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 on this day in history.  

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

Jun 26 Louis CPR of Orleans, French duke (chosen king of Belgian), dies at 81 in the year 1896.  

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

Jul 06 Alexander Sergeyevich Famintsin, composer, dies at 54 on this day in history.  

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

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 in the year 1896.  

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 in the year 1896.  

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

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 Frederick Nichols Crouch, composer, dies at 88 in the year 1896.  

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

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

Sep 02 On this day in history 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 On this day in history carlos Gomez, composer, dies at 60  

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

Sep 20 Gottfried Conradi, composer, dies at 76 in the year 1896.  

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

Oct 12 Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish nobleman and politician (b. 1817) died in the year 1896.  

Oct 21 On this day in history 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 On this day in history charles Tupper, PM of Canada (C) (1896), dies  

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

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 In the year 1896 birth of yitzhak Edel, composer  

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

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

Jan 04 In the year 1896 birth of everett Dirksen, American politician (d. 1969)