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 – 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 )

The Socialist-Revolutionary Party was established in 1902 out of the Northern Union of Socialist Revolutionaries ( founded in 1896 ), bringing together numerous local socialist-revolutionary groups which had been established in the 1890s, most notably Workers ' Party of Political Liberation of Russia created by Catherine Breshkovsky and Grigory Gershuni in 1899.

Burke ’ s Colonial Gentry, 1891 – 1896, Page 96, says he was born in 1793, describes his mother as Catherine Parry, and that she was the wife of D ' Arcy.

The seven Crosby children are: elder boys, Larry ( 1895 – 1975 ), Everett ( 1896 – 1966 ), Ted ( 1900 – 1973 ), Harry, ( 1903 – 1977, popularly known as Bing Crosby ), two girls, Catherine ( 1905 – 1988 ) and Mary Rose ( 1907 – 1990 ) and Bob.

Catherine Filene Shouse ( June 9, 1896 – December 14, 1994 ) was a researcher and philanthropist.

Catherine Filene was born on June 9, 1896 in Boston, Massachusetts to Abraham Lincoln Filene and the former Thérèse Weill.

* Catherine Filene Shouse ( 1896 – 1994 )

* Catherine Filene Shouse ( 1896 – 1994 )

Later books are Miriam's Schooling, and other Papers ( 1890 ), Catherine Furze ( 2 vols., 1893 ), Clara Hopgood ( 1896 ), Pages from a Journal, with other Papers ( 1900 ), and John Bunyan ( 1905 ).

Across from Hotel Doherty, the Clare City Bakery since 1896 stood and effective July 1, 2009, became, Cops and Doughnuts.

He reorganised his various County Cork estates by way of settlement in 1876 and further in 1895 and 1896 including the mortgaging of the lands to his agents Richard Wheeler Doherty, and the appointment of George and John Jones and Doherty as his attorneys.

The film also features, as " witnesses ," interviews with the 98-year old radical educator and peace activist Scott Nearing ( 1883 – 1983 ), author Dorothy Frooks ( 1896 – 1997 ), reporter and author George Seldes ( 1890 – 1995 ), civil liberties advocate Roger Baldwin ( 1884 – 1981 ), and the American writer Henry Miller ( 1891 – 1980 ), among others.

* Harold A. Lett ( 1896 – 1974 ), civil rights activist

* William Morris ( 1834 – 1896 ) – artist, writer, socialist and activist

* Jane Francesca Agnes, Lady Wilde ( 1821 – 1896 ), Irish political activist, poetess, folklorist, mother of Oscar Wilde

Morarji Ranchhodji Desai ( 29 February 1896 – 10 April 1995 ) was an Indian independence activist and the fourth Prime Minister of India from 1977 to 1979.

* 10 April-Morarji Desai, independence activist and 6th Prime Minister of India ( born 1896 ).

* James Parkes ( clergyman ) ( 1896 – 1981 ), Historian and activist from the Channel Islands

Tina Modotti ( August 16 ( or 17 ) 1896 – January 5, 1942 ) was an Italian photographer, model, actress, and revolutionary political activist.

* Ivan Merz ( 1896 – 1928 ), blessed, Croatian Catholic lay activist

Nancy Cunard in 1928Nancy Clara Cunard ( 10 March 1896 – 17 March 1965 ) was a writer, heiress and political activist.

Shirley Graham Du Bois ( November 11, 1896 – March 27, 1977 ) was an American award-winning author, playwright, composer, and activist for African-American and other causes.

* Charles S. Zimmerman ( 1896 – 1983 ), American socialist activist and trade union official

Eric Allen Johnston ( December 21, 1896 – August 22, 1963 ) was a business owner, president of the United States Chamber of Commerce, a Republican Party activist, president of the Motion Picture Association of America ( MPAA ), and a U. S. government special projects administrator and envoy for both Democratic and Republican administrations.

A pioneer civil rights activist, he founded the National Citizens ' Rights Association and litigated for the plaintiff Homer Plessy in the famous segregation case Plessy v. Ferguson ( 1896 ).

Heo Jeong ( Korea: 허정, Hanja: 許政, April 8, 1896 in Pusan-September 18, 1988 Seoul ) was a Korean politician and independence activist.

Having been an activist in the Uruguayan Colorado Party since 1896, for a number of years he was active in local politics and served as Intendent of Canelones in the early part of the 20th Century.