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• Albert Speelman, Zuidbroek Gem. Menterwolde
• Adriaan Slager, Sint Maartensdijk, Zeeland, Nederland († 1895)
• Adrianus Josephus Brants, Tilburg († 1966)
• Adriaan Kooij, De Werken en Sleeuwijk
• Adriaan Kooij, De Werken en Sleeuwijk
• Hendrik Botter, Alteveer
• Alice Scholma, Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 1947)
• Adriaan Buijs, Arnemuiden
• Alida Maria Hendrika van der Meer, 's-Gravenhage († 1947)
• Anna Elizabeth VerMeulen, Netherlands († 1967)

• Anna Hildegonda De Villiers (63), Kaapstad
• Arend Johannes van Amerongen (56), Maarssen, Nederland
• Angela Ysveld (65), Munte
• Aaltje Nieborg (55), Scharmer, Midden-Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Agatha van Bergeyk (0), Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus van GEEL (1), Wouw
• Anna Gertrudis Simons (45), Ubach over Worms, Landgraaf
• Anna Maria Cecilia van de Poel (0), Mierlo
• Antje Groot (83), Blokker, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Agnes DERIKX (57), Neer, Limburg, Netherlands

• 1887 » Grover Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player and coach († 1950)
• 1887 » Stefan Grabiński, Polish author and educator († 1936)
• 1887 » William Frawley, American actor and vaudevillian († 1966)
• 1893 » Dorothy Whipple, English novelist († 1966)
• 1893 » Wallace Fard Muhammad, American religious leader, founded the Nation of Islam (disappeared 1934)
• 1896 » Andrei Zhdanov, Ukrainian-Russian civil servant and politician († 1948)
• 1899 » Max Petitpierre, Swiss jurist and politician, 54th President of the Swiss Confederation († 1994)
• 1900 » Fritz Wiessner, German-American mountaineer († 1988)
• 1900 » Halina Konopacka, Polish discus thrower and poet († 1989)
• 1902 » Jean Bruller, French author and illustrator, co-founded Les Éditions de Minuit († 1991)

• 1864 » Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, Canadian jurist and politician, 3rd Premier of Canada East (b. 1807)
• 1883 » Alexandros Koumoundouros, Greek lawyer and politician, 56th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1817)
• 1887 » Anandi Gopal Joshi, First Indian women physician (b. 1865)
• 1889 » Karl Davydov, Russian cellist and composer (b. 1838)
• 1903 » Richard Jordan Gatling, American engineer, invented the Gatling gun (b. 1818)
• 1906 » Jean Lanfray, Swiss convicted murderer (b. 1874)
• 1913 » Felix Draeseke, German composer and academic (b. 1835)
• 1921 » Carl Menger, Polish-Austrian economist and academic (b. 1840)
• 1930 » Mary Whiton Calkins, American philosopher and psychologist (b. 1863)
• 1931 » Otto Wallach, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1847)

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.
• January 9 » New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
• February 7 » The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado, United States.
• 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.
• September 15 » First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats Qing dynasty China in the Battle of Pyongyang.
• November 1 » Nicholas II becomes the new (and last) Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
• December 22 » The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.

The temperature on February 26, 1894 was about 7.1 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%.