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• Aartje Johanna Teseling, Doorn
• Andries de Jong, Ameide
• Albertus Cornelis Fens, Den Haag
• Adrienne Vanwelsenaers, Koekelare, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium († 1977)
• Angela Bruzzese, Mammola, Reggio Calabria, Italy († 1987)
• Aagje van de Merwe, Zwijndrecht, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands († 2007)
• van der Schee, Rhoon († 1905)
• Aike Veninga, vlagtwedde († 1976)
• "Robert" Marie Francois de Suremain, Dole, Jura, France († 1988)
• Alalia Adella Nichols, Deer Creek, Woodford, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 2001)

• Aaltje Jans Vos (83), Tjalleberd, Aengwirden, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Otten (0), Geleen,, Limburg, Nederland
• Alida Vollmuller (0), Utrecht
• Adriaan Gerritsz Kik (77), Bruinisse, Schouwen-Duiveland, Zeeland, Netherlands
• ADRIANA de WITTE (69), ROTTERDAM
• Adelheid Catharine Steil (44), Meyenburg (Schwanewede, Landkrs. Osterholz/Landkrs. Oosterholt, Niedersachsen/Nedersassen/Läichsaksen)
• Augustinus Wilhelmus Rombouts (56), Lillo, Provincie Antwerpen
• Adrianus Johannes Ditvoorst (67), Katwijk aan de Rijn, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus den Boer (1), Oud-Beijerland, Nederland
• Anna Hubertina Thill (0), Simpelveld

• 1896 » Sophie Bledsoe Aberle, Native American anthropologist, physician and nutritionist († 1996)
• 1898 » Sara Carter, American singer-songwriter († 1979)
• 1899 » Ernest Hemingway, American novelist, short story writer, and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1961)
• 1899 » Hart Crane, American poet († 1932)
• 1900 » Isadora Bennett, American theatre manager and modern dance publicity agent († 1980)
• 1903 » Roy Neuberger, American businessman and financier, co-founded Neuberger Berman († 2010)
• 1903 » Russell Lee, American photographer and journalist († 1986)
• 1908 » Jug McSpaden, American golfer and architect († 1996)
• 1911 » Marshall McLuhan, Canadian author and theorist († 1980)
• 1911 » Umashankar Joshi, Indian author, poet, and scholar († 1988)

• 1868 » William Bland, Australian surgeon and politician (b. 1789)
• 1878 » Sam Bass, American outlaw (b. 1851)
• 1880 » Hiram Walden, American general and politician (b. 1800)
• 1889 » Nelson Dewey, American lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1813)
• 1899 » Robert G. Ingersoll, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (b. 1833)
• 1920 » Fiammetta Wilson, English astronomer and educator (b. 1864)
• 1932 » Bill Gleason, American baseball player (b. 1858)
• 1934 » Hubert Lyautey, French general and politician, French Minister of Defence (b. 1854)
• 1938 » Owen Wister, American lawyer and author (b. 1860)
• 1941 » Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian poet and scholar (b. 1872)

• 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.
• June 7 » Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden. The vote was confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year.
• 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 10 » Russo-Japanese War: Peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
• September 8 » The 7.2 M_w  Calabria earthquake shakes southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 557 and 2,500 people.
• October 5 » The Wright brothers pilot the Wright Flyer III in a new world record flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes.
• December 30 » Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated at the front gate of his home in Caldwell.

The temperature on July 21, 1905 was between 10.4 °C and 23.3 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.