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1896 (MDCCCXCVI ) was aleap year starting on Wednesday of theGregorian calendar and aleap year starting on Monday of theJulian calendar , the 1896th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 2nd millennium , the 96th year of the19th century , and the 7th year of the1890s decade. As of the start of 1896, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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January 5 :Röntgen rays .January 5 :Röntgen X-ray .January 2 – TheJameson Raid comes to an end as Jameson surrenders to theBoers .[ 1] January 4 –Utah is admitted as the 45thU.S. state .[ 2] January 5 – An Austrian newspaper reportsWilhelm Röntgen 's discovery, last November, of a type ofelectromagnetic radiation , later known asX-rays .January 6 –Cecil Rhodes is forced to resign as Prime Minister of theCape of Good Hope for his involvement in theJameson Raid .January 7 – American culinary expertFannie Farmer publishes her first cookbook.January 12 – H. L. Smith takes the firstX-ray photograph.January 16 –Devonport High School for Boys is founded inPlymouth (England).January 17 –Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War : Britishredcoats enter theAshanti capital,Kumasi , and Asantehene AgyemanPrempeh I is deposed.[ 3] January 28 – Walter Arnold, ofEast Peckham ,Kent , England, is fined 1 shilling forspeeding at 8 mph (13 km/h), exceeding the contemporary urbanspeed limit of 2 mph (3.2 km/h), the first speeding fine. A picture of the restoredPanathenaic Stadium , the site of the1896 Summer Olympics July 9 –William Jennings Bryan delivers hisCross of Gold speech at theDemocratic National Convention , which nominates him for president of the United States.July 11 –Wilfrid Laurier becomes Canada's seventhprime minister , and the first French-speaker to hold that office.July 21 – In Washington, D.C., in response to a "call to confer" issued byJosephine St. Pierre Ruffin to all women of color, theNational Association of Colored Women's Clubs is organized.July 26 – TheInternational Socialist Workers and Trade Union Congress opens in London.July 27 – Acauseway is opened between the islands ofSaaremaa andMuhu inEstonia .July 30 –Atlantic City rail crash : Shortly after 6:30 pm, at a crossing just west of Atlantic City, New Jersey, two trains collide, crushing five loaded passenger coaches, killing 50 and seriously injuring approximately sixty.August 1 – The Park Seung-jik shop, predecessor ofSouth Korean conglomerate Doosan Group , is founded inJoseon (the kingdom of Korea).[ 13] August 14 – TheUganda Railway Act, 1896, is approved in the United Kingdom, for construction of a railway in Africa fromMombasa toLake Victoria .[ 14] August 16 –Skookum Jim Mason ,George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discovergold in theKlondike, Yukon .August 17 –Bridget Driscoll is run over by aBenz car on the grounds ofThe Crystal Palace , London, the world's first motoring fatality.August 23 – TheCry of Pugad Lawin initiates thePhilippine Revolution .August 27 August – The1896 Eastern North America heat wave kills 1,500 people from Chicago, Illinois to Boston, Massachusetts.Visual tour ofItaly :Milan ,Venice and visit withPope Leo XIII , Summer, 1896 George Burns Morarji Desai January 2 –Dziga Vertov , Russian filmmaker (d.1954 )January 4 January 8 January 12 –Uberto De Morpurgo , Italian tennis player (d.1961 )[ 20] January 14 –John Dos Passos , American author (d.1970 )[ 21] January 20 –George Burns , American actor, comedian (d.1996 )January 21 –J. Carrol Naish , Americancharacter actor (d.1973 )January 23 –Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d.1985 )[ 22] January 26 –József Kiss , Austro-Hungarian fighter pilot (d.1918 )February 1 –Anastasio Somoza García ,21st President of Nicaragua (d.1956 )[ 23] [ 24] February 2 –Ramón