About the day » Tuesday January 23, 1894Calender converter

• Adam Voorn, Amsterdam, Nederland († 1974)
• Alegonda van de Water, Waalwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1989)
• Aleida Susanna Kokhuis, Tubbergen († 1962)
• Aaltien Middelveen, Gemeente Emmen, Provincie Drenthe
• Agatha Catharina MULDER, Bolsward(Friesland)
• Aaltje de Jong, Rotsterhaule († 1987)
• Alberta Harmina Aalderink, Eefde († 1894)
• Aleida Susanna Haarhuis, Tubbergen (Nl) († 1962)
• Adriana Catharina Fenijn, Breskens († 1972)
• Aaltien ^(Alice) Middelveen († 1985)

• Aaltjen ten Hoove (78), Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adriaan De Swart (78), Almkerk, 4286, Nederland
• Aldegondis Vandenholt (77), Beverst
• Alberdina Lunshof (26), Eext
• Aleida Jansen Karel (67), Vollenhove, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aaltjen ten Hoove (77), Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Albertus MEINDERINK (MENDRIK) (39), Osterfeld, Botrop, Duitsland
• Albert Meinderink (Mendrik Meenderink) (39), Osterfeld, Botrop (Duitsland)
• Albert Meinderink (39), Osterveld (Duitsland)
• Albertus Meinderink (geboren Meinderink (Mendrik)) (39), Osterfeld, Bottrop, Duitsland

• 1894 » Jyotirmoyee Devi, Indian author († 1988)
• 1896 » Alf Blair, Australian rugby league player and coach († 1944)
• 1896 » Alf Hall, English-South African cricketer († 1964)
• 1897 » Ieva Simonaitytė, Lithuanian author († 1978)
• 1897 » Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect († 2000)
• 1897 » Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian activist and politician († 1945)
• 1897 » William Stephenson, Canadian captain and spy († 1989)
• 1898 » Freda Utley, English scholar and author († 1978)
• 1898 » Georg Kulenkampff, German violinist († 1948)
• 1898 » Randolph Scott, American actor († 1987)

• 1866 » Thomas Love Peacock, English author and poet (b. 1785)
• 1875 » Charles Kingsley English priest and author (b. 1819)
• 1883 » Gustave Doré, French engraver and illustrator (b. 1832)
• 1893 » José Zorrilla, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1817)
• 1893 » Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II, American lawyer and politician, 16th United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1825)
• 1921 » Mykola Leontovych, Ukrainian composer and conductor (b. 1877)
• 1922 » Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor and academic (b. 1855)
• 1922 » René Beeh, Alsatian painter and draughtsman (b. 1886)
• 1923 » Max Nordau, Austrian physician and author (b. 1849)
• 1931 » Anna Pavlova, Russian-English ballerina (b. 1881)

• 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 25 » Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C.
• May 21 » The Manchester Ship Canal in the United Kingdom is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.
• August 25 » Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
• September 17 » Battle of the Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
• 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.

The temperature on January 23, 1894 was about 4.0 °C. There was 5 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%.