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• Alphonsus Berkhout, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Nederland († 1956)
• Abraham Johannes den Enting, Kampen
• Aaltje Franses Venema, Terwispel, Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Engelina van der Lee, Vrijenban
• Anna Maria Helena Kneepkens, Maastricht, Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands († 1894)
• Alice Adolphina Cesarina Schelstraete, Gent (B) († 1925)
• Anje van Land, Usquert, Groningen, Nederland († 1966)
• Adriana van Keulen, Ammerzoden († 1894)
• Alberta van der A, Uden
• Alida Petronella Vermolen, Haarlem († 1925)

• Aaltje Geerts (88), Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
• Alida Susanna Jacoba Pfister (0), Amsterdam
• Amalie Helena Drieze (0), Hengelo, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Aartje Voetee (82), Hardinxveld
• Adriana Elisabeth Hubertina Ruijtenbeek (0), Venlo, Limburg, Nederland
• Amalie Helene Drieze (0), Hengelo
• Anna Christina Beckers (32), Maastricht
• Andrew Jackson Gribble (78), Warren County, Tennessee
• Aaltje Schimmel (54), Baarn
• Anna Zoet (79), Rotterdam (Kralingen)

• 1885 » Humbert Wolfe, Italian-English poet and civil servant († 1940)
• 1886 » Markus Reiner, Israeli physicist and engineer († 1976)
• 1892 » Agnes von Kurowsky, American nurse († 1984)
• 1893 » Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian-American guru and philosopher († 1952)
• 1897 » Kiyoshi Miki, Japanese philosopher and author († 1945)
• 1900 » Yves Tanguy, French-American painter († 1955)
• 1902 » Hubert Beuve-Méry, French journalist († 1989)
• 1902 » Stella Gibbons, English journalist and author († 1989)
• 1903 » Harold Gatty, Australian pilot and navigator († 1957)
• 1904 » Jeane Dixon, American astrologer and psychic († 1997)

• 1858 » Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (b. 1766)
• 1860 » John Neumann, Czech-American bishop and saint (b. 1811)
• 1883 » Charles Tompson, Australian poet and public servant (b. 1806)
• 1885 » Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Norwegian author and scholar (b. 1812)
• 1888 » Henri Herz, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1803)
• 1899 » Ezra Otis Kendall, American professor, astronomer and mathematician (b. 1818)
• 1904 » Karl Alfred von Zittel, German paleontologist and geologist (b. 1839)
• 1910 » Léon Walras, French-Swiss economist and academic (b. 1834)
• 1917 » Isobel Lilian Gloag, English painter (b. 1865)
• 1922 » Ernest Shackleton, Anglo-Irish sailor and explorer (b. 1874)

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 7 » Thomas Edison makes a kinetoscopic film of someone sneezing. On the same day, his employee, William Kennedy Dickson, receives a patent for motion picture film.
• March 22 » The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
• May 1 » Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C.
• July 22 » The first ever motor race is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen. The fastest finisher was the Comte Jules-Albert de Dion, but the 'official' victory was awarded to Albert Lemaître driving his 3hp petrol engined Peugeot.
• July 25 » The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
• September 1 » Over 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.

The temperature on January 5, 1894 was about -14.3 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%.