About the day » Tuesday May 17, 1892Calender converter

• Aafje Versluis
• Aart Punt, Zwartewaal, ZH, Nederland
• Anna Adriana de Neef, Klundert
• Anna Cornelia de Meijere († 1963)
• Anna Adriana de Neef, Klundert, Nederland
• Alice Maria Theresia SEGERS, Hamme,9220,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 1892)
• Adrianus Luijendijk, Zuid-Beijerland, Korendijk, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1893)
• Abraham Johannes Kooijman, Schiedam Zuid-Holland Nederland († 1937)
• Alice Arz van Arzio-Vasegg, Vasegerszeg, N.W.-Hongarije († 1983)
• Agatha Petronella van Veen, Leiden

• Arie van Dorp (61), Hazerswoude, Zuid Holland, Netherlands
• Baukje Jacobs Odolphie (0), Baarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Anne Sybrens Werkhoven (92), Berlikum
• Ate Landstra (1), Sneek, Friesland, Nederland
• Arend Heetebrij (70), Steenwijkerwold, Nederland
• Adrianus Frederik van Wuow (60), Den Haag
• (l.l.) van Oost (0), Bergen op Zoom
• Arend lubberts Heetebrij (69), Steenwijkerwold, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anne Sybren Werkhoven (92), Menaldumadiel
• Antoon Schoolderman (1), Apeldoorn {GE}

• 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. Arie
13. Dirk
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.
• June 30 » The Homestead Strike begins near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
• August 9 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
• September 9 » Amalthea, third moon of Jupiter is discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard.
• September 22 » Lindal Railway Incident, providing inspiration for "The Lost Special" by A.C. Doyle and the TV serial Lost.
• October 13 » Edward Emerson Barnard discovers first comet discovered by photographic means.
• October 21 » Opening ceremonies for the World's Columbian Exposition are held in Chicago, though because construction was behind schedule, the exposition did not open until May 1, 1893.

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%.