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• Sassen, Slagharen, Hardenberg († 1894)
• Adrianus Johannes van der Ploeg, Breda
• Aldert POST, Warffum Groningen Netherlands († 1974)
• Alva Lawrence Morgan [Ks], Sanford, Conejos County, Colorado († 1965)
• Agatha Elisabeth Stapenhorst, Harkstede, Nederland († 1988)
• Anna Keijzer, Edam Volendam (Nederland)
• Schweitzer, Beverwijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1894)
• Adrianus van der Wekke, Sommelsdijk
• alberdina kroezen, ruinen († 1922)
• Alida Jacoba van Haaster, Noordwijkerhout († 1985)

• (0), Oudewater
• Andries Brink (31), Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Maria Jaegers (0), Heerlen, Niederlande
• Adriana Johanna de Kok (83), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Alida Ruijsch (26), Woudrichem, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
• abraham LODDER (29), ridderkerk
• "kind van" Borgart (0), Velsen
• Aart Kleijer (36), Zeumeren, gem. Barneveld
• Schweitzer (0), Beverwijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham Jacobsz Lodder (29), Ridderkerk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1888 » Herms Niel, German soldier, trombonist, and composer († 1954)
• 1891 » George Adamski, Polish-American ufologist and author († 1965)
• 1895 » Robert Dean Frisbie, American soldier and author († 1948)
• 1896 » Señor Wences, Spanish-American ventriloquist († 1999)
• 1897 » Edouard Wyss-Dunant, Swiss physician and mountaineer († 1983)
• 1897 » Nisargadatta Maharaj, Indian philosopher and educator († 1981)
• 1897 » Thornton Wilder, American novelist and playwright († 1975)
• 1899 » Aleksander Klumberg, Estonian decathlete and coach († 1958)
• 1903 » Gregor Piatigorsky, Ukrainian-American cellist and educator († 1976)
• 1903 » Nicolas Nabokov, Russian-American composer and educator († 1978)

• 1882 » George Jennings, English engineer and plumber, invented the Flush toilet (b. 1810)
• 1888 » E. G. Squier, American archaeologist and journalist (b. 1821)
• 1892 » Alexander Mackenzie, Scottish-Canadian journalist and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1822)
• 1921 » Manwel Dimech, Maltese journalist, author, and philosopher (b. 1860)
• 1923 » Laurence Ginnell, Irish lawyer and politician (b. 1852)
• 1930 » Alexander Golovin, Russian painter and stage designer (b. 1863)
• 1933 » Kote Marjanishvili, Georgian director and playwright (b. 1872)
• 1936 » Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck, Dutch lawyer and politician, 28th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1873)
• 1942 » Jean Baptiste Perrin, French-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
• 1944 » J. T. Hearne, English cricketer and coach (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 16 » Jules Massenet's opera Thaïs is first performed.
• April 14 » The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
• June 23 » The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
• June 28 » Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
• November 1 » Buffalo Bill, 15 of his Indians, and Annie Oakley were filmed by Thomas Edison in his Black Maria Studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
• December 22 » The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.

The temperature on April 17, 1894 was about 10.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%.