Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1876
Birthdays
- January 1 - Harriet Brooks, Canadian physicist (d. 1933)
- January 3 - Wilhelm Pieck, first President of East Germany (d. 1960)
- January 5 - Konrad Adenauer, German statesman (d. 1967)
- January 7 - William Hurlstone, English composer (d. 1906)
- January 11 - Elmer Flick, American baseball player (d. 1971)
- January 12 - Jack London, American author (d. 1916)
- January 12 - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Italian composer (d. 1948)
- January 17 - Frank Hague, American politician (d. 1956)
- January 20 - Józef Hofmann, Polish pianist (d. 1967)
- January 23 - Otto Diels, German chemist
- January 29 - Havergal Brian, British composer (d. 1972)
- February 3 - William Tedmarsh, silent movie actor (d. 1937)
- February 12 - Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama (d. 1933)
- February 13 - Fritz Buelow, German-born American baseball player (d. 1933)
- February 16 - George Macaulay Trevelyan, English historian (d. 1962)
- February 19 - Constantin Brancusi, Romanian sculptor (d. 1957)
- February 21 - Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter (d. 1956)
- March 1 - Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian IOC president (d. 1942)
- March 2 - Pope Pius XII, (d. 1958)
- March 4 - Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (d. 1947)
- March 4 - Theodore Hardeen, Magician and stunt performer
- March 11 - Carl Ruggles, American composer (d. 1971)
- March 20 - Payne Whitney, American businessman (d. 1927)
- March 21 - John Tewksbury, American athlete (d. 1968)
- March 26 - Prince William of Wied, (d. 1945)
- March 31 - Borisav "Bora" Stanković, Serbian writer (d. 1927)
- April 4 - Maurice de Vlaminck, French painter (d. 1958)
- April 11 - Paul Henry, Northern Irish artist (d. 1958)
- April 22 - Robert Bárány, American physician
- April 22 - Georg Lurich, Estonian wrestler (d. 1920)
- April 23 - Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian (d. 1925)
- April 24 - Erich Raeder, German naval commander (d. 1960)
- April 24 - Ioannis Georgiadis, Greek fencer (d. 1960)
- April 29 - Zauditu of Ethiopia, (d. 1930)
- April 30 - Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist (d. 1937)
- May 10 - Ivan Cankar, Slovenian writer (d. 1918)
- May 18 - Hermann Müller, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1931)
- May 27 - Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish writer (d. 1945)
- June 5 - Tony Jackson, American musician (d. 1920)
- June 11 - Alfred L. Kroeber, American anthropologist (d. 1960)
- June 13 - William Sealey Gosset, English chemist
- June 21 - Willem Hendrik Keesom, Dutch physicist (d. 1956)
- July 2 - Wilhelm Cuno, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1933)
- July 12 - Max Jacob, French poet (d. 1944)
- July 19 - Joseph Fielding Smith, 10th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1972)
- July 19 - John Gunn, Former England cricketer (d. 1963)
- July 20 - Otto Blumenthal, German mathematician (d. 1944)
- July 29 - Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian-born actress (d. 1949)
- August 7 - Mata Hari, Dutch spy (d. 1917)
- August 12 - Mary Roberts Rinehart, American author (d. 1958)
- August 14 - Aleksandar Obrenović, King of Serbia (d. 1903)
- August 16 - Ivan Bilibin, Russian illustrator (d. 1942)
- August 29 - Charles F. Kettering, American inventor (d. 1958)
- August 29 - Kim Gu, President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (d. 1949)
- September 1 - Harriet Shaw Weaver, English political activist (d. 1961)
- September 5 - Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (d. 1956)
- September 5 - Abdelaziz Thâalbi, Tunisian politician. (d. 1944)
- September 6 - John James Richard Macleod, Scottish-born physician and physiologist
- September 7 - C.J. Dennis, Australian poet and writer (d. 1938)
- September 13 - Sherwood Anderson, American writer (d. 1941)
- September 15 - Bruno Walter, German conductor (d. 1962)
- September 15 - Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian novelist (d. 1938)
- September 18 - James Scullin, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1953)
- September 22 - André Tardieu, Prime Minister of France (d. 1945)
- September 26 - Edith Abbott, American social worker
- October 4 - Hugh McCrae, Australian writer (d. 1958)
- October 6 - Ernest Lapointe, French-Canadian politician (d. 1941)
- October 13 - Rube Waddell, American baseball player (d. 1914)
- October 19 - Mordecai Brown, American baseball player (d. 1945)
- October 23 - Franz Schlegelberger, German judge and politician (d. 1970)
- November 3 - Stephen Peter Alencastre, Roman Catholic prelate (d. 1940)
- November 7 - Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (d. 1958)
- November 19 - Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva, Russian/Dutch mathematician (d. 1964)
- November 23 - Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (d. 1946)
- November 24 - Walter Burley Griffin, American architect (d. 1937)
