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Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1888

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Birthdays

January 1 - John Garand, American inventor (d. 1974)
January 2 - Tito Schipa, Italian tenor (d. 1965)
January 8 - Richard Courant, German-American mathematician (d. 1972)
January 8 - Matthew Moore, Irish-American actor (d. 1960)
January 11 - Chester Conklin, American comedian and actor (d. 1971)
January 16 - Osip Brik, Russian writer (d. 1945)
January 18 - Thomas Sopwith, British aviation pioneer (d. 1989)
January 24 - Vicki Baum, Austrian writer (d. 1960)
January 24 - Ernst Heinkel, German aircraft designer (d. 1958)
February 2 - Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (d. 1969)
February 8 - Dame Edith Evans, British actress (d. 1976)
February 17 - Otto Stern, German physicist
February 18 - George Papandreou, Greek politician
February 19 - José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (d. 1928)
February 19 - Aurora Quezon, First Lady of the Philippines (d. 1949)
February 20 - Georges Bernanos, French writer (d. 1948)
February 21 - Clemence Dane, British novelist and playwright (d. 1965)
February 22 - Owen Brewster, American politician (d. 1961)
February 25 - John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State (d. 1959)
February 27 - Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist (d. 1974)
February 27 - Earl Caddock, American professional wrestler (d. 1950)
February 27 - Lotte Lehmann, German singer (d. 1976)
March 1 - Ewart Astill, English cricketer (d. 1948)
March 4 - Rafaela Ottiano, Italian-born American actress (d. 1942
March 4 - Jeff Pfeffer, American professional baseball pitcher (d. 1972)
March 4 - Knute Rockne, American football player and coach (d. 1931)
March 7 - Alidius Warmoldus Lambertus Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, Dutch lawyer and politician (d. 1978)
March 10 - Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (d. 1961)
March 14 - Marc-Aurèle Fortin, Quebec painter (d. 1970)
March 17 - Paul Ramadier, French politician (d. 1961)
March 19 - Josef Albers, German artist (d. 1976)
March 19 - Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (d. 1969)
March 24 - Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian Bolshevik politician (d. 1922)
March 26 - Elsa Brändström, Swedish nurse (d. 1948)
March 29 - Enea Bossi, Italian-American engineer and aviation pioneer (d. 1963)
April 4 - Tris Speaker, American baseball player (d. 1958)
April 4 - Zdzis³aw ¯ygulski, Sr.
April 8 - Dennis Chavez, American politician (d. 1964)
April 9 - Sol Hurok, Russian-born impresario (d. 1974)
April 12 - Heinrich Neuhaus, Soviet musician (d. 1964)
April 15 - Maximilian Kronberger, German poet (d. 1904)
April 18 - Duffy Lewis, American baseball player (d. 1979)
April 23 - Georges Vanier, French-Canadian soldier and diplomat (d. 1967)
April 26 - Anita Loos, American writer (d. 1981)
April 27 - Florence La Badie, Canadian actress (d. 1917)
May 3 - Beulah Bondi, American actress (d. 1981)
May 9 - Rolf de Maré, Swedish art collector and museum director (d. 1964)
May 10 - Max Steiner, Austrian composer (d. 1971)
May 11 - Irving Berlin, American composer (d. 1989)
May 11 - Willis A. Lee, World War II U.S. naval admiral (d. 1945)
May 17 - Tich Freeman, English cricketer (d. 1965)
May 23 - Zack Wheat, American baseball player (d. 1972)
May 25 - Miles Malleson, English actor (d. 1969)
May 27 - Louis Durey, French composer (d. 1979)
May 28 - Jim Thorpe, American athlete (d. 1953)
May 28 - Kaarel Eenpalu, Estonian Prime Minister (d. 1942)
June 3 - Tom Brown, American musician (d. 1958)
June 11 - Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist (d. 1927)
June 12 - Zygmunt Janiszewski, Polish mathematician (d. 1920)
June 13 - Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet (d. 1935)
June 15 - Ramón López Velarde, Mexican poet (d. 1921)
June 16 - Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman, Russian physicist (d. 1925)
June 16 - Peter Stoner, American mathematician and astronomer (d. 1980)
June 17 - Heinz Guderian, German General (d. 1954)
June 22 - Harold Burton, U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1964)
June 23 - Bronson M. Cutting, American politician (d. 1935)
June 24 - Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect (d. 1964)
