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• * Anthonie Jan Komijn, Rotterdam († 1974)
• Adrianus Schapendonk, Haaren, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1947)
• Adriana Johanna van Heiningen, Amsterdam
• Aartje Johanna Tesseling, Doorn, Utrecht, Nederland († 1980)
• Antonius Adrianus Josephus Maria Wouters, Tilburg († 1994)
• Anna Maria Zentveld, Egmond-Binnen, Egmond, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1906)
• Vermeulen, Zwammerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1905)
• Anthonie Jan Komijn, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1974)
• Antonia Maria Emilia BECX, Tilburg (NL/NB) († 1941)
• Anna Maria Josephina Geilen, Sittard, Nederland († 1905)

• Vermeulen (0), Zwammerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Stuut (72), Fokswolde (Roden)
• Anna Cornelia Landa (0), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• aalbert kamperman, heteren
• Adriaantje (Ariaantje) van Velzen (75), Westwoud, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Anna Christina Rekmans (83), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Johanna Sonneveld (22)
• Antoon Andries Bontekoe (21), Assen, province of Drenthe
• Antoon Bontekoe (21), Assen
• Anthonij Boerendonk (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1898 » Donald C. Peattie, American botanist and author († 1964)
• 1899 » Pavel Haas, Czech composer († 1944)
• 1903 » Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist, painter and illustrator († 2003)
• 1903 » Hermann Engelhard, German runner and coach († 1984)
• 1905 » Jacques Goddet, French journalist († 2000)
• 1905 » Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and author († 1980)
• 1908 » William Frankena, American philosopher and academic († 1994)
• 1910 » Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Russian poet and author († 1971)
• 1911 » Irving Fein, American producer and manager († 2012)
• 1912 » Kazimierz Leski, Polish pilot and engineer († 2000)

• 1874 » Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist and astronomer (b. 1814)
• 1876 » Antonio López de Santa Anna, Mexican general and politician 8th President of Mexico (b. 1794)
• 1880 » Theophilus H. Holmes, American general (b. 1804)
• 1893 » Leland Stanford, American businessman and politician, 8th Governor of California (b. 1824)
• 1908 » Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer and educator (b. 1844)
• 1914 » Bertha von Suttner, Austrian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
• 1929 » Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, English sociologist, journalist, and academic (b. 1864)
• 1934 » Thorne Smith, American author (b. 1892)
• 1940 » Édouard Vuillard, French painter (b. 1868)
• 1940 » Smedley Butler, American general, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1881)

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.
• April 30 » Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich.
• May 27 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
• May 28 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō and the Imperial Japanese Navy.
• September 26 » Albert Einstein publishes the third of his Annus Mirabilis papers, introducing the special theory of relativity.
• 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 June 21, 1905 was between 12.2 °C and 23.0 °C and averaged 17.8 °C. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (58%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.