About the day » Friday July 20, 1894Calender converter

• Adriaan Gerrit Kloet, Zierikzee
• Adrianus Hendrikus Vloemans, Utrecht († 1904)
• Adrianus Petrus Suijker, ,, Overschie, Nederland († 1974)
• Adrianus Hendrikus Vloemans, Utrecht († 1904)
• Alphonsus Kuunders, Deurne († 1896)
• * Godefridus Wilhelmus Robben, Tilburg († 1987)
• Adriaan Gerrit Kloet, Zierikzee (ZLD) († 1972)
• Anna Essers († 1958)
• Aldert Jacobs van der Werk, Birdaard
• Abel Alfredo Morales, Zapopan, Jalisco, México († 1984)

• Caroline Dorothy Gettens (58), Parramatta, NSW, Australia
• Barbera Cecilia Datema (7), Haarlemmermeer
• Adrianus Venings (0), Heemstede
• Annigje Hanzes Wijngaarden (75), Lemmer
• AAFJE VAN DEN BERG (61), OVERSCHIE
• Adriaan van Santvoord (67), Tilburg,Noord-Brabant,Nederland
• Adriana Kooreman (68), Zonnemaire
• Aaltje Jacobsz de Beurs (61)
• de Vreugd, Katwijk
• Alida Holswilders (82), Zuidbroek, Groningen, Nederland

• 1889 » John Reith, 1st Baron Reith, Scottish broadcaster, co-founded BBC († 1971)
• 1890 » Giorgio Morandi, Italian painter († 1964)
• 1890 » Julie Vinter Hansen, Danish-Swiss astronomer and academic († 1960)
• 1890 » Verna Felton, American actress († 1966)
• 1893 » George Llewelyn Davies, English soldier († 1915)
• 1895 » László Moholy-Nagy, Hungarian painter, photographer, and sculptor († 1946)
• 1897 » Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1996)
• 1900 » Maurice Leyland, English cricketer and coach († 1967)
• 1901 » Eugenio Lopez Sr., Filipino businessman and founder of the Lopez Group of Companies († 1975)
• 1901 » Vehbi Koç, Turkish businessman and philanthropist, founded Koç Holding († 1996)

• 1866 » Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician and academic (b. 1826)
• 1897 » Jean Ingelow, English poet and author (b. 1820)
• 1901 » William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (b. 1840)
• 1903 » Leo XIII, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1810)
• 1908 » Demetrius Vikelas, Greek businessman and author (b. 1835)
• 1908 » Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz, German geophysicist and seismologist (b. 1881)
• 1910 » Anderson Dawson, Australian politician, 14th Premier of Queensland (b. 1863)
• 1922 » Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1856)
• 1923 » Pancho Villa, Mexican general and politician, Governor of Chihuahua (b. 1878)
• 1926 » Felix Dzerzhinsky, Russian educator and politician (b. 1877)

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.
• February 7 » The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado, United States.
• June 24 » Marie François Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
• August 22 » Mahatma Gandhi forms the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in order to fight discrimination against Indian traders in Natal.
• November 1 » Nicholas II becomes the new (and last) Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
• November 17 » H. H. Holmes, one of the first modern serial killers, is arrested in Boston, Massachusetts.

The temperature on July 20, 1894 was about 16.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%.