About the day » Sunday August 30, 1896Calender converter

• Adriana Hendrikse, Ouwerkerk († 1898)
• Afke Tiemens Talhout, Leeuwarden, Nederland († 1897)
• Albertus Wilbrink, Hengelo
• Anna Jeske, Illinois († 1976)
• Alma A Huber, Perry, Missouri, Verenigde Staten († 1899)
• Albertus Joannes de Beer, Tilburg († 1898)
• Bruyns, Bornem († 1896)
• Albertje Kragt, Lutjeloo, Wedde, Groningen, Nederland
• Agnes PETERS, Redland Bay Queensland Australia († 1989)
• Adriaan Elibertus de Rooij, Sprang

• Arien Siltjes Jollema (53), Formerum, Terschelling
• Anna Catharina Hermans (73), Roermond
• Aagje Waarhuijs (0), Weesp,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Apolonia Kordia (36), Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertje Kipperman, Haarlem
• Adrianus Dijk van (81), Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anthonie van Oort (22), Maurik
• Agatha Roos (0), Bodegraven
• Apolonia Kordia (36), Vlaardingen
• Antonie Hekman (0), Stadskanaal

• 1885 » Tedda Courtney, Australian rugby league player and coach († 1957)
• 1890 » Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson, English captain and pilot († 1918)
• 1893 » Huey Long, American lawyer and politician, 40th Governor of Louisiana († 1935)
• 1896 » Raymond Massey, Canadian-American actor and playwright († 1983)
• 1898 » Shirley Booth, American actress and singer († 1992)
• 1901 » John Gunther, American journalist and author († 1970)
• 1901 » Roy Wilkins, American journalist and activist († 1981)
• 1903 » Bhagwati Charan Verma, Indian author († 1981)
• 1906 » Joan Blondell, American actress and singer († 1979)
• 1906 » Olga Taussky-Todd, Austrian mathematician († 1995)

• 1856 » Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English lawyer and author (b. 1811)
• 1879 » John Bell Hood, American general (b. 1831)
• 1886 » Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American general and politician (b. 1836)
• 1896 » Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Russia (b. 1824)
• 1906 » Hans Auer, Swiss-Austrian architect and educator, designed the Federal Palace of Switzerland (b. 1847)
• 1907 » Richard Mansfield, American actor and manager (b. 1857)
• 1908 » Alexander P. Stewart, American general (b. 1821)
• 1928 » Wilhelm Wien, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1935 » Henri Barbusse, French journalist and author (b. 1873)
• 1935 » Namık İsmail, Turkish painter and educator (b. 1890)

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.
• May 26 » Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
• June 4 » Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
• 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 1 » A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.

The temperature on August 30, 1896 was about 15.3 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 82%.