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• Anna Catharina Dekkers, Stratum
• Adriana Vis, Monster
• Anna Agatha Borst, Amsterdam
• Alida Marie Dewulf
• Aarta Maria Kok, Harderwijk († 1979)
• Andries SLUITER, Oldehove
• Adriana van den Berg, Rhenen († 1981)
• Alice BRINKS, South Dakota († 1978)
• Anna Erber, Walditz (Wlodowice), Polen
• Adriana Vis, Monster († 1975)

• Jansen (50), Arnhem
• Adolphe ROYER (47), Brain-sur-l'Authion, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France
• Antonie Leendert Snoek (26), Kralingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aagje Schol (38)
• Anna Aleida Siebum (29), Nw.Schutting
• Adelheid Christine Johanna Herding (59), Bad Honnef,Regierungsbezirk Köln,North Rhine-Westphalia,Germany
• Barbara Rebecca Dingena Vollmuller (0), Vianen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Geertruij Gesina Morreau (71), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Wilhelmina Catharina van Helten (30), Haarlem
• Anna Elisabeth Rolfes (84), Niederlangen, Lathen

• 1885 » Alice Perry, Irish engineer and poet († 1969)
• 1887 » Octave Lapize, French cyclist and pilot († 1917)
• 1887 » Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg († 1969)
• 1891 » Brenda Ueland, American journalist, author, and educator († 1985)
• 1891 » Rafael Trujillo, Dominican soldier and politician, 36th President of the Dominican Republic († 1961)
• 1894 » Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, Indian author, poet, and playwright († 1987)
• 1895 » Jack Warner, English actor and singer († 1981)
• 1896 » Marjorie Joyner, American make-up artist and businesswoman († 1994)
• 1898 » Peng Dehuai, Chinese general, 1st Minister of National Defense of the People's Republic of China († 1974)
• 1901 » Gilda Gray, Polish-American actress, singer, and dancer († 1959)

• 1852 » Daniel Webster, American lawyer and politician, 14th United States Secretary of State (b. 1782)
• 1875 » Raffaello Carboni, Italian-Australian author and poet (b. 1817)
• 1898 » Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter and illustrator (b. 1824)
• 1915 » Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist and photographer (b. 1828)
• 1917 » James Carroll Beckwith, American painter and academic (b. 1852)
• 1922 » George Cadbury, English businessman (b. 1839)
• 1935 » Dutch Schultz, American mob boss (b. 1902)
• 1937 » Nils Wahlbom, Swedish actor (b. 1886)
• 1938 » Ernst Barlach, German sculptor and playwright (b. 1870)
• 1943 » Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, Canadian poet and painter (b. 1912)

• 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 12 » Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into the Cafe Terminus in Paris, killing one person and wounding 20.
• March 16 » Jules Massenet's opera Thaïs is first performed.
• 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 25 » Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
• September 15 » First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats Qing dynasty China in the Battle of Pyongyang.

The temperature on October 24, 1894 was about 6.8 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%.