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• Abraham Nicolaas Jan van de Poll, Dullstroom, Transvaal, South Africa († 1977)
• Aartje Groenhoff, 's-Graveland
• Abraham Nicolaas Jan van de Poll, Dullstroom,,Mpumalanga,South Africa († 1977)
• "Henriette Estelle" Marie de Parseval, Orléans, Loiret, France († 1934)
• Aaltje Hovinga, Oostwold († 1981)
• Adriana Johanna Nijssen, Bergen op Zoom
• Riggan, Arkansas
• Albano Lopes de Almeida, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
• Adriana Johanna van Geel, Zevenbergen,Noord-Brabant,Nederland († 1954)
• Aartje Groenhoff, 's-Graveland, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1978)

• Ada Nason (26)
• Antje van Soest (12), Amerongen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna van der Drift (53), Delft, Zuid Holland, Netherlands
• Adriaan Johanness Bosman (0), Mijdrecht, De Ronde Venen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Andries Jacobus de Wit (0), Schoonhoven
• Abraham Lauret (69), Groede, Nederland
• Alle van Kooten (57), Hardegarijp
• Abraham Lauret (69), Groede, Zeeland, Nederland
• Aaltjen Braakman (77), Slagharen
• Albertus Bernardus de Reus (0), Beverwijk

• 1885 » Giacomo Matteotti, Italian lawyer and politician († 1924)
• 1885 » Soemu Toyoda, Japanese admiral († 1957)
• 1887 » A. W. Sandberg, Danish film director and screenwriter († 1938)
• 1891 » Johannes R. Becher, German politician, novelist, and poet († 1958)
• 1894 » Friedrich Pollock, German sociologist and philosopher († 1970)
• 1897 » Robert Neumann, German and English-speaking author († 1975)
• 1900 » Juan Arvizu, Mexican lyric opera tenor and bolero vocalist (d.1985)
• 1901 » Maurice J. Tobin, American politician, 6th United States Secretary of Labor († 1953)
• 1902 » Al Simmons, American baseball player and coach († 1956)
• 1902 » Jack Lambert, English footballer and manager († 1940)

• 1851 » Mordecai Manuel Noah, American journalist and diplomat (b. 1755)
• 1859 » Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies (b. 1810)
• 1861 » Thornsbury Bailey Brown, American soldier (b. 1829)
• 1868 » Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1801)
• 1885 » Victor Hugo, French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1802)
• 1901 » Gaetano Bresci, Italian-American anarchist, assassin of Umberto I of Italy (b. 1869)
• 1910 » Jules Renard, French author and playwright (b. 1864)
• 1932 » Augusta, Lady Gregory, Anglo-Irish activist, landlord, and playwright, co-founded the Abbey Theatre (b. 1852)
• 1933 » Tsengeltiin Jigjidjav, Mongolian politician, 10th Prime Minister of Mongolia (b. 1894)
• 1938 » William Glackens, American painter and illustrator (b. 1870)

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.
• February 7 » The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado, United States.
• March 22 » The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
• May 11 » Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike.
• June 24 » Marie François Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
• June 28 » Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
• December 22 » The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.

The temperature on May 22, 1894 was about 8.9 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%.