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1896 1896 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). Events January - April May - August September - October Unknown date Births - January 2 - Dziga Vertov, filmmaker (d. 1954)
- January 4 - Everett Dirksen, American politician (d. 1969)
- January 4 - Andr Masson, French artist (d. 1987)
- January 12 - Rex Ingram, director and actor (d. 1950)
- January 14 - Martin Niemller, German theologian and pacifist (d. 1984)
- January 14 - John Dos Passos, author (d. 1970)
- January 23 - Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg (d. 1985)
- February 11 - Else Lasker-Schuler, writer
- February 18 - Andr Breton, poet, principal theoretician of surrealism (d. 1966)
- March 1 - Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek conductor, pianist, and composer (d. 1960)
- March 20 - Wilfrid Reid "Wop" May, World War 1 ace
- March 29 - Wilhelm Ackermann, mathematician (d. 1962)
- April 30 - Gary Davis, reverend
- May 11 - Mari Sandoz, writer (d. 1966)
- May 30 - Howard Hawks, director (d. 1977)
- June 19 - Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor (d. 1986)
- July 2 - Quirino Cristiani, Argentine animation director (d. 1984)
- July 16 - Trygve Lie, the first United Nations Secretary General (d. 1968)
- August 18 - Jack Pickford, actor, Hollywood's first "bad boy" (d. 1933)
- August 30 - Raymond Massey, actor (d. 1983)
- October 1 - Liaquat Ali Khan, first Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1951)
- October 28 - Howard Hanson, composer (d. 1981)
- October 31 - Ethel Waters, singer (d. 1977)
- November 8 - Bucky Harris, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1977)
- November 10 - Jimmy Dykes, Major League Baseball player and manager (d. 1976)
- November 14 - Mamie Eisenhower, wife of Dwight D. Eisenhower and First Lady of the United States of America (d. 1979)
- November 16 - Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists (d. 1980)
- December 6 - Ira Gershwin, lyricist (d. 1983)
- December 14 - Jimmy Doolittle, American World War II General (d. 1993)
- December 24 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (d. 1940)
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