About the day » Monday August 31, 1896Calender converter

• Akke de Boer, Haskerland
• Aaltje Olthof, Wierden, Overijssel, Nederland († 1945)
• Adriana Anna Maria Michiels, Steenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1981)
• Aaltje Pol, Emmen, Drenthe, NETHERLANDS († 1992)
• Aaltje POL, Barger Oosterveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aalt Petersen, Harderwijk († 1982)
• Adelin IJsebaert, Axel († 1972)
• Adriana Ingetje Bos, Oud-Beijerland
• Adriana Wilhelmina ZIMMER, Meester Cornelis, Batavia, Nederlands Indië, Indonesië († 1945)
• Abraham Korpershoek, Rotterdam († 1897)

• Carel Clemens Barhorst (0), Eierland (Texel, NH)
• Arij Cornelsz Dijkshoorn (85), Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Meijdam (26), Herwijnen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana Maria Anna van de Ven (33), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arie Breeman (76), middelharnis (goeree overflakkee)
• Carel Clemens Barhorst (0), Eierland
• ARIJ DIJKSHOORN (85), NAALDWIJK
• Anna Maria Aarts (36), Vught, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Carolina Anthonia Verstraelen (37), Wuustwezel
• Anna Maria Dekker (4), Heiloo

• 1890 » August Alle, Estonian poet and author († 1952)
• 1893 » Lily Laskine, French harp player († 1988)
• 1894 » Albert Facey, Australian soldier and author († 1982)
• 1896 » Brian Edmund Baker, English Air Marshal († 1979)
• 1896 » Félix-Antoine Savard, Canadian priest and author († 1982)
• 1897 » Fredric March, American lieutenant, actor, and singer († 1975)
• 1900 » Gino Lucetti, Italian anarchist, attempted assassin of Benito Mussolini († 1943)
• 1902 » Géza Révész, Hungarian general and politician, Hungarian Minister of Defence († 1977)
• 1903 » Arthur Godfrey, American radio and television host († 1983)
• 1903 » Vladimir Jankélévitch, French musicologist and philosopher († 1985)

• 1867 » Charles Baudelaire, French poet and critic (b. 1821)
• 1869 » Mary Ward, Irish astronomer and entomologist (b. 1827)
• 1884 » Robert Torrens, Irish-Australian politician, 3rd Premier of South Australia (b. 1814)
• 1908 » Leslie Green, English architect (b. 1875)
• 1910 » Emīls Dārziņš, Latvian composer, conductor, and music critic (b. 1875)
• 1912 » Jean, duc Decazes, French sailor (b. 1864)
• 1920 » Wilhelm Wundt, German physician, psychologist, and philosopher (b. 1832)
• 1924 » Todor Aleksandrov, Bulgarian soldier (b. 1881)
• 1927 » Andranik, Armenian general (b. 1865)
• 1937 » Ruth Baldwin, British socialite (b. 1905)

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.
• April 6 » In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman emperor Theodosius I.
• May 26 » Nicholas II becomes the last Tsar of Imperial Russia.
• August 30 » Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas.
• September 21 » Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan: British forces under the command of Horatio Kitchener take Dongola.
• September 22 » Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
• November 1 » A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.

The temperature on August 31, 1896 was about 18.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%.