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• Antonia Maria Thuring, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 1988)
• Anna Hubertina Hawinkels, Roermond,, Limburg, Nederland († 1966)
• Anna Paulovna Van De Berg, Semarang, Java, Ned. Indie
• Adrien Julien Niville, Koekelare,8680,West-Vlaanderen,België († 1998)
• Anna Theodora Janssen Adelmund, Emden, OF, DE († 1930)
• Aleida Zwaantina Tabbert, Holtheme
• Adriana Maria van Gorp, Alphen en Riel († 1994)
• Anna Maria Hartmans, Bocholtz,Gemeente Simpelveld,Limburg,Nederland
• Aaltje BOER, De Rollen (Noorddijk) Groningen Netherlands
• Anthonie Louis van Eck, Echteld (Neder-Betuwe)

• Albertus Jans Roks (95), Wijk bij Duurstede
• Amerentia van Andel (85), Andel
• Anna Kerkecsai (22), Zemplinska Teplica
• Adrianus Nouris (70), Zutphen
• Anna Elisabeth Geurts (85), Elsloo (Stein), Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth Geurts (85), Elsloo,, Limburg, Nederland
• Alida Maria Elizabet Jansen (57), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaantje van 't Hoog (66), Soest
• Anna Groenen (28), Knegsel
• Albertus Roks (95), Wijk bij Duurstede, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1902 » Eric Liddell, Scottish runner, rugby player, and missionary († 1945)
• 1903 » William Grover-Williams, English-French race car driver († 1945)
• 1905 » Ernesto Halffter, Spanish composer and conductor († 1989)
• 1906 » Diana Wynyard, English actress († 1964)
• 1906 » Johannes Brenner, Estonian footballer and pilot († 1975)
• 1907 » Alexander Knox, Canadian-English actor and screenwriter († 1995)
• 1907 » Paul Nitze, American banker and politician, 10th United States Secretary of the Navy († 2004)
• 1908 » Ethel Merman, American actress and singer († 1984)
• 1908 » Günther Prien, German captain († 1941)
• 1908 » Sammy Crooks, English footballer († 1981)

• 1879 » Octave Crémazie, Canadian-French poet and bookseller (b. 1827)
• 1886 » Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer and academic (b. 1834)
• 1891 » Léo Delibes, French pianist and composer (b. 1836)
• 1898 » Charles Pelham Villiers, English lawyer and politician (b. 1802)
• 1901 » Arnold Böcklin, Swiss painter and academic (b. 1827)
• 1901 » Hiram Rhodes Revels, American soldier, minister, and politician (b. 1822)
• 1901 » Jules Barbier, French poet and playwright (b. 1825)
• 1906 » Marshall Field, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Marshall Field's (b. 1834)
• 1917 » George Dewey, American admiral (b. 1837)
• 1919 » Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 5th President of Brazil (b. 1848)

• 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.
• May 15 » Las Vegas is founded when 110 acres (0.45km), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.
• May 28 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō and the Imperial Japanese Navy.
• September 1 » Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.
• October 16 » The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
• November 18 » Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway.
• November 21 » Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E=mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.

The temperature on January 16, 1905 was between -9.5 °C and 0.6 °C and averaged -5.1 °C. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (57%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.