Famous Deaths In 1896

Jun 10 Amelia Dyer, English murderer (b. 1829) died on this day in history.  

Jun 11 Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke, composer, dies at 72 in the year 1896.  

Jun 25 Emile AH Seipgens, Dutch priest/beer brewer/man of letters, dies at 58 in the year 1896.  

Jun 26 On this day in history louis CPR of Orleans, French duke (chosen king of Belgian), dies at 81  

Jul 01 Harriet Beecher Stowe, US author (Uncle Tom's Cabin), dies at 85 in the year 1896.  

Jul 06 Alexander Sergeyevich Famintsin, composer, dies at 54 in the year 1896.  

Jul 11 On this day in history ernst Curtius, German archaeologist/historian (Olympia), dies at 81  

Jul 13 Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, German chemist (b. 1829) died on this day in history.  

Jul 16 Edmond-Louis-Antoine Huot de Goncourt, novelist, dies at 74 on this day in history.  

Jul 19 Abraham H. Cannon, American Mormon apostle (b. 1859) died in the year 1896.  

Aug 09 On this day in history death of otto Lilenthal, aircraft pioneer, killed during a glider test at 48  

Aug 10 In the year 1896 otto Lilienthal, German aircraft pioneer, dies  

Aug 12 Thomas Chamberlain, officer of the 20th Maine at the Battle of Gettysburg died in the year 1896.  

Aug 13 John Everett Millais, English painter, dies at 67 on this day in history.  

Aug 17 Bridget Driscoll, 1st Brit to die in an auto-accident died in the year 1896.  

Aug 18 Frederick Nichols Crouch, composer, dies at 88 on this day in history.  

Aug 30 Alexei Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian statesman (b. 1824) died in the year 1896.  

Sep 01 Johannes Habert, composer, dies at 62 on this day in history.  

Sep 02 In the year 1896 nat Thompson, cricketer (played 1st Two Tests for Australia), dies  

Sep 11 Anton Joseph Bruckner, composer, dies at 72 in the year 1896.  

Sep 16 Carlos Gomez, composer, dies at 60 in the year 1896.  

Sep 18 In the year 1896 armand-Hippolyte-Louis Fizeau, physicist, dies  

Sep 20 Gottfried Conradi, composer, dies at 76 on this day in history.  

Sep 23 Ivar A Aasen, Norwegian linguistic/poet, dies at 83 in the year 1896.  

Sep 24 Francis SK Fitzgerald, US writer (Great Gatsby, Zelda), dies in the year 1896.  

Oct 03 William Morris, writer, dies at 62 in the year 1896.  

Oct 11 Anton Bruckner, Austr composer (Te Deum, Wagner Symphony), dies at 72 in the year 1896.  

Oct 12 In the year 1896 death of christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish nobleman and politician (b. 1817)  

Oct 21 James Henry Greathead, British engineer (b. 1844) died in the year 1896.  

Oct 26 In the year 1896 death of paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (b. 1827)  

Oct 30 Charles Tupper, PM of Canada (C) (1896), dies in the year 1896.  

Nov 12 Spyridon Xyndas, composer, dies at 84 on this day in history.  

Nov 13 In the year 1896 antonio Pena y Goni, composer, dies at 50  

Nov 22 In the year 1896 george Washington Gale Ferris, inventor (Ferris wheel), dies  

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Jan 01 In the year 1896 birth of maurice Jacobson, composer  

Jan 01 On this day in history birth of teinosuke Kinugasa, Japans actor/director (Jujiro, Jigoku-mon)  

Jan 01 Yitzhak Edel, composer was born on this day in history.  

Jan 02 In the year 1896 birth of dziga Vertiv, [Denis A Kaufman], Russian director (Sjagai, Soviet!)  

Jan 02 Ernst-Lothar von Knorr, composer was born on this day in history.  

Jan 02 On this day in history birth of sir Lawrence Wackett, Australian aircraft engineer (d. 1982)  

Jan 04 Everett McKinley Dirkson, (Sen-R-Ill) was born in the year 1896.  

Jan 04 Everett Dirksen, American politician (d. 1969) was born in the year 1896.