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• Albert Christ, Odoornerveen, Nederland († 1945)
• Alberdina Cremer, Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andreas Hendricus Zijlmans, Raamsdonk († 1967)
• Anna Komkommer († 1943)
• Albertus van Dijk, Driebergen, Utrecht, NL
• Abraham Kruis, Rotterdam
• Adrianus Cornelis Smolders, Hilvarenbeek, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1979)
• Albertus Arends, Steenwijksmoer, Coevorden († 1974)
• Addie Terrece Tennant Cathcart [SionPBu], South Carolina († 1950)
• Alieda DE WILDE, Amersfoort († 1895)

• Aron Rodrigues Pereira (51), Baarn, Utrecht, NETHERLANDS
• Dirk Sjoerds Vellinga (76)
• Aalbert Hoogendoorn (78), Ijsselstein (Utrecht)
• Anna Maria Vergouwen (0), Oudenbosch
• Derkje Bosch (49), Lenthe (Dalfsen), Ov, The Netherlands
• Albert Frederick Bicking (84), Chester County, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Augustine Stassart (74), Charleroi, Hainaut, Belgique
• Amelie Sophie Pieters (78), Langemark,West-Vlaanderen,België
• Derk Bongers (82), Randwijk (GL)
• Cornelis Molenaar (3), Volendam

• 1879 » Johannes Kotze, South African cricketer († 1931)
• 1884 » Billie Burke, American actress and singer († 1970)
• 1884 » Nikolai Triik, Estonian painter and illustrator († 1940)
• 1887 » Anna Elisabet Weirauch, German author and playwright († 1970)
• 1890 » Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, American author and activist († 1964)
• 1901 » Ann Harding, American actress and singer († 1981)
• 1903 » Louis Leakey, Kenyan-English palaeontologist and archaeologist († 1972)
• 1904 » Ralph Bunche, American political scientist, academic, and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate († 1971)
• 1907 » Albert Kotin, Belarusian-American soldier and painter († 1980)
• 1910 » Freddie Slack, American pianist and bandleader († 1965)

• 1848 » Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Swedish chemist and academic (b. 1779)
• 1855 » Mariano Arista, Mexican general and politician, 19th President of Mexico (b. 1802)
• 1864 » Li Xiucheng, Chinese field marshal (b. 1823)
• 1893 » Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer and academic (b. 1854)
• 1899 » Jacob Maris, Dutch painter and educator (b. 1837)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Liebknecht, German lawyer and politician (b. 1826)
• 1912 » François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss limnologist and academic (b. 1841)
• 1917 » Edwin Harris Dunning, South African-English commander and pilot (b. 1891)
• 1938 » Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian actor and director (b. 1863)
• 1941 » Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)

• 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.
• March 16 » Jules Massenet's opera Thaïs is first performed.
• March 25 » Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C.
• 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.
• 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.
• August 25 » Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.

The temperature on August 7, 1894 was about 16.5 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%.