* 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 )

Eugène-Henri Gravelotte ( February 6, 1876 – August 23, 1939 ) was a French fencer.

Projet d ' une nouvelle ville et d ' un nouveau port de commerce à Constantinople by Eugène-Henri Gavand ( 1876 ).

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

* 1804 – George Sand, French writer ( d. 1876 )

* 1876 – George Sand, French author ( b. 1804 )

* 1876 – Max Jacob, French poet ( d. 1944 )

* 1806 – Catherine Labouré, French visionary and saint ( d. 1876 )

These reforms included guarantees to ensure the Ottoman subjects perfect security for their lives, honour, and property ; the introduction of the first Ottoman paper banknotes ( 1840 ) and opening of the first post offices ( 1840 ); the reorganization of the finance system according to the French model ( 1840 ); the reorganization of the Civil and Criminal Code according to the French model ( 1840 ); the establishment of the Meclis-i Maarif-i Umumiye ( 1841 ) which was the prototype of the First Ottoman Parliament ( 1876 ); the reorganization of the army and a regular method of recruiting, levying the army, and fixing the duration of military service ( 1843 – 44 ); the adoption of an Ottoman national anthem and Ottoman national flag ( 1844 ); the first nationwide Ottoman census in 1844 ( only male citizens were counted ); the first national identity cards ( officially named the Mecidiye identity papers, or informally kafa kağıdı ( head paper ) documents, 1844 ); the institution of a Council of Public Instruction ( 1845 ) and the Ministry of Education ( Mekatib-i Umumiye Nezareti, 1847, which later became the Maarif Nezareti, 1857 ); the abolition of slavery and slave trade ( 1847 ); the establishment of the first modern universities ( darülfünun, 1848 ), academies ( 1848 ) and teacher schools ( darülmuallimin, 1848 ); establishment of the Ministry of Healthcare ( Tıbbiye Nezareti, 1850 ); the Commerce and Trade Code ( 1850 ); establishment of the Academy of Sciences ( Encümen-i Daniş, 1851 ); establishment of the Şirket-i Hayriye which operated the first steam-powered commuter ferries ( 1851 ); the first European style courts ( Meclis-i Ahkam-ı Adliye, 1853 ) and supreme judiciary council ( Meclis-i Ali-yi Tanzimat, 1853 ); establishment of the modern Municipality of Istanbul ( Şehremaneti, 1854 ) and the City Planning Council ( İntizam-ı Şehir Komisyonu, 1855 ); the abolition of the capitation ( Jizya ) tax on non-Muslims, with a regular method of establishing and collecting taxes ( 1856 ); non-Muslims were allowed to become soldiers ( 1856 ); various provisions for the better administration of the public service and advancement of commerce ; the establishment of the first telegraph networks ( 1847 – 1855 ) and railroads ( 1856 ); the replacement of guilds with factories ; the establishment of the Ottoman Central Bank ( originally established as the Bank-ı Osmanî in 1856, and later reorganized as the Bank-ı Osmanî-i Şahane in 1863 ) and the Ottoman Stock Exchange ( Dersaadet Tahvilat Borsası, established in 1866 ); the Land Code ( Arazi Kanunnamesi, 1857 ); permission for private sector publishers and printing firms with the Serbesti-i Kürşad Nizamnamesi ( 1857 ); establishment of the School of Economical and Political Sciences ( Mekteb-i Mülkiye, 1859 ); the Press and Journalism Regulation Code ( Matbuat Nizamnamesi, 1864 ); among others.

Sullivan wrote only one grand opera, Ivanhoe ( following the efforts of a number of young English composers beginning about 1876 ), but he claimed that even his light operas constituted part of a school of " English " opera, intended to supplant the French operettas ( usually performed in bad translations ) that had dominated the London stage from the mid-19th century into the 1870s.

* 1876 – Paul Masson, French cyclist ( d. 1944 )

* October 9 – Raymond Duchamp-Villon, French sculptor ( b. 1876 )

* May 2 – Catherine Labouré, French visionary and saint ( d. 1876 )

** George Sand, French writer ( d. 1876 )

After the American Civil War ended in 1865, British and French traders abandoned Egyptian cotton and returned to cheap American exports, sending Egypt into a deficit spiral that led to the country declaring bankruptcy in 1876, a key factor behind Egypt's occupation by the British Empire in 1882.

Even after the initial production of Trial by Jury, however, Carte continued to produce continental operetta, touring in the summer of 1876 with a repertoire consisting of English adaptations of French opera bouffe ( Offenbach ’ s La Périchole, and La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein, Lecocq's La fille de Madame Angot and Léon Vasseur's La Timbale d ' argent ), paired with two one-act English after-pieces ( Happy Hampstead and Trial by Jury ).

* Küpeyakwüskonam ( Kupeyakwuskonam, Kah-pah-yak-as-to-cum-One Arrow, French: ‘ Une Flèche ’, Chief of the Parklands or Willow Cree, born 1815 in the Saskatchewan River Valley, son of George Sutherland (‘ Okayasiw ’) and his second wife Paskus (‘ Rising ’), tried to prevent in 1876 negotiations on the Treaty 6 at Fort Carlton along with Kamdyistowesit (' Beardy ') and Saswaypew (' Cut Nose '), but finally signed on August 28 the treaty, in August 1884 he attended a meeting with chief Mistahimaskwa (' Big Bear ') and Papewes (‘ Papaway ’-' Lucky Man '), his tribal group joined first the Métis in 1885, died on 25 April 1886 in the prison )

Amantine ( also " Amandine ") Lucile Aurore Dupin (), later Baroness () Dudevant ( 1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876 ), best known by her pseudonym George Sand (), was a French novelist and memoirist.

* Augustin Cochin ( historian ) ( 1876 – 1916 ), French historian and grandson of the prior

The Basilica of the Sacré Cœur was built on Montmartre from 1876 to 1912 by public subscription as a gesture of expiation of the " crimes of the communards ", after the Paris Commune events, and to honour the French victims of the 1871 Franco-Prussian War.

He remained the leading spokesman of French Radicalism, but his hostility to the Russian alliance so increased his unpopularity that in the 1893 election, he was defeated for his Chamber seat, after having held it continuously since 1876.

Bartholdi was one of the French commissioners in 1876 to the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition.

The French symbolist Stéphane Mallarmé's famous masterpiece L ' après-midi d ' un faune ( published in 1876 ) describes the sensual experiences of a faun who has just woken up from his afternoon sleep and discusses his encounters with several nymphs during the morning in a dreamlike monologue.

It was named after the French bandmaster Pierre-Auguste Sarrus ( 1813 – 1876 ) who is credited with the concept of the instrument, though it is not clear whether Sarrus benefited financially from this association.

Malvearne was originally a French name but was changed to Malvern in 1876.