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• Aaltje van Noord, Oostzaan wijk A nr. 80b zuideinde
• Aalt Hop, Uddel (Apeldoorn) († 1983)
• Anna Cornelia van den Boom, Bergen op Zoom
• anna elisabeth meijer, amsterdam († 1894)
• Agnes Heilig, Sherman Twp., Huron Cty., Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 1991)
• Adolf James Anderegg, Meiringen, Meiringen, Bern, Switzerland († 1961)
• abraham HAZEJAGER, mijnsheerenland
• Adriaantje van der Linden, Ridderkerk, Nederland
• Adriana Bolier, Scherpenisse, Zeeland, Nederland
• Hofman, Sliedrecht († 1894)

• Achille Maximilien Marie Aerts (30), Mechelen, België
• Cornelia Geertrui Rappoldt (86), Rotterdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Tolenaars (0), Zevenbergen, Moerdijk, Noord Brabant, The Netherlands
• Adriana Stevens (90), Halsteren
• Anna Maria Gesina Veenker (2), Nieuw-Schoonebeek
• : Hendrik Rouwen (53), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Bernardus Hendrik Marissink (79), Epe
• Adriaan van der Mussele (69), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Berend van der Laan (60), Musselkanaal
• Benjamin HANGELBROEK (17), Appingedam Groningen Netherlands

• 1887 » Eddie Collins, American baseball player and manager († 1951)
• 1887 » Vernon Castle, English-American dancer († 1918)
• 1889 » Ki Hajar Dewantara, Indonesian philosopher, academic, and politician († 1959)
• 1890 » E. E. Smith, American engineer and author († 1965)
• 1892 » Manfred von Richthofen, German captain and pilot († 1918)
• 1894 » Joseph Henry Woodger, English biologist, philosopher, and academic († 1981)
• 1894 » Norma Talmadge, leading US actress of the silent era († 1957)
• 1895 » Lorenz Hart, American playwright and lyricist († 1943)
• 1897 » John Frederick Coots, American songwriter († 1985)
• 1898 » Henry Hall, English bandleader, composer, and actor († 1989)

• 1864 » Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer and educator (b. 1791)
• 1880 » Eberhard Anheuser, German-American businessman, co-founded Anheuser-Busch (b. 1805)
• 1880 » Tom Wills, Australian cricketer, co-created Australian rules football (b. 1835)
• 1885 » Terézia Zakoucs, Hungarian-Slovene author (b. 1817)
• 1915 » Clara Immerwahr, German chemist (b. 1870)
• 1918 » Jüri Vilms, Estonian lawyer and politician (b. 1889)
• 1925 » Antun Branko Šimić, Croatian and Bosnian-Herzegovinian poet (b. 1898)
• 1925 » Johann Palisa, Austrian astronomer (b. 1848)
• 1927 » Ernest Starling, English physiologist and academic (b. 1866)
• 1929 » Charalambos Tseroulis, Greek general and politician, Greek Minister for Military Affairs (b. 1879)

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.
• March 22 » The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
• 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.
• July 22 » The first ever motor race is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen. The fastest finisher was the Comte Jules-Albert de Dion, but the 'official' victory was awarded to Albert Lemaître driving his 3hp petrol engined Peugeot.
• 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 May 2, 1894 was about 10.9 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%.