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• (Stillborn) GRUNDMANN, Groningen Groningen Netherlands († 1896)
• Aalbert Jan Laros, Rhenen, Utrecht, NL († 1955)
• Aaltje van Essen († 1991)
• Agatha Maria Liduina Hendrika Jönsthövel, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1896)
• Aafke Bakker, groningen
• Albert Arends Schuring, Borger, Nederland († 1982)
• Alfons Goormans, Nijlen, België († 1971)
• Alexander Pindikofski, Semarang, Java, Ned. Indie
• Alida Adriana Förrer, Oudewater
• Aagje Diewertje Last, Giessendam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1939)

• Annie Isabel Carver (0), Hull
• Anna Cathariana van Noord (30), Veendam
• Alberta Aleida Slagter (81), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antonia de Bijl (0), Lith, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antje van Vondel (1)
• Aaltien (Aaltje) Olijve (32), Norgervaart, Norg, Drenthe, Nederland
• Hendrik Thijs (39), Beilen
• Albert Gilde (75), Middelburg
• Albert Nijenhuis (73), Zutphen
• Abraham Boers (0), 's-Gravenzande

• 1892 » Bill Meanix, American hurdler and coach († 1957)
• 1892 » Oliver Hardy, American actor and comedian († 1957)
• 1892 » Paul Rostock, German surgeon and academic († 1956)
• 1893 » Jorge Guillén, Spanish poet, critic, and academic († 1984)
• 1894 » Toots Mondt, American wrestler and promoter († 1976)
• 1896 » C. M. Eddy Jr., American author († 1967)
• 1896 » Ville Ritola, Finnish-American runner († 1982)
• 1898 » Albert Kivikas, Estonian journalist and author († 1978)
• 1901 » Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician and academic († 1973)
• 1903 » Berthold Goldschmidt, German pianist and composer († 1996)

• 1862 » John Tyler, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 10th President of the United States (b. 1790)
• 1873 » Edward Bulwer-Lytton, English author, poet, playwright, and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1803)
• 1878 » Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist and academic (b. 1788)
• 1886 » Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (b. 1819)
• 1892 » Anton Anderledy, Swiss religious leader, 23rd Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1819)
• 1896 » Charles Floquet, French lawyer and politician, 55th Prime Minister of France (b. 1828)
• 1923 » Wallace Reid, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1891)
• 1936 » Hermanus Brockmann, Dutch rower (b. 1871)
• 1936 » Rudyard Kipling, English author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• 1940 » Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, Polish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1865)

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.
• March 1 » Battle of Adwa: An Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
• 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.
• June 4 » Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
• July 9 » William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
• July 28 » The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
• 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.

The temperature on January 18, 1896 was about 5.5 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%.