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Born on Sunday October 28, 1894
- Anna Verschuren, Standdaarbuiten
- Alida Geertruida Draaisma, Groningen, Nederland († 1924)
- Adriaan Gerrit van den Heuvel, Giessendam
- Anna Jacoba ten Haaf, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
- Anna Frederika Benner, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
- Anna, Hendrika, Hubertina Scherjon, Venlo, Limburg, Nederland († 1979)
- Koolmees, Krimpen aan den IJssel, Nederland († 1991)
- Adriana Dirksje Pleit, Sloten, Noord-Holland, Nederland
- Adriana Dirksje Pleit, Sloten, Noord-Holland, Nederland
- Adriana Catharina Hendrika Kuipers, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
Died on Sunday October 28, 1894
- Arend Maal (62), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
- Baukjen Jacobs Postma (54), Bolsward, Súdwest-Fryslân, Friesland, Nederland
- Bernardus Wilhelmus Flintrop (28), Duisburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland
- Berendina van der Hoek (5), anerveen
- Benjamin Hart (55)
- (Stillborn) WIERINGA (0), Harkstede (Slochteren) Groningen Netherlands
- Appolonia Rijk (55), 's-Heerenhoek
- Berend Roelofs BERENDS (88), Gees (Oosterhesselen), Drenthe, Nederland
- Adrianus Laurens Verstraaten (0), Oegstgeest
- Anthony Hoffman (90)
Source: Delpher (KB | national library) Newspapers from October 28, 1894 at Delpher
Born on October 28
- 1886 » Noel Macklin, English soldier and engineer († 1946)
- 1888 » Christopher Vane, 10th Baron Barnard, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Durham († 1964)
- 1889 » Juliette Béliveau, Canadian actress and singer († 1975)
- 1892 » Dink Johnson, American pianist, drummer, and clarinet player († 1954)
- 1893 » Christopher Kelk Ingold, British chemist († 1970)
- 1896 » Howard Hanson, American composer, conductor, and educator († 1981)
- 1897 » Edith Head, American costume designer († 1981)
- 1897 » Hans Speidel, German general († 1984)
- 1901 » Eileen Shanahan, Irish poet († 1979)
- 1902 » Elsa Lanchester, English-American actress and singer († 1986)
Died on October 28
- 1877 » Robert Swinhoe, English ornithologist and entomologist (b. 1835)
- 1879 » Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French economist and politician (b. 1799)
- 1899 » Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-American engineer, invented the Linotype machine (b. 1854)
- 1900 » Max Müller, German philologist and orientalist (b. 1823)
- 1914 » Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer and critic (b. 1850)
- 1916 » Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist and academic (b. 1838)
- 1916 » Oswald Boelcke, German WWI flying ace (b. 1891)
- 1917 » Dimitrios Votsis, Greek lawyer and politician (b. 1841)
- 1917 » Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1831)
- 1918 » Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician and politician (b. 1845)
Names that were popular for boys in 1894
- Johannes
- Jan
- Cornelis
- Hendrik
- Willem
- Pieter
- Gerrit
- Petrus
- Jacob
- Adrianus
- Jacobus
- Dirk
- Arie
- Gerardus
- Hendrikus
- Johan
Names that were popular for girls in 1894
- Maria
- Johanna
- Anna
- Cornelia
- Wilhelmina
- Elisabeth
- Hendrika
- Adriana
- Catharina
- Neeltje
- Aaltje
- Grietje
- Jacoba
- Trijntje
- Geertruida
- Petronella
Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1894
- 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.
- In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
- The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
- January 9 » New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
- February 12 » Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into the Cafe Terminus in Paris, killing one person and wounding 20.
- April 21 » Norway formally adopts the Krag–Jørgensen bolt-action rifle as the main arm of its armed forces, a weapon that would remain in service for almost 50 years.
- September 1 » Over 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.
- November 1 » Nicholas II becomes the new (and last) Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
- November 21 » Port Arthur, China, falls to the Japanese, a decisive victory of the First Sino-Japanese War; Japanese troops are accused of massacring the remaining inhabitants.
Weather October 28, 1894
The temperature on October 28, 1894 was about 10.0 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%.