page_title: 1896
section_title: July–December
hierarchical_section_title: 1896 / Deaths / July–December
caption_attribution_description: Otto Lilienthal (23 May 1848 – 10 August 1896)
context_page_description: 1896 was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1896th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 896th year of the 2nd millennium, the 96th year of the 19th century, and the 7th year of the 1890s decade. As of the start of 1896, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: July 1 – Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author (b. 1811)
  July 4 – Marcelo H. del Pilar, Filipino writer, journalist (b. 1850)
  July 7 – Charles Thomas Wooldridge, Englishman hanged at Reading Gaol and commemorated by Oscar Wilde (b. 1866)
  July 13 – August Kekulé, German chemist (b. 1829)
  July 16 – Edmond de Goncourt, French writer, co-founder of the Académie Goncourt (b. 1822)
  July 19 – Abraham H. Cannon, American Mormon apostle (b. 1859)
  August 10 – Otto Lilienthal, German aviation pioneer (b. 1848)
  August 12 – Sir Harry Burnett Lumsden, British army general (b. 1821)
  August 13 – Sir John Everett Millais, British Pre-Raphaelite painter (b. 1829)
  August 17 – Bridget Driscoll, early British automobile fatality (b. c. 1852)
  August 18 – Richard Avenarius, German-Swiss philosopher (b. 1843)
  August 25 – Sultan Hamad bin Thuwaini of Zanzibar (b. 1857)
  September 18 – Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist (b. 1819)
  September 22 – Pavlos Kalligas, Greek jurist, politician (b. 1814)
  September 23 – Ivar Aasen, Norwegian philologist, lexicographer, playwright, and poet (b. 1813)
  September 24 – Louis Gerhard De Geer, 1st Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1818)
  October 3 – William Morris, English designer, poet and political activist (b. 1834)
  October 6 – Sir James Abbott, British army officer and colonial administrator (b. 1807)
  October 7 – Louis-Jules Trochu, French general and politician, 26th Prime Minister of France (b. 1815)
  October 8 – George du Maurier, French-born British cartoonist, writer (b. 1834)
  October 10 – Ferdinand von Mueller, German-born Australian botanist (b. 1825)
  October 11
  Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (b. 1824)
  Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1829)
  October 12 – Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1817)
  October 19 – Emmy Rappe, Swedish nursing pioneer (b. 1835)
  October 21 – James Henry Greathead, British engineer, inventor (b. 1844)
  October 23 – Columbus Delano, American statesman (b. 1809)
  October 26 – Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (b. 1827)
  October 30 – Carol Benesch, Silesian and Romanian architect (b. 1822)
  November 12 – Joseph James Cheeseman, Liberian politician, 12th President of Liberia (b. 1843)
  November 16 – Josip Šokčević, Croatian viceroy (b. 1811)
  November 22 – George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., inventor of the Ferris wheel (b. 1859)
  November 26
  Benjamin Apthorp Gould, American astronomer (b. 1824)
  Coventry Patmore, English poet (b. 1823)
  December 10 – Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor of dynamite, creator of the Nobel Prize (b. 1833)
  Jacob ben Moses Bachrach, noted Polish apologist of Rabbinic Judaism (b. 1824)
  Sir Alexander Milne, 1st Baronet, British admiral of the fleet (b. 1806)
  December 30 – José Rizal, national hero of the Philippines (b. 1861)
caption: Otto Lilienthal
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