About the day » Wednesday December 5, 1894Calender converter

• Adolf Bernard van Oeveren, Loosduinen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• van de Pas, Boxtel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• "Betje" Bertha Alberta Sabbas Vos, Zevenaar († 1958)
• Aegidius van Wanrooij, Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands († 1898)
• Adriana Koot, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1969)
• Aldegonda Jantina Hendrika SIKKEMA, Roosendaal Noord-Brabant Netherlands († 1963)
• Alida Jongewaard, Zaandam († 1948)
• Alberta Sabbas Vos, Zevenaar
• Adrianus Romme, Princenhage, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1981)
• Alijda Luca, Utrecht

• Adriana Weststrate (0), Krabbendijke
• Albertina Geel (70), Meppel, Drenthe, Nederland
• Bina Jacobs (46)
• Anna Jane Reid (54), Grantsville, Tooele County, Utah, United States of America
• Casper Buschmeier (61), (Minnesota, USA)
• Damhuis (0)
• Catharina Cornelia Johanna Wernink
• Albert Vink (55), Almkerk en Uitwijk, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
• Alida van der Tol (47), Nieuwkoop
• Carolus Ludovicus Mestdagh (68), Gistel,, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique

• 1890 » David Bomberg, English painter, illustrator, and academic († 1957)
• 1890 » Fritz Lang, Austrian-American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1976)
• 1891 » Paul Kogerman, Estonian chemist and academic († 1951)
• 1894 » Charles Robberts Swart, South African lawyer and politician, 1st State President of South Africa († 1982)
• 1895 » Elbert Frank Cox, American mathematician and academic († 1969)
• 1896 » Ann Nolan Clark, American historian, author, and educator († 1995)
• 1896 » Carl Ferdinand Cori, Czech-American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1984)
• 1897 » Gershom Scholem, German-Israeli philosopher and historian († 1982)
• 1897 » Nunnally Johnson, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1977)
• 1898 » Josh Malihabadi, Indian-Pakistani poet and translator († 1982)

• 1870 » Alexandre Dumas, French novelist and playwright (b. 1802)
• 1887 » Eliza R. Snow, American poet and songwriter (b. 1804)
• 1891 » Pedro II of Brazil (b. 1825)
• 1917 » Jean Sandberg(b.1952)
• 1918 » Schalk Willem Burger, South African commander, lawyer, and politician, 6th President of the South African Republic (b. 1852)
• 1925 » Władysław Reymont, Polish novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1926 » Claude Monet, French painter (b. 1840)
• 1931 » Vachel Lindsay, American poet (b. 1879)
• 1940 » Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist and composer (b. 1880)
• 1941 » Amrita Sher-Gil, Hungarian-Pakistani painter (b. 1913)

• 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.
• March 22 » The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
• 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.
• May 1 » Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C.
• June 24 » Marie François Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
• June 28 » Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
• December 22 » The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.

The temperature on December 5, 1894 was about -0.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%.