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• Anna Maria Catharina Hermans, Maastricht
• Mathijssen, Wuustwezel
• , te Moordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1983)
• Aaltje Groen, Harenkarspel († 1902)
• Achiel Cyriel Byl, Knokke († 1955)
• Anna Cohn, Czersk († 1896)
• Adriana Teuntje Maria Verheijden, 's-Gevelduin-Capelle
• Adrianus de Bever, Cromvoirt, NL
• Aaltje Steunebrink, Eelde, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adrianus Nicolas Johannes Smit, Wijk bij Duurstede, Utrecht, Nederland († 1986)

• Abraham Verveen (71), Schiedam
• Anna Maria Hubertina Debets (0), Roth, Vijlen, Limburg, Netherlands
• Baukje Bosma (64), Suwald, Tytsjerksteradiel, Friesland, Nederland
• arie van der REE (48), 's-gravendeel
• Aploniea van Zeijl (72), Wateringen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Zaat (76), Wateringen,-
• Christiaan ♂ Plieger (70), Amsterdam (Noord-Holland, Nederland)
• Annegien Bronsema (69), Spijk
• Adrianus van Geest (90), Vrijenban
• Aaltje van der Wal (82), Nieuw Lekkerland

• 1889 » Zerna Sharp, American author and educator († 1981)
• 1891 » C. E. M. Joad, English philosopher and academic († 1953)
• 1891 » John McDermott, American golfer († 1971)
• 1892 » Alfred Lunt, American actor and director († 1977)
• 1897 » Maurice Fernandes, Guyanese cricketer († 1981)
• 1899 » Ben Sealey, Trinidadian cricketer († 1963)
• 1902 » Mohammad Hatta, Indonesian politician, 1st Vice President of Indonesia († 1980)
• 1904 » Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia († 1918)
• 1904 » Idel Jakobson, Latvian-Estonian NKVD officer († 1997)
• 1904 » Tamás Lossonczy, Hungarian painter († 2009)

• 1891 » James Russell Lowell, American poet and critic (b. 1819)
• 1896 » Thomas Chamberlain, American colonel (b. 1841)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player and theoretician (b. 1836)
• 1901 » Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish botanist, geologist, mineralogist, and explorer (b. 1832)
• 1904 » William Renshaw, English tennis player (b. 1861)
• 1914 » John Philip Holland, Irish engineer, designed HMSHolland 1 (b. 1840)
• 1918 » William Thompson, American archer (b. 1848)
• 1921 » Pyotr Boborykin, Russian playwright and journalist (b. 1836)
• 1922 » Arthur Griffith, Irish journalist and politician, 3rd President of Dáil Éireann (b. 1871)
• 1924 » Sándor Bródy, Hungarian journalist and author (b. 1863)

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).
• February 21 » An Englishman raised in Australia, Bob Fitzsimmons, fought an Irishman, Peter Maher, in an American promoted event which technically took place in Mexico, winning the 1896 World Heavyweight Championship in boxing.
• March 1 » Battle of Adwa: An Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
• 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.
• August 27 » Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in world history (09:02 to 09:40), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.

The temperature on August 12, 1896 was about 17.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 72%.