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• Aaltje van de Kreeke, Wolphaartsdijk, Nederland († 1982)
• Adrianus Klein Hesselink, Overschie († 1895)
• Anna Maria Verhage, Veur (Leidschendam), Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Adam Laurens Neijnens, Valkenswaard
• Anna Catharina Heeren (Geboren als kempeneers), Velm, België († 1896)
• Adolph Carl von Schell, Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland († 1945)
• Adolph Carl Von Schell, Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland († 1945)
• Aleida Kerkhof, Joure, Haskerland
• Anna Maria Catharina Hauben, Meerssen
• Adrien Silly, Molitard, Eure-et-Loir, France († 1980)

• Antonie Jacob de Jong (60), Laren
• Abigail Ward Harding (92)
• Catharina Johanna Gras (2), Dedemsvaart
• Arie van Rheenen (74), Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Antonie Jacobus de Jong (60), Laren, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia Aernouts (60), Brecht
• Aaltje Wielink (14), IJsselmuiden, Overijssel, Nederland
• Amelia Antonia Francisca Wackenier (64), Langemark
• Aaltje Wielink (14), IJsselmuiden, Overijssel, Nederland
• Carolus Ludovicus CASTELEIN (69), Hastings Township (USA)

• 1886 » Dong Biwu, Chinese judge and politician, Chairman of the People's Republic of China († 1975)
• 1886 » Freddie Welsh, Welsh boxer († 1927)
• 1887 » Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian guitarist and composer († 1959)
• 1894 » Henry Daniell, English-American actor († 1963)
• 1898 » Misao Okawa, Japanese super-centenarian († 2015)
• 1898 » Zhou Enlai, Chinese politician, 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China († 1976)
• 1900 » Johanna Langefeld, German guard and supervisor of three Nazi concentration camps († 1974)
• 1900 » Lilli Jahn, Jewish German doctor († 1944)
• 1901 » Friedrich Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg († 1971)
• 1901 » Julian Przyboś, Polish poet, essayist and translator († 1970)

• 1876 » Marie d'Agoult, German-French historian and author (b. 1805)
• 1893 » Hippolyte Taine, French historian and critic (b. 1828)
• 1895 » Nikolai Leskov, Russian author, playwright, and journalist (b. 1831)
• 1895 » Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, English general and scholar (b. 1810)
• 1907 » Friedrich Blass, German philologist, scholar, and academic (b. 1843)
• 1925 » Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician and engineer (b. 1859)
• 1927 » Franz Mertens, Polish-Austrian mathematician and academic (b. 1840)
• 1929 » David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-American businessman, founded Buick (b. 1854)
• 1934 » Reşit Galip, Turkish academic and politician, 6th Turkish Minister of National Education (b. 1893)
• 1935 » Roque Ruaño, Spanish priest and engineer (b. 1877)

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. Geertruida
15. Trijntje
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 22 » The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
• April 21 » Norway formally adopts the Krag–Jørgensen bolt-action rifle as the main arm of its armed forces, a weapon that would remain in service for almost 50 years.
• May 11 » Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike.
• 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 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.

The temperature on March 5, 1894 was about 4.5 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%.