In the year 1896, the X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time (Jan 18), the very first speeding fine is written in England (Jan 28), the first edition of La Gazzetta dello Sport is published (Apr 3), the first modern Olympic Games begin in Athens, Greece (Apr 6), the Ford Quadricycle is completed, marking the start of “putting America - and the rest of the world - on wheels” (Jun 4), Richard Strauss' _Also Sprach Zarahustra_is first performed, in Frankfurt (Nov 27), the third-oldest underground metro system in the world, the Glasgow Subway in Scotland, opens (Dec 14) - and all these fine people were born:
1896-xxxx Aili Nupponen* mother of five/to U.S. at age 65/maid at Mar-a-Lago for Marjorie Merriweather Post - Masku, GD of Finland (1986/90) IS
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1896-0105 Uuno Saarnio* (b Bredström) librarian/philosopher - Turku, GD of Finland (1977/81)
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1896-0108 Arthur Ford* psychic/clairaudient - Titusville, FL USA (1971/74)
1896-0108 Matti Nykänen* soldier/volunteer in the German army – Lappajärvi, GD of Finland (1916/20)
1896-0118 Ville Ritola* long-distance runner - Peräseinäjoki, GD of Finland (1982/86)
1896-0120 George Burns* stand-up comedian/actor - New York, NY USA (1996/100)
1896-0121 Paula Hitler* secretary/younger sister of Adolf Hitler - Hafeld in Fischlham, Austria-Hungary (1960/64)
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1896-0201 Hugo Makkonen* actor - Savonlinna, GD of Finland (1964/68)
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1896-0207 Harold G. Hoffman* politician/governor- South Amboy, NJ USA (1954/58)
1896-0209 Alberto Vargas* painter of pin-up girls - Arequipa, Peru (1982/86)
1896-0211 Gunnar Lindström* athlete (javelin/OS)/farmer/agricultural consultant - Eksjö, Sweden (1951/55)
1896-0214 Ensio Rislakki* (b Svanberg) journalist/ author - Hausjärvi, GD of Finland (1977/80)
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1896-0226 Veikko Leistén* architect - Alavus, GD of Finland (1970/74)
1896-0301 Dimitri Mitropoulos* Δημήτρης Μητρόπουλος pianist/ composer/conductor - Athens, Greece (1960/64)
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1896-0323 Sulo Tanninen* poet - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1974/78)
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1896-0405 George Sachs* German-American metallurgist/to U.S. at age 41 - Moscow. Russia, Russian Empire (1960/64)
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1896-0408 Ettore Verna* Italian-American opera singer - Lanciano, Italy (1962/66)
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1896-0414 Charles Courant* wrestler/OS - Vaud, Switzerland (1982/86)
1896-0415 Gerhard Fieseler* WW1 fighter pilot/aerobatics champion/ aircraft constructor - Glesch, Germany (1987/91)
1896-0419 Yrjö Kaijärvi* (b Törnqvist) poet/writer/ translator - Juuka, GD of Finland (1971/74)
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1896-0502 Helen of Greece and Denmark* queen mother of Romania/efforts to save Romanian Jews during WW2 - Athens, Kingdom of Greece (1982/86)
1896-0506 Rolf Maximilian Sievert* medical physicist - Stockholm, Sweden (1966/70)
1896-0507 Lauri Kyöstilä* Olympic diver/actor/singer - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1984/88)
1896-0508 Vilho Pernu* infantry soldier/businessman - Keuruu, GD of Finland (1969/73)
1896-0517 Ilmari Raekallio* journalist/ painter/composer - GD of Finland (1952/56)
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1896-0524 Fernando Soler* actor/ director/producer - Saltillo, Mexico (1979/83)
1896-0530 Howard Hawks* film director/producer - Goshen, IN USA (1977/81)
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1896-0606 Henry Allingham* First World War veteran/supercentenarian - Clapton, London, England (2009/113)
1896-0606 Eero Leväluoma* actor/scenographer/ director - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1969/73)
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1896-0614 Samuel Mosberg* American boxer/OG/real estate broker - Austria (1967/71)
1896-0616 Melnea Cass* community and civil rights activist - Boston, MA USA (1978/82)
1896-0619 Rajani Palme Dutt* journalist/communist theoretician - Cambridge, England (1974)
1896-0619 Wallis Simpson* wife of David, formerly king Edward VIII of England - Blue Ridge Summit, PA USA (1986/89)
1896-0714 Margaret Jeffrey* (b Hines) high rank police officer in the New South Wales Police - Bundanoon, NSW Australia (1977/80)
1896-0716 Gottlob Berger* Nazi official - Gerstetten, Kingdom of Württemberg (1975/78)
1896-0716 Trygve Lie* Norwegian politician/ UN Secretary-General - Oslo, Sweden-Norway (1968/72)
