* 1820 – Multatuli ( Eduard Douwes Dekker ), Dutch writer ( d. 1887 )

* 1901 – Eduard van Beinum, Dutch conductor ( d. 1959 )

* February 19 – Eduard Douwes Dekker, Dutch writer ( b. 1820 )

* March 2 – Eduard Douwes Dekker, Dutch writer ( d. 1887 )

* Dutch — Boer, Eduard de ( a. k. a. Alexander Comitas ): Pierrot: Scherzo for String Orchestra ( 1992 ).

After a period with no principal conductor, the orchestra engaged the Dutch conductor Eduard van Beinum in 1947.

* Glück ( Happiness ), 1891, ( translated into Dutch by Eduard Fimmen, 1903 ).

Slavoljub Eduard Penkala ( 20 April 1871 – 5 February 1922 ) was a Croatian engineer and inventor of Polish-Jewish and Dutch ethnicity.

Eduard Penkala was born in Liptovský Mikuláš ( in what is now Slovakia ), to Franciszek Pękała, who was of Polish heritage, and Maria Pękała ( née Hannel ), who was of Dutch heritage.

Max Havelaar: Or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company () is a culturally and socially significant 1860 novel by Multatuli ( the pen name of Eduard Douwes Dekker ) ( 1820-1887 ) which was to play a key role in shaping and modifying Dutch colonial policy in the Dutch East Indies in the nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Eduard Douwes Dekker ( 2 March 1820 – 19 February 1887 ), better known by his pen name Multatuli ( from Latin multa tuli, " I have carried much "), was a Dutch writer famous for his satirical novel, Max Havelaar ( 1860 ), which denounced the abuses of colonialism in the Dutch East Indies ( today's Indonesia ).

Jan Eduard de Quay ( August 26, 1901-July 4, 1985 ) was a Dutch politician of the defunct Catholic People's Party ( KVP ) now merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal ( CDA ).

At first called Roburnial the name was changed on 5 July 1882 to Amsterdam, after the Dutch city where the State Secretary, Eduard Bok, was born, and out of gratitude for Dutch sympathy during the First Anglo-Boer War ( 1880-1881 ).

Throughout the fifties and sixties Lex van Delden became one of the most widely heard Dutch composers of his generation, and a large number of his pieces were commissioned ( by the Dutch government, the City of Amsterdam, Dutch radio and others ) and enjoyed acclaimed performances by the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra under such renowned conductors as George Szell, Charles Münch, Eduard van Beinum, Eugen Jochum, Willem van Otterloo and Bernard Haitink, and by numerous other prominent ensembles and soloists.

Van der Mey was a student of Eduard Cuypers from 1898, won the Dutch version of the Prix de Rome in 1906, and got a job with the city of Amsterdam as an " Aesthetic Advisor ".

Edward William Bok ( born Eduard Willem Gerard Cesar Hidde Bok ) ( October 9, 1863 – January 9, 1930 ) was a Dutch born American editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis ( 28 October 1892, Tilburg – 18 May 1965, De Bilt ) was a Dutch historian of science.