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• aart de leeuw, Hagestein
• Adriana Reine, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Wilhelmina ZIMMER, Jakarta († 1945)
• Aaltje Gortworst, Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland († 1918)
• Aaltje Egberts Brouwer, Urk, Nederland († 1972)
• Aaltje Guyt Guijt, Volendam († 1946)
• Adriaan Cornelis van Brakel, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Aaltje Brouwer († 1972)
• Alice Frances Fearon Conlon, Castle Hill, Gilford, Banbridge, Co. Down, N. Ireland
• Adrianus Anthonius van Velzen, Oegstgeest

• Antonius Maria Vloedgraven (2), Raalte
• Agatha de Winter (65), Lisse, Lisse, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anthonia van Arkel (0), Utrecht
• Anthonia HEUDE (53), Dordrecht
• Adrianus Johannes Jacobus (Max) Dekker (8), gouda
• Adriana Johanna Wagenaar (35), Amsterdam
• Adrianus van Steen (55), Poppel
• Anthonius Smit, Rotterdam
• Anna maria HERREMANS (87), Woluwe St.Pierre
• August Wilhelm Johan Gossow (37), Ponorogo, Jakarta Raya (Djakarta Raya), Indonesië

• 1885 » DuBose Heyward, American author and playwright († 1940)
• 1890 » August Alle, Estonian poet and author († 1952)
• 1893 » Lily Laskine, French harp player († 1988)
• 1894 » Albert Facey, Australian soldier and author († 1982)
• 1896 » Brian Edmund Baker, English Air Marshal († 1979)
• 1896 » Félix-Antoine Savard, Canadian priest and author († 1982)
• 1897 » Fredric March, American lieutenant, actor, and singer († 1975)
• 1900 » Gino Lucetti, Italian anarchist, attempted assassin of Benito Mussolini († 1943)
• 1902 » Géza Révész, Hungarian general and politician, Hungarian Minister of Defence († 1977)
• 1903 » Arthur Godfrey, American radio and television host († 1983)

• 1867 » Charles Baudelaire, French poet and critic (b. 1821)
• 1869 » Mary Ward, Irish astronomer and entomologist (b. 1827)
• 1884 » Robert Torrens, Irish-Australian politician, 3rd Premier of South Australia (b. 1814)
• 1908 » Leslie Green, English architect (b. 1875)
• 1910 » Emīls Dārziņš, Latvian composer, conductor, and music critic (b. 1875)
• 1912 » Jean, duc Decazes, French sailor (b. 1864)
• 1920 » Wilhelm Wundt, German physician, psychologist, and philosopher (b. 1832)
• 1924 » Todor Aleksandrov, Bulgarian soldier (b. 1881)
• 1927 » Andranik, Armenian general (b. 1865)
• 1937 » Ruth Baldwin, British socialite (b. 1905)

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 9 » New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
• April 14 » The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
• 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.
• November 17 » H. H. Holmes, one of the first modern serial killers, is arrested in Boston, Massachusetts.
• December 22 » The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.

The temperature on August 31, 1894 was about 15.7 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%.