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• Anna Jacomina Woelders, Albergen, Overijssel, Nederland († 1896)
• Anna Lina Luise Hechler, Sangerhausen, Sangerhausen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany
• Abeltje~Jacobs Mous, Gaasterlân († 1896)
• Albert Oversteegen, Amsterdam,Amsterdam,Noord-Holland,Nederland
• Adrianus Dirk Buijs, 's-Gravenhage († 1941)
• ? ? († 1896)
• Aagje Glas, Egmond aan Zee, prov. Noord Holland
• Anna Maria Willemina Beddinkhaus, Erica († 1985)
• Anna Maria Daemen, Eys,, Limburg, Nederland († 1979)
• Anne Willem van Asselt, Steenderen († 1967)

• Arend Hendrik Bernardus van Katwijk (51), Rotterdam
• Armathine Brownlee (1)
• Berdina Wilhelmina HENDRIKS (0), Hatert (GL), Nederland
• Anthonij Swaanswijk (88), Alkmaar
• Alpheus H Cooper (77), Coshocton County, Ohio, United States of America
• Adrianus van Dort (67), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltjen Grolleman (76), Deventer
• Alfred Hall (86), Macon, North Carolina, Verenigde Staten
• Alida Johanna Wolf (2), Utrecht
• Alida den Hollander (41), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1890 » Giorgio Morandi, Italian painter († 1964)
• 1890 » Julie Vinter Hansen, Danish-Swiss astronomer and academic († 1960)
• 1890 » Verna Felton, American actress († 1966)
• 1893 » George Llewelyn Davies, English soldier († 1915)
• 1895 » László Moholy-Nagy, Hungarian painter, photographer, and sculptor († 1946)
• 1897 » Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1996)
• 1900 » Maurice Leyland, English cricketer and coach († 1967)
• 1901 » Eugenio Lopez Sr., Filipino businessman and founder of the Lopez Group of Companies († 1975)
• 1901 » Heinie Manush, American baseball player and manager († 1971)
• 1901 » Vehbi Koç, Turkish businessman and philanthropist, founded Koç Holding († 1996)

• 1866 » Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician and academic (b. 1826)
• 1897 » Jean Ingelow, English poet and author (b. 1820)
• 1901 » William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (b. 1840)
• 1903 » Leo XIII, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1810)
• 1908 » Demetrius Vikelas, Greek businessman and author (b. 1835)
• 1908 » Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz, German geophysicist and seismologist (b. 1881)
• 1910 » Anderson Dawson, Australian politician, 14th Premier of Queensland (b. 1863)
• 1922 » Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1856)
• 1923 » Pancho Villa, Mexican general and politician, Governor of Chihuahua (b. 1878)
• 1926 » Felix Dzerzhinsky, Russian educator and politician (b. 1877)

• 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.
• February 1 » La bohème premieres in Turin at the Teatro Regio (Turin), conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.
• March 1 » Henri Becquerel discovers radioactive decay.
• August 17 » Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom.
• November 1 » A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
• November 17 » The Western Pennsylvania Hockey League, which later became the first ice hockey league to openly trade and hire players, began play at Pittsburgh's Schenley Park Casino.
• November 27 » Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss is first performed.

The temperature on July 20, 1896 was about 22.1 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 72%.