About the day » Tuesday June 23, 1896Calender converter

• Anton Clarus Johannes van Eelde, San Jose,Santa Clara County,Calif,United States
• Anthonie Roggeband, Tholen († 1979)
• Amaat Pieter August Vandenweghe, Kortrijk
• Anna Margaretha Hemmechiena Legger, Groningen
• Abraham Griffioen, Haastrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1897)
• Anton Clarus Johannes van Eelde, San Jose NA
• Antonia Christina FERWERDA, Amsterdam Noord-Holland Netherlands
• Agnes TARRIER, Ickleford, Hitchin, Hertfordshire († 1979)
• Antonia Christina Ferwerda, Amsterdam
• Abraham Berlijn

• Alida Jacoba Maas van der (0), Amsterdam, NH, Nederland
• Aafke Gratama (64), Haarlem
• Alphonse Chrisostôme GEISSER (19), Burnhaupt-le-Haut, 68, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, FRANCE
• Alida van Geilswijk (66)
• Anthonia Maria van Zal (53), Houten
• Albertus Hartman (0), Woudrichem, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
• Adriaan Schagen, Hardinxveld-Giesendam, Nederland
• (l.l.) Post (0), Het Bildt
• Aalbert van den Akker (60), Weesp, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Theresia DEPOORTER (80), Stene-Oostende

• 1888 » Bronson M. Cutting, American publisher and politician († 1935)
• 1889 » Anna Akhmatova, Ukrainian-Russian poet and author († 1966)
• 1889 » Verena Holmes, English engineer († 1964)
• 1894 » Alfred Kinsey, American entomologist and sexologist († 1956)
• 1894 » Edward VIII, King of the United Kingdom († 1972)
• 1894 » Harold Barrowclough, New Zealand military leader, lawyer and Chief Justice († 1972)
• 1899 » Amédée Gordini, Italian-born French race car driver and sports car manufacturer († 1979)
• 1900 » Blanche Noyes, American aviator, winner of the 1936 Bendix Trophy Race († 1981)
• 1901 » Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Turkish author, poet, and scholar († 1962)
• 1903 » Paul Martin Sr., Canadian lawyer and politician († 1992)

• 1848 » Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este, Electress of Bavaria (b. 1776)
• 1856 » Ivan Kireyevsky, Russian philosopher and critic (b. 1806)
• 1881 » Matthias Jakob Schleiden, German botanist and academic (b. 1804)
• 1891 » Samuel Newitt Wood, American lawyer and politician (b. 1825)
• 1891 » Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist and academic (b. 1804)
• 1893 » Theophilus Shepstone, English-South African politician (b. 1817)
• 1893 » William Fox, English-New Zealand lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1812)
• 1914 » Bhaktivinoda Thakur, Indian guru and philosopher (b. 1838)
• 1945 » Giuseppina Tuissi, Italian journalist and activist (b. 1923)
• 1953 » Albert Gleizes, French painter (b. 1881)

• 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.
• May 26 » Nicholas II becomes the last Tsar of Imperial Russia.
• 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.
• 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 14 » The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.

The temperature on June 23, 1896 was about 18.2 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 57%.