Franco , Spanish aviation pioneer (d.1938 )February 4 –Friedrich Hund , German physicist (d.1997 )February 11 –Claire Myers Owens , American author (d.1983 )[ 25] February 18 –Li Linsi , Chinese educator and diplomat (d.1970 )February 19 –André Breton , French writer (d.1966 )[ 26] February 25 –Heinrich Gontermann , German World War I fighter ace (d.1917 )February 28 –Philip Showalter Hench , American physician, recipient of theNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.1965 )February 29 Ira C. Eaker Nikolay Semyonov March 1 –Dimitri Mitropoulos , Greek conductor, pianist and composer (d.1960 )March 13 –Field Eugene Kindley , American World War I fighter pilot (d.1920 )March 20 –Wop May , Canadian World War I pilot (d.1952 )March 22 –Joseph Schildkraut , Austrian-American actor (d.1964 )March 29 –Wilhelm Ackermann , German mathematician (d.1962 )April 13 –Ira C. Eaker , World War II United States Army Air Forces general (d.1987 )April 15 April 17 –Señor Wences , Spanish ventriloquist (d.1999 )April 21 –Geertruida Wijsmuller-Meijer , Dutch war hero, resistance fighter and humanitarian (d.1978 )April 26 –Ernst Udet , German World War I fighter ace, NaziLuftwaffe official (d.1941 )April 27 –Rogers Hornsby , American baseball player (d.1963 )April 30 –Reverend Gary Davis , American musician (d.1972 )Mark W. Clark Jorge Alessandri Walter Cawthorn Wallis Simpson May 1 May 2 –Helen of Greece and Denmark , Queen Mother of Romania (d.1982 )May 3 –Karl Allmenröder , German World War I fighter pilot (d.1917 )May 5 –Kaju Sugiura , Japanese admiral (d.1945 )May 19 –Jorge Alessandri , 27thPresident of Chile (d.1986 )May 23 –Andor Jaross , ethnic Hungarian politician (d.1946 )May 29 –Luther W. Youngdahl , American politician,Governor of Minnesota from 1947 to 1951, and a United States district judge from 1951 to 1978 (d.1978 )May 30 –Howard Hawks , American director (d.1977 )May 31 –Ernest Haller , American cinematographer (d.1974 )June 1 –Sydney Kyte , British bandleader (d. 1981)[ 27] June 2 –Nubar Gulbenkian , Ottoman-born Armenian-British oil trader, socialite and intelligence operative (d.1972 )June 6 June 7 June 11 –Walter Cawthorn , Australian spymaster (d.1970 )June 19 –Wallis Simpson , American-born Duchess of Windsor (d.1986 )June 23 –Francisco Malabo Beosá , Equatoguinean royalty (d.2001 )June 29 –Boris Podolsky , Russian-American physicist (d.1966 )Thomas Playford IV Trygve Lie Jean Piaget Gerty Cori July 2 –Quirino Cristiani , Argentine animated film director (d.1984 )July 4 –Mao Dun , Chinese novelist, cultural critic, and Minister of Culture (d.1981 )[ 28] July 5 –Thomas Playford IV , South Australian politician (d.1981 )July 16 July 17 –Dumitru Dămăceanu , Romanian general and politician (d.1978 )July 18 –Patrick O'Boyle , American Roman Catholic prelate (d.1987 )July 19 –Stafford L. Warren , American physician and radiologist; inventor of the mammogram (d.1981 )July 28 –Barbara La Marr , American silent actress (d.1926 )August 7 –Ernesto Lecuona , Cuban pianist, composer (d.1963 )[ 29] August 8 –Sivananda , Indian yoga teacher (unverified self-claimed date) (d.2025 )August 9 August 10 –Walter Lang , American film director (d.1972 )August 13 –Rudolf Schmundt , German general (d.1944 )August 14 –Albert Ball , British World War I fighter ace, Victoria Cross recipient (d.1917 )August 15 –Gerty Cori , Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of theNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.1957 )August 17 –Leslie Groves , United States Army general, director of theManhattan Project (d.1970 )[ 30] August 18 –Jack Pickford , Canadian-born American actor, film director, and producer (d.1933 )August 27 –Léon Theremin , Russian inventor (d.1993 )August 28 –Arthur Calwell , Australian politician (d.1973 )August 30 –Raymond Massey , Canadian-born American actor (d.1983 )Adele Astaire F. Scott