* 1844 – James Henry Greathead, English engineer ( d. 1896 )

* 1896 – Pat Clayton, English surveyor and explorer ( d. 1962 )

* 1896 – Henry Parkes, English statesman and politician ( b. 1815 )

The English translation appeared in 1896 as Among the Gnomes: An Occult Tale of Adventure in the Untersberg.

* 1829 – John Everett Millais, English painter and illustrator and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood ( d. 1896 )

* 1896 – Tim Birkin, English race car driver ( d. 1933 )

* 1808 – Emma Wedgwood, English naturalist, wife of Charles Darwin ( d. 1896 )

* 1896 – Dodie Smith, English novelist and playwright ( d. 1990 )

Herman worked as a secretary in a company, and married Sarah Ann ( Pike ), an English schoolteacher, in 1896.

* 1834 – William Morris, English writer and designer ( d. 1896 )

* 1896 – Thomas Hughes, English novelist ( b. 1822 )

* 1896 – Edmund Blunden, English poet, author and critic ( d. 1974 )

* 1896 – Jack Warner, English actor ( d. 1981 )

George Holyoake's 1896 publication English Secularism defines secularism as:

William Morris ( 24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896 ) was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and libertarian socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement.

* March 12 – Arnold Ridley, English playwright and actor ( b. 1896 )

* March 31 – Jack Howarth, English actor ( b. 1896 )

** Alan Mowbray, English actor ( b. 1896 )

* May 21 – Doris Lloyd, English actress ( b. 1896 )

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

* July 31 – Margaret Kennedy, English writer ( b. 1896 )

* March 24 – William Morris, English poet and artist ( d. 1896 )

Edmund Charles Blunden, MC ( 1 November 1896 – 20 January 1974 ) was an English poet, author and critic.

Pierrot and Pierrette ( 1896 ) was a specimen of early English film from the director Birt Acres.

In 1896, the Leach Family erected a large wooden hotel to accommodate the travelers and workers of the railroad, and the hotel ( The Star Hotel Bed and Breakfast ) is still standing today and is owned by Gary Spivey.

His first car was created in 1896, and was immediately driven on the streets, much to the dismay of other travelers.

Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer ( 16 July 1896, Wildeck, Hesse-Nassau – 8 August 1969 ) was a German human biologist and eugenicist concerned primarily with " racial hygiene " and twin research.

His next commission was the classical Hanover Chapel ( 1821 – 25 ) Regent Street, with its twin towers and projecting tetrastyle Ionic portico, it was demolished ( 1896 ).

In 1896, at the age of 21, she married her second cousin, Fernand Nicolas Calment ( their paternal grandfathers were brothers, hence the same surname, and their paternal grandmothers were also sisters ), a wealthy store owner.

The school was founded in 1896, funded by the sisters of Thomas S. Clarkson, a local entrepreneur who was accidentally killed while working in his sandstone quarry not far from Potsdam.

" On the afternoon of Dec. 29, 1896, a day before his execution, Dr. Jose Rizal was visited by his mother, Teodora Alonzo, sisters Lucia, Josefa, Trinidád, Maria and Narcisa, and two nephews.

In 1896, John Theron Mackenzie, an attorney from Phelps, New York, and his sisters donated US $ 50, 000 " for the establishment of an engineering school to be built under the auspices of Mr. Chamberlain ".

Willoch was born on 3 October 1928 to Haakon Isaachsen Willoch ( 1896 – 1955 ) and his wife Agnes Christine Saure ( 1895 – 1994 ).

* Jane Francesca Agnes, Lady Wilde ( 1821 – 1896 ), Irish political activist, poetess, folklorist, mother of Oscar Wilde

Jane Francesca Agnes, Lady Wilde ( 27 December 1821 – 3 February 1896 ) ( born Jane Francesca Elgee in Dublin ) was an Irish poet under the pen name " Speranza " and supporter of the nationalist movement ; had a special interest on Irish Fairy Tales, which she helped to gather.

Arthur William Radford was born on 27 February 1896 in Chicago, Illinois to John Arthur Radford, a Canadian-born electrical engineer, and Agnes Eliza Radford ( née Knight ).

* A Light From St. Agnes by Minnie Maddern Fiske, New York ( 1896 )

The two men collaborated on fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, of which H. M. S.

* 1896 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U. S. state.

* 1896 – A. S. Popov makes the first radio signal transmission in history.

* 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 )

* illustrated self-instructor in phrenology and physiology Open Content Alliance eBook Collection, Fowler, O. S. ( Orson Squire ) ( 1809 – 1887 ); Fowler, L. N. ( Lorenzo Niles ) ( 1811 – 1896 )

While the U. S. Supreme Court majority in 1896 Plessy explicitly upheld only " separate but equal " facilities ( specifically, transportation facilities ), Justice John Marshall Harlan in his dissent protested that the decision was an expression of white supremacy ; he predicted that segregation would " stimulate aggressions … upon the admitted rights of colored citizens ," " arouse race hate " and " perpetuate a feeling of distrust between races.

** Robert S. Kerr, American business and politician, heart attack ( b. 1896 )

* November 3 – U. S. presidential election, 1896: Republican William McKinley defeats William Jennings Bryan.

* October 31 – Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry ( b. 1896 )

Harry Randall Truman ( October 30, 1896 – May 18, 1980 ) was a resident of the U. S. state of Washington who lived on Mount St. Helens and came to brief fame in the months preceding the 1980 eruption after stubbornly refusing to leave his home.

Often referred to as " The Father of Naval Aviation ," Captain Henry C. Mustin ,( 1874 – 1923 ), an 1896 graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy, was the principal architect for the concept of the catapult launch.

) During his successful 1896 U. S. Senate campaign, he raised a quarter million dollars within 48 hours.

* Clifton Sprague ( 1896 – 1955 ), World War II – era officer in the U. S. Navy

* Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U. S. 537 ( 1896 )— separate but equal for schools

Wyoming voted for the Democrat William Jennings Bryan in the 1896 U. S. Presidential Election, and Johnson county was one of the two counties in the state with the largest Bryan majorities.

* Sam Ervin, ( 1896 – 1985 ), U. S. Senator from 1954 to 1975 ; famed Chairman of the Senate Watergate Committee in 1973.

* Emery L. Frazier ( Mayor, state representative, Chief Clerk of the U. S. Senate, Secretary of the U. S. Senate, 1896 – 1973 )

* William Russell Smith ( 1815 – 1896 ), member of the U. S. House of Representatives from Alabama ( 1851 – 1856 )

Although Montpelier's peak population shown in the adjacent table ( source: U. S. Census ) is shown as 3, 405, the city is thought to have had over 6, 500 residents around 1896 during the Indiana Gas Boom.

* Obituary, NY Times, April 9, 1935, Adolph S. Ochs Dead at 77 ; Publisher of Times Since 1896

* Emery L. Frazier ( Mayor, state representative, Chief Clerk of the U. S. Senate, Secretary of the U. S. Senate, 1896 – 1973 )

* Frank Small, Jr., member of U. S. House of Representatives Maryland's 5th District, 1953-1955, born in Temple Hills in 1896

The U. S. federal government approved the plan for the locks in 1875, construction began in 1878, and the locks were completed on November 5, 1896.