About the day » Monday February 17, 1896Calender converter

• Grilis, Boxtel (NB, NLD) († 1896)
• Abel Zijlma, Georgetown Township (Michigan USA) († 1956)
• Aagje Muts, Purmerend, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Abel (Abe ) Zijlma, Georgetown,Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 1956)
• Adriana de Bree, Den Haag († 1918)
• Abraham Nieuwland, Herkingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1987)
• Adriana Baris, Barendrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Baris
• Aaltje Bouman, Groningen († 1896)
• Adriana Paulina JAGER, Etten-Leur, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Benjamin Crumplin (79), Rose Cottage, Fleet, Hampshire, England
• Auke Gerrits Bennema (78), Hallum, Ferwerderadeel
• Puite (0), Terwispel
• Akke Sietes de Jong (46), Kortehemmen
• Adriana Maria SMAK GREGOOR (0), Dordrecht
• Camiel Sansier (0), Woumen
• Berend Wolf (0), Oldebroek, Gelderland, Nederland
• Ardiena van Schadewijk (85), Lithoijen, Nederland
• Ann Ensminger (81)
• Antje van der Vis (55), Salem Township, Allegan County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten

• 1887 » Joseph Bech, Luxembourgian lawyer and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Luxembourg († 1975)
• 1887 » Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer and critic († 1947)
• 1888 » Otto Stern, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1969)
• 1890 » Ronald Fisher, English-Australian statistician, biologist, and geneticist († 1962)
• 1891 » Abraham Fraenkel, German-Israeli mathematician and academic († 1965)
• 1893 » Wally Pipp, American baseball player and journalist († 1965)
• 1899 » Jibanananda Das, Bangladeshi-Indian poet and author († 1954)
• 1900 » Ruth Clifford, American actress († 1998)
• 1903 » Sadegh Hedayat, Iranian-French author and translator († 1951)
• 1904 » Hans Morgenthau, German-American political scientist, philosopher, and academic († 1980)

• 1854 » John Martin, English painter, engraver, and illustrator (b. 1789)
• 1856 » Heinrich Heine, German journalist and poet (b. 1797)
• 1874 » Adolphe Quetelet, Belgian astronomer, mathematician, and sociologist (b. 1796)
• 1890 » Christopher Latham Sholes, American publisher and politician (b. 1819)
• 1905 » William Bickerton, English-American religious leader, leader in the Latter Day Saint movement (b. 1815)
• 1909 » Geronimo, American tribal leader (b. 1829)
• 1912 » Edgar Evans, Welsh sailor and explorer (b. 1876)
• 1919 » Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1841)
• 1934 » Albert I of Belgium (b. 1875)
• 1934 » Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player and theoretician (b. 1862)

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 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 » Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
• August 27 » Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in world history (09:02 to 09:40), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
• December 10 » Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi premieres in Paris. A riot breaks out at the end of the performance.
• December 30 » Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila.

The temperature on February 17, 1896 was about -0.3 °C. The airpressure was 78 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%.