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• Aaltje Remmelts Pit, Eesveen, Steenwijkerwold, Nederland († 1972)
• Adriaan van der Pol, rotterdam
• Albert OOSTERHOF, Apeldoorn
• Adrianus Martinus van Zelst, Berkel-Enschot, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adelbert Frederick Maria Walrisius Berkenveld, Paramaribo († 2001)
• Adelbert Frederick Maria Walrisius Berkenveld, Paramaribo († 2001)
• Alphons Norbert Belmans, Tongerlo, 3960, België
• de Jonge († 1996)
• van der Waart, Den Haag
• Ada Marie Shahan, Belmond, Wright County, Iowa († 2001)

• Albert Parmentier (84), Staden, West-Vlaanderen, België
• Arnoldus Martinus Franken (64), Bergen op Zoom,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arend Rijm (0), Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel
• Anneke Pieters Kloosterman (70), Westergeest, gem. Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland
• Anne Sytzes Blaauw (61), ,, Jubbega-Schurega, Schoterland, Friesland, Netherlands
• Anthonie van den Hengel (78)
• Antonius van Creij (65), Nuland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonia van Heck (64), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Antonius Verberne (67), Lierop, NL
• Alida Maria Schaap (42)

• 1911 » Jack Pizzey, Australian politician, 29th Premier of Queensland († 1968)
• 1912 » Burton Lane, American songwriter and composer († 1997)
• 1912 » Millvina Dean, English civil servant and cartographer († 2009)
• 1913 » Poul Reichhardt, Danish actor and singer († 1985)
• 1914 » Eric Kierans, Canadian economist and politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Communications († 2004)
• 1915 » Abba Eban, South African-Israeli politician and diplomat, 1st Israel Ambassador to the United Nations († 2002)
• 1915 » Khushwant Singh, Indian journalist and author († 2014)
• 1915 » Stan Leonard, Canadian golfer († 2005)
• 1916 » Xuân Diệu, Vietnamese poet and author († 1985)
• 1917 » Mary Ellis, British World War II ferry pilot († 2018)

• 1904 » Ernest Cashel, American-Canadian criminal (b. 1882)
• 1904 » William Collins Whitney, American financier and politician, 31st United States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1841)
• 1905 » Henri Germain, French banker and politician, founded Le Crédit Lyonnais (b. 1824)
• 1907 » Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist and academic (b. 1834)
• 1909 » Carlo Acton, Italian pianist and composer (b. 1829)
• 1913 » Gustaf de Laval, Swedish engineer (b. 1845)
• 1918 » John L. Sullivan, American boxer (b. 1858)
• 1919 » Julius Kuperjanov, Estonian lieutenant (b. 1894)
• 1925 » Antti Aarne, Finnish historian and academic (b. 1867)
• 1925 » Jaap Eden, Dutch speed skater and cyclist (b. 1873)

• 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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
• April 24 » The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
• August 15 » World War I: Beginning of the Battle of Cer, the first Allied victory of World War I.
• August 29 » World War I: Start of the Battle of St. Quentin in which the French Fifth Army counter-attacked the invading Germans at Saint-Quentin, Aisne.
• November 1 » World War I: The first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel, is fought off of the western coast of Chile, in the Pacific, with the loss of HMSGood Hope and HMSMonmouth.
• November 5 » World War I: France and the British Empire declare war on the Ottoman Empire.
• November 13 » Zaian War: Berber tribesmen inflict the heaviest defeat of French forces in Morocco at the Battle of El Herri.

The temperature on February 2, 1914 was between 0.2 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 3.5 °C. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (74%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.