About the day » Sunday August 23, 1896Calender converter

• Aagje de Waart, Marken, Nederland
• Ceelen, Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Hendrika van Ee, Leersum, Utrecht, Netherlands († 1898)
• Adriana Hendrika van Ee, Leersum († 1898)
• Adriaan Haak, Schoondijke, Zeeland, Nederland († 1975)
• Alida Adriana Warmerdam, Noordwijkerhout, ZUI, Nederland († 1985)
• Adriana Hendrika van Ee, Leersum († 1898)
• Alida Versluis, Amsterdam († 1929)
• Aleida Margaretha * Heuving, (DR) Barger Compascuum († 1897)
• Adrianus Arnoldus van Hoorn, Heesch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Antal Szécsen van Temerin (76), Aussee, Steiermark
• Antonetta Mulders (0), Nieuwkuyk, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Arie Bijleveld (77), Vianen
• Agatha (Aagje) Rein (39), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Alida Schermer (1), Oudorp Noord-Holland
• 'n Levenloos geboren dochter van Zevenhoven (0), Ter Aar (Ringdijk)
• Bastiaan van der Wal (0), Streefkerk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Agthoven (72), Rotterdam
• Adriana Johanna Iburg (38), Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Pietersen (Pieterson) (34), Amsterdam

• 1890 » Harry Frank Guggenheim, American businessman and publisher, co-founded Newsday († 1971)
• 1891 » Roy Agnew, Australian pianist and composer († 1944)
• 1894 » John Auden, English solicitor, deputy coroner and a territorial soldier († 1959)
• 1897 » Henry F. Pringle, American historian and journalist († 1958)
• 1900 » Ernst Krenek, Austrian-American composer and educator († 1991)
• 1900 » Frances Adaskin, Canadian pianist († 2001)
• 1900 » Malvina Reynolds, American singer-songwriter and activist († 1978)
• 1901 » Guy Bush, American baseball player and manager († 1985)
• 1901 » John Sherman Cooper, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 2nd United States Ambassador to East Germany († 1991)
• 1903 » William Primrose, Scottish viola player and educator († 1982)

• 1853 » Alexander Calder, American lawyer and politician (b. 1806)
• 1867 » Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy, French poet and author (b. 1796)
• 1892 » Deodoro da Fonseca, Brazilian field marshal and politician, 1st President of Brazil (b. 1827)
• 1900 » Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1840)
• 1924 » Heinrich Berté, Slovak-Austrian composer (b. 1856)
• 1926 » Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (b. 1895)
• 1927 » Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist convicted of murder (b. 1888)
• 1927 » Nicola Sacco, Italian anarchist convicted of murder (b. 1891)
• 1933 » Adolf Loos, Austrian architect and theoretician, designed Villa Müller (b. 1870)
• 1937 » Albert Roussel, French composer and educator (b. 1869)

• 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 2 » The Battle of Adwa: The Italian Army defeated by the Ethiopian Army in Adwa, Tigray, Ethiopia.
• June 15 » The deadliest tsunami in Japan's history kills more than 22,000 people.
• 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.
• 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 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.

The temperature on August 23, 1896 was about 17.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%.