Fitzgerald September 1 –A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada , Indian religious leader, founder-acharya of theInternational Society for Krishna Consciousness (d.1977 )September 4 –Antonin Artaud , French stage actor, director (d.1948 )[ 31] September 10 –Adele Astaire , American dancer (d.1981 )September 14 –José Mojica , Mexican Franciscan friar, tenor and film actor (d.1974 )September 21 –Walter Breuning , Americansupercentenarian , sixth-oldest verified man in history (d.2011 )September 22 –Uri Zvi Greenberg , Israeli poet and journalist (d.1981 )[ 32] September 24 –F. Scott Fitzgerald , American writer (d.1940 )[ 33] September 25 –Sandro Pertini ,President of Italy (d.1990 )September 30 –Jolie Gabor , Hungarian-American entrepreneur, jeweler and memoirist (d.1997 )October 1 –Abraham Sofaer , Burmese-born British actor (d.1988 )October 7 –Paulino Alcántara , Filipino-Spanish soccer player (d.1964 )October 12 –Eugenio Montale , Italian writer,Nobel Prize laureate (d.1981 )[ 34] October 14 –Bud Flanagan , British entertainer, comedian (d.1968 )October 22 –Earle Clements , American politician,governor of Kentucky (d.1985 )October 28 –Howard Hanson , American composer (d.1981 )[ 35] October 30 –Ruth Gordon , American actress, screenwriter, and playwright (d.1985 )October 31 –Ethel Waters , American singer, actress (d.1977 )Carlos P. Garcia Jimmy Doolittle November 4 November 8 –Marie Prevost , Canadian-born American actress (d.1937 )November 10 November 13 –Nobusuke Kishi , Prime Minister of Japan (d.1987 )November 14 –Mamie Eisenhower ,First Lady of the United States (d.1979 )November 15 –Giovanni Ancillotto , Italian World War I flying ace (d.1924 )November 16 November 17 –Lev Vygotsky , Russian psychologist (d.1934 )November 23 –Klement Gottwald , Czechoslovak communist politician (d.1953 )November 25 November 26 –Manuel A. Odría , 79th President of Peru (d.1974 )November 28 –Lilia Skala , Austrian-American actress (d.1994 )December 1 –Georgi Zhukov , Soviet military leader, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d.1974 )December 2 –Alfons Tracki , German-Albanian priest (martyred1946 )December 5 –Carl Ferdinand Cori , Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of theNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.1984 )December 6 December 12 –Vasily Gordov , Soviet general (d.1950 )December 14 –Jimmy Doolittle , American aviation pioneer, World War II United States Army Air Forces general (d.1993 )December 15 –Miles Dempsey , British general (d.1969 )December 16 –Anna Anderson , pretender to the Russian throne (d.1984 )December 23 –Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , Italian writer (d.1957 )[ 37] December 27 –December 28 –Roger Sessions , American composer (d.1985 )December 29 –David Alfaro Siqueiros , Mexican muralist (d.1974 )[ 39]
January 4 –Joseph Hubert Reinkens , German Old Catholic bishop (b.1821 )January 5 –Charlie Bassett , American sheriff (b.1847 )January 8 –Paul Verlaine , French lyric poet (b.1844 )[ 40] January 15 –Mathew Brady , American photographer (b.1822 )January 18 –Charles Floquet , Prime Minister of France (b.1828 )January 20 –Prince Henry of Battenberg , Lombardy-born British royal, married toPrincess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (b.1858 )January 26 –James Edwin Campbell , American educator, school administrator, newspaper editor, poet, and essayist (b. 1867)[ 41] February 7 –William Hayden English , American politician (b.1822 )February 25 –Joseph P. Fyffe , American admiral (b.1832 )March 12 –Carlo Alberto Racchia , Italian admiral and politician (b.1833 )[ 42] March 30 –Charilaos Trikoupis , 7-time prime minister of Greece (b.1832 )Clara Schumann April 9 –Gustav Koerner , German-American statesman (b.1809 )April 27 –Sir Henry Parkes , Australian politician,Premier of New South Wales (b.1815 )April 30 –Hamilton Disston , American industrialist and land developer (b.1844 )May 1 –Naser al-Din Shah Qajar , Shah of Persia, King of Herat (b.1831 )May 7 –H. H. Holmes , American serial killer (executed) (b.1861 )May 10 –Antti Ahlström , Finnish industrialist, founder ofAhlstrom (b.1827 )May 13 –Nora Perry , American newspaper correspondent (b.1831 )May 17 –Muhammad Al-Sabah , emir of Kuwait (b.1831 )May 18 –Daniel Pollen , 9th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b.1813 )May 19 –Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria , father of Archduke Ferdinand (b.1833 )May 20 –Clara Schumann , German composer, pianist (b.1819 )May 24 –Luigi Federico Menabrea , Italian soldier, statesman (b.1809 )May 25 –Franz Kuhn von Kuhnenfeld , Austrian general and politician (b.1817 )[ 43] June 13 –Alpheus Felch , American politician, governor and senator fromMichigan (b.1804 )June 19 –Louis Brière de l'Isle , French general (b.1827 )Harriet Beecher Stowe Otto Lilienthal July 1 –Harriet Beecher Stowe , American author (b.1811 )[ 44] July 4 –Marcelo H. del Pilar , Filipino writer, journalist (b.1850 )July 11 –Ernst Curtius , German historian (b.1814 )[ 45] July 13 –August Kekulé , German chemist (b.1829 )July 16 –Edmond de Goncourt , French writer, co-founder of the Académie Goncourt (b.1822 )[ 46] July 19 –Abraham H. Cannon , American Mormon apostle (b.1859 )August 10 –Otto Lilienthal , German aviation pioneer (b.1848 )August 12 –Sir Harry Burnett Lumsden , British army general (b.1821 )August 13 – SirJohn Everett Millais , British Pre-Raphaelite painter (b.1829 )August 17 –Bridget Driscoll , early British automobile fatality (b. c.1851 )August 18 –Richard Avenarius , German-Swiss philosopher (b.1843 )August 25 – SultanHamad bin Thuwaini of Zanzibar (b.1857 )September 18 –Hippolyte Fizeau , French physicist (b.1819 )September 22 –Pavlos Kalligas , Greek jurist, politician (b.1814 )September 23 –Ivar Aasen , Norwegian philologist, lexicographer, playwright, and poet (b.1813 )[ 47] September 24 –Louis Gerhard De Geer , 1st Prime Minister of Sweden (b.1818 )Margaret Eleanor Parker Alfred Nobel Jose Rizal October 3 –William Morris , English designer, poet and political activist (b.1834 )[ 48] October 6 –Sir James Abbott , British army officer and colonial administrator in India (b.1807 )October 7 –Louis-Jules Trochu , French general and politician, 26thPrime Minister of France (b.1815 )October 8 –George du Maurier , French-born British cartoonist and writer (b.1834 )[ 49] October 10 –Ferdinand von Mueller , German-born Australian botanist (b.1825 )October 11 October 12 –Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs , Prime Minister of Denmark (b.1817 )October 19 –Emmy Rappe , Swedish nursing pioneer (b.1835 )October 21 –James Henry Greathead , British engineer and inventor (b.1844 )October 23 –Columbus Delano , American statesman (b.1809 )October 26 –Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour , French statesman (b.1827 )October 30 –Carol Benesch ,Silesian andRomanian architect (b.1822 )November –Margaret Eleanor Parker , English social activist; first president of the British Women's Temperance Association (b.1827 ) November 12 –Joseph James Cheeseman , Liberian politician, 12thPresident of Liberia (b.1843 )November 16 –Josip Šokčević , Croatian viceroy (b.1811 )November 22 –George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. , American inventor of theFerris wheel (b.1859 )November 23 –Ichiyō Higuchi , Japanese poet and novelist (b.1872 )[ 50] November 26 December 10 –Alfred Nobel , Swedish inventor of dynamite, creator of the Nobel Prize (b.1833 )[ 52] December 29 December 30 –José Rizal , national hero of the Philippines (b.1861 )^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992).The Chronology of British History . 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