About the day » Monday April 16, 1894Calender converter

• * Coleta de Wolf, Hontenisse († 1968)
• Aleida Johanna LIEBRAND, Wisch (NL) († 1947)
• Anna Cornelia Havermans, Zundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aline Van Landay, Asse, België
• Anna Maria Petronella Braam, Den Haag, Nederland († 1950)
• Alida Stenvert, Deventer
• Adriana de Kok, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1975)
• Anna Elisabeth Zonneveld, Voorschoten
• * Johannes (1) de Bruijn, Abcoude-Proostdij, Utrecht, NL († 1894)
• Alida Agatha Rijkenberg, Haarlem

• Anna Christina BRASCHLER (82), Holten
• Adriana Philomena Bosman (40), Bergen Op Zoom, Nederland
• van Buren
• Alida Johanna van der Bol (75), Loosduinen
• Anna Christina Braschler (82), Holten
• Adrianus BOON (65), Krimpen aan de Lek,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje van Buren (0), Bergambacht, Zuid Holland
• Andries Keizer (91), Wolvega, Friesland, Nederland
• van Otterloo (0), Doetinchem
• Alphonse du Bouëxic de Guichen (71), Paris 8e, 75056, France

• 1889 » Charlie Chaplin, English actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and composer († 1977)
• 1890 » Fred Root, English cricketer and umpire († 1954)
• 1890 » Gertrude Chandler Warner, American author and educator († 1979)
• 1891 » Dorothy P. Lathrop, American author and illustrator († 1980)
• 1892 » Howard Mumford Jones, American author, critic, and academic († 1980)
• 1893 » Germaine Guèvremont, Canadian journalist and author († 1968)
• 1893 » John Norton, American hurdler († 1979)
• 1895 » Ove Arup, English-Danish engineer and businessman, founded Arup († 1988)
• 1896 » Árpád Weisz, Hungarian footballer († 1944)
• 1896 » Robert Henry Best, American journalist († 1952)

• 1879 » Bernadette Soubirous, French nun and saint (b. 1844)
• 1888 » Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist and chemist (b. 1845)
• 1899 » Emilio Jacinto, Filipino journalist and activist (b. 1875)
• 1904 » Maximilian Kronberger, German poet and author (b. 1888)
• 1904 » Samuel Smiles, Scottish-English author (b. 1812)
• 1914 » George William Hill, American astronomer and mathematician (b. 1838)
• 1915 » Nelson W. Aldrich, American businessman and politician (b. 1841)
• 1925 » Stefan Nerezov, Bulgarian general (b. 1867)
• 1928 » Henry Birks, Canadian businessman, founded Henry Birks and Sons (b. 1840)
• 1928 » Roman Steinberg, Estonian wrestler (b. 1900)

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. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
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.
• May 21 » The Manchester Ship Canal in the United Kingdom is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.
• June 23 » The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
• 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.
• November 17 » H. H. Holmes, one of the first modern serial killers, is arrested in Boston, Massachusetts.
• December 22 » The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.

The temperature on April 16, 1894 was about 12.9 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%.