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• Anna Hendrika van Eupen, Boekel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1994)
• Annegien Kunnen, Norg († 1980)
• Adrianus Theodorus Kolsteeg, Woerden, Utrecht, Nederland
• van Baal, Ottersum, Nederland († 1896)
• Anna Juliana Maria Herben, Maastricht († 1988)
• Adrianus Johannes LIGTHART, Egmond-Binnen († 1968)
• Adrianus Gerardus Bodde, SCHIEDAM, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna WIERSEMA, Whiteside County Illinois U.S.A († 1990)
• Aartje Heshusius, Woudrichem, Altena, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1959)
• Agnes Wallaart, Leiden († 1918)

• Antje Wybes Wijbenga (83), Leeuwarden
• Anna Elisabeth Schuurman (45), Bad Nauheim, Hessen, Duitsland
• Arendje de Lange (63), Den Haag,Gemeente ·Äôs-Gravenhage,South Holland,Nederland
• Anna Wybes Wijbenga (83), Leeuwarden
• Adriana de LANGEN (63), Scheveningen, gemeente 's-Gravenhage (Z-H)
• Bastiaan De Ruiter (71), Geldermalsen
• Antje Wiebes Wijbenga (83), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland, Friesland, Nederland
• Durk Loyinga (53), Smallingerland
• Adelaide Josepha Berger (52), Lincent
• Adrianus Kieboom (36), Rotterdam

• 1890 » Walther Funk, German economist and politician, Reich Minister of Economics († 1960)
• 1893 » Burleigh Grimes, American baseball player and manager († 1985)
• 1893 » Ernest MacMillan, Canadian conductor and composer († 1973)
• 1896 » Jack Pickford, Canadian-American actor and director († 1933)
• 1898 » Clemente Biondetti, Italian race car driver († 1955)
• 1900 » Ruth Bonner, Soviet Communist activist, sentenced to a labor camp during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge († 1987)
• 1900 » Ruth Norman, American religious leader († 1993)
• 1902 » Adamson-Eric, Estonian painter († 1968)
• 1902 » Margaret Murie, American environmentalist and author († 2003)
• 1903 » Lucienne Boyer, French singer († 1983)

• 1842 » Louis de Freycinet, French explorer and navigator (b. 1779)
• 1850 » Honoré de Balzac, French novelist and playwright (b. 1799)
• 1886 » Eli Whitney Blake, American inventor, invented the Mortise lock (b. 1795)
• 1919 » Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian businessman and politician, founded the Seagram Company (b. 1841)
• 1940 » Walter Chrysler, American businessman, founded Chrysler (b. 1875)
• 1943 » Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Azerbaijani general (b. 1865)
• 1944 » Ernst Thälmann, German soldier and politician (b. 1886)
• 1945 » Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian activist and politician (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Paul Mares, American trumpet player and bandleader (New Orleans Rhythm Kings) (b. 1900)
• 1950 » Julien Lahaut, Belgian soldier and politician (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.
• April 6 » In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman emperor Theodosius I.
• May 26 » Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
• June 15 » The deadliest tsunami in Japan's history kills more than 22,000 people.
• September 21 » Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan: British forces under the command of Horatio Kitchener take Dongola.
• September 22 » Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
• December 30 » Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila.

The temperature on August 18, 1896 was about 14.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%.