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• Aartje Wilhelmina Jintes, Amsterdam, Nederland
• Albert Dekker, Gasselte († 1964)
• * Gerdina Martina Mommersteeg, Vlijmen († 1988)
• Aafke Kooi, Roodeschool, Groningen, Nederland
• Agnes Elisabeth Maria Pabelick, Antwerpen, België
• André Marcel Laurent, Voipreux, 51 Marne, Grand Est, France († 1969)
• Albert Dekker, Gasselte, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Adriana Eiff, Vlissingen
• Adrianus Marinus Hazenberg, Boxtel, Noord-Brabant, Nl
• Schüer, Altenberge, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany († 1896)

• Anna Cornelia Boxtel van (74), Tilburg, NB, Nederland
• Adriaan Huibregtse (73), Westkapelle, Zeeland, Netherlands
• de Graaf, Princenhage
• Adelheid Metelmann (0), Neuenstrasse 12, Bremen, Freie Hansestadt Bremen
• Anne Hendriks de Vries (70)
• Boorsma (0), Dantumadeel
• Anna Christina Bennis (3), Velp
• Anna Catharina van Steensel (71), Vught
• Anna GROOTENBOER (80), Willemstad
• Adriana de Winter (4), Ridderkerk

• 1887 » Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and theorist († 1920)
• 1888 » J. Arthur Rank, 1st Baron Rank, English businessman, founded Rank Organisation († 1972)
• 1889 » George Hutson, English runner and soldier († 1914)
• 1892 » Herman Potočnik, Croatian-Austrian engineer († 1929)
• 1898 » Vladimir Fock, Russian physicist and mathematician († 1974)
• 1899 » Gustaf Gründgens, German actor and director († 1963)
• 1900 » Marc Allégret, French director and screenwriter († 1973)
• 1901 » Andre Kostelanetz, Russian-American conductor and composer († 1980)
• 1903 » Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1983)
• 1905 » Pierre Brasseur, French-Italian actor and screenwriter († 1972)

• 1867 » Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician and engineer (b. 1788)
• 1870 » Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish journalist, poet, and playwright (b. 1836)
• 1880 » George Eliot, English novelist and poet (b. 1819)
• 1891 » Paul de Lagarde, German biblical scholar and orientalist (b. 1827)
• 1899 » Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist and publisher, founded Moody Publishers (b. 1837)
• 1902 » Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German-Austrian psychiatrist and author (b. 1840)
• 1915 » Rose Talbot Bullard, American medical doctor and professor (b. 1864)
• 1917 » Frances Xavier Cabrini, Italian-American nun and saint (b. 1850)
• 1918 » Aristeidis Moraitinis, Greek lieutenant and pilot (b. 1891)
• 1919 » Hermann Weingärtner, German gymnast (b. 1864)

• 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.
• 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.
• June 15 » The deadliest tsunami in Japan's history kills more than 22,000 people.
• August 17 » Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom.
• September 21 » Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan: British forces under the command of Horatio Kitchener take Dongola.

The temperature on December 22, 1896 was about -0.5 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%.