June 27 - Antoinette Perry, American theater director (d. 1946}
June 27 - Lewis Bernstein Namier, English historian (d. 1960)
July 5 - Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist
July 10 - Giorgio de Chirico, Italian painter (d. 1978)
July 16 - Percy Kilbride, American actor (d. 1964)
July 16 - Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist
July 16 - "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, American baseball player (d. 1951)
July 17 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israeli writer
July 22 - Kirk Bryan, American geologist (d. 1950)
July 22 - Selman Waksman, Ukrainian/American biochemist
July 23 - Raymond Chandler, American-born author (d. 1959)
July 24 - Arthur Richardson, Australian cricketer (d. 1973)
July 26 - Reginald Hands, Former South African cricketer (d. 1918)
August 4 - Syedna Taher Saifuddin, Bohra spiritual leader (d. 1965)
August 5 - Victor Francen, Belgian-born actor (d. 1977)
August 6 - Heinrich Schlusnus, German baritone (d. 1952)
August 13 - John Logie Baird, Scottish television pioneer (d. 1946)
August 13 - Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor (d. 1975)
August 16 - T. E. Lawrence, English writer and soldier (d. 1935)
August 16 - Armand J. Piron, American musician (d. 1943)
August 17 - Monty Woolley, American actor (d. 1963)
September 1 - Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician (d. 1958)
September 5 - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, second President of India (d. 1975)
September 6 - Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.
September 12 - Maurice Chevalier, French singer and actor (d. 1972)
September 15 - Antonio Ascari, Italian racing driver (d. 1925)
September 16 - F. E. Sillanpää, Finnish writer
September 19 - J. W. Alexander, American mathematician (d. 1971)
September 26 - J. Frank Dobie, American folklorist and newspaper columnist (d. 1964)
September 26 - T. S. Eliot, American-born British writer and poet
October 4 - Oscar Mathisen, Norwegian speed skater (d. 1954)
October 6 - Roland Garros, French pilot (d. 1918)
October 7 - Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States (d. 1965)
October 8 - Ernst Kretschmer, German psychiatrist (d. 1964)
October 9 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician (d. 1938)
October 14 - Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer (d. 1923)
October 16 - Eugene O'Neill, American writer
October 16 - Paul Popenoe, American activist (d. 1979)
October 23 - Onésime Gagnon, Canadian politician (d. 1961)
October 25 - Richard E. Byrd, American explorer (d. 1957)
October 25 - Nils von Dardel, Swedish painter (d. 1943)
October 26 - Nestor Ivanovich Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist Insurrectionary leader (d. 1934)
October 30 - Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Greek Olympic champion (d. 1913)
October 31 - Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek poet (d. 1944)
November 7 - Sir C. V. Raman, Indian physicist
November 8 - David Monrad Johansen, Norwegian composer (d. 1974)
November 10 - Andrei Tupolev, Russian aircraft designer (d. 1972)
November 16 - Luis Cluzeau Mortet, Uruguayan composer and musician (d. 1957)
November 19 - José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player (d. 1942)
November 23 - Harpo Marx, American comedian (d. 1964)
November 24 - Dale Carnegie, American writer (d. 1955)
November 24 - Fredrick Willius, American cardiologist (d. 1972)
November 29 - Joe Slater, Australian Rules footballer (d. 1917)
December 6 - Will Hay, English comedian and actor (d. 1949)
December 7 - Joyce Cary, Irish author (d. 1957)
December 7 - Hamilton Fish III, American politician (d. 1991)
December 15 - Maxwell Anderson, American writer (d. 1959)
December 16 - King Alexander I of Yugoslavia, (d. 1934)
December 16 - Alphonse Juin, marshall of France (d. 1967)
December 17 - King Alexander I of Yugoslavia, (d. 1934)
December 18 - Dame Gladys Cooper, English actress (d. 1971)
December 18 - Robert Moses, American public works official (d. 1981)
December 19 - Fritz Reiner, Hungarian-born American conductor (d. 1963)
December 20 - Fred Merkle, American baseball figure (d. 1958)
December 22 - J. Arthur Rank, British film producer (d. 1972)
December 27 - Thea von Harbou, German author and actress (d. 1954)
December 28 - Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, German film director (d. 1931)

