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• Abraham (Bram) de Visser († 1976)
• Aaltje van Holland, Wageningen
• Anna Elsa Labenskij, Rosslau, Sachsen-Anhalt, Duitsland
• Albert ten Berge († 1971)
• Anna Maria Blommestein, Zaltbommel († 1970)
• Adrianus Antonius van de Geer, Wamel († 1991)
• Aafje Faust, Andijk, Nederland († 1997)
• Albertha Froukje Berends Bonnema, Leek, Groningen, Nederland
• Aloys Jozef Smet, Temse, O-Vl, BE
• Allene Pruisner, Pleasant Valley Township, Grundy County, Iowa († 1984)

• Christiaan Letzer (62), Amsterdam,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius van de Wetering (20), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Alida van Eijk (0), Breukelen-Nijenrode
• Angelique Laliberté (106), St. Herbert Parish, Manitoba, Canada
• Cornelis van Kessel (79), Leeuwen (West Maas en Waal), Gelderland, Nederland
• Albert Meyburgh PRETORIUS (43), Pretoria
• Archibald John Stuart-Wortley (56)
• Adriana Laurens (76), Ede
• Christiaan Letzer (62), Amsterdam
• Adriana Clasina Looije (85), Wateringen, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1896 » Roman Jakobson, Russian-American linguist and theorist († 1982)
• 1897 » Nathan Farragut Twining, American general († 1982)
• 1899 » Eddie Dyer, American baseball player and manager († 1964)
• 1901 » Masanobu Tsuji, Japanese colonel and politician († 1961)
• 1902 » Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian activist and politician († 1979)
• 1905 » Fred Trump, American real estate entrepreneur († 1999)
• 1910 » Cahit Arf, Turkish mathematician and academic († 1997)
• 1911 » Nello Pagani, Italian motorcycle racer and race car driver († 2003)
• 1913 » Joe Simon, American author and illustrator († 2011)
• 1915 » T. Llew Jones, Welsh author and poet († 2009)

• 1889 » James Prescott Joule, English physicist and brewer (b. 1818)
• 1896 » Anton Bruckner, Austrian organist, composer, and educator (b. 1824)
• 1896 » Edward Benson, English archbishop (b. 1829)
• 1897 » Léon Boëllmann, French organist and composer (b. 1862)
• 1904 » Mary Tenney Gray, American editorial writer, club-woman, philanthropist, and suffragette (b. 1833)
• 1908 » Rita Cetina Gutiérrez, Mexican poet, educator, and activist (b. 1846)
• 1932 » William Alden Smith, American lawyer and politician (b. 1859)
• 1935 » Steele Rudd, Australian author (b. 1868)
• 1940 » Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1860)
• 1941 » Heinrich Gutkin, Estonian businessman and politician (b. 1879)

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.
• 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.
• June 27 » During the Russo-Japanese War, sailors start a mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin.
• September 1 » Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.
• October 5 » The Wright brothers pilot the Wright Flyer III in a new world record flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes.
• November 12 » Norway holds a referendum resulting in popular approval of the Storting's decision to authorise the government to make the offer of the throne of the newly independent country.
• November 28 » Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland.

The temperature on October 11, 1905 was between 2.4 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.