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• Alida Johanna Scholten, Haarlem († 1898)
• Alida Post, Amsterdam
• Adriana (Jaan) Soetendaal
• Adrianus Louis Rogier, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Adriana Louisa van GINKEL, ·Äôs-Hertogenbosch (Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands) († 1897)
• Adriana Cornelia Laros, Baardwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1896)
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• Albert Demoustier, Boussu,, Hainaut, Belgique
• Adriana Cornelia Laros, Baardwijk († 1896)
• Adrianus Wilhelm Marie Dogterom, Bleiswijk

• Augusta Wilhelmina Emma Stäps (57), Halle an der Saale, Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
• Antonie Withoos (68), Woensel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Akke Sipkes Saekles (57), in het Geneeskundig Gesticht voor Krankzinnigen "Meerenburg" te Bloemendaal, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina MARCUS (79)
• Akke Seekles (57), Bloemendaal, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Auke Jacobs Wybinga (73), Zwaagwesteinde
• Bartholomeus Jurrianus OVOST, van (77), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• alexandre BAJART (77), Crespin (F-59) Hauts de France
• Annette Trouerbach (54), Batavia (Ned. Indië)
• Anton Krüssel (1), Dankern, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany

• 1892 » Germaine Tailleferre, French composer and educator († 1983)
• 1894 » Elizabeth Dilling, American author and activist († 1966)
• 1897 » Jiroemon Kimura, Japanese super-centenarian, oldest verified man ever († 2013)
• 1897 » Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman and philanthropist († 1970)
• 1898 » Constance Talmadge, American actress and producer († 1973)
• 1899 » Cemal Tollu, Turkish lieutenant and painter († 1968)
• 1899 » George O'Brien, American actor († 1985)
• 1900 » Iracema de Alencar, Brazilian film actress († 1978)
• 1900 » Richard Hughes, English author, poet, and playwright († 1976)
• 1900 » Roland Michener, Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Governor General of Canada († 1991)

• 1881 » Benjamin Disraeli, English journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1804)
• 1882 » Charles Darwin, English biologist and theorist (b. 1809)
• 1893 » Martin Körber, Estonian-German pastor, composer, and conductor (b. 1817)
• 1901 » Alfred Horatio Belo, American publisher, founded The Dallas Morning News (b. 1839)
• 1903 » Oliver Mowat, Canadian politician, third Premier of Ontario, eighth Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b. 1820)
• 1906 » Pierre Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
• 1906 » Spencer Gore, English tennis player and cricketer (b. 1850)
• 1909 » Signe Rink, Greenland-born Danish writer and ethnologist (b. 1836)
• 1914 » Charles Sanders Peirce, American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1839)
• 1915 » Thomas Playford II, English-Australian politician, 17th Premier of South Australia (b. 1837)

• 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 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.
• July 28 » The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
• December 30 » Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila.

The temperature on April 19, 1896 was about 9.3 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%.