About the day » Thursday May 21, 1896Calender converter

• Anna van der Meer, Leeuwarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1988)
• Adrianus van den Elzen, Oss
• Andries Groenewoudt, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Wevers, Roermond,, Limburg, Nederland († 1973)
• Anna Maria Cornelia Speekenbrink, Oosterhout
• Adrianus Leendert Davidsz. de Man, Rotterdam
• Adrianus de Krom, Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe († 1896)
• Albert Jan Dikkers, Hellendoorn
• Andries Groenewoudt († 1941)
• Adrianus Hilgerdenaar, Den Dungen

• Aletta Johanna van Os (74), Amerongen, Utrecht, the Netherlands
• Aagje Mulder (58), Hillegersberg
• Andries van der Sluis (82), Harlingen, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriana Martina de JONGE (47), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Carolus Ludovicus Schelpe (68), Roeselare,West-Vlaanderen,België
• Adam Heus, Maarsseveen
• Caroline Kerby (66), Castra, Tasmania, Australia
• Bertha Johanna van Engelen (0), Vlijmen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• van de Kasteele, roosendaal
• Albert Tieses HAZENBERG (35), Marum Groningen Netherlands

• 1893 » Arthur Carr, English cricketer († 1963)
• 1893 » Giles Chippindall, Australian public servant († 1969)
• 1895 » Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexican general, president (1934–1940) and father of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas († 1970)
• 1898 » Armand Hammer, American physician and businessman, founded Occidental Petroleum († 1990)
• 1898 » Carl Johnson, American long jumper († 1932)
• 1898 » Charles Léon Hammes, Luxembourgian lawyer and judge († 1967)
• 1898 » John McLaughlin, American painter and translator († 1976)
• 1901 » Horace Heidt, American pianist, bandleader, and radio host († 1986)
• 1901 » Regina M. Anderson, Multiracial playwright and librarian († 1993)
• 1901 » Sam Jaffe, American film producer and agent († 2000)

• 1879 » Arturo Prat, Chilean lawyer and commander (b. 1848)
• 1894 » Émile Henry, French anarchist (b. 1872)
• 1894 » August Kundt, German physicist and academic (b. 1839)
• 1895 » Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1819)
• 1901 » Joseph Olivier, French rugby player (b. 1874)
• 1911 » Williamina Fleming, Scottish-American astronomer and academic (b. 1857)
• 1915 » Leonid Gobyato, Russian general and engineer (b. 1875)
• 1919 » Evgraf Fedorov, Russian mathematician, crystallographer, and mineralogist (b. 1853)
• 1920 » Venustiano Carranza, Mexican politician, 54th President of Mexico (b. 1859)
• 1925 » Hidesaburō Ueno, Japanese agriculturalist, guardian of Hachikō (b. 1871)

• 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 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.
• June 2 » Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.
• August 27 » Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in world history (09:02 to 09:40), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
• September 22 » Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
• December 10 » Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi premieres in Paris. A riot breaks out at the end of the performance.

The temperature on May 21, 1896 was about 10.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%.