In 1996, a tenth anniversary edition was released.

Ter-Petrosyan was re-elected in 1996.

Extreme poverty was defined in 1996 by Joseph Wresinski, the founder of ATD Fourth World as:

The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 – 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 – 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 – 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 – 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 – ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 – 1988 ).

A modified infrageneric classification of Amaranthus was published by Mosyakin & Robertson ( 1996 ) and includes three subgenera: Acnida, Amaranthus, and Albersia.

Their lower level Minor League Baseball teams began play in 1996 ; the expansion draft was held that year as well.

After the Soviet withdrawal, between 1992 and 1996, he was minister of defense in the new government of the Islamic State of Afghanistan under president Burhanuddin Rabbani, and acted as its military leader in the civil war against competing militias around Kabul.

The compelling rationale for this was the integral role technology now plays in our lives, which was not present in 1996.

For the centenary of the VFL / AFL in 1996, the Australian Football Hall of Fame was established.

The elite Legend status was bestowed on 12 members of the Hall of Fame in 1996: Ron Barassi, Haydn Bunton Senior, Roy Cazaly, John Coleman, Jack Dyer, Polly Farmer, Leigh Matthews, John Nicholls, Bob Pratt, Dick Reynolds, Bob Skilton and Ted Whitten ( see above list for further details ).

The first South Asian a cappella group was Penn Masala, founded in 1996 at the University of Pennsylvania.

The study of apoptosis brought on by Bunyaviridae was initiated in 1996 when it was observed that apoptosis was induced by the La Crosse virus into the kidney cells of baby hamsters and into the brains of baby mice.

In 1994, the State Compensation Law ( 国家赔偿法 ) was passed, followed by the Administrative Penalties Law ( 行政处罚法 ) in 1996.

In 1996, two-tier local government was abolished and Angus was established as one of the replacement single-tier Council Areas.

The musical was also revived with great success in 1996, starring Nathan Lane as Pseudolus ( replaced later in the run by Whoopi Goldberg and also by David Alan Grier ), Mark Linn-Baker as Hysterium, Ernie Sabella as Lycus, Jim Stanek as Hero, Lewis J. Stadlen as Senex, and Cris Groenendaal as Miles Gloriosus.

The song was later featured in the film The Birdcage ( 1996 ) and performed by Robin Williams and Christine Baranski.

Revision 1. 2 was the last version of the APM specification, released in 1996.

During his visit to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Manila in 1996, he was saved shortly before his car was due to drive over a bridge where a bomb had been planted.

In a July 2, 2011 editorial the New York Times opined, " The Defense of Marriage Act was enacted in 1996 as an election-year wedge issue, signed by President Bill Clinton in one of his worst policy moments.

The 1996 United States campaign finance controversy was an alleged effort by the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) to influence the domestic policies of the United States, before and during the Clinton administration, and involved the fundraising practices of the administration itself.

* 1913 – Terence Reese, English bridge player and writer ( d. 1996 )

* 1926 – Frank Daniel, Czech writer, director, and teacher ( d. 1996 )

* 1911 – Hervé Bazin, French writer ( d. 1996 )

* 1911 – Hervé Bazin, French writer ( d. 1996 )

* 1947 – Brian Daley, American science-fiction writer ( d. 1996 )

* John B. Ford ( born 1963 ), English horror writer and publisher whose fiction focuses on death and madness ; launched magazine, Terror Tales, in 1996 and Rainfall Records and Books in 2001

* 1996 – Acharya Kuber Nath Rai, Indian writer ( b. 1933 )

* 1908 – Joseph Mitchell, American writer ( d. 1996 )

* 1918 – Stirling Silliphant, American writer ( d. 1996 )

* 1911 – Fitzroy MacLean, Scottish soldier, writer and politician ( d. 1996 )

* 1996 – Frank Daniel, Czech-born writer, director, producer and teacher ( b. 1926 )

* 1934 – Carl Sagan, American astronomer and writer ( d. 1996 )

The World Pantheist Movement is headed by environmentalist and writer Paul Harrison, a former vice president of the Universal Pantheist Society, from which he resigned in 1996.

The story is reworked in American writer Donna Woolfolk Cross's 1996 novel.

" King dedicated his 1989 book The Dark Half, about a pseudonym turning on a writer, to " the deceased Richard Bachman ", and in 1996, when the Stephen King novel Desperation was released, the companion novel The Regulators carried the " Bachman " byline.

** Stirling Silliphant, American writer and producer ( d. 1996 )

** Jessica Mitford, Anglo-American writer ( d. 1996 )

* November 2 – Odysseas Elytis, Greek writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1996 )

* December 31 – Bob Shaw, Irish writer ( d. 1996 )

** Frank Daniel, Czech-born writer, producer, director, teacher ( d. 1996 )

** Erma Bombeck, American writer and humorist ( d. 1996 )

From Hell is a comic book series by writer Alan Moore and artist Eddie Campbell, originally published from 1991 to 1996, speculating upon the identity and motives of Jack the Ripper.

Excession, first published in 1996, is Scottish writer Iain M. Banks's fourth science fiction novel to feature the Culture.

Marguerite Donnadieu, known as Marguerite Duras () ( 4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996 ) was a French writer and film director.