About the day » Saturday May 9, 1896Calender converter

• Adriana Maria Goedhart, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1986)
• Albert Brouwer († 1897)
• Adrianus de Groot, Amerongen († 1961)
• Abraham Geelkerken, Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland
• Albert Brouwer, Urk († 1897)
• Aagje Kersbergen, Giessen-Nieuwkerk, Nederland
• Adrianus HOOGKAMER, Nieuw Helvoet
• DRESSELHUIS, DRIEBORG (BEERTA) († 1896)
• Andries Filmer, Zijpe, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Jochems, Vianen (gem. Vijfheerenlanden) († 1944)

• Anna Maria Luns (50), Velsen-Noord, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antje de Vries (19)
• Adelaide Anna Miller (77), Brooklyn, Kings, New York, US
• Anna Gesina Runde (3), Hüntel, Meppen, Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• DRESSELHUIS (0), DRIEBORG (BEERTA)
• Abraham verhoeff (0), Rotterdam
• Antje de Vries (19), 's-Gravenhage, South Holland, Netherlands
• Adriana Maria Allaries (79), Wormerveer
• Anna Guijt (35), Katwijk
• Albert Lammers (2), Lonneker, Overijssel, Nederland

• 1888 » Francesco Baracca, Italian fighter pilot († 1918)
• 1888 » Rolf de Maré, Swedish art collector († 1964)
• 1892 » Zita of Bourbon-Parma, last Empress of the Austro-Hungarian Empire († 1989)
• 1893 » William Moulton Marston, American psychologist and author († 1947)
• 1895 » Frank Foss, American pole vaulter († 1989)
• 1895 » Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher († 1961)
• 1895 » Richard Barthelmess, American actor († 1963)
• 1896 » Richard Day, Canadian-American art director and set decorator († 1972)
• 1900 » Maria Malicka, Polish stage and film actress († 1992)
• 1904 » Conrad Bernier, Canadian-American organist, composer, and educator († 1988)

• 1861 » Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philologist and politician (b. 1805)
• 1864 » John Sedgwick, American general and educator (b. 1813)
• 1889 » William S. Harney, American general (b. 1800)
• 1906 » Oscar von Gebhardt, German theologian and academic (b. 1844)
• 1914 » C. W. Post, American businessman, founded Post Foods (b. 1854)
• 1915 » Anthony Wilding, New Zealand tennis player and cricketer (b. 1883)
• 1915 » François Faber, Luxembourgian-French cyclist and soldier (b. 1887)
• 1918 » George Coșbuc, Romanian journalist and poet (b. 1866)
• 1931 » Albert Abraham Michelson, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1933 » John Arthur Jarvis, English swimmer (b. 1872)

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.
• 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).
• March 1 » Battle of Adwa: An Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
• June 15 » The deadliest tsunami in Japan's history kills more than 22,000 people.
• August 17 » Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom.
• August 30 » Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas.

The temperature on May 9, 1896 was about 15.5 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 41%.