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1896-0726 André Grabar* art historian/active in France and the U.S. - Kiev, Ukraine, Russian Empire (1990/94)
1896-0728 Barbara La Marr* actress - Yakima, WA USA (1926/29)
1896-0809 Larry Snyder* athlete/coach of Jesse Owens - Canton, OH USA (1982/86)
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1896-0815 Gerty Cori* (b Radnitz) biochemist/N/to U.S. at age 26 - Prague, Austro-Hungarian Empire (1957/61)
1896-0816 Kirsti Gallen-Kallela* cellist/illustrator/ daughter of Akseli Gallen-Kallela - Ruovesi, GD of Finland (1980/84)
1896-0822 Frank Loomis* hurdler/OG - Saint Paul, MN USA (1971/74)
1896-0826 Nellie Weekes* nurse/midwife/politician - Saint Michael, Barbados, British West Indies (1990/93)
1896-0830 Raymond Massey* actor - Toronto, ON Canada (1983/86)
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1896-0905 Helmi Hilja Aspinen** mother of Helena Korpela - Vanhakylä, Viipuri, GD of Finland (unknown)
1896-0910 Adele Astaire* (b Austerlitz) dancer/stage actress/singer/ sister of Fred Astaire - Omaha, NE USA (1981/84)
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1896-0924 F. Scott Fitzgerald* novelist/screenwriter/short-story writer - St. Paul, MN USA (1940/44)
1896-0925 Sandro Pertini* journalist/politician/P - Stella, Liguria, Kingdom of Italy (1990/93)
1896-0929 Irene Bernasconi* marine biologist- La Plata, Argentina (1989/92)
1896-1001 Uuno Laakso* (b Uno Adamsson) actor - Hollola, GD of Finland (1956/60)
1896-1001 Abraham Sofaer* Burmese-born British actor - Rangoon, British Burma (1988/91)
1896-1003 Auvergne Doherty* lawyer/ businesswoman - Perth, WA Australia (1961/64)
1896-1012 Eugenio Montale* poet/ translator/prose writer/N - Genoa, Kingdom of Italy (1981/84)
1896-1014 Bud Flanagan* (b Chaim Reuben Weintrop) vaudeville entertainer/actor/comedian - Whitechapel, London, England (1968/72)
1896-1017 Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia* member of the House of Romanov - Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (1978/82)
1896-1027 Edith Haisman* (b Brown) South African Titanic survivor (at age 15)/ - Worcester, Cape Colony (1997/100)
1896-1028 Howard Hanson* composer/conductor/educator - Wahoo, NE USA (1981/84)
1896-1030 Ruth Gordon* actress /screenwriter/playwright - Quincy, MA USA (1985/88)
1896-1031 Ethel Waters* singer/ actress - Chester, PA USA (1977/80)
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1896-1104 Ian Wolfe* actor - Canton, IL USA (1992/95)
1896-1108 Marie Prevost* actress - Sarnia, ON Canada (1937/40)
1896-1110 Andreas Stihl* German engineer/inventor/the “Father of the chainsaw” - Zürich, Switzerland (1973/76)
1896-1113 Nobusuke Kishi* 岸 信介 politician/PM/grandfather of Shinzo Abe - Tabuse, Empire of Japan (1987/90)
1896-1114 Mamie Eisenhower* (b Doud) First Lady/of Swedish descent - Boone, IA USA (1979/82)
1896-1115 Giovanni Ancillotto* World War I flying ace - San Donà di Piave, Kingdom of Italy (1924/27)
1896-1116 Jim Jordan* actor - Peoria, IL USA (1988/91)
1896-1117 Lev Vygotsky* psychologist - Orsha, Russian Empire (1934/37)
1896-1118 Martta Koskinen* seamstress/ communist/the last woman executed in Finland - Hollola, GD of Finland (1943/46)
1896-1125 Priscilla Dean* actress - Manhattan, NY USA (1987/91)
1896-1125 Jessie Royce Landis* (b Medbury) actress/ - Chicago, IL USA (1972/75)
1896-1125 Virgil Thomson* composer/ critic - Kansas City, MO USA (1989/92)
1896-1126 Helen C. White* academic/teacher - New Haven, CT USA (1967/70)
1896-1128 Lilia Skala* Austrian-American architect/actress - Vienna, Austria-Hungary (1994/98)
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1896-1201 Georgy Zhukov* general/ Marshal of the Soviet Union - Strelkovka, Kaluga Governorate, Russian Empire(1974/77)
1896-1202 Alfons Tracki* Albanian Catholic priest/Christian martyr/of German descent - Bleischwitz, German Empire (1946/49)
1896-1205 Carl Ferdinand Cori* biochemist/N - Prague, Austria-Hungary (1984/87)
1896-1206 Ira Gerschwin* lyricist - New York, NY USA (1983/86)
1896-1208 Christl Mardayn* Austrian actress/singer - Vienna Austria-Hungary (1971/74)
1896-1214 Jimmy Doolitlle* aviation pioneer/military - Alameda, CA USA (1993/96)
1896-1216 Anna Anderson* pretender to the Russian throne - Borowihlas, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (1984/87)
1896-1221 Konstantin Rokossovsky* Polish-Soviet military commander/Marshal of the Soviet Union & Poland/Poland’s Defence Minister - Warzaw, Russian Empire (1968/71)
1896-1223 Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa* the last Prince of Lampedusa/writer - Palermo, Kingdom of Italy (1957/60)
1896-1224 Ida Appelberg* (b Lukkarinen) actress - Joensuu, GD of Finland (unknown)
1896-1229 David Alfaro Siqueiros* painter/ muralist - Chihuahua, Mexico (1974/77)
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