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• Adrienne Minette van Lennep, Amsterdam,, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1965)
• Adriana Johanna van den Berg, Voorburg († 1943)
• Adriana Hendrika Boekholt, Capelle aan den IJssel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andrew Johnston, Salt Creek Township, Hocking County, Ohio († 1900)
• Alexander Constatijn Fliers († 1926)
• Adrienne Minette Lennep, van, Amsterdam († 1965)
• Adriaan Vaane, Rotterdam
• Aaltje Bos, Oosterhesselen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adrienne Minette (Mies) van Lennep, Amsterdam, Nederland († 1965)
• Anna van de Wiel, Drunen († 1965)

• Anna Catharina Van Steenwinkel (29), Grimbergen
• Barend Fredrik van Weert (67), Almelo, Ambt
• Adriana Ariesdr Rademaker (59), Bleiswijk, Lansingerland, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Aloisius Delavie (61), Anzegem
• Andries Both (0), nieuwe tonge (goeree overflakkee)
• Anna Maria van de Ven (78), Heeswijk
• Anna Maria Titselaer (Titselaar) (69), Venlo
• Barend Fredrik van Weert (67), Ambt Almelo
• Adriana Rademaker (59), Bleiswijk
• Antonius Verschuren (44), Oploo

• 1890 » Charles William Train, English sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient († 1965)
• 1890 » Max Immelmann, German lieutenant and pilot († 1916)
• 1894 » Anton Piëch, Austrian lawyer and businessman († 1952)
• 1898 » Frances Mary Albrier, American civil rights activist († 1987)
• 1899 » Frederick Coutts, Scottish 8th General of The Salvation Army († 1986)
• 1902 » Allen Lane, English publisher, founded Penguin Books († 1970)
• 1902 » Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player († 1937)
• 1902 » Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet and critic († 1963)
• 1903 » Preston Tucker, American engineer and businessman, designed the Tucker Sedan († 1956)
• 1904 » Hans Hartung, German-French painter († 1989)

• 1860 » Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher and author (b. 1788)
• 1874 » Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, French geologist and engineer (b. 1798)
• 1880 » Manuel Montt, Chilean scholar and politician, 6th President of Chile (b. 1809)
• 1887 » Wazid Ali Shah, last Nawab of Awadh (b. 1822)
• 1904 » Chief Joseph, American tribal leader (b. 1840)
• 1905 » Nikolay Benardos, Ukrainian inventor (b. 1842)
• 1906 » Samuel Arnold, American conspirator (b. 1838)
• 1926 » Léon Charles Thévenin, French engineer (b. 1857)
• 1933 » Kenji Miyazawa, Japanese author and poet (b. 1896)
• 1937 » Osgood Perkins, American actor (b. 1892)

• 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).
• May 18 » Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people.
• 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 27 » Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in world history (09:02 to 09:40), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
• September 22 » Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.

The temperature on September 21, 1896 was about 10.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%.