About the day » Tuesday April 13, 1897Calender converter

• * Catharina Bakker, Zwijndrecht († 1974)
• Adolf Joannes Antonius Rutten, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alice Emily Seal, Bromley, Poplar, London († 1977)
• Alice Iblings, Albion Township, Butler County, Iowa († 1976)
• Aartje Korporaal
• Aartje Korporaal, Giessen-Oudekerk († 1983)
• Adriana Bimmel, Aagtekerke, Walcheren, NL († 1898)
• Aleida Wilhelmina Johanna Visser, Arnhem
• Adrianus Johannes Volkert BLAASER, De Rijp, Graft, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1982)
• Adriana Barendregt, Rotterdam, Nederland († 1898)

• Aalt Overeem (31), Amersfoort,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Alida Broekhuizen (0), Eethen, Genderen en Heesbeen
• Adriana Hoogesteger (52), Amsterdam
• Annie Hunsberger UMSTEAD (79), PENNSYLVANIA
• Andy Brass (0)
• Aaltje Pieternella KORSTANJE (2), Middelburg (Zeeland) (NL)
• Berend Eilander (Eijlander,Eylander) (51), Kamperveen, Nederland
• Amos Brown (67), Adams, Wisconsin
• Amelia DE BRABANDER (63), Sijsele,8340,West-Vlaanderen,BELGIE
• Arien Joffer (81), Nieuwe Niedorp, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1894 » Arthur Fadden, Australian accountant and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Australia († 1973)
• 1894 » Joie Ray, American runner († 1978)
• 1896 » Fred Barnett, English footballer († 1982)
• 1897 » Werner Voss, German lieutenant and pilot († 1917)
• 1899 » Alfred Mosher Butts, American architect and game designer, created Scrabble († 1993)
• 1899 » Harold Osborn, American high jumper and decathlete († 1975)
• 1900 » Pierre Molinier, French painter and photographer († 1976)
• 1900 » Sorcha Boru, American potter and ceramic sculptor († 2006)
• 1901 » Alan Watt, Australian public servant and diplomat, Australian Ambassador to Japan († 1988)
• 1901 » Jacques Lacan, French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst († 1981)

• 1880 » Robert Fortune, Scottish botanist and author (b. 1813)
• 1882 » Bruno Bauer, German historian and philosopher (b. 1809)
• 1886 » John Humphrey Noyes, American religious leader, founded the Oneida Community (b. 1811)
• 1890 » Samuel J. Randall, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 33rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1828)
• 1899 » James Service, Scottish-Australian politician, 12th Premier of Victoria (b. 1823)
• 1909 » Whitley Stokes, Anglo-Irish lawyer and scholar (b. 1830)
• 1910 » William Quiller Orchardson, Scottish-English painter and educator (b. 1835)
• 1911 » George Washington Glick, American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of Kansas (b. 1827)
• 1911 » John McLane, Scottish-American politician, 50th Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1852)
• 1912 » Takuboku Ishikawa, Japanese poet and author (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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
• February 28 » Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force.
• May 26 » The original manuscript of William Bradford's history, "Of Plymouth Plantation" is returned to the Governor of Massachusetts by the Bishop of London after being taken during the American Revolutionary War.
• June 16 » A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
• September 1 » The Tremont Street Subway in Boston opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
• November 1 » The first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the public; the library had previously been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.
• December 30 » The British Colony of Natal annexes Zululand.

The temperature on April 13, 1897 was about 15.8 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 50%.