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• anna maria hubertina van zon, neer († 1939)
• Anna Wilhelmina de Man, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham Suiker, Amsterdam
• Adriaan de Vries, Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
• Adriana (Tweeling) van 't Hof, Schiedam, Schiedam, South Holland, Netherlands († 1894)
• Anna Louisa Wolf, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 1942)
• Annie Bee WELBORN, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Bakker, Weststellingwerf
• Aleida Antonia Plas, Enschede († 1965)
• Antoinette de Korne, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 1963)

• Anna Gesina Hikken (71), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Slotman (1), Ommen
• Anetta Johanna Louisa Engeler (Engler, Engelen) (83), Harderwijk
• Albert Roelofs Strijk (69), Donkerbroek, Ooststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
• Arend Gerbens de Vries (45), Ureterp, Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Abraham Kaashoek (0), Annaland, St, Zeeland, Nederland
• Annetta Johanna Louisa Engler (82), Harderwijk
• Alida Johanna Grevenstuk (77), Menaldumadeel 29
• Antonia van Stiphout (0), Erp, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albertus de Vries (60), Almelo, 7601, Nederland

• 1892 » Tochigiyama Moriya, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 27th Yokozuna († 1959)
• 1893 » Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician and physicist († 1974)
• 1893 » Damdin Sükhbaatar, Mongolian soldier and politician († 1924)
• 1893 » Raoul Riganti, Argentinian race car driver († 1970)
• 1895 » George Halas, American football player and coach († 1983)
• 1895 » George Sutcliffe, Australian public servant († 1964)
• 1895 » Robert Philipp, American painter († 1981)
• 1896 » Kazimierz Kuratowski, Polish mathematician and logician († 1980)
• 1897 » Gertrude Blanch, Russian-American mathematician († 1996)
• 1897 » Howard Deering Johnson, American businessman, founded Howard Johnson's († 1972)

• 1881 » Henry Parker, English-Australian politician, 3rd Premier of New South Wales (b. 1808)
• 1904 » Ernest Cashel, American-Canadian criminal (b. 1882)
• 1904 » William Collins Whitney, American financier and politician, 31st United States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1841)
• 1905 » Henri Germain, French banker and politician, founded Le Crédit Lyonnais (b. 1824)
• 1907 » Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist and academic (b. 1834)
• 1909 » Carlo Acton, Italian pianist and composer (b. 1829)
• 1913 » Gustaf de Laval, Swedish engineer (b. 1845)
• 1918 » John L. Sullivan, American boxer (b. 1858)
• 1919 » Julius Kuperjanov, Estonian lieutenant (b. 1894)
• 1925 » Antti Aarne, Finnish historian and academic (b. 1867)

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.
• March 25 » Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C.
• May 1 » Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C.
• 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.
• July 25 » The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
• August 22 » Mahatma Gandhi forms the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in order to fight discrimination against Indian traders in Natal.
• November 17 » H. H. Holmes, one of the first modern serial killers, is arrested in Boston, Massachusetts.

The temperature on February 2, 1894 was about 6.3 °C. There was 9 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%.