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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 )
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Schweitzer saw many operas of Richard Wagner at Straßburg ( under Otto Lohse ), and in 1896 he pulled together the funds to visit Bayreuth to see Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen and Parsifal, and was deeply affected.
* A. K. Bulatovich, Ethiopia Through Russian Eyes: Country in Transition, 1896 – 1898, translated by Richard Seltzer, 2000
* Farnell, Lewis Richard, The Cults of the Greek States, in five volumes, Clarendon Press, 1896 – 1909.
Richard Hovey's " Men of Dartmouth " was elected as the best of Dartmouth's songs in 1896, and became the school's official song in 1926.
* Farnell, Lewis Richard, The cults of the Greek states I: Zeus, Hera Athena Oxford, 1896.
* Lewis Richard Farnell, ( 1896 ).
* 1896 – Richard Day, Canadian director ( d. 1972 )
* 1843 – Richard Avenarius, German philosopher ( d. 1896 )
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.
* May 23 – Richard Day, Canadian art director ( b. 1896 )
** Richard Thorpe, American film director ( 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.
* Richard Flury ( 1896 – 1967 ), composer
* Farnell, Lewis Richard, The Cults of the Greek States, Volumes I-V, Clarendon Press, ( 1896 – 1909 ); cf.
* Lewis Richard Farnell, The Cults of the Greek States, 1896.
Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. ( 17 August 1896 – 13 July 1970 ) was a United States Army Corps of Engineers officer who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and directed the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb during World War II.
Leslie Richard ( Dick ) Groves Jr. was born in Albany, New York, on 17 August 1896, the third son of four children of a pastor, Leslie Richard Groves, Sr, and his wife Gwen née Griffith.
* Farnell, Lewis Richard, The Cults of the Greek States, 1896.
The Pre-Raphaelite painters John Everett Millais ( 1829 – 1896 ) and William Holman Hunt ( 1827 – 1910 ) came to Surbiton in 1851, 26 years before Richard Jefferies ( 1848 – 1887 ).
* William Richard Williams ( 1896 – 1962 ) — theologian
Greenbrier Joe's son, Richard Martin, reestablished Pensacola in 1896, with a small store and a post office at his home, south of the original location.
His parents were Ivan John Harris ( b. 1896, son of Richard Harris, b. 1854, son of James Harris of St. Michael's, Limerick ) and Mildred Josephine ( Harty ) Harris ( b. 1898, daughter of James Harty, St. John's, Limerick, who owned a flour mill.
* William Richard Williams ( theologian ) ( 1896 – 1962 ), theologian and principal of the United Theological College Aberystwyth
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