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• Anthonia Oornink, 's-Heer Arendskerke († 1941)
• Anna Elisa Schrijnemaekers, Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Brauning
• Akke Berends Neef, Haskerdijken, Skarsterl-N, Friesland, Netherlands
• Adrianus Van Kranenburg, Moordrecht,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1895)
• Andrew Brenchley Leishman, Cardston, Claresholm Census Division, Alberta, Canada († 1953)
• Akke Berends Neef, Haskerdijken, Haskerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriana Brouwer, Waddinxveen († 1968)
• Anna Alide Bouwine Stikker, Oostwolderpolder, Groningen, Netherlands
• Adrianus Cornelis Kneppers, Nieuwerkerk aan de IJssel († 1963)

• Arend Trip (23), Valthermond, Borger-Odoorn, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Maria van Schaik (69), Vreeswijk, Utrecht, Nederland
• Alida Emmerentia van Reede (72), Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anthonie Overbeek (3), Oosterland, Zeeland, Nederland
• Abraham Dalenoord (74), Enschede
• Albertus Johannes van Vliet (6), brielle
• Abraham Dalenoord (74), Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• Alfons Alewaeters (1), Walem, Antwerpen, België
• Adriana Spanceerder (63), 's-Gravenhage
• Antonia van der Zande (74), Halsteren, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1883 » Celâl Bayar, Turkish politician, 3rd President of Turkey († 1986)
• 1888 » Royal Rife, American microbiologist and instrument maker († 1971)
• 1890 » Edith Grace White, American ichthyologist († 1975)
• 1892 » Osgood Perkins, American actor († 1937)
• 1894 » Walter Yust, American journalist and writer († 1960)
• 1897 » Zvi Sliternik, Israeli entomologist and academic († 1994)
• 1898 » Desanka Maksimović, Serbian poet and academic († 1993)
• 1898 » Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese director and screenwriter († 1956)
• 1898 » Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-American painter († 1980)
• 1903 » Charles F. Brannock, American inventor and manufacturer († 1992)

• 1862 » Edward Gibbon Wakefield, English politician (b. 1796)
• 1882 » Reuben Chapman, American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of Alabama (b. 1799)
• 1890 » Mihkel Veske, Estonian poet, linguist and theologist (b. 1843)
• 1891 » Ion C. Brătianu, Romanian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1821)
• 1910 » Henri-Edmond Cross, French Neo-Impressionist painter (b. 1856)
• 1913 » Louis Perrier, Swiss architect and politician (b. 1849)
• 1920 » Levi P. Morton, American politician, 22nd United States Vice President (b. 1824)
• 1926 » Mehmed VI, Ottoman sultan (b. 1861)
• 1936 » Leonidas Paraskevopoulos, Greek general and politician (b. 1860)
• 1938 » Joseph Strauss, American engineer, co designed The Golden Gate Bridge (b. 1870)

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.
• March 16 » Jules Massenet's opera Thaïs is first performed.
• March 22 » The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
• June 28 » Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
• July 22 » The first ever motor race is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen. The fastest finisher was the Comte Jules-Albert de Dion, but the 'official' victory was awarded to Albert Lemaître driving his 3hp petrol engined Peugeot.
• August 22 » Mahatma Gandhi forms the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in order to fight discrimination against Indian traders in Natal.
• November 1 » Buffalo Bill, 15 of his Indians, and Annie Oakley were filmed by Thomas Edison in his Black Maria Studio in West Orange, New Jersey.

The temperature on May 16, 1894 was about 21.2 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 63%.