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• Anna Maria Wilhelmina Beddinkhaus, Klazienaveen, Gemeente Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1985)
• Anna Maria Willemina Beddinkhaus, Erica († 1985)
• Albert Jan Hendrik Teijen, Vlagtwedde, Groningen, Netherlands († 1987)
• "Marc" Gaëtan Marie Antoine Joseph de Dreuille, Cressanges, Allier, France († 1981)
• Aleida Harmina Smalbraak, Winterswijk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Wilhelmina Cootjans, Baarlo († 1981)
• Abram VISSER, Broek op Langedijk, NH, Nederland
• Anna Maria Willemina Beddinkhaus, Erica, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1985)
• Aafie Nanninga, Finsterwolde (gem. Oldambt)
• Agnes Wiebus, Biefang-DE

• Anna Catharina van Cleemputte (0), Vlissingen
• Antonius Adrianus de Bruin (0), Zevenbergen, Noord-Brabants
• Auke de Haan (63), Leeuwarden (Friesland)
• Alberdina Johanna de Vroom (0), Nijkerk
• Anna Berkhout (17), Uitgeest, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Kappenburg (67), Sneek, Friesland, Nederland
• AALBERTUS PLOEG (0), Soest
• Albert Jan Holstege (67), Markelo
• Barend Erkelens (63), 's Gravenhage
• Anna Berkhout (17), Uitgeest,, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1890 » Frank Forde, Australian educator and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Australia († 1983)
• 1892 » Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian footballer († 1969)
• 1893 » David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie, Scottish peer, soldier and courtier († 1968)
• 1895 » Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster († 1954)
• 1895 » Olga Spessivtseva, Russian-American ballerina († 1991)
• 1897 » Ernest Eldridge, English race car driver and engineer († 1935)
• 1898 » John Stuart, Scottish-English actor († 1979)
• 1899 » Ernst Scheller, German soldier and politician, 8th Mayor of Marburg († 1942)
• 1900 » Nathalie Sarraute, French lawyer and author († 1999)
• 1902 » Jessamyn West, American author († 1984)

• 1863 » Robert Gould Shaw, American colonel (b. 1837)
• 1872 » Benito Juárez, Mexican lawyer and politician, 26th President of Mexico (b. 1806)
• 1884 » Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist and academic (b. 1829)
• 1887 » Dorothea Dix, American social reformer and activist (b. 1802)
• 1890 » Lydia Becker, English journalist, author, and activist, co-founded the Women's Suffrage Journal (b. 1827)
• 1892 » Thomas Cook, English travel agent, founded the Thomas Cook Group (b. 1808)
• 1899 » Horatio Alger, American novelist and journalist (b. 1832)
• 1916 » Benjamin C. Truman, American journalist and author (b. 1835)
• 1925 » Louis-Nazaire Bégin, Canadian cardinal (b. 1840)
• 1932 » Jean Jules Jusserand, French author and diplomat, French Ambassador to the United States (b. 1855)

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.
• 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.
• July 28 » The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
• December 14 » The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
• December 17 » Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Schenley Park Casino, which was the first multi-purpose arena with the technology to create an artificial ice surface in North America, is destroyed in a fire.

The temperature on July 18, 1896 was about 15.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%.