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• Albertus Cornelis Mansveld, Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1928)
• Alberic Geldof
• Aart van de Streek, Doornspijk, Gelderland, Nederland († 1936)
• Alberdina hendrika Munnikhuizen, Huizen
• Aaltje Idsges van der Ploeg, Oostermeer, Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1897)
• Adriana Trijntje van Vliet, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alberdina Hendrika Munnikhuizen, Huizen, Huizen, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Ada Ann Meyers († 1994)
• Adrianus Hubertus Simon Rovers, Wagenberg (Terheijden), Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1966)
• Geelmuijden, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1896)

• Aaltje Roelfsema (53), Breukelen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Antonius van den Broek (75), Uden
• Bernadina Van Opstal (66), Geel, Antwerpen, België
• Adriana Cornelia van den Corput (36), Oosterhout
• Anna Maria Moens (76), Neeritter, Limburg, Nederland
• Bernardina Aerts (86), Beuningen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alewijn de Jager (32), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Geelmuijden (0), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aaltje Blom (12), Haren, Groningen, Nederland
• Aagje Schipper (64), Haarlem

• 1891 » Genrikh Yagoda, director of the NKVD († 1938)
• 1893 » Leatrice Joy, American actress († 1985)
• 1893 » Margaret Leech, American historian and author († 1974)
• 1896 » Esdras Minville, Canadian economist and sociologist († 1975)
• 1897 » Armstrong Sperry, American author and illustrator († 1976)
• 1897 » Herman J. Mankiewicz, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1953)
• 1898 » Margaret Morris, American actress († 1968)
• 1898 » Raphaël Salem, Greek-French mathematician and academic († 1963)
• 1899 » Yitzhak Lamdan, Russian-Israeli journalist and poet († 1954)
• 1900 » Nellie Campobello, Mexican writer who chronicled the Mexican Revolution († 1986)

• 1862 » Bahadur Shah II, Mughal emperor (b. 1775)
• 1872 » Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician and academic (b. 1833)
• 1881 » John MacHale, Irish archbishop (b. 1791)
• 1906 » Heinrich Seidel, German engineer and poet (b. 1842)
• 1907 » Jesús García, Mexican railroad brakeman (b. 1881)
• 1913 » Alfred Russel Wallace, Welsh-English biologist and geographer (b. 1823)
• 1916 » Henry Ward Ranger, American painter and academic (b. 1858)
• 1919 » Hugo Haase, German lawyer, jurist, and politician (b. 1863)
• 1922 » Sam Thompson, American baseball player (b. 1860)
• 1923 » Ashwini Kumar Dutta, Indian educator and philanthropist (b. 1856)

• 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 4 » Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
• February 1 » La bohème premieres in Turin at the Teatro Regio (Turin), conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.
• 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 26 » Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
• July 28 » The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
• August 27 » Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in world history (09:02 to 09:40), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.

The temperature on November 7, 1896 was about -0.2 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%.