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• Adrianus Jacobus van Dun, Princenhage, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albertje Veldtman, Slochteren († 1963)
• Aart van Asch, Deil West Betuwe (GL) († 1898)
• Aart Goudswaard, nieuw-beijerland (zuid holland) († 1952)
• Aaltje Langereis, Nieuwer-Amstel († 1958)
• Aaltje Jager, Hoogeveen nederland († 2002)
• Aagje van der Giessen, Oijen en Teeffelen
• Adriaan Willem Lips, Klundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1968)
• Aaltje van der Lei, Berlikum (Menaldumadeel)
• Adrianus Johannes Marinus van der Drift, Maasland

• van der Worp, Schalkwijk, Utrecht, Nederland
• "François" Joseph Marie Emmanuel de Guignard de Saint-Priest (75), Saint-Saëns, Seine-Maritime, France
• Aart Sterkenburg (0), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Adrianus de Keijzer (18), Alblasserdam
• Alida Johanna Maria Meijer (0), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aleida Leferink (78), Veldhausen
• Anthonius Josephus Koelemij (0), Velsen
• Achile Benedict Meersschaut (24), Scheldewindeke
• Antje Jacobs Boivin (21), Drachten, Friesland, Netherlands
• Adrianus Cornelis Willemen (0), Gilze en Rijen

• 1887 » Emilio Lunghi, Italian runner († 1925)
• 1887 » S. Stillman Berry, American marine zoologist (1984)
• 1889 » Reggie Walker, South African athlete († 1951)
• 1892 » César Vallejo, Peruvian poet, playwright, and journalist († 1938)
• 1895 » Ernest Labrousse, French historian († 1988)
• 1897 » Antonio Donghi, Italian painter († 1963)
• 1897 » Conrad Nagel, American actor († 1970)
• 1900 » Cyril Hume, American novelist († 1966)
• 1900 » Mencha Karnicheva, Macedonian revolutionary and assassin († 1964)
• 1901 » Alexis Chantraine, Belgian footballer († 1987)

• 1884 » Art Croft, American baseball player (b. 1855)
• 1888 » Hippolyte Carnot, French politician (b. 1801)
• 1892 » Samuel F. Miller, American lawyer and politician (b. 1827)
• 1898 » Aubrey Beardsley, English author and illustrator (b. 1872)
• 1899 » Joseph Medill, American journalist and politician, 26th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1823)
• 1903 » Roy Bean, American lawyer and judge (b. 1825)
• 1907 » John O'Leary, Irish politician (b. 1830)
• 1912 » Max Burckhard, Austrian theater director (b. 1854)
• 1914 » Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss lawyer and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
• 1914 » Gaston Calmette, French journalist (b. 1858)

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.
• March 16 » Jules Massenet's opera Thaïs is first performed.
• July 25 » The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
• August 1 » The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
• August 22 » Mahatma Gandhi forms the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in order to fight discrimination against Indian traders in Natal.
• December 22 » The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.

The temperature on March 16, 1894 was about 4.3 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%.