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• Adriaan Goedegebuure, Zierikzee, Zeeland, Nederland († 1967)
• Aalt van de Brink, Apeldoorn
• († 1985)
• Aafke Sophie Berghuis, Semarang, Java, Ned. Indie († 1979)
• Anna Cornelia Adriana Koreman, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• de Gruijter, 's-Hertogenbosch, Nederland († 1895)
• Anna Maria Hogervorst, Amsterdam († 1969)
• Aaron van der Kloot, 's-Gravenhage
• Anita Florence Thierry, Voorburg, Zuid Holland, Netherlands
• Anna Catharina de Boer, Sneek, Friesland, Nederland († 1946)

• Antje Mes (77), Alblasserdam
• (80), Zerkegem
• Anna Margaretha Raeven (87), Nuth, Nederland
• Adrianus den Boode (88), Utrecht
• Anna Margaretha Raven (87), Nuth, LI. Netherlands
• Anna Maria van Dij(c)k (65), Gestel
• Antje Jongerling (71), Anna Paulowna, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria van Dijck (65), Gestel
• Arie Bastiaan Andeweg (4), IJsselmonde
• Anne Marquerite Raeven (87), Nuth, Nederland

• 1886 » Paul Paray, French organist, composer, and conductor († 1979)
• 1887 » Mick Mannock, Irish soldier and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient († 1918)
• 1891 » William F. Albright, American archaeologist, philologist, and scholar († 1971)
• 1895 » Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr., American publisher, founded Advance Publications († 1979)
• 1899 » Henri Michaux, Belgian-French poet and painter († 1984)
• 1899 » Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player († 1938)
• 1900 » Eduardo De Filippo, Italian actor and screenwriter († 1984)
• 1901 » José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer and manager († 1968)
• 1902 » Lionel Conacher, Canadian football player and politician († 1954)
• 1902 » Sylvia Daoust, Canadian sculptor († 2004)

• 1861 » Elmer E. Ellsworth, American colonel (b. 1837)
• 1872 » Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter and illustrator (b. 1794)
• 1879 » William Lloyd Garrison, American journalist and activist (b. 1805)
• 1881 » Samuel Palmer, English painter and illustrator (b. 1805)
• 1901 » Louis-Zéphirin Moreau, Canadian bishop (b. 1824)
• 1908 » Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer and architect (b. 1821)
• 1915 » John Condon, Irish-English soldier (b. 1896)
• 1919 » Amado Nervo, Mexican poet, journalist, and educator (b. 1870)
• 1929 » Nikolai von Meck, Russian engineer (b. 1863)
• 1941 » Lancelot Holland, English admiral (b. 1887)

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.
• March 15 » Heian Shrine is founded.
• May 7 » In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector—a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.
• June 11 » Paris–Bordeaux–Paris, sometimes called the first automobile race in history or the "first motor race", takes place.
• November 5 » George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
• November 27 » At the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
• December 28 » The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines.

The temperature on May 24, 1895 was about 14.5 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%.