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• Albert Knol, Steenwijksmoer
• Antonius Adrianus van Uden, Noordwijk († 1962)
• Alice Zange, Sampang, Madoera († 1944)
• Arend Dijken van, Dodewaard (Hien) († 1920)
• Adriana Maria Maas, Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Alberta Frederika Bettink, Zutphen († 1963)
• Anthonius Petrus Leonardus Biemans, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anneke Antoinetta Rietbergen, Apeldoorn
• Amalie Alwine Marie Waszmann, Hannover (D) († 1947)
• -- Lemstra, Den Helder († 1894)

• Anna Maria Westerlaken (28), Rosmalen, NL
• Anna Maria Catharina Pelzer (62), Nieuwenhagen
• Anna van Wilsum (42), Nieuwer-Amstel
• Cecilia Maria van Baillet-Latour (68), Soiron, Luik, Wallonië
• Antonia Wittebols (42), Roosendaal, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Anna Maria Westerlaken (28), Rosmalen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Ehmen Luken Albers (81), Holland, Kandiyohi, Minnesota, United States
• Anna Maria CORNELISSEN (80), Driel,, Gelderland, Nederland
• Bastiaantje Barendregt (4), 's Gravendeel
• Joanna Josina van Haaren, Oss

• 1886 » Walter Terence Stace, English-American philosopher, academic, and civil servant († 1967)
• 1887 » Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, English field marshal († 1976)
• 1891 » Lester Allen, American screen, stage, vaudeville, circus actor, and film director († 1949)
• 1895 » Gregorio López, Mexican journalist, author, and poet († 1966)
• 1896 » Lev Vygotsky, Belarusian-Russian psychologist and philosopher († 1934)
• 1897 » Frank Fay, American actor, singer, and screenwriter († 1961)
• 1899 » Douglas Shearer, Canadian-American engineer († 1971)
• 1901 » Lee Strasberg, Ukrainian-American actor and director († 1982)
• 1901 » Walter Hallstein, German academic and politician, 1st President of the European Commission († 1982)
• 1902 » Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1995)

• 1865 » James McCune Smith, American physician and author (b. 1813)
• 1891 » José María Iglesias, Mexican politician and interim President (1876-1877) (b. 1823)
• 1897 » George Hendric Houghton, American pastor and theologian (b. 1820)
• 1902 » Hugh Price Hughes, Welsh theologian and educator (b. 1847)
• 1905 » Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, (b. 1817)
• 1910 » Ralph Johnstone, American pilot (b. 1886)
• 1917 » Auguste Rodin, French sculptor and illustrator (b. 1840)
• 1922 » Robert Comtesse, Swiss lawyer and politician, 29th President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1847)
• 1923 » Eduard Bornhöhe, Estonian author (b. 1862)
• 1924 » Gregory VII of Constantinople (b. 1850)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Jacob
10. Adrianus
11. Jacobus
12. Dirk
13. Arie
14. Gerardus
15. Hendrikus
16. Johan

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Hendrika
8. Adriana
9. Catharina
10. Neeltje
11. Aaltje
12. Grietje
13. Jacoba
14. Trijntje
15. Geertruida
16. Petronella

• 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 9 » New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
• February 7 » The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado, United States.
• 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.
• July 25 » The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
• August 25 » Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.

The temperature on November 17, 1894 was about 2.7 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%.