Deaths

January 5 - Henri Herz, Austrian pianist (b. 1803)
January 14 - Stephen Heller, Hungarian composer (b. 1813)
January 31 - John Bosco, Italian priest
February 13 - Jean Baptiste Lamy, 1st Archbishop of Santa Fe (b. 1814)
March 4 - Amos Bronson Alcott, American philosopher (b. 1799)
March 6 - Louisa May Alcott, American novelist (b. 1832)
March 9 - William I, German Emperor (b. 1797)
March 16 - Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman (b. 1801)
March 24 - Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)
March 26 - Barghash bin Said, second Sultan of Zanzibar (b. 1837)
March 29 - Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer (b. 1813)
April 15 - Matthew Arnold, English poet (b. 1822)
April 16 - Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist (b. 1845)
May 17 - Giacomo Zanella, Italian poet (b. 1820)
June 15 - Emperor Friedrich III of Germany, (b. 1831)
August 16 - John Pemberton, American druggist and inventor of Coca-Cola (b. 1831)
August 24 - Rudolf Clausius, German physicist (b. 1822)
August 31 - Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols, widely believed to be the first victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1845)
September 8 - Annie Chapman, widely believed to be the second victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1841)
September 11 - Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, President of Argentina (b. 1811)
September 30 - Elizabeth Stride, widely believed to be the third victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1843)
September 30 - Catherine Eddowes, widely believed to be the fourth victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1842)
October 16 - John Wentworth, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1815)
November 1 - Nikolai Przhevalsky, Russian explorer (b. 1838)
November 9 - Mary Jane Kelly, last known Jack the Ripper victim. (b. 1863)
December 3 - Carl Zeiss, German lens maker (b. 1816)
December 31 - Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi (b. 1808)

Events

January 3 - The refracting telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, is used for the first time. It was the largest telescope in the world at the time.
January 27 - In Washington, D.C., the National Geographic Society is founded.
March 2 - The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace.
March 11 - The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
March 20 - The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta was staged in Moscow, Russia.
March 22 - The Football League is formed.
April 11 - The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated.
May 13 - With the passage of the Lei Áurea ("Golden Law"), Brazil abolishes slavery.
June 3 - The poem "Casey at the Bat", by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner.
June 5 - The Rio de la Plata Earthquake takes place.
June 15 - Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II and is the last emperor of the German Empire
June 23 - Frederick Douglass is the first African-American nominated for U.S. president.
June 29 - First (known) recording of classical music made, Handel's Israel in Egypt on wax cylinder.
July 15 - The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts killing approximately 500 people.
August 5 - Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim in the first long distance automobile trip.
August 20 - Mutineers imprison Emin Pasha at Dufile.
August 21 - The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
August 31 - Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper's known victims.
September 4 - George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.
September 6 - Charles Turner becomes the first bowler to take 250 wickets in an English season ¨C a feat since accomplished only by Tom Richardson (twice), J.T. Hearne, Wilfred Rhodes (twice) and Tich Freeman (six times).
September 8 - In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found.
September 8 - In England the first six Football League matches ever are played.
September 11 - Death of the Argentine politician Domingo Sarmiento, after whom the Latin American Teacher's Day is chosen.
September 22 - The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published
September 30 - Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
October 9 - The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.
October 14 - Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene.
October 15 - The "From Hell" letter sent by Jack the Ripper is received by the investigators.
October 17 - Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
November 9 - Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.
December 9 - Statistician Herman Hollerith installs his computing device at the United States War Department.
December 18 - Richard Wetherill and his brother in-law discover the ancient Indian ruins of Mesa Verde.

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