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• Adam Cornelis van Zand, Roosendaal
• Alida Vincentia van Tienen
• Adam Cornelis van Zand, Roosendaal
• Ale de Vries, Kommerzijl, gem. Grijpskerk, Groningen, Nederland († 1893)
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• Ale DE VRIES, Kommerzijl
• Aaltje Broer, Papendrecht († 1981)
• Albertine Mayer, Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France
• Alfons Adriaan VAN DEN ACKERVEKEN, Baarle-Hertog, Kempen, Belgie († 1894)
• Albertus Hermannus Korf, Hengelo-Klein Driene († 1895)

• De Vries (0), Oostzaan, Oostzaan, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus de Nijs (0), Loon op Zand
• van Liere (55), Rilland en Maire, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Adolf Mulder (84), Oudega, Smallingerland (Frl)
• Arend Jan Nijhoff (73), Heelweg
• Anna Alberdiena van WOUDENBERG (36), Woerden (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
• Arend VETTE,DE (69), Delft,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adolph Jans Mulder (84), Oudega, gem. Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Andrew JACOBS (86)
• Antonie Hendricus Catrienus van Senus (85), Kralingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1881 » Carlo Carrà, Italian painter († 1966)
• 1897 » Emil Leon Post, Polish-American mathematician and logician (d.1954)
• 1898 » Leo Szilard, Hungarian-American physicist and academic († 1964)
• 1900 » Ellen Broe, Danish nurse, pioneer in nursing education († 1994)
• 1900 » Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher and scholar († 2002)
• 1900 » Jōsei Toda, Japanese educator and activist († 1958)
• 1902 » Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect, designed Radisson Blu Royal Hotel († 1971)
• 1904 » Keith Holyoake, New Zealand farmer and politician, Prime Minister of New Zealand († 1983)
• 1904 » Lucile Randon, French Supercentenarian
• 1908 » Philip Dunne, American screenwriter († 1992)

• 1862 » Elizabeth Siddal, English poet and artist's model (b. 1829)
• 1868 » Léon Foucault, French physicist and academic (b. 1819)
• 1898 » Félix María Zuloaga, Mexican general and unconstitutional interim president (1858 and 1860-1862) (b. 1813)
• 1901 » Milan I of Serbia (b. 1855)
• 1917 » Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician and epidemiologist (b. 1872)
• 1918 » Alexey Kaledin, Russian general (b. 1861)
• 1931 » Charles Algernon Parsons, English-Irish engineer, invented the steam turbine (b. 1854)
• 1940 » Ellen Day Hale, American painter and author (b. 1855)
• 1940 » John Buchan, Scottish-Canadian historian and politician, Governor General of Canada (b. 1875)
• 1942 » Jamnalal Bajaj, Indian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1884)

• 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 6 » The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.
• January 13 » The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom holds its first meeting.
• February 1 » Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.
• June 22 » The Royal Navy battleship HMSCamperdown accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMSVictoria which sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.
• November 1 » The Battle of Bembezi took place and was the most decisive battle won by the British in the First Matabele War of 1893.
• November 12 » Abdur Rahman Khan accepts the Durand Line as the border between Afghanistan and the British Raj.

The temperature on February 11, 1893 was about 6.3 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%.