About the day » Sunday May 24, 1896Calender converter

• Aaltje Feringa, Tange, Onstwedde, Groningen, Nederland († 1896)
• Aagje Burger, Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes Schoones, Zevenbergen († 1963)
• Adriana Theodora Jansen, Dordrecht († 1989)
• Albertus Bentem, Zaltbommel
• Albertus Bentem, Zaltbommel, GE Netherlands
• * Marijn van Zundert, Etten-Leur
• Aaltje Marsman, Hardenberg Ambt {OV}
• Aaltjen Brakel, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1992)
• Alberdina Boellaard, Haarlemmermeer († 1958)

• Antonius Alphonsus Maria André (0), Rotterdam
• Anna Riggerdina Beun (0), Schooten (gem. Haarlem)
• Catharina Johanna de Wolf (82), Kampen, Nederland
• BERNARDUS JANSEN (48), 'S-GRAVENHAGE
• Cecilia Porteons (69), Saint Mary, Jamaica
• Cornelia Hillenaar (59), Zoeterwoude, ZH, Nederland
• Barta van Mourik (11), Deil, Gelderland, Nederland
• Carl Julius Schirmann (59), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Dirkje BREUER (0), Rotterdam
• Cornelis Porsius (0), Durgerdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1887 » Mick Mannock, Irish soldier and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient († 1918)
• 1891 » William F. Albright, American archaeologist, philologist, and scholar († 1971)
• 1895 » Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr., American publisher, founded Advance Publications († 1979)
• 1899 » Henri Michaux, Belgian-French poet and painter († 1984)
• 1899 » Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player († 1938)
• 1900 » Eduardo De Filippo, Italian actor and screenwriter († 1984)
• 1901 » José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer and manager († 1968)
• 1902 » Lionel Conacher, Canadian football player and politician († 1954)
• 1902 » Sylvia Daoust, Canadian sculptor († 2004)
• 1905 » George Nakashima, American woodworker and architect († 1990)

• 1861 » Elmer E. Ellsworth, American colonel (b. 1837)
• 1872 » Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter and illustrator (b. 1794)
• 1879 » William Lloyd Garrison, American journalist and activist (b. 1805)
• 1881 » Samuel Palmer, English painter and illustrator (b. 1805)
• 1901 » Louis-Zéphirin Moreau, Canadian bishop (b. 1824)
• 1908 » Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer and architect (b. 1821)
• 1915 » John Condon, Irish-English soldier (b. 1896)
• 1919 » Amado Nervo, Mexican poet, journalist, and educator (b. 1870)
• 1929 » Nikolai von Meck, Russian engineer (b. 1863)
• 1941 » Lancelot Holland, English admiral (b. 1887)

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.
• March 1 » Henri Becquerel discovers radioactive decay.
• April 15 » Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
• June 2 » Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.
• June 28 » An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.
• August 17 » Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom.
• September 21 » Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan: British forces under the command of Horatio Kitchener take Dongola.

The temperature on May 24, 1896 was about 14.3 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%.