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1896
1896 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar).
Events
January - April
May - August
September - October
Unknown date
Births
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January 2 - Dziga Vertov, filmmaker (d. 1954)
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January 4 - Everett Dirksen, American politician (d. 1969)
- January 4 - André Masson, French artist (d. 1987)
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January 12 - Rex Ingram, director and actor (d. 1950)
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January 14 - Martin Niemöller, German theologian and pacifist (d. 1984)
- January 14 - John Dos Passos, author (d. 1970)
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January 23 - Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg (d. 1985)
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February 11 - Else Lasker-Schuler, writer
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February 18 - André Breton, French poet, principal theoretician of surrealism (d. 1966)
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March 1 - Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek conductor, pianist, and composer (d. 1960)
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March 20 - Wilfrid Reid "Wop" May, World War 1 ace
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March 29 - Wilhelm Ackermann, mathematician (d. 1962)
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April 30 - Gary Davis, reverend
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May 11 - Mari Sandoz , writer (d. 1966)
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May 30 - Howard Hawks, director (d. 1977)
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June 19 - Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor (d. 1986)
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July 2 - Quirino Cristiani, Argentine animation director (d. 1984)
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July 16 - Trygve Lie, the first United Nations Secretary General (d. 1968)
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August 18 - Jack Pickford, actor, Hollywood's first "bad boy" (d. 1933)
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August 30 - Raymond Massey, actor (d. 1983)
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October 1 - Liaquat Ali Khan, first Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1951)
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October 28 - Howard Hanson, composer (d. 1981)
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October 31 - Ethel Waters, singer (d. 1977)
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November 8 - Bucky Harris, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1977)
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November 10 - Jimmy Dykes, Major League Baseball player and manager (d. 1976)
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November 14 - Mamie Eisenhower, wife of Dwight D. Eisenhower and First Lady of the United States of America (d. 1979)
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November 16 - Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists (d. 1980)
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December 6 - Ira Gershwin, lyricist (d. 1983)
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December 14 - Jimmy Doolittle, American World War II General (d. 1993)
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December 24 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (d. 1940)
Deaths
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January 4 - Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German Old Catholic bishop (b. 1821)
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January 8 - Paul Verlaine, French lyric poet (b. 1844)
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May 20 - Clara Schumann, German composer (b. 1819)
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August 10 - Otto Lilienthal, aviation pioneer
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August 17 - Bridget Driscoll, world's first automobile fatality
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October 11 - Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (b. 1824)
- October 11 - Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1829)
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October 23 ? Columbus Delano, American statesman
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November 28 - George Washington Gale Ferris Jr.
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December 10 - Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor of dynamite and creator of the Nobel Prize
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December 30 - José Rizal, national hero of the Philippines
Last updated: 10-19-2005 03:22:38
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