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• Anna Cornelia Maria Lases, Amsterdam, Nederland († 1991)
• Albert Wijnand Villerius, Rotterdam
• Adriana Maria Gerrits, Mill en St. Hubert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Adriana Hofman, Rotterdam
• Aart Jansen, Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anje Hofman, Klein Garnwerd gem. Winsum
• Amkea Jannette Heeren, Riepe, Ostfriesland, Hannover, Preußen († 2017)
• Adriana Francisca (Sjaan) Grootens, Breda, NB, Nederland († 1966)
• Amalie Helene Hirsch, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Troxler Caire, Louisiana, Verenigde Staten († 1970)

• Arendina Seijgers (53), Almelo
• Adeline Henry (48), Meigs Township, Muskingum County, Ohio
• Alice Cool (1), Darke County, Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Ottema (70), Leeuwarden
• Adrianus Schrauwen (64), Schijf
• Abraham Bolle (1), Oosterland
• Adrianus de Jong (62), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonia, Wouterina Van Kuijk (1), Etten-Leur, Nederland
• Anna Catharina van der Kolk (46), Rotterdam
• Annie Barbara Hollingsworth (80), Middle Fork, Clinton County, Indiana

• 1901 » Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian activist († 1925)
• 1902 » Julien Torma, French author, poet, and playwright († 1933)
• 1903 » Harold Eugene Edgerton, American engineer and academic († 1990)
• 1903 » Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player and manager († 1962)
• 1904 » Erwin Komenda, Austrian car designer and engineer († 1966)
• 1904 » Kurt Georg Kiesinger, German lawyer, politician and Chancellor of Germany († 1988)
• 1908 » Marcel-Marie Desmarais, Canadian preacher, missionary, and author († 1994)
• 1909 » Hermann Lang, German race car driver († 1987)
• 1909 » William M. Branham, American minister and theologian († 1965)
• 1910 » Barys Kit, Belarusian-American rocket scientist († 2018)

• 1883 » Benjamin Wright Raymond, American merchant and politician, 3rd Mayor of Chicago (b. 1801)
• 1886 » William Edward Forster, English businessman, philanthropist, and politician, Chief Secretary for Ireland (b. 1818)
• 1899 » Alvan Wentworth Chapman, American physician and botanist (b. 1809)
• 1906 » Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author, playwright, and politician, 6th County Governor of Møre og Romsdal (b. 1849)
• 1913 » Somerset Lowry-Corry, 4th Earl Belmore (b. 1835)
• 1923 » Kabalega, King of Bunyoro (b.1853)
• 1927 » Florence Earle Coates, American poet (b. 1850)
• 1935 » Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet and playwright (b. 1869)
• 1944 » Rose O'Neill, American cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer (b. 1874)
• 1947 » Herbert Backe, German agronomist and politician (b. 1896)

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.
• March 15 » Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated.
• April 14 » The Azusa Street Revival opens and will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
• June 7 » Cunard Line's RMSLusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
• September 1 » The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys is established.
• September 30 » The Royal Galician Academy, the Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in La Coruña, Spain.
• December 24 » Radio: Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.

The temperature on April 6, 1906 was between -2.6 °C and 14.0 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 11.2 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.