About the day » Wednesday August 8, 1894Calender converter

• Agnes Maessen, Echt († 1894)
• Albert Mulder, Den Ham, Overijssel, Nederland († 1905)
• Adriana Petronella Prins, 's-Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Dirk de jong, Wonseradeel
• Anne-Marie Guillaumet († 1958)
• Schräder, Schoonebeek, Nederland († 1966)
• - levenloos - Hengeveld
• Antje van den Bosch, Vinkeveen Waverveen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Antje van den Bosch, Vinkeveen en Waverveen, Nederland
• Anthonie van der Vegt, Amsterdam († 1986)

• Andries Kreeft (29), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Bos (0), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriana van der Spui (64), Rhoon
• Aartje Kreuk (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andries Roelofs Kreeft (29), Hoogeveen
• Antonia Johanna Wellink (24)
• Antonia BROEKHOF (48), Voorst
• Aaltje Dobber (20), Middelie
• Adriana Verpoort (70), Noordwijk
• Andries Kreeft (29), Noord, Hoogeveen

• 1884 » Sara Teasdale, American poet and educator († 1933)
• 1889 » Hans Egede Budtz, Danish actor († 1968)
• 1889 » Jack Ryder, Australian cricketer († 1977)
• 1891 » Adolf Busch, German violinist and composer († 1952)
• 1896 » Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American author and academic († 1953)
• 1898 » Marguerite Bise, French chef († 1965)
• 1901 » Ernest Lawrence, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1958)
• 1902 » Paul Dirac, English-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1984)
• 1904 » Achille Varzi, Italian racing driver († 1948)
• 1905 » André Jolivet, French composer († 1974)

• 1879 » Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher and academic (b. 1797)
• 1887 » Alexander William Doniphan, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (b. 1808)
• 1897 » Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss historian and academic (b. 1818)
• 1898 » Eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824)
• 1902 » James Tissot, French painter and illustrator (b. 1836)
• 1902 » John Henry Twachtman, American painter and academic (b. 1853)
• 1909 » Mary MacKillop, Australian nun and saint, co-founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart (b. 1842)
• 1911 » William P. Frye, American lawyer and politician (b. 1830)
• 1920 » Eduard Birnbaum, Polish-born German cantor (b. 1855)
• 1921 » Juhani Aho, Finnish journalist and author (b. 1861)

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.
• March 22 » The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
• 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 24 » Marie François Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
• August 1 » The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
• September 15 » First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats Qing dynasty China in the Battle of Pyongyang.
• September 17 » Battle of the Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.

The temperature on August 8, 1894 was about 16.3 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%.