* 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 – 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 )

* December 11 – Ivan Cankar, Slovenian writer ( b. 1876 )

* Ivan Bilibin ( 1876 – 1942 )

Atanasoff's father, Ivan Atanasov was born in 1876 in the village of Boyadzhik, close to Yambol.

The academic tradition of interpretation of the wide use of the name " Vlachs " in this particular case as nothing more than a transient substitution and confusion of several medieval authors was affirmed in the second half of the 19th century by the Czech historian Konstantin Josef Jireček in his " History of the Bulgarians ", first published in 1876, in which he ignored the idea of significant ethnic Vlach participation in these processes, and is supported by the contemporary Bulgarian medievalist and researcher of the Asens Ivan Bozhilov.

* Ivan Sarić ( 1876 – 1966 ), aviation pioneer and athlete

The French journalist Ivan de Woestyne, who visited the town in July 1876, reported for the newspaper Le Figaro that out of a population of about 2000 only 150 elders and children were left.

Ivan Zajc's 1876 opera Nikola Šubić Zrinski is his most famous and popular work in Croatia.

He created a gallery of portraits of important Russian writers, scientists, artists and public figures ( Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, 1873, Ivan Shishkin, 1873, Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov, 1876, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, 1879, Sergei Botkin, 1880 ) in which expressive simplicity of composition and clarity of depiction emphasize profound psychological elements of character.

Ivan Cankar () ( 10 May 1876 – 11 December 1918 ) was a Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, poet and political activist.

Vrhnika is the birthplace of one of the most important Slovene writers, Ivan Cankar ( 1876 – 1918 ).

* Ivan Vulpe ( 1876 – 1929 ), Bulgarian opera singer

In 1876 P. Martynovych and his colleague Slastion travelled to Lokhvytsia and recorded the duma parody by kobzar Ivan Kravchenko.

A leading proponent of the Great Game, Disraeli introduced the Royal Titles Act 1876, which created Queen Victoria Empress of India, putting her at the same level as the Russian Tsar.

* 1876 – Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter ( d. 1956 )

In the early 19th century, the territory of Kyrgyzstan came under the control of the Khanate of Kokand, but the territory was occupied and formally annexed by the Russian Empire in 1876.

* 1814 – Mikhail Bakunin, Russian revolutionary, and philosopher, and theorist ( d. 1876 )

* 1876 – Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva, Russian / Dutch mathematician ( d. 1964 )

In 1876, Russian engineer Pavel Yablochkov invented a lighting system based on a set of induction coils where the primary windings were connected to a source of alternating current and the secondary windings could be connected to several " electric candles " ( arc lamps ) of his own design.

He was made first ordinary professor of Finnish, Russian and Nordic history in 1863, and exchanged this chair for the one in general history in 1876.

* December 31 – Maxim Litvinov, Russian revolutionary and Soviet diplomat ( b. 1876 )

* December 3 – Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian actress ( b. 1876 )

* November 11 – Nikolai Burdenko, Russian surgeon, founder of Russian neurosurgery ( b. 1876 )

* May 30 – Mikhail Bakunin, Russian anarchist ( d. 1876 )

The fact that electromagnetic radiation exerts a pressure upon any surface exposed to it was deduced theoretically by James Clerk Maxwell in 1871 and Adolfo Bartoli in 1876, and proven experimentally by Russian physicist Peter Lebedev in 1900 and by Ernest Fox Nichols and Gordon Ferrie Hull in 1901.

In fact, Louis Roederer had been producing Cristal since 1876, but this was strictly for the private consumption of the Russian tsar.

Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (; – 1 July 1876 ) was a Russian revolutionary, philosopher, and theorist of collectivist anarchism.

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.

Several of his themed sets of articles were reissued as monographs ; these covered topics as varied as the original 1876 production of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen in Bayreuth, the development of the Russian romance ( art song ), music in Russia, and Anton Rubinstein's seminal lectures on the history of piano music of 1888-1889.

He introduced the Royal Titles Act 1876, which added to Victoria's titles that of Empress of India, putting her at the same level as the Russian Emperor.

In the 1870s the rapid development of Russian railways, the 1871 opening of the Libava-Kaunas and the 1876 Liepāja-Romny railways ensured that a large proportion of central Russian trade passed through Liepāja.

The foreign editions of Capital: Critique of Political Economy ( 1867 ), by Karl Marx, include a Russian translation by the revolutionary Mikhail Bakunin ( 1814 – 1876 ).

* Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva ( 1876 – 1964 ), Dutch / Russian mathematician who advocated the use of visual aids and examples for introductory courses in geometry for high school students

Ferghana, or Fergana was a province of Russian Turkestan, formed in 1876 out of the former khanate of Kokand ( see Kokand ).

As the Ukrainian language had been outlawed in the Russian Empire by the Ems Ukaz of 1876, Petliura found more freedom to publish Ukraine oriented articles in Saint Petersburg than in Ukraine.