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• Abraham Doekes van der Laan, Sappemeer
• Adriana Gabrielse, Westkapelle, Walcheren, NL († 1900)
• Adrianus Johannes Gerardus Oostindië, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1940)
• Adriana Helena Joanna Halkes, Loosduinen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1908)
• Adriana BLAAS, Koudekerke, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adelaide Cornelia Maria de la Brassinne, Maastricht, Limburg, The Netherlands
• Haex, Peer († 1965)
• Aaltje Swaab, Amsterdam († 1943)
• (2) David Hendrik Zielschot, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland († 1980)
• Agatha Maria van Egmond, Heemskerk, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

• Anna Catharina van Besau (70), Turnhout
• Andries Sloos (55), Leiden
• Aatje Tamminga (7)
• Anna Catharine KUHLMANN (38), Pallast, Duitsland
• Meurs-Sluiter (0)
• Anna Cornelia Van Reeth (40), Merksem
• Anna Catharina van Reeth (40), Merksem (B)
• Anna Margaretha Lange (44), Asperden, Noordrijn-Westfalen, Duitsland
• Johannes van Rijn (0), 's-Gravenzande
• Adrianus Wilhelmus Kamp (55), Vught, Provincie, Noord Brabant, Nederlad

• 1887 » Joseph Bech, Luxembourgian lawyer and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Luxembourg († 1975)
• 1887 » Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer and critic († 1947)
• 1888 » Otto Stern, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1969)
• 1890 » Ronald Fisher, English-Australian statistician, biologist, and geneticist († 1962)
• 1891 » Abraham Fraenkel, German-Israeli mathematician and academic († 1965)
• 1893 » Wally Pipp, American baseball player and journalist († 1965)
• 1899 » Jibanananda Das, Bangladeshi-Indian poet and author († 1954)
• 1900 » Ruth Clifford, American actress († 1998)
• 1903 » Sadegh Hedayat, Iranian-French author and translator († 1951)
• 1904 » Hans Morgenthau, German-American political scientist, philosopher, and academic († 1980)

• 1854 » John Martin, English painter, engraver, and illustrator (b. 1789)
• 1856 » Heinrich Heine, German journalist and poet (b. 1797)
• 1874 » Adolphe Quetelet, Belgian astronomer, mathematician, and sociologist (b. 1796)
• 1890 » Christopher Latham Sholes, American publisher and politician (b. 1819)
• 1905 » William Bickerton, English-American religious leader, leader in the Latter Day Saint movement (b. 1815)
• 1909 » Geronimo, American tribal leader (b. 1829)
• 1912 » Edgar Evans, Welsh sailor and explorer (b. 1876)
• 1919 » Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1841)
• 1934 » Albert I of Belgium (b. 1875)
• 1934 » Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player and theoretician (b. 1862)

• 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.
• March 15 » Heian Shrine is founded.
• April 6 » Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London, after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
• 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.
• June 28 » The United States Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis’s claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent."
• August 31 » German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon.
• December 28 » The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines.

The temperature on February 17, 1895 was about -2.9 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%.