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• Albertje HOVINGA, Marssum (Menaldumadeel) Friesland Netherlands († 1955)
• Abram Storm, Rotterdam
• Aaltje Profijt, Hoogeveen Drenthe, Netherlands
• Aart van de Klok, Putten († 1913)
• JOPPE, Den Haag,Gemeente ’s-Gravenhage,SOUTH HOLLAND,NETHERLANDS
• Adriaan Mattheus Koolwijk, Vlissingen, Flushing, Zeeland, Netherlands († 1964)
• Albertje Hovinga, Marssum († 1955)
• Aaltjen Hogeboom, Duur (gem. Wijhe-Olst) († 1893)
• Aart Berlijn, Rotterdam († 1973)
• Adriana van der Mast, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1972)

• de Ruijter, Heemskerk
• Anthonie Hendrik Alexis Maria van Noailles (0)
• Arie Rijsdijk (0), Rotterdam
• Anna Arnoldina van Keijsteren (74), Ravenstein, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Maria van den Bergh (0), Steenbergen
• Berber Engelina Smit (1), Heerenveen
• Adriana van EMMENES (0), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Ruijter de (0), Heemskerk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Carolus Boonen (71), Geel, België
• Catharina Van Hoof‏ (48), Mol, België

• 1885 » Nettie Palmer, Australian poet and critic († 1964)
• 1887 » John Anthony Sydney Ritson, English rugby player, mines inspector, engineer and professor of mining († 1957)
• 1890 » Walther Funk, German economist and politician, Reich Minister of Economics († 1960)
• 1893 » Burleigh Grimes, American baseball player and manager († 1985)
• 1893 » Ernest MacMillan, Canadian conductor and composer († 1973)
• 1896 » Jack Pickford, Canadian-American actor and director († 1933)
• 1898 » Clemente Biondetti, Italian race car driver († 1955)
• 1900 » Ruth Bonner, Soviet Communist activist, sentenced to a labor camp during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge († 1987)
• 1900 » Ruth Norman, American religious leader († 1993)
• 1902 » Adamson-Eric, Estonian painter († 1968)

• 1842 » Louis de Freycinet, French explorer and navigator (b. 1779)
• 1850 » Honoré de Balzac, French novelist and playwright (b. 1799)
• 1886 » Eli Whitney Blake, American inventor, invented the Mortise lock (b. 1795)
• 1919 » Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian businessman and politician, founded the Seagram Company (b. 1841)
• 1940 » Walter Chrysler, American businessman, founded Chrysler (b. 1875)
• 1943 » Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Azerbaijani general (b. 1865)
• 1944 » Ernst Thälmann, German soldier and politician (b. 1886)
• 1945 » Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian activist and politician (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Paul Mares, American trumpet player and bandleader (New Orleans Rhythm Kings) (b. 1900)
• 1950 » Julien Lahaut, Belgian soldier and politician (b. 1884)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Hendrika
6. Elisabeth
7. Wilhelmina
8. Catharina
9. Adriana
10. Aaltje
11. Jacoba
12. Grietje
13. Geertruida
14. Neeltje
15. Trijntje
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.
• 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 » U.S. Marines land in Honolulu, Hawaii from the USSBoston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.
• February 28 » The USSIndiana, the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time, is launched.
• May 1 » The World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago.
• September 20 » Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
• September 28 » Foundation of the Portuguese football club FC Porto.

The temperature on August 18, 1893 was about 23.3 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 67%.