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• Anton Meijerman, Archem
• Adrianus Franciscus van Ierland, Tilburg († 1991)
• Alfred Hubert Jozef Senden, Voerendaal († 1992)
• Anthonij_Cornelis van der Lem, Den Haag († 1986)
• Adriana Maria van Beurden, Haaren, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1986)
• Annabella Aitkin Chalmers, Midmar, Aberdeenshire, Scotland († 1995)
• Annechien de Vries, Veendam (Groningen)
• Alfred Hubert Jozef (Alfred) Senden, Voerendaal († 1992)
• Adriaantje Wilhelmina Koornneef, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Lucia Henderika Hoek, De Rijp

• Cornelis Hendricus Voorbij (0), Vinkeveen en Waverveen, De Ronde Venen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Stegeman Jan (94), Nieuwleusen
• Catharina Maria Hardenberg (77), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Timmermans (29), Rotterdam
• Alexis Wilhelm Ernst Landgraf von Hessen-Philippsthal (75), Herleshausen, Hessen, Germany
• Alexis de Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (75)
• Caroline Neve Dumbrell (79), Tingha, New South Wales, Australia
• Cornelis van Dijk (0), Leersum, Utrecht, NL
• Alvin McLain (83), Augusta, Kennebec County, ME, United States
• Alexis van Hessen Philippsthal (75), Herleshausen

• 1900 » Ida Browne, Australian geologist and palaeontologist († 1976)
• 1902 » Georgette Heyer, English author († 1974)
• 1902 » Wallace Thurman, American author and playwright († 1934)
• 1904 » Minoru Genda, Japanese general, pilot, and politician († 1989)
• 1904 » Wendell Meredith Stanley, American biochemist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1971)
• 1908 » Orlando Cole, American cellist and educator († 2010)
• 1908 » William Keepers Maxwell, Jr., American editor, novelist, short story writer, and essayist († 2000)
• 1909 » Paul Callaway, American organist and conductor († 1995)
• 1910 » Gloria Blondell, American actress († 1986)
• 1910 » Mae Clarke, American actress († 1992)

• 1888 » John Pemberton, American pharmacist and chemist, invented Coca-Cola (b. 1831)
• 1893 » Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist and academic (b. 1825)
• 1899 » Robert Bunsen, German chemist and academic (b. 1811)
• 1900 » José Maria de Eça de Queirós, Portuguese journalist and author (b. 1845)
• 1904 » Prentiss Ingraham, American soldier and author (b. 1843)
• 1911 » Patrick Francis Moran, Irish-Australian cardinal (b. 1830)
• 1914 » Carl Theodor Schulz, German-Norwegian gardener (b. 1835)
• 1916 » George Scott, English footballer (b. 1885)
• 1920 » Henry Daglish, Australian politician, 6th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1866)
• 1921 » Peter I of Serbia (b. 1844)

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.
• February 5 » In Mexico, the General Hospital of Mexico is inaugurated, started with four basic specialties.
• May 15 » Las Vegas is founded when 110 acres (0.45km), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.
• September 23 » Norway and Sweden sign the "Karlstad treaty", peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.
• October 16 » The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
• November 21 » Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E=mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.
• December 9 » In France, the law separating church and state is passed.

The temperature on August 16, 1905 was between 11.9 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.