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• Adriana Sara Riksman, Rotterdam († 1976)
• Alice Jane Kelly Howard, Lambeth, London, England († 1946)
• Adrianus Louwrier, Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1945)
• Anna Margretha Harken, Washington Township, Butler County, Iowa († 1964)
• Adrianus van Oosterbosch, Wouw, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Andries Andriesz Wink, Harenkarspel, nh.nld († 1937)
• Alide Elizabeth Stikker, Midwolda (gem. Oldambt)
• Andrew Scott, South Australia, Australia
• Adrian Merrill Smith, Cook County, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 1896)
• Albert Cook, Leens, Groningen, Nederland († 1933)

• Berend Derk Huizinga (26), Middelstum
• Catharina Adriana Verburgh, Soerakarta
• Adriana Hoven van den (79), Drunen
• Aloys Janssens (0), Temse
• Antje Braad (50), Oldemarkt, Steenwijkerland, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aaltje Gelijk (1), Exloërmond Borger-Odoorn Drenthe Nederland
• Berend Derk Huizinga (26), Middelstum,, Groningen, Nederland
• Antje Braad (50), Ossenzijl, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Christina* Stoffers (67), Greven, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
• Arendina Dijkhuis (70), Haaksbergen, Overijssel, Nederland

• 1892 » Alfonsina Storni, Swiss-Argentinian poet and author († 1938)
• 1893 » Max Brand, American journalist and author († 1944)
• 1894 » Beatrice Lillie, Canadian-English actress, singer and writer († 1989)
• 1894 » Josef von Sternberg, Austrian-American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1969)
• 1897 » Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Czech-American pianist, composer, and conductor († 1957)
• 1899 » Douglas Abbott, Canadian lawyer and politician, 10th Canadian Minister of Defence († 1987)
• 1902 » Harry Kadwell, Australian rugby league player and coach († 1999)
• 1903 » Bob Hope, English-American actor, singer, and producer († 2003)
• 1904 » Hubert Opperman, Australian cyclist and politician († 1996)
• 1905 » Sebastian Shaw, English actor, director, and playwright († 1994)

• 1873 » Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1870)
• 1892 » Bahá'u'lláh, Persian religious leader, founded the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1817)
• 1896 » Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist and academic (b. 1814)
• 1903 » Bruce Price, American architect, designed the Château Frontenac and American Surety Building (b. 1845)
• 1910 » Mily Balakirev, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1837)
• 1911 » W. S. Gilbert, English playwright and poet (b. 1836)
• 1914 » Henry Seton-Karr, English explorer, hunter, and author (b. 1853)
• 1914 » Laurence Sydney Brodribb Irving, English author and playwright (b. 1871)
• 1917 » Kate Harrington, American poet and educator (b. 1831)
• 1919 » Robert Bacon, American colonel and politician, 39th United States Secretary of State (b. 1860)

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.
• January 12 » The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom.
• February 1 » Fountains Valley, Pretoria, the oldest nature reserve in Africa, is proclaimed by President Paul Kruger.
• February 9 » William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
• 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 4 » Horace Rawlins wins the first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship.

The temperature on May 29, 1895 was about 16.8 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 69%.