About the day » Friday March 31, 1905Calender converter

• Albert (jonkheer) van Citters, Noordgouwe
• Aleida Josephina ter Beek, Hengelo, Ov., Nederland († 1984)
• Alphonsus Van Nuffel, Wilrijk,, Antwerpen, België († 1934)
• Albert van Citters, Schuddebeurs, Zeeland, Netherlands († 2008)
• Alida Overduijn, Amsterdam († 1905)
• Albert Zijnge, Westerbork († 1986)
• Alida Bernardina Overduijn, Amsterdam († 1905)
• Alice Clara Cowell, Walthamstow, Essex, England († 1980)
• Adriana Diependaal, Made en Drimmelen, Nederland († 1930)
• Adrianus Christiaan van Hooijdonk, Oosterhout, Noord Brabant

• Anna Maria van Dun (0), Tilburg
• Anna Maria Buijs (67), Wateringen, Nederland
• Verweij (0), Hatert, Gelderland, Nederland
• Albert de Regter (63), Tilburg, Nederland
• Aartje de Haan (69), Ridderkerk
• Albert Seubring (0), Westerbork, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Jacoba del Campo (29), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Angenis van Manen (74), Ingen (Lienden)
• Adrianus Johannes Bastings (0), Baardwijk
• Anna Jacoba del CAMPO (29), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1900 » Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester († 1974)
• 1905 » George Treweek, Australian rugby league player († 1991)
• 1905 » Robert Stevenson, English director and screenwriter († 1986)
• 1906 » Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1979)
• 1908 » Red Norvo, American vibraphone player and composer († 1999)
• 1911 » Elisabeth Grümmer, German soprano († 1986)
• 1911 » Freddie Green, American guitarist († 1987)
• 1912 » William Lederer, American soldier and author († 2009)
• 1913 » Etta Baker, African-American singer and guitarist († 2006)
• 1914 » Octavio Paz, Mexican poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate († 1998)

• 1880 » Henryk Wieniawski, Polish violinist and composer (b. 1835)
• 1885 » Franz Abt, German composer and conductor (b. 1819)
• 1907 » Galusha A. Grow, American lawyer and politician, 28th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1823)
• 1910 » Jean Moréas, Greek poet, essayist and art critic (b. 1856)
• 1913 » J. P. Morgan, American banker and financier (b. 1837)
• 1915 » Wyndham Halswelle, English-Scottish runner and captain (b. 1882)
• 1917 » Emil von Behring, German physiologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854)
• 1924 » George Charles Haité, English painter and illustrator (b. 1855)
• 1927 » Kang Youwei, Chinese scholar and political reformer (b. 1858)
• 1930 » Ludwig Schüler, German politician, Mayor of Marburg (b. 1836)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Jacob
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Dirk
13. Wilhelmus
14. Hendrikus
15. Arie
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Adriana
8. Hendrika
9. Catharina
10. Jacoba
11. Petronella
12. Aaltje
13. Grietje
14. Geertruida
15. Trijntje
16. Helena

• 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.
• May 5 » The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder.
• June 27 » During the Russo-Japanese War, sailors start a mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin.
• 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.
• August 13 » Norwegians vote to end the union with Sweden.
• November 21 » Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E=mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.
• December 9 » In France, the law separating church and state is passed.

The temperature on March 31, 1905 was between 5.4 °C and 11.1 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.