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• Aaltien Oosterhuis, Nieuw-Buinen, Borger († 1980)
• Alouisius Adolph Joseph van Mierlo, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1971)
• Anna Cornelia Maria Gomes, Den Helder († 1954)
• Adriana Schenck, Rucphen
• Adriana Maria (Jaantje) Damen, Middelburg, Zeeland, The Netherlands († 1903)
• Anna Johanna Petronella van der Wilk, Wateringen, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aleida Boerman, Kamperveen, Overijssel, Nederland († 1895)
• Andries Thijssen Roersma, Marrum († 1894)
• Hagen
• Anna Cornelia Franse, Klundert († 1894)

• Andreas Johannes de Vries (42), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Piershil SMIT (81), Brielle,Zuid-Holland,NEDERLAND
• Adriana van Ham (17), Oosterhout, Noord Brabant
• Alouisius Samuels (0), Nieuwkuijk
• Abraham Kloos (68), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Scheele (0), Zaamslag, Zeeland, The Netherlands
• Abraham Kloos 63465284 (68), Schiedam, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Abe Meinderts van Dijk (55), Marrum
• Ann McMullen (86), North River, Colchester Co., NS
• adriana SMIT (81), brielle(ZH)

• 1890 » Clelia Lollini, Italian physician (d. 1963 or 1964)
• 1891 » Lillian Estelle Fisher, American historian of Spanish America († 1988)
• 1895 » May Hollinworth, Australian theatre producer and director († 1968)
• 1895 » Nikolai Yezhov, Soviet secret police official, head of the NKVD († 1940)
• 1896 » Herbert Backe, German agronomist and politician († 1947)
• 1896 » J. Lawton Collins, American general († 1987)
• 1896 » Mark W. Clark, American general († 1984)
• 1898 » Alfred Schmidt, Estonian weightlifter († 1972)
• 1900 » Aleksander Wat, Polish poet and writer († 1967)
• 1900 » Ignazio Silone, Italian journalist and politician († 1978)

• 1856 » John Wilbur, American minister and theologian (b. 1774)
• 1873 » David Livingstone, Scottish-English missionary and explorer (b. 1813)
• 1899 » Ludwig Büchner, German physiologist and physician (b. 1824)
• 1904 » Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer and academic (b. 1841)
• 1913 » John Barclay Armstrong, American lieutenant (b. 1850)
• 1920 » Princess Margaret of Connaught (b. 1882)
• 1935 » Henri Pélissier, French cyclist (b. 1889)
• 1943 » Johan Oscar Smith, Norwegian religious leader, founded the Brunstad Christian Church (b. 1871)
• 1945 » Joseph Goebbels, German lawyer and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1897)
• 1945 » Magda Goebbels, German wife of Joseph Goebbels (b. 1901)

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.
• January 9 » New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
• March 22 » The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
• June 24 » Marie François Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
• November 1 » Buffalo Bill, 15 of his Indians, and Annie Oakley were filmed by Thomas Edison in his Black Maria Studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
• November 1 » Nicholas II becomes the new (and last) Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
• December 22 » The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.

The temperature on May 1, 1894 was about 10.1 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%.