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Este artículo es sobre el año 1888. Para el álbum de Death In June y Current 93, vea 1888 (álbum) . Para el EP de The Defiled, vea 1888 (EP) . Para "1-888", un prefijo de número de teléfono común en América del Norte, consulte Número de teléfono gratuito .
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1888 en varios calendarios
Calendario Gregoriano1888
MDCCCLXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita2641
Calendario armenio1337
ԹՎ ՌՅԼԷ
Calendario asirio6638
Calendario bahá'í44–45
Calendario saka balinés1809-1810
Calendario bengalí1295
Calendario bereber2838
Año de reinado británico51  Vict. 1  - 52  Vict. 1
Calendario budista2432
Calendario birmano1250
Calendario bizantino7396–7397
calendario chino丁亥年( Cerdo de fuego  )
4584 o 4524
    - a -
戊子 年( Rata de tierra  )
4585 o 4525
Calendario copto1604–1605
Calendario discordiano3054
Calendario etíope1880–1881
Calendario hebreo5648–5649
Calendarios hindúes
 - Vikram Samvat1944-1945
 - Shaka Samvat1809-1810
 - Kali Yuga4988–4989
Calendario del Holoceno11888
Calendario igbo888–889
Calendario iraní1266–1267
Calendario islámico1305–1306
Calendario japonésMeiji 21
(明治 ２１ 年)
Calendario javanés1817-1818
calendario julianoGregoriano menos 12 días
Calendario coreano4221
Calendario Minguo24 antes de la República de China
民 前 24 年
Calendario Nanakshahi420
Calendario solar tailandés2430–2431
Calendario tibetano阴 火 猪 年
(hembra Fuego- Cerdo )
2014 o 1633 o 861
    - a -
阳 土 鼠年
(macho Tierra- Rata )
2015 o 1634 o 862

1888 ( MDCCCLXXXVIII ) fue un año bisiesto que comenzó el domingo del calendario gregoriano  y un año bisiesto que comenzó el viernes del calendario juliano , el año 1888 de las designaciones de Era Común (EC) y Anno Domini (AD), el año 888 de la Segundo milenio , el año 88 del siglo XIX y el noveno año de la década de 1880 . A principios de 1888, el calendario gregoriano estaba 12 días por delante del calendario juliano, que se mantuvo en uso localizado hasta 1923.

En Alemania, 1888 se conoce como el Año de los Tres Emperadores . Actualmente, es el año que, cuando se escribe en números romanos, tiene más dígitos (13). El próximo año que también tiene 13 dígitos es el año 2388. El récord se superará hasta el 2888, que tiene 14 dígitos.

Eventos [ editar ]

Enero-marzo [ editar ]

11 de marzo : Gran ventisca de 1888 .
  • 3 de enero : se utiliza por primera vez el telescopio de 91 centímetros del Observatorio Lick en California.
  • 12 de enero : The Schoolhouse Blizzard golpea el Territorio de Dakota , los estados de Montana , Minnesota , Nebraska , Kansas y Texas , dejando 235 muertos, muchos de ellos niños que regresan a casa desde la escuela.
  • 13 de enero : se funda la National Geographic Society en Washington, DC
  • 21 de enero - La Unión Atlética Amateur es fundada por William Buckingham Curtis en los Estados Unidos.
  • 26 de enero - Se funda la Lawn Tennis Association en Inglaterra.
  • 6 de febrero : Gillis Bildt se convierte en primer ministro de Suecia (1888-1889).
  • 27 de febrero : en West Orange, Nueva Jersey , Thomas Edison se reúne con Eadweard Muybridge , quien propone un plan para el cine sonoro .
  • 8 de marzo - Se funda el Agriculture College of Utah (más tarde Utah State University ) en Logan, Utah .
  • 9 de marzo - Muere Guillermo I , Federico III se convierte en emperador de Alemania y rey ​​de Prusia.
  • 11 de marzo - La Gran Ventisca de 1888 comienza a lo largo de la costa este de los Estados Unidos, cerrando el comercio y matando a más de 400.
  • 13 de marzo - Se funda De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. en Kimberley .
  • 15 de marzo : comienza la Expedición Sikkim , una expedición militar británica para expulsar a los tibetanos del norte de Sikkim .
  • 16 de marzo - Se coloca la primera piedra de una nueva Biblioteca Nacional de Grecia en Atenas .
  • 20 de marzo - La primera opereta en lengua romaní se estrena en Moscú, Rusia.
  • 23 de marzo : se lleva a cabo en Londres una reunión convocada por William McGregor para discutir el establecimiento de la Liga de Fútbol .
  • 25 de marzo - Apertura de un Congreso internacional por los derechos de la mujer organizado por Susan B. Anthony en Washington, DC, que dio lugar a la formación del Consejo Internacional de Mujeres , un evento clave en el movimiento internacional de mujeres.

