* 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 )

From him it has descended continuously, through fifteen individuals, the title being increased to an Earldom in 1784 ; and in 1876 William Nevill 5th Earl ( b. 1826 ), ( d. 1915 ) an indefatigable and powerful supporter of the Tory Party, was created 1st Marquess of Abergavenny.

Because of these issues, William Hulbert, the president of the Chicago club, spearheaded the development of the National League, whose inaugural season was 1876.

* 1876 William Wood

Leonora ( 1846 ) by William Henry Fry, the first European-styled " grand " opera composed in the United States of America, is based on Bulwer-Lytton's play The Lady of Lyons, as is Frederic Cowen's first opera Pauline ( 1876 ).

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

* 1876 – William Sealey Gosset, English chemist and statistician ( d. 1937 )

* 1876 – William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author ( b. 1795 )

* 1876 – Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Magear Tweed ( better known as Boss Tweed ) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain.

* 1795 – William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author ( d. 1876 )

William Stubbs, 2 vols ( London, 1876 )

In 1876, Grant's reputation was damaged by his White House deposition defending his personal secretary Orville Babcock, indicted in the Whiskey Ring graft trials, and his Secretary of War William W. Belknap's resignation, impeachment by the House, and trial in the Senate over receiving profit money from the Fort Sill tradership.

In November 1876, President Grant pardoned both William O. Avery and William McKee, who were convicted in connection with the Whiskey Ring tax evasion frauds in St. Louis ; having served six months of their two year sentences.

** William Haywood, British architect ( b. 1876 )

** William, Prince of Albania ( b. 1876 )

* October 16 – William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author ( d. 1876 )

As they did in 1876, the Republicans dipped into the talent pool of the Governor's office of Ohio to nominate William McKinley for president and New Jersey's Garret Hobart for vice-president.

Another example of replicas of historic Steinway pianos is the William E. Steinway grand piano, which are exact copies of the award-winning Steinway grand piano, that was exhibited at the Centennial Exposition in 1876.

* William Henry Farrow ( 1805 ?– 1876 ), physician born and trained in England and practiced in Canada

In 1876 William S. Clark arrived to found an agricultural college in Sapporo.

* 1876 – William Kingdon Clifford suggests that the motion of matter may be due to changes in the geometry of space

* 1876 — William Kingdon Clifford suggests that the motion of matter may be due to changes in the geometry of space

* William Rehnquist, Centennial crisis: the disputed election of 1876, Alfred Knopf, New York ( 2003 ) Coverage of the election and subsequent dispute, focusing on the Supreme Court.

# William Augustus Stearns, 1854 — 1876