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• Albertus "Bertus" Sloeserwij, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Garnaat, Delft, ZH, Nederland († 1999)
• Aaltje Ipema, Vries, Drenthe, Nederland
• Afina van der Veen, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 1938)
• van den Abbeelen, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert Joseph Wilmots, Gelinden, België
• Agatha Wilhelmina van den Burg, Noordwijkerhout († 1970)
• Agatha Meijer, Heiloo, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1904)
• Aart Waard, Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1905)
• Anna Witjes, Schalkwijk, Gemeente Houten, Utrecht, Nederland

• Catharina Gotliep (96), Veendam, Veendam, Groningen, Nederland
• (79), Zerkegem
• Aaltje van de Klok (53), Nijkerk
• Catharina Gotlieb (96), Veendam
• Anetta maria Born (0), Den Haag
• Antonia Geertruida Vermeulen (61), Utrecht
• Annetje van Kroonenborg (50), Rotterdam
• Anna de Mauléon-Narbonne (79), château de Lassalle, Sainte-Marie, Gers, France
• Agnes Elisabeth Olijerhoek (0), Woubrugge, Kaag en Braassem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Annetje van Kronenburg (50), rotterdam, Nederland

• 1897 » Milt Franklyn, American composer († 1962)
• 1898 » H. A. Rey, American author and illustrator, co-created Curious George († 1977)
• 1899 » Hans Swarowsky, Hungarian-Austrian conductor and educator († 1975)
• 1901 » Josef Schächter, Austrian rabbi and philosopher from the Vienna Circle († 1994)
• 1905 » Vladimír Holan, Czech poet and author († 1980)
• 1906 » Jack Churchill, Sri Lankan-English colonel († 1996)
• 1910 » Erich Kempka, German colonel and chauffeur († 1975)
• 1910 » Karl Kling, German race car driver and manager († 2003)
• 1911 » Paul Henning, American screenwriter and producer († 2005)
• 1911 » Wilfred Burchett, Australian journalist and author († 1983)

• 1887 » Sakaigawa Namiemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 14th Yokozuna (b. 1841)
• 1896 » Antônio Carlos Gomes, Brazilian composer (b. 1836)
• 1896 » Pavlos Kalligas, Greek jurist and politician, Foreign Minister of Greece (b. 1814)
• 1898 » Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican surgeon and politician (b. 1827)
• 1911 » Edward Whymper, English-French mountaineer, explorer, and author (b. 1840)
• 1914 » C. X. Larrabee, American businessman (b. 1843)
• 1925 » Alexander Friedmann, Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1888)
• 1925 » Leo Fall, Czech-Austrian composer (b. 1873)
• 1931 » Omar Mukhtar, Libyan theorist and educator (b. 1862)
• 1932 » Millicent Lilian "Peg" Entwistle, British stage and screen actress (b. 1908)

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.
• 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.
• May 21 » The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
• June 16 » Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".
• October 20 » Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.
• 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 September 16, 1904 was between 8.3 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.