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Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1896

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Birthdays

January 2 - Dziga Vertov, Russian filmmaker (d. 1954)
January 2 - Sir Lawrence Wackett, Australian aircraft engineer (d. 1982)
January 4 - Everett Dirksen, American politician (d. 1969)
January 4 - André Masson, French artist (d. 1987)
January 7 - Arnold Ridley, British playwright and actor (d. 1984)
January 8 - Arthur Ford, American psychic (d. 1971)
January 8 - Jaromir Weinberger, Czech-American composer (d. 1967)
January 9 - Warwick Braithwaite, New Zealand-born British conductor (d. 1971)
January 12 - David Wechsler, American psychologist (d.1981)
January 14 - John Dos Passos, American author (d. 1970)
January 16 - Ruth Rose, American screenwriter (d. 1978)
January 18 - C. M. Eddy, Jr.
January 20 - George Burns, American actor
January 20 - Isabel Withers, American actress (d. 1968)
January 23 - Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d. 1985)
January 31 - Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 1966)
February 2 - Kazimierz Kuratowski, Polish mathematician and logician (d. 1980)
February 4 - Friedrich Glauser, German-language Swiss writer (d. 1938)
February 4 - Friedrich Hund, German physicist (d. 1997)
February 15 - Arthur Shields, Irish actor (d. 1970)
February 18 - Andre Breton, French writer (d. 1966)
February 19 - André Breton, French poet (d. 1966)
February 28 - Philip Showalter Hench, American physician
February 29 - Morarji Desai, Prime Minister of India (d. 1995)
February 29 - William A. Wellman, American film director (d. 1975)
March 1 - Dimitris Mitropoulos, Greek conductor and composer (d. 1960)
March 1 - Moriz Seeler, German writer and producer (d. 1942)
March 8 - Charlotte Whitton, Canadian politician (d. 1975)
March 22 - He Long, Chinese marshal (d. 1969)
March 26 - Rudolf Dassler, Founder of PUMA AG (d. 1974)
April 4 - Robert E. Sherwood, American playwright (d. 1955)
April 8 - Yip Harburg, American lyricist (d. 1981)
April 11 - Léo-Paul Desrosiers, Quebec novelist (d. 1967)
April 15 - Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian chemist
April 16 - Tristan Tzara, Romanian poet and essayist (d. 1963)
April 17 - Señor Wences, Spanish ventriloquist (d. 1999)
April 20 - Wop May, Canadian aviator (d. 1952)
April 20 - Henry de Montherlant, French writer (d. 1972)
April 24 - Benjamin Whorf, American linguist (d. 1941)
April 26 - Ernst Udet, WWI pilot and film actor
April 27 - Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player (d. 1963)
April 30 - Hans List, Austrian inventor (d. 1996)
May 1 - Herbert Backe, German Nazi politician (d. 1947)
May 1 - Mark Wayne Clark, American general (d. 1984)
May 1 - J. Lawton Collins, American general (d. 1987)
May 2 - Helen of Greece and Denmark, queen of Romania (d. 1982)
May 3 - Dodie Smith, English novelist and playwright (d. 1990)
May 3 - Karl Allmenroder, German World War I Ace (d. 1917)
May 7 - Pavel Sergeevich Alexandrov, Russian mathematician (d. 1982)
May 11 - Josip Štolcer-Slavenski Croatian composer, (d. 1955)
May 23 - Felix Martin Julius Steiner, German Heer and Waffen-SS officer (d. 1966)
May 30 - Howard Hawks, American film director (d. 1977)
June 6 - Henry Allingham, English first world war veteran
June 7 - Robert S. Mulliken, American chemist
June 7 - Imre Nagy, Hungarian politician (d. 1958)
June 7 - Douglas Campbell, American World War I flying ace (d. 1990)
June 16 - Murray Leinster, American author (d. 1976)
June 19 - Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor (d. 1986)
June 20 - Wilfrid Pelletier, Canadian conductor (d. 1982)
June 21 - Charles B. Momsen, American inventor (d. 1967)
July 2 - Lydia Mei, Estonian artist (d. 1965)
July 4 - Mao Dun, Chinese writer (d. 1981)
July 10 - Thérèse Casgrain, French Canadian politician and senator (d. 1981)
July 13 - Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (d. 1992)
July 14 - Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchist (d. 1936)
July 16 - Trygve Lie, Norwegian politician
July 16 - Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German eugenicist and Nazi physician (d. 1969)
July 16 - Evelyn Preer, American actress (d. 1932)
July 19 - A. J. Cronin, Scottish writer (d. 1981)
July 19 - Bob Meusel, American baseball player (d. 1977)
July 25 - Jack Perrin, American actor (d. 1967)
July 26 - Henry Birkin, British racing driver (d. 1933)
July 27 - Henri Longchambon, French politician (d. 1969)
July 28 - Barbara La Marr, American actress (d. 1926)
