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• Alice Nash, Battersea, London, Middlesex, England († 1962)
• Aalberta Veenendaal, Amersfoort
• Adolf van Eendenburg, Monster
• Alberdina Maria Nuijens, Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1961)
• Alida Wormmeester, Winsum († 1967)
• Adrianus Lourenssen, Reek, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1955)
• Adrianus (John) in't Veld, Haarlemmermeer († 1984)
• Adriana Maria Jacoba GORDIJN, 's Gravenhage († 1936)
• Aafje (Aagje) Vermeulen, Willige Langerak († 1924)
• (Stillbirth) BONNEMA, Usquert († 1896)

• Aalbert Prooijen van (57), Strijen, ZH, Nederland
• Adriana van der Smit (50), Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Nederland
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• Alida (Aaltje) de Rooij, Besoijen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje Salomons (Antje) van (der) Veen (86), Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltje van Dijk (1), Rhenen
• Albartus Vedder (54), Bemmel,Gemeente Lingewaard,Gelderland,Nederland
• Adriana Francken (64), Putte, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana de Lorijn (83), Wamel
• Aalt Fidder (75), Westeinde, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1889 » Victor Eftimiu, Romanian poet and playwright († 1972)
• 1891 » Walter Model, German field marshal († 1945)
• 1892 » Franz Aigner, Austrian weightlifter († 1970)
• 1895 » Eugen Roth, German poet and songwriter († 1976)
• 1897 » Paul Fejos, Hungarian-born American director († 1963)
• 1899 » Hoyt Vandenberg, U.S. Air Force general († 1954)
• 1900 » René Guillot, French writer († 1969)
• 1901 » Cassandre, French painter († 1968)
• 1901 » Edward Turner, English engineer († 1973)
• 1901 » Harry Calder, South African cricketer († 1995)

• 1877 » Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist and journalist (b. 1796)
• 1881 » James Collinson, English painter (b. 1825)
• 1883 » Friedrich von Flotow, German composer (b. 1812)
• 1895 » Lord Randolph Churchill, English lawyer and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1849)
• 1920 » Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1884)
• 1939 » Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician, created Muesli (b. 1867)
• 1943 » John Burns, English trade union leader and politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (b. 1858)
• 1960 » Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (b. 1886)
• 1961 » Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American pole vaulter and businessman, founded the A. C. Gilbert Company (b. 1884)
• 1962 » André Lhote, French sculptor and painter (b. 1885)

• 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 2 » The Battle of Adwa: The Italian Army defeated by the Ethiopian Army in Adwa, Tigray, Ethiopia.
• April 6 » In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman emperor Theodosius I.
• May 18 » The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" doctrine is constitutional.
• July 28 » The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
• December 10 » Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi premieres in Paris. A riot breaks out at the end of the performance.
• 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 24, 1896 was about -2.3 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%.