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• Aafke Hooyenga, Bergum († 1958)
• Anna Johanna van Merkestein, Amsterdam
• Adriaan Peter van der Horst, Nieuwpoort (Nld) († 1894)
• Aafke Hooijenga Hedzers, Bergum, Friesland, Netherlands († 1958)
• Andries Durks Jonker, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Alma Ida Babcock († 1951)
• Alta Mae Babcock († 1952)
• Adrianus Vorstenbosch, Nuland
• Anna Elizabeth Lippinkhof, Lonneker, Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland († 1970)
• Alexander Dijkslag, Zwollerkerspel, Overijssel, Nederland († 1941)

• * Hendrik (2) de Bruin (0), Klaaswaal, Zuid-Holland, NL
• Albert Jan Oonk (68), Markelo, Hof van Twente,, Overijssel, Nederland
• Antonis Dominicus Sala (33), Leiden
• Cornelis Leonardus Planken (0), STOMPWIJK (Leidschendam-Voorburg), Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Hendrika VAN VORDEN (0), Deventer, Gemeente Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Arie van Riet (0), Utrecht
• Adriana van Zwienen (72), Ouderkerk aan de IJssel-Nederland
• Arie van Pelt (63), Dubbeldam
• Adriana van Zwienen (72), Ouderkerk aan den IJssel, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Adrianus Heijboer (75), Sint Annaland

• 1887 » Jivraj Narayan Mehta, Indian physicians and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Gujarat († 1978)
• 1888 » Salme Dutt, Estonian-English politician († 1964)
• 1890 » Peder Furubotn, Norwegian Communist and anti-Nazi Resistance leader (d.1975)
• 1891 » Marquis James, American journalist and author († 1955)
• 1898 » Preston Sturges, American director and producer († 1959)
• 1901 » Aurèle Joliat, Canadian ice hockey player and referee († 1986)
• 1904 » Werner Forssmann, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1979)
• 1905 » Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish activist († 1941)
• 1905 » Dhyan Chand, Indian field hockey player († 1979)
• 1910 » Vivien Thomas, American surgeon and academic († 1985)

• 1866 » Tokugawa Iemochi, Japanese shōgun (b. 1846)
• 1877 » Brigham Young, American religious leader, 2nd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1801)
• 1889 » Stefan Dunjov, Bulgarian colonel (b. 1815)
• 1891 » Pierre Lallement, French businessman, invented the bicycle (b. 1843)
• 1892 » William Forbes Skene, Scottish historian and author (b. 1809)
• 1904 » Murad V, Ottoman sultan (b. 1840)
• 1911 » Mir Mahboob Ali Khan, 6th Nizam of Hyderabad (b.1866)
• 1917 » George Huntington Hartford, American businessman (b. 1833)
• 1930 » William Archibald Spooner, English priest and author (b. 1844)
• 1931 » David T. Abercrombie, American businessman, co-founded Abercrombie & Fitch (b. 1867)

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.
• May 1 » Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C.
• May 11 » Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike.
• June 23 » The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
• 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.
• December 22 » The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.

The temperature on August 29, 1894 was about 14.2 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%.