Abril-junio [ editar ]

  • 3 de abril
    • La prostituta londinense Emma Elizabeth Smith es brutalmente atacada por dos o tres hombres, muriendo a causa de sus heridas al día siguiente, primero de los asesinatos de Whitechapel , pero probablemente no sea víctima de Jack el Destripador .
    • El Brighton Beach Hotel en Coney Island (Nueva York) se mueve 520 pies (160 m), utilizando seis locomotoras de vapor , por el ingeniero civil BC Miller, para salvarlo de las tormentas oceánicas.
  • 6 de abril - Se observa el primer día de Año Nuevo , del calendario solar adoptado por el rey siamés Chulalongkorn , con el 106 aniversario de la fundación de Bangkok en 1782 como su época (fecha de referencia) .
  • 11 de abril - Se inaugura la orquesta Concertgebouw de Amsterdam .
  • 16 de abril : el Imperio alemán anexa la isla de Nauru .
  • 18 de abril - Se funda Westminster School en Simsbury, Connecticut
  • 21 de abril - El edificio del Capitolio del Estado de Texas , terminado a un costo de $ 3 millones, se abre al público en Austin .
  • 1 de mayo : el Congreso de los Estados Unidos establece la reserva india de Fort Belknap .
  • 8 de mayo : se abre la Exposición Internacional de Ciencia, Arte e Industria en Kelvingrove Park , Glasgow (continúa hasta noviembre).
  • 12 de mayo : los territorios de North Borneo Chartered Company (incluido Sabah ) se convierten en el protectorado británico de North Borneo .
  • 13 de mayo - En Brasil , la Lei Áurea abolió los últimos vestigios de la esclavitud.
  • 28 de mayo - En Escocia, Celtic FC juega su primer partido oficial, ganando 5-2 al Rangers FC
  • 30 de mayo : comienza a operar el Peak Tram de Hong Kong .
  • 2 de junio : Edward King (obispo de Lincoln) en Inglaterra es llamado a rendir cuentas por el uso de prácticas rituales en el culto anglicano . [1]
  • 3 de junio
    • Se forma el Reino de Sedang , en el actual Vietnam .
    • El poema de béisbol del escritor estadounidense Ernest Thayer " Casey at the Bat " se publica por primera vez (bajo el seudónimo "Phin") como la última de sus contribuciones humorísticas a The San Francisco Examiner .
  • 14 de junio : los territorios de White Rajahs se convierten en el protectorado británico de Sarawak .
  • 15 de junio : Guillermo II se convierte en emperador de Alemania y rey ​​de Prusia; 1888 es el Año de los Tres Emperadores .
  • 19 de junio - En Chicago, se abre la Convención Republicana en el Auditorium Building . Benjamin Harrison y Levi P. Morton ganan las nominaciones para presidente y vicepresidente de los Estados Unidos , respectivamente.
  • 29 de junio : el Israel de Handel en Egipto se graba en un cilindro de cera en el Crystal Palace de Londres, la primera grabación conocida de música clásica.
  • 30 de junio - La Asociación de Biología Marina del Reino Unido abre su laboratorio, en Plymouth Hoe .

