About the day » Friday March 20, 1896Calender converter

• Aleida Francisca Josephina Nobbenhuis, Enschede
• Aaltje Olthof, Loppersum (gem. Eemsdelta)
• Anna Maria Hubertina Debets, Vaals, Limburg, Netherlands († 1896)
• Abraham Buitenhuis, Reeuwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• A.J. Eschler, Amsterdam († 1896)
• Adriana Libregt, Teteringen († 1952)
• Adrianus Schalken, Zevenbergen
• Alida Roukens, Nederhorst den Berg († 1901)
• Albert Eduard Lefeber (Le Feber), Madioen (Java, Indonesia)
• Allen Shepard* Kittrell <K 0123 CaDI>2, Maryland acc († 1964)

• Arie Gijsbert van Wingerden (75), Zwijndrecht
• Anna Janssen Geurts (40), Grave, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anje Jans Bouwman (77), 't Zandt
• Anne Minkema (50), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• gerardus de ruijter (75), amsterdam
• Antje Dirks Buß (0), Simonswolde, Ostfriesland, Germany
• Aaltje Stoffers (34), Wijster (Beilen)
• Annigje Mos (86), Dedemsvaart
• Anna Margaretha Robben (0)
• Abraham Fleming Gross (72), Montgomery, Virginia, United States

• 1888 » Amanda Clement, American baseball player, umpire, and educator († 1971)
• 1890 » Lauritz Melchior, Danish-American tenor and actor († 1973)
• 1894 » Amalie Sara Colquhoun, Australian landscape and portrait painter († 1974)
• 1895 » Fredric Wertham, German-American psychologist and author († 1981)
• 1898 » Eduard Wiiralt, Estonian artist († 1954)
• 1900 » Amelia Chopitea Villa, Bolivia's first female physician († 1942)
• 1903 » Edgar Buchanan, American actor († 1979)
• 1904 » B. F. Skinner, American psychologist and author († 1990)
• 1905 » Jean Galia, French rugby player and boxer († 1949)
• 1906 » Abraham Beame, American accountant and politician, 104th Mayor of New York City († 2001)

• 1865 » Yamanami Keisuke, Japanese samurai (b. 1833)
• 1874 » Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer and conductor (b. 1810)
• 1878 » Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (b. 1814)
• 1894 » Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian lawyer, journalist and politician (b. 1802)
• 1897 » Apollon Maykov, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1821)
• 1899 » Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist and author (b. 1822)
• 1909 » Friedrich Amelung, Estonian historian and businessman (b. 1842)
• 1918 » Lewis A. Grant, American general and lawyer (b. 1828)
• 1925 » George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, English politician, 35th Governor-General of India (b. 1859)
• 1929 » Ferdinand Foch, French field marshal (b. 1851)

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.
• May 18 » Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people.
• May 27 » The F4-strength St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing over $10-million in damage.
• August 16 » Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.
• August 17 » Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom.
• September 21 » Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan: British forces under the command of Horatio Kitchener take Dongola.
• December 30 » Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila.

The temperature on March 20, 1896 was about 3.5 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%.