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• Aagje van der Leer, Zwijndrecht, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1901)
• Abraham Kodde, St. Annaland († 1985)
• Alexander McElwain Orr [[KK ||| LawrenceTNBu]]17, Maury County, Tennessee ac († 1900)
• Anna Huiberdina Helena Bruining, Gorinchem (Gorinchem) (Zuid Holland)
• anna elisabeth (beth) peeters, helden-beringe († 1975)
• Alida KONING, Oudorp, Noord Holland († 1982)
• Alice Albertina Dassen, Eindhout, België
• Anna DORNBUSH († 1973)
• Adrianus van Kampen († 1974)
• Anje Maring, Uithuizermeeden, Groningen, Nederland († 1953)

• Arie Baars (0), Rhenen, Utrecht, NL
• Adriana Helena Maria Kwisthout (39), Rotterdam
• Alexander MacDonald (79)
• Ale Jans Deelstra (81), Rinsumageest, gem. Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Akke Jochums Stap (73), Het Bildt, Nederland
• Catharina Pessel (0), Kamerik
• Ale Jans Deelstra (81), Dantumadeel, Friesland, Netherlands
• Arthur Lickly (64), Buried Lickleys Corners Cem
• Albertje Gerding (81), Hoogersmilde (Smilde)
• Ana Maria Nau (0), São Pedro de Alcântara, Santa Catarina, Brasil

• 1890 » Man Ray, American-French photographer and painter († 1976)
• 1895 » Andreas Alföldi, Hungarian archaeologist and historian († 1981)
• 1896 » Kenji Miyazawa, Japanese author and poet († 1933)
• 1896 » Léon Theremin, Russian physicist and engineer, invented the Theremin († 1993)
• 1898 » Gaspard Fauteux, Canadian businessman and politician, 19th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec († 1963)
• 1899 » C. S. Forester, English novelist († 1966)
• 1904 » Alar Kotli, Estonian architect († 1963)
• 1904 » John Hay Whitney, American businessman, publisher, and diplomat, founded J.H. Whitney & Company († 1982)
• 1904 » Norah Lofts, English author († 1983)
• 1905 » Aris Velouchiotis, Greek soldier († 1945)

• 1865 » Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian judge and politician (b. 1796)
• 1871 » William Whiting Boardman, American lawyer and politician (b. 1794)
• 1875 » William Chapman Ralston, American businessman and financier, founded the Bank of California (b. 1826)
• 1891 » Samuel C. Pomeroy, American businessman and politician (b. 1816)
• 1903 » Kusumoto Ine, first Japanese female doctor of Western medicine (b. 1827)
• 1909 » Emil Christian Hansen, Danish physiologist and mycologist (b. 1842)
• 1922 » Reşat Çiğiltepe, Turkish colonel (b. 1879)
• 1929 » Herman Potočnik, Croatian-Austrian engineer (b. 1892)
• 1931 » Frank Harris, Irish-American journalist and author (b. 1856)
• 1931 » Willem Hubert Nolens, Dutch priest and politician (b. 1860)

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.
• March 1 » Battle of Adwa: An Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
• March 2 » The Battle of Adwa: The Italian Army defeated by the Ethiopian Army in Adwa, Tigray, Ethiopia.
• June 4 » Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
• July 28 » The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
• 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 27, 1896 was about 12.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%.