Alfred Bernhard Nobel ( äl ' fred bern ' härd nōbel ') () ( 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896 ) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer.

* 1896 – In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1, 500 years after the original games are banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.

* 1896 – Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.

* 1896 – Hans List, Austrian inventor and entrepreneur ( d. 1996 )

* 1896 – Reverend Gary Davis, American singer and guitarist ( d. 1972 )

* 1896 – Anglo-Zanzibar War: the shortest war in world history ( 09: 00 to 09: 45 ) between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.

* 1896 – Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress ( d. 1984 )

* 1844 – James Henry Greathead, English engineer ( d. 1896 )

* 1896 – Erich Hückel, German physicist ( d. 1980 )

* 1896 – Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist ( d. 1980 )

In 1896 England under the captaincy of W G Grace won the series 2 – 1, and this marked the end of England's longest period of Ashes dominance.

* 1896 – Lorenzo Herrera, Venezuelan singer and composer ( d. 1960 )

* 1988 – Jim Jordan, American actor ( b. 1896 )

* 1896 – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American author ( d. 1953 )

* 1896 – Pat Clayton, English surveyor and explorer ( d. 1962 )

* 1896 – Tristan Tzara, Romanian poet and essayist ( d. 1963 )

* 1896 – Gerty Cori, Austrian biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1957 )

* 1896 – Catherine Doherty, Russian-Canadian activist ( d. 1985 )

* 1896 – Paul Outerbridge, American photographer ( d. 1958 )

* 1896 – Léon Theremin, Russian inventor, invented the Theremin ( d. 1993 )

* 1896 – Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.

* 1896 – Officially recognised date of the Cry of Pugad Lawin, the start of the Philippine Revolution is made in Pugad Lawin ( Quezon City ), in the province of Manila ( actual date and location is disputed ).

* 1896 – Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas.

* 1850 – Marcelo H. del Pilar, Filipino writer, journalist, and revolutionary ( d. 1896 )

* 1896 – Raymond Massey, Canadian actor ( d. 1983 )

** Betty Smith, American writer ( b. 1896 )

She and Betty Lou, who would also have a musical career, were raised " in-a-trunk " by their father ( Dewey Barto ; 1896 – 1973 ).

The brothers are sons of Thomas Ethelbert Skilling, Jr ( 1923 – 2006 ) and his wife Betty C. Skilling ( 1924 – 2008 ), of Aurora, Kane County, Illinois, and grandsons of Thomas Ethelbert Skilling, Sr. ( 1896 – 1968 ) and his wife Lillian Alta Foringer ( 1897 – 1979 ) of Parnassus, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania and Broward County, Florida.

* 1896 – Dodie Smith, English novelist and playwright ( d. 1990 )

* William Thomas Smith ( 1896 – 1994 ), World War I flying ace

* William Russell Smith ( 1815 – 1896 ), member of the U. S. House of Representatives from Alabama ( 1851 – 1856 )

* William Smith ( shearer ) ( 1896 – 1947 ), perhaps the most skilled sheep-shearer in the first half of the 20th century

The first homesteaders in the township were Seth Smith in May 1896 and Lars Lind who filed in the fall of 1896.

Her literary output included popular books for adults ; with her sister, Nora A. Smith, she published scholarly work on the educational principles of Friedrich Froebel: Froebel's Gifts ( 1895 ), Froebel's Occupations ( 1896 ), and Kindergarten Principles and Practice ( 1896 ); and she wrote the classic children's novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm ( 1903 ), as well as the 1905 best-seller Rose o ' the River.

The dignity of a Lord Mayor was conferred in 1896 and Sir James Smith Kt was appointed as the City's first Lord Mayor on 3 June 1896.

While Smith was in art school, her mother died in Jamaica, in 1896.

Born John Charles Smith in Toronto, Ontario, Canada to John Charles Smith and Charlotte Hennessy Smith in 1896.

No apparent evidence of survival on these occasions was noted ( Smith 1896 ; Shebley 1917 ; Shapovalov et al.

Carter was born in Plains, Georgia, the eldest of the four children of Allie M. Smith ( 1905 – 2000 ), a dressmaker, and Wilburn Edgar Smith ( 1896 – 1940 ), an automobile mechanic and farmer.

This latter 5-story building was purchased by Robert H. Smith in 1900 for $ 375, 000 – an incredible sum at the time – with the idea of getting in the way of Macy's becoming the largest store in the world: it is largely supposed that Smith, who was a neighbor of the Macy's store on 14th Street, was acting on behalf of Siegel-Cooper, which had built what they thought was the world's largest store on Sixth Avenue in 1896.

Lewis Howard Latimer was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts on September 4, 1848, and was the youngest of five children of Rebecca Smith ( 1826 – 1910 ) and George Latimer ( July 4, 1818-May 29, 1896 ).

** Asenath Smith ( 28 December 1896 – 3 August 1982 )

** Jesse Kimball Smith ( 21 May 1896 – 9 June 1953 )

By 1895, the budget situation was so dire that Smith initially experimented with charging borrowers ten cents to borrow a book ; the experiment was a failure and in 1896 the library moved to the Rialto, a building farther north on Second Avenue, far enough north that at that time it stood outside of Seattle's core.