* 1896 – Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress ( d. 1984 )

* Faina Ranevskaya: for outstanding creative achievements on theater stage

* Faina Ranevskaya: for the film U nih est ' Rodina ( They Have Their Motherland )

Karlsson was voiced by Vasily Livanov and Fröken Hildur Bock was voiced by Faina Ranevskaya in both animated films.

Taganrog is the native city of Anton Chekhov, Faina Ranevskaya, Sophia Parnok, Alexandre Koyré, Isaac Yakovlevich Pavlovsky, and Dmitri Sinodi-Popov ; names of Russian emperors Peter I of Russia and Alexander I of Russia ; Cornelius Cruys, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Konstantin Paustovsky, Nestor Kukolnik, Achilles Alferaki, Ioannis Varvakis, Sergei Bondarchuk and many other famous people are brought to mind when Taganrog is mentioned.

In the 1947 comedy Springtime Cherkasov appeared alongside other icons of Stalinist cinema, Lyubov Orlova and Faina Ranevskaya.

They mark the graves of the poets Mikhail Kheraskov and Alexander Sumarokov, the philosophers Pyotr Chaadaev and Ivan Ilyin, the historians Mikhail Shcherbatov and Vasily Klyuchevsky, the critic Vladimir Odoyevsky, the architect Osip Bove, the painter Vasily Perov, the courtier Alexander Dmitriev-Mamonov, the actress Faina Ranevskaya, the general Anton Denikin, and the aviator Nikolay Zhukovsky.

The most famous actors of his company were Rostislav Plyatt ( 1908 – 89 ), Faina Ranevskaya ( 1896-1984 ), Lyubov Orlova ( 1902 – 75 ), and his wife Vera Maretskaya ( 1906-1978 ).

Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya (, born Faina Girschevna Feldman ,-19 July 1984 ) is recognized as one of the greatest Soviet Russian actors in both tragedy and comedy.

Faina Ranevskaya is more known to a wide audience as a cinema actress by her performance in such films as Pyshka ( Boule de Suif ), The Man in a Shell, Mechta ( Dream ), Vesna ( Spring ), Zolushka ( Cinderella ), Elephant and String and many more.

Birthhouse of Faina Ranevskaya in Taganrog.

Romain Rolland, French writer who visited Soviet Union in the thirties loved the film, and his favorite actor in the movie was Faina Ranevskaya.

Faina Ranevskaya in the movie The Foundling ( 1940 ).

Faina Ranevskaya in one of Alexander Tairov's productions ( 1931 ).

Faina Chiang Fang-liang (; 15 May 1916 – 15 December 2004 ) was the wife of President Chiang Ching-kuo and served as First Lady of the Republic of China on Taiwan from 1978 to 1988.

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.

* 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 – Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1984 )

His mother, Ida Barbiani ( 1896 – 1984 ), came from a bourgeois Catholic family of Roman merchants.

* 1896 – Arnold Ridley, British playwright and actor ( d. 1984 )

* 1896 – Joan Lindsay, Australian novelist ( d. 1984 )

* 1984 – Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1896 )

He was portrayed by Louis Jourdan in the 1984 NBC miniseries, The First Olympics: Athens 1896.

* Larry Stock ( 1896 – 1984 ), American musician

The stories surrounding the events and personalities of these Games were chronicled in the 1984 NBC miniseries, The First Olympics: Athens 1896 starring David Ogden Stiers as William Milligan Sloane and Louis Jourdan as Pierre de Coubertin.

The exploits of Louis, Garrett, Connolly, and Flack would be chronicled in the 1984 NBC miniseries, The First Olympics: Athens, 1896.

From 1896 to 1993, the Tories only formed a government five times — from 1911 to 1921, from 1930 to 1935, from 1957 to 1963, from 1979 to 1980 and from 1984 to 1993.

Most famous Belgian authors are: Guido Gezelle ( 1830 – 1899 ), Emile Verhaeren ( 1855 – 1916 ), Max Elskamp ( 1862 – 1931 ), Maurice Maeterlinck ( 1862 – 1949 ), Paul van Ostaijen ( 1896 – 1926 ), Henri Michaux ( French born and educated in Belgium, 1899 – 1984 ) and Jacques Brel ( 1929 – 1978 ) and prose writers: Hendrik Conscience ( 1812 – 1883 ), Charles de Coster ( 1827 – 1879 ), Willem Elsschot ( 1882 – 1960 ), Michel de Ghelderode ( 1898 – 1962 ), Georges Simenon 1903-1989, Louis Paul Boon ( 1912 – 1979 ), Hugo Claus ( 1929 – 2008 ), Pierre Mertens ( born in 1939 ) Ernest Claes ( 1885 – 1968 ), and, Amélie Nothomb ( born in 1967 ).

In 1937 the Norwegian pathologist Leiv Kreyberg ( 1896 – 1984 ) was allowed to examine one of Reich's bion preparations under the microscope.

* Mark Wayne Clark ( 1896 – 1984 ), United States World War II general

Edwin Flack was portrayed by English actor Benedict Taylor in the 1984 television mini-series The First Olympics: Athens 1896.

Anna Anderson ( 16 December 1896 – 12 February 1984 ) was the best known of several impostors who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia.

* Mark Wayne Clark ( 1896 – 1984 ), American Army General in WW2 ( Italy ) and the Korean War

Carl Ferdinand Cori ForMemRS ( December 5, 1896 – October 20, 1984 ) was a Czech biochemist and pharmacologist born in Prague ( then in Austria-Hungary, now Czech Republic ) who, together with his wife Gerty Cori and Argentine physiologist Bernardo Houssay, received a Nobel Prize in 1947 for their discovery of how glycogen ( animal starch ) – a derivative of glucose – is broken down and resynthesized in the body, for use as a store and source of energy.

** Anna Anderson ( 1896 – 1984 ), most well known of frauds who claimed to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanov

The party had been in office for all but 22 years between 1896 and 1984.

Between 1896 and 1984, the Conservatives had only managed to win the majority of seats in that province once, in their landslide of 1958 -- the only other time besides 1984 that a party has won 200 seats in an election.

In 1984, he portrayed United States Olympic Committee founder, William Milligan Sloane in the NBC miniseries, The First Olympics: Athens 1896.

Quirino Cristiani ( July 2, 1896 – August 2, 1984 ) was an Argentine animation director and cartoonist, responsible for the world's first two animated feature films as well as the first animated feature film with sound, even though the only copies of these two films were lost in a fire.

Mark Wayne Clark ( May 1, 1896 – April 17, 1984 ) was an American general during World War II and the Korean War and was the youngest lieutenant general ( three-star general ) in the U. S. Army.