- November 25 - Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Grand Duchess of Hesse (d. 1936)
- November 26 - Willis Carrier, American engineer and inventor (d. 1950)
- November 29 - Nellie Tayloe Ross, American politician (d. 1977)
- December 6 - Fred Duesenberg, German-born automobile pioneer (d. 1932)
- December 9 - Berton Churchill, American actor (d. 1940)
- December 12 - Alvin Kraenzlein, Olympic gold medalist (d. 1928)
- December 21 - Jack Lang (John Thomas Lang), Premier of New South Wales (d. 1975)
- December 22 - Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian poet and editor (d. 1944)
- December 25 - Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan (d. 1948)
- December 25 - Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, Nobel laureate (d. 1959)
- December 29 - Pablo Casals, Catalan musician (d. 1973)
Deaths
- January 7 - Juste Olivier, Swiss poet (b. 1807)
- January 9 - Samuel Gridley Howe, American abolitionist (b. 1801)
- January 15 - Eliza Johnson, U.S. First Lady (b. 1810)
- February 24 - Joseph Jenkins Roberts, first President of Liberia (b. 1809)
- March 5 - Marie d'Agoult, German-born writer (b. 1805)
- April 9 - Charles Goodyear, American politician (b. 1804)
- May 7 - William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author (b. 1795)
- May 12 - Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian revolutionary
- May 19 - Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch politician (b. 1801)
- May 24 - Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1843)
- June 1 - Hristo Botev, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1848)
- June 2 - Hristo Botev, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1848)
- June 8 - George Sand, French author (b. 1804)
- June 25 - George Armstrong Custer, U.S. Army officer (b. 1839)
- June 25 - Thomas Custer, Brother of George A. Custer & 2-time Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1845)
- June 25 - Boston Custer, Brother of George A. Custer (b. 1848)
- June 25 - James C. Calhoun, Brother-in-Law of George Armstrong Custer & U.S. Soldier (b. 1845)
- June 25 - Myles Keogh, U.S. Soldier & Irish Soldier of Fortune (b. 1840)
- July 14 - Thomas Hazlehurst, English Methodist chapel builder (b. 1816)
- July 27 - Albertus van Raalte, Dutch-American religious leader (b. 1811)
- August 2 - James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, American gunfighter (b. 1837)
- September 5 - Manuel Blanco Encalada, first president of Chile (b. 1790)
- September 27 - Braxton Bragg, American Confederate general (b. 1817)
- October 1 - James Lick, California land baron (b. 1796)
- October 10 - Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist (b. 1814)
- November 26 - Karl Ernst von Baer, German biologist (b. 1792)
Events
- January 1 - The Reichsbank opens in Berlin.
- January 31 - The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.
- February 2 - The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed.
- February 14 - Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.
- March 7 - Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone (patent # 174,465).
- March 10 - Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
- April 11 - The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.
- May 2 - The April Uprising breaks out in Bulgaria.
- May 30 - Ottoman sultan Abd-ul-Aziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murat V.
- June 2 - Hristo Botev, a national revolutionary of Bulgaria, is killed in Stara Planina
- June 4 - An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after having left New York City.
- June 17 - Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud
- June 25 - Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
- July 8 - White supremacists kill five Black Republicans in Hamburg, SC.
- August 1 - Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
- August 8 - Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
- August 31 - Ottoman sultan Murat V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid II.
- September 7 - In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang attempt to rob the town's bank but are surrounded by an angry mob and are nearly killed.
- October 4 - Texas A&M University opens as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas becomes Texas's first public institution of higher education in that state.
- October 31 - A monster cyclone ravages India, resulting in over 200,000 deaths.
- November 1 - New Zealand's provincial government system is dissolved.
- November 17 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's patriotic Slavonic March made its premiere in Moscow to a warm reception by the Russian people.
- November 23 - Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Marcy Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain.
- November 25 - Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River.
- December 29 - The Ashtabula River Railroad bridge disaster occurs, leaving 64 injured and 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio.
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