Julio-septiembre [ editar ]

31 de agosto : ¿Víctima encontrada de Jack el Destripador ?
  • De julio de 2 - 27 de - Londres matchgirls huelga de 1888 : Alrededor de 200 trabajadores, niñas principalmente teenaged, huelga tras el despido de tres colegas de la Bryant y mayo de partido fábrica, precipitada por un artículo sobre sus condiciones de trabajo publicados en 23 de de junio de de campaña periodista Annie Besant y los trabajadores se sindicalizan el 27 de julio [2].
  • 15 de julio : según un informe confirmado por un funcionario del gobierno japonés , una gran erupción y humo de ceniza golpeó el área del monte Bandai , prefectura de Fukushima , Japón, más de 477 personas murieron. [ cita requerida ]
  • 25 de julio : Frank Edward McGurrin, un taquígrafo judicial de Salt Lake City, Utah, supuestamente la única persona que usa mecanografía táctil en este momento, gana una victoria decisiva sobre Louis Traub en un concurso de mecanografía celebrado en Cincinnati, Ohio. Esta fecha se puede llamar el cumpleaños del método de mecanografía táctil que se usa ampliamente en la actualidad.
  • 1 de agosto : Carl Benz obtiene el primer permiso de conducir mundial otorgado por el Gran Ducado de Baden .
  • 5 de agosto - Bertha Benz llega a Pforzheim después de haber conducido 40 millas (64 km) desde Mannheim en un automóvil fabricado por su esposo Karl Benz , completando así el primer viaje de "larga distancia" en la historia del automóvil .
  • 7 de agosto - Asesinatos de Whitechapel : Se encuentra el cuerpo de la prostituta londinense Martha Tabram , posible víctima de Jack el Destripador . [3]
  • 9 de agosto
    • Un incendio destruye el edificio principal, el corazón de Wells College en Aurora, Nueva York , provocando una pérdida de 130.000 dólares. [4]
    • La Ley de Juramentos permite que el juramento de lealtad prestado al Soberano por los miembros del Parlamento sea afirmado , en lugar de jurarlo ante Dios , confirmando así la capacidad de los ateos para sentarse en la Cámara de los Comunes del Reino Unido .
  • 10 de agosto : el dirigible motorizado del Dr. Friedrich Hermann Wölfert completa con éxito el primer vuelo motorizado del mundo, desde Cannstatt a Kornwestheim en Alemania. [5]
  • 13 de agosto : la Ley de gobierno local , vigente a partir de 1889 , establece los consejos de condado y los consejos de condado de Inglaterra y Gales , vuelve a trazar algunos límites del condado y otorga a las mujeres el voto en las elecciones locales. También declara que "bicicletas, triciclos, velocípedos y otras máquinas similares" son carruajes dentro del significado de las Leyes de Carreteras (que sigue siendo el caso), y requiere que den una advertencia audible al adelantar "cualquier carro o carruaje, o cualquier caballo. , mula u otra bestia de carga, o cualquier pasajero a pie ", una regla derogada en 1930 .
  • 20 de agosto - Un motín en Dufile , Equatoria , resulta en el encarcelamiento de Emin Pasha .
  • 22 de agosto - Prueba más temprana de muerte y heridas causadas por un meteorito en Sulaymaniyah, Irak.
  • 24 de agosto - Comienzan a funcionar los primeros tranvías de Tallin ( Reval ), caballos .
  • 28 de agosto : se produce la fecha más larga en números romanos (VIII-XXVIII-MDCCCLXXXVIII).
  • 31 de agosto - Asesinatos de Whitechapel : se encuentra el cuerpo mutilado de la prostituta londinense Mary Ann Nichols ; se la considera la primera víctima de Jack el Destripador .
  • 4 de septiembre : en los Estados Unidos, George Eastman registra la marca comercial Kodak y recibe una patente para su cámara , que utiliza rollo de película.
  • 4 de septiembre : Mohandas Gandhi se embarca en el SS Clyde desde Bombay hacia Londres .
  • 6 de septiembre : Charles Turner se convierte en el primer jugador de bolos en el cricket en tomar 250 terrenos en una temporada inglesa, una hazaña que solo lograron Tom Richardson (dos veces), JT Hearne , Wilfred Rhodes (dos veces) y Tich Freeman (seis veces).
  • 8 de septiembre
    • The Great Herding (Spanish: El Gran Arreo) beggins with thousands of sheep beeng herded from the Argentine outpost of Fortín Conesa to Santa Cruz near the Strait of Magellan.[6]
    • Whitechapel murders: The mutilated body of London prostitute Annie Chapman is found (considered to be the second victim of Jack the Ripper).
    • In England, the first six Football League matches are played.[3]
    • In a letter accepting renomination as President of the United States, Grover Cleveland declares the Chinese "impossible of assimilation with our people and dangerous to our peace and welfare".
  • September 17 Las Cruces College (later New Mexico State University) is founded in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
  • September 27
    • Whitechapel murders: The 'Dear Boss letter' signed "Jack the Ripper", the first time the name is used, is received by London's Central News Agency.[3]
    • Stanley Park is officially opened by Vancouver (B.C.) mayor David Oppenheimer.
  • September 30 – Whitechapel murders: The bodies of London prostitutes Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes, the latter mutilated, are found. They are generally considered Jack the Ripper's third and fourth victims, respectively.

