* Tandy, David W., and Neale, Walter C., Works and Days: a translation and commentary for the social sciences, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

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.

The original handwritten proclamation signed by President Thomas Jefferson and Secretary of State James Madison, that informed the American public of the landmark deal of the Louisiana Purchase, was acquired in 1996 by Walter Scott Jr. of Omaha, Nebraska, who holds it in his private collection.

* 1949 – Walter Hyatt, American singer and songwriter, leader of Uncle Walt's Band ( d. 1996 )

* 1996 – Walter Kerr, American theater critic ( b. 1913 )

* Tandy, David W., and Neale, Walter C., Works and Days: a translation and commentary for the social sciences, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

The influence of these films is most apparent in Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars ( 1964 ) starring Clint Eastwood and Walter Hill's Last Man Standing ( 1996 ).

: 1996 Walter Jon Williams, " Foreign Devils " ( in War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches )

* Kendrick, Walter M. ( 1996 ).

* Walter Hyatt ( 1950 – 1996 ), country musician and songwriter

Walter B. Slocombe, the Under-Secretary of Defense with his bodyguard in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1996.

* Laqueur, Walter ( 1996 ).

His other film work includes Walter Hill's The Long Riders ( 1980 ), Southern Comfort ( 1981 ), Brewster's Millions ( 1985 ), Johnny Handsome, Last Man Standing ( 1996 ), Hill's Trespass ( 1992 ) and Mike Nichols ' Primary Colors ( 1998 ).

* Sir Edmund Walter Thomas ( 1996 )— supreme court justice

In the 1997 text Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer — a personal account of the events of the 1996 Everest disaster — Krakauer states: " Walter Mittys with Everest dreams need to bear in mind that when things go wrong up in the death zone ( above 26, 000 feet ) — and sooner or later they always do — the strongest guides in the world may be powerless to save a client's life ; indeed as the events of 1996 demonstrated, the strongest guides in the world are sometimes powerless to save even their own lives.

There are five major scholarly editions of the Complete Works of Shakespeare: The Riverside Shakespeare ( G. Blakemore Evans, 1974 ; 2nd edn., 1996 ), The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works ( Stanley Wells, Gary Taylor, John Jowett and William Montgomery, 1986 ; 2nd edn., 2005 ), The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Edition ( Stephen Greenblatt, Walter Cohen, Jean E. Howard and Katharine Eisaman Haus, 1997 ; 2nd edn., 2008 ), The Arden Shakespeare: Complete Works ( Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson and David Scott Kastan, 1998 ; 2nd edn.

Last Man Standing ( 1996 ), a Prohibition-era gangster thriller directed by Walter Hill and starring Bruce Willis, is an officially authorized remake of Yojimbo.

The matter was settled after the Heat sent their 1996 first round pick ( which the Knicks would use to draft Walter McCarty ) and $ 1 million in cash to the Knicks on September 1, 1995.

Walter Capps was elected to Congress in 1996 in a rematch of his 1994 race against Republican Andrea Seastrand.

She was first elected to the House in a March 1996 special election to replace Congressman Walter Tucker, who resigned due to corruption charges and was later sentenced to 27 months in prison.

Rudolf Walter Wanderone, Jr. ( January 19, 1913 – January 15, 1996 ; originally spelled Wanderon ) was an American professional pocket billiards player, also known as " Minnesota Fats ".

Past winners include Walter Cronkite ( 1989 ), Carl T. Rowan ( 1990 ), Helen Thomas ( 1991 ), Tom Brokaw ( 1992 ), Larry King ( 1993 ), Charles Kuralt of CBS ( 1994 ), Albert R. Hunt and Judy Woodruff ( 1995 ), Robert MacNeil ( 1996 ), Cokie Roberts ( 1997 ), Tim Russert and Louis D. Boccardi ( 1998 ), John Seigenthaler ( 1999 ), Jim Lehrer ( 2001 ), Tom Curley ( 2002 ), Don Hewitt of CBS ( 2004 ), Garrison Keillor ( 2005 ), Bob Schieffer of CBS ( 2006 ), John Quinn and Ken Paulson ( 2007 ), Charles Overby ( 2008 ), Katie Couric ( 2009 ), and Brian Lamb of C-SPAN ( 2011 ).

* 1996: ( 69th ) The English Patient-Walter Murch, Mark Berger, David Parker, Chris Newman

In 1996, Murch worked on Anthony Minghella's The English Patient, which was based on Michael Ondaatje's novel of the same name.

Nineteen-year-old Fauziya Kasinga, a member of the Tchamba-Kunsuntu tribe of Togo, was granted asylum in 1996 after leaving an arranged marriage to escape FGM, setting a precedent in U. S. immigration law because FGM was for the first time accepted as a form of persecution.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) provides the generally accepted values for GWP, which changed slightly between 1996 and 2001.

In late 1996, Aristide broke with Préval and formed a new political party, the Lavalas Family ( Fanmi Lavalas, FL ), which won elections in April 1997 for one-third of the Senate and local assemblies, but these results were not accepted by the government.

After a visit to Transmeta in late 1996, Torvalds accepted a position at the company in California, where he would work from February 1997 until June 2003.

In Australia, many feminist social organizations accepted government funding during the 1980s, and the election of a conservative government in 1996 crippled these organizations.

In 1996 Ernst and Jan H. accepted an offer to join Boudewijn de Groot's new touring band.

In 1996, Amelio accepted invitation from Apple Computer, a customer of National Semiconductor, to join its board of directors.

Troubles at Apple later prompted the board to invite Amelio to take on the position of CEO, which he accepted in February 1996.

They have received numerous honors, including the Pioneer Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation, as well as being accepted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996, and named one of the 100 best acts of all time by Rolling Stone in 2004.

In 1996, they accepted a recording contract with a Japanese Company, Polystar.

The bid for the construction of the new four-lane freeway was accepted from the Schiavone Construction Company in 1996 for a cost of $ 57 million ( 1996 USD ).

In 1996, the Board of Directors accepted this latter view, and voted that the Sierra Club would be neutral on issues of immigration.

* 1996 Alfred College in Alfred, N. Y., is accepted into the PAC.

Conversely, in 1996 now-defunct English team Oswestry Town were accepted by the League of Wales and currently The New Saints are based in Oswestry.

Shortly afterward, she accepted a contract from MCA's sister record company, Decca Nashville in 1996.

And I like Mercedes – with them I got my first chance to test a Formula 1 car in 1996 and who knows how my Formula 1 career had turned out if I had accepted the McLaren Mercedes offer to become their test driver for 1997 .“

In 1996 Frank accepted the Margaret Collier Award for the duo comedy writing and was later named to the Order of Canada.

Hart finally accepted Austin's challenge and returned to the WWF in October 1996.

The mainstream of historians accepted this interpretation: Avery ( 1972 ) Berenger ( 1994 ) Fol ( 1996 ) Mountain ( 1998 ), Waldman Mason ( 2006 ).

Anderson, who still had the workprint of his original cut, submitted the film which was accepted and screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival.

Nevertheless, Fung accepted a number of appointments from the Chinese government, joined the Preparatory Committee for the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and while he voted against the setting up of the Provisional Legco in 1996 in the Preparatory Committee, he ( and other ADPL members ) joined the provisional body eventually.

Andy McSmith's book Faces of Labour ( 1996 ), contends that Godsiff obtained selection for his seat in 1992 by dubious means, which although accepted by the Labour Party, were too late to act upon.

Hoddle's three-year reign at Chelsea came to an end in 1996 when he accepted the England manager's job on 2 May that year.