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• Aagje Johanna Van der Blom, Leiderdorp,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1894)
• Agnes Maisey Noli ****, Missouri, Verenigde Staten († 1975)
• Edna
• (Stillborn) HARSEMA, Harssens (Adorp) Groningen Netherlands († 1894)
• - Appeldoorn, Velden, Limburg, Nederland († 1894)
• Alberta Wijnanda van Houten, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1992)
• Adrianus Huigen, Leerdam († 1967)
• Albert F. Tosh, Dyersburg TN
• Abraham Cornelis van den Heuvel, Vinkeveen en Waverveen († 1955)
• Aaltien Pomper, Vries († 1894)

• Adriaantje Hoeflak (26), Hedel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Albert Kuik (81), Brielle, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham Nathan Marcus (86), Hamburg
• Albert van der Heide (78), Zevenhuizen, Leek, Groningen, Netherlands
• Johannes Althof (73), Jutphaas
• - Appeldoorn (0), Velden, Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Maria Margaretha van Os (70), Utrecht
• Wilhelmus de Wit (89), Raamsdonk
• Anna Maria Gerardina TIMMERMAN (71), Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Nederland
• * Bart van Dijk (88), Everdingen

• 1882 » John Cain Sr., Australian politician, 34th Premier of Victoria († 1957)
• 1883 » Hermann Abendroth, German conductor († 1956)
• 1887 » Alexander Woollcott, American actor, playwright, and critic († 1943)
• 1889 » Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss painter and sculptor († 1943)
• 1892 » Ólafur Thors, Icelandic lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Iceland († 1964)
• 1893 » Magda Tagliaferro, Brazilian pianist and educator († 1986)
• 1903 » Boris Blacher, German composer and playwright († 1975)
• 1905 » Stanley Hawes, English-Australian director and producer († 1991)
• 1907 » Briggs Cunningham, American race car driver, sailor, and businessman († 2003)
• 1908 » Ish Kabibble, American comedian and cornet player († 1994)

• 1853 » Karl Faber, German historian and academic (b. 1773)
• 1865 » Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French philosopher and politician (b. 1809)
• 1869 » Carl Reichenbach, German chemist and philosopher (b. 1788)
• 1874 » August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet and scholar (b. 1798)
• 1878 » Henri Victor Regnault, French physicist and chemist (b. 1810)
• 1905 » Debendranath Tagore, Indian philosopher and author (b. 1817)
• 1906 » Bartolomé Mitre, Argentinian historian and politician, 6th President of Argentina (b. 1821)
• 1908 » Roberto Bompiani, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1821)
• 1929 » Liang Qichao, Chinese journalist, philosopher, and scholar (b. 1873)
• 1930 » Frank P. Ramsey, British mathematician, philosopher and economist (b. 1903)

• 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 25 » Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C.
• April 21 » Norway formally adopts the Krag–Jørgensen bolt-action rifle as the main arm of its armed forces, a weapon that would remain in service for almost 50 years.
• 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.
• August 1 » The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.

The temperature on January 19, 1894 was about 4.6 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%.