About the day » Sunday February 18, 1894Calender converter

• Adrianus Cornelius van Hest, Tilburg,North Brabant,Netherlands († 1979)
• Adrianus Suiker, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1980)
• Aaltje Kiewiet, Odoorn († 1984)
• Adrian de Koeijer, Lodi, Bergen, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten († 1900)
• Aaltje Janna Kieft († 1975)
• Zwier-, Gieterveen, Nederland († 1894)
• Aaltje Kiewiet, Odoorn, Borger-Odoorn, Drenthe (NL) († 1984)
• Aaltje Harmanna WERKEMA, Groningen
• Abraham Leendert Droogendijk, Stavenisse, Zeeland, The Netherlands († 1952)
• Adrianus Cornelius van Hest, Tilburg

• Albert Luchtmeijer (1), Verlaat (Steenwijkerwold)
• Aaltje Lambregts (39), Rotterdam
• Anna Kuijf (30), Kockengen, 3628, Nederland
• Aaltje (Alijda) Buitenhuis (78), Hoevelaken {UT}
• Alijda (Aaltje) Buitenhuis (78), Hoevelaken, 2001 geannexeerd door Nijkerk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Albert Keijser (81), Bloemendaal
• Albert Keijser (81), Bloemendaal
• Aalbert van der Horst (56), Maartensdijk, Nederland
• Albertus Veenbergen (41), Olst, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aafje VELDHUIJS (80), Edam, Gemeente Edam-Volendam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1885 » Henri Laurens, French sculptor and illustrator († 1954)
• 1890 » Adolphe Menjou, American actor († 1963)
• 1890 » Edward Arnold, American actor († 1956)
• 1892 » Wendell Willkie, American captain, lawyer, and politician († 1944)
• 1893 » Maksim Haretski, Belarusian prose writer, journalist and activist († 1938)
• 1896 » Li Linsi, Chinese educator and diplomat († 1970)
• 1898 » Enzo Ferrari, Italian race car driver and businessman, founded Ferrari († 1988)
• 1898 » Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet and politician, 1st Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico († 1980)
• 1899 » Arthur Bryant, English historian and journalist († 1985)
• 1903 » Nikolai Podgorny, Ukrainian engineer and politician († 1983)

• 1873 » Vasil Levski, Bulgarian activist, founded the Internal Revolutionary Organization (b. 1837)
• 1880 » Nikolay Zinin, Russian organic chemist (b. 1812)
• 1893 » Serranus Clinton Hastings, American lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Justice of California (b. 1814)
• 1902 » Charles Lewis Tiffany, American businessman, founded Tiffany & Co. (b. 1812)
• 1906 » John Batterson Stetson, American businessman, founded the John B. Stetson Company (b. 1830)
• 1910 » Lucy Stanton, American activist (b. 1831)
• 1911 » Billy Murdoch, Australian cricketer (b. 1854)
• 1915 » Frank James, American soldier and criminal (b. 1843)
• 1923 » Alois Rašín, Czech economist and politician (b. 1867)
• 1931 » Milan Šufflay, Croatian historian, author, and politician (b. 1879)

• 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.
• May 21 » The Manchester Ship Canal in the United Kingdom is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.
• June 24 » Marie François Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
• September 1 » Over 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.
• September 15 » First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats Qing dynasty China in the Battle of Pyongyang.
• December 22 » The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.

The temperature on February 18, 1894 was about -5.5 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%.