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• Adrianus Theodorus Knijnenburg, Wassenaar
• Albertus Jansz van Delft, unbekannt
• Aaltje Middelhof, Wetering (Steenwijkerwold) († 1916)
• * Simon Petrus Brouwer, Gouda († 1971)
• ALICE LAUWERS, BOOM,ANTWERPEN,BELGIE († 1997)
• Alberdina Johanna Boonstra, Groningen, Nederland († 1986)
• Aaltje Nobel, ballum
• Alice Selis, Stekene, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium († 1991)
• Adrianus van der Lee, Hoorn
• Albertus Cornelus van Deijck, Riethoven (gemeente Bergeijk) († 1908)

• Anna Christina Elizabeth Ballot (66), 21 Onslow Square, London
• Antje Hendriks Boon (83)
• Aaltje Krikke (71), Kalenberg
• Anna Smith (82), Shawhan, Bourbon, Kentucky, United States
• Adriaan de Jonge (53), Nieuw-Vossemeer, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aalbert Blom (77), Waardenburg
• Niemeier (0), Wittenberg, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Antje de Beurs (27), Middelburg
• Anne Pieters van der Kooy (0), Gauw, Wymbritseradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Bart van 't Hoog (42), Hardinxveld

• 1902 » John G. Crommelin, American admiral and politician († 1996)
• 1902 » Leopold Figl, Austrian engineer and politician, 18th Chancellor of Austria († 1965)
• 1904 » Graham Greene, English novelist, playwright, and critic († 1991)
• 1904 » Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian academic and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of India († 1966)
• 1905 » Franjo Šeper, Croatian cardinal († 1981)
• 1906 » August Komendant, Estonian-American engineer and academic († 1992)
• 1906 » Thomas Hollway, Australian politician, 36th Premier of Victoria († 1971)
• 1907 » Alexander R. Todd, Scottish-English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1997)
• 1907 » Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian politician, 52nd President of Bolivia († 2001)
• 1909 » Alex Raymond, American cartoonist, creator of Flash Gordon († 1956)

• 1853 » François Arago, French mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and politician, 25th Prime Minister of France (b. 1786)
• 1920 » Max Bruch, German composer and conductor (b. 1838)
• 1927 » Svante Arrhenius, Swedish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
• 1938 » Alexandru Averescu, Romanian field marshal and politician, 24th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1859)
• 1938 » André Lagache, French race car driver and engineer (b. 1885)
• 1943 » John Evans, English-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Tasmania (b. 1855)
• 1947 » P. D. Ouspensky, Russian-English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1878)
• 1953 » John Marin, American painter (b. 1870)
• 1955 » Humphrey Barclay, English priest (b. 1882)
• 1955 » William Orthwein, American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1881)

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.
• February 18 » Édouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels.
• July 11 » Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
• August 16 » The 8.2 M_w Valparaíso earthquake hits central Chile, killing 3,882 people.
• September 7 » Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.
• November 24 » A 13–6 victory by the Massillon Tigers over their rivals, the Canton Bulldogs, for the "Ohio League" Championship, leads to accusations that the championship series was fixed and results in the first major scandal in professional American football.

The temperature on October 2, 1906 was between 9.3 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 17.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.