About the day » Thursday May 21, 1896Calender converter

• Anna Maria Cornelia Hopmans, Fijnaart,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1955)
• Anna Gertrudis Hamers, Simpelveld († 1985)
• Anastatia Huybrechts, Budingen, België († 1977)
• Anna van der Meer, Leeuwarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1988)
• Anna Stet, Egmond Binnen († 1977)
• Anna Maria Cornelia Speekenbrink, Oosterhout
• Alexandre Auguste Louis GASTÉ, Chaudefonds-sur-Layon, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France († 1969)
• Anthonia Nobel, Oudewater, Utrecht, Netherlands († 1897)
• Abner J. Virkler, New York († 1957)
• Adrianus de Krom, Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe († 1896)

• Andries Martens van der Sluis (82), Harlingen
• Adriana Martina de JONGE (47), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Vrolijk (0), Ouder-Amstel, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Paulina Verleye (0), Oostende (B)
• Berend van Dam (0), Lutten
• Aleida Hermanna Altink (14), Rijssen
• Charles Louis Marie Ghislain van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (62), Gent, 9000, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
• Charles Louis Marie Ghislain van Zuylen Van Nyevelt (62), Gent
• Gernaat (0), Beneden Veensloot, 9651 BS, Nederland
• Aagje Mulder (58), Hillegersberg

• 1893 » Arthur Carr, English cricketer († 1963)
• 1893 » Giles Chippindall, Australian public servant († 1969)
• 1895 » Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexican general, president (1934–1940) and father of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas († 1970)
• 1898 » Armand Hammer, American physician and businessman, founded Occidental Petroleum († 1990)
• 1898 » Carl Johnson, American long jumper († 1932)
• 1898 » Charles Léon Hammes, Luxembourgian lawyer and judge († 1967)
• 1898 » John McLaughlin, American painter and translator († 1976)
• 1901 » Horace Heidt, American pianist, bandleader, and radio host († 1986)
• 1901 » Regina M. Anderson, Multiracial playwright and librarian († 1993)
• 1901 » Sam Jaffe, American film producer and agent († 2000)

• 1879 » Arturo Prat, Chilean lawyer and commander (b. 1848)
• 1894 » Émile Henry, French anarchist (b. 1872)
• 1894 » August Kundt, German physicist and academic (b. 1839)
• 1895 » Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1819)
• 1901 » Joseph Olivier, French rugby player (b. 1874)
• 1911 » Williamina Fleming, Scottish-American astronomer and academic (b. 1857)
• 1915 » Leonid Gobyato, Russian general and engineer (b. 1875)
• 1919 » Evgraf Fedorov, Russian mathematician, crystallographer, and mineralogist (b. 1853)
• 1920 » Venustiano Carranza, Mexican politician, 54th President of Mexico (b. 1859)
• 1925 » Hidesaburō Ueno, Japanese agriculturalist, guardian of Hachikō (b. 1871)

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.
• April 15 » Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
• 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.
• June 2 » Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.
• August 16 » Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.
• November 27 » Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss is first performed.

The temperature on May 21, 1896 was about 10.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%.