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• Aartje van Essen, Houten, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Albert Willem Uenk, Vorden († 2002)
• Abraham Kroon, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1926)
• Alijda Vetkamp
• Alberta Lolles Hylkema, Mirns-Bakhuizen († 1992)
• Adrianus Petrus Govers, Chaam († 1959)
• Alida Cornelia Dal, Utrecht († 2001)
• Allegonda Adriana BUIJS, Waspik, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albertus Cornelis Hendriks, Beuningen, Netherlands († 1984)
• Albert Groen, Steenwijkerwold

• Andreas Gordijn (1), Rotterdam
• Andries GORDIJN (1), Rotterdam
• Alida Maria Schols (89), Rotterdam
• Catharine Mohler (66)
• Allegonda Gerrits (34), Puiflijk
• Aafje Verver (25), Limmen
• Bernardus van Raaij (58), Wehl, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana van den Berg (83), Den Haag
• Arie Versluis (72), Kedichem
• Anna Sophie Louise Nauta PETERS (70), Groningen, Groningen, NEDERLAND

• 1902 » Andrew Irvine, English mountaineer and explorer († 1924)
• 1902 » Maria Maksakova Sr., Russian soprano († 1974)
• 1904 » Hirsch Jacobs, American horse trainer († 1970)
• 1904 » John Hicks, English economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1989)
• 1905 » Erwin Keller, German field hockey player († 1971)
• 1905 » Helen Joseph, English-South African activist († 1992)
• 1905 » Joachim Büchner, German sprinter and graphic designer († 1978)
• 1906 » Raoul Jobin, Canadian tenor and educator († 1974)
• 1908 » Hugo Fregonese, Argentinian director and screenwriter († 1987)
• 1909 » John Fante, American author and screenwriter († 1983)

• 1870 » Charles Auguste de Bériot, Belgian violinist and composer (b. 1802)
• 1894 » Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1838)
• 1906 » Auguste Deter, German woman, first person diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (b. 1850)
• 1919 » Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist, academic, and politician, Hungarian Minister of Education (b. 1848)
• 1920 » Charles Griffes, American pianist and composer (b. 1884)
• 1931 » Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish poet Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1936 » Božena Benešová, Czech poet and novelist (b. 1873)
• 1936 » Róbert Bárány, Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
• 1941 » Marcel Prévost, French novelist and playwright (b. 1862)
• 1942 » Kostas Skarvelis, Greek guitarist and composer (b. 1880)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Jacob
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Dirk
13. Wilhelmus
14. Hendrikus
15. Arie
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Adriana
8. Hendrika
9. Catharina
10. Jacoba
11. Petronella
12. Aaltje
13. Grietje
14. Geertruida
15. Trijntje
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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
• June 27 » During the Russo-Japanese War, sailors start a mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin.
• September 23 » Norway and Sweden sign the "Karlstad treaty", peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.
• October 30 » Czar Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, granting the Russian peoples basic civil liberties and the right to form a duma. (October 17 in the Julian calendar)
• November 18 » Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway.
• November 28 » Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland.
• December 30 » Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated at the front gate of his home in Caldwell.

The temperature on April 8, 1905 was between -5.1 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 0.4 °C. There was 11.1 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.