Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened 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 on this day in history.  

Jun 25 On this day in history emile AH Seipgens, Dutch priest/beer brewer/man of letters, dies at 58  

Jun 26 In the year 1896 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 In the year 1896 alexander Sergeyevich Famintsin, composer, dies at 54  

Jul 11 Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist/historian (Olympia), dies at 81 in the year 1896.  

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

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 on this day in history.  

Aug 09 Otto Lilenthal, aircraft pioneer, killed during a glider test at 48 died on this day in history.  

Aug 10 On this day in history otto Lilienthal, German aircraft pioneer, dies  

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

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 on this day in history.  

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

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

Sep 01 On this day in history johannes Habert, composer, dies at 62  

Sep 02 Nat Thompson, cricketer (played 1st Two Tests for Australia), dies in the year 1896.  

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

Sep 16 Carlos Gomez, composer, dies at 60 on this day in history.  

Sep 18 Armand-Hippolyte-Louis Fizeau, physicist, dies in the year 1896.  

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

Sep 23 Ivar A Aasen, Norwegian linguistic/poet, dies at 83 on this day in history.  

Sep 24 On this day in history francis SK Fitzgerald, US writer (Great Gatsby, Zelda), dies  

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

Oct 11 On this day in history anton Bruckner, Austr composer (Te Deum, Wagner Symphony), dies at 72  

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

Oct 30 Charles Tupper, PM of Canada (C) (1896), dies on this day in history.  

Nov 12 In the year 1896 spyridon Xyndas, composer, dies at 84  

Nov 13 Antonio Pena y Goni, composer, dies at 50 on this day in history.  

Nov 22 On this day in history 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 On this day in history birth of teinosuke Kinugasa, Japans actor/director (Jujiro, Jigoku-mon)  

Jan 01 In the year 1896 birth of yitzhak Edel, composer  

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 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)