1896 (AD 1896) Historical Timeline & Archive

Notable Figures in 1896 (AD 1896) (13)

• Alfred Nobel (Died: 1896-12-10) — Pioneering chemist, inventor of dynamite, and founder of the Nobel Prizes.
• Anton Bruckner (Died: 1896-10-11) — Master of Austro-German Romanticism, renowned for monumental symphonies and sacred works.
• Antonin Artaud (Born: 1896-09-04) — Major figure of the European avant-garde, known for the Theatre of Cruelty.
• Arsène Houssaye (Died: 1896-02-26) — French novelist, poet, and man of letters, active from the 1830s to the 1890s.
• Clara Schumann (Died: 1896-05-20) — Virtuoso pianist, composer, and teacher of the Romantic era.
• David Alfaro Siqueiros (Born: 1896-12-29) — Pioneering Mexican social realist muralist, known for large-scale public works and technical innovation.
• Dziga Vertov (Born: 1896) — Soviet pioneer documentary filmmaker and cinema theorist, known for 'Man with a Movie Camera'.
• F. Scott Fitzgerald (Born: 1896-09-24) — Master chronicler of the Jazz Age, capturing American excess and lost dreams.
• Georgy Zhukov (Born: 1896-12-02) — Marshal of the Soviet Union, pivotal military strategist in WWII.
• Howard Hawks (Born: 1896-05-30) — Master of genre cinema, Howard Hawks defined the 'Hawksian woman' and influenced cinematic greats.
• Jean Piaget (Born: 1896-08-09) — Pioneering Swiss psychologist known for constructivist theory of child development.
• Lev Vygotsky (Born: 1896-11-17) — Pioneering Soviet psychologist known for cultural-historical theory and ZPD.
• Tristan Tzara (Born: 1896-04-16) — Pioneering Romanian-French avant-garde poet, central figure of Dadaism and Surrealism.