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• Adriana Johanna Maria de Jongh, Steenbergen,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1976)
• Margje Knol, Meppel († 1947)
• Abraham Van Veenendaal, Amerongen, Utrecht, Nederland († 1975)
• Aalbert van Sprakelaar, Zeist,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Andries Simon Hoeks, Stompwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1953)
• Spreen, Exloërmond († 1894)
• Aaltje Johanna Verheul, Utrecht († 1921)
• Alida Wilhelmina Lakens, Rotterdam, Nederland
• Abraham van Venendaal, Amerongen, Gemeente Utrechtse Heuvelrug
• Adrianus Hendrksz Schouten, Leiden

• Aleida van Heek (81), Beek / Ubbergen
• (Stillbirth) DE JONG (0), Pieterzijl, Grijpskerk
• Catrina Landmeeter (69), Dordrecht
• Catherine Forrest ** (55), Nicholas, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
• Aleida van Heek (81), Ubbergen, Nederland
• (Stillborn) DE JONG (0), Pieterzijl (Grijpskerk) Groningen Netherlands
• Antje van der Vlugt (76), Ter aar
• Spreen (0), Exloërmond
• Aaltje Van Den Hof (30), Fort (Zuidwolde)
• Albert Keizer (24), Dwingeloo, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1888 » Louis Durey, French composer († 1979)
• 1891 » Claude Champagne, Canadian violinist, pianist, and composer († 1965)
• 1891 » Jaan Kärner, Estonian poet and author († 1958)
• 1894 » Dashiell Hammett, American detective novelist and screenwriter († 1961)
• 1894 » Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French physician and author († 1961)
• 1895 » Douglas Lloyd Campbell, Canadian educator and politician, 13th Premier of Manitoba († 1995)
• 1897 » Dink Templeton, American rugby player and coach († 1962)
• 1897 » John Cockcroft, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1967)
• 1898 » David Crosthwait, American engineer, inventor and writer († 1976)
• 1899 » Johannes Türn, Estonian chess and draughts player († 1993)

• 1867 » Thomas Bulfinch American mythologist (b. 1796)
• 1896 » Aleksandr Stoletov, Russian physicist, engineer, and academic (b. 1839)
• 1910 » Robert Koch, German physician and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
• 1918 » Ōzutsu Man'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 18th Yokozuna (b. 1869)
• 1919 » Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Indian author and activist (b. 1848)
• 1933 » Achille Paroche, French target shooter (b. 1868)
• 1939 » Joseph Roth, Austrian-French journalist and author (b. 1894)
• 1941 » Ernst Lindemann, German captain (b. 1894)
• 1941 » Günther Lütjens, German admiral (b. 1889)
• 1942 » Muhammed Hamdi Yazır, Turkish theologian, logician, and translator (b. 1878)

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.
• May 11 » Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike.
• May 21 » The Manchester Ship Canal in the United Kingdom is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.
• June 28 » Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
• September 15 » First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats Qing dynasty China in the Battle of Pyongyang.

The temperature on May 27, 1894 was about 11.3 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%.