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• Aafje Huiberdina van Driel, Gorinchem († 1906)
• Adrianus Jan Lantinga, Peperga († 1923)
• Adrianus Florisz Bakkers, Oud-Beijerland
• Adriana Cornelia Jumelet, Bruinisse, Zeeland, Nederland († 1996)
• Adriana den Ouden, Ammerstol († 1908)
• Adriana Lena van de Velde, Ouwerkerk
• Albert Wieren
• Adriana Geertruida Maria van den Brink, Laren N.H. († 1912)
• Adriana Cornelia Jumelet, Bruinisse gem. Schouwen Duiveland Zld. NL († 1996)
• Albertus Wilhelmus Bloemen († 1909)

• Aalbert van Suijdam (64), Haaften, Neerijnen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adrianus van Adrichem (71), unbekannt
• Aagje Hoogerdijk (74), Vinkeveen en Waverveen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aaltjen Lamberts (83), Zutphen
• Anna Cornelia BOLLANSÉE (55), Massenhoven, Zandhoven, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium
• Adrianus Andreas Marinus Dinkhuijsen (0), Den Haag
• Amalia de Amorim Leão, Maceio, Alagoas, Brasil
• Aalbert van Suijdam (64), Haaften
• Alle Allema (9), Suawoude
• Dina Maria Anna Bol (9), Zandvoort

• 1902 » Buster Nupen, Norwegian-South African cricketer and lawyer († 1977)
• 1902 » Hans von Dohnányi, German jurist and political dissident († 1945)
• 1904 » Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani lawyer and politician, 5th President of Pakistan († 1982)
• 1905 » Stanisław Mazur, Ukrainian-Polish mathematician and theorist († 1981)
• 1906 » Manuel Silos, Filipino filmmaker and actor († 1988)
• 1907 » Kinue Hitomi, Japanese sprinter and long jumper († 1931)
• 1909 » Dana Andrews, American actor († 1992)
• 1909 » Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian soldier and politician († 1959)
• 1911 » Audrey Wurdemann, American poet and author († 1960)
• 1911 » Basil Dearden, English director, producer, and screenwriter († 1971)

• 1881 » Louis Auguste Blanqui, French activist (b. 1805)
• 1892 » Roswell B. Mason, American lawyer and politician, 25th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
• 1894 » Heinrich Hertz, German physicist and academic (b. 1857)
• 1896 » Alfred Ely Beach, American publisher and lawyer, created the Beach Pneumatic Transit (b. 1826)
• 1906 » Hugh Nelson, Scottish-Australian farmer and politician, 11th Premier of Queensland (b. 1833)
• 1918 » William Wilfred Campbell, Canadian poet and author (b. 1858)
• 1921 » Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, German lawyer and politician, 5th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1856)
• 1929 » Mustafa Necati, Turkish civil servant and politician, Turkish Minister of Environment and Urban Planning (b. 1894)
• 1931 » Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (b. 1851)
• 1937 » Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, Indian religious leader, founded the Gaudiya Math (b. 1874)

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 11 » Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos.
• March 15 » Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated.
• May 6 » The Russian Constitution of 1906 is adopted (on April 23 by the Julian calendar).
• 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 7 » Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.

The temperature on January 1, 1906 was between -7.0 °C and -0.3 °C and averaged -3.2 °C. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.