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• agnes elisabeth birker, burgwaldniel
• Albert Lucasz Pen, Echten, dr.nld († 1979)
• Aaltje van Til, Oldehove,, Groningen, Nederland († 1959)
• Achille Camille VANDERSCHELDEN, Avelgem, 34003, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique
• Alfred Petersen, Cedar Co. Ia († 1954)
• Ana Henriqueta Botelho de Moraes Sarmento, Setubal, Portugal († 1979)
• Alijda Johanna Lensink, Driebergen († 1981)
• Aaltje van TIL
• Anna Helena Koehl, Slagharen (Hardenberg, Ambt) († 1918)
• Albert Wijnholts, Weerdingermond, Vlagtwedde († 1894)

• * Petrus de Ruwe (54), Vinkeveen en Waverveen, Gem. De Ronde Venen, Utrecht, NL
• Anthonina Cornelia van Doorn (0), Ellewoutsdijk
• Anna Wilhelmina van Gorkum (74), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus PETERS (73), Zwolle, 5355, Overijssel, Nederland
• Amadina VAN BRITSOM (0), Temse,9140,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Aartje Metselaar (0), Waddinxveen
• Antje Meijer (0), Haskerdijken, Friesland, Nederland
• Alida van de Giessen (64), Asperen
• Ada Bailey **** (47), Ohio, United States
• Barbara Josephina Kerssens (5), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1889 » Anita Loos, American author, playwright, and screenwriter († 1981)
• 1889 » Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-English philosopher and academic († 1951)
• 1894 » Rudolf Hess, Egyptian-German politician († 1987)
• 1896 » Ernst Udet, German colonel and pilot († 1941)
• 1896 » Ruut Tarmo, Estonian actor and director († 1967)
• 1897 » Douglas Sirk, German-American director and screenwriter († 1987)
• 1897 » Eddie Eagan, American boxer and bobsledder († 1967)
• 1898 » John Grierson, Scottish director and producer († 1972)
• 1898 » Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet and author, Nobel Prize laureate († 1984)
• 1899 » Oscar Rabin, Latvian-English saxophonist and bandleader († 1958)

• 1865 » John Wilkes Booth, American actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1838)
• 1881 » Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (b. 1815)
• 1895 » Eric Stenbock, Estonian-English author and poet (b. 1860)
• 1910 » Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian-French author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)
• 1915 » John Bunny, American actor (b. 1863)
• 1920 » Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and theorist (b. 1887)
• 1932 » William Lockwood, English cricketer (b. 1868)
• 1934 » Arturs Alberings, Latvian politician, former Prime Minister of Latvia (b. 1876)
• 1940 » Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
• 1944 » Violette Morris, French footballer, shot putter, and discus thrower (b. 1893)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Hendrika
8. Adriana
9. Catharina
10. Neeltje
11. Aaltje
12. Grietje
13. Jacoba
14. Trijntje
15. Geertruida
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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
• March 16 » Jules Massenet's opera Thaïs is first performed.
• April 14 » The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
• July 4 » The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
• September 17 » Battle of the Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
• November 1 » Nicholas II becomes the new (and last) Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
• November 17 » H. H. Holmes, one of the first modern serial killers, is arrested in Boston, Massachusetts.

The temperature on April 26, 1894 was about 13.0 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%.