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 )

and Yirgu, F. ( 1996 ) The Battle of Adwa 1896, Chicago: Nyala Publishing, 160 pp., ISBN 978-0-9642068-1-6

* 1940 – F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer ( b. 1896 )

Fulham started playing at their current ground Craven Cottage in 1896, their first game against now defunct rivals Minerva F. C .. Fulham are the oldest established club in southern England currently playing professional football, though there are many non-league sides like Cray Wanderers which are several decades older.

Dewey's most significant writings were " The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology " ( 1896 ), a critique of a standard psychological concept and the basis of all his further work ; Democracy and Education ( 1916 ), his celebrated work on progressive education ; Human Nature and Conduct ( 1922 ), a study of the function of habit in human behavior ; The Public and its Problems ( 1927 ), a defense of democracy written in response to Walter Lippmann's The Phantom Public ( 1925 ); Experience and Nature ( 1925 ), Dewey's most " metaphysical " statement ; Art as Experience ( 1934 ), Dewey's major work on aesthetics ; A Common Faith ( 1934 ), a humanistic study of religion originally delivered as the Dwight H. Terry Lectureship at Yale ; Logic: The Theory of Inquiry ( 1938 ), a statement of Dewey's unusual conception of logic ; Freedom and Culture ( 1939 ), a political work examining the roots of fascism ; and Knowing and the Known ( 1949 ), a book written in conjunction with Arthur F. Bentley that systematically outlines the concept of trans-action, which is central to his other works.

Hogan's Alley, a comic strip revolving around a bald child in a yellow nightshirt ( nicknamed The Yellow Kid ), became exceptionally popular when cartoonist Richard F. Outcault began drawing it in the World in early 1896.

* December 21 – F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer ( b. 1896 )

According to political scientist Richard F. Bensel in his study of the 1896 Democratic convention, " Although the silver men knew they would win this fight, they nonetheless needed someone to tell them — and the gold men — why they must enshrine silver at the heart of the platform.

* F. Scott Fitzgerald ( 1896 – 1940 ) and his wife Zelda first visited the Riviera in 1924, stopping at Hyères, Cannes and Monte Carlo, eventually staying at St. Raphaël, where he wrote much of The Great Gatsby and began Tender is the Night.

Of the history of the indigenous population of California, Sherburne F. Cook ( 1896 – 1974 ) was the most painstakingly careful researcher.

After they won the Southern League title in 1896 – 97, the club became a limited company and changed their name to Southampton F. C.

Incorporation: The town was incorporated on February 17, 1896, and the first village president was a Mr. L. F. Miller.

1868, Lewis Robins ; 1869, Washington Snyder ; 1870 – 1871, Sylvester M. Lester ; 1872 – 1873, George F. Rogers ; 1874 – 1875, Alvin H. Cipperly ; 1876 – 1880, Arthur M. Peck ; 1881 – 1885, James C. Cotton ; 1886 – 1888, Sanford B. Horton ; 1889 – 1895, Frank Pettit ; 1896 -, John B. Martin.

In September 1896 reference to the English edition was dropped, and it was published as the Fourteenth Edition, edited by Bern B. Gallaudet, F. J. Brockway, and J. P. McMurrich, who also edited the Fifteenth Edition ( October 1901 ).

* JG Oswald, F. T. Vischer als Dichter ( 1896 )

The stories and novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald ( 1896 – 1940 ) capture the restless, pleasure-hungry, defiant mood of the 1920s.

), F. C. Conybeare (" Philo About the Contemplative Life ," Oxford, 1895 ), and Wendland (" Die Therapeuten ," etc., Leipsig, 1896 ) ascribe the entire work to Philo, basing their argument wholly on linguistic reasons, which seem sufficiently conclusive.

F. Amelung employed the terms Zugzwang, Tempozwang and Tempozugzwang on pages 257-259 of the September 1896 issue of the same magazine.

* John F. Hunter ( 1896 – 1957 ), U. S. Representative from Ohio

London: F V White, 1896.

Amongst the most prominent followers of the early Yeats were Padraic Colum ( 1881 – 1972 ), F. R. Higgins ( 1896 – 1941 ), and Austin Clarke ( 1896 – 1974 ).

* Joseph F. Johnston ( 1843 – 1913 ), governor of Alabama, 1896 – 1900

( The most famous of this latter group was Samuel F. Phillips, who later argued against segregation in Plessy vs. Ferguson ( 1896 )).

* August 5 – 13, 1896 – A heat wave prostrates the city, with temperatures exceeding 90 ° F for nine days both day and night, with stagnant air and oppressive humidity.