About the day » Wednesday May 13, 1896Calender converter

• Ketelaar, Emmer-Compascuum (Emmen) († 1896)
• Albert DEVOS, Reninge,8647,Flandre Occidentale,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 1917)
• Aalt Hoksbergen
• Adriana van Heeswijk, Bladel († 1921)
• Angela Giulia Boscarato, Treviso, Treviso, Regione Veneto, Italian Republic († 1936)
• Adolf Gerhardus van Eerden, Wagenborgen († 1974)
• Anna Adelheid - Leida - Eya Borker, Horsten, Stadskanaal, Groningen, Nederland († 1972)
• Albert Wever, Lemsterland († 1956)
• Alice Clare, Jamaica BWI († 1972)
• Anna Cornelia Nelen, Hoevestein, Wouwse Plantage

• Albert Gerlofs Katoen (95), Vlagtwedde,, Groningen, Nederland
• ANJE BIJMOLT (69), Sappemeer, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Jager (0), Farmsum
• Antje Smit (70), Graft
• Albert Katuin (95), Emmen, Drenthe, The Netherlands
• Anna Margaretha - Margaretha Terfehr (44), Hebelermeer, Twist, Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Albert Gerlofs Katuin (95), Emmen
• Anthonie Ultee (51), Woerden-Utrecht-Nederland
• Adrianus Meeder (58), Utrecht
• Antoinette DESBIOLLES (20), La Roche-sur-Foron, Rhone-Alpes, France

• 1884 » Oskar Rosenfeld, Jewish-Austrian writer and Holocaust victim (d.1944)
• 1885 » Mikiel Gonzi, Maltese archbishop († 1984)
• 1887 » Lorna Hodgkinson, Australian educator and educational psychologist († 1951)
• 1888 » Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist and geophysicist († 1993)
• 1894 » Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, Icelandic politician, 2nd President of Iceland († 1972)
• 1895 » Nandor Fodor, Hungarian-American psychologist, parapsychologist, and author († 1964)
• 1901 » Murilo Mendes, Brazilian poet and telegrapher († 1975)
• 1904 » Louis Duffus, Australian-South African cricketer and journalist († 1984)
• 1905 » Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, Indian lawyer and politician, 5th President of India († 1977)
• 1907 » Daphne du Maurier, English novelist and playwright († 1989)

• 1866 » Nikolai Brashman, Czech-Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1796)
• 1878 » Joseph Henry, American physicist and academic (b. 1797)
• 1884 » Cyrus McCormick, American businessman, co-founded the International Harvester Company (b. 1809)
• 1885 » Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician, pathologist, and anatomist (b. 1809)
• 1903 » Apolinario Mabini, Filipino lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Philippines (b. 1864)
• 1916 » Sholem Aleichem, Ukrainian-American author and playwright (b. 1859)
• 1921 » Jean Aicard, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1848)
• 1926 » Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian-American bishop (b. 1857)
• 1929 » Arthur Scherbius, German electrical engineer, invented the Enigma machine (b. 1878)
• 1930 » Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian scientist, explorer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)

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. Neeltje
16. Petronella

• 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 4 » Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
• January 18 » An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.
• 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 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.
• June 2 » Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.
• July 9 » William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

The temperature on May 13, 1896 was about 12.6 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 68%.