August 2 - Lorenzo Herrera, Venezuelan singer and composer (d. 1960)
August 8 - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American author (d. 1953)
August 9 - Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist (d. 1980)
August 9 - Erich Hückel, German physicist (d. 1980)
August 15 - Gerty Cori, Austrian-born biochemist
August 15 - Catherine Doherty, Russian-born Canadian activist (d. 1985)
August 15 - Paul Outerbridge, American photographer (d. 1958)
August 15 - Leon Theremin, Russian inventor (d. 1993)
August 17 - Leslie Groves, American military engineer (d. 1970)
August 18 - Jack Pickford, Canadian-born actor (d. 1933)
August 19 - Olga Baclanova, Russian-born actress (d. 1974)
August 26 - Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1990)
August 27 - Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (d. 1984)
August 30 - Raymond Massey, Canadian actor (d. 1983)
August 31 - Félix-Antoine Savard, French-Canadian priest and novelist (d. 1982)
September 1 - A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian theologian (d. 1977)
September 4 - Antonin Artaud, French playwright (d. 1948)
September 8 - Howard Dietz, American lyricist and librettist (d. 1983)
September 10 - Ye Ting, Chinese military leader (d. 1946)
September 10 - Adele Astaire, American dancer and entertainer (d. 1981)
September 10 - Robert Taschereau, Canadian judge and politician (d. 1970)
September 22 - Henry Segrave, British racing driver (d. 1930)
September 24 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist (d. 1940)
September 25 - Sandro Pertini, President of the Italian Republic (d. 1990)
September 27 - Sam Ervin, American politician (d. 1985)
October 1 - Liaquat Ali Khan, first Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1951)
October 1 - Ted Healy, American actor and comedian (d. 1937)
October 2 - Liaqat Ali Khan, Pakistan's first Prime Minister (d. 1951)
October 3 - Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet (d. 1987)
October 8 - Julien Duvivier, French film director (d. 1967)
October 12 - Eugenio Montale, Italian poet
October 13 - E. Beatrice Riley, Oldest living person in Australia
October 19 - Bob O'Farrell, American baseball player (d. 1988)
October 22 - Charles Glen King, American biochemist (d. 1988)
October 23 - André Lévêque, French engineer (d. 1930)
October 24 - Jack Warner, English actor (d. 1981)
October 27 - Edith Brown, survivor of the Titanic (d. 1997)
October 28 - Howard Hanson, American composer (d. 1981)
October 30 - Ruth Gordon, American actress (d. 1985)
October 30 - Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet (d. 1928)
October 31 - Ethel Waters, American singer and actress (d. 1977)
November 3 - Gustaf Tenggren, Swedish illustrator (d. 1970)
November 4 - Carlos P. Garcia, 8th President of the Philippines (d. 1971)
November 7 - Esdras Minville, Quebec writer
November 8 - Bucky Harris, baseball player (d. 1977)
November 10 - Jimmie Dykes, American baseball player and manager (d. 1976)
November 12 - Salim Ali, Indian ornithologist (d. 1987)
November 14 - Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States (d. 1979)
November 16 - Pavel Sergeevich Alexandrov, Russian mathematician (d. 1982)
November 16 - Joan Lindsay, Australian author (d. 1984)
November 16 - Oswald Mosley, British fascist (d. 1980)
November 16 - Lawrence Tibbett, American singer (d. 1960)
November 17 - Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist (d. 1934)
November 19 - Georgy Zhukov, Russian general (d. 1974)
November 20 - Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian writer (d. 1977)
November 25 - Virgil Thomson, American composer and music critic (d. 1989)
November 28 - Lilia Skala, Austrian actress (d. 1994)
November 28 - Dawn Powell, American writer (d. 1965)
November 29 - Yakima Canutt, American actor and stuntman (d. 1986)
December 1 - Georgy Zhukov, Russian general & Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 1974)
December 5 - Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian-born biochemist
December 6 - Ira Gershwin, American lyricist (d. 1983)
December 14 - Jimmy Doolittle, American General (d. 1993)
December 15 - Betty Smith, American author (d. 1972)
December 21 - Leroy Robertson, American composer (d. 1971)
December 27 - Carl Zuckmayer, German author and dramatist (d. 1977)
December 27 - Louis Bromfield, American writer (d. 1956)
December 27 - Maurice De Waele, Belgian cyclist (d. 1952)
December 29 - David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter (d. 1974)

