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

A leading proponent of the Great Game, Disraeli introduced the Royal Titles Act 1876, which created Queen Victoria Empress of India, putting her at the same level as the Russian Tsar.

* 1876 – Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter ( d. 1956 )

In the early 19th century, the territory of Kyrgyzstan came under the control of the Khanate of Kokand, but the territory was occupied and formally annexed by the Russian Empire in 1876.

* 1814 – Mikhail Bakunin, Russian revolutionary, and philosopher, and theorist ( d. 1876 )

* 1876 – Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva, Russian / Dutch mathematician ( d. 1964 )

He was made first ordinary professor of Finnish, Russian and Nordic history in 1863, and exchanged this chair for the one in general history in 1876.

* December 31 – Maxim Litvinov, Russian revolutionary and Soviet diplomat ( b. 1876 )

* December 3 – Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian actress ( b. 1876 )

* November 11 – Nikolai Burdenko, Russian surgeon, founder of Russian neurosurgery ( b. 1876 )

* May 30 – Mikhail Bakunin, Russian anarchist ( d. 1876 )

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.

In fact, Louis Roederer had been producing Cristal since 1876, but this was strictly for the private consumption of the Russian tsar.

Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (; – 1 July 1876 ) was a Russian revolutionary, philosopher, and theorist of collectivist anarchism.

He remained the leading spokesman of French Radicalism, but his hostility to the Russian alliance so increased his unpopularity that in the 1893 election, he was defeated for his Chamber seat, after having held it continuously since 1876.

Several of his themed sets of articles were reissued as monographs ; these covered topics as varied as the original 1876 production of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen in Bayreuth, the development of the Russian romance ( art song ), music in Russia, and Anton Rubinstein's seminal lectures on the history of piano music of 1888-1889.

He introduced the Royal Titles Act 1876, which added to Victoria's titles that of Empress of India, putting her at the same level as the Russian Emperor.

In the 1870s the rapid development of Russian railways, the 1871 opening of the Libava-Kaunas and the 1876 Liepāja-Romny railways ensured that a large proportion of central Russian trade passed through Liepāja.

The foreign editions of Capital: Critique of Political Economy ( 1867 ), by Karl Marx, include a Russian translation by the revolutionary Mikhail Bakunin ( 1814 – 1876 ).

* Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva ( 1876 – 1964 ), Dutch / Russian mathematician who advocated the use of visual aids and examples for introductory courses in geometry for high school students

Ferghana, or Fergana was a province of Russian Turkestan, formed in 1876 out of the former khanate of Kokand ( see Kokand ).

As the Ukrainian language had been outlawed in the Russian Empire by the Ems Ukaz of 1876, Petliura found more freedom to publish Ukraine oriented articles in Saint Petersburg than in Ukraine.

* 1876 – Charles F. Kettering, American engineer and businessman, founded Delco Electronics ( d. 1958 )

The schools with the most-lasting effect in founding the modern versions of thermodynamics are the Berlin school, particularly as established in Rudolf Clausius ’ s 1865 textbook The Mechanical Theory of Heat, the Vienna school, with the statistical mechanics of Ludwig Boltzmann, and the Gibbsian school at Yale University, American engineer Willard Gibbs ' 1876 On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances launching chemical thermodynamics.

A Hungarian engineer, Tivadar Puskás, quickly invented the telephone switchboard in 1876, which allowed for the formation of telephone exchanges, and eventually networks.

* April 5 – Sir Nigel Gresley, English steam locomotive engineer ( Flying Scotsman and Mallard ) ( b. 1876 )

These were the words used by Andre Rebouças, an engineer, in his book " Provinces of Paraná, Railways to Mato Grosso and Bolivia ", which started up the campaign aimed at preserving the Iguaçu Falls in 1876, when Yellowstone National Park, the first national park in the world, was four years old.

She became engaged to engineer and novelist Arthur Gundaccar Freiherr von Suttner ( who died on 10 December 1902 ), but his family opposed the match, and she answered an advertisement from Alfred Nobel in 1876 to become his secretary-housekeeper at his Paris residence.

Langley hired Charles M. Manly ( 1876 – 1927 ) as engineer and test pilot.

The Imhoff tank, named for German engineer Karl Imhoff ( 1876 – 1965 ), is a chamber suitable for the reception and processing of sewage.

When the Gyro Motor Company opened, Spencer Heath ( 1876 – 1963 ), a mechanical engineer ( among other things ), became the manager.

* James Stirling ( 1800 – 1876 ), Scottish engineer

Charles Franklin Kettering ( August 29, 1876 – November 24 or November 25, 1958 ) was an American inventor, engineer, businessman, and the holder of 186 patents.

* William Mahlon Davis ( 1876 – 1918 ), Canadian surveyor, civil engineer, harbour engineer and officer

* April 17-Sven Gustaf Wingqvist ( born 1876 ), Swedish engineer, inventor and industrialist.

Willis Haviland Carrier ( November 26, 1876 – October 6, 1950 ) was an American engineer who invented modern air conditioning.

He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1876 as a civil engineer, but devoted himself to astronomy.

Following his graduation from Eaton High School in 1876, Stephens worked for three years as a school teacher before joining the railroad business to become an engineer.

Prior to this he was an engineer with the City of Chicago, and was awarded, in 1875, and in 1876,, both for fire hydrants.

* Viktor Kaplan ( 1876 – 1934 ), engineer and inventor of the Kaplan turbine

Modjeska was the mother of bridge engineer Ralph Modjeski and godmother to artist-author-philosopher Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz ( son of artist Stanisław Witkiewicz, who almost accompanied Modjeska and her family to California in 1876 ).

In 1876 Hallock married a young mining engineer, Arthur De Wint Foote,

The first bicycle to be called a " safety " was designed by the English engineer Harry John Lawson ( also called Henry ) in 1876.

François Léonce Verny, ( December 2, 1837 – May 2, 1908 ) was a French officer and naval engineer who directed the construction of the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal in Japan, as well as many related modern infrastructure projects from 1865 to 1876, thus helping jump-start Japan's modernization.

* Walter McQueen, Chief mechanical engineer for the Albany and Schenectady Railroad 1845 – 1850, Hudson River Railroad 1850 – 1852, and superintendent of Schenectady Locomotive Works 1852 – 1876 ( b. 1817 ).