Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1880
Birthdays January 5 - Nikolay Medtner, Russian composer (d. 1951) January 6 - Tom Mix, American actor (d. 1940) January 10 - Manuel Azaña y Diaz, Spanish republican President (d. 1940) January 10 - Grock (Charles Adrien Wettach), Swiss circus clown (d. 1959) January 17 - Mack Sennett, Canadian film director (d. 1960) January 20 - Walter W. Bacon, American politician (d. 1962) January 26 - Douglas MacArthur, American general and Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1964) January 28 - Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer (d. 1970) January 29 - W.C. Fields , American actor (d. 1946) February 5 - Gabriel Voisin, French aviation pioneer (d. 1973) February 8 - Franz Marc, German painter (d. 1916) February 9 - Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1959) February 12 - John L. Lewis, American labor union leader (d. 1969) February 16 - Frank Burke, American baseball player (d. 1946) February 19 - Alvaro Obregon, Mexican president (d. 1928) February 20 - Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, French aristocrat and novelist (d. 1923) February 21 - Waldemar Bonsels, German writer (d. 1952) February 22 - Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1956) March 1 - Giles Lytton Strachey British writer, (d. 1932) March 3 - Florence Auer, American actress (d. 1962) March 3 - Yōsuke Matsuoka, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan (d. 1946) March 4 - Channing Pollock, American playwright and critic (d. 1946) March 10 - Broncho Billy Anderson, American actor (d. 1971) March 11 - Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenecist (d. 1943) March 12 - Nikolaos Georgantas, Greek discus thrower (d. 1958) March 12 - Henry Drysdale Dakin, British-American biochemist March 14 - Princess Thyra, daughter of Frederick VIII of Denmark (d. 1945) March 17 - Sir Patrick Hastings, British barrister (d. 1952) March 17 - Lawrence Oates, English army officer and Antarctic explorer (d. 1912) March 21 - Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, American actor (d. 1971) March 22 - Ernie Quigley, Canadian-American sports official (d. 1960) March 23 - Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish politician (d. 1922) March 30 - Sean O'Casey, Irish dramatist (d. 1964) April 1 - Agha Petros, Assyrian general (d. 1932) April 3 - Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher (d. 1903) April 10 - Montague Summers, English writer (d. 1948) April 10 - Mohammed Nadir Shah, Afghan king (d. 1933) April 13 - Charles Christie, Canadian film studio owner (d. 1955) April 18 - Sam Crawford, baseball player (d. 1968) April 23 - Michel Fokine, Russian choreographer and dancer (d. 1942) May 6 - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German painter (d. 1938) May 12 - Lincoln Ellsworth, American scientist (d. 1951) May 14 - Wilhelm List, German field marshal (d. 1971) May 19 - Sir Albert Richardson, English architect (d. 1964) May 21 - Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer (d. 1967) May 25 - Jean Alexandre Barré, French neurologist (d. 1967) May 29 - Oswald Spengler, German philosopher (d. 1936) June 4 - Clara Blandick, American actress (d. 1962) June 10 - André Derain, French painter (d. 1954) June 11 - Jeannette Rankin, American politician June 16 - Otto Eisenschiml, Austrian-American chemist and historian (d. 1963) June 17 - Carl Van Vechten, American writer and photographer (d. 1964) June 21 - Arnold Gesell, American psychologist and pediatrician (d. 1961) June 21 - Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp June 26 - Natalia, Princess Brassova (d. 1952) June 27 - Helen Keller, American deaf and blind activist (d. 1968) June 29 - Ludwig Beck, German general (d. 1944) July 3 - Carl Schuricht, Polish-born German conductor (d. 1967) July 5 - Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist (d. 1940) July 12 - Tod Browning, American film director (d. 1962) July 21 - Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak politician July 24 - Ernest Bloch, Swiss composer (d. 1959) July 24 - Kristian Hellström, Swedish athlete (d. 1946) July 26 - Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1951) July 31 - Munshi Premchand, Indian Author (d. 1936) August 6 - Hans Moser, Austrian actor (d. 1964) August 8 - Earle Page, Australian politician (d. 1961) August 10 - Robert L. Thornton, American businessman August 12 - Radclyffe Hall, British author (d. 1943) August 12 - Christy Mathewson, American baseball player (d. 1925) August 17 - Percy Sherwell, South African cricketer (d. 1948) August 22 - George Herriman, American cartoonist (d. 1944) August 22 - Gorch Fock, German author and poet (d. 1916) August 23 - Alexander Grin, Russian writer (d. 1932) August 24 - Joshua Lionel Cowen, American entrepreneur (d. 1965) August 26 - Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet and art critic (d. 1918) August 31 - Wilhelmina I of the Netherlands, (d. 1962) September 12 - H. L. Mencken, American journalist