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• Alijda Christina Boersen, Amersfoort († 1937)
• Alida Cristina Boersen, Amersfoort, UT, Nederland († 1937)
• Aaltje Man, Aalsmeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna van Vooren, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Poulowna van der Veen, Enschede († 1978)
• Anna Radder, Hull-North Dakota (USA) († 1981)
• Andries Huibertse, Rossum, Maasdriel, Gelderland, Nederland († 1895)
• Adrianus Martinus Roozen, Moergestel († 1895)
• Albert Faure Bach, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, Verenigde Staten († 1954)
• Andries Durks Mensing, Deinum, Menaldumadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1959)

• Anna Maria Esser, Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aloyzia Schumlits (63), Lackenbach, Oostenrijk
• Akke Johannes Hooiring (63)
• Amalia Wilhelmina Bax
• Annigje De Kluijver (55), Sliedrecht
• Adrianus van Es (1), Nieuwer-Amstel, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Akke Hooiring (63), Gemeente Schoterland Friesland Nederland
• Antonia Gerarda van Oostrom (0), Vleuten,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Atje Annes (Etje) Jellema (22), Gauw, Wymbritseradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Antonia Gerarda van Oostrom (0), Vleuten (UT, NLD)

• 1890 » Emilio Portes Gil, Mexican politician, President of Mexico 1928-1930 († 1978)
• 1894 » Elmer Robinson, American lawyer and politician, 33rd Mayor of San Francisco († 1982)
• 1894 » Walter Warlimont, German general († 1976)
• 1895 » Giovanni Comisso, Italian author and poet († 1969)
• 1895 » Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet († 1925)
• 1896 » Auvergne Doherty, Australian businesswoman († 1961)
• 1896 » Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet and critic († 1987)
• 1897 » Louis Aragon, French author and poet († 1982)
• 1898 » Adolf Reichwein, German economist and educator († 1944)
• 1898 » Leo McCarey, American director and screenwriter († 1969)

• 1873 » Kintpuash, American tribal leader (b. 1837)
• 1877 » James Roosevelt Bayley, American archbishop (b. 1814)
• 1877 » Rómulo Díaz de la Vega, Mexican general and president (1855) (b. 1800)
• 1881 » Orson Pratt, American mathematician and religious leader (b. 1811)
• 1890 » Joseph Hergenröther, German historian and cardinal (b. 1824)
• 1891 » Édouard Lucas, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1842)
• 1896 » William Morris, English author and poet (b. 1834)
• 1907 » Jacob Nash Victor, American engineer (b. 1835)
• 1911 » Rosetta Jane Birks, Australian suffragist (b. 1856)
• 1917 » Eduardo Di Capua, Neapolitan composer, singer and songwriter (b. 1865)

• 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.
• August 1 » The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
• August 25 » Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
• September 1 » Over 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.
• 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.

The temperature on October 3, 1894 was about 6.5 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%.