1896

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Year 1896 (MDCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1896

January - March

   

April - June

   

July - September

   

October - December

   

Undated

Births

January - June

   

July - December

   
  • July 2 - Quirino Cristiani, Argentine animated film director (d. 1984)
  • July 10 - Maurice Zbriger, Canadian violinist, composer and conductor (d. 1981)
  • July 13 - Mordecai Ardon, one of Israel's greatest painters (d. 1992)
  • July 16 - Trygve Lie, first United Nations Secretary General (d. 1968)
  • July 27 - Henri Longchambon, French politician (d. 1969)
  • August 9 - Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist (d. 1980)
  • August 9 - Leonide Massine, Renowned dancer and choreographer, worked with Diaghilev's Ballet Russes and the Ballet Russes de Monte Carlo (d. 1979)
  • August 15 - Gerty Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1957)
  • August 15 - Paul Outerbridge, American photographer (d. 1958)
  • August 18 - Jack Pickford, American actor (d. 1933)
  • August 22 - W. E. Lawrence, American actor (d. 1947)
  • August 30 - Raymond Massey, Canadian-born actor (d. 1983)
  • September 1 - A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder of Hare Krishna movement (d. 1977)
  • September 24 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (d. 1940)
  • October 7 - Paulino Alcántara, Philippine-Spanish soccer player (d. 1964)
  • October 12 - Eugenio Montale, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
  • October 28 - Howard Hanson, American composer (d. 1981)
  • October 31 - Ethel Waters, American singer and actress (d. 1977)
  • November 4 - Carlos P. Garcia, president of the Philippines (d. 1971)
  • November 8 - Bucky Harris, baseball player (d. 1977)
  • November 10 - Jimmy Dykes, baseball player and manager (d. 1976)
  • November 13 - Nobusuke Kishi, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1987)
  • November 14 - Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States (d. 1979)
  • November 16 - Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists (d. 1980)
  • November 17 - Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist (d. 1934)
  • December 5 - Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1984)
  • December 6 - Ira Gershwin, American lyricist (d. 1983)
  • December 14 - Jimmy Doolittle, American World War II general (d. 1993)
  • December 21 - Leroy Robertson, American composer (d. 1971)
  • December 27 - Louis Bromfield, American writer (d. 1956)
  • See also :Category: 1896 births.

    Deaths

    January - June

       

    July - December

       

    See also :Category: 1896 deaths.



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