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Born on Thursday December 6, 1894
- Albertus Jacobus van Bommel, Hillegersberg († 1945)
- Adriana Kemp, Hoenkoop († 1895)
- Adriana de Rooy, Harderwijk († 1974)
- Adriana Cornelis VAN RUTTEN, Warmenhuizen,Nederland († 1961)
- Aartje Johanna van der Werken, Ammerstol
- Adriana de Rooij, Harderwijk/Tonsel
- Albertine Marij Keijner, Tegal, Pekalongan
- Aleida Kottier, Den Ham, Overijssel, Nederland († 1895)
- Alexander Vandamme, Staden,West-Vlaanderen,België
- Adriana de Rooij, Tonsel, Gelderland, Nederland († 1974)
Died on Thursday December 6, 1894
- Andries Cornelis van der Mark (44), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
- Adriana van Weelden (0), Charlois, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
- Adrianus Schoenmakers (70), Boxtel
- Argardus van den Berg (64), Ochten
- Albert Tigelaar (0), Hoogeveen
- Anna Maria van Gent (31), Houten, Utrecht, NL
- Adriaan Schoenmakers (70), Boxtel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
- Anna Maria van Kevelaar (4), Oer (Oude Ijsselstreek)
- Albertes Zwijrs SWIERS (53), Tripscompagnie, Muntendam, Groningen, Nederland
- Anna Maria van Gent (31), Houten
Source: Delpher (KB | national library) Newspapers from December 6, 1894 at Delpher
- Het nieuws van den dag : kleine courant
- Rotterdamsch nieuwsblad
- Tilburgsche courant
- Algemeen Handelsblad
- Algemeen Handelsblad
- De locomotief : Samarangsch handels- en advertentie-blad
- Java-bode : nieuws, handels- en advertentieblad voor Nederlandsch-Indie
- De Tijd : godsdienstig-staatkundig dagblad
- Leeuwarder courant
- Nieuwe Surinaamsche courant
Born on December 6
- 1890 » Dion Fortune, Welsh occultist, psychologist, and author († 1946)
- 1890 » Rudolf Schlichter, German painter and illustrator († 1955)
- 1890 » Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist and academic († 1951)
- 1892 » Osbert Sitwell, English-Italian captain, poet, and author († 1969)
- 1893 » Homer N. Wallin, American admiral († 1984)
- 1893 » Sylvia Townsend Warner, English author and poet († 1978)
- 1896 » Ira Gershwin, American songwriter († 1983)
- 1898 » Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-American photographer and journalist († 1995)
- 1898 » Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish sociologist and economist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1987)
- 1898 » John McDonald, Scottish-Australian politician, 37th Premier of Victoria († 1977)
Died on December 6
- 1867 » Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist and academic (b. 1794)
- 1868 » August Schleicher, German linguist and academic (b. 1821)
- 1878 » Theodoros Vryzakis, Greek painter and educator (b. 1814)
- 1879 » Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American businessman (b. 1814)
- 1882 » Alfred Escher, Swiss businessman and politician, founded Credit Suisse (b. 1819)
- 1882 » Anthony Trollope, English novelist, essayist, and short story writer (b. 1815)
- 1889 » Jefferson Davis, American general and politician, President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1808)
- 1892 » Werner von Siemens, German engineer and businessman, founded the Siemens Company (b. 1816)
- 1918 » Alexander Dianin, Russian chemist (b. 1851)
- 1921 » Said Halim Pasha, Ottoman politician, 280th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1865)
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Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1894
- 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 16 » Jules Massenet's opera Thaïs is first performed.
- March 22 » The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
- March 25 » Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C.
- July 22 » The first ever motor race is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen. The fastest finisher was the Comte Jules-Albert de Dion, but the 'official' victory was awarded to Albert Lemaître driving his 3hp petrol engined Peugeot.
- 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.
Weather December 6, 1894
The temperature on December 6, 1894 was about -2.1 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%.