and author (d. 1956) September 14 - Metropolitan Benjamin (Fedchenkov), Orthodox missionary and writer (d. 1961) September 14 - Archie Hahn, American athlete (d. 1955) September 20 - Louise Peete, American murderess (d. 1947) September 22 - Dame Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragist (d. 1958) September 23 - John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician October 3 - Warner Oland, Swedish-born actor (d. 1938) October 4 - Damon Runyon, American writer (d. 1946) October 12 - Louis Hémon, French novelist (d. 1913) October 13 - Sasha Cherny, Russian poet (d. 1932) October 23 - Una O'Connor, Irish actress (d. 1959) October 26 - Andrei Bely, Russian writer (d. 1934) October 29 - Abram Ioffe, Soviet physicist (d. 1960) November 1 - Sholom Asch, Polish-born American writer (d. 1957) November 1 - Grantland Rice, American sports writer (d. 1954) November 1 - Alfred Wegener, German meteorologist and geophysicist (d. 1930) November 6 - Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (d. 1942) November 6 - Chris van Abkoude, Dutch-American writer and novelist (d. 1959) November 9 - Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect and designer (d. 1960) November 10 - Jacob Epstein, American sculptor (d. 1959) November 16 - Alexander Blok, Russian poet (d. 1921) November 20 - George McBride, American baseball player (d. 1973) November 25 - Elsie J. Oxenham, British children's author (d. 1960) November 28 - Alexander Blok, Russian poet (d. 1921) December 3 - Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (d. 1945) December 10 - Fred Immler, German actor (d. 1965) December 11 - Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer (d. 1951) December 24 - Johnny Gruelle, American cartoonist December 31 - George C. Marshall, United States Secretary of State December 31 - Fred Beebe, American baseball player (d. 1957)
Deaths January 8 - Joshua A. Norton, American eccentric (b. 1811) January 27 - Edward Middleton Barry, English architect (b. 1830) February 29 - Sir James Wilson, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1812 March 2 - Sir John MacNeill, Irish civil engineer (b. 1790) March 31 - Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer (b. 1835) April 13 - Robert Fortune, Scottish botanist (b. 1813) May 4 - Edward Clark, Governor of Texas (b. 1815) May 8 - Gustave Flaubert, French novelist (b. 1821) June 28 - Texas Jack Omohundro, American frontier scout July 9 - Paul Broca, French physician and anatomist (b. 1824) July 21 - Hiram Walden, American politician (b. 1800) August 5 - Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, Austrian physician (b. 1816) August 15 - Adelaide Neilson, English Actress (b. 1848) August 17 - Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (b. 1810) October 5 - Jacques Offenbach , German-born composer (b. 1819) October 15 - Victorio, Apache leader November 11 - Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger (hanged) (b. c. 1855) November 11 - Lucretia Mott, American feminist and abolitionist (b. 1793) November 28 - Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos, (Portuguese) Archbishop of Goa (b. 1837) December 11 - Oliver Fisher Winchester, American businessman and politician (b. 1810) December 18 - Michel Chasles, French mathematician (b. 1793) December 22 - George Eliot, English writer (b. 1819) December 25 - Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1828)
Events January 1 - Ferdinand de Lesseps begins French construction of the Panama Canal. January 9 - The Great Gale of 1880 devastates parts of Oregon and Washington with high wind and heavy snow. February 1 - The first edition of theatrical newspaper The Stage is published. February 2 - The first electric streetlight is installed in Wabash, Indiana. February 13 - Work begins on the covering of the Senne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards. February 13 - Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect. March 10 - Members of the Salvation Army land in the United States and begin operations. April 18 - An F4 tornado strikes Marshfield, Missouri, killing 99 people and injuring 100. May 13 - In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway. June 7 - War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), that ended the Campaña del Desierto (Desert Campaign). June 24 - First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français. June 28 - Ned Kelly the Australian bushranger captured at Glenrowan. June 29 - France annexes Tahiti. July 16 - Dr. Emily Stowe becomes the first woman licenced to practice medicine in Canada. July 27 - Second Anglo-Afghan War: Battle of Maiwand August 14 - Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed. October 1 - John Philip Sousa becomes leader of the United States Marine Corps Band. October 1 - First electric lamp factory opened by Thomas Edison. October 15 - Mexican soldiers kill Victorio, one of the greatest Apache military strategists. November 11 - Australian Bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.
