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• Adriana Geertruida Maria van der Voort, Poeldijk,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1966)
• Aaltje van der Helm, Nieuwer-Amstel († 1977)
• Alex Bencsik, Oroshaza, Bekes, Hungary († 1978)
• Alberta Antonia van den Tempel, Amersfoort († 1944)
• "Max" Georges Alfred de Goumoëns († 1969)
• Alice Mae Penry, Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, United States († 1972)
• Adrianus Ludovicus HENDRICKX, Ekeren,2180,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Adrianus Johannes van Baaren (eerst Mostert), Utrecht
• Adrianus van der Ent, Amsterdam (Amsterdam), Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1980)
• Alexander Diamant, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1961)

• Adriana Cornelisd van der Leeden (61), Culemborg, ge.nld
• Augustin Pierre Hubert Jean Baert (75), Roermond
• (Stillborn) de Geus (Geus) (0), Piershil, Nederland
• Calvin Tays (77)
• Auguste Alfred FOLLET (26), Clermont, Oise, Hauts-de-France, France
• Catharina Emmelot (72), Utrecht
• Antonia Lindeman (36), Tull en 't Waal, NL
• Annigje van de Vecht (71), Woerden
• Aartje Vonk (81), Netherlands
• Anja Aukesiena Hoffenkamp (78), Haren Gr.

• 1886 » Ninon Vallin, French soprano and actress († 1961)
• 1886 » Siegfried Sassoon, English captain, journalist, and poet († 1967)
• 1889 » Robert A. Taft, American lawyer and politician († 1953)
• 1894 » John Samuel Bourque, Canadian soldier and politician († 1974)
• 1894 » Willem Pijper, Dutch composer and critic († 1947)
• 1896 » Howard Dietz, American publicist and songwriter († 1983)
• 1897 » Jimmie Rodgers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1933)
• 1900 » Claude Pepper, American lawyer and politician († 1989)
• 1900 » Tilly Devine, English-Australian organised crime boss († 1970)
• 1901 » Hendrik Verwoerd, Dutch-South African journalist and politician, 7th Prime Minister of South Africa († 1966)

• 1853 » Frédéric Ozanam, French scholar, co-founded the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (b. 1813)
• 1882 » Joseph Liouville, French mathematician and academic (b. 1809)
• 1894 » Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician and physicist (b. 1821)
• 1909 » Vere St. Leger Goold, Irish tennis player (b. 1853)
• 1916 » Friedrich Baumfelder, German pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1836)
• 1933 » Faisal I of Iraq (b. 1883)
• 1935 » Carl Weiss, American physician (b. 1906)
• 1940 » Hemmo Kallio, Finnish actor (b. 1863)
• 1942 » Rıza Nur, Turkish surgeon and politician (b. 1879)
• 1943 » Julius Fučík, Czech journalist (b. 1903)

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.
• February 12 » Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into the Cafe Terminus in Paris, killing one person and wounding 20.
• 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.
• May 1 » Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C.
• July 4 » The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
• August 1 » The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
• December 22 » The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.

The temperature on September 8, 1894 was about 10.2 °C. There was 7 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%.