About the day » Thursday February 13, 1896Calender converter

• Allin Catlin, Martin Township, Rock, Minnesota, United States († 1957)
• Adrianus Cornelius van Groezen, Middelburg († 1896)
• Antonius Leonardus Adrianus de Jong, Steenbergen († 1974)
• Aart van de Bovenkamp, Veenendaal, Nederland
• Agatha Cornelia van Koert, Den Haag († 1981)
• Adriana Mazina van Eck, Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aart Bovenkamp, Veenendaal, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana Kikkert, Den Helder († 1908)
• Afke Everts Salverda, Kollumerland en Nieuwkruisland, Noardeast-Fryslan, Friesland, Netherlands († 1971)
• Abraham Moor, 's-Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1912)

• Anna Maria VANNITSEN (57), Sint-Lambrechts-Herk, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie
• Anne Halma (75)
• Alphonsius Josephus Delrue (33), Achthuizen
• Adriana Hendrika van ELDIK (1), Avereest
• Barend de Rave (21), Op zee
• Anna Francina Bartha (Adriana) Hopman (Mopman) (72), Maastricht, Nederland
• Anna Maria Janning (43), Hesepertwist, Twist, Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Adélaïde MATHIEU (68), Gugney-aux-Aulx
• Anna Dijkema (65), Oudeschip gem. Uithuizermeeden 2
• Adolph Nijhoff (61), Denekamp

• 1889 » Leontine Sagan, Austrian actress and director († 1974)
• 1891 » Grant Wood, American painter and academic († 1942)
• 1891 » Kate Roberts, Welsh author and activist († 1985)
• 1892 » Robert H. Jackson, American lawyer, judge, and politician, 57th United States Attorney General († 1954)
• 1898 » Hubert Ashton, English cricketer and politician († 1979)
• 1900 » Barbara von Annenkoff, Russian-born German film and stage actress († 1979)
• 1901 » Paul Lazarsfeld, Austrian-American sociologist and academic († 1976)
• 1902 » Harold Lasswell, American political scientist and theorist († 1978)
• 1903 » Georges Simenon, Belgian-Swiss author († 1989)
• 1903 » Georgy Beriev, Georgian-Russian engineer, founded the Beriev Aircraft Company († 1979)

• 1877 » Costache Caragiale, Romanian actor and manager (b. 1815)
• 1883 » Richard Wagner, German composer (b. 1813)
• 1888 » Jean-Baptiste Lamy, French-American archbishop (b. 1814)
• 1892 » Provo Wallis, Canadian-English admiral (b. 1791)
• 1893 » Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, Mexican intellectual and journalist (b. 1834)
• 1905 » Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (b. 1844)
• 1906 » Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter (b. 1866)
• 1934 » József Pusztai, Slovene-Hungarian poet and journalist (b. 1864)
• 1942 » Epitácio Pessoa, Brazilian lawyer, judge, and politician, 11th President of Brazil (b. 1865)
• 1942 » Otakar Batlička, Czech journalist (b. 1895)

• 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.
• March 2 » The Battle of Adwa: The Italian Army defeated by the Ethiopian Army in Adwa, Tigray, Ethiopia.
• May 18 » Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people.
• May 18 » The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" doctrine is constitutional.
• May 27 » The F4-strength St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing over $10-million in damage.
• December 30 » Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila.

The temperature on February 13, 1896 was about 4.5 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%.