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• Aksel Iversen, Trondheim († 1925)
• Alphonse Vertommen, Leuven († 1896)
• Aafje Venverloo, Hoorn, Nederland († 1896)
• Adriana Cornelia Leijten, Princenhage (Noord-Brabant, NLD) († 1971)
• Adriana van Burg, Rotterdam († 1990)
• Aaltje Ooms, Zevenhuizen, Zuid Holland, Nederland († 1966)
• Albert Lammers, Foxhol gem. Hoogezand († 1930)
• Adriana Cornelia Leijten, Princenhage († 1971)
• Aafke Doorn, 't Zandt, Zeerijp, Groningen, Nederland († 1955)
• Adrianus IZENDOORN, Dordrecht († 1899)

• Adrianus Muijs (87), Snelrewaard
• Aleida (Aaltje) Mossink (70), Voorst
• Adriana Elisabeth Hendriksdr de Quaasteniet (0), Rotterdam
• Adriana Florisse (59), Middelburg, Zeeland, NL
• Albert Gerbens Schrok (48), Badjanegoro (Rembang) vm Ned.Indië
• Annie Lemieux (29), Barachois, Quebec, Canada
• Albert-Gerben Schrok (47), Bojonegoro, East Java, Indonesia
• Aaltien VEENHOFF (78), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Aaltje Mossink (71), Wilp
• Anthonia Wilhelmina van den Hengel (12), Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

• 1885 » Lorenz Böhler, Austrian physician and author († 1973)
• 1890 » Michiaki Kamada, Japanese admiral († 1947)
• 1891 » Osip Mandelstam, Russian poet and translator († 1938)
• 1891 » Ray Chapman, American baseball player († 1920)
• 1893 » Ivor Novello, Welsh singer-songwriter and actor († 1951)
• 1895 » Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1973)
• 1896 » Marjorie Bennett, Australian-American actress († 1982)
• 1902 » Nâzım Hikmet, Greek-Turkish author, poet, and playwright († 1963)
• 1902 » Saud of Saudi Arabia († 1969)
• 1903 » Paul A. Dever, American lieutenant and politician, 58th Governor of Massachusetts († 1958)

• 1866 » Massimo d'Azeglio, Piedmontese-Italian statesman, novelist and painter (b. 1798)
• 1876 » Eliza McCardle Johnson, American wife of Andrew Johnson, 18th First Lady of the United States (b. 1810)
• 1885 » Leopold Damrosch, German-American composer and conductor (b. 1832)
• 1893 » Fanny Kemble, English actress (b. 1809)
• 1896 » Mathew Brady, American photographer and journalist (b. 1822)
• 1905 » George Thorn, Australian politician, 6th Premier of Queensland (b. 1838)
• 1909 » Arnold Janssen, German priest and missionary (b. 1837)
• 1916 » Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian playwright and translator (b. 1850)
• 1919 » Karl Liebknecht, German politician (b. 1871)
• 1919 » Rosa Luxemburg, German economist, theorist, and philosopher (b. 1871)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Jacob
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Arie
13. Dirk
14. Gerardus
15. Wilhelmus
16. Hendrikus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Hendrika
7. Elisabeth
8. Adriana
9. Catharina
10. Jacoba
11. Aaltje
12. Grietje
13. Geertruida
14. Helena
15. Petronella
16. Neeltje

• 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 18 » An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.
• March 1 » Battle of Adwa: An Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
• March 1 » Henri Becquerel discovers radioactive decay.
• June 4 » Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
• June 28 » An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.
• December 30 » Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila.

The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%.