About the day » Thursday May 17, 1894Calender converter

• Albertus Dankhof, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1961)
• Aleida Joanna Jansen, Elst,, Gelderland, Nederland († 1935)
• Adrianus Castermans, Zutphen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1960)
• Alida de Bruijn, Heusden
• Addie Bunch, Mississippi († 1988)
• Albert Grooten, Weerdingermarke (Emmen) († 1969)
• Aalt Volkers, Meppel, Drenthe, Nederland Nederland († 1970)
• Albert HUIJING, Aalden (Zweeloo), Drenthe, Nederland († 1925)
• Adriana Louise RIBBIUS PELETIER, Utrecht (Utrecht, The Netherlands) († 1961)
• Alexander Henry Louis HARDINGE, London England U.K († 1960)

• Augustin Joseph Henri Ducatez (72), Roubaix, 59512, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
• Aart Kleijer (36), Barneveld
• Antonia van Rijswijk (56), Berkel-Enschot
• Albert Gustaaf George Peltzer (64), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bartruida van Zijp (74), Hilversum,Gemeente Hilversum,North Holland,Netherlands
• Appollonie Meuricij (89), Stoppeldijk, Zeeland, Nederland
• Abram VanAkkeren (19)
• * Johanna Laheij (66), Hurwenen
• Anna Maria van de Laak (49), Haaren, Nbr. Nederland
• Adriana van der Klooster (24), Ouddorp, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1888 » Tich Freeman, English cricketer († 1965)
• 1889 » Alfonso Reyes, Mexican author († 1959)
• 1889 » Dorothy Gibson, American actress and singer († 1946)
• 1891 » Napoleon Zervas, Greek general and politician († 1957)
• 1893 » Frederick McKinley Jones, American inventor and entrepreneur († 1961)
• 1895 » Reinhold Saulmann, Estonian sprinter and bandy player († 1936)
• 1895 » Saul Adler, Belarusian-English captain and parasitologist († 1966)
• 1897 » Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1981)
• 1898 » A. J. Casson, Canadian painter († 1992)
• 1899 » Carmen de Icaza, Spanish writer († 1979)

• 1875 » John C. Breckinridge, American lawyer and politician, 14th Vice President of the United States, Confederate States general (b. 1821)
• 1879 » Asa Packer, American businessman, founded Lehigh University (b. 1805)
• 1880 » Ziya Pasha, Greek author and translator (b. 1826)
• 1886 » John Deere, American blacksmith and businessman, founded the Deere & Company (b. 1804)
• 1888 » Giacomo Zanella, Italian priest and poet (b. 1820)
• 1911 » Frederick August Otto Schwarz, German-American businessman, founded FAO Schwarz (b. 1836)
• 1916 » Boris Borisovich Golitsyn, Russian physicist and seismologist (b. 1862)
• 1917 » Charles Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak (b. 1829)
• 1917 » Clara Ayres, American nurse (b. 1880)
• 1919 » Guido von List, Austrian-German journalist, author, and poet (b. 1848)

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 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.
• January 9 » New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
• 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.
• 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.

The temperature on May 17, 1894 was about 23.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 51%.