Deaths
- June 23 - Joseph Prestwich (born 1812), English geologist.
- July 13 - Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz (born 1829), organic chemist.
- August 10 - Otto Lilienthal (born 1848), aviation pioneer.
- September 18 - Hippolyte Fizeau (born 1819), physicist.
- October 21 - James Henry Greathead (born 1844), British civil engineer.
- November 3 - Eugen Baumann (born 1846), chemist.
- November 22 - George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr. (born 1859), American civil engineer.
- December 10 - Alfred Nobel (born 1833), inventor.
Read more about this topic: 1896 In Science
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)