About the day » Saturday August 22, 1896Calender converter

• Abraham Pieter van Gorsel, Maartensdijk, St, Zeeland, Nederland
• Aalbert van de Craats, Ede(Bennekom)
• Anna Margaretha Over, Maten (Emmen)
• Abraham 'Heiman' van Gelder, Magelang, Dutch East Indies († 1942)
• Anna Margaretha Over, De Maten
• Johanna(Sjo) de Krom, Steenbergen († 1958)
• Andries Braber den, Yerseke († 1896)
• Adrianus Johannes van Gils, Raamsdonk, Nederland († 1972)
• Adriaantje Scholte, Amsterdam, 1000, Nederland
• Andries den Braber, Yerseke († 1896)

• Albert Jans Kuiper (78), Harlingen
• Charlotte Louise Van Der Riet (75), South Africa
• Albert Jans Kuiper (78), Harlingen
• augustin RIVIERE (57), Quaregnon (Belgium)
• Adriana van Doorn (70), Utrecht
• Christina Smits (0), Varik, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana van Burg (0), Brouwershaven
• Albertus Stunnenberg (0), Ede, Gelderland, NL
• Anna Jans Post (11)
• Barbara E Gochenour (43)

• 1891 » Henry Bachtold, Australian soldier and railway engineer († 1983)
• 1891 » Jacques Lipchitz, Lithuanian-Italian sculptor († 1973)
• 1893 » Dorothy Parker, American poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist († 1967)
• 1893 » Ernest H. Volwiler, American chemist († 1992)
• 1893 » Wilfred Kitching, English 7th General of The Salvation Army († 1977)
• 1895 » László Almásy, Hungarian captain, pilot, and explorer († 1951)
• 1895 » Paul Comtois, Canadian lawyer and politician, 21st Lieutenant Governor of Quebec († 1966)
• 1896 » Laurence McKinley Gould, American geologist, educator, and polar explorer († 1995)
• 1897 » Bill Woodfull, Australian cricketer and educator († 1965)
• 1900 » Lisy Fischer, Swiss-born pianist and child prodigy († 1999)

• 1888 » Ágoston Trefort, Hungarian jurist and politician, Hungarian Minister of Education (b. 1817)
• 1891 » Jan Neruda, Czech journalist, author, and poet (b. 1834)
• 1903 » Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1830)
• 1904 » Kate Chopin, American novelist and poet (b. 1850)
• 1909 » Henry Radcliffe Crocker, English dermatologist and author (b. 1846)
• 1914 » Giacomo Radini-Tedeschi, Italian bishop and academic (b. 1859)
• 1918 » Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist and academic (b. 1868)
• 1920 » Anders Zorn, Swedish artist (b. 1860)
• 1922 » Michael Collins, Irish rebel, counter-intelligence and military tactician, and politician; 2nd Irish Minister of Finance (b. 1890)
• 1926 » Charles William Eliot, American academic (b. 1834)

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.
• 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.
• May 18 » Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people.
• May 18 » The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" doctrine is constitutional.
• May 26 » Nicholas II becomes the last Tsar of Imperial Russia.
• August 27 » Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in world history (09:02 to 09:40), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
• 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 August 22, 1896 was about 16.5 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%.