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• Adriana Maria Schalks, Leiden
• Adriana Johanna Spiljart, Vlijmen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1944)
• Adriana Segeren, Made en Drimmelen, Noord-Brabant, NL
• ADRIANA HENDRIKA ANTONIA HOLLESTELLE, 'S-GRAVENHAGE
• Alberta Johanna Maria van der Kleij, Monster
• Adam Schumacher, Hungary († 1979)
• Adrianus Nelis Vos, Rotterdam, Nederland
• Abraham Vermeulen († 1989)
• Albert Waart van der, Hof van Delft
• Alberta Johanna Maria van der Kleij, Monster, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1905)

• Alida Boers (64), Ede
• Adriana Cornelia Voorbraak (49), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adam Kirkwood (43), Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, United States of America
• Anna Catharina van Duijnhoven (82), Achel, België
• Arie van Dijk (26), Katwijk
• Anna M Moorhuis (47), Grundy County, Iowa
• Arida Egbartje van Es (0), Leiden (NL)
• Anna Catharina Peeters (0), Gilze en Rijen
• Aaltje KOENDERINK (73), Rijssen, Nederland
• Antonie Van De Geer (63), Oijen (NL)

• 1899 » Walter Lantz, American animator, producer, screenwriter, and actor († 1994)
• 1900 » August Koern, Estonian politician and diplomat, Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs in exile († 1989)
• 1902 » Tiemoko Garan Kouyaté, Malian educator and activist († 1942)
• 1904 » Cecil Day-Lewis, Anglo-Irish poet and author († 1972)
• 1904 » Nikos Zachariadis, Greek politician († 1973)
• 1905 » John Kuck, American javelin thrower and shot putter († 1986)
• 1906 » Yiorgos Theotokas, Greek author and playwright († 1966)
• 1910 » Chiang Ching-kuo, Chinese politician, 3rd President of the Republic of China († 1988)
• 1911 » Bruno Beger, German anthropologist and ethnologist († 2009)
• 1911 » Chris Berger, Dutch sprinter and footballer († 1965)

• 1873 » William Macready, English actor and manager (b. 1793)
• 1882 » Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet and philosopher (b. 1803)
• 1893 » John Ballance, Irish-born New Zealand journalist and politician, 14th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1839)
• 1896 » Henry Parkes, English-Australian businessman and politician, 7th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1815)
• 1915 » Alexander Scriabin, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1872)
• 1915 » John Labatt, Canadian businessman (b. 1838)
• 1932 » Hart Crane, American poet (b. 1899)
• 1936 » Karl Pearson, English mathematician and academic (b. 1857)
• 1937 » Antonio Gramsci, Italian sociologist, linguist, and politician (b. 1891)
• 1938 » Edmund Husserl, Czech mathematician and philosopher (b. 1859)

• 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.
• August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: Peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
• August 20 » Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary, forms the first chapter of T'ung Meng Hui, a union of all secret societies determined to bringing down the Manchus.
• September 26 » Albert Einstein publishes the third of his Annus Mirabilis papers, introducing the special theory of relativity.
• December 9 » In France, the law separating church and state is passed.

The temperature on April 27, 1905 was between 0.7 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.