Events from the year 1876 in the United Kingdom.
- 13 January – Florence Sulman, author and educationalist (died 1965 in Australia)[13]
- 21 January – James Larkin, trade union leader and socialist politician in Ireland (died 1947 in Ireland)
- 29 January – Havergal Brian, composer (died 1972)
- 16 February – G. M. Trevelyan, historian (died 1962)
- 7 March – Edgar Evans, Welsh sailor, Antarctic explorer (died 1912)
- 11 March – Carl Ruggles, composer (died 1971)
- 23 March – Muirhead Bone, Scottish etcher (died 1953)
- 28 April – Thomas Crisp, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1917)
- 7 May – Samuel Courtauld, art collector (died 1947)
- 27 May – William Stanier, railway engineer and steam locomotive designer (LMS Coronation Class) (died 1965)
- 13 June – William Sealy Gosset, chemist (died 1937)
- 19 June – Nigel Gresley, railway engineer and steam locomotive designer (Flying Scotsman and Mallard) (died 1941)
- 22 June – Gwen John, Welsh painter (died 1939)
- 8 August
- 17 August – Eric Drummond, 16th Earl of Perth, politician (died 1951)
- 25 August – Eglantyne Jebb, champion for children (died 1928)
- 1 September – Harriet Shaw Weaver, political activist (died 1961)
- 6 September – John Macleod, Scottish physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1935)
- 6 October – Githa Sowerby, dramatist (died 1970)
- 2 November – William Haywood, architect (died 1957)
- 3 November – Rupert D'Oyly Carte, hotelier and theatrical impresario (died 1948)
- 7 November – Charlie Townsend, cricketer (died 1958)
- 26 November – Janet Philip, School Secretary at the London School for Economics (died 1959)
- 29 December – Lionel Tertis, violist (died 1975)
- 19 January – George Julius Poulett Scrope, political economist (born 1797)
- 3 April – Mary Fildes, political activist (born c. 1789 in Ireland)
- 19 April – Samuel Sebastian Wesley, organist and composer (born 1810)
- 24 May – Henry Kingsley, novelist (born 1830)
- 27 June – Harriet Martineau, philosopher and social theorist (born 1802)
- 14 July - Thomas Hazlehurst, chemical manufacturer and Methodist chapel builder (born 1816)
- 17 July – Francis Conyngham, 2nd Marquess Conyngham, soldier, courtier and politician (born 1797)
- 19 August – George Smith, Assyriologist (born 1840)
- 24 August – John Roberton, Scottish physician and social reformer (born 1797)
- 16 September – Hedworth Lambton, politician (born 1797)
- 18 October – Sir Thomas Dickson Archibald, judge (born 1817 in Nova Scotia)
- 29 December – Sir Titus Salt, woollen manufacturer and philanthropist (born 1803)
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