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• Folkerts, Donderen, Vries, Drenthe, Netherlands († 1895)
• Adrianus Petrus Wilhelmus Duijndam, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1938)
• Albert Viaene, Antwerpen († 1960)
• Alice May BEATON, Highbury, Islington, Middlesex († 1982)
• Aede Johannes de Vries, Hallum, Ferwerderadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1955)
• Allegonda Francken, Breda († 1956)
• Adam van der Blom, Leiden
• Andreas Verberne, Wervershoof (gem. Medemblik, NH) († 1895)
• Wehkamp, Barger Oosterveen (NL) († 1895)
• Alphons Joannes Baptist van Erven, Alphen en Riel († 1976)

• Aaltje Bos (16), De Bilt, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anthonius van der Post (47), Woubrugge, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Allen N Arthur Vinson (82), Limestone, Alabama, Verenigde Staten
• Adriaantje (Jaantje) Tolboom (76), Hoogland
• Antje de Valk (69), Ried
• Wehkamp (0), Barger Oosterveen (NL)
• Albert Kramer (71)
• Antje Ida van der Boom (57), Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Filmer (14), Sint Maarten, Zijpe, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes Harte (18), Bergen op Zoom

• 1886 » Ernst A. Lehmann, German captain and pilot († 1937)
• 1889 » Otto Frank, German-Swiss businessman and Holocaust survivor; father of diarist Anne Frank († 1980)
• 1892 » Fritz Kortner, Austrian-German actor and director († 1970)
• 1895 » Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian-American philosopher and author († 1986)
• 1895 » William Giauque, Canadian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1982)
• 1899 » Abelardo L. Rodríguez, substitute president of Mexico († 1967)
• 1900 » Helene Weigel, Austrian-German actress († 1971)
• 1901 » The Duke of Paducah, American country comedian, radio host and banjo player († 1986)
• 1903 » Faith Bennett, British actress and ATA pilot during WWII († 1969)
• 1903 » Wilfrid Hyde-White, English actor († 1991)

• 1859 » Sergey Aksakov, Russian author and academic (b. 1791)
• 1860 » Charles Barry, English architect, designed Upper Brook Street Chapel and the Palace of Westminster (b. 1795)
• 1864 » J. E. B. Stuart, American general (b. 1833)
• 1867 » Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard Gerhard, German archaeologist and academic (b. 1795)
• 1876 » Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian activist (b. 1843)
• 1878 » Anselme Payen, French chemist and academic (b. 1795)
• 1884 » Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer and educator (b. 1824)
• 1907 » Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author and critic (b. 1848)
• 1916 » James Connolly, Scottish-born Irish socialist and rebel leader (b. 1868)
• 1925 » Amy Lowell, American poet and critic (b. 1874)

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 12 » The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom.
• April 3 » The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
• April 6 » Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London, after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
• August 31 » German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon.
• September 18 » The Atlanta Exposition Speech on race relations is delivered by Booker T. Washington.
• November 5 » George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.

The temperature on May 12, 1895 was about 19.7 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%.