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• Alke Kruize, Bellingwolde, Groningen, Netherlands († 1991)
• Andre Dhaeze, Terneuzen, Zeeland, Nl
• Amy Goodwin Percival, Walton, Liverpool, UK († 1935)
• Abraham Willemsen, Zevenaar, Gelderland, Nederland
• Albert van Ittersum, Zwollerkerspel, Nederland († 1984)
• Aloysius Robyn, Stekene
• Agatha Panhuis, Leeuwarden († 1970)
• Ada Sturgeon, Idaho († 1968)
• * Hendrika Gerrina Scheeren, Elst († 1986)
• (Bé) Johannes Bernardus Schulkes, Deventer, Overijssel, The Netherlands († 1972)

• Aleida Hendrina Brands (6), Nijmegen
• Aaltje van den Belt (van den Beld) (0), Hoornerveen, Nederland
• Aart van Herwijnen (64), Dordrecht (Zuid-Holland)
• Aaltje van den Beld (0), Heerde (buurtschap Hoornerveen)
• Alexius Malfait (75), Bellegem,8510, West-Vlaanderen
• Adriana van Prooijen (0), Oud-Beijerland, Hoeksche Waard, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus van Drunen (18), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Pomp (0), Wildervank, Veendam, Groningen, Nederland
• Aan Sjoerds TAMMINGA (18), Buitenpost (Achtkarspelen) Friesland Netherlands
• Adrianus van Drunen (18), Rotterdam

• 1888 » Tris Speaker, American baseball player and manager († 1958)
• 1889 » Makhanlal Chaturvedi, Indian journalist, poet, and playwright († 1968)
• 1892 » Italo Mus, Italian painter († 1967)
• 1895 » Arthur Murray, American dancer and educator († 1991)
• 1896 » Robert E. Sherwood, American playwright and screenwriter († 1955)
• 1897 » Pierre Fresnay, French actor and screenwriter († 1975)
• 1898 » Agnes Ayres, American actress († 1940)
• 1899 » Hillel Oppenheimer, German-Israeli botanist and academic († 1971)
• 1902 » Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin, French journalist and author († 1969)
• 1902 » Stanley G. Weinbaum, American author and poet († 1935)

• 1874 » Charles Ernest Beulé, French archaeologist and politician (b. 1826)
• 1875 » Karl Mauch, German geographer and explorer (b. 1837)
• 1878 » Richard M. Brewer, American criminal (b. 1850)
• 1879 » Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist and meteorologist (b. 1803)
• 1883 » Peter Cooper, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Cooper Union (b. 1791)
• 1890 » Edmond Hébert, French geologist and academic (b. 1812)
• 1890 » Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 1st Premier of Quebec (b. 1820)
• 1912 » Charles Brantley Aycock, American lawyer and politician, 50th Governor of North Carolina (b. 1859)
• 1912 » Isaac K. Funk, American minister, lexicographer, and publisher, co-founded Funk & Wagnalls (b. 1839)
• 1919 » William Crookes, English chemist and physicist (b. 1832)

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 28 » Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8mph (13km/h), thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2mph (3.2km/h).
• February 1 » La bohème premieres in Turin at the Teatro Regio (Turin), conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.
• 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.
• June 28 » An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.
• July 28 » The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
• December 14 » The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.

The temperature on April 4, 1896 was about 6.1 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%.