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• Anna Maria Bernardina Kempers, Rotterdam († 1906)
• Anne ZUIDEMA, Grijpskerk Groningen Netherlands († 1978)
• Adriaan Schuilwerve, Middelburg, Zeeland, NL
• Antje Gerrits STERK, Ee (Oostdongeradeel) Friesland Netherlands († 1985)
• Anne Rosalie Marie Louise GRANGER, Saint-M'Hervé, 35300, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, La Brosse († 2002)
• Alberta HACKFORT, Hamborn (Duisburg), Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland
• Adriana Helena Maria (Sjaan) Jepkes, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1983)
• Aart van Kampen, Apeldoorn, Gelderland, NL († 1906)
• Annechiena Henderika Jeannetta Spinder, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Abel van Vondel, Emmer-Compascuum, Emmen († 1924)

• Antonius Egbertus Bruggeman (0), Almelo Stad, OV, Nederland
• Aebeltje Boelsma (18), Sint Nicolaasga, Friesland, Nederland
• Abraham Hendriksz van deR Drift (81), BerkelRodenrijs
• Adrianus (Adriaan) van Sinttruijen (84), Dussen, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
• Amelberga Deyaert (65), Beveren-Waas
• Arend Wind (70), De Wijk
• Catharina Leenders (46), Maastricht
• Boukje Bijlsma (67)
• Anna Cornelia van der Pluijm (69), Dussen
• Berend Jans Slingenberg (63), Beerta

• 1899 » Henri Michaux, Belgian-French poet and painter († 1984)
• 1899 » Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player († 1938)
• 1900 » Eduardo De Filippo, Italian actor and screenwriter († 1984)
• 1901 » José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer and manager († 1968)
• 1902 » Lionel Conacher, Canadian football player and politician († 1954)
• 1902 » Sylvia Daoust, Canadian sculptor († 2004)
• 1905 » George Nakashima, American woodworker and architect († 1990)
• 1905 » Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1984)
• 1909 » Wilbur Mills, American banker and politician († 1992)
• 1910 » Jimmy Demaret, American golfer († 1983)

• 1872 » Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter and illustrator (b. 1794)
• 1879 » William Lloyd Garrison, American journalist and activist (b. 1805)
• 1881 » Samuel Palmer, English painter and illustrator (b. 1805)
• 1901 » Louis-Zéphirin Moreau, Canadian bishop (b. 1824)
• 1908 » Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer and architect (b. 1821)
• 1915 » John Condon, Irish-English soldier (b. 1896)
• 1919 » Amado Nervo, Mexican poet, journalist, and educator (b. 1870)
• 1929 » Nikolai von Meck, Russian engineer (b. 1863)
• 1941 » Lancelot Holland, English admiral (b. 1887)
• 1945 » Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal and pilot (b. 1892)

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 31 » The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later the National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for college sports in the United States.
• May 22 » The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine".
• June 25 » Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.
• September 7 » Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.
• September 24 » U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
• December 15 » The London Underground's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens.

The temperature on May 24, 1906 was between 11.0 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 8.9 mm of rain. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.