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• Alida de Vos, Haarlem, Nederland († 1977)
• Alida de Vos, Haarlem († 1977)
• Adrianus Maria Wilhelmus Severijnen, Zundert
• Albertdina Stam, Oudkarspel
• Adrianus Johannes van Wetering, Gemeente Hillegom, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1961)
• Adriana Maria Boemaars, Breda († 1964)
• Adrianus Antonius Koeken, Rijsbergen († 1993)
• JAGER, Assen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adriana Middendorp, Schiedam († 1905)
• Abraham Johannes Staal, Breda († 1979)

• Aafje Kievit (63), Emmen
• Aaltje Frederiks van Goor (44), Hollandscheveld, Gem. Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adam Groenink (61), Steenwijk
• Aaltje Fredriks van Goor (44), Hoogeveen
• Aafje Kievit (63), Emmen
• Antonie Wormeester (0), Borculo (NL)
• Adriaantje Andeweg (5), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antoon van der Horst (65), Harderwijk
• Antoon van der Horst (65), Harderwijk
• Alida Christina Holtrust (0), Katwijk,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland, Nederland

• 1900 » Anni Frind, German lyric soprano († 1987)
• 1900 » Willie Kamm, American baseball player and manager († 1988)
• 1901 » Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian-born American violinist and educator († 1987)
• 1902 » John Tonkin, Australian politician, 20th Premier of Western Australia († 1995)
• 1902 » Newbold Morris, American lawyer and politician († 1966)
• 1904 » Bozorg Alavi, Iranian author and activist († 1997)
• 1905 » Ayn Rand, Russian-born American novelist and philosopher († 1982)
• 1908 » Wes Ferrell, American baseball player and manager († 1976)
• 1909 » Frank Albertson, American actor († 1964)
• 1911 » Jack Pizzey, Australian politician, 29th Premier of Queensland († 1968)

• 1904 » Ernest Cashel, American-Canadian criminal (b. 1882)
• 1904 » William Collins Whitney, American financier and politician, 31st United States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1841)
• 1905 » Henri Germain, French banker and politician, founded Le Crédit Lyonnais (b. 1824)
• 1907 » Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist and academic (b. 1834)
• 1909 » Carlo Acton, Italian pianist and composer (b. 1829)
• 1913 » Gustaf de Laval, Swedish engineer (b. 1845)
• 1918 » John L. Sullivan, American boxer (b. 1858)
• 1919 » Julius Kuperjanov, Estonian lieutenant (b. 1894)
• 1925 » Antti Aarne, Finnish historian and academic (b. 1867)
• 1925 » Jaap Eden, Dutch speed skater and cyclist (b. 1873)

• 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.
• June 7 » Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden. The vote was confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year.
• 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.
• September 8 » The 7.2 M_w  Calabria earthquake shakes southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 557 and 2,500 people.
• September 23 » Norway and Sweden sign the "Karlstad treaty", peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.
• November 25 » Prince Carl of Denmark arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway.
• December 15 » The Pushkin House is established in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to preserve the cultural heritage of Alexander Pushkin.

The temperature on February 2, 1905 was between 3.7 °C and 6.9 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.