Year (''' 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 ).
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- April 3 - First edition of Italian sports Newspaper '' La Gazzetta Dello Sport '' is published.
- April 6 - Opening ceremonies of the 1896 Summer Olympics , the first modern Olympic Games .
- , Yorkshire sets a still-standing County Championship record when they accumulate an innings total of 887.
- May 18 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Plessy V. Ferguson , introducing the " Separate But Equal " doctrine and upholding Segregation .
- May 26 - Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average .
- May 27 - The costliest and third deadliest Tornado in U.S. history levels a mile wide swath of downtown St. Louis, Missouri , incurring $2.9 billion (1997 USD) in damages, killing more than 255 and injuring over 1,000 people.
- June 12 - J.T. Hearne sets a record for the earliest date of taking 100 wickets. It is equalled by Charlie Parker in 1931 .
- June 15 - Earthquake and Tsunami in Sanriku , Japan , kills 27,000.
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- October 5 - After a long siege, Brazil ian government troops take Canudos in north Brazil, crushing Antonio Conselheiro and his followers.
- October 12 - In Richland county, Ohio, the trial of Celia Rose for the triple murder of her family begins.
- October 20 - In Richland county, Ohio, Celia Rose was acquitted on grounds of insanity.
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- November - William McKinley defeats William Jennings Bryan in the U.S. Presidential Election .
- November 6 - Hale Johnson runs as vice-presidential candidate for Prohibition Party .
- November 16 - Cherry Sisters perform in Olympia Music Hall in New York City . At first audience is stunned but then begins to answer with catcalls.
- November 30 - A Large Carcass , later postulated to be the remains of a gigantic octopus, is found washed ashore near St. Augustine, Florida .
- December 25 - John Philip Sousa composes magnum opus, " Stars And Stripes Forever " on Christmas Day.
- December 30 - Jose Rizal , Filipino scholar and poet, executed in the Philippines
- Lawrence Riley , American playwright and screen writer (d. 1974 )
- January 2 - Dziga Vertov , Russian filmmaker (d. 1954 )
- January 4
- --- Everett Dirksen , American politician (d. 1969 )
- --- André Masson , French artist (d. 1987 )
- January 8 - Arthur Ford , American psychic spiritual medium, clairaudient (d. 1971 )
- January 12 - Rex Ingram , Irish director and actor (d. 1950 )
- January 14 - Martin Niemöller , German theologian and pacifist (d. 1984 )
- January 14 - John Dos Passos , American author (d. 1970 )
- January 20 - George Burns , American comedian (d. 1996 )
- January 23 - Charlotte, Grand Duchess Of Luxembourg (d. 1985 )
- February 18 - André Breton , French writer (d. 1966 )
- February 28 - Philip Showalter Hench , American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1965 )
- February 29 - Morarji Desai , Indian politician (d. 1995 )
- March 1
- --- Dimitris Mitropoulos , Greek conductor, pianist, and composer (d. 1960 )
- --- Moriz Seeler , German writer, poet, film producer, and man of the theatre (d. 1942 )
- March 20 - Wilfrid Reid "Wop" May , Canadian World War I pilot (d. 1952 )
- March 29 - Wilhelm Ackermann , German mathematician (d. 1962 )
- April 15 - Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov , Russian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986 )
- April 30
- --- Hans List , founder of AVL List (d. 1996 )
- --- Gary Davis , American musician (d. 1972 )
- May 7 - John Dunville , British Army officer (d. 1917 )
- May 30 - Howard Hawks , American director (d. 1977 )
- June 7
- --- Robert S. Mulliken , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986 )
- --- Douglas Campbell , American World War I flying ace (d. 1990 )
- June 19 - Wallis Simpson , Duchess of Windsor (d. 1986 )
- June 26 - Henry Allingham , Oldest Surviving soldier of World War I
- 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 )
- August 9 - Jean Piaget , Swiss psychologist (d. 1980 )
- 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 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 )
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- July 1 - Harriet Beecher Stowe , American author (b. 1811 )
- July 16 - Edmond De Goncourt , co-founder of the Académie Goncourt (born 1822 )
- July 19 - Abraham H. Cannon , American Mormon apostle (b. 1859 )
- August 10 - Otto Lilienthal , German aviation pioneer (b. 1848 )
- August 17 - Bridget Driscoll , an early Automobile fatality
- August 25 - Hamad Bin Thuwaini Of Zanzibar , sultan of Zanzibar (b. 1857 )
- October 11
- --- Anton Bruckner , Austrian composer (b. 1824 )
- --- Edward White Benson , Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1829 )
- October 21 - James Henry Greathead , British engineer and inventor (b. 1884 )
- October 23 - Columbus Delano , American statesman (b. 1809 )
- November 16 - Josip Šokčević , Croatian viceroy (b. 1811 )
- December 10 - Alfred Nobel , Swedish inventor of dynamite and creator of the Nobel Prize (b. 1833 )
- December 30 - José Rizal , national hero of the Philippines (b. 1861 )
: ''See also .''
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