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• Anne Pieter van Overhagen, Rotterdam
• Angelo Taylor Jennings, Virginia (State) († 1983)
• Angus Dudley CAMPBELL, Kensington, Brompton, Middlesex († 1953)
• Aleida Engel, Rotterdam
• Anna Pieternelle Bollweg, Amsterdam († 1974)
• Anne Escher, Groningen († 1971)
• Aleida Engel, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andries Hibma, Barradeel, Friesland, Netherlands († 1964)
• Adriaan Haij de, Krimpen aan den IJssel, ZH, Nederland
• Annie Isabel Carver, Hull († 1896)

• Arend Buddingh (63), Zutphen
• Albertus Braakman (78), Zutphen
• Aart Schipper (56), Ermelo-Gelderland-Nederland
• Berendina Bosman (52), Wageningen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antonius Geerts (0), Budel
• Adrianus Willem van den Meiracker (1), den Dolder
• Aafje Pieters Groot (37), Nieuwer Amstel
• Aafje Pieters Groot (37), Nieuwer Amstel
• Antonie van Uden (60), Tiel (GL), Nedeland
• Alfred RUSSELL (77), N Branford, New Haven, CT

• 1890 » Eddie Rickenbacker, American soldier and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient († 1973)
• 1890 » Philippe Thys, Belgian cyclist († 1971)
• 1890 » Snuffy Browne, Barbadian cricketer († 1964)
• 1892 » Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet and author († 1941)
• 1893 » Clarence Williams, American pianist and composer († 1965)
• 1895 » Juan Perón, Argentinian general and politician, 29th President of Argentina († 1974)
• 1895 » Zog I of Albania († 1961)
• 1896 » Julien Duvivier, French director, producer, and screenwriter († 1967)
• 1897 » Marcel Herrand, French actor († 1953)
• 1897 » Rouben Mamoulian, Georgian-American director and screenwriter († 1987)

• 1869 » Franklin Pierce, American general, lawyer, and politician, 14th President of the United States (b. 1804)
• 1879 » Miguel Grau Seminario, Peruvian admiral (b. 1834)
• 1886 » Austin F. Pike, American lawyer and politician (b. 1819)
• 1897 » Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter and academic (b. 1830)
• 1928 » Larry Semon, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1889)
• 1931 » John Monash, Australian general and engineer (b. 1865)
• 1936 » Ahmet Tevfik Pasha, Ottoman politician, 292nd Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1845)
• 1936 » Premchand, Indian author and screenwriter (b. 1880)
• 1936 » Red Ames, American baseball player and manager (b. 1882)
• 1936 » William Henry Stark, American businessman (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 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 13 » First Italo-Ethiopian War: the war's opening battle, the Battle of Coatit, occurs; it is an Italian victory.
• February 9 » William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
• March 15 » Heian Shrine is founded.
• June 27 » The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
• October 22 » In Paris an express train derails after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing almost 30 metres (100ft) of concourse before crashing through a wall and falling 10 metres (33ft) to the road below.
• November 28 » The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours.

The temperature on October 8, 1895 was about 9.1 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%.