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• Aalbertje Vente, Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands († 1921)
• Adriana Jacomina Verburg, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Akke Algra, Oentsjerk († 1996)
• Anna Elizabeth Cato Coldenhoff, Soerabaja
• Aafje van Riel, Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Marie van Elst, 's-Gravenhage / den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anne A. Rosema, Kortezwaag (gemeente Opsterland († 1968)
• Albert Cantrell Talley, London, Pope, AR († 1985)
• Alida Jacoba Antonia Poppe, Stad Doetinchem
• Anton Jalink, Dalfsen, Overijssel, Nederland († 1911)

• Alberdina van Bentem (67), Zoelmond (Beusichem) (Buren) (GL)
• Alberta van Rossum (87)
• Aaltjen Ketel (75), Apeldoorn
• Aaltje Ketel (75), Apeldoorn
• Aleida Wolters (48), Westervoort, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltjen Wensink (84), Lonneker
• Anna Eliza Miller (55), Upper Big Sandy District, Kanawha, West Virginia, United States
• Antonetta Pennings (53), Waalwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anthonius Winters (80), Woubrugge
• Aaltjen Wensink (84), Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland

• 1900 » Mabel Mercer, English-American singer († 1984)
• 1903 » Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish soldier, pilot, and politician († 1973)
• 1904 » Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster († 1934)
• 1905 » Arne Beurling, Swedish-American mathematician and academic († 1986)
• 1905 » Paul Ariste, Estonian linguist and academic († 1990)
• 1906 » George Adamson, Indian-English author and activist († 1989)
• 1907 » James A. Michener, American author and philanthropist († 1997)
• 1909 » André Cayatte, French lawyer and director († 1989)
• 1909 » Simone Weil, French mystic and philosopher († 1943)
• 1911 » Jehan Alain, French organist and composer († 1940)

• 1862 » Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1774)
• 1866 » François-Xavier Garneau, Canadian poet, author, and historian (b. 1809)
• 1873 » Isaac Baker Brown, English gynecologist and surgeon (b. 1811)
• 1922 » John Butler Yeats, Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1839)
• 1924 » Woodrow Wilson, American historian, academic, and politician, 28th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
• 1929 » Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish mathematician and engineer (b. 1878)
• 1935 » Hugo Junkers, German engineer, designed the Junkers J 1 (b. 1859)
• 1944 » Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (b. 1865)
• 1945 » Roland Freisler, German lawyer and judge (b. 1893)
• 1947 » Marc Mitscher, American admiral and pilot (b. 1887)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Jacobus
10. Adrianus
11. Jacob
12. Dirk
13. Hendrikus
14. Wilhelmus
15. Arie
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Hendrika
8. Adriana
9. Catharina
10. Jacoba
11. Petronella
12. Aaltje
13. Grietje
14. Geertruida
15. Margaretha
16. Jantje

• 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 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 10 » HMSDreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships is christened and launched by King Edward VII.
• February 18 » Édouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels.
• April 8 » Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, dies.
• June 26 » The first Grand Prix motor race is held at Le Mans.
• August 13 » The all black infantrymen of the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Regiment are accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer in Brownsville, Texas, despite exculpatory evidence; all are later dishonorably discharged. (Their records were later restored to reflect honorable discharges but there were no financial settlements.)
• September 12 » The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.

The average temperature on February 3, 1906 was 1.5 °C. There was 7.9 mm of rain. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (20%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.