* 1796 – James Lick, American carpenter and piano builder ( d. 1876 )

* James Carew, silent film actor ( 1876 – 1938 )

The art of mechanical analog computing reached its zenith with the differential analyzer, built by H. L. Hazen and Vannevar Bush at MIT starting in 1927, which in turn built on the mechanical integrators invented in 1876 by James Thomson and the torque amplifiers invented by H. W. Nieman.

John James Rickard Macleod FRS ( 6 September 1876 – 16 March 1935 ) was a Scottish physician and physiologist.

As Bakunin's associate, James Guillaume, put it in his essay, Ideas on Social Organization ( 1876 ), " When ... production comes to outstrip consumption ... veryone will draw what he needs from the abundant social reserve of commodities, without fear of depletion ; and the moral sentiment which will be more highly developed among free and equal workers will prevent, or greatly reduce, abuse and waste.

Another grandstand seating 2000 and facing one way to the cricket ground and the other way to the park where football was played, was built in 1876 for the 1877 visit of James Lillywhite ’ s English cricket team.

* 1935 – John James Rickard Macleod, Scottish-born physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1876 )

* 1876 – James Steen, American water polo player ( d. 1949 )

James Gordon Bennett, Jr. on May, 6th 1876 organized what was billed as the first polo match in the United States at Dickel's Riding Academy at 39th Street and Fifth Avenue in New York City.

The historical record states that James Gordon Bennett established the Westchester Polo Club on 6 May 1876 and on 13 May 1876 the Jerome Park Racetrack in Westchester County was the site of the " first " American outdoor polo match.

The Galveston News said on 2 May 1876 that Denison Texas had a Polo Club which was before James Gordon Bennett established his Westchester Club or attempted to play the " first " game.

* 1876 – In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang attempt to rob the town's bank but are driven off by armed citizens.

* 1876 – James Scullin, Australian politician, 9th Prime Minister of Australia ( d. 1953 )

* August 25 – James Lick, American land speculator ( d. 1876 )

* March 16 – John James Rickard Macleod, Scottish-born physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1876 )

As the 1876 Presidential election approached, Garfield was loyal to the candidacy of his House Speaker, James G. Blaine.

The fact that electromagnetic radiation exerts a pressure upon any surface exposed to it was deduced theoretically by James Clerk Maxwell in 1871 and Adolfo Bartoli in 1876, and proven experimentally by Russian physicist Peter Lebedev in 1900 and by Ernest Fox Nichols and Gordon Ferrie Hull in 1901.

* James E. Murray ( 1876 – 1961 ), United States Senator from Montana

* James Machell – 3 wins ( Disturbance ( 1873 ), Reugny ( 1874 ), Regal ( 1876 ))

After living in Paris, where he was contributor to the New York Tribune, James moved to England in 1876, living first in London and then in Rye, Sussex.

James Thorne, in his 1876 work " Handbook to the Environs of London ", mentions Plaistow, Essex, as a village and ecclesiastical district of West Ham parish with a population of 6, 699.

Atkins was incorporated on November 3, 1876, with James Franklin Darr elected as the first mayor and Mourning serving as the first city clerk.

It became a prosperous village after 1876 when the Stuart brothers, James and Lyman, platted the town.

In 1876 another newspaper, the “ Times ,” published by Tom Brown and James Moseley was published until 1884 at which time it was merged with the “ Current Local ” which was established by Clay Moseley that same year, and which is currently Carter County ’ s only locally published newspaper.

That achievement was his creation of the universal grinding machine, which made its appearance in 1876 at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition.

Also important on the Brown & Sharpe scene, at the turn of the century, was Mr. Richmond Viall, Works Superintendent of the company from 1876 to 1910.

Take the case of Major Marcus A. Reno, who survived the Battle of The Little Big Horn in 1876.

The 1961 theme is the Dakota Territorial Centennial, with the pictures including the Lewis and Clark expedition, the first river steamboat, the 1876 gold rush, a little red schoolhouse on the prairie, and today's construction of large Missouri River reservoirs.

In 1876 Austro-Bohemian Countess Bertha Kinsky became Alfred Nobel's secretary.

Nobel's third and longest-lasting relationship was with Sofie Hess who was from Vienna, whom he met in 1876.

' Gelignite ', or blasting gelatin, as it was named, was patented in 1876 ; and was followed by a host of similar combinations, modified by the addition of potassium nitrate and various other substances.

* 1876 – Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist ( d. 1937 )

* 1847 – Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo, Italian wife of Amadeo I of Spain ( d. 1876 )

He published two important works on the Civil War: Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie ( 1876 ), and Chancellorsville and Gettysburg ( 1882 ), the latter being a volume of the series Campaigns of the Civil War.

* 1914 – Rube Waddell, American baseball player ( b. 1876 )

* 1924 – Stan Rowley, Australian sprinter ( b. 1876 )

In 1876 the Conservative opposition announced a National Policy of protective tariffs, which resonated with voters.

* 1876 – Colorado is admitted as the 38th U. S. state.

* 1876 – Mata Hari, Dutch spy ( d. 1917 )

* 1876 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.

* 1876 – Varghese Payapilly Palakkappilly, Indian-Syrian priest ( d. 1929 )

* 1876 – Alexander I of Serbia ( d. 1903 )

* 1876 – Stylianos Gonatas, Greek military officer and politician ( d. 1966 )

* 1876 – Ivan Bilibin, Russian illustrator ( d. 1942 )

* 1876 – Julian Ashby Burruss, American academic ( d. 1947 )

* 1876 – Mary Roberts Rinehart, American author ( d. 1958 )

* 1876 – Oscar De Somville, Belgian rower ( d. 1938 )