About the day » Sunday April 22, 1894Calender converter

• Adriaan Louwerse, Westkapelle, Walcheren, NL († 1967)
• Adriana van de Ven, Bakel en Milheeze
• Alta Fern Miller, Muscatine, Iowa († 1939)
• Agatha Liduina Ham, Schiedam
• (Stillborn) JOLMAN, Groningen Groningen Netherlands († 1894)
• Albert van Basten, De Bilt,, Utrecht, Nederland († 1894)
• Aaltje Baukesd Wink, Workum, fr.nld († 1894)
• Albert Dalmolen, Noordwijk, Marum,, Groningen, Nederland († 1969)
• Groeneweg, Numansdorp, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Hendrikus Krauwinkel, Schiedam († 1894)

• Katoen (0)
• Arend Ubels (39), Peize, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Aaltje Mulder (89), Holland, Ottawa, Michigan, United States
• Aaltje Man (47), Schellinkhout
• Antonius Franciscus Koerkamp (32), Raalte
• (Stillborn) JOLMAN (0), Groningen Groningen Netherlands
• Anthonij van Baarle (69), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Constantina DUVERGE (69), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Albert Kuipers (1), Odoornerveen, Odoorn
• Abraham Christiaan Nouris (0), Arnhem

• 1884 » Otto Rank, Austrian-American psychologist and academic († 1939)
• 1886 » Izidor Cankar, Slovenian historian, author, and diplomat († 1958)
• 1889 » Richard Glücks, German SS officer († 1945)
• 1891 » Harold Jeffreys, English mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer († 1989)
• 1891 » Laura Gilpin, American photographer († 1979)
• 1891 » Nicola Sacco, Italian-American anarchist († 1927)
• 1891 » Vittorio Jano, Italian engineer († 1965)
• 1892 » Vernon Johns, African-American minister and activist († 1965)
• 1899 » Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born novelist and critic († 1977)
• 1900 » Nellie Beer, British politician, Lord Mayor of Manchester from 1966–67 († 1988)

• 1871 » Martín Carrera, Mexican general and president (1855) (b. 1806)
• 1877 » James P. Kirkwood, Scottish-American engineer (b. 1807)
• 1892 » Édouard Lalo, French violinist and composer (b. 1823)
• 1893 » Chaim Aronson, Lithuanian businessman and author (b. 1825)
• 1894 » Kostas Krystallis, Greek author and poet (b. 1868)
• 1896 » Thomas Meik, English engineer, founded Halcrow Group (b. 1812)
• 1908 » Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Scottish-English merchant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1836)
• 1925 » André Caplet, French composer and conductor (b. 1878)
• 1929 » Henry Lerolle, French painter and art collector (b. 1848)
• 1932 » Ferenc Oslay, Hungarian-Slovene historian and author (b. 1883)

• 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 7 » Thomas Edison makes a kinetoscopic film of someone sneezing. On the same day, his employee, William Kennedy Dickson, receives a patent for motion picture film.
• February 7 » The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado, United States.
• March 16 » Jules Massenet's opera Thaïs is first performed.
• June 28 » Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
• July 25 » The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
• December 22 » The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.

The temperature on April 22, 1894 was about 11.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 71%.