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• Adriana Maria Bastianen, Princenhage (Breda)
• Aafke Zuiderveld, Roden, Drenthe, Nederland († 1977)
• Alberta Maria Antonia van Sijl, Utrecht († 1957)
• Abraham Philip Wijnberg, Assen
• Adriaan Johannes de Jong, Hilversum, Nederland († 1973)
• Albert Huitsing, Onstwedde (gem. Stadskanaal) († 1896)
• Adriana van Osta, Roosendaal, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1896)
• Abraham Marinus van de Walle, Groede, Nederland
• Alida Berkhof, Ooltgensplaat
• Alida Geertuida Warmerdam, Zoeterwoude, Zuid Holland, Nederland

• Alida OLSTHOORN (57), Delft
• Lucassen (0), Groot Azewijn (Bergh) (GL)
• Aaltjen Lubberts Knol (75), Dwingeloo
• Adrianus Grootenboer (55)
• Alida Cecilia Kaptein (67), Rotterdam
• Aaltje Lubberts Knol (75), Leggeloo, Dwingeloo, Drenthe, Nederland
• Allegonda de Lang (72), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Aleid Garritzen (71), Ane
• Agnes Sylla (26)
• Abraham Marijs (69), Grijpskerke

• 1887 » William Zorach, Lithuanian-American sculptor and painter († 1966)
• 1894 » Ben Hecht, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1964)
• 1895 » Marcel Pagnol, French author, playwright and director († 1974)
• 1896 » Philip Showalter Hench, American physician and endocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1965)
• 1898 » Zeki Rıza Sporel, Turkish footballer († 1969)
• 1900 » Wolf Hirth, German pilot and engineer, co-founded Schempp-Hirth († 1959)
• 1901 » Linus Pauling, American chemist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1994)
• 1903 » Vincente Minnelli, American director and screenwriter († 1986)
• 1906 » Bugsy Siegel, American gangster († 1947)
• 1907 » Milton Caniff, American cartoonist († 1988)

• 1857 » André Dumont, Belgian geologist and academic (b. 1809)
• 1869 » Alphonse de Lamartine, French author and poet (b. 1790)
• 1879 » Hortense Allart, Italian-French author (b. 1801)
• 1891 » George Hearst, American businessman and politician (b. 1820)
• 1916 » Henry James, American novelist, short writer, and critic (b. 1843)
• 1925 » Friedrich Ebert, German politician, 1st President of Germany (b. 1871)
• 1929 » Clemens von Pirquet, Austrian physician and immunologist (b. 1874)
• 1932 » Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer and academic (b. 1851)
• 1935 » Chiquinha Gonzaga, Brazilian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1847)
• 1936 » Charles Nicolle, French biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)

• 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.
• 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.
• 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 17 » Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom.
• August 27 » Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in world history (09:02 to 09:40), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
• December 14 » The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.

The temperature on February 28, 1896 was about 4.5 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%.