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• "Françoise" Marie Jousseaume de La Bretesche, château de Couboureau, Torfou, Sèvremoine, Maine-et-Loire, France († 1945)
• Alida van den Bos, Rotterdam, Nederland († 1893)
• Alice Maria Theresia SEGERS, Hamme,9220,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 1892)
• Abraham Johannes Kooijman, Schiedam Zuid-Holland Nederland († 1937)
• Anna Adriana de NEEF, Klundert
• Aafje Kaag, Lutjebroek, Stede Broec, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alice Arz van Arzio-Vasegg, Vasegerszeg, N.W.-Hongarije († 1983)
• Adrianus Johan Martinus Smit, Haarlem
• Aafje Commandeur, Lutjebroek, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland († 1892)
• Alexander Holslag, Amsterdam († 1966)

• Ate Landstra (1), Sneek, Friesland, Nederland
• Arend Lubberts Hetebrij (70), Eese, Steenwijkerwold
• Arie van Dorp (61), Hazerswoude, Zuid Holland, Netherlands
• Antonie Pals (88), Gilze en Rijen
• Antoon Schoolderman (1), Apeldoorn
• Anne Sybrens Werkhoven (92), Berlikum
• Arend Lubberts Heetebrij (70), Steenwijkerwold
• Carolus Laurentius Schroven (2), Geel, België
• Arend Hetebrij (70), Steenwijkerwold, Steenwijk, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Ate Sjoerdsz LANDSTRA (1), Sneek, Friesland, Nederland

• 1886 » Alfonso XIII of Spain, Spanish monarch († 1941)
• 1888 » Tich Freeman, English cricketer († 1965)
• 1889 » Alfonso Reyes, Mexican author († 1959)
• 1889 » Dorothy Gibson, American actress and singer († 1946)
• 1891 » Napoleon Zervas, Greek general and politician († 1957)
• 1893 » Frederick McKinley Jones, American inventor and entrepreneur († 1961)
• 1895 » Reinhold Saulmann, Estonian sprinter and bandy player († 1936)
• 1895 » Saul Adler, Belarusian-English captain and parasitologist († 1966)
• 1897 » Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1981)
• 1898 » A. J. Casson, Canadian painter († 1992)

• 1868 » Kondō Isami, Japanese commander (b. 1834)
• 1875 » John C. Breckinridge, American lawyer and politician, 14th Vice President of the United States, Confederate States general (b. 1821)
• 1879 » Asa Packer, American businessman, founded Lehigh University (b. 1805)
• 1880 » Ziya Pasha, Greek author and translator (b. 1826)
• 1886 » John Deere, American blacksmith and businessman, founded the Deere & Company (b. 1804)
• 1888 » Giacomo Zanella, Italian priest and poet (b. 1820)
• 1911 » Frederick August Otto Schwarz, German-American businessman, founded FAO Schwarz (b. 1836)
• 1916 » Boris Borisovich Golitsyn, Russian physicist and seismologist (b. 1862)
• 1917 » Charles Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak (b. 1829)
• 1917 » Clara Ayres, American nurse (b. 1880)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Hendrika
8. Adriana
9. Catharina
10. Aaltje
11. Grietje
12. Jacoba
13. Geertruida
14. Neeltje
15. Petronella
16. Trijntje

• 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.
• The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
• January 15 » James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball.
• February 29 » St. Petersburg, Florida is incorporated.
• June 6 » The Chicago "L" elevated rail system begins operation.
• August 9 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
• September 8 » The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.
• December 18 » Premiere performance of The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

The temperature on May 17, 1892 was about 9.9 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%.