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• Adrianus Laurier, Leiden († 1906)
• Adrianus Antonius Swaak, Utrecht († 1985)
• Albert de Lange, Avereest († 1908)
• Adriana Keijzer de, Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Nederland
• Alida von Burg, Heiswijkstraat, Rotterdam († 1981)
• Adriaan van den Broek, Haarlem
• Adriana Johanna Frederika Maria Olthoff, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aart Elise Snijders, Redon BRET († 1995)
• Abraham Heijting, Velp, Nederland († 1906)
• Adelia Dutra e Silva, Salvador, Bahia, Brasil († 2001)

• Albertus Kemp (0), Deventer
• Adrianus Cornelis Hazendonk (24), Leerdam
• Berend Jan Bussink (68), Markelo
• Carolina (Lena) HOLLO (70), Orvelte (Westerbork), Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Gertrudis Michels (65), Venray, Li.NL
• Carolus Henricus Sauvillers (25), Antwerpen, Antwerpen, België
• Albertien Eising (59), Hooghalen, Beilen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aaltje Vaandering (35), Genemuiden, Nederland
• Adrianus Anthonij Pasteur (51), Doesburg
• Albertien Eising (59), Hooghalen

• 1899 » Seán Lemass, Irish soldier and politician, 4th Taoiseach of Ireland († 1971)
• 1902 » Jean Rey, Belgian lawyer and politician, 2nd President of the European Commission († 1983)
• 1903 » K. Kamaraj, Indian journalist and politician († 1975)
• 1903 » Walter D. Edmonds, American journalist and author († 1998)
• 1904 » Rudolf Arnheim, German-American psychologist and author († 2007)
• 1905 » Anita Farra, Italian actress († 2008)
• 1905 » Dorothy Fields, American songwriter († 1974)
• 1906 » R. S. Mugali, Indian poet and academic († 1993)
• 1906 » Rudolf Uhlenhaut, English-German engineer († 1989)
• 1909 » Jean Hamburger, French physician and surgeon († 1992)

• 1883 » General Tom Thumb, American circus performer (b. 1838)
• 1885 » Rosalía de Castro, Spanish author and poet (b. 1837)
• 1890 » Gottfried Keller, Swiss author, poet, and playwright (b. 1819)
• 1898 » Jean-Baptiste Salpointe, French-American archbishop († 1825)
• 1904 » Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short story writer (b. 1860)
• 1919 » Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1929 » Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1874)
• 1930 » Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1845)
• 1931 » Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian-German economist and mathematician (b. 1868)
• 1932 » Bahíyyih Khánum, Iranian writer and leader in the Baha'i faith (b. 1846)

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 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.
• 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.
• November 28 » Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland.

The temperature on July 15, 1905 was between 11.5 °C and 24.8 °C and averaged 18.7 °C. There was 11.4 hours of sunshine (70%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.