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 )

* 1896 – Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila, Philippines.

José Buenaventura Durruti Dumange ( 14 July 1896 – 20 November 1936 ) was a central figure of Spanish anarchism during the period leading up to and including the Spanish Civil War.

David Alfaro Siqueiros ( born José de Jesús Alfaro Siqueiros, December 29, 1896, in Mexico City-January 6, 1974, in Cuernavaca, Morelos ) was a Mexican social realist painter, known for his large murals in fresco.

Sacred Heart of Jesus by José María Ibarrarán y Ponce, 1896

The executions of Fr Mariano Gomez, Fr José Burgos, and Fr Jacinto Zamora ( collectively known as the Gomburza ) at the hands of Spanish authorities is said to have had a deep effect on Dr José Rizal and subsequently the 1896 Philippine Revolution.

* Castilla la Nueva ; ( 1885 ), by Quadrado, José María, 1819 – 1896 ; Fuente, Vicente de la, 1817 – 1889,

* Dr José Rizal ( 1861 – 1896 ), a Filipino national hero, optometrist, artist, author, and scientist who could speak 22 languages.

* José Asunción Silva ( 1865 – 1896 ), Colombian poet

José Rizal, the Philippines ' national hero, was imprisoned here before his execution in 1896.

The 1901 Constitution was indeed a carbon copy of the Constitution written at La Yara in 1896, and met with fierce opposition from its principal author Major General José Braulio Alemán who strongly opposed the Platt Amendment.

Lt. General José Antonio de la Caridad Maceo y Grajales ( June 14, 1845 – December 7, 1896 ) was second-in-command of the Cuban Army of Independence.

On December 7, 1896, in the vicinity of Punta Brava, Maceo was advancing into the farm of San Pedro, only accompanied by his personal escort ( two or three men ), the physician of his Headquarters, the Brigade General José Miró Argenter and a small troop of no more than twenty men.

* José Domingo Molina Gómez ( 1896 – 1969 ), interim President of Argentina 1955

At the trial of José Rizal in 1896, it was suggested that Paterno, along with Rizal, had incited the Katipunan because they had both written about the ancient Tagalog civilization.

" Mi último adiós " ( Spanish for " My Last Farewell ") is a poem written by Philippine national hero Dr José Rizal on the eve of his execution on 30 December 1896.

The execution of pacifist Dr. José Rizal on December 30, 1896, sparked the fire of the Philippine Revolution against the Spanish colonizers, elevating the martyr as the national hero of the country.

Some of these include the Cervecería Toluca y México by Swiss Agustín Marendaz in 1865, Cervecería Cruz Blanca in Mexico City by Emil Dercher in 1869 ( which produced the first lager ), the San Diego Brewery by Carlos Fredenbaen in 1860, the Cervercería Yucateca by José Ponce Solis in Mérida in 1869 ( with German equipment and a German brewer ), the Fábrica de Cerveza y Hielo in Monterrey in 1886, the Cevercería Piazzini in Monterrey in 1889, the Cervecería Estrella by Juan E. Ohrner in 1890, the Cervecería Guillermo Hasse y Compañia in Orizaba by Henry Manthey, William Hasse, Cuno Van Alten and Adolph Burhard ( which started production at 15, 000 bottles daily and would later change its name to Cervecería Moctezuma ), the Cervecería Chihuahua by Juan Terrazas in Chihuahua in 1896, the Cervecería Sonora by George Gruning, Dr. Albert Hoeffer, and Jacob Schuele in 1896, the Cervecería del Pacífico by Jorge Claussen, Germán Evers and Emilio Philippy in 1900.

José Leitão de Barros ( 22 October 1896 – 29 June 1967 ) was a Portuguese film director and playwright.

José Domingo Molina Gómez ( 1896 – 1969 ) was the Commander and Chief of the Argentine Army who appears to have temporarily taken " the reins of Government " on September 19, 1955.