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• Aalt van den Bor, Nijkerk († 1970)
• ? (levenloos) Quist, Stavenisse gem. Tholen, Zeeland, Nederland NED († 1894)
• Aart Willem van Ditten, Dordrecht, 3311, Nederland († 1973)
• Albertje Bunt, Nieuwe Pekela, Groningen, Nederland († 1989)
• Alice Levy, Poznan, Wlkp., Poland
• Adrianus Jan Appel, IJsselstein († 1965)
• Adrianus Quartel, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland, Nederland († 1894)
• Adriana Zeelenberg, Delft († 1896)
• Albertje Zuurman, Slochteren, Groningen, Nederland († 1981)
• Aart Willem van Ditten, Dordrecht

• Bernardus Hubertus van den BERG (68), Tilburg,,Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arie Kasteleijn (0), Streefkerk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Groffen (80), Bergen Op Zoom, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Arie Bruggeling (0), 's-Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Christina van Hoegee (3), Maarsseveen
• Ariaantje Nagtegaal (94), Rijnsburg, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Anna Catharina Groffen (80), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arnoldus Peters (58), Ottersum, Limburg, Nederland
• Tjiske Gosens, Groningen
• Boelen (0), Barlage

• 1887 » Manny Ziener, German actress († 1972)
• 1887 » René Cassin, French judge and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1976)
• 1888 » Mary Fuller, American actress and screenwriter († 1973)
• 1889 » Teresa de la Parra, French-Venezuelan author and educator († 1936)
• 1892 » Remington Kellogg, American zoologist and paleontologist († 1969)
• 1894 » Bevil Rudd, South African runner and journalist († 1948)
• 1898 » Nachum Gutman, Moldovan-Israeli painter and sculptor († 1980)
• 1899 » Elda Anderson, American physicist and health researcher († 1961)
• 1900 » Bing Xin, Chinese author and poet, known for her contributions to children's literature († 1998)
• 1900 » Margherita Bontade, Italian politician († 1992)

• 1861 » Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish archbishop (b. 1778)
• 1880 » Jacques Offenbach, German-French cellist and composer (b. 1819)
• 1885 » Thomas C. Durant, American railroad tycoon (b. 1820)
• 1895 » Ralph Tollemache, English priest (b. 1826)
• 1913 » Hans von Bartels, German painter and educator (b. 1856)
• 1914 » Albert Solomon, Australian politician, 23rd Premier of Tasmania (b. 1876)
• 1918 » Roland Garros, French soldier and pilot (b. 1888)
• 1921 » John Storey, Australian politician, 20th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1869)
• 1927 » Sam Warner, Polish-American director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded Warner Bros. (b. 1887)
• 1929 » Varghese Payyappilly Palakkappilly, Indian priest, founded the Sisters of the Destitute (b. 1876)

• 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 22 » The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
• 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.
• July 4 » The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
• August 1 » The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
• November 17 » H. H. Holmes, one of the first modern serial killers, is arrested in Boston, Massachusetts.

The temperature on October 5, 1894 was about 11.2 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%.