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• Adrianus Aart Berkhout, Rozenburg, 3181, Nederland († 1942)
• Aafke de Vos, Enschede († 1936)
• Aaltje Vos, Hollandscheveld († 1941)
• Adriana Emo, Utrecht
• Alphonse Broussard, Louisiana, United States († 1975)
• Aaltje Vos, Hoogeveen († 1941)
• Abraham Pardon, Leiden
• Aaltje Oldemaat, Raalte († 1942)
• Asma, Haarlem († 1893)
• Adriana Maria Beukema, Charlois, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Aukje van Huizen (0), Suawoude, gem. Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Carolina Huybens (1), Weert
• Alphonse Pierre Lambert Hubert Tielens (62), Bressoux, 4020 Liège, Wallonie, Belgique
• Levenloze dochter (0), Zandvoort
• Catharina Hendrickx (67), Lier, België
• Catharina Johanna van Tol (76), Oudewater
• Anna de Bruin (56), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adam Vondeling (74), Ooststellingwerf
• Adriana Margaretha Blom (41), Zaandam
• Adriaan Hollebrandse (56), Middelburg

• 1884 » Claire Waldoff, German singer and actress († 1957)
• 1886 » Eugene Burton Ely, American soldier and pilot († 1911)
• 1887 » Krishna Singh, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Bihar († 1961)
• 1894 » Edogawa Ranpo, Japanese author and critic († 1965)
• 1895 » Edna Purviance, American actress († 1958)
• 1895 » Paavo Johansson, Finnish javelin thrower and decathlete († 1983)
• 1896 » Esther Shumiatcher-Hirschbein, Russian-Canadian poet and screenwriter (d.1985)
• 1898 » Eduard Pütsep, Estonian wrestler and actor († 1960)
• 1900 » Andrée Boisson, French Olympic fencer († 1973)
• 1907 » Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek painter and poet († 1985)

• 1861 » Edward Dickinson Baker, American congressman and colonel (b. 1811)
• 1872 » Jacques Babinet, French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1794)
• 1873 » Johan Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian author, poet, and critic (b. 1807)
• 1896 » James Henry Greathead, South African-English engineer (b. 1844)
• 1903 » Jinmaku Kyūgorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 12th Yokozuna (b. 1829)
• 1904 » Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and journalist (b. 1877)
• 1907 » Jules Chevalier, French priest, founded the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (b. 1824)
• 1931 » Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian author and playwright (b. 1862)
• 1938 » Dorothy Hale, American actress (b. 1905)
• 1940 » William G. Conley, American journalist, lawyer, and politician, 18th Governor of West Virginia (b. 1866)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Dirk
13. Arie
14. Gerardus
15. Hendrikus
16. Albert

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Hendrika
6. Elisabeth
7. Wilhelmina
8. Catharina
9. Adriana
10. Aaltje
11. Jacoba
12. Grietje
13. Geertruida
14. Neeltje
15. Trijntje
16. Petronella

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
• April 1 » The rank of Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy is established.
• June 13 » Grover Cleveland notices a rough spot in his mouth and on July 1 undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; the operation was not revealed to the public until 1917, nine years after the president's death.
• July 11 » The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kōkichi Mikimoto.
• August 1 » Henry Perky patents shredded wheat.
• August 14 » France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.
• August 15 » Ibadan area becomes a British Protectorate after a treaty signed by Fijabi, the Baale of Ibadan with the British acting Governor of Lagos, George C. Denton.

The temperature on October 21, 1893 was about 10.3 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%.