Famous Deaths In 1896

Jun 10 Amelia Dyer, English murderer (b. 1829) died in the year 1896.  

Jun 11 Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke, composer, dies at 72 on this day in history.  

Jun 25 In the year 1896 emile AH Seipgens, Dutch priest/beer brewer/man of letters, dies at 58  

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

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

Jul 06 On this day in history alexander Sergeyevich Famintsin, composer, dies at 54  

Jul 11 In the year 1896 ernst Curtius, German archaeologist/historian (Olympia), dies at 81  

Jul 13 On this day in history death of friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, German chemist (b. 1829)  

Jul 16 On this day in history edmond-Louis-Antoine Huot de Goncourt, novelist, dies at 74  

Jul 19 On this day in history death of abraham H. Cannon, American Mormon apostle (b. 1859)  

Aug 09 Otto Lilenthal, aircraft pioneer, killed during a glider test at 48 died in the year 1896.  

Aug 10 On this day in history 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 On this day in history john Everett Millais, English painter, dies at 67  

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

Aug 18 On this day in history frederick Nichols Crouch, composer, dies at 88  

Aug 30 Alexei Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian statesman (b. 1824) died on this day in history.  

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 on this day in history.  

Sep 16 In the year 1896 carlos Gomez, composer, dies at 60  

Sep 18 On this day in history armand-Hippolyte-Louis Fizeau, physicist, dies  

Sep 20 In the year 1896 gottfried Conradi, composer, dies at 76  

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

Sep 24 In the year 1896 francis SK Fitzgerald, US writer (Great Gatsby, Zelda), dies  

Oct 03 William Morris, writer, dies at 62 on this day in history.  

Oct 11 In the year 1896 anton Bruckner, Austr composer (Te Deum, Wagner Symphony), dies at 72  

Oct 12 Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish nobleman and politician (b. 1817) died on this day in history.  

Oct 21 In the year 1896 death of james Henry Greathead, British engineer (b. 1844)  

Oct 26 Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (b. 1827) died on this day in history.  

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 On this day in history 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 Maurice Jacobson, composer was born in the year 1896.  

Jan 01 Teinosuke Kinugasa, Japans actor/director (Jujiro, Jigoku-mon) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 01 Yitzhak Edel, composer was born in the year 1896.  

Jan 02 Dziga Vertiv, [Denis A Kaufman], Russian director (Sjagai, Soviet!) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 02 In the year 1896 birth of ernst-Lothar von Knorr, composer  

Jan 02 In the year 1896 birth of sir Lawrence Wackett, Australian aircraft engineer (d. 1982)  

Jan 04 On this day in history birth of everett McKinley Dirkson, (Sen-R-Ill)  

Jan 04 On this day in history birth of everett Dirksen, American politician (d. 1969)