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• Alida Hendria Smoor
• Aartje Hendrika Vijfvinkel, Oud-Beijerland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alexander Strankinga, Utrecht († 1895)
• van Nieuwaal, Ooltgensplaat, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1894)
• Adriana Winkelman, Rotterdam († 1969)
• Albertus Samuel Pinke, Heerde, Gelderland, Nederland († 1966)
• Agnes M. Donker, Grand Haven, Ottawa County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 1999)
• Abraham DE ZWART
• Adriana van den Hoek, Schiedam, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Aart Beekman, Apeldoorn († 1963)

• Alexander Adam (75), Delft, The Netherlands
• Anna Katharina Borchers (63), Varelerhafen
• Aartje Josina Van Den Berg (0), IJsselstein
• Aartje Draaijer (56), Heerde
• Geesje Lengton (81), Zwolle
• Adam Engelbert Willemsen (0), Bemmel
• Andreas Holzknecht (62), Meran,Meran,Südtirol,Italien,I
• Aaltje Draaijer (55), Heerde
• Andries Adriaansen (55), Bladel en Netersel
• Annechien Liebe (23), Bonnen, Gieten, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1888 » Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand novelist, short story writer, and essayist († 1923)
• 1888 » Yukio Sakurauchi, Japanese businessman and politician, 27th Japanese Minister of Finance († 1947)
• 1890 » Dwight D. Eisenhower, American general and politician, 34th President of the United States († 1969)
• 1892 » Sumner Welles, American politician and diplomat, 11th Under Secretary of State († 1961)
• 1893 » Lillian Gish, American actress († 1993)
• 1894 » E. E. Cummings, American poet and playwright († 1962)
• 1894 » Victoria Drummond, British marine engineer († 1978)
• 1897 » Alicja Dorabialska, Polish chemist († 1975)
• 1898 » Thomas William Holmes, Canadian sergeant and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient († 1950)
• 1900 » W. Edwards Deming, American statistician, author, and academic († 1993)

• 1831 » Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer and educator (b. 1761)
• 1911 » John Marshall Harlan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1833)
• 1923 » Marcellus Emants, Dutch-Swiss author, poet, and playwright (b. 1848)
• 1929 » Henri Berger, German composer and bandleader (b. 1844)
• 1930 » Samuel van Houten, Dutch lawyer and politician, Dutch Minister of the Interior (b. 1837)
• 1942 » Noboru Yamaguchi, Japanese mob boss (b. 1902)
• 1943 » Sobibór uprising:
• 1944 » Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (b. 1891)
• 1953 » Émile Sarrade, French rugby player and tug of war competitor (b. 1877)
• 1953 » Kyuichi Tokuda, Japanese lawyer and politician (b. 1894)

• 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.
• 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.
• June 28 » Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
• August 22 » Mahatma Gandhi forms the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in order to fight discrimination against Indian traders in Natal.
• 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 October 14, 1894 was about 9.7 °C. There was 6 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%.