page_title: 1896
section_title: January–February
hierarchical_section_title: 1896 / Births / January–February
caption_attribution_description: English: Friedrich Hund, Göttingen in the twenties Deutsch: Friedrich Hund, Göttingen in den 20er Jahren
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: January 2 – Dziga Vertov, Russian filmmaker (d. 1954)
  January 4
  Everett Dirksen, American politician (d. 1969)
  André Masson, French artist (d. 1987)
  January 8
  Arthur Ford, American psychic spiritual medium, clairaudient (d. 1971)
  Clifton Sprague, American admiral (d. 1955)
  January 14 – John Dos Passos, American author (d. 1970)
  January 18 – C. M. Eddy, Jr., American author (d. 1967)
  January 20 – George Burns, American actor, comedian (d. 1996)
  January 21 – J. Carrol Naish, American character actor (d. 1973)
  January 23 – Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d. 1985)
  January 26 – József Kiss, Austro-Hungarian fighter pilot (d. 1918)
  January 31 – Olive Carey, American actress (d. 1988)
  February 2 – Ramón Franco, Spanish aviation pioneer (d. 1938)
  February 4 – Friedrich Hund, German physicist (d. 1997)
  February 16 – Eugénie Blanchard, French supercentenarian (d. 2010)
  February 18 – Li Linsi, Chinese educator and diplomat (d. 1970)
  February 19 – André Breton, French writer (d. 1966)
  February 21 - Homa J. Porter, Texas businessman and political activist (d. 1986)
  February 23 – Herbert Weichmann, German politician, mayor of Hamburg (d. 1983)
  February 25 – Heinrich Gontermann, German World War I fighter ace (d. 1917)
  February 28 – Philip Showalter Hench, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1965)
  February 29
  Morarji Desai, Indian politician (d. 1995)
  William A. Wellman, American motion picture director (d. 1975)
caption: Friedrich Hund
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