1894

Events 
 Outbreak of the First Sino-Japanese War
 June 30 – Tower Bridge in London opened.

 Births 
 February 10 - Harold Macmillan, British Prime Minister 
 April 17 – Nikita Krushchev, Soviet leader
 March 20 – Ky Ebright, American Olympic rowing coach (d. 1979)
 July 26 – Aldous Huxley, English writer
 November 27 - Katherine Milhous, American illustrator and writer (d. 1977)

 Deaths 
  1 January  – Heinrich Rudolf Hertz
 1 November - Alexander III of Russia Czar of Russia father of Czar Nicholas II