* 1876 – Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist ( d. 1937 )

* 1847 – Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo, Italian wife of Amadeo I of Spain ( d. 1876 )

In Australia, the grounds currently used are The Gabba in Brisbane ( first staged an England – Australia Test in the 1932 – 33 season ), Adelaide Oval ( 1884 – 85 ), The WACA, Perth ( 1970 – 71 ) the Melbourne Cricket Ground ( MCG ) ( 1876 – 77 ) and the Sydney Cricket Ground ( SCG ) ( 1881 – 82 ).

* 1914 – Rube Waddell, American baseball player ( b. 1876 )

* 1924 – Stan Rowley, Australian sprinter ( b. 1876 )

* 1876 – Colorado is admitted as the 38th U. S. state.

* 1876 – Mata Hari, Dutch spy ( d. 1917 )

* 1876 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.

* 1876 – Varghese Payapilly Palakkappilly, Indian-Syrian priest ( d. 1929 )

* 1876 – Alexander I of Serbia ( d. 1903 )

* 1876 – Stylianos Gonatas, Greek military officer and politician ( d. 1966 )

* 1876 – Ivan Bilibin, Russian illustrator ( d. 1942 )

* 1876 – Julian Ashby Burruss, American academic ( d. 1947 )

* 1876 – Mary Roberts Rinehart, American author ( d. 1958 )

* 1876 – Oscar De Somville, Belgian rower ( d. 1938 )

* 1801 – Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch politician ( d. 1876 )

* 1796 – James Lick, American carpenter and piano builder ( d. 1876 )

Alexander I or Aleksandar Obrenović ( Cyrillic: Александар Обреновић ; 14 August 1876 – 11 June 1903 ) was king of Serbia from 1889 to 1903 when he and his wife, Queen Draga, were assassinated by a group of Army officers, led by Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijević

* Alexander I Obrenović of Serbia ( 1876 – 1903 ), king of Serbia

By French aristocrat Mélanie de Gaufridy de Dortan ( 1876 – 1937 ), he had Roger Marie Vincent Philippe Lévêque de Vilmorin ( 12 September 1905 – 20 July 1980 )

* Frances Bunsen ( 1791 – 1876 ), or Baroness Bunsen, Welsh painter and author, wife of Christian Charles Josias Bunsen

Charles S. Peirce also contributed the first English-language publication on an optimal design for regression-models in 1876.

* 1814 – Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist ( d. 1876 )

* The Gilded Age ( 1876 ) by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner

Laboulaye arranged events designed to appeal to the rich and powerful, including a special performance at the Paris Opera on April 25, 1876, that featured a new cantata by composer Charles Gounod.

In the United States, naturally occurring airborne yeasts were used almost exclusively until commercial yeast was marketed at the Centennial Exposition in 1876 in Philadelphia, where Charles L. Fleischmann exhibited the product and a process to use it, as well as serving the resultant baked bread.

* April 26 – Charles Goodyear, American politician ( d. 1876 )

Under that sponsorship the Scots Charles Wyville Thompson and Sir John Murray launched the Challenger expedition ( 1872 – 1876 ).

William Quiller Orchardson's illustration of Sly and the Lord in the Induction, engraved by Charles William Sharpe ; from the Imperial Edition of The Works of Shakespere, edited by Charles Knight ( publisher ) | Charles Knight ( 1876 )

Langley hired Charles M. Manly ( 1876 – 1927 ) as engineer and test pilot.

In 1876, the building ( then named the " Bedford Hotel ") housed the coroners inquest into the notorious unsolved murder of Charles Bravo, a resident and lawyer who was poisoned, possibly by his wife.

* 1876 Charles Lee Williams

Charles Bennett and Daniel Sweet founded Pipestone in 1876.

Charles Frederic ' Freddy ' Ingalls, ( November 1, 1876 – August 27, 1877 in South Troy, Minnesota ), the little brother of Laura Ingalls Wilder, was born in Walnut Grove.

Carl ( Charles Sprague ) Ruggles was born in East Marion, Massachusetts, on March 11, 1876.

The land was later sold to a Mr. Cook, who in October 1876 sold the land to Charles Hearin.

King Charles and his ministers wished to strengthen the conservative element in the chambers, but the laws of 1874, 1876 and 1879 only effected slight reforms pending a more thorough settlement.

In 1876 Barton stood for the Legislative Assembly in the poll of the graduates of the University of Sydney ( who were required to wear gowns for the occasion ), but was beaten by William Charles Windeyer 49 votes to 43.

Charles I. D. Looff, a Danish woodcarver, built the first carousel at Coney Island in 1876.

* January 23 – Charles Hunter, ragtime composer ( born 1876 )

Others of later date are those of N. Lenglet du Fresnoy ( the Hague, 1731 ) and P. Jannet ( 1868 – 1872 ; new ed., 1873 – 1876 ), on the whole the best, but there is a very good selection with a still better introduction by Charles d ' Hericault, the joint editor of the Jannet edition in the larger Collection Garner ( no date ).

Charles Ammi Cutter made the first explicit statement regarding the objectives of a bibliographic system in his Rules for a Printed Dictionary Catalog in 1876.