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• "Maria Theresia" Ernestine Monika von Schönburg-Hartenstein, Berlin († 1979)
• Aloysius Maria Van Roey, Vorselaar, België († 1896)
• Aaltje Onderdelinden, Ridderkerk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1896)
• Alida Anna Sutorius (Antonia) van der Eijk, Den Haag
• Alfred L Middleton, Indian Creek, Brown, Texas, Verenigde Staten († 1896)
• Adriana Bijl, Rotterdam, Nederland († 1896)
• (l.l.) van de Grift, Reeuwijk († 1896)
• Aart Looije, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1958)
• Adriana BECX, Oisterwijk (NL/NB) († 1927)
• Adriana Johanna Zeldenrijk, Rotterdam

• Barteltje Vonk (72), Aduard (gem. Westerkwartier)
• Anna Catharine ENGELMANN (59), Grossenkneten, Duitsland
• Adriana Schoenmakers (36), Haaren, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Berend Hendrik Hulshof (0), Bronkhorst
• Barbara Emma Kreiser (53), Lebanon, Lebanon Co PA
• Pennekamp, kampen
• Benjamin Brandon Bravo (73), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adrianus Steenbergen (21)
• Anna Slings (69), Dinteloord, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Coljee (72), Breukelen-Nijenrode, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1891 » M. A. Ayyangar, Indian lawyer and politician, 2nd Speaker of the Lok Sabha († 1978)
• 1892 » E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet and academic († 1964)
• 1895 » Nigel Bruce, English actor († 1953)
• 1896 » Friedrich Glauser, Austrian-Swiss author († 1938)
• 1896 » Friedrich Hund, German physicist and academic († 1997)
• 1897 » Ludwig Erhard, German soldier and politician, 2nd Chancellor of West Germany († 1977)
• 1899 » Virginia M. Alexander, American physician and founder of the Aspiranto Health Home († 1949)
• 1900 » Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter († 1977)
• 1902 » Charles Lindbergh, American pilot and explorer († 1974)
• 1902 » Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross, German-English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales († 2003)

• 1843 » Theodoros Kolokotronis, Greek general (b. 1770)
• 1891 » Pelagio Antonio de Labastida y Dávalos, Roman Catholic archbishop and Mexican politician who served as regent during the Second Mexican Empire (1863-1864) (b. 1816)
• 1905 » Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor and academic (b. 1841)
• 1926 » İskilipli Âtıf Hodja, Turkish author and scholar (b. 1875)
• 1928 » Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
• 1933 » Archibald Sayce, English linguist and educator (b. 1846)
• 1940 » Nikolai Yezhov, Russian police officer and politician (b. 1895)
• 1943 » Frank Calder, English-Canadian ice hockey player and journalist (b. 1877)
• 1944 » Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian author and translator (b. 1872)
• 1956 » Savielly Tartakower, Russian-French chess player, journalist, and author (b. 1887)

• 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.
• April 6 » In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman emperor Theodosius I.
• May 26 » Nicholas II becomes the last Tsar of Imperial Russia.
• September 22 » Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
• November 27 » Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss is first performed.
• December 17 » Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Schenley Park Casino, which was the first multi-purpose arena with the technology to create an artificial ice surface in North America, is destroyed in a fire.

The temperature on February 4, 1896 was about -1.2 °C. The airpressure was 78 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%.