October–December[edit]

  • October 1 – Sofia University officially opens, becoming the first university in liberated Bulgaria.
  • October 2 – The Whitehall Mystery: Dismembered remains of a woman's body are discovered at three central London locations, one being the construction site of the police headquarters at New Scotland Yard.
  • October 9 – The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public, in Washington, D.C.
    October 9: Washington Monument opens.
  • October 14
    • Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene in Roundhay, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, two seconds and 18 frames in length (followed by his movie Leeds Bridge).
    • Battle of Guté Dili: Seeking to extend Mahdist control over what is now southwestern Ethiopia, governor Khalil al-Khuzani is routed by an alliance of Shewan forces, under Ras Gobana Dacche and Moroda Bekere, ruler of Leqa Naqamte. Only a handful, including Khalil, barely manage to flee the battlefield.
  • October 25 – St Cuthbert's Society at the University of Durham in England is founded, after a general meeting chaired by the Reverend Hastings Rashdall.
  • October 30 – The Rudd Concession, a written concession for exclusive mining rights in Matabeleland, Mashonaland and adjoining territories, is granted by King Lobengula of Matabeleland to Charles Rudd, James Rochfort Maguire and Francis Thompson, who are acting on behalf of South African-based politician and businessman Cecil Rhodes, providing a basis for white settlement of Rhodesia.
  • November 6 – 1888 United States presidential election: Democratic Party incumbent Grover Cleveland wins the popular vote, but loses the Electoral College vote to Republican challenger Benjamin Harrison, therefore losing the election.
  • November 8 – Joseph Assheton Fincher files a patent in the United Kingdom for the parlour game which he calls "Tiddledy-Winks".
  • November 9 – Whitechapel murders: The mutilated body of London prostitute Mary Jane Kelly is found. She is considered to be the fifth, and last, of Jack the Ripper's victims. A number of similar murders in England follow, but the police attribute them to copy-cat killers.
  • November 16 – First signs of famine in Ethiopia, caused by drought combined with early spread of the 1890s African rinderpest epizootic.
  • November 20 – The first St V parade by students is held in Brussels.
  • November 27 – International sorority Delta Delta Delta is founded at Boston University in the United States.
  • November 29 – The celebration of Thanksgiving (United States) and the first day of Hanukkah coincide.
  • December 7 – John Boyd Dunlop patents the pneumatic bicycle tyre in the United Kingdom.
  • December 17 – The Lyric Theatre (London) opens.
  • December 18 – Richard Wetherill and his brother-in-law discover the Indian ruins of Mesa Verde in southwestern Colorado.
  • December 23 – During a bout of mental illness (and having quarreled with his friend Paul Gauguin), Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh infamously cuts off the lower part of his own left ear, taking it to a brothel, and is removed to the local hospital in Arles.

