Editing 1876 in science (section)

==Births==
* January 5 – [[Lucien Bull]] (died [[1972 in science|1972]]), Irish-born pioneer in [[chronophotography]].
* January 23 – [[Otto Diels]] (died [[1954 in science|1954]]), German [[Nobel Prize]] winner in chemistry.
* February 15 – [[Ernest Henry Wilson|E. H. "Chinese" Wilson]] (died [[1930 in science|1930]]), English-born [[plant collector]].
* April 22 – [[Robert Bárány]] (died [[1936 in science|1936]]), Viennese-born Nobel Prize winner in medicine.
* June 13 – [[William Sealy Gosset]] (died [[1937 in science|1937]]), English [[statistician]].
* October 3 – [[Gabrielle Howard]] née Matthaei (died 1930), English-born [[Plant physiology|plant physiologist]].
* November 9 – [[Hideyo Noguchi]] (died [[1928 in science|1928]]), Japanese [[bacteriologist]].
* November 19 – [[Tatyana Afanasyeva]] (died [[1964 in science|1964]]), Russian-born [[mathematician]].
* November 25 – [[Paul Nitsche]] (executed [[1948 in science|1948]]) Nazi German [[psychiatrist]] and [[eugenicist]].