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• Abraam Joina Silberstein, Garwolin (PL) († 1943)
• Adriana Westerweel, ellemeet (z), huisnr. 95 († 1990)
• Adriana de Goede, VLAARDINGEN, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1974)
• Adriana Zeelenberg, Bleiswijk
• Adriana Baak, Scheveningen
• Alberdina Schenkel, Veendam († 1962)
• Adam Graaf Potocki († 1966)
• Alderdina Schenkel, Borgercompagnie, Veendam,, Groningen, Nederland († 1962)
• Adriana van Rijen, Ginneken († 1918)
• Adrianus Kars, Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1929)

• Barbara Schreurs (54), Opglabbeek, 3660, België
• Anna Cornelia Schipper (0), Oud-Beijerland
• Aafje Dekker (5), Limmen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Ammerlaan (0), Zoeterwoude
• Anna Maria Hopman (1), Hillegom
• Huijsing (0)
• Amel Hendrik Welbie (5), Herwijnen
• Anthonius Leonardus Driehuis (0), Vinkeveen en Waverveen, Nederland
• Afke Annes Korfmaker (2), Gauw, Wymbritseradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Abraham Bentzel (36), York County, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten

• 1886 » Rex Stout, American detective novelist († 1975)
• 1894 » Afrânio Pompílio Gastos do Amaral, Brazilian herpetologist († 1982)
• 1895 » Henry Williamson, English farmer, soldier, and author († 1977)
• 1896 » Georgy Zhukov, Russian general and politician, 2nd Minister of Defence for the Soviet Union († 1974)
• 1898 » Cyril Ritchard, Australian-American actor and singer († 1977)
• 1898 » Stuart Garson, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Premier of Manitoba († 1977)
• 1900 » Karna Maria Birmingham, Australian artist, illustrator and print maker († 1987)
• 1901 » Ilona Fehér, Hungarian-Israeli violinist and educator († 1988)
• 1903 » Nikolai Voznesensky, Soviet economic planner, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union († 1950)
• 1905 » Alex Wilson, Canadian sprinter and coach († 1994)

• 1865 » Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich, Swiss pastor, poet, and educator (b. 1796)
• 1866 » George Everest, Welsh geographer and surveyor (b. 1790)
• 1867 » Charles Gray Round, English lawyer and politician (b. 1797)
• 1884 » William Swainson, English-New Zealand lawyer and politician, Attorney-General of the Crown Colony of New Zealand (b. 1809)
• 1913 » Juhan Liiv, Estonian poet and author (b. 1864)
• 1914 » Alfred Thayer Mahan, American captain and historian (b. 1840)
• 1916 » Charles de Foucauld, French priest and martyr (b. 1858)
• 1923 » Virginie Loveling, Belgian author and poet (b. 1836)
• 1928 » José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian-American lawyer and poet (b. 1888)
• 1933 » Pekka Halonen, Finnish painter (b. 1865)

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.
• March 2 » The Battle of Adwa: The Italian Army defeated by the Ethiopian Army in Adwa, Tigray, Ethiopia.
• 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 18 » The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" doctrine is constitutional.
• August 17 » Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom.
• November 1 » A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
• November 27 » Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss is first performed.

The temperature on December 1, 1896 was about 1.5 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%.