Date unknown[edit]

  • The dolphin Pelorus Jack is first sighted in Cook Strait, New Zealand.
  • The Camborne School of Mines is founded in Cornwall, England.
  • John Robert Gregg first publishes Gregg shorthand in the United States.
  • Rudyard Kipling's short story collection Plain Tales from the Hills is published in Calcutta, India.
  • The Finnish epic Kalevala is published for the first time in the English language, by American linguist John Martin Crawford.
  • The Baldwin School is founded in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, as "Miss [Florence] Baldwin's School for Girls, Preparatory for Bryn Mawr College".
  • Chin Gee Hee starts the Quong Tuck Company to supply construction workers to North American railroads.
  • G. D. Searle is founded as a pharmaceutical company, originally in Omaha, Nebraska.
  • Katz's Delicatessen is founded in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
  • First British rugby union tour of Australia and New Zealand.
  • A worldwide Health care and pharmaceutical brand, Abbott Laboratories founded in Illinois, United States. As predecessor name was Abbott Alkaloidal.[citation needed]

Births[edit]

January–February[edit]

Carlos Quintanilla
Otto Stern
  • January 1 – Victor Goldschmidt, Swiss geochemist (d. 1947)
  • January 8 – Matt Moore, Irish-born actor (d. 1960)
  • January 16 – Robert Henry English, American admiral (d. 1943)
  • January 18 – Thomas Sopwith, English aviation pioneer, yachtsman (d. 1989)
  • January 19 – Millard Harmon, American general (d. 1945)
  • c. January 20 – Huddie William Ledbetter (Lead Belly), American folk, blues singer (d. 1949)
  • January 22 – Carlos Quintanilla , 37th President of Bolivia (d. 1964)
  • January 23 – Aritomo Gotō, Japanese admiral (d. 1942)
  • January 24
    • Vicki Baum, Austrian writer (d. 1960)
    • Ernst Heinkel, German aircraft designer (d. 1958)
  • January 29 – Wellington Koo, Chinese statesman (d. 1985)
  • February 2 – Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (d. 1969)
  • February 5 – Bruce Fraser, British admiral (d. 1981)
  • February 8 – Edith Evans, British actress (d. 1976)
  • February 13 – Georgios Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1968)
  • February 17 – Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1969)
  • February 19
    • Adelina Domingues, World's oldest person American supercentenarian, last surviving person born in 1888 (d. 2002)
    • Tom Phillips, British admiral (d. 1941)
    • Aurora Quezon, First Lady of the Philippines (d. 1949)
    • José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (d. 1928)
  • February 20 – Georges Bernanos, French writer (d. 1948)
  • February 25 – John Foster Dulles, United States Secretary of State (d. 1959)
  • February 27
    • Lotte Lehmann, German singer (d. 1976)
    • Arthur Schlesinger, Sr., American historian (d. 1965)

March–April[edit]

Ilo Wallace
  • March 1 – Ewart Astill, English cricketer (Leicestershire) (d. 1948)
  • March 4 – Knute Rockne, American football player, coach (d. 1931)
  • March 7
    • William L. Laurence, American journalist (d. 1977)
    • Claude Roger-Marx, French writer (d. 1977)
  • March 10
    • Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (d. 1961)
    • Ilo Wallace, Second Lady of the United States (d. 1981)
  • March 16 – Anton Köllisch, German chemist noted for synthesising MDMA (d. 1916)
  • March 17 – Paul Ramadier, Prime Minister of France (d. 1961)
  • March 26 – Elsa Brändström, Swedish nurse (d. 1948)
  • March 28 – Léon Noël, French diplomat, politician and historian (d. 1987)
  • March 29
    • Enea Bossi, Sr., Italian-born American aerospace engineer, aviation pioneer (d. 1963)
    • James E. Casey, American founder of the United Parcel Service (d. 1983)
  • March 30 – Anna Q. Nilsson, Swedish-American silent film star (d. 1974)
  • April 1 – Terry de la Mesa Allen, Sr., American general (d. 1969)
  • April 2 – Sir Neville Cardus, British cricket, music writer (d. 1975)
  • April 3 – Thomas C. Kinkaid, American admiral (d. 1972)
  • April 4
    • Tris Speaker, American professional baseball player, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame (d. 1958)
    • Zdzisław Żygulski, Sr., Polish literary historian (d. 1975)
  • April 6
    • Hans Richter, German filmmaker (d. 1976)
    • Gerhard Ritter, German historian (d. 1967)
  • April 12 – Carlos Julio Arosemena Tola, 28th President of Ecuador (d. 1952)
  • April 18 – Duffy Lewis, American Major League Baseball player (d. 1979)
  • April 26 – Anita Loos, American writer (d. 1981)
  • April 27 – Florence La Badie, Canadian actress (d. 1917)

