About the day » Thursday January 23, 1896Calender converter

• Anna ter Welle, Oele, Hengelo, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Adrianus COOLS, Zundert,Noord-Brabant,NEDERLAND
• Alma Heinrich († 1957)
• Andrew Joseph Biesinger Jr., Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States († 1957)
• Agnes Hubertina Hansen, Linne († 1944)
• ? Dezentjé, Boyolali, Java, Indonesië
• Alijda Klazina Versteegh, Gellicum
• Achille VAN DEN ABEELE, Etikhove,9680,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 1970)
• Agnes Hubertina Hansen, Linne († 1944)
• Albert Borgman, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 1973)

• Stolle (0)
• Adrianus Soeters (72), Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland
• Anthonius Leonardus Cornelis van der Klugt (0), Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arnoldus Mulder (72), Leiderdorp
• Bernardus Walterus Johannes van Maanen (60), Arnhem
• Antonie Van Ewijk (78), Rhenen, Utrecht, NL
• Bernardus van Noordenburg (73), Nijkerk, Gelderland, NL
• Arendina Meulenkolk (84), Rijssen, Nederland
• Arnoldus Jacobusz. Mulder (72), Leiden Herensingel 32
• Alida Mulder (66), Loenersloot, Utrecht, NL

• 1894 » Jyotirmoyee Devi, Indian author († 1988)
• 1896 » Alf Blair, Australian rugby league player and coach († 1944)
• 1896 » Alf Hall, English-South African cricketer († 1964)
• 1897 » Ieva Simonaitytė, Lithuanian author († 1978)
• 1897 » Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect († 2000)
• 1897 » Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian activist and politician († 1945)
• 1897 » William Stephenson, Canadian captain and spy († 1989)
• 1898 » Freda Utley, English scholar and author († 1978)
• 1898 » Georg Kulenkampff, German violinist († 1948)
• 1898 » Randolph Scott, American actor († 1987)

• 1866 » Thomas Love Peacock, English author and poet (b. 1785)
• 1875 » Charles Kingsley English priest and author (b. 1819)
• 1883 » Gustave Doré, French engraver and illustrator (b. 1832)
• 1893 » José Zorrilla, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1817)
• 1893 » Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II, American lawyer and politician, 16th United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1825)
• 1921 » Mykola Leontovych, Ukrainian composer and conductor (b. 1877)
• 1922 » Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor and academic (b. 1855)
• 1922 » René Beeh, Alsatian painter and draughtsman (b. 1886)
• 1923 » Max Nordau, Austrian physician and author (b. 1849)
• 1931 » Anna Pavlova, Russian-English ballerina (b. 1881)

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 4 » Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
• February 1 » La bohème premieres in Turin at the Teatro Regio (Turin), conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.
• March 2 » The Battle of Adwa: The Italian Army defeated by the Ethiopian Army in Adwa, Tigray, Ethiopia.
• April 6 » In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman emperor Theodosius I.
• May 18 » The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" doctrine is constitutional.
• December 17 » Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Schenley Park Casino, which was the first multi-purpose arena with the technology to create an artificial ice surface in North America, is destroyed in a fire.

The temperature on January 23, 1896 was about -1.1 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%.