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 )

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 )

Extending these deep ideas of Riemann, two proofs of the asymptotic law of the distribution of prime numbers were obtained independently by Jacques Hadamard and Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin and appeared in the same year ( 1896 ).

Meanwhile, he continued with his work on his thesis, spending much of his time devoted to his own research in the history of psychology and psychiatry, visiting the Bibliothèque Nationale every day to read the work of psychologists like Ivan Pavlov ( 1849 – 1936 ), Jean Piaget ( 1896 – 1980 ) and Karl Jaspers ( 1883 – 1969 ).

Many of its ideas, motifs and scenes appear in adumbrated form in Proust's unfinished novel, Jean Santeuil ( 1896 – 99 ), though the perspective and treatment there are different, and in his unfinished hybrid of philosophical essay and story, Contre Sainte-Beuve ( 1908 – 09 ).

He was again beaten during the 1896 elections in Neuilly, as a candidate of the Socialist leader Jean Jaurès, and then again in 1897 as a nationalist antisemitic candidate, having broken with the left-wing during the Dreyfus Affair.

The greatest triumph of her career came on 26 June 1896, when she sang Isolde in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, with Jean de Reszke in his first London Tristan, Louise Meisslinger as Brangäne, David Bispham as Kurwenal, Edouard de Reszke as King Marke, and Luigi Mancinelli conducting.

In 1896 he made two important contributions: he proved the prime number theorem, using complex function theory ( also proved independently by Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin ); and he was awarded the Bordin Prize of the French Academy of Sciences for his work on geodesics in the differential geometry of surfaces and dynamical systems.

* Jean Piaget ( 1896 – 1980 )

He finished his education in 1894 – 1896 in Zürich, Nancy and Montpellier, where he wrote for La Jeunesse Socialiste and La Petite République, maintaining a friendship with Guesde and becoming an opponent of Jean Jaurès ' reformist views.

A key figure in the early bank was Jean ( John ) Pesmatzoglou, an Alexandrian private banker, who merged his bank with Bank of Athens, became chairman in 1896, and formed an alliance with Banque de l ' Union parisienne in 1904.

She was born in Paris the only daughter of Isabelle-Blanche Singer ( 1869 – 1896 ) and Jean Élie Octave Louis Sévère Amanieu Decazes ( 1864 – 1912 ), the 3rd Duke Decazes and Glücksberg.

* Louis Jean Girod, 1896 – February 1898

He moved to Ghent in 1896, where he began to study at the École des Beaux-Arts in the class of Jean Delvin at the age of 18.

In 1896 he won the Rinehart Scholarship which allowed him to work and study in Paris for four years under Jean Antoine Injalbert and others.

Although the Bureau of Translators ' multilingual dictionary ( 华夷译语, Hua-Yi yiyu, ' Sino-Barbarian Dictionary ') was known to Europeans since 1789 ( thanks to Jean Joseph Marie Amiot ), a copy with a Jurchen section ( Hua-Yi yiyu ) was not discovered until the late 19th century, when it was studied and published by Wilhelm Grube in 1896.

Jean Piaget ( 1896 – 1980 ) claimed that young children are egocentric.

Around 1895 – 1896, Armand discovered anarchism through coming into contact with the magazine Les Temps nouveaux which was edited by Jean Grave.

* Gare de Tours, in Tours, 1896 – 1898, with four allegorical limestone statues of cities by Jean Antoine Injalbert ( Bordeaux and Toulouse ) and Jean-Baptiste Hugues ( Limoges and Nantes )

From 1896 he was a pupil of Gabriel Fauré, where his fellow-pupils now included Ravel and Jean Roger-Ducasse.

They are those of :- Jules Dumont d ' Urville with René-Primevère Lesson ( the largest including material from the Falkland Islands, the coast of Chile and Peru, the southern and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea ); Justin Goudot who had explored South America from 1822 ( and continued to until 1842 ); a Louis Pilate who was based in Georgia and Louisiana U. S. A. but lived for five years in Mérida, Yucatán ; Auguste Sallé, a young collector later to become a Paris insect dealer with South American connections ; Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d ' Orbigny who between 1826 and 1823 had travelled, on a mission for the Paris Museum, in to Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, Bolivia and Peru returning France with an enormous collection of more than 10, 000 natural history specimens ; Peter Claussen ( c. 1804 – 1855 ) a Danish naturalist who collected in Brazil, a M. Giesebrecht, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire ( Diptera from Egypt ) and three members of a Belgian Commission for the exploration of tropical countries, August Giesebreght ( 1810 – 1893 ), Nicholas Funk ( 1817 – 1896 ) and Jean Jules Linden ( 1817 – 1898 ).

* Boniface, Marquis de Castellane ( 1896 – 1946 ) who married Yvonne Patenôtre ( daughter of Jules Patenôtre and wife Eleanor Elverson, sister of James Elverson, Jr. (– 1929 ) and daughter of publisher James Elverson ( 1838 – 1911 ) by wife Sallie Duvall, the three of them owners of The Philadelphia Inquirer ), the parents of Elisabeth de Castellane ( Paris, July 9, 1928 – Paris, November 13, 1991 ), wife ( married in Paris, December 7, 1948 ) of Jean Bertrand Jacques Adrien Nompar Comte de Caumont La Force ( Paris, February 4, 1920 – Fontaine Française, June 8, 1986 ), and had issue