About the day » Thursday June 4, 1896Calender converter

• Aaltje Berveling, Weesp († 1991)
• Aaltje Straub, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Agnes Henrica Antonia Maria Dierkes, Groenlo († 1963)
• Aart BOUDESTEIN, IJsselmonde, Gemeente Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands († 1971)
• Aaltje Doornbos, Leens, Warfhuizen († 1897)
• Adriana Elisabeth Jansen, Tilburg (Tilburg) (Noord Brabant) († 1897)
• Aleida Maria Schoemaker, Deventer, Overijssels († 1959)
• agnes joosten, helden-panningen (heuvelhoek)
• Agnes, Henrica, Antonia, Maria DIERKES, Groenlo
• Aleida Wilhelmina Heskes, Arnhem, Gemeente Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1960)

• Apolonia Maria Franken (6), Loosduinen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andrew M. Gantner (29), Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, United States
• Adriaantje Tol (15), Nieuw Helvoet
• Abraham Breetvelt (79), Delft
• Athalia Frederika Driessen (27), Arnhem
• Alice Frederika Athalia Driessen (27), Arnhem
• Anna van Dooren (73), Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Abraham Breetvelt (79), Delft
• Anna Blokker (4), Broek op L'dijk
• Auguste Elisabeth Friedländer (67), Berlijn (DLD)

• 1880 » Clara Blandick, American actress († 1962)
• 1885 » Arturo Rawson, Argentinian general and politician, 26th President of Argentina († 1952)
• 1887 » Tom Longboat, Canadian runner and soldier († 1949)
• 1889 » Beno Gutenberg, German-American seismologist († 1960)
• 1903 » Yevgeny Mravinsky, Russian conductor († 1988)
• 1904 » Bhagat Puran Singh, Indian publisher, environmentalist, and philanthropist († 1992)
• 1907 » Jacques Roumain, Haitian journalist and politician († 1944)
• 1907 » Patience Strong, English poet and journalist († 1990)
• 1907 » Rosalind Russell, American actress († 1976)
• 1910 » Christopher Cockerell, English engineer, invented the hovercraft († 1999)

• 1872 » Johan Rudolph Thorbecke, Dutch historian, jurist, and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1798)
• 1875 » Eduard Mörike, German pastor and poet (b. 1804)
• 1876 » Abdülaziz of the Ottoman Empire, 32nd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1830)
• 1922 » W. H. R. Rivers, English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist, and psychiatrist (b. 1864)
• 1925 » Margaret Murray Washington, American Academic (b. 1865)
• 1926 » Fred Spofforth, Australian-English cricketer and coach (b. 1853)
• 1928 » Zhang Zuolin, Chinese warlord (b. 1873)
• 1929 » Harry Frazee, American director, producer, and agent (b. 1881)
• 1931 » Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, Sharif and Emir of Mecca, King of the Hejaz (b. 1853/54)
• 1933 » Ahmet Haşim, Turkish poet and author (b. 1884)

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 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 » Henri Becquerel discovers radioactive decay.
• May 26 » Nicholas II becomes the last Tsar of Imperial Russia.
• May 27 » The F4-strength St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing over $10-million in damage.
• 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.
• December 14 » The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.

The temperature on June 4, 1896 was about 22.5 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%.