About the day » Sunday January 26, 1896Calender converter

• "Henriette" Laure Marie d'Avout, Annoux, Yonne, France († 1985)
• Aagje Bakkum, Uitgeest († 1965)
• (2) Anna Maria Keyer, Sloten Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland († 1962)
• Aaltje Wilhelmina Sara BRAS, Den Haag, ZH, Nederland
• Adriana Post, Rotterdam († 1927)
• ALBERT LOUIS DE CAUWER, SINT-NIKLAAS,OOST-VLAANDEREN,BELGIE († 1966)
• Adrianus Johannes Maria Lepper, de, Tilburg, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Alexander Taeymans, Oorderen († 1977)
• Aaltje Zwaagstra, Achtkarspelen (Achtkarspelen) (Friesland)
• Albertus Johannes van Arnhem, Weesp, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1947)

• Berendina Kok (78), Nijverdal, Hellendoorn, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia van den Berge (2), Rotterdam
• Agata den Haan (71), Rotterdam
• van Hilten (0), Rotterdam
• Arij Jongekrijg (75), Puttershoek, Nederland
• Alberta van Barreveld (0), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Arjen Antonie Posthumus (34), Rotterdam
• Arie Jongekrijg (75), Puttershoek
• Aaltje Kleen (55), Nieuwleusen
• Catharina Francisca SCHEYNS (81), Snaaskerke Belgie

• 1891 » August Froehlich, German priest and martyr († 1942)
• 1891 » Frank Costello, Italian-American mob boss († 1973)
• 1891 » Wilder Penfield, American-Canadian neurosurgeon and academic († 1976)
• 1892 » Bessie Coleman, American pilot († 1926)
• 1893 » Giuseppe Genco Russo, Italian mob boss († 1976)
• 1899 » Günther Reindorff, Russian-Estonian graphic designer and illustrator († 1974)
• 1900 » Karl Ristenpart, German conductor († 1967)
• 1902 » Menno ter Braak, Dutch author († 1940)
• 1904 » Ancel Keys, American physiologist and nutritionist († 2004)
• 1904 » Seán MacBride, Irish lawyer and politician, Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Nobel Prize laureate († 1988)

• 1869 » Duncan Gordon Boyes, English soldier; Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1846)
• 1870 » Victor de Broglie, French politician, 9th Prime Minister of France (b. 1785)
• 1885 » Charles George Gordon, English general and politician (b. 1833)
• 1885 » Edward Davy, English-Australian physician and engineer (b. 1806)
• 1886 » David Rice Atchison, American general and politician (b. 1807)
• 1887 » Anandi Gopal Joshi, One of the first female Indian physicians (b. 1865)
• 1891 » Nicolaus Otto, German engineer, invented the Internal combustion engine (b. 1833)
• 1893 » Abner Doubleday, American general (b. 1819)
• 1895 » Arthur Cayley, English mathematician and academic (b. 1825)
• 1904 » Whitaker Wright, English businessman (b. 1846)

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).
• 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.
• August 17 » Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom.
• November 1 » A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
• November 17 » The Western Pennsylvania Hockey League, which later became the first ice hockey league to openly trade and hire players, began play at Pittsburgh's Schenley Park Casino.

The temperature on January 26, 1896 was about 4.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%.