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• Adrianus van Riel, Rijkevorsel, België
• Aloys Gesquiere, Klerken
• Anna Maria Josephena STARMANS, Ubach over Worms († 1945)
• Goeree, Valtherveen († 1894)
• Adrianus Praat, Schoorl († 1961)
• Aartje van der Kuil, Ammerstol († 1968)
• Agatha Antonia Rekers, Almelo,, Overijssel, Nederland († 1976)
• Alix Marie Louise de Valous († 1988)
• Adriana (Jaantje) Verbrugge, Wilnis († 1958)
• Antje Jacobs Hepkema, Doniawerstal, Friesland, Nederland

• (Stillborn) HUIZINGA (0), Eenrum Groningen Netherlands
• Antje van der Kruk (58), Loosduinen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Hanegraaf (74), Nuland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aart Fransz Smit de (43), Haarlemmermeer
• Engel (0), Jutphaas, Utrecht, The Netherlands
• Antje Alberts VEENSTRA (77), Jubbega Schurega (Gem Schoterland)
• Alida Henriette Catharina Duijfjes (46), Oosterbeek
• Anne Marie Jochim (61), Paris
• Anna Maria Dirks (38), Budel
• Anthonie Beemer (45), Houten

• 1888 » Lucy Tayiah Eads, American tribal chief († 1961)
• 1888 » Oscar Mathisen, Norwegian speed skater († 1954)
• 1890 » Alan L. Hart, American physician and author († 1962)
• 1890 » Osman Cemal Kaygılı, Turkish writer and journalist († 1945)
• 1892 » Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian soldier and politician, 14th Federal Chancellor of Austria († 1934)
• 1892 » Hermann Glauert, English aerodynamicist and author († 1934)
• 1892 » Robert Lawson, American author and illustrator († 1957)
• 1895 » Buster Keaton, American film actor, director, and producer († 1966)
• 1895 » Richard Sorge, German journalist and spy († 1944)
• 1896 » Dorothy Lawrence, English reporter, who secretly posed as a man to become a soldier during World War I († 1964)

• 1859 » Karl Baedeker, German publisher, founded Baedeker (b. 1801)
• 1864 » Joseph Montferrand, Canadian logger and strongman (b. 1802)
• 1867 » Francis Xavier Seelos, German-American priest and missionary (b. 1819)
• 1871 » Sarel Cilliers, South African spiritual leader and preacher (b. 1801)
• 1890 » Catherine Booth, English theologian and saint, co-founded The Salvation Army (b. 1829)
• 1903 » Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher and author (b. 1880)
• 1904 » Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist and academic (b. 1847)
• 1904 » Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor, designed the Statue of Liberty (b. 1834)
• 1910 » Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1850)
• 1935 » Jean Béraud, French painter and academic (b. 1849)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Hendrika
8. Adriana
9. Catharina
10. Neeltje
11. Aaltje
12. Grietje
13. Jacoba
14. Trijntje
15. Geertruida
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.
• 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 7 » The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado, United States.
• February 12 » Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into the Cafe Terminus in Paris, killing one person and wounding 20.
• April 14 » The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
• July 25 » The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
• September 15 » First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats Qing dynasty China in the Battle of Pyongyang.

The temperature on October 4, 1894 was about 10.7 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%.