Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened In 1896

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

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 on this day in history.  

Jun 26 In the year 1896 louis CPR of Orleans, French duke (chosen king of Belgian), dies at 81  

Jul 01 On this day in history harriet Beecher Stowe, US author (Uncle Tom's Cabin), dies at 85  

Jul 06 In the year 1896 alexander Sergeyevich Famintsin, composer, dies at 54  

Jul 11 Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist/historian (Olympia), dies at 81 on this day in history.  

Jul 13 In the year 1896 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 Otto Lilienthal, German aircraft pioneer, dies on this day in history.  

Aug 12 On this day in history death of thomas Chamberlain, officer of the 20th Maine at the Battle of Gettysburg  

Aug 13 In the year 1896 john Everett Millais, English painter, dies at 67  

Aug 17 On this day in history death of bridget Driscoll, 1st Brit to die in an auto-accident  

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

Aug 30 In the year 1896 death of alexei Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian statesman (b. 1824)  

Sep 01 Johannes Habert, composer, dies at 62 in the year 1896.  

Sep 02 On this day in history nat Thompson, cricketer (played 1st Two Tests for Australia), dies  

Sep 11 On this day in history anton Joseph Bruckner, composer, dies at 72  

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

Sep 18 Armand-Hippolyte-Louis Fizeau, physicist, dies on this day in history.  

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

Oct 03 In the year 1896 william Morris, writer, dies at 62  

Oct 11 Anton Bruckner, Austr composer (Te Deum, Wagner Symphony), dies at 72 on this day in history.  

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 On this day in history 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 On this day in history spyridon Xyndas, composer, dies at 84  

Nov 13 On this day in history antonio Pena y Goni, composer, dies at 50  

Nov 22 George Washington Gale Ferris, inventor (Ferris wheel), dies in the year 1896.  

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Jan 01 Maurice Jacobson, composer was born in the year 1896.  

Jan 01 In the year 1896 birth of teinosuke Kinugasa, Japans actor/director (Jujiro, Jigoku-mon)  

Jan 01 On this day in history birth of yitzhak Edel, composer  

Jan 02 On this day in history birth of dziga Vertiv, [Denis A Kaufman], Russian director (Sjagai, Soviet!)  

Jan 02 Ernst-Lothar von Knorr, composer was born in the year 1896.  

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

Jan 04 In the year 1896 birth of everett McKinley Dirkson, (Sen-R-Ill)  

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