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• Aaltje van Niedek, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alouisius Gijzel, Sas van Gent, Nederland
• Hudningsvand († 1981)
• Antoinetta Bernardina Maria Leeuwenberg († 1948)
• Aaltje Niedek, van, Rotterdam Zhl. NL
• Adriana Maria van der Avoird, Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nl
• Aaltje Hoekstra, Zwaagwesteinde, gem. Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1989)
• adriaantje sirks van der OOST, goudswaard
• Adriana Maria van der Avoird, Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands († 1931)
• Adriaan van Sluijs, 's-Heerenhoek († 1972)

• Adrianus Zwaan (0), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Berendina Busstra (0), Nieuw-Amsterdam
• Adriana van der Giessen (74), gorinchem (zuid holland)
• Arnoldus Martinus Marie Hoorneman (40), Dieren
• Antonius Franciscus Rosier (51), Maastricht
• Antonetta Catherina Sanders (38), Elst
• Adriana van Dam (61), 's-Heerenberg en Bergambacht
• Anna Maria Brands (10), Heeze, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• * Elisabeth de Hoop (27), Langerak
• Anna Geertruida Buter (36), Den Helder

• 1891 » Bharathidasan, Indian poet and activist († 1964)
• 1893 » Harold Urey, American chemist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1981)
• 1894 » Marietta Blau, Austrian physicist and academic († 1970)
• 1895 » Malcolm Sargent, English organist, composer, and conductor († 1967)
• 1895 » Vladimir Propp, Russian scholar and critic († 1970)
• 1899 » Duke Ellington, American pianist, composer, and bandleader († 1974)
• 1899 » Mary Petty, American illustrator († 1976)
• 1900 » Amelia Best, Australian politician, one of the first women elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly († 1979)
• 1900 » Concha de Albornoz, Spanish feminist and intellectual, exiled during the Spanish Civil War († 1972)
• 1901 » Hirohito, Japanese emperor († 1989)

• 1854 » Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1768)
• 1903 » Paul Du Chaillu, French-American anthropologist and zoologist (b. 1835)
• 1905 » Ignacio Cervantes, Cuban pianist and composer (b. 1847)
• 1916 » Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician and academic (b. 1850)
• 1920 » William H. Seward Jr., American general and banker (b. 1839)
• 1921 » Arthur Mold, English cricketer (b. 1863)
• 1933 » Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet and journalist (b. 1863)
• 1937 » William Gillette, American actor and playwright (b. 1853)
• 1944 » Bernardino Machado, Portuguese academic and politician, 3rd President of Portugal (b. 1851)
• 1945 » Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, German SS officer (b. 1893)

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 4 » Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
• February 1 » La bohème premieres in Turin at the Teatro Regio (Turin), conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.
• March 1 » Henri Becquerel discovers radioactive decay.
• 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.
• April 15 » Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
• May 26 » Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

The temperature on April 29, 1896 was about 8.6 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%.