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• Anje Everts, Noorderhoogebrug, Bedum († 1920)
• Adriana Maria Beernaert, Ingelmunster,8770,West-Vlaanderen,België († 1962)
• Andries Dragt, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland, Drenthe, Nederland († 1894)
• Alphonsus Antonius Verkooijen, Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg († 1963)
• Adriana Rullens, Oosterhout, Noord Brabant
• Albert Hoeve, Zunderdorp († 1969)
• Andries Dragt, Erica († 1894)
• Andries Jans Dragt, Erica († 1894)
• Cornelis Lieuwes Bekema, Westhem († 1985)
• Alida Pronk, Warmenhuizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1971)

• Anna Wilhelmina Petronella Daniels (0), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aloys Carnier (40), Aartrijke
• Aaldert van Nuijssenborgh (4), Beusichem (Buren) (GL)
• Adrianus Kalkman (0), Brielle
• Arend de Vries (62)
• arie TROMPETTER (80), dubbeldam
• Berendina Koenderink (31), Woolde, gemeente Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aaltje Wapstra (1), Vledder, Vledderveen {veld}
• Arij Trompetter (81), ,, Dubbeldam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bernardus Koks (0), Monster

• 1891 » Sergei Prokofiev, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor († 1953)
• 1893 » Allen Sothoron, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1939)
• 1893 » Draža Mihailović, Serbian general († 1946)
• 1894 » George Petty, American painter and illustrator († 1975)
• 1894 » Nicolas Slonimsky, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor († 1995)
• 1896 » Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1963)
• 1896 » Wallace Carothers, American chemist and inventor of nylon († 1937)
• 1896 » William Hudson, New Zealand-Australian engineer († 1978)
• 1898 » Ludwig Bemelmans, Italian-American author and illustrator († 1962)
• 1899 » Walter Lantz, American animator, producer, screenwriter, and actor († 1994)

• 1873 » William Macready, English actor and manager (b. 1793)
• 1882 » Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet and philosopher (b. 1803)
• 1893 » John Ballance, Irish-born New Zealand journalist and politician, 14th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1839)
• 1896 » Henry Parkes, English-Australian businessman and politician, 7th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1815)
• 1915 » Alexander Scriabin, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1872)
• 1915 » John Labatt, Canadian businessman (b. 1838)
• 1932 » Hart Crane, American poet (b. 1899)
• 1936 » Karl Pearson, English mathematician and academic (b. 1857)
• 1937 » Antonio Gramsci, Italian sociologist, linguist, and politician (b. 1891)
• 1938 » Edmund Husserl, Czech mathematician and philosopher (b. 1859)

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.
• 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.
• June 23 » The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
• August 1 » The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
• August 25 » Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
• November 1 » Nicholas II becomes the new (and last) Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.

The temperature on April 27, 1894 was about 11.9 °C. There was 13 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%.