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Died on Friday October 6, 1905
- Antonetta Liebregt vh Geijsselmeijer (75), Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
- Anna Maria Catharina Dekker (75), Borgharen, Limburg, The Netherlands
- Auke Hendriks Kerkhof (64), Leeuwarden
- Adriana Veraart (91), Halsteren
- Anna Trouwborst (77), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
- Bernardus Berends (Berns) (0), Styrum, Duitsland
- Arie Kruijt (51), Arkel
- Annette van Hallay-Coëtquen (74), Folembray, Picardië
- Carel Willem Herman de Geer (36), Malang
- Adelicia Angela (0), Aruba
Source: Delpher (KB | national library) Newspapers from October 6, 1905 at Delpher
Born on October 6
- 1900 » Stan Nichols, English cricketer († 1961)
- 1900 » Vivion Brewer, American activist and desegregationist († 1991)
- 1900 » Willy Merkl, German mountaineer († 1934)
- 1901 » Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus, German-Brazilian zoologist and academic († 1990)
- 1903 » Ernest Walton, Irish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1995)
- 1905 » Helen Wills, American tennis player and painter († 1998)
- 1906 » Janet Gaynor, American actress († 1984)
- 1906 » Taffy O'Callaghan, Welsh footballer and coach († 1946)
- 1908 » Carole Lombard, American actress († 1942)
- 1908 » Sergei Sobolev, Russian mathematician and academic († 1989)
Died on October 6
- 1873 » Paweł Strzelecki, Polish-English geologist and explorer (b. 1797)
- 1883 » Dục Đức, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1852)
- 1891 » Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish politician (b. 1846)
- 1892 » Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet (b. 1809)
- 1912 » Auguste Beernaert, Belgian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Belgium, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1829)
- 1923 » Damat Ferid Pasha, Ottoman politician, 285th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1853)
- 1942 » Siegmund Glücksmann, German politician (b. 1884)
- 1945 » Leonardo Conti, German SS officer (b. 1900)
- 1947 » Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer and critic (b. 1887)
- 1951 » Will Keith Kellogg, American businessman, founded the Kellogg Company (b. 1860)
Names that were popular for boys in 1905
- Johannes
- Jan
- Cornelis
- Hendrik
- Willem
- Jacobus
- Pieter
- Petrus
- Gerrit
- Antonius
- Adrianus
- Wilhelmus
- Hendrikus
- Jacob
- Gerardus
- Franciscus
Names that were popular for girls in 1905
- Maria
- Johanna
- Cornelia
- Anna
- Elisabeth
- Wilhelmina
- Catharina
- Hendrika
- Adriana
- Petronella
- Jacoba
- Geertruida
- Helena
- Margaretha
- Antonia
- Marie
Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1905
- 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.
- September 1 » Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.
- September 11 » The Ninth Avenue derailment occurs in New York City, killing 13.
- September 26 » Albert Einstein publishes the third of his Annus Mirabilis papers, introducing the special theory of relativity.
- December 30 » Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated at the front gate of his home in Caldwell.
The weather on Friday October 6, 1905
The temperature on October 6, 1905 was between 5.8 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (42%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.
Source: KNMI
Source: KNMI