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• Adrianus Franciscus Jacobus van der Kraan, Schiedam († 1969)
• Adolphine Maria KROEF, Ned. Oost-Indië († 1927)
• Aagje VERHAGE Jdr, Ouddorp, Goeree-Overflakkee, NL-ZH († 1945)
• Anna Been, Havelte
• Anna Hendrika De MARS, Rotterdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana van Vossen, Stavenisse, Zeeland, Nederland
• Anna Loosveld, Maastricht, Limburg, The Netherlands
• Albert B. WITTE, Wever,Iowa († 1980)
• Alice M. Froebe, Pekin, Tazewell County, Illinois
• Aleida Theodora Kistemaker, Hengelo, Gelderland, Nederland

• Aagje den Hertoch Hartog (89), Hazerswoude
• Servaas (0), Colijnsplaat
• Auguste Maurice PRIVE (0), Papignies, 55031, Hainaut, Belgique
• Adriaan Karman (0), Kats
• Catharina Offermans (3), Kerkrade
• Adriana Maria Elisabeth Francisca van Valkenburg (28), Zoeterwoude,3282, Zoeterwoude, Zuid-Holland, Nederland, zij was toen 28 jaar oud
• Antonia Adriaanse (72), Middelburg, Zeeland, NL
• Adrianus van Wordragen (90), Ammerzoden, Gelderland, Nederland
• Carney Gray Turrentine [|||] (1), Chatham County, North Carolina ac
• Anna Maria Hotters (69), Gruitrode, Provincie Limburg, België

• 1885 » Gianni Vella, Maltese artist († 1977)
• 1888 » Francesco Baracca, Italian fighter pilot († 1918)
• 1888 » Rolf de Maré, Swedish art collector († 1964)
• 1892 » Zita of Bourbon-Parma, last Empress of the Austro-Hungarian Empire († 1989)
• 1893 » William Moulton Marston, American psychologist and author († 1947)
• 1895 » Frank Foss, American pole vaulter († 1989)
• 1895 » Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher († 1961)
• 1895 » Richard Barthelmess, American actor († 1963)
• 1896 » Richard Day, Canadian-American art director and set decorator († 1972)
• 1900 » Maria Malicka, Polish stage and film actress († 1992)

• 1861 » Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philologist and politician (b. 1805)
• 1864 » John Sedgwick, American general and educator (b. 1813)
• 1889 » William S. Harney, American general (b. 1800)
• 1906 » Oscar von Gebhardt, German theologian and academic (b. 1844)
• 1914 » C. W. Post, American businessman, founded Post Foods (b. 1854)
• 1915 » Anthony Wilding, New Zealand tennis player and cricketer (b. 1883)
• 1915 » François Faber, Luxembourgian-French cyclist and soldier (b. 1887)
• 1918 » George Coșbuc, Romanian journalist and poet (b. 1866)
• 1931 » Albert Abraham Michelson, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1933 » John Arthur Jarvis, English swimmer (b. 1872)

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.
• March 25 » Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C.
• 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 24 » Marie François Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
• June 28 » Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
• September 1 » Over 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.
• December 22 » The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.

The temperature on May 9, 1894 was about 13.1 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 66%.