Beatty was seconded to the Egyptian government on 3 June 1896 and appointed second in command of the river flotilla.

* June 26 – John Dunville, British Army officer ( b. 1896 )

* June 27 – Karl Allmenröder, German World War I fighter ace ( b. 1896 )

* June 13 – Charles Butterworth, American actor ( b. 1896 )

* June 18 – Georgy Zhukov, Soviet general ( World War II ) ( b. 1896 )

* June 15 – Jimmy Dykes, American baseball player and manager ( b. 1896 )

* June 19 – Kathleen McKane Godfree, British tennis player ( b. 1896 )

* June 19 – Doctor Jose Rizal, Philippine national hero ( d. 1896 )

* June 11 – Ambrose ( bandleader ), English violinist and bandleader ( b. 1896 )

* June 14 – Carlos P. Garcia, 8th President of the Philippines ( b. 1896 )

* June 8 – John Everett Millais, Pre-Raphaelite painter ( d. 1896 )

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

* June 11 – Lev Vygotsky, Russian developmental psychologist ( b. 1896 )

* June 26 – Thomas W. Knox, American author and journalist ( d. 1896 )

* June 14 – Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author ( d. 1896 )

The first performance of La bohème outside Italy was at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 16 June 1896.

When the Republicans in June 1896 nominated former Ohio Governor William McKinley for president and passed at his request a platform strongly supporting the gold standard, a number of " Silver Republicans " walked out of the convention.

Cleveland friend and former Postmaster General Donald M. Dickinson wrote to the President in June 1896 hoping that the delegates would recognize " common sense " and be frightened at the thought of nominating a radical.

Robert Sanderson Mulliken ForMemRS ( June 7, 1896 – October 31, 1986 ) was an American physicist and chemist, primarily responsible for the early development of molecular orbital theory, i. e. the elaboration of the molecular orbital method of computing the structure of molecules.

To garner political support the Second Reich built atop the Kyffhäuser the Kyffhäuser Monument, which declared Kaiser Wilhelm I the reincarnation of Frederick ; the 1896 dedication occurred on 18 June, the day of Frederick ’ s coronation.

The four leaders were sentenced to death by hanging, but this sentence was next day commuted to 15 years ' imprisonment ; and in June 1896, the other members of the Committee were released on payment of £ 2, 000 each in fines, all of which were paid by Cecil Rhodes.

Kazimierz Kuratowski ( February 2, 1896 – June 18, 1980 ) was a Polish mathematician and logician.

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor ( previously Wallis Simpson and Wallis Spencer, born Bessie Wallis Warfield ; 19 June 1896 – 24 April 1986 ), was an American socialite whose third husband, Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom and the Dominions, abdicated his throne to marry her.

Neither event appears to have been registered, but the dates are usually given as 19 November 1895 and 19 June 1896, respectively.

He was appointed 2nd Governor-General of Taiwan from 2 June 1896 to October 1896.

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.

* He married, on November 2, 1896, in Poona, India, Shahzadi Begum, his first cousin and a granddaughter of Aga Khan I.

They played their first Western League game at Bennett Park on April 28, 1896, defeating the Columbus Senators 17 – 2.

David Abelevich Kaufman () ( 2 January 1896 – 12 February 1954 ) — better known by his pseudonym Dziga Vertov, or Vertof (, " spinning top ") — was a Soviet pioneer documentary film, newsreel director and cinema theorist.

* 1896 – The F4-strength St. Louis-East St. Louis Tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri and East Saint Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing $ 2. 9 billion in damage ( 1997 USD ).

The Gazeta Ludowa was published in Lyck in 1896 – 1902, with 2, 500 copies in 1897 and the Mazur in Ortelsburg after 1906 with 500 copies in 1908 and 2, 000 prior to World War I.

* The Commentary of Origen On S. John's Gospel, the text revised and with a critical introduction and indices by A. E. Brooke ( 2 vols., Cambridge University Press, 1896 )

When Freedman only offered Rusie $ 2, 500 for 1896, Rusie sat out the entire season.

* August 2 – Quirino Cristiani, Argentine animated film director ( b. 1896 )

* November 2 – Hugh Cairns, Canadian soldier ( b. 1896 )

* November 2 – Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek conductor, pianist, and composer ( b. 1896 )

* February 2 – Jessie Royce Landis, American actress ( b. 1896 )

* February 2 – Field E. Kindley, American World War I aviator ( b. 1896 )

* September 2 – Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist and historian ( d. 1896 )

On March 2, 1896, Mascagni conducted the première of Zanetto at the Liceo.

* Zanetto ( 2 March 1896 Liceo Musicale, Pesaro )-libretto

Kazimierz Kuratowski was born in Warsaw, then part of the Russian Empire, on February 2, 1896.

Shimon Peres was born Szymon Perski on 2 August 1923 in Wiszniew, Poland ( now Vishnyeva, Belarus ), to Yitzhak ( 1896 – 1962 ) and Sara ( b. 1905 née Meltzer ) Perski.

On 2 March 1896 he reported

On February 14, 1896, the Winnipeg squad defeated the champions 2 – 0 and became the first team outside the AHAC to win the Cup.