About the day » Thursday April 2, 1896Calender converter

• aaltje HEIKOOP, tricht († 1949)
• Adrianus Schellekens, Boxtel († 1979)
• Anna Catharina van der Klei, Amsterdam, Nederland († 1957)
• Alexandre Gorez, Binche
• Alida Anthonia van der Steen, Utrecht
• Aagje Koole († 1984)
• Adrianus Cornelius BERTENS, Tilburg,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1980)
• Aloise Victor Bohez, Harelbeke, West Vlaanderen, Belgium († 1896)
• Johanna Wilhelmina Lodder, Pernis († 1972)
• Alice (Florence) Mahon, New York, NY († 1897)

• Aaltje Nieuwenhuis (0), dwingelo
• Ada Bertha Borst (1), Middlesex, United Kingdom
• Adriana Verdegaal (7), Zoeterwoude, ZH, Nederland
• Albert Markerink (73), Vorden
• Anna Dora Bruinink (38), Harderwijk
• Abraham Plaisier (86), Ridderkerk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Dora Bruinink (38), Harderwijk
• (87), Beesd
• Albert Johnson (78)
• Anna Dorothea Polm (46), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands

• 1891 » Jack Buchanan, Scottish entertainer († 1957)
• 1891 » Max Ernst, German painter, sculptor, and poet († 1976)
• 1891 » Tristão de Bragança Cunha, Indian nationalist and anti-colonial activist from Goa († 1958)
• 1896 » Johnny Golden, American golfer († 1936)
• 1898 » Chiungtze C. Tsen, Chinese mathematician († 1940)
• 1898 » Harindranath Chattopadhyay, Indian poet, actor and politician († 1990)
• 1900 » Alfred Strange, English footballer († 1978)
• 1900 » Anis Fuleihan, Cypriot-American pianist, composer, and conductor († 1970)
• 1900 » Roberto Arlt, Argentinian journalist, author, and playwright († 1942)
• 1902 » Jan Tschichold, German-Swiss graphic designer and typographer († 1974)

• 1865 » A. P. Hill, American general (b. 1825)
• 1872 » Samuel Morse, American painter and academic, invented the Morse code (b. 1791)
• 1891 » Ahmed Vefik Pasha, Greek playwright and politician, 249th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1823)
• 1891 » Albert Pike, American lawyer and general (b. 1809)
• 1894 » Achille Vianelli, Italian painter and academic (b. 1803)
• 1896 » Theodore Robinson, American painter and academic (b. 1852)
• 1914 » Paul Heyse, German author, poet, and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1830)
• 1917 » Bryn Lewis, Welsh international rugby player (b.1891)
• 1923 » Topal Osman, Turkish colonel (b. 1883)
• 1928 » Theodore William Richards, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)

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).
• April 15 » Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
• July 28 » The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
• August 16 » Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.
• September 21 » Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan: British forces under the command of Horatio Kitchener take Dongola.
• December 10 » Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi premieres in Paris. A riot breaks out at the end of the performance.

The temperature on April 2, 1896 was about 4.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%.