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• Anna Nabarro, amsterdam, Nederland
• Albert Schiffers, Odenkirchen, Monchengladbach, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany († 1899)
• Alfons Oscar Van der Beken, Zevergem, De Pinte, België († 1896)
• Adriana Dudok, Terheijden, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands († 1911)
• Afie Kliphuis, Sappemeer (Groningen)
• Alva Marie Mitchell, Downing, Wisconsin (Dunn), Verenigde Staten († 1978)
• Aaltje van Iperen, Meerkerk (Vijfheerenlanden), Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• * Magdalena Wijnalda Lekkerkerker, Willeskop († 1992)
• Anna Catharina Buter, Koedijk
• Anna Maria Pigmans, Tilburg

• Adriaan Nelemans (66), Lage Zwaluwe
• Cornelia Mutsaers (48), Tilburg, Nederland
• Antoinette Louise Jacqueline Landré (85), Haarlem, Nederland
• Arie Gijsbertus Langendoen (1), Amsterdam
• André VRANCKX, Leuven, 24062, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgique
• Cordelia Green (53), Crockett, Tennessee, Verenigde Staten
• baby Wilcox (0), Cedarville, Modoc, California, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Elisabeth Schmidt (0), Utrecht
• Abel de Haan (62), Niebert, Marum, Groningen, Nederland
• Alida Wilhelmina Borman (0), Utrecht

• 1887 » Jozef Tiso, Slovak priest and politician, President of Slovakia († 1947)
• 1890 » Conrad Richter, American journalist and novelist († 1968)
• 1891 » Irene Rich, American actress († 1988)
• 1893 » Kurt Reidemeister, German mathematician connected to the Vienna Circle († 1971)
• 1895 » Mike Gazella, American baseball player and manager († 1978)
• 1899 » Piero Dusio, Italian footballer, businessman and race car driver († 1975)
• 1900 » Gerald Marks, American composer († 1997)
• 1902 » Arna Bontemps, American librarian, author, and poet († 1973)
• 1902 » Karl Leichter, Estonian musicologist and academic († 1987)
• 1904 » Wilfred Pickles, English actor and radio host († 1978)

• 1869 » Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French poet, author, and critic (b. 1804)
• 1882 » Arthur de Gobineau, French philosopher and author (b. 1816)
• 1890 » Samuel Freeman Miller, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1816)
• 1904 » Pavlos Melas, French-Greek captain (b. 1870)
• 1905 » Henry Irving, English actor and manager (b. 1838)
• 1909 » Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, Spanish philosopher and academic (b. 1849)
• 1911 » Sister Nivedita, Irish-Indian social worker, author, and educator (b. 1867)
• 1917 » Florence La Badie, American actress (b. 1888)
• 1919 » Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
• 1926 » Hans E. Kinck, Norwegian philologist and author (b. 1865)

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• July 9 » William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
• August 17 » Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom.

The temperature on October 13, 1896 was about 5.5 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%.