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• Adrianus Bartholomeus Heesbeen, Rotterdam
• Adriana Petronella de Vries, Princenhage († 1918)
• Backs, Hebelermeer, Twist, Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany († 1894)
• Adrianus Ariensz Middelkoop, Utrecht, ut.nld († 1926)
• Alphonse Jaen Baptiste Marischael, Roubaix († 1959)
• Alphonse Jaen Baptiste Marischael, Roubaix († 1959)
• Afiena Annechiena Koetse, Wildervank, Groningen, Nederland († 1895)
• Alphonsine (Sientje) Beem, Anderlecht, Belgium († 1974)
• Adriaan van der Giessen, Rozenburg, 3181, Nederland
• Afiena Annechiena Koetse, Wildervanksterdallen, Groningen, Nederland († 1895)

• (0), Middelburg, Zeeland, Nederland
• Arie Strijbis (0), Broek op Langedijk
• Aaltje Dirks de Boer (75), Schiermonnikoog, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Steensels (73), Wijchmaal, 3990, Limburg, B
• Anna Catharina Van Der Vleet (77), Borgerhout, 2140, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Anthonie Bruggeling (74), ,, Monster, Nederland
• Antonius van den Bosch, Vught, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Rosalia Smissaert (33), Oostende
• Aaltje de Boer (75), Schiermonnikoog
• Berendina van Eekeren (59), Zevenaar, Nederland

• 1887 » John Anthony Sydney Ritson, English rugby player, mines inspector, engineer and professor of mining († 1957)
• 1890 » Walther Funk, German economist and politician, Reich Minister of Economics († 1960)
• 1893 » Burleigh Grimes, American baseball player and manager († 1985)
• 1893 » Ernest MacMillan, Canadian conductor and composer († 1973)
• 1896 » Jack Pickford, Canadian-American actor and director († 1933)
• 1898 » Clemente Biondetti, Italian race car driver († 1955)
• 1900 » Ruth Bonner, Soviet Communist activist, sentenced to a labor camp during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge († 1987)
• 1900 » Ruth Norman, American religious leader († 1993)
• 1902 » Adamson-Eric, Estonian painter († 1968)
• 1902 » Margaret Murie, American environmentalist and author († 2003)

• 1842 » Louis de Freycinet, French explorer and navigator (b. 1779)
• 1850 » Honoré de Balzac, French novelist and playwright (b. 1799)
• 1886 » Eli Whitney Blake, American inventor, invented the Mortise lock (b. 1795)
• 1919 » Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian businessman and politician, founded the Seagram Company (b. 1841)
• 1940 » Walter Chrysler, American businessman, founded Chrysler (b. 1875)
• 1943 » Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Azerbaijani general (b. 1865)
• 1944 » Ernst Thälmann, German soldier and politician (b. 1886)
• 1945 » Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian activist and politician (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Paul Mares, American trumpet player and bandleader (New Orleans Rhythm Kings) (b. 1900)
• 1950 » Julien Lahaut, Belgian soldier and politician (b. 1884)

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.
• June 28 » Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
• July 4 » The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
• July 22 » The first ever motor race is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen. The fastest finisher was the Comte Jules-Albert de Dion, but the 'official' victory was awarded to Albert Lemaître driving his 3hp petrol engined Peugeot.
• July 25 » The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
• November 17 » H. H. Holmes, one of the first modern serial killers, is arrested in Boston, Massachusetts.
• November 21 » Port Arthur, China, falls to the Japanese, a decisive victory of the First Sino-Japanese War; Japanese troops are accused of massacring the remaining inhabitants.

The temperature on August 18, 1894 was about 13.4 °C. There was 17 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%.