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• Albertus Veen, Steenwijk, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aafke ZUIDERVELD, Roden, Drenthe, Nederland († 1977)
• Adriaan Cornelis Huijben, Oosterhout († 1981)
• Libbe Leistra, Schoterland
• Allegonda Clasina van Tilborg, Tilburg († 1896)
• Alida Geertuida Warmerdam, Zoeterwoude, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Gijsbertus Blankestijn, Veenendaal
• Adriana van Osta, Roosendaal, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1896)
• Adriaantje Roterman, Barendrecht, Nederland
• Aaltje VAN STIPRIAAN, Anna Paulowna, NH, Nederland

• Albertus van den Heiligenberg (61), Utrecht
• Aleida Gerritsen (71), Ane (Gramsbergen)
• Alida Olsthoorn (57), Delft (Z-H), Nederland
• Anna Maria Budé (77), Schimmert, Nuth
• Aleid Garritzen (71), Ane
• Alida Cecilia Kaptein (67), Rotterdam
• Amelia Oliva Hiert (0), Semarang, Java, Ned. Indie
• Alberdina Derks Kleinwout (65), Woolde, Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• "Gustave" François Xavier Charles Cornet d'Elzius du Chenoy (67), Bruxelles
• Aaltjen Lubberts Knol (75), Dwingeloo, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1887 » William Zorach, Lithuanian-American sculptor and painter († 1966)
• 1894 » Ben Hecht, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1964)
• 1895 » Marcel Pagnol, French author, playwright and director († 1974)
• 1896 » Philip Showalter Hench, American physician and endocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1965)
• 1898 » Zeki Rıza Sporel, Turkish footballer († 1969)
• 1900 » Wolf Hirth, German pilot and engineer, co-founded Schempp-Hirth († 1959)
• 1901 » Linus Pauling, American chemist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1994)
• 1903 » Vincente Minnelli, American director and screenwriter († 1986)
• 1906 » Bugsy Siegel, American gangster († 1947)
• 1907 » Milton Caniff, American cartoonist († 1988)

• 1857 » André Dumont, Belgian geologist and academic (b. 1809)
• 1869 » Alphonse de Lamartine, French author and poet (b. 1790)
• 1879 » Hortense Allart, Italian-French author (b. 1801)
• 1891 » George Hearst, American businessman and politician (b. 1820)
• 1916 » Henry James, American novelist, short writer, and critic (b. 1843)
• 1925 » Friedrich Ebert, German politician, 1st President of Germany (b. 1871)
• 1929 » Clemens von Pirquet, Austrian physician and immunologist (b. 1874)
• 1932 » Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer and academic (b. 1851)
• 1935 » Chiquinha Gonzaga, Brazilian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1847)
• 1936 » Charles Nicolle, French biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)

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 » 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.
• August 30 » Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas.
• November 27 » Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss is first performed.
• December 14 » The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
• December 30 » Canadian ice hockey player Ernie McLea scores the first hat-trick in Stanley Cup play, and the Cup-winning goal as the Montreal Victorias defeat the Winnipeg Victorias 6–5.

The temperature on February 28, 1896 was about 4.5 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%.