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• Adriana Cornelia Bartels, Etten-leur († 1960)
• Anna Catharina Kuster, Gendt, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana Gevers, Rosmalen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1896)
• Aaron K Gardner, Michigan († 1969)
• Adriana Cornelia Bartels, Etten († 1960)
• Adriana Cornelia de Bresser, Vught († 1974)
• Albert Mulder, Waupun, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten († 1979)
• Andries Jonker, Avereest
• Adriana Maria DEPESTEL, Torhout
• Adriana Koole, Oost en West Souburg, Zeeland, NL († 1972)

• Aafke de Poel (28), Grijpskerk, Groningen, Nederland
• Aartje Kruidenier (76), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Schut (0), Windeweer, Groningen, Nederland
• Aleida Kuiper (0), Almelo, Ambt
• Anthonius Verburgt (1), Durgerdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adélaïde Philomena DEBUCQUOQ (45), Rollegem, 34033, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique
• Abraham P Beachy (67), Brothersvalley, Somerset, Pennsylvania
• Antonie Nieuwenburg (60), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Allegonda van Beusekom (48), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Antonia Susanna Jacoba Josephina Born (1), Vlissingen

• 1891 » Giovanni Michelucci, Italian architect and urban planner, designed the Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station († 1990)
• 1892 » Artur Rodziński, Polish-American conductor († 1958)
• 1892 » Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player († 1962)
• 1895 » Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat († 1948)
• 1896 » Dziga Vertov, Polish-Russian director and screenwriter († 1954)
• 1896 » Lawrence Wackett, Australian commander and engineer († 1982)
• 1897 » Theodore Plucknett, English legal historian († 1965)
• 1900 » Una Ledingham, British physician, known for research on diabetes in pregnancy († 1965)
• 1901 » Bob Marshall, American activist, co-founded The Wilderness Society († 1939)
• 1902 » Dan Keating, Irish Republican Army volunteer († 2007)

• 1861 » Frederick William IV of Prussia (b. 1795)
• 1892 » George Biddell Airy, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1801)
• 1904 » James Longstreet, American general and diplomat (b. 1821)
• 1913 » Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (b. 1855)
• 1915 » Karl Goldmark, Hungarian violinist and composer (b. 1830)
• 1917 » Léon Flameng, French cyclist (b. 1877)
• 1920 » Paul Adam, French author (b. 1862)
• 1924 » Sabine Baring-Gould, English author and scholar (b. 1834)
• 1939 » Roman Dmowski, Polish politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1864)
• 1941 » Mischa Levitzki, Russian-American pianist and composer (b. 1898)

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 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 28 » An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.
• August 17 » Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom.
• December 14 » The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
• 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 January 2, 1896 was about 1.3 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%.