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October 22, 1894 
October 20, 1894
Born on Sunday October 21, 1894
- Anna Margaretha Lenders, Sevelen (Duitsland) († 1978)
- Anna Maria van Dijk, Steenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1960)
- Antje Oosten, Lemsterland
- Fokke Lieuwes de Jong, Workum
- Adrian Aaltje Mak, Charlois, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
- Anna Paulina Borm, Koewacht († 1951)
- Alice Virmond Suplicy, Lapa, Paraná, Brasil
- Agnes Vossenberg, Oss, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
- Anna Maartensd van Twuijver, Harenkarspel, nh.nld († 1907)
- de Welf, Urmond, Nederland († 1894)
Died on Sunday October 21, 1894
- Aalt Grift (54), Hoevelaken
- Adrianus Wuijster (0), Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
- Adriaan Bedet (61), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
- Asenath Burgess (73), Plymouth, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten
- Christiaan van Corstanje (0), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
- Adrianus Quirinus Kolff (69), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
- Cornelia Joanna Seckson (78), Loenen, Apeldoorn
- Antonia van Dijk (0), Terheijden
- Anna Catharina Stillekens (58), Hoogstraten (België)
- Cornelia Ponse (65), Sint-Annaland, Zeeland, Nederland
Source: Delpher (KB | national library) Newspapers from October 21, 1894 at Delpher
Born on October 21
- 1884 » Claire Waldoff, German singer and actress († 1957)
- 1886 » Eugene Burton Ely, American soldier and pilot († 1911)
- 1887 » Krishna Singh, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Bihar († 1961)
- 1894 » Edogawa Ranpo, Japanese author and critic († 1965)
- 1895 » Edna Purviance, American actress († 1958)
- 1895 » Paavo Johansson, Finnish javelin thrower and decathlete († 1983)
- 1896 » Esther Shumiatcher-Hirschbein, Russian-Canadian poet and screenwriter (d.1985)
- 1898 » Eduard Pütsep, Estonian wrestler and actor († 1960)
- 1900 » Andrée Boisson, French Olympic fencer († 1973)
- 1907 » Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek painter and poet († 1985)
Died on October 21
- 1861 » Edward Dickinson Baker, American congressman and colonel (b. 1811)
- 1872 » Jacques Babinet, French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1794)
- 1873 » Johan Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian author, poet, and critic (b. 1807)
- 1896 » James Henry Greathead, South African-English engineer (b. 1844)
- 1903 » Jinmaku Kyūgorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 12th Yokozuna (b. 1829)
- 1904 » Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and journalist (b. 1877)
- 1907 » Jules Chevalier, French priest, founded the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (b. 1824)
- 1931 » Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian author and playwright (b. 1862)
- 1938 » Dorothy Hale, American actress (b. 1905)
- 1940 » William G. Conley, American journalist, lawyer, and politician, 18th Governor of West Virginia (b. 1866)
Names that were popular for boys in 1894
- Johannes
- Jan
- Cornelis
- Hendrik
- Willem
- Pieter
- Gerrit
- Petrus
- Jacob
- Adrianus
- Jacobus
- Dirk
- Arie
- Gerardus
- Hendrikus
- Johan
Names that were popular for girls in 1894
- Maria
- Johanna
- Anna
- Cornelia
- Elisabeth
- Wilhelmina
- Hendrika
- Adriana
- Catharina
- Neeltje
- Aaltje
- Grietje
- Jacoba
- Trijntje
- Geertruida
- Petronella
Source: Wikipedia Historical events 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 14 » The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
- 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.
- June 23 » The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
- June 24 » Marie François Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
- November 17 » H. H. Holmes, one of the first modern serial killers, is arrested in Boston, Massachusetts.
- November 21 » Port Arthur, China, falls to the Japanese, a decisive victory of the First Sino-Japanese War; Japanese troops are accused of massacring the remaining inhabitants.
Weather October 21, 1894
The temperature on October 21, 1894 was about 8.4 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%.