• February 17 » Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.
• 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.
• August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
• 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 September 15, 1904 was between 9.7 °C and 16.3 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.