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• Adrianus Arie Hufener, Utrecht
• Aaltina Sibina Sap, Wymeer, Ostfriesland, Germany
• Adrianus Bolwerk, Dinther, Nederland († 1984)
• Johanna Adriana van Gool, -Rotterdam
• Adrianus Frijters, Fijnaart (Heyningen), Nederland
• Adrianus Frijters, Fijnaart en Heijningen († 1961)
• Adriana de GROOT, Leiden
• Herman Helsloot, IJsselstein († 1972)
• van Stuivenberg, Kesteren († 1896)
• * Johannes van Eck, Boekel († 1943)

• Barthelomeus van Pelt (80)
• Anna Catharina Theys (34), Lier, België
• Aukje van der Ploeg (0), Hijum
• Arnolda Johanna Gerrits Meijroos (57), Arnhem
• Aart van Pelt (2), Rotterdam
• Alfred FYNN (70), Johannesburg, South Africa
• Abigail de Abraham Salom Delvalle y de Meza (78), Curaçao
• Adriana Hendriks (85), Rotterdam
• Albertje Wolff (38), Edam
• Adriana Hendriks (85), Rotterdam,Zuid-Holland,Nederland

• 1890 » Moa Martinson, Swedish author († 1964)
• 1890 » Nishinoumi Kajirō III, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 30th Yokozuna († 1933)
• 1891 » David Townsend, American art director and set decorator († 1935)
• 1892 » Alice Brady, American actress († 1939)
• 1893 » Battista Farina, Italian businessman, founded the Pininfarina Company († 1966)
• 1894 » Alexander Lippisch, German-American aerodynamicist and engineer († 1976)
• 1899 » Peter Aufschnaiter, Austrian mountaineer, geographer, and cartographer († 1973)
• 1903 » Travis Jackson, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1987)
• 1905 » Isabella Smith Andrews, New Zealand writer († 1990)
• 1905 » James Dunn, American actor († 1967)

• 1863 » Theodore Judah, American engineer (b. 1826)
• 1877 » Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (b. 1784)
• 1883 » William Morgan, English-Australian politician, 14th Premier of South Australia (b. 1828)
• 1886 » James Watney junior, English brewer, cricketer, and politician (b. 1832)
• 1887 » Alfred Domett, English-New Zealand poet and politician, 4th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1811)
• 1887 » Jenny Lind, Swedish operatic soprano (b. 1820)
• 1898 » George Goyder, English-Australian surveyor (b. 1826)
• 1905 » Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist and physiologist (b. 1817)
• 1911 » Kyrle Bellew, English actor (b. 1850)
• 1930 » Viggo Jensen, Danish weightlifter, target shooter, and gymnast (b. 1874)

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).
• March 1 » Battle of Adwa: An Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
• March 1 » Henri Becquerel discovers radioactive decay.
• May 26 » Nicholas II becomes the last Tsar of Imperial Russia.
• August 27 » Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in world history (09:02 to 09:40), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
• November 27 » Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss is first performed.

The temperature on November 2, 1896 was about 6.6 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%.