1796 was a leap year starting on Friday. (see link for calendar)
Events
Ongoing events
Births
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January 25 - William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist (d. 1852)
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February 22 - Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Belgian mathematician (d. 1874)
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May 1 - Junius Brutus Booth, English actor (d. 1852)
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May 4 - Horace Mann, American educator and abolitionist (d. 1859)
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July 6 - Emperor Nicholas I of Russia
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July 23 - Franz Berwald, composer
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August 15 - John Torrey, American botanist
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August 25 - James Lick, California land baron (d. 1876)
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September 19 - Hartley Coleridge, British poet
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October 23 - Stefano Franscini, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1857)
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November 30 - Carl Loewe, composer
Deaths