* 1927 – Gerry Mulligan, American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer, and arranger ( d. 1996 )

* 1932 – Tiny Tim, American singer, ukulele player, and archivist ( d. 1996 )

* 1990 – JonBenét Ramsey, American model and murder victim ( d. 1996 )

* 1911 – William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1996 )

* 1996 – John McSherry, American baseball umpire ( b. 1944 )

* 1941 – Ron Brown, American politician ( d. 1996 )

* 1996 – Cymphonique Miller, American actress and singer

* 1912 – Garth Williams, American illustrator ( d. 1996 )

* 1914 – Paul Rand, American graphic designer ( d. 1996 )

* 1946 – Dick Murdoch, American wrestler ( d. 1996 )

* 1918 – Jimmy Rowles, American pianist ( d. 1996 )

* 1924 – Jack Weston, American actor ( d. 1996 )

* 1996 – Jamia Simone Nash, American singer and actress

* 1912 – Gene Kelly, American dancer and actor ( d. 1996 )

* 1996 – David Gore, American actor

* 1928 – Joseph Bernardin, American cardinal ( d. 1996 )

* 1908 – Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist and author ( d. 1996 )

* 1964 – Jim Ellison, American singer and musician ( Material Issue ) ( d. 1996 )

* 1996 – Abigail Breslin, American actress

* 1996 – Dee Dee Davis, American actress

* 1912 – Raphael Blau, American screenwriter ( d. 1996 )

* 1996 – London Freeman, American actress

* 1996 – Jacob Latimore, American singer and actor

* 1996 – William Colby, American director of the Central Intelligence Agency ( b. 1920 )

* 1905 – Pat Brown, American lawyer and politician, 32nd Governor of California ( d. 1996 )

In 1996 the American Society of Civil Engineers identified the tunnel as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World.

In his 1996 inaugural speech as President of the Royal Statistical Society, Adrian Smith held out evidence-based medicine as an exemplar for all public policy.

* A student-run group at the LSE Hayek Society, was established in 1996 in his honor.

However, the foundation of memetics in full modern incarnation originates in the publication in 1996 of two books by authors outside the academic mainstream: Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme by former Microsoft executive turned motivational speaker and professional poker player, Richard Brodie, and Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads Through Society by Aaron Lynch, a mathematician and philosopher who worked for many years as an engineer at Fermilab.

Although verified at the time by a committee of the National Geographic Society, this claim has since been undermined by the 1996 revelation that Byrd's long-hidden diary's solar sextant data ( which the NGS never checked ) consistently contradict his June 1926 report's parallel data by over.

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 series received the Eisner Award for Best Serialized Story in 1996 for " I Dream of You " as well as the National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award for Best Comic Book in 1997.

For the original, together with Schneider's commentary on its misrepresentation, see also American Physical Society, APS News August / September 1996.

He received the National Cartoonist Society Comic Book Award for 1986, their Humor Comic Book Award for 1973, 1974, and 1976, their Magazine and Book Illustration Award for 1989, their Special Features Award for 1977, their Gag Cartoon Award for 1983, and their Reuben Award in 1996 for his work on Mad and Groo the Wanderer.

This version was screened publicly numerous times, including at the University of Washington in 1996 ; at least two presentations by American Cinematheque ; once by the American Museum of the Moving Image ; at the USA Film Festival in Dallas, Texas ; by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, in New York City ; and once at the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington, NY.

In January 1996, The International Vegetarian Union announced the formation of the Muslim Vegetarian / Vegan Society.

Romania's largest think tank is the Romanian Academic Society ( SAR ), which was founded in 1996.

In 1996, the Wildlife Conservation Society joined forces with CABI to institute wildlife and hunting monitoring programs in 23 Izoceño communities.

In 1996 the United States National Multiple Sclerosis Society standardized four clinical courses:

SRA during the Steam Era Longworth, Jim Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin, April, 1996 pp99 – 116

* Irwin Unger The Best of Intentions: the triumphs and failures of the Great Society under Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon: Doubleday, 1996 ISBN 0-385-46833-4

* Ralph E. Morrow, Washington University in St. Louis: A History St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society Press, 1996.

* Lars Valerian Ahlfors ( 1907 – 1996 ), Notices of the American Mathematical Society ; vol.

The fighting reputation of pit bull-type dogs led the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in 1996 to relabel pit bull terriers as " St. Francis Terriers " ( not associated with the " terrier " mascot of St. Francis College in New York ) so that they might be more readily adopted ; 60 temperament-screened dogs were adopted until the program was halted after several of the newly adopted dogs killed cats.

In the 1990s, he combined his two research strands in The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, published as a trilogy, The Rise of the Network Society ( 1996 ), The Power of Identity ( 1997 ), and End of Millennium ( 1998 ); two years later, its worldwide, favourable critical acceptance in university seminars, prompted publication of a second ( 2000 ) edition that is 40 per cent different from the first ( 1996 ) edition.

In a 1996 acoustic study by the Acoustical Society of America, along with Wellesley College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, found that the perceived pitch of a note with vibrato " is that of its mean ", or the middle of the fluctuating pitch.

The study, published in the journal of the Geochemical and Meteoritic Society, used more advanced high resolution electron microscopy than was possible in 1996.