About the day » Thursday June 1, 1905Calender converter

• Aaltje Jansen, Apeldoorn († 1979)
• Albertus VINGERHOED, Zierikzee, Schouwen-Duiveland, Zeeland, Netherland
• Aaltje Busstra, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1985)
• Aaltje Meijer, Odoornerveen, Odoorn († 1984)
• Agatha Margaretha van Egmond, Wijk aan Zee en Duin († 1978)
• Anna de Lara, Amsterdam († 1943)
• Alejandro Antonio Osorio Ocampo († 1986)
• Abraham Frans Bienefelt, Elkerzee († 2005)
• Albertus Jansen, Zwolle,Gemeente Zwolle,Overijssel,Nederland († 1906)
• Alma Lucille Chovin McConnell, Vanscoy, Saskatchewan, Canada († 2000)

• Anna Christina Raskin (73), Herk-de-Stad, België
• Catharina Maria Pfeiffer (78), Den-Haag
• Cornelis Casper de Bres (72), Dordrecht
• Anna Clasina van de Sande (70), Loon op Zand
• Anna Antoinetta Maria Octavia Schulte (28), Uden
• Albertus Groenewoud (0), Amersfoort
• Abraham Pieter Goedegebuure (2), Sint-Annaland Gem.Tholen Zeeland Nederland
• VAN DEURSEN (0), Blerick, Limburg, Netherlands
• Catharina Maria Hoogland (69), Vlissingen
• Adriana van Veen (52), Poederoijen, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1901 » Hap Day, Canadian ice hockey player, referee, and manager († 1990)
• 1901 » John Van Druten, English-American playwright and director († 1957)
• 1901 » Tom Gorman, Australian rugby league player († 1978)
• 1903 » Hans Vogt, Norwegian linguist and academic († 1986)
• 1903 » Vasyl Velychkovsky, Ukrainian-Canadian bishop and martyr († 1973)
• 1905 » Robert Newton, English-American actor († 1956)
• 1907 » Frank Whittle, English airman and engineer, developed the jet engine († 1996)
• 1907 » Jan Patočka, Czech philosopher († 1977)
• 1908 » Julie Campbell Tatham, American author († 1999)
• 1909 » Yechezkel Kutscher, Slovakian-Israeli philologist and linguist († 1971)

• 1872 » James Gordon Bennett, Sr., American publisher, founded the New York Herald (b. 1795)
• 1873 » Joseph Howe, Canadian journalist and politician, 5th Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1804)
• 1876 » Hristo Botev, Bulgarian poet and journalist (b. 1848)
• 1879 » Napoléon, Prince Imperial of France (b. 1856)
• 1908 » Allen Butler Talcott, American painter (b. 1867)
• 1927 » J. B. Bury, Irish historian, philologist, and scholar (b. 1861)
• 1927 » Lizzie Borden, American accused murderer (b. 1860)
• 1934 » Sir Alfred Rawlinson, 3rd Baronet, English colonel and polo player (b. 1867)
• 1935 » Arthur Arz von Straußenburg, Romanian-Hungarian general († 1857)
• 1938 » Ödön von Horváth, Croatian-French author and playwright (b. 1901)

• 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 26 » The world's largest diamond ever, the Cullinan weighing 3,106.75 carats (0.621350kg), is found at the Premier Mine near Pretoria in South Africa.
• February 23 » Chicago attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world's first service club.
• April 30 » Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich.
• October 16 » The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
• December 11 » A workers' uprising occurs in Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire), and establishes the Shuliavka Republic.
• December 15 » The Pushkin House is established in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to preserve the cultural heritage of Alexander Pushkin.

The temperature on June 1, 1905 was between 9.5 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (25%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.