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• Aaldert Hoekstein, Steenwijkerwold
• Alice Frances Dismuke, Dauphin Island, Mobile County, Alabama († 1974)
• Adrianus Sala, Middelharnis, ZL, Nederland († 1973)
• Adriana Wilhelmina Koenekoop, Monster († 1993)
• Albert Molnár, Furta, Hajdu-Bihar
• Anna Maria Santen, Lathen, Emsland
• Adriana Victorine van Trojen, Amsterdam († 1989)
• Anna Maria Elzakkers 1, Bergen op Zoom, Noord brabant, Nederland
• - Das, Eexterveensche Kanaal (Anloo) († 1894)
• Adrianus Petrus den Hollander, Voorschoten, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1895)

• - Das (0), Eexterveensche Kanaal (Anloo)
• andries VERSCHOOR (64), zuid-beijerland
• Carolina Maria Anna De Fierlant (66), Turnhout, België
• Alida Maria van Doren (4), Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Maria Homan (0), Nibbixwoud, Medemblik, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aachien Jans Bleeker (83), Stedum
• Anna Maria Renaers (44)
• Catharina Pakvis (9), Monster, 2681, Nederland
• Albert Eding (68), Drouwen (Borger)
• Das (0), Anloo, Drenthe, Netherlands

• 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)

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.
• February 7 » The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado, United States.
• February 12 » Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into the Cafe Terminus in Paris, killing one person and wounding 20.
• March 16 » Jules Massenet's opera Thaïs is first performed.
• March 22 » The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
• March 25 » Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C.
• May 11 » Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike.

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