Deaths

January 1 - Alfred Ely Beach, American inventor (b. 1826)
January 4 - Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German Old Catholic bishop (b. 1821)
January 8 - William Rainey Marshall, Governor of Minnesota (b. 1825)
January 8 - Paul Verlaine, French poet (b. 1844)
January 15 - Mathew Brady, U.S. photographer (b. 1822)
January 18 - Charles Floquet, French statesman (b. 1828)
February 12 - Ambroise Thomas, French opera composer (b. 1811)
March 22 - Thomas Hughes, English novelist (b. 1822)
March 30 - Charilaos Trikoupis, seven times prime-minister of Greece (b. 1832)
April 22 - Thomas Meik, British civil engineer (b. 1812)
April 27 - Henry Parkes, known as the Father of Federation (b. 1815)
May 5 - Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician (b. 1839)
May 7 - H. H. Holmes (Herman Webster Mudgett), American serial killer (b. 1860)
May 20 - Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer (b. 1819)
May 27 - Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov, Russian physicist (b. 1839)
May 29 - Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist (b. 1814)
June 7 - Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (b. 1829)
June 10 - Amelia Dyer, English murderer (b. 1829)
July 1 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author (b. 1811)
July 13 - Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, German chemist (b. 1829)
July 16 - Edmond Goncourt, French writer and critic (b. 1822)
July 19 - Abraham H. Cannon, American Mormon apostle (b. 1859)
August 10 - Otto Lilienthal, German aviation pioneer (b. 1848)
August 12 - Thomas Chamberlain, officer of the 20th Maine at the Battle of Gettysburg
August 17 - Bridget Driscoll, British automobile fatality
August 30 - Alexei Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian statesman (b. 1824)
September 2 - Nat Thomson, Australian cricketer (b. 1839)
September 11 - Francis James Child, American ballad collector (b. 1825)
September 18 - Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist (b. 1819)
September 24 - Louis De Geer, 1st Swedish Prime Minister (b. 1818)
October 3 - William Morris, English writer & poet (b. 1834)
October 11 - Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (b. 1824)
October 11 - Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1829)
October 12 - Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish nobleman and politician (b. 1817)
October 21 - James Henry Greathead, British engineer (b. 1844)
October 26 - Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (b. 1827)
November 26 - Emil du Bois-Reymond, German physician (b. 1818)
November 26 - Coventry Patmore, British poet (b. 1823)
December 10 - Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and founder of the Nobel Prize (b. 1833)
December 27 - John Brown, British manufacturer (b. 1816)
December 30 - José Rizal, national hero of the Philippines (b. 1861) (executed)

Events

January 4 - Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
January 5 - An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Roentgen has discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays.
January 16 - Defeat of Cymru Fydd at South Wales Liberal Federation AGM, Newport, Monmouthshire.
January 18 - The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time.
February 1 - The opera La bohème premieres in Turin.
March 1 - Battle of Adowa: an Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo–Ethiopian War.
March 1 - Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.
March 2 - Ethiopia defeats Italy in the Battle of Adwa, marking the first victory of an African nation over a colonial power.
March 9 - Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns following the Italian defeat at the Battle of Adowa.
March 23 - The Raines Law is passed by the New York State Legislature, restricting Sunday sale of alcohol to hotels.
April 6 - In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games 1,500 years after the original games were banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.
May 18 - The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that separate but equal is constitutional.
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.
May 20 - The six ton chandelier of the Palais Garnier falls on the crowd resulting in the death of one and the injury of many others.
May 26 - Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
May 26 - James Dunham murders six people in Campbell, California.
May 27 - The F4-strength St. Louis-East St. Louis Tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri and East Saint Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing $2.9 billion in damages (1997 USD).
June 2 - Guglielmo Marconi receives a patent for his newest invention: the radio.
June 12 - J.T. Hearne sets a cricket record for the earliest date of taking 100 first-class wickets in a season.
July 8 - William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetalism 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.
August 23 - First Cry of the Philippine Revolution is made in Pugad Lawin (Quezon City), in the province of Manila.
August 27 - Anglo-Zanzibar War: the shortest war in world history (09:00 to 09:45) between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
August 30 - Eight provinces in the Philippines were declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor General Ramon Blanco. This included the provinces of Batangas, Rizal, Cavite, Nueva Ecija as well as the nearby areas.
September 21 - British force under Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola in the Sudan.
September 22 - Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
November 1 - A picture showing the unclad (bare) breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
December 14 - The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
December 30 - José Rizal is executed by firing squad in Manila.

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