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• van Kasteren, Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alberdina Jonker, Zwollerkerspel, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna de Keizer, Alblasserdam († 1983)
• Anna Jongetjes, Ermelo, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1969)
• Albertus Jacobus Eijkelboom, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Alphonsus Josephus de Busscher, Hontenisse, Zeeland, Nederland († 1897)
• Anna Carolina Frederika Mulder, Amsterdam
• Albertus Jacobus Eijkelboom, Den Haag († 1975)
• Adrianus Johannes Kreuger, Rotterdam
• Albertus Marinus, Noordwolde(FR) († 1892)

• Adrianus Duhen (25), Bergambacht
• Benjamin Hilton (88), Starks, Somerset, Maine, Verenigde Staten
• Arie Johannes van Spronsen (24), Loosduinen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna vanderSchuur, Sheboygan County Insane Asylum
• Antje Bakker (61), Texel
• Anna Gerbrandus Bruining Jansonius (75), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriana Been (0), Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arond Stoppelman (64), Delfzijl, The Netherlands
• Aaltje van Dijk (0), Langbroek, Utrecht, NL
• Adriana Catharia Dijck Van (62), Tilburg

• 1879 » Wallace Stevens, American poet and educator († 1955)
• 1882 » Boris Shaposhnikov, Russian colonel († 1945)
• 1883 » Karl von Terzaghi, Czech-American geologist and engineer († 1963)
• 1883 » Lesley Ashburner, American hurdler († 1950)
• 1890 » Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor († 1977)
• 1893 » Leroy Shield, American composer and conductor († 1962)
• 1895 » Ruth Cheney Streeter, American colonel († 1990)
• 1897 » Bud Abbott, American comedian († 1974)
• 1902 » John G. Crommelin, American admiral and politician († 1996)
• 1902 » Leopold Figl, Austrian engineer and politician, 18th Chancellor of Austria († 1965)

• 1850 » Sarah Biffen, English painter (b. 1784)
• 1853 » François Arago, French mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and politician, 25th Prime Minister of France (b. 1786)
• 1920 » Max Bruch, German composer and conductor (b. 1838)
• 1927 » Svante Arrhenius, Swedish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
• 1938 » Alexandru Averescu, Romanian field marshal and politician, 24th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1859)
• 1938 » André Lagache, French race car driver and engineer (b. 1885)
• 1943 » John Evans, English-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Tasmania (b. 1855)
• 1947 » P. D. Ouspensky, Russian-English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1878)
• 1953 » John Marin, American painter (b. 1870)
• 1955 » Humphrey Barclay, English priest (b. 1882)

• 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 April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
• 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.
• The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
• January 31 » History of Portugal: The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
• March 3 » Shoshone National Forest is established as the first national forest in the US and world.
• May 15 » Pope Leo XIII defends workers' rights and property rights in the encyclical Rerum novarum, the beginning of modern Catholic social teaching.
• May 20 » History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.
• August 16 » The Basilica of San Sebastian, Manila, the first all-steel church in Asia, is officially inaugurated and blessed.
• October 28 » The Mino–Owari earthquake is the largest inland earthquake in Japan's history.

The temperature on October 2, 1891 was about 13.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%.