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• Aleida Catharina Maria Kuipers, Almelo († 1958)
• Albert Teune, Kampen, Nederland († 1971)
• Adrianus Jacobus Cornet, Hasselt, Nederland († 1969)
• Anna Groeneweg, Oud-Beijerland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1954)
• Albertina Wilhelmina Plantjé, Haarlem († 1940)
• Adrianus Cornelis Aarts, Berlicum († 1950)
• Jan Santing, Gramsbergen († 1897)
• (Auguste) Paula OBERHOFF, Ronsdorf/Wuppertal (D) († 1969)
• Alida Cornelia Kindt, Den Helder, Noord Holland, Nederland
• Adolf von Hoff, Breitenbach, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany († 1941)

• Annechien Jager (1), Hoogezand
• Anna Jacoba Slijkhuis (0), Deventer
• Anna Catharina Cruts (0), Heerlen, Nederland
• Arie Driesprong (75), Fijnaart en Heijningen, Moerdijk, Noord Brabant, The Netherlands
• Adrianus Bok, van den (0), Rotterdam Zhl. NL
• Adriana van der Pluijm (van der Pluim) (70), Dussen
• Albertus Croese (37), Utrecht
• Arnoldus Eliza De Kivit (65), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Antje Roest (79), Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Wielema (0), Schiermonnikoog, Provincie Friesland

• 1887 » S. Satyamurti, Indian lawyer and politician († 1943)
• 1895 » C. Suntharalingam, Sri Lankan lawyer, academic, and politician († 1985)
• 1899 » Colleen Moore, American actress († 1988)
• 1900 » Dorothy Burr Thompson, American archaeologist and art historian († 2001)
• 1900 » Gilbert Ryle, English philosopher, author, and academic († 1976)
• 1900 » Gontran de Poncins, French author and adventurer († 1962)
• 1902 » Ogden Nash, American poet († 1971)
• 1903 » James Gould Cozzens, American novelist and short story writer († 1978)
• 1904 » Maurice Wilks, English engineer and businessman († 1963)
• 1906 » Philo Farnsworth, American inventor, invented the Fusor († 1971)

• 1883 » Jeremiah S. Black, American lawyer and politician, 24th United States Attorney General (b. 1810)
• 1889 » Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1838)
• 1895 » John Wesley Hardin, American Old West outlaw, gunfighter (b. 1853)
• 1900 » Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1833)
• 1914 » Franz Xavier Wernz, German religious leader, 25th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1844)
• 1915 » Tevfik Fikret, Turkish poet and educator (b. 1867)
• 1923 » Vilfredo Pareto, Italian sociologist and economist (b. 1845)
• 1928 » Stephanos Skouloudis, Greek banker and diplomat, 97th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1838)
• 1929 » Sergei Diaghilev, Russian critic and producer, founded Ballets Russes (b. 1872)
• 1932 » Louis Anquetin, French painter (b. 1861)

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 18 » An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.
• 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).
• 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.
• August 16 » Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.
• September 21 » Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan: British forces under the command of Horatio Kitchener take Dongola.

The temperature on August 19, 1896 was about 14.3 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%.