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• Adolf Hendrik van Arnim, Boitzenburg, Brandenburg (Dld) († 1914)
• Alida Huisman, Vrijenban, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Schaap, Broek(FR) († 1972)
• Adriana Maria Blom, Haamstede, Zeeland, Nederland († 1957)
• Agie Price, Sartinville, Walthall County, Mississippi († 1959)
• Adriana Smetsers, Oirschot († 1989)
• Aaltje Klasen, Genemuiden (gem. Zwartewaterland) († 1935)
• Alphonsus Cornelius Van Riel, Achterbroek († 1985)
• Ake van der Vinne, Borger, Drenthe, Nederland († 1905)
• Adriana Lamberdina Kruijk, Monster, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1900)

• Abraham Regeer (0), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Ale Hotzes Schilstra (88), Heerenveen
• Antje Egberts Beenen (68), Oudeschoot, Schoterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Antoon Biegel (69), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands
• Hulsdouw (0), Utrecht
• Ale Hotses Schilstra (88), Heerenveen, Friesland, Netherlands
• Antje van Otigem (43), Amsterdam
• Albertje Draaisma (0), Franeker
• Anna Janssen (74), Fouron-Saint-Pierre, Luik (B)
• Albertus Hazelaar (0), Rotterdam

• 1892 » Adriaan Pelt, Dutch journalist and diplomat († 1981)
• 1893 » Edd Roush, American baseball player and coach († 1988)
• 1893 » Francis Ouimet, American golfer († 1967)
• 1893 » Teddy Wakelam, English rugby player and sportscaster († 1963)
• 1895 » Edmund Wilson, American critic, essayist, and editor († 1972)
• 1895 » Fulton J. Sheen, American archbishop († 1979)
• 1895 » James H. Kindelberger, American businessman († 1962)
• 1898 » Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal († 1960)
• 1899 » Arthur Q. Bryan, American actor, voice actor, comedian and radio personality († 1959)
• 1899 » Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate († 1992)

• 1853 » Jan Roothaan, Dutch priest, 21st Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1785)
• 1880 » Gustave Flaubert, French novelist (b. 1821)
• 1891 » Helena Blavatsky, Russian-English mystic and author (b. 1831)
• 1891 » John Robertson, English-Australian politician, 5th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1816)
• 1893 » Manuel González Flores, Mexican general and president, 1880–1884 (b. 1833)
• 1903 » Paul Gauguin, French painter and sculptor (b. 1848)
• 1907 » Edmund G. Ross, American soldier and politician, 13th Governor of New Mexico Territory (b. 1826)
• 1925 » John Beresford, Irish polo player (b. 1847)
• 1936 » Oswald Spengler, German historian and philosopher (b. 1880)
• 1941 » Natalie, queen consort of Serbia (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 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.
• April 14 » The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
• 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 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.

The temperature on May 8, 1894 was about 14.6 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%.