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• Alice Robers, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten
• Alzira Portugal, Cachoeira de Minas, Minas Gerais, Brasil († 2001)
• Albert Louwes, Horst aan de Maas, Limburg, Nederland († 1935)
• Albert Lammersen, Lemele († 1894)
• Agetha TUCHSCHER, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 1983)
• Alberdina van der Linden, Escharen
• Adrian Gerritsen, Rotterdam († 1967)
• Aarnout Nagtegaal, Vlissingen, Walcheren, NL
• Ada Precious Largent († 1972)
• Anna van Bastelaere, Maldegem, Belgium

• Adriana Gomes (84), Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Moorval (84), Loon op Zand, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Annechien Bouman (1), Foxhol, Hoogezand, Groningen, Netherlands
• Anna Brouwer (42), Bussum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arnoud Langeveld (72), Zoeterwoude
• Anna Catharina FELS (69), Hasselt, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie
• Catharina Johanna Hubertina Ghijsen (81), Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
• Cornelia Moreval (Tonkson) (84), Loon op Zand
• Aaltje Bakker (0), Galgenklap Muntendam Midden-Groningen Groningen Nederland
• Alphonse Van Mele (0), Waasmunster, Oost-Vlaanderen, België

• 1883 » Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria († 1963)
• 1884 » Frank Laubach, American missionary and mystic († 1970)
• 1892 » Dezső Kertész, Hungarian actor and film director († 1965)
• 1894 » Joseph Roth, Austrian journalist and author († 1939)
• 1897 » Fazlollah Zahedi, Iranian general and statesman, 36th Prime Minister of Iran († 1963)
• 1901 » Adolph Rupp, American basketball player and coach († 1977)
• 1901 » Andreas Embirikos, Greek psychoanalyst and poet († 1975)
• 1904 » August Jakobson, Estonian author and politician († 1963)
• 1907 » Pertev Naili Boratav, Turkish author and educator († 1998)
• 1908 » Ruth Bancroft, American landscape and garden designer († 2017)

• 1865 » William Rowan Hamilton, Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1805)
• 1872 » N. F. S. Grundtvig, Danish pastor, philosopher, and author (b. 1783)
• 1877 » Constantine Kanaris, Greek admiral and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1793)
• 1885 » Giuseppe Bonavia, Maltese architect (b. 1821)
• 1898 » Wilford Woodruff, American religious leader, 4th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1807)
• 1910 » Henri Rousseau, French painter (b. 1844)
• 1918 » John Forrest, Australian politician, 1st Premier of Western Australia (b. 1847)
• 1921 » Henry Austin Dobson, English poet and critic (b. 1840)
• 1922 » Henry Lawson, Australian poet and author (b. 1867)
• 1927 » Umegatani Tōtarō II, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 20th Yokozuna (b. 1878)

• 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.
• June 23 » The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
• 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.
• 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 September 2, 1894 was about 15.9 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 66%.