About the day » Thursday August 13, 1896Calender converter

• Adrianus Marianus Smit, rotterdam († 1970)
• Anna Sophia Elisabeth (Annie) Schaafsma, Leeuwarden, Nederland († 1987)
• Alexander Polman, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1900)
• Aaltje Bulthuis, Uithuizen († 1975)
• Abraham Verveen, Schiedam
• Grietje De Groote, Barger Oosterveen († 1898)
• Aaltje Pieters BULTHUIS, Uithuizen Groningen Netherlands
• Adele Joels, s-Gravenhage († 1942)
• Albertus Johannes Janus, Haarlem († 1896)
• A(Aleida) Weerink, Almelo(A) († 1943)

• Abraham Verveen (71), Schiedam,-
• Antje van Stipriaan (0), Haarlem
• Blondina Casteleyn (74), Beerst
• Beitske Metskes van der Leest (79), Ferwerderadeel,Fryslan,Nederland
• Adriana de Vries (68), Waddinxveen
• Arentje Klaasen Haan (78), Obergum, Winsum, Groningen, Nederland
• Anje van Bolhuis (78), Groningen
• Alida Jetske Andrea Pieters Zondervan (0), Leeuwarden, Gem. Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Arentje Klaasen (Arendje, Klaassens) Haan (78), Obergum, Winsum, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriana de Vries (68), Waddinxveen, Zuid Holland, Netherlands

• 1888 » Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor († 1975)
• 1888 » John Logie Baird, Scottish engineer, invented the television († 1946)
• 1889 » Camillien Houde, Canadian lawyer and politician, 34th Mayor of Montreal († 1958)
• 1895 » Bert Lahr, American actor († 1967)
• 1895 » István Barta, Hungarian water polo player († 1948)
• 1898 » Jean Borotra, French tennis player († 1994)
• 1898 » Regis Toomey, American actor († 1991)
• 1899 » Alfred Hitchcock, English-American director and producer († 1980)
• 1902 » Felix Wankel, German engineer († 1988)
• 1904 » Buddy Rogers, American actor and musician († 1999)

• 1863 » Eugène Delacroix, French painter and lithographer (b. 1798)
• 1865 » Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian physician and obstetrician (b. 1818)
• 1910 » Florence Nightingale, Italian-English nurse and theologian (b. 1820)
• 1912 » Jules Massenet, French composer (b. 1842)
• 1917 » Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)
• 1934 » Mary Hunter Austin, American author and playwright (b. 1868)
• 1937 » Sigizmund Levanevsky, Soviet aircraft pilot of Polish origin (b. 1902)
• 1946 » H. G. Wells, English novelist, historian, and critic (b. 1866)
• 1954 » Demetrius Constantine Dounis, Greek violinist and mandolin player (b. 1886)
• 1958 » Francis J. McCormick, American football, basketball player, and coach (b. 1903)

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 4 » Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
• 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.
• 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 1 » A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
• 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 August 13, 1896 was about 18.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%.