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• Abraham de Rijke, Stavenisse, Zeeland, Nederland († 1984)
• , Lisse, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1970)
• Alma Helen Sutten, Jersey City, Hudson, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten († 1967)
• Adriana Hamelink, Axel
• Anetta Maria van Dijk, Hilvarenbeek († 1963)
• Adrianus den Harder, 's Gravenzande († 1895)
• Alfred Seldner, Krautheim, Hohenlohekreis, Baden-Württemberg, Duitsland († 1965)
• Anetta Maria van Dijck, Hilvarenbeek
• van der Woerd, Zoelen (GL) († 1895)
• Albertus Kist, Zaandam († 1969)

• Alida Roest (50), Nieuwer-Amstel, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anje Friks Burema (75), Baflo
• Albert Bruins van der Hem (57), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Adrianus Jacobus Christiaan Snoek (0), Rotterdam, ZH, Nederland
• Aagje van Leeuwen (0), Bodegraven
• Anne Baudry, Saint Maur des Fossés, 94210, France
• Alice MARSDEN (58), Stanton Hillside, Derbyshire, England
• Agatha de Vries (0), Hillegom
• Anje Friks Burema (Boerema) (75), Baflo,, Groningen, Nederland
• Albert Bruins van der Hem (57), Leeuwarderadeel

• 1884 » Ants Piip, Estonian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Estonia († 1942)
• 1887 » William Zorach, Lithuanian-American sculptor and painter († 1966)
• 1894 » Ben Hecht, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1964)
• 1895 » Marcel Pagnol, French author, playwright and director († 1974)
• 1896 » Philip Showalter Hench, American physician and endocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1965)
• 1898 » Zeki Rıza Sporel, Turkish footballer († 1969)
• 1900 » Wolf Hirth, German pilot and engineer, co-founded Schempp-Hirth († 1959)
• 1901 » Linus Pauling, American chemist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1994)
• 1903 » Vincente Minnelli, American director and screenwriter († 1986)
• 1906 » Bugsy Siegel, American gangster († 1947)

• 1857 » André Dumont, Belgian geologist and academic (b. 1809)
• 1869 » Alphonse de Lamartine, French author and poet (b. 1790)
• 1879 » Hortense Allart, Italian-French author (b. 1801)
• 1891 » George Hearst, American businessman and politician (b. 1820)
• 1916 » Henry James, American novelist, short writer, and critic (b. 1843)
• 1925 » Friedrich Ebert, German politician, 1st President of Germany (b. 1871)
• 1929 » Clemens von Pirquet, Austrian physician and immunologist (b. 1874)
• 1932 » Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer and academic (b. 1851)
• 1935 » Chiquinha Gonzaga, Brazilian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1847)
• 1936 » Charles Nicolle, French biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)

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.
• January 5 » Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
• 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.
• March 19 » Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
• April 24 » Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray".
• June 11 » Paris–Bordeaux–Paris, sometimes called the first automobile race in history or the "first motor race", takes place.

The temperature on February 28, 1895 was about 1.7 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%.