About the day » Friday September 4, 1896Calender converter

• Aaltje Hogebrug, Ermelo († 1988)
• Adrianus van de Scheur, Rhenen († 1984)
• Aaltjen Harenberg, Baak
• Akke van Bergen, Haarlem († 1901)
• Adriana den Dekker, Haarlemmermeer († 1991)
• Adriana Apon, Rotterdam
• Aafina Biewenga, Ten Post (gem. Groningen) († 1928)
• Adriana Paap, Zandvoort († 1915)
• Adriana de Groot († 1983)
• Adrianus Antonius van der Linden, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Arie Janszoon van den Berg (64), Amerongen
• Afien Brouwer (51), Wildervank, Groningen, Nederland
• Hamelink, Terneuzen
• Alida Struijk (70), Rotterdam
• Aleida Albertina Grutterink (1), Hengelo, aan de Haaksbergerstraat 30
• Keijzer (0), Dinteloord en Prinsenland
• Adriaan Cornelis Zijlmans (39), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Langereis (0), Wateringen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Makkink (15), Vleuten, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Maria Bynen (66), Herenthout, België

• 1887 » Roy William Neill, Irish-English director, producer, and screenwriter († 1946)
• 1888 » Oskar Schlemmer, German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer († 1943)
• 1890 » Gunnar Sommerfeldt, Danish actor, director, and screenwriter († 1947)
• 1891 » Fritz Todt, German engineer and politician († 1942)
• 1892 » Darius Milhaud, French composer and educator († 1974)
• 1896 » Antonin Artaud, French actor, director, and playwright († 1948)
• 1901 » William Lyons, English businessman, co-founded Jaguar Cars († 1985)
• 1902 » Tommy Mitchell, English cricketer († 1996)
• 1905 » Mary Renault, English-South African author († 1983)
• 1905 » Walter Zapp, Latvian-Estonian inventor, invented the Minox († 2003)

• 1849 » Friedrich Laun, German author (b. 1770)
• 1852 » William MacGillivray, Scottish biologist and ornithologist (b. 1796)
• 1864 » John Hunt Morgan, American general (b. 1825)
• 1907 » Edvard Grieg, Norwegian pianist and composer (b. 1843)
• 1909 » Clyde Fitch, American playwright and songwriter (b. 1865)
• 1911 » John Francon Williams, Welsh-born writer, journalist, geographer, historian, cartographer and inventor (b. 1854)
• 1914 » Charles Péguy, French poet and philosopher (b. 1873)
• 1940 » George William de Carteret, French-English journalist and author (b. 1869)
• 1944 » Erich Fellgiebel, German general (b. 1886)
• 1963 » Robert Schuman, Luxembourgian-French politician, 130th Prime Minister of France (b. 1886)

• 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).
• June 28 » An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.
• July 9 » William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
• July 28 » The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
• 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.
• December 10 » Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi premieres in Paris. A riot breaks out at the end of the performance.

The temperature on September 4, 1896 was about 17.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%.