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 )

* Henry Wentworth Monk ( 1827 – 1896 ), millenarian prophet and early Zionist

* 1972 – Henry de Montherlant, French author ( b. 1896 )

* September 21 – Henry de Montherlant, French writer ( b. 1896 )

* June 13 – Henry Segrave, British racer and speed record holder ( b. 1896 )

* May 27 – Sir Henry Parkes, Father of Australian Federation ( d. 1896 )

Frederic William Henry Myers was the son of Revd Frederic Myers ( 1811 – 1851 ) and his second wife Susan Harriet Myers nee Marshall ( 1811 – 1896 ).

Often referred to as " The Father of Naval Aviation ," Captain Henry C. Mustin ,( 1874 – 1923 ), an 1896 graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy, was the principal architect for the concept of the catapult launch.

The play was also one of Ellen Terry's last performances with Henry Irving at the Lyceum in 1896.

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.

Tree also mounted critically acclaimed productions of Hamlet ( 1892 ), Henry IV, Part 1 ( 1896 ) and The Merry Wives of Windsor ( 1889 ), establishing himself as a Shakespearean leading man.

Henry Oliver Walker, Lyric Poetry ( 1896 ).

* John Snowdon Henry ( died 1896 ), British Conservative Member of Parliament ( MP ) for South-East Lancashire

When Henry Flagler brought his railroad down to Lemon City ( a year or so before he extended it to Miami in 1896 ), he placed depots at numerous spots along the route, and small towns quickly developed around those stops.

Charles L. Henry, 1896

In 1896, the village of L ' Anse burned to the ground, but gradually rebuilt itself into a lumber town with the arrival of Henry Ford's Ford Motor Company in the early 1900s.

John Henry William Rasch purchased the house about 1896 from the Doerings.

* Robert Henry Best ( April 15, 1896 – December 16, 1952 ) was an American broadcaster of Nazi propaganda during World War II.

As did Henry Fairfield Osborn ( 1896 / A mode of evolution requiring neither natural selection nor the inheritance of acquired characteristics.

* Chapter on Henry Grattan in The Story Of Ireland, by Emily Lawless, 1896

JP Miller found his title in the 1896 poem " Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam " by the English writer Ernest Dowson ( 1867 – 1900 ): It also inspired the title song devised by Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer.

* William Steinway ( 1836 – 1896 ), son of Henry Steinway, and founder of Steinway, New York

* Albert Henry Iversen ( 1896 –?

In 1896, the long stretch from the Kabul River to China, including the Wakhan Corridor, was declared demarcated by virtue of its continuous, distinct watershed ridgeline, leaving only the section near the Khyber Pass which was finally demarcated in the treaty of 22 November 1921 signed by Mahmud Tarzi, " Chief of the Afghan Government for the conclusion of the treaty " and " Henry R. C. Dobbs, Envoy Extraordinary and Chief of the British Mission to Kabul.