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• Alida Anna van Veen, Ter Aar
• Adriaantje Meijndert, Pernis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aagtje Nienhuis (Newhouse), Startenhuizen gem. Kantens, Groninge, Nederland († 1988)
• Aaltje Jacoba van den Noort, Amsterdam († 1959)
• Albertus Gerrit Lubbers, Haarlem
• Adriaan van den Heuvel, Papendrecht († 1894)
• Albert (Mokki) Arends, Aruba († 1959)
• Francisca Adriana de Boeck, Halsteren
• Amatus Frans Maria Schoon, Aalst, Belgium
• Albertus Joseph Leopoldus JACOBS, Hasselt, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie

• Anna Katharina Schloetels (74), Selsten (D)
• Baukje Kuur (77), Het Bildt, Friesland, Nederland
• Annigje Botter (0), Meppel
• Aaltje Noorlander (0), Gouda
• Aaltje van der Veen (47), Terschelling
• Albert Vos (3), Groningen
• Antonius Wellink (81), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Arend Booij (60), Hollandscheveld (Hoogeveen) 238
• Anna (Johanna) Wilhelmina Velders (84), Zutphen
• Anna Maria Torm (58), 's-Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1882 » Richard Maury, American-Argentinian engineer, designed the Salta–Antofagasta railway († 1950)
• 1884 » Emil Starkenstein, Czech pharmacologist, co-founded clinical pharmacology († 1942)
• 1886 » Ty Cobb, American baseball player and manager († 1961)
• 1887 » Bhikhari Thakur, Indian actor, singer, and playwright († 1971)
• 1888 » Gladys Cooper, English actress and singer († 1971)
• 1888 » Robert Moses, American urban planner († 1981)
• 1890 » Edwin Howard Armstrong, American engineer, invented FM radio († 1954)
• 1896 » Gerald Barry, English colonel and cricketer († 1977)
• 1897 » Fletcher Henderson, American pianist and composer († 1952)
• 1899 » Peter Wessel Zapffe, Norwegian philosopher and author († 1990)

• 1848 » Bernard Bolzano, Bohemian priest and mathematician (b. 1781)
• 1864 » José Justo Corro, Mexican politician and president, (1836-1837) (b. 1794)
• 1869 » Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American pianist and composer (b. 1829)
• 1880 » Michel Chasles, French mathematician and academic (b. 1793)
• 1892 » Richard Owen, English biologist, anatomist, and paleontologist (b. 1804)
• 1919 » John Alcock, English captain and pilot (b. 1892)
• 1922 » Sir Carl Meyer, 1st Baronet, German-English banker and businessman (b. 1851)
• 1925 » Hamo Thornycroft, English sculptor and academic (b. 1850)
• 1932 » Eduard Bernstein, German theorist and politician (b. 1850)
• 1936 » Andrija Mohorovičić, Croatian meteorologist and seismologist (b. 1857)

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.
• January 6 » The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.
• April 1 » The rank of Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy is established.
• August 1 » Henry Perky patents shredded wheat.
• September 16 » Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
• October 28 » Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique receives its première performance only nine days before the composer's death.
• November 28 » Women's suffrage in New Zealand concludes with the 1893 New Zealand general election.

The temperature on December 18, 1893 was about -0.9 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%.