The Porvoo Common Statement ( 1996 ), agreed to by the Anglican churches of the British Isles and most of the Lutheran churches of Scandinavia and the Baltic, also stated that " the continuity signified in the consecration of a bishop to episcopal ministry cannot be divorced from the continuity of life and witness of the diocese to which he is called.

Probably more representative of British humour were the working class comedies Brassed Off ( 1996 ) and The Full Monty ( 1997 ).

A 1996 British Journal for the History of Science article cites James F. Donnelly for mentioning a 1839 reference to chemical engineering in relation to the production of sulfuric acid.

Notable violations of embassy extraterritoriality include repeated invasions of the British Embassy, Beijing ( 1967 ), the Iran hostage crisis ( 1979 – 1981 ), the Japanese embassy hostage crisis at the ambassador's residence in Lima, Peru ( 1996 ), the overrunning of the Israeli Embassy in Cairo, Egypt ( 2011 ).

* 1904 – Charles Oatley, British electrical engineer ( d. 1996 )

Sideline hit in a match Standard Athletic Club vs. British School of Paris ( 1996 )

* 1913 – Mary Leakey, British anthropologist ( d. 1996 )

* 1933 – Leslie Crowther, British comedian ( d. 1996 )

At the 1996 British Comedy Awards the show won Top Channel 4 Sitcom Award, McLynn took the Top TV Comedy Actress award.

Prior to the implementation of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office Act 1996 enacted by the British Parliament, Hong Kong represented its interests abroad through the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices ( HKETOs ) and via a special office in the British Embassies or High Commissions, but the latter has ceased after the sovereignty of Hong Kong was transferred to the PRC and became a special administrative region ( SAR ) of the PRC in 1997.

Sir Harold ( Harry ) Walter Kroto, FRS ( born 7 October 1939 as Harold Walter Krotoschiner ), is a British chemist and one of the three recipients to share the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley.

Manx pounds per US $ 1: 0. 6092 ( January 2000 ), 0. 6180 ( 1999 ), 0. 6037 ( 1998 ), 0. 6106 ( 1997 ), 0. 6403 ( 1996 ), 0. 6335 ( 1995 ); the Manx pound is at par with the British pound

* 1922 – Michael Bentine, British comedian ( d. 1996 )

* 1996 – Tyger Drew-Honey, British actor

In 1996 European governments banned British beef over claims that it was infected with " Mad Cow Disease " – the British government withheld cooperation with the EU over the issue, but did not succeed in getting the ban lifted.

* Fryde, E. B., D. E. Greenway, S. Porter and I. Roy ( eds ) ( 1996 ) Handbook of British Chronology, third edition.

Lindow Man on display at the British Museum in 1996.

* The monastery and monks of Lindisfarne are an important part of British author / broadcastor Melvyn Bragg's epic, historically based novel " Credo " published in 1996.

* 1996 – The European Union's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease ( Bovine spongiform encephalopathy ).

Michael Bentine CBE ( 26 January 1922 – 26 November 1996 ) was a British comedian, comic actor and founding member of the Goons.

* 1996 – Michael Bentine, British comedian ( b. 1922 )

A 70-page Natural Law Party paper was prepared in the context of the 1996 Framework Document of the British and Irish governments.

British author Peter F. Hamilton's The Night's Dawn Trilogy consists of three science fiction novels: The Reality Dysfunction ( 1996 ), The Neutronium Alchemist ( 1997 ), and The Naked God ( 1999 ).

* 1899 – P. L. Travers, Australian author ( d. 1996 )

* 1908 – Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist and author ( d. 1996 )

Carl Edward Sagan (; November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996 ) was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and natural sciences.

According to medical intuitive and author, Caroline Myss, who described chakras in her work Anatomy of the Spirit ( 1996 ), " Every thought and experience you've ever had in your life gets filtered through these chakra databases.

* 1906 – Sir Laurens van der Post, South African author ( d. 1996 )

* 1996 – Edward Blishen, English author ( b. 1920 )

* 1996 – Marcia Davenport, American author and music critic ( b. 1903 )

Coster-Mullen is the author of Atom Bombs: The Top Secret Inside Story of Little Boy and Fat Man, 2003 ( first printed in 1996, self-published ), considered a definitive text about Little Boy ; illustrations from which are used in the Assembly details section above.

A. Milne ( author of Winnie-the-Pooh ) and the person on whom Christopher Robin was based, lived with myasthenia gravis for several years before his death in 1996.

* 1940 – Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian-American physician, actor and author ( d. 1996 )

# Cordelia's Honor ( November 1996 ), combined edition of Shards of Honor and Barrayar with an afterword by the author.

* 1917 – Jessica Mitford, English author and journalist ( d. 1996 )

* 1910 – Leila Mackinlay, English author ( d. 1996 )

* 1944 – Dario Bellezza, Italian poet, author, and playwright ( d. 1996 )

" Nonetheless, despite designating the physicist as a " difficult, uncooperative author ," and noting that such writers were " well known to journal editors ", Social Text published the article in acknowledgment of the author's credentials in the May 1996 Spring / Summer " Science Wars " issue.

** Alger Hiss, American lawyer, government official, author and lecturer ( d. 1996 )

** Pat Smythe, British showjumper and author ( d. 1996 )

* August 21 – Christopher Robin Milne, English author and bookseller ( d. 1996 )

* October 22 – Timothy Leary, American psychologist and author, proponent of LSD ( d. 1996 )

** Leon Garfield, English children's author ( died 1996 )

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