About the day » Sunday December 6, 1896Calender converter

• Maene, Bekegem, België († 1896)
• Alphons Elkeles, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany († 1944)
• Ankje van der Veen, Suameer, gem. Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1905)
• Aalbert Boer, Langerak
• Alida Duijn, Beverwijk
• Alexander Charles Nicholas Phillips de Lisle († 1917)
• Andries FRANSEN, Rotterdam, Gemeente Rotterdam, South Holland, Nederland († 1900)
• Alexander Charles Nicholas MARCH PHILLIPPS DE LISLE, Leicestershire England U.K († 1917)
• Alberdina Cornelisse Schaap, Huizen († 1928)
• Abraham Nicolaas Snoeij, Gouda,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1967)

• Antony Brouwers (59), Alphen en Riel, Gemeente Alphen en Riel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anje Bruins (29), Saaxumhuizen
• Almon Elias Rose (59), Berlin, Green Lake, Wisconsin
• Anna Maria Crombach (0), Kerkrade (L
• Adrianus Verweij (8), Buren (GL)
• August Joannes MAERTENS (Maerten) (60), Slijpe
• Anna Frederika Wilhelmina van Huet Chevally (72), Madioen, Oost-Java, Nederlands-Indië
• Christiaan van Dalen (0), Rijsenburg
• Adrianus Johannes van Lith (40), Empel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria De Loecker (50), Herentals, Antwerpen, België

• 1892 » Osbert Sitwell, English-Italian captain, poet, and author († 1969)
• 1893 » Homer N. Wallin, American admiral († 1984)
• 1893 » Sylvia Townsend Warner, English author and poet († 1978)
• 1896 » Ira Gershwin, American songwriter († 1983)
• 1898 » Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-American photographer and journalist († 1995)
• 1898 » Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish sociologist and economist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1987)
• 1898 » John McDonald, Scottish-Australian politician, 37th Premier of Victoria († 1977)
• 1898 » Winifred Lenihan, American actress, writer, and director († 1964)
• 1900 » Agnes Moorehead, American actress († 1974)
• 1901 » Eliot Porter, American photographer and academic († 1990)

• 1868 » August Schleicher, German linguist and academic (b. 1821)
• 1878 » Theodoros Vryzakis, Greek painter and educator (b. 1814)
• 1879 » Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American businessman (b. 1814)
• 1882 » Alfred Escher, Swiss businessman and politician, founded Credit Suisse (b. 1819)
• 1882 » Anthony Trollope, English novelist, essayist, and short story writer (b. 1815)
• 1889 » Jefferson Davis, American general and politician, President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1808)
• 1892 » Werner von Siemens, German engineer and businessman, founded the Siemens Company (b. 1816)
• 1918 » Alexander Dianin, Russian chemist (b. 1851)
• 1921 » Said Halim Pasha, Ottoman politician, 280th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1865)
• 1924 » Gene Stratton-Porter, American author and screenwriter (b. 1863)

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.
• March 2 » The Battle of Adwa: The Italian Army defeated by the Ethiopian Army in Adwa, Tigray, Ethiopia.
• June 15 » The deadliest tsunami in Japan's history kills more than 22,000 people.
• July 28 » The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
• August 16 » Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.
• November 27 » Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss is first performed.
• December 14 » The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.

The temperature on December 6, 1896 was about 3.0 °C. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%.