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• Ana Lopes de Souza Lima, Guaratuba, Paraná, Brasil
• Dokter, Oude Pekela, Groningen, Nederland († 1896)
• Aafje de Jong, Meppel
• Alveta KENNEY, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts
• Abraham SANTEN, van, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1976)
• Brants, België († 1962)
• Abraham Hartendorp, Spaarndam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1977)
• Anna Joanna Maria Christina Tummers, Geleen († 1974)
• Agnes Antonetta (Nettie) Linskens, Maashees, Overloon, Noord-Braband, Nederland († 1961)
• Abraham Hartendorp, Spaarndam, Noord Holland, The Netherlands († 1977)

• Antonia VAN CAPPELLEN (74), Grembergen,9200,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Anton Fortuin (1), Wissenkerke
• bastiaan BRUSSAARD (0), oud-beijerland
• Arend Hakkeling (0), Borger
• Dokter (0), Oude Pekela, Groningen, Nederland
• Alida Middag (2), IJsselstein, Utrecht, NL
• Arnoldus Arends (79), Huissen (Lingewaard), Gelderland, Nederland
• Agatha Hermans van Vlijmen (71), Overschie, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Willems MAST (86), Lemmer
• Agatha Peters van Vlijmen (71), Overschie, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1888 » Frances Marion, American screenwriter, novelist and journalist († 1973)
• 1889 » Stanislav Kosior, Polish-Russian politician († 1939)
• 1891 » Gio Ponti, Italian architect, industrial designer, furniture designer, artist, and publisher.(† 1979)
• 1897 » Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1974)
• 1899 » Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-American violinist and conductor († 1985)
• 1899 » Howard Thurman, American author, philosopher and civil rights activist († 1981)
• 1901 » Craig Wood, American golfer († 1968)
• 1901 » George Gallup, American statistician and academic († 1984)
• 1901 » V. Shantaram, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1984)
• 1902 » Franklin Adreon, American film and television director († 1979)

• 1852 » Rose Philippine Duchesne, French-American nun and saint (b. 1769)
• 1886 » Chester A. Arthur, American general, lawyer, and politician, 21st President of the United States (b. 1829)
• 1889 » William Allingham, Irish-English poet and scholar (b. 1824)
• 1909 » Renée Vivien, English-French poet (b. 1877)
• 1922 » Marcel Proust, French author and critic (b. 1871)
• 1927 » Scipione Borghese, 10th Prince of Sulmona Italian race car driver, explorer, and politician (b. 1871)
• 1936 » V. O. Chidambaram Pillai, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1872)
• 1940 » Ivane Javakhishvili, Georgian historian and academic (b. 1876)
• 1941 » Émile Nelligan, Canadian poet and author (b. 1879)
• 1941 » Walther Nernst, German chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• May 18 » The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" doctrine is constitutional.
• July 9 » William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
• November 27 » Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss is first performed.

The temperature on November 18, 1896 was about -0.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%.