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• Anna Anttoinetta Kerremans, Made en Drimmelen, Noord Brabant († 1992)
• Albertus van Blanken, Meppel († 1906)
• Adriana Leendrina Bolijn, Bergen op Zoom († 1953)
• Ankje Adema, Oudega, gem. Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland († 1982)
• Ange France NATIVEL, L'Étang-Salé,97427,Réunion,Réunion,FRANCE
• Adrianus Andreas Marinus Dinkhuijsen, Den Haag († 1906)
• Anna van der Meulen, Mill, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1996)
• Anna Elizabeth Hulst, Utrecht
• Albertus van Blanken, Meppel, Meppel, Drenthe, Netherlands († 1906)
• Aaltje Borst

• Anna Roseboom (82), Doorwerth
• Antonia van VELTHOVEN (52), Someren, 4208, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana van Ginkel (22), Veenendaal, Utr, NL
• alphonse louis joseph ST.MÉDARD (80), st.pierre d'oléron (17)
• Adriana van Ginkel (22), Veenendaal
• Abraham Prinse (40), Nieuw-en Sint Joosland, ZL.NL
• Catherine Shaw (87), Goodwater, Coosa, Alabama, United States
• Anna Rozenboom (82), Doorwerth
• Albertus van Eerde (30), Hengelo
• Catharina Maria Kerssens (0), Assendelft NH NL

• 1898 » Adolf Reichwein, German economist and educator († 1944)
• 1898 » Leo McCarey, American director and screenwriter († 1969)
• 1899 » Gertrude Berg, American actress, screenwriter and producer († 1966)
• 1900 » Thomas Wolfe, American novelist († 1938)
• 1901 » Jean Grémillon, French director, composer, and screenwriter († 1959)
• 1904 » Ernst-Günther Schenck, German colonel and physician († 1998)
• 1905 » Tekin Arıburun, Turkish soldier and politician, President of Turkey († 1993)
• 1906 » Natalie Savage Carlson, American author († 1997)
• 1908 » Johnny Burke, American songwriter († 1964)
• 1911 » Michael Hordern, English actor († 1995)

• 1881 » Orson Pratt, American mathematician and religious leader (b. 1811)
• 1890 » Joseph Hergenröther, German historian and cardinal (b. 1824)
• 1891 » Édouard Lucas, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1842)
• 1896 » William Morris, English author and poet (b. 1834)
• 1907 » Jacob Nash Victor, American engineer (b. 1835)
• 1911 » Rosetta Jane Birks, Australian suffragist (b. 1856)
• 1917 » Eduardo Di Capua, Neapolitan composer, singer and songwriter (b. 1865)
• 1929 » Gustav Stresemann, German politician, Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1878)
• 1929 » Jeanne Eagels, American actress (b. 1894)
• 1931 » Carl Nielsen, Danish violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1865)

• 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.
• January 22 » Bloody Sunday in Saint Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.
• February 23 » Chicago attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world's first service club.
• 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.
• June 7 » Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden. The vote was confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year.
• September 1 » Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.
• 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.

The temperature on October 3, 1905 was between 4.7 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.