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• Aafke TALSMA, Westdongeradeel Friesland Netherlands
• Anna Cornelia van Voorn, Achttienhoven, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adrianus van Hunnik, Veenendaal {UT} († 1966)
• Affa Mae Wyatt, MARMADUKE († 1978)
• Aagje Verboom, Bodegraven, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1896)
• Adriana DONKER, Den Haag
• Alida Maria Lagrand, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1973)
• Abraham Keukelaar, Rotterdam, Nederland († 1913)
• Mink, Nieuw-Amsterdam (Emmen) († 1896)
• * Catharina Jacoba (Cato) van Duin, Rotterdam († 1939)

• Anje Vegter (17), Exloërmond, Odoorn, Drenthe, Nederland
• Angelique Marie Madeleine Davillier-Regnault De Saint-Jean-d'Angély (41), Paris (Île-de-France)
• Aertje Arisse (86), Valburg
• Anna Maria Oostaijen, van (0), Neerkant,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aalbertus van Koetsveld (0), Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adriana Petronella Groenendijk (87), Rotterdam
• Aalbertus van Koetsveld (0), Zeist, Nederland
• Adriana Everdina BAARS (1), Vreeswijk
• Adrianus Laros (25), Kaatsheuvel
• Andreas Johannes Broekhoff (51), Nieuwer-Amstel, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

• 1890 » Mabel Keaton Staupers, American nurse and advocate († 1989)
• 1891 » David Sarnoff, American businessman, founded RCA († 1971)
• 1892 » William Demarest, American actor († 1983)
• 1895 » Miyagiyama Fukumatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler († 1943)
• 1897 » Marian Anderson, American singer († 1993)
• 1899 » Charles Herbert Best, American-Canadian physiologist and biochemist, co-discovered Insulin († 1978)
• 1901 » Marino Marini, Italian sculptor and academic († 1980)
• 1901 » Kotama Okada, Japanese religious leader († 1974)
• 1902 » Gene Sarazen, American golfer and sportscaster († 1999)
• 1902 » Lúcio Costa, French-Brazilian architect and engineer, designed Gustavo Capanema Palace († 1998)

• 1887 » Alexander Borodin, Russian composer and chemist (b. 1833)
• 1892 » Louis Vuitton, French fashion designer and businessman, founded Louis Vuitton (b. 1821)
• 1902 » Harry "Breaker" Morant, English-Australian lieutenant (b. 1864)
• 1921 » Schofield Haigh, English cricketer and umpire (b. 1871)
• 1931 » Chandra Shekhar Azad, Indian revolutionary (b. 1906)
• 1936 » Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1849)
• 1936 » Joshua W. Alexander, American judge and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of Commerce (b. 1852)
• 1937 » Emily Malbone Morgan, American saint, foundress of the Society of the Companions of the Holy Cross (b. 1862)
• 1937 » Hosteen Klah, Navajo artist, medicine man, and weaver (b. 1867)
• 1943 » Kostis Palamas, Greek poet and playwright (b. 1859)

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.
• January 28 » Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8mph (13km/h), thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2mph (3.2km/h).
• February 1 » La bohème premieres in Turin at the Teatro Regio (Turin), conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.
• June 4 » Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
• June 15 » The deadliest tsunami in Japan's history kills more than 22,000 people.
• August 30 » Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas.
• December 10 » Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi premieres in Paris. A riot breaks out at the end of the performance.

The temperature on February 27, 1896 was about -1.1 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%.