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• Albertus Kamps, Sleen (Erm) († 1964)
• Adrianus Cornax, Rotterdam, Zuid Holland († 1966)
• Nicolaas Spaans, Den Haag († 1944)
• Aart Vijfvinkel, 's-Gravendeel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1897)
• Aletta Barendina de Villiers, Kweperfontein, Cape, South Africa († 1974)
• * Abraham Jasper Marinus van Hal, Roeselaar († 1960)
• Albert Carolus SEGERS, Gembloux,5030,Namur,Wallonie,BELGIQUE († 1941)
• Aletta Barendina de Villiers, Malmesbury, South Africa
• Aaltje van den Heuvel, Hoevelaken
• Agnes Marie van Geijn, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland

• Aart de Klerk (78), Klaaswaal, Nederland
• Cecilia van Erp (64), Meerle (België)
• Aart de Klerk (78), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Berend van 't Feer (44), Wilsum, Nederland
• Alida Willemina Klomp (29), Utrecht, Utrecht, NL
• Antonius Hendricus Baggerman (0), den haag
• Berendina Bulten (62), Doetinchem
• Aafje van der Schoot (72), Blokzijl
• Barendina BULTEN (61), Doetinchem, Gelderland, NEDERLAND
• Adriaan Heijboer (75), Sint-Annaland, 4697, Nederland

• 1891 » Ian Fairweather, Scottish-Australian painter († 1974)
• 1895 » Clarence Ashley, American singer, guitarist, and banjo player († 1967)
• 1895 » Joseph Banks Rhine, American botanist and parapsychologist († 1980)
• 1895 » Roscoe Turner, American pilot († 1970)
• 1897 » Herbert Agar, American journalist and historian († 1980)
• 1898 » Trofim Lysenko, Ukrainian-Russian biologist and agronomist († 1976)
• 1899 » Billy Butlin, South African-English businessman, founded Butlins († 1980)
• 1899 » László Bíró, Hungarian-Argentinian journalist and inventor, invented the ballpoint pen († 1985)
• 1901 » Enrico Fermi, Italian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1954)
• 1901 » Lanza del Vasto, Italian poet, philosopher, and activist († 1981)

• 1887 » Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon and academic (b. 1810)
• 1889 » Louis Faidherbe, French general and politician (b. 1818)
• 1900 » Samuel Fenton Cary, American lawyer and politician (b. 1814)
• 1902 » Émile Zola, French journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1840)
• 1902 » William McGonagall, Scottish poet and actor (b. 1825)
• 1908 » Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazilian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1839)
• 1910 » Winslow Homer, American painter, illustrator, and engraver (b. 1836)
• 1913 » Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, invented the diesel engine (b. 1858)
• 1918 » Lawrence Weathers, decorated WWI Australian soldier (b. 1890).
• 1925 » Léon Bourgeois, French police officer and politician, 64th Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1851)

• 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 7 » Thomas Edison makes a kinetoscopic film of someone sneezing. On the same day, his employee, William Kennedy Dickson, receives a patent for motion picture film.
• February 7 » The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado, United States.
• 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.
• 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.
• December 22 » The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.

The temperature on September 29, 1894 was about 8.3 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%.