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• Aleida Maria Johanna Iding, Bocholt Hemden († 1980)
• Alewijn van der Velden, Vlaardingen († 1973)
• Aleida Maria Rutjes, Beek (Ge), Gelderland, Nederland
• Aalke (Gjalds) Wagenaar, Droegeham, Friesland, Nederland († 1993)
• Alida Ferdinandus, Delft, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands († 1926)
• Ana Yolanda de Alcantara Machado, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
• Aalke Gjalts Wagenaar, Drogeham († 1993)
• Adrianus Cornelis Broek van den, Etten Leur
• Aartje BROEKHUIZEN, Uithoorn († 1951)
• Remmelt de Graaf, Emmen Drenthe

• Antonius Theodorus Vogel (0), Bloemendaal
• Aartje Alebers (68), Rotterdam
• Albert Renken (1), Veendam
• Antje Zonneveld (68), Castricum
• Arnoldus Kool (70), Moordrecht
• Abel ABBRING (64), Baflo Groningen Netherlands
• Anne Bijker (14), Lippenhuizen, 8408, Nederland
• Augustinus VAN DEN NOUWLAND (46), Tilburg, Province of North Brabant, Netherlands
• Anna Cornelia Lambregts (53), Oud en Nieuw Gastel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antje Sophia van Veelen (0), Den Haag ('s-Gravenhage), Zuid-Holland, Nederland Nederland

• 1900 » Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1981)
• 1900 » Isobel Hogg Kerr Beattie, Scottish architect († 1970)
• 1902 » Stefan Wolpe, German-American composer and educator († 1972)
• 1903 » Arpad Elo, Hungarian-American chess player, created the Elo rating system († 1992)
• 1905 » Faustina Kowalska, Polish nun and saint († 1938)
• 1906 » Jim Smith, English cricketer († 1979)
• 1909 » Michael Rennie, English actor and producer († 1971)
• 1909 » Ruby Keeler, Canadian-American actress, singer, and dancer († 1993)
• 1910 » Dorothea Tanning, American painter, sculptor, and poet († 2012)
• 1910 » George Cisar, American baseball player († 2010)

• 1886 » Zinovios Valvis, Greek lawyer and politician, 35th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1791)
• 1892 » William Champ, English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of Tasmania (b. 1808)
• 1900 » Friedrich Nietzsche, German philologist, philosopher, and critic (b. 1844)
• 1904 » Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter and lithographer (b. 1836)
• 1908 » Henri Becquerel, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1916 » Mary Tappan Wright, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1851)
• 1921 » Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet and critic (b. 1886)
• 1924 » Mariano Álvarez, Filipino general and politician (b. 1818)
• 1924 » Velma Caldwell Melville, American editor, and writer of prose and poetry (b. 1858)
• 1925 » Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austrian field marshal (b. 1852)

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.
• February 5 » In Mexico, the General Hospital of Mexico is inaugurated, started with four basic specialties.
• March 23 » Eleftherios Venizelos calls for Crete's union with Greece, and begins what is to be known as the Theriso revolt.
• April 17 » The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York, which holds that the "right to free contract" is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
• 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.
• August 13 » Norwegians vote to end the union with Sweden.
• November 21 » Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E=mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.

The temperature on August 25, 1905 was between 5.7 °C and 20.9 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.