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• Andries Kooistra, Opeinde, gem. Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland († 1984)
• Adriaan Tallen, Schoonebeek,Drenthe,Niederlande († 1970)
• Adriana Petronella Maria Rijnen, Tilburg, Nederland († 1978)
• Alida Cornelia in 't Veld, Rijswijk († 1960)
• Adriana Petronella Dekker, Utrecht († 1896)
• Adriaan Geerts Tallen, Schoonebeek Dalen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aaltje Bierma, Slochteren,, Groningen, Nederland († 1980)
• Aaltje Bierma, Slochteren, Groningen, Nederland († 1980)
• De Roode, Rotterdam († 1895)
• Adriana Petronella Dekkers, Utrecht († 1896)

• Antoinetta Catharina Steinfort (41), Monster, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alix Maria van Walsh-Serrant de La Mothe-Houdancour (65)
• Abraham Pieter Zaalberg (63), Aarlanderveen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Koops (0), Odoorn, Borger-Odoorn, Drenthe, Nederland
• De Roode (0), Rotterdam
• Albert Nuij (76), Velp (Ge), Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltje van Sijl (76), Zuilen, Stichtse Vecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Alida Trijsburg (82), Rotterdam
• Adriana Dietvorst (60), Halsteren
• Adriaan Geelhoed (83), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands

• 1889 » Bertram Stevens, Australian accountant and politician, 25th Premier of New South Wales († 1973)
• 1891 » Giovanni Michelucci, Italian architect and urban planner, designed the Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station († 1990)
• 1892 » Artur Rodziński, Polish-American conductor († 1958)
• 1892 » Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player († 1962)
• 1895 » Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat († 1948)
• 1896 » Dziga Vertov, Polish-Russian director and screenwriter († 1954)
• 1896 » Lawrence Wackett, Australian commander and engineer († 1982)
• 1897 » Theodore Plucknett, English legal historian († 1965)
• 1900 » Una Ledingham, British physician, known for research on diabetes in pregnancy († 1965)
• 1901 » Bob Marshall, American activist, co-founded The Wilderness Society († 1939)

• 1850 » Manuel de la Peña y Peña, Mexican lawyer and 20th President (1847) (b. 1789)
• 1861 » Frederick William IV of Prussia (b. 1795)
• 1892 » George Biddell Airy, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1801)
• 1904 » James Longstreet, American general and diplomat (b. 1821)
• 1913 » Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (b. 1855)
• 1915 » Karl Goldmark, Hungarian violinist and composer (b. 1830)
• 1917 » Léon Flameng, French cyclist (b. 1877)
• 1920 » Paul Adam, French author (b. 1862)
• 1924 » Sabine Baring-Gould, English author and scholar (b. 1834)
• 1939 » Roman Dmowski, Polish politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1864)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Jacobus
10. Petrus
11. Adrianus
12. Dirk
13. Arie
14. Wilhelmus
15. Hendrikus
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Hendrika
8. Adriana
9. Catharina
10. Aaltje
11. Grietje
12. Jacoba
13. Geertruida
14. Neeltje
15. Petronella
16. Trijntje

• 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 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 24 » Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the Cuban War of Independence, that ends with the Spanish–American War in 1898.
• April 8 » In Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. the Supreme Court of the United States declares unapportioned income tax to be unconstitutional.
• April 17 » The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.
• October 21 » The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.
• November 8 » While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.
• December 28 » Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.

The temperature on January 2, 1895 was about -0.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%.