* 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 – 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 )

Year 1876 ( MDCCCLXXVI ) was a leap year starting on Saturday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian Calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar.

Actor Peter Penry-Jones portrays Sir William Gull in 2004's Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder – The Case of Charles Bravo – a dramatised documentary investigating the unsolved murder of barrister Charles Bravo in 1876.

He appeared in two FIFA World Cup tournaments, and won two MLS Cup titles with D. C. United, and was the second American footballer to appear in the final of a major English tournament since Julian Sturgis in 1876.

Julian Corbett had three brothers, Herbert E. ( 1876 -), Edward M. ( 1899 -) and Frank E. ( 1881 -).

* 1876 – Charles F. Kettering, American engineer and businessman, founded Delco Electronics ( d. 1958 )

Research conducted by the National Museum of American History notes that the story of Betsy Ross making the first American flag for General George Washington entered into American consciousness about the time of the 1876 centennial celebrations.

* 1968 – Walter Tewksbury, American athlete ( b. 1876 )

* 1876 – Fay Moulton, American sprinter, football player, coach and lawyer ( d. 1945 )

* Harper's Weekly 150 cartoons on elections 1860-1912 ; Reconstruction topics ; Chinese exclusion ; plus American Political Prints from the Library of Congress, 1766 – 1876

* 1876 – Fred Duesenberg, German-born American automobile maker ( d. 1932 )

* 1839 – George Armstrong Custer, American general ( d. 1876 )

* 1876 – Berton Churchill, American actor ( d. 1940 )

* 1876 – Pauline Whittier, American golfer ( d. 1946 )

Illegal and experimental forward passes had been attempted as early as 1876, but the first legal forward pass in American football took place in 1906, after a change in rules.

* 1945 – Fay Moulton, American sprinter, football player, coach and lawyer ( b. 1876 )

* 1876 – Fritz Buelow, German-born American baseball player ( d. 1933 )

* 1876 – John Alden Carpenter, American composer ( d. 1951 )

Among the longest single poems in American literature, Clarel, published in 1876, had an initial printing of only 350 copies.

* 1876 – American Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud – 1, 500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook's forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.

* 1876 – William Carr, American rower ( d. 1942 )

* 1876 – Elmer Flick, American baseball player ( d. 1971 )

* 1876 – Ralph Barton Perry, American philosopher ( d. 1957 )

* 1876 – Frank Hague, American politician ( d. 1956 )