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• Albertus Flavianus Kleine Staarman, Slagharen († 1979)
• Anna Elisabeth Sneeboer, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alfons Henricus Josephus Ingelbeen, Dadizele, België († 1965)
• * Neeltje Stouten, Leiden
• Alexandre Thedore RIFFAT, Reterre (23-Creuse), France († 1984)
• América de Abreu Izique, Araraquara, São Paulo, Brasil († 1960)
• Angie Anna Wilhelmina Booi, Danforth, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 1977)
• Anna Graaman, Driehuis-Velsen († 1894)
• Abel Abels, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1943)
• Anna Maria Donners, Kerkarde (L († 1979)

• Abraham Pieter Wouters (1), Veere
• Aleida van der Heyden (73), Beek, Bergh, Gelderland, Niederlande
• Aaltje BAKKER (51), Urk, Flevoland, Nederland
• Albertus Peters Doedel (24), Blankenham
• Antje Neeltje Wonder (33)
• Antje Neeltje Wonder (33)
• Albertus Hooijer (60), Halfweg (Vries), Drenthe, Nederland
• Aartje Hunink (0), Noordeloos, South Holland, Netherlands
• Anke POSTEMA (0), Groningen Groningen Netherlands
• Abraham Jacobs van der Meer (79), Irnsum, Friesland, Nederland

• 1885 » Deems Taylor, American conductor and critic († 1966)
• 1887 » Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and theorist († 1920)
• 1888 » J. Arthur Rank, 1st Baron Rank, English businessman, founded Rank Organisation († 1972)
• 1889 » George Hutson, English runner and soldier († 1914)
• 1892 » Herman Potočnik, Croatian-Austrian engineer († 1929)
• 1898 » Vladimir Fock, Russian physicist and mathematician († 1974)
• 1899 » Gustaf Gründgens, German actor and director († 1963)
• 1900 » Marc Allégret, French director and screenwriter († 1973)
• 1901 » Andre Kostelanetz, Russian-American conductor and composer († 1980)
• 1903 » Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1983)

• 1867 » Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician and engineer (b. 1788)
• 1870 » Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish journalist, poet, and playwright (b. 1836)
• 1880 » George Eliot, English novelist and poet (b. 1819)
• 1891 » Paul de Lagarde, German biblical scholar and orientalist (b. 1827)
• 1899 » Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist and publisher, founded Moody Publishers (b. 1837)
• 1902 » Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German-Austrian psychiatrist and author (b. 1840)
• 1915 » Rose Talbot Bullard, American medical doctor and professor (b. 1864)
• 1917 » Frances Xavier Cabrini, Italian-American nun and saint (b. 1850)
• 1918 » Aristeidis Moraitinis, Greek lieutenant and pilot (b. 1891)
• 1919 » Hermann Weingärtner, German gymnast (b. 1864)

• 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 7 » The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado, United States.
• February 12 » Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into the Cafe Terminus in Paris, killing one person and wounding 20.
• 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.
• May 11 » Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike.
• July 4 » The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.

The temperature on December 22, 1894 was about 6.9 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%.