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• Anje Schripsema, Winsum (Klein Garnwerd) († 1971)
• Antje Olkes Jongsma, Oudehorne, Schoterland, Friesland, Nederland († 1971)
• Albertje Geerts Vledder, Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Antonie Langeweg, Willemstad († 1951)
• Adhemar BOUTEN, Wijtschate,8953,West Vlaanderen,Vlaams Gewest,Belgie († 1976)
• André Loran van Rooij, Boxtel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1917)
• Antony Agiou († 1974)
• Adrianus van Pelt, Dubbeldam († 1964)
• Adrianus Cornelis Hoogduijn, Den Haag
• Anna Maria Kerkhoffs, Maastricht

• Aaltje Thymens de Vries (37), ,, Terband, Aengwirden, Friesland, Netherlands
• Aaltje van Duijvenbode (54), Scheveningen
• Arij van Schie (51), Hof van Delft, Nederland
• Anthony Spierenburg (0), Utrecht
• Agatha Beatrix Janna Cats (3), Ter Aar (Aardam)
• Aaltje Ariens van Duijvenbode (54), Katwijk
• Alexander van der Burgt (64), Veenhuizen,Drenthe,Nederland
• Aaltje van Duijvenbode (54), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Paalvast (77), Schipluiden
• Ariaantje Dirks Nagtegaal (94), Rijnsburg, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1888 » Max Steiner, Austrian-American composer and conductor († 1971)
• 1890 » Alfred Jodl, German general († 1946)
• 1891 » Mahmoud Mokhtar, Egyptian sculptor and academic († 1934)
• 1893 » Tonita Peña, San Ildefonso Pueblo (Native American) artist († 1949)
• 1894 » Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-American composer and conductor († 1979)
• 1897 » Einar Gerhardsen, Norwegian politician, Prime Minister of Norway († 1987)
• 1898 » Ariel Durant, American historian and author († 1981)
• 1899 » Fred Astaire, American actor, singer, and dancer († 1987)
• 1900 » Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, English-American astronomer and astrophysicist († 1979)
• 1901 » John Desmond Bernal, Irish-English crystallographer and physicist († 1971)

• 1849 » Hokusai, Japanese painter and illustrator (b. 1760)
• 1863 » Stonewall Jackson, American general (b. 1824)
• 1868 » Henry Bennett, American lawyer and politician (b. 1808)
• 1889 » Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1826)
• 1891 » Carl Nägeli, Swiss botanist and mycologist (b. 1817)
• 1897 » Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino soldier and politician, President of the Philippines (b. 1863)
• 1910 » Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist and academic (b. 1826)
• 1945 » Konrad Henlein, Czech soldier and politician (b. 1898)
• 1945 » Richard Glücks, German SS officer (b. 1889)
• 1950 » Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian and bibliographer (b. 1883)

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.
• January 7 » Thomas Edison makes a kinetoscopic film of someone sneezing. On the same day, his employee, William Kennedy Dickson, receives a patent for motion picture film.
• June 28 » Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
• July 4 » The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
• July 25 » The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
• 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.

The temperature on May 10, 1894 was about 13.2 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%.