May–June[edit]

David Dougal Williams (artist)
  • May 8 – Maurice Boyau, French World War I fighter ace (d. 1918)
  • May 9 – Francesco Baracca, Italian World War I fighter ace (d. 1918)
  • May 10 – Max Steiner, Austrian-American composer (d. 1971)
  • May 11
    • Irving Berlin, American composer (d. 1989)
    • Willis Augustus Lee, American admiral (d. 1945)
  • May 13 – Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist, geophysicist (d. 1993)
  • May 17 – Tich Freeman, English cricketer (d. 1965)
  • May 18 – William Hood Simpson, American general (d. 1980)
  • May 23 – Zack Wheat, American Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1972)
  • May 24 – Stanley Sylvester Alexander Watkins, English talking pictures pioneer
  • May 25
    • Harukichi Hyakutake, Japanese general (d. 1947)
    • Miles Malleson, English actor (d. 1969)
  • May 27 – Louis Durey, French composer (d. 1979)
  • May 28 – Kaarel Eenpalu, Prime Minister of Estonia (d. 1942)
  • May 31 – Jack Holt, American actor (d. 1951)
  • June – David Dougal Williams, English-born painter and art teacher working in Scotland (d. 1944)
  • June 3 – Tom Brown, American jazz musician (d. 1958)
  • June 5 – Armand Annet, French colonial official (d. 1973)
  • June 6 – Pete Wendling, American composer, pianist and piano roll recording artist (d. 1974)
  • June 9 – Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, Australian illustrator (d. 1960)
  • June 13 – Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese writer (d. 1935)
  • June 16 – Peter Stoner, American mathematician, astronomer and Christian apologist (d. 1980)
  • June 17 – Heinz Guderian, German general (d. 1954)
  • June 21 – Cecil King, New Zealand rugby league footballer (d. 1975)
  • June 22
    • Milton Allen, Governor of Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla (d. 1981)
    • Harold Hitz Burton, American politician, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1964)
  • June 23 – F. Ryan Duffy, American judge and politician (d. 1979)
  • June 24
    • Boshirō Hosogaya, Japanese admiral (d. 1964)
    • Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect (d. 1964)
  • June 27 – Antoinette Perry, New York stage director for whom the Tony Award is named (d. 1946)
  • June 29 – Joseph 'Squizzy' Taylor, Australian underworld figure (d. 1927)

July–August[edit]

