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• Ada CROPLEY, Gosberton, Lincoln, England
• Alida Cornelia van der Wiel, Utrecht († 1941)
• Albertje Kok, Avereest
• van Wagtendonk, IJsselmonde (Rotterdam), Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1896)
• Anna Dullaghan, Mullabane Greenore Co.Louth Ireland († 1975)
• Agnes Josephine Catharine Lamberts, Venlo
• Albertus Johannes Groenestein, Harderwijk († 1975)
• Allen Pearson Cain, Ohio († 1966)
• Adriana Cornelia de Kam, Vlissingen
• Abraham A. BETTS, Wellston, Ohio († 1919)

• Arend Jan Hubach (90), Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aaltje Cornelissen Voorn (84), Weesp
• Aaltje VOORN (84), Weesp, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Joanna van Bunderen (0), Temse
• Augusta VAN BELLEGHEM (18), Sijsele,8340,West-Vlaanderen,BELGIE
• Adriana Barel (86), Zevenbergen (N.B.)
• Antonius Josephus, Anton Joseph Triebels, Tribels (69), Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, Brussel, België
• Anna Maria van Hout (46), Zeeland (N.Br.)
• Anna van de Hoef (59), Amersfoort
• Antonius Josephus Triebels (69), Sint-Jans-Molenbeek (B)

• 1887 » Lincoln J. Beachey, American pilot († 1915)
• 1891 » Damaskinos of Athens, Greek archbishop († 1949)
• 1893 » Beatrice Wood, American illustrator and potter († 1998)
• 1895 » Matthew Ridgway, American general († 1993)
• 1895 » Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1973)
• 1898 » Emil Artin, Austrian-German mathematician and academic († 1962)
• 1900 » Edna Best, British stage and film actress, appeared on early television in 1938 († 1974)
• 1901 » Claude Choules, English-Australian soldier († 2011)
• 1902 » Ruby Dandridge, African-American film and radio actress († 1987)
• 1903 » Vasily Kozlov, Belarusian general and politician († 1967)

• 1850 » Oliver Cowdery, American religious leader (b. 1806)
• 1894 » Ned Williamson, American baseball player (b. 1857)
• 1901 » George Gilman, American businessman, founded The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (b. 1826)
• 1905 » Antonio Annetto Caruana, Maltese archaeologist and author (b. 1830)
• 1927 » J. G. Parry-Thomas, Welsh race car driver and engineer (b. 1884)
• 1927 » Mikhail Artsybashev, Ukrainian author and playwright (b. 1878)
• 1929 » Katharine Wright, American educator (b. 1874)
• 1932 » Eugen d'Albert, Scottish-German pianist and composer (b. 1864)
• 1943 » George Thompson, English cricketer and umpire (b. 1877)
• 1959 » Lou Costello, American actor and comedian (b. 1906)

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.
• February 21 » An Englishman raised in Australia, Bob Fitzsimmons, fought an Irishman, Peter Maher, in an American promoted event which technically took place in Mexico, winning the 1896 World Heavyweight Championship in boxing.
• March 1 » Battle of Adwa: An Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
• March 1 » Henri Becquerel discovers radioactive decay.
• June 15 » The deadliest tsunami in Japan's history kills more than 22,000 people.
• November 27 » Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss is first performed.
• 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 March 3, 1896 was about 5.9 °C. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%.