* 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 )

* 1876 – Japan and Korea sign a treaty granting Japanese citizens extraterritoriality rights, opening three ports to Japanese trade, and ending Korea's status as a tributary state of Qing Dynasty China.

Kudzu was introduced from Japan into the United States at the Japanese pavilion in the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.

On February 27, 1876, after certain incidents and confrontations involving Korean isolationists and the Japanese, Japan imposed the Japan – Korea Treaty of 1876 ; forcing Korea to open itself to Japanese and foreign trade and to proclaim its independence from China in its foreign relations.

However, in 1876, Korea established a trade treaty with Japan after Japanese ships approached Ganghwado and threatened to fire on Seoul.

The pierced-tile inserts in the railings are believed to have come from the Japanese Pavilion at the 1876 Centennial Exposition.

However, much of the area of these villages was already under the control of the Imperial Japanese Army, who had established a training school in 1876 for infantry maneuvers.

Anti-Japanese sentiment, which had already become entrenched in the minds of commoners and aristocrats alike during the Japanese invasions of Korea ( 1592 – 1598 ), became pervasive in the royal court and upper echelons of society following the Ganghwa Treaty of 1876 and soon extended explosively to most Koreans following perceived Japanese meddling in court politics and the assassination of Empress Myeongseong.

Instead it was gained through exhibitions the Japanese partook in such as the 1876 Centennial International Exhibition in Philadelphia.

In 1876 the islands were put under the direct control of the Home Ministry and the islanders of European and US ancestry were granted Japanese nationality in 1882.

After several incidents involving the Russians, French and the Americans, Korea was opened to foreign trade by the Japanese as a result of the Treaty of Ganghwa in 1876.

In 1876 six naval vessels and an imperial Japanese envoy were sent to Ganghwa Island to enforce this command.

In 1876, the Japanese government hired Clark as a foreign advisor to establish the Sapporo Agricultural College ( SAC ), now Hokkaido University.

Clark signed his contract with the Japanese government on March 3, 1876, in Washington, DC.

Destroyed during the Japanese invasions of Korea in 1592, the building was rebuilt when Gyeongbokgung was reconstructed in 1867, but it was again burned down by a major fire on November 1876 and had to be restored in 1888 following the orders of King Gojong.

His Japanese grammar ( Japanische Sprechlehre ) was published in Dutch and English in 1867, and in English and German in 1876.

Verny returned to France in 1876, when the Japanese were able to take full control of the operations.

In 1872, three Japanese students started at the university as part of that country's modernization movement, with the three graduating in 1876.

is a Japanese brewery founded in 1876.

* Hideo Kodama ( 1876 – 1947 ), pre-World War II Japanese politician and cabinet minister

* January 22 – Georg Lurich, Estonian Greco-Roman wrestler and strongman ( b. 1876 )

Fred Beell ( January 17, 1876 – August 5, 1933 ) was a German-born American professional wrestler and police officer.