About the day » Tuesday February 7, 1905Calender converter

• Albertje Annega, 't Haantje, Odoorn († 1905)
• Adrianus Laurentius Driessen, Gilze en Rijen († 1990)
• Aaltje Bodenstaff, Smilde († 1984)
• -Wilhelm August OBERHOFF, (LOOSE-END) Hamborn/Duisburg (D) (PARENTS NOT SURE!! PLEASE HELP) († 1930)
• Aaltje van der Werf, Rotterdam, Nederland († 1989)
• Akke van der Molen, Gaasterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Aart den Herder, Putten
• Bijkerk, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1905)
• Adriaan van der Meer, Dreischor, Zeeland, Nederland
• Albert Jacob Johannes Bezemer, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1945)

• Anna Marianne Catharina Holmberg de Beckfelt (82), 's Gravenhage
• Aalbert Reewinkel (68), Duiven
• Andries Sytzes van Buren (80), Dronrijp
• Amanda Elizabeth Miller YOCUM (63)
• Adriaan Houten, van den (60), Haamstede gem. Schouwen Duiveland Zld, NL
• Anna Maria Marciane Catharina Holmberg de Beckfelt Jnkvr (82), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Adriaan van den Houte (60), Haamstede, Zeeland, Nederland
• Cuperus (0), Driesum
• Andries de Beer (79), Roosendaal
• Adriaan van den Houten (60), Haamstede

• 1901 » Arnold Nordmeyer, New Zealand minister and politician, 30th New Zealand Minister of Finance († 1989)
• 1904 » Ernest E. Debs, American politician, California State Assembly member, Los Angeles city councilman, and a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors († 2002)
• 1905 » Paul Nizan, French philosopher and author († 1940)
• 1905 » Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1983)
• 1906 » Oleg Konstantinovich Antonov, Russian engineer, founded the Antonov Aircraft Company († 1984)
• 1906 » Puyi, Chinese emperor († 1967)
• 1908 » Buster Crabbe, American swimmer and actor († 1983)
• 1908 » Manmath Nath Gupta, Indian journalist and author († 2000)
• 1909 » Amedeo Guillet, Italian soldier († 2010)
• 1909 » Hélder Câmara, Brazilian archbishop († 1999)

• 1873 » Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish author (b. 1814)
• 1878 » Pope Pius IX (b. 1792)
• 1891 » Marie Louise Andrews, American story writer and journalist (b. 1849)
• 1897 » Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist and engineer (b. 1847)
• 1919 » William Halford, English-American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1841)
• 1920 » Alexander Kolchak, Russian admiral and explorer (b. 1874)
• 1920 » Charles Langelier, Canadian journalist, judge, and politician (b. 1850)
• 1921 » John J. Gardner, American politician (b. 1845)
• 1937 » Elihu Root, American lawyer and politician, 38th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
• 1938 » Harvey Samuel Firestone, American businessman, founded the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company (b. 1868)

• 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.
• April 17 » The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York, which holds that the "right to free contract" is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
• August 13 » Norwegians vote to end the union with Sweden.
• September 23 » Norway and Sweden sign the "Karlstad treaty", peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.
• October 16 » The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
• October 26 » King Oscar II recognizes the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden.
• 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)

The temperature on February 7, 1905 was between 0.1 °C and 7.3 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.