About the day » Friday October 23, 1896Calender converter

• Albert Louis Marie Joseph Corten, Maastricht (L) († 1943)
• Adriaan Arie Merbel van de, Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1898)
• Anna Buur, Uitgeest († 1947)
• Andries Meijvogel, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1897)
• Aaltje Haddeman, Vlaardingen (Vlaardingen), Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aarden, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland († 1923)
• Aagje Stolk, Oud Beijerland Z.H († 1897)
• Agina Stam, Muntendam
• Alphonsus Adrianus Kil, Ossendrecht
• Alida Johanna Maria Reith, Maarsseveen, Utr, Nederland

• Abeltje VAN WEERDEN (41), Groningen Groningen Netherlands
• Adriana Hanswijk van (82), Rotterdam
• bastiaan FORTUIN (2), strijen
• Charles Jason GREEN (61), Lincoln, Vermont, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Margretha de Kip (96), Amsterdam
• Age Teekes Offeringa (86), Rottevalle, gem. Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Alvina Morales (52), Tijuana, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
• Abraham van Leeuwen (46), Rotterdam
• Age Teakes Offringa (86)
• Abeltje van Weerden (41), Groningen

• 1892 » Speckled Red, American blues/boogie-woogie piano player and singer-songwriter († 1973)
• 1894 » Emma Vyssotsky, American astronomer and academic († 1975)
• 1894 » Rube Bressler, American baseball player († 1966)
• 1896 » André Lévêque, French soldier and engineer († 1930)
• 1896 » Lilyan Tashman, American actress († 1934)
• 1897 » John Baker, English air marshal († 1978)
• 1897 » Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena, Spanish writer († 1975)
• 1899 » Bernt Balchen, Norwegian aviator († 1973)
• 1900 » Douglas Jardine, Indian-English cricketer and lawyer († 1958)
• 1902 » Robert Eberan von Eberhorst, Austrian engineer († 1982)

• 1867 » Franz Bopp, German linguist and academic (b. 1791)
• 1869 » Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1799)
• 1872 » Théophile Gautier, French journalist, author, and poet (b. 1811)
• 1885 » Charles S. West, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, Secretary of State of Texas (b. 1829)
• 1893 » Alexander of Battenberg (b. 1857)
• 1910 » Chulalongkorn, Thai king (b. 1853)
• 1915 » W. G. Grace, English cricketer and physician (b. 1848)
• 1916 » Richard McFadden, Scottish footballer and soldier (b. 1889)
• 1917 » Eugène Grasset, Swiss illustrator (b. 1845)
• 1921 » John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish businessman, founded Dunlop Rubber (b. 1840)

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.
• April 15 » Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
• 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.
• September 22 » Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
• December 14 » The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
• 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.
• December 30 » Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila.

The temperature on October 23, 1896 was about 2.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%.