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• Adriana Duvekot, Vrouwenpolder, Zeeland, NL († 1979)
• Anna Cornelia Kuik, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Agnès Laure Marie Martin, La Gorgue, Nord, France
• Alida Cornelia Vriesekoop, Haarlemmerliede
• Adriana Janna Westbroek, St. Philipsland († 1991)
• Albert Johannes Reumkens, Nieuwenhagen,Limburg,Netherlands
• Adriana Goossen, Axel, Zeeland, Nederland, Nederland († 1980)
• A. Schloemer, Herzogenrath († 1984)
• Abraham Adrianus van Buitenen, Maassluis
• Adriana Anna Apeldoorn, Egmond Binnen (gem. Bergen, NH) († 1897)

• Anna Maria Heggendorn (90), Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
• Antonius Broeders (81), Grave
• Albert Sanders (77), Oldebroek, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Qualm (91), Maasland
• CATHARINA CORNELIA VAN SPRONSEN (1), ROTTERDAM
• Antje Hulshoff (56)
• Anna Kwalm (Qualm) (91), Maasland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Barend Mattijs Bulterman (73), Stad Doetinchem
• ANNA KWALM (91), MAASLAND
• Charles Joseph Theodore 'Edmond' de PITTEURS HIEGAERTS (65), Saint Petersburg, St.-Petersburg, Rusland

• 1890 » Ernest Bullock, English organist and composer († 1979)
• 1890 » Sonja Branting-Westerståhl, Swedish lawyer († 1981)
• 1892 » Silpa Bhirasri, Italian sculptor and educator († 1962)
• 1894 » Chic Harley, American football player († 1974)
• 1894 » Jean Renoir, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1979)
• 1894 » Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist and academic († 1977)
• 1895 » Magda Lupescu, mistress and later wife of King Carol II of Romania (d.1977)
• 1897 » Merle Curti, American historian and author († 1997)
• 1898 » J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and author († 1936)
• 1901 » Donald Bailey, English engineer, designed Bailey bridge († 1985)

• 1852 » Johann Karl Simon Morgenstern, German-Estonian philologist and academic (b. 1770)
• 1859 » Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English architect and engineer, designed the Great Western Railway (b. 1806)
• 1864 » John Hanning Speke, English soldier and explorer (b. 1827)
• 1883 » Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist and academic (b. 1801)
• 1893 » Thomas Hawksley, English engineer (b. 1807)
• 1915 » Ernest Gagnon, Canadian organist and composer (b. 1834)
• 1921 » Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Austrian-Russian general (b. 1886)
• 1926 » Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846)
• 1930 » Milton Sills, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1882)
• 1938 » Thomas Wolfe, American novelist (b. 1900)

• 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.
• January 28 » Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8mph (13km/h), thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2mph (3.2km/h).
• April 15 » Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
• May 26 » Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
• May 27 » The F4-strength St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing over $10-million in damage.
• 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.
• November 27 » Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss is first performed.

The temperature on September 15, 1896 was about 16.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%.