About the day » Thursday January 23, 1896Calender converter

• Dirkje van Rijn, 's-Gravenzande
• Alberic Alphonse Joseph PAGE > ROSE, Nethen († 1896)
• Adrianus Kerremans, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord Brabant, Nederland († 1946)
• Andries Hendrik Roosenburg Jr, The Hague, S-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1907)
• Aldina van Houten, Siegerswoude, Frysland, Netherlands († 1973)
• Aldina van Houten, Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland († 1973)
• Alma Heinrich († 1957)
• Aldina Martens Houten
• van Breda, Stratum
• Adrianus Karremans, 's Hertogenbosch, Gemeente 's Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1946)

• Adrianus Soeters (72), Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland
• Adriana Maria van Ginhoven (55), Baarle-Nassau
• Berend ter Luun (18), Sleen,Drenthe,Niederlande
• Barend Houtman (25)
• Arend Koekkoek (31), Middelburg, Zeeland, Nederland
• Arnoldus MULDER (72), Leiderdorp, 6116, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Annigje van Zwieten (65), Bodegraven
• Alida Mulder (66), Loenersloot, Utrecht, NL
• Adriana in 't Veld (in ’t Veldt, In ’t Velt) (2), Maasdam, Nederland
• Baaltje (Isabella) Verhoeve (23), Passaic, New Jersey, V.S

• 1894 » Jyotirmoyee Devi, Indian author († 1988)
• 1896 » Alf Blair, Australian rugby league player and coach († 1944)
• 1896 » Alf Hall, English-South African cricketer († 1964)
• 1897 » Ieva Simonaitytė, Lithuanian author († 1978)
• 1897 » Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect († 2000)
• 1897 » Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian activist and politician († 1945)
• 1897 » William Stephenson, Canadian captain and spy († 1989)
• 1898 » Freda Utley, English scholar and author († 1978)
• 1898 » Georg Kulenkampff, German violinist († 1948)
• 1898 » Randolph Scott, American actor († 1987)

• 1866 » Thomas Love Peacock, English author and poet (b. 1785)
• 1875 » Charles Kingsley English priest and author (b. 1819)
• 1883 » Gustave Doré, French engraver and illustrator (b. 1832)
• 1893 » José Zorrilla, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1817)
• 1893 » Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II, American lawyer and politician, 16th United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1825)
• 1921 » Mykola Leontovych, Ukrainian composer and conductor (b. 1877)
• 1922 » Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor and academic (b. 1855)
• 1922 » René Beeh, Alsatian painter and draughtsman (b. 1886)
• 1923 » Max Nordau, Austrian physician and author (b. 1849)
• 1931 » Anna Pavlova, Russian-English ballerina (b. 1881)

• 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 26 » Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
• May 26 » Nicholas II becomes the last Tsar of Imperial Russia.
• June 2 » Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.
• June 4 » Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
• 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 23, 1896 was about -1.1 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%.