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• Adriaan van der Maas, Koudekerke († 1993)
• Aloijsius Snijders, Amersfoort, Gemeente Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland († 1978)
• Aaltje WESTRIK, Zwollerkerspel († 1989)
• Maarsman, Kortgene († 1905)
• (Stillborn) Rorije (Roije,van Rorije,Rozije,van de Rorije), Wilsum, Nederland († 1905)
• van den Haak, Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Westrik, Zalné, Zwollerkerspel, Overijssel, Nederland († 1989)
• Adriaan van der Maas, Koudekerke, Zeeland, Nederland († 1993)
• Aafke Ruiter, Noordbroek, Menterwolde, Groningen, Netherlands († 1969)
• Alphons Hubertus Heuts, Schimmert, Limburg, Nederland († 1985)

• Adriana Huibrechtz van Opstal (88), Rhoon, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Beert van den Hoorn (0), Nunspeet
• Bengt Gottfrid Bengtsson (0), Håkafot, Frostviken, Jämtland (Z)
• Angelina Gorrissen (65), Antwerpen
• Beert van den Hoorn (0), Nunspeet
• (Stillborn) Rorije (Roije,van Rorije,Rozije,van de Rorije) (0), Wilsum, Nederland
• Adriana Catharina Henrietta van Kuik (1), Maastricht
• Johannes Ribot (54), Leiden
• Annie M Stone (52), United States of America
• Andreas Rhodocanakis (41)

• 1902 » Nâzım Hikmet, Greek-Turkish author, poet, and playwright († 1963)
• 1902 » Saud of Saudi Arabia († 1969)
• 1903 » Paul A. Dever, American lieutenant and politician, 58th Governor of Massachusetts († 1958)
• 1907 » Janusz Kusociński, Polish runner and soldier († 1940)
• 1908 » Edward Teller, Hungarian-American physicist and academic († 2003)
• 1909 » Gene Krupa, American drummer, composer, and actor († 1973)
• 1909 » Jean Bugatti, German-French engineer († 1939)
• 1912 » Michel Debré, French lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of France († 1996)
• 1913 » Eugène Brands, Dutch painter († 2002)
• 1913 » Lloyd Bridges, American actor († 1998)

• 1885 » Leopold Damrosch, German-American composer and conductor (b. 1832)
• 1893 » Fanny Kemble, English actress (b. 1809)
• 1896 » Mathew Brady, American photographer and journalist (b. 1822)
• 1905 » George Thorn, Australian politician, 6th Premier of Queensland (b. 1838)
• 1909 » Arnold Janssen, German priest and missionary (b. 1837)
• 1916 » Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian playwright and translator (b. 1850)
• 1919 » Karl Liebknecht, German politician (b. 1871)
• 1919 » Rosa Luxemburg, German economist, theorist, and philosopher (b. 1871)
• 1926 » Enrico Toselli, Italian pianist and composer (b. 1883)
• 1929 » George Cope, American painter (b. 1855)

• 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 5 » The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder.
• May 27 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
• August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: Peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
• September 26 » Albert Einstein publishes the third of his Annus Mirabilis papers, introducing the special theory of relativity.
• December 11 » A workers' uprising occurs in Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire), and establishes the Shuliavka Republic.

The temperature on January 15, 1905 was between -7.0 °C and -1.1 °C and averaged -4.3 °C. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.