About the day » Thursday July 12, 1894Calender converter

• Aagje van den Dool, Benthuizen
• Jonker, Katwijk aan Zee, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Thomasdr van der Meer, Rozenburg
• Aagje van den Dool, Benthuizen, Rijnwoude, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1978)
• Anna Lena Winter, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 1973)
• Alidor Segaert, Zedelgem († 1895)
• - Das, Eexterveensche Kanaal, Anloo († 1894)
• Anna Kampman, Coevorden,Drenthe,Niederlande
• Agatha Krapfl († 1976)
• Albert John Joseph Vandermarliere, Houthem (Henegouwen) België-Belgium († 1918)

• Aagchien Jans Bleker (83), Stedum (Groningen)
• Annegien Nijboer (59), Vetstukken (Odoorn)
• - Das (0), Eexterveensche Kanaal, Anloo
• Augustus Constantinus DESPOOT DESPOT (12), WULPEN
• Anna Maria Hubertina Winckers (69), Maastricht
• Caroline Anne Marie de Fierlant (66)
• Adriaan Joosten (48), Hogendijk
• Albert Sikkema (0), Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Carolina Bonhomme (68)
• Carel Francies de Rooze (77), Oostburg

• 1884 » Louis B. Mayer, Russian-born American film producer, co-founded Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer († 1957)
• 1886 » Jean Hersholt, Danish-American actor and director († 1956)
• 1892 » Bruno Schulz, Ukrainian-Polish author and painter († 1942)
• 1895 » Buckminster Fuller, American architect and engineer, designed the Montreal Biosphère († 1983)
• 1895 » Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian soprano († 1962)
• 1895 » Oscar Hammerstein II, American director, producer, and songwriter († 1960)
• 1899 » E.D. Nixon, American civil rights leader († 1987)
• 1902 » Günther Anders, German philosopher and journalist († 1992)
• 1902 » Tony Lovink, Dutch politician; Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies († 1995)
• 1902 » Vic Armbruster, Australian rugby league player († 1984)

• 1855 » Pavel Nakhimov, Russian admiral (b. 1802)
• 1870 » John A. Dahlgren, American admiral (b. 1809)
• 1892 » Alexander Cartwright, American firefighter, invented baseball (b. 1820)
• 1910 » Charles Rolls, English engineer and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited (b. 1887)
• 1926 » Charles Wood Irish composer (b. 1866)
• 1926 » Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist and spy (b. 1868)
• 1929 » Robert Henri, American painter and educator (b. 1865)
• 1931 » Nathan Söderblom, Swedish archbishop, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
• 1934 » Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American inventor and businessman, invented the outboard motor (b. 1877)
• 1935 » Alfred Dreyfus, French colonel (b. 1859)

• 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.
• February 7 » The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado, United States.
• April 21 » Norway formally adopts the Krag–Jørgensen bolt-action rifle as the main arm of its armed forces, a weapon that would remain in service for almost 50 years.
• June 23 » The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
• September 1 » Over 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.
• November 1 » Nicholas II becomes the new (and last) Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.

The temperature on July 12, 1894 was about 14.8 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%.