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• Alida Desmedt, Aartrijke, Zedelgem, West-Vlaanderen, België († 1961)
• Adriaan Brouwer, Zierikzee, Zeeland, Nederland
• Andries van der Hoek, Opende ( Grootegast) († 1998)
• Adriana Kool, Overschie,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• * Dirk den Besten, Langerak
• Andries Taedes van der Hoek, Opende, Grootegast, Groningen, Nederland († 1998)
• Adriana Francina de Leeuw, Goes († 1998)
• Adriaan Brouwer, Zierikzee, Zeeland, Nederland († 1979)
• Alida van Bijleveld, Naarden († 1979)
• Anna Auguste Ensink, Emmerich (D)

• Catharina Wyenbergh (74), Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Helena Eijkens (56)
• Coleta Vandeweghe (81), Ruiselede
• Anna Catharina Borrij (77), Sas van Gent
• Blanche Mathilde MERCIER (0), Carvin(62)... Hauts de France
• Cornelia Roskam (0)
• Ann WHITE (58), Maryborough, Queensland, Australia
• Charles Taylor (82), Ludlow, Aroostook County, Maine, United States of America
• Coenradius Albertus Post (89), Velsen
• Cornelia van Straaten (75), Bunnik

• 1900 » Ibrahim Abboud, Sudanese politician and general, 1st President of Sudan († 1983)
• 1900 » Karin Boye, Swedish poet and novelist († 1941)
• 1902 » Beryl Markham, Kenyan horse trainer and author († 1986)
• 1902 » Henrietta Hill Swope, American astronomer and academic († 1980)
• 1902 » Jack Sharkey, American boxer and referee († 1994)
• 1903 » Mahn Ba Khaing, Burmese politician († 1947)
• 1905 » George Bernard Flahiff, Canadian cardinal († 1989)
• 1906 » Primo Carnera, Italian boxer and actor († 1967)
• 1909 » Dante Quinterno, Argentinian author and illustrator († 2003)
• 1909 » Ignace Lepp, French psychologist and author († 1966)

• 1890 » Carlo Collodi, Italian journalist and author (b. 1826)
• 1896 » Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French philosopher, academic, and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1827)
• 1902 » Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American activist (b. 1815)
• 1909 » Itō Hirobumi, Japanese samurai and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1841)
• 1919 » Akashi Motojiro, Japanese general (b. 1864)
• 1927 » Jūkichi Yagi, Japanese poet (b. 1898)
• 1929 » Swan Hennessy, Irish-American composer (b. 1866)
• 1930 » Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman and horse breeder (b. 1872)
• 1930 » Waldemar Haffkine, Russian-Swiss physician and microbiologist (b. 1860)
• 1931 » Charles Comiskey, American baseball player and manager (b. 1859)

• 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.
• April 4 » In India, an earthquake hits the Kangra Valley, killing 20,000, and destroying most buildings in Kangra, McLeod Ganj and Dharamshala.
• May 27 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
• June 30 » Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.
• 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)
• December 9 » In France, the law separating church and state is passed.

The temperature on October 26, 1905 was between -5.4 °C and 2.5 °C and averaged -0.9 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.