Herbert Spencer Gasser
Frits Zernike
  • July 1 – Ioan Glogojeanu, Romanian general (d. 1941)
  • July 5 – Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1963)
  • July 8 – John R. Sinnock, 8th Chief Engraver of the United States Mint (d. 1947)
  • July 9 – Wang Yun-wu, Chinese scholar of history and political science (d. 1979)
  • July 10 – Giorgio de Chirico, Italian painter (d. 1978)
  • July 16
    • Percy Kilbride, American actor (d. 1964)
    • Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966)
  • July 17 – Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israeli writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
  • July 20 – Geneve L. A. Shaffer, American realtor, lecturer and author (d. 1976)
  • July 22
    • Kirk Bryan, American geologist (d. 1950)
    • Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1973)
  • July 23 – Raymond Chandler, American-born novelist (d. 1959)
  • July 25 – Wilhelm Fritz von Roettig, German Waffen SS general (d. 1939)
  • August 4 – Syedna Taher Saifuddin, Indian Bohra spiritual leader (d. 1965)
  • August 6
    • Stephen Galatti, American Field Service director (d. 1964)
    • Heinrich Schlusnus, German baritone (d. 1952)
  • August 8
    • Shōjirō Iida, Japanese general (d. 1980)
    • Harold Page, Australian military officer (d. 1942)
    • César Vezzani, French opera singer (d. 1951)
  • August 9 – Eduard Ritter von Schleich, German fighter ace, air force general (d. 1947)
  • August 13
    • John Logie Baird, Scottish inventor (d. 1946)
    • Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor (d. 1975)
  • August 16
    • Armand J. Piron, American jazz musician (d. 1943)
    • T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia"), British liaison officer during the Arab Revolt, writer and academic (d. 1935)
  • August 17 – Monty Woolley, American actor (d. 1963)
  • August 20 – Tôn Đức Thắng, 2nd President of Vietnam (d. 1980)
  • August 25 – Allama Mashriqi, Pakistani scholar, politician (d. 1963)
  • August 26 – Gustavo R. Vincenti, Maltese architect and developer (d. 1974)[7]
  • August 28 – Evadne Price, Australian-British writer, actress and astrologer (d. 1985)
  • August 29
    • Gunichi Mikawa, Japanese admiral (d. 1981)
    • Dina Romano, Italian stage and film actress (d. 1957)

September–October[edit]

Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
Maurice Chevalier
T. S. Eliot
Henry A. Wallace
  • September 4 – Margaret Henley, J. M. Barrie's inspiration for the name "Wendy" in Peter Pan (d. 1894)
  • September 5 – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher, politician and 2nd President of India (d. 1975)
  • September 6
    • Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., American politician (d. 1969)
    • Zeng Junchen, Chinese drug baron (d. 1964)
  • September 12 – Maurice Chevalier, French singer and actor (d. 1972)
  • September 14 – Thakur Anukulchandra, Indian social reformer and philanthropist (d. 1969)
  • September 16
    • Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)
    • W. O. Bentley, English engineer, entrepreneur (d. 1971)
  • September 18 – Grey Owl, British impostor, writer (d. 1938)
  • September 20 – John Painter, American supercentenarian, world's oldest man between 1999 and 2001 (d. 2001)
  • September 26
    • J. Frank Dobie, American folklorist, journalist (d. 1964)
    • T. S. Eliot, British (American-born) poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
  • October 3 – Claud Allister, English actor (d. 1970)
  • October 4
    • Lucy Tayiah Eads, Kaw tribal chief (d. 1961)
    • Friedrich Olbricht, German general (d. 1944)
  • October 6 – Roland Garros, French pilot (killed in action 1918)
  • October 7 – Henry A. Wallace, 33rd Vice President of the United States (d. 1965)
  • October 8 – Ernst Kretschmer, German psychiatrist (d. 1964)
  • October 9 – Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian Bolshevik and Soviet politician (d. 1938)
  • October 14 – Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand fiction writer (d. 1923)
  • October 16
    • Radu Băldescu, Romanian general (d. 1953)
    • Eugene O'Neill, American playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
    • Paul Popenoe, American eugenicist (d. 1979)
  • October 17 – Paul Bernays, Swiss mathematician (d. 1977)
  • October 19 – Venkatarama Ramalingam Pillai, Indian freedom fighter and Tamil poet (d. 1972)
  • October 20
    • Emanoil Bârzotescu, Romanian general (d. 1968)
    • Sadayoshi Tanabe, Japanese academic, bibliographer (d. 2000)
  • October 24 – Carlo Bergamini, Italian admiral (d. 1943)
  • October 25 – Lester Cuneo, American actor (d. 1925)
  • October 28 – Dumitru Carlaonț, Romanian general (d. 1970)
  • October 30 – Alan Goodrich Kirk, American admiral (d. 1963)
  • October 31 – Hubert Wilkins, Australian explorer of the Arctic (d. 1958)

November–December[edit]

Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Harpo Marx
Gladys Cooper
F. W. Murnau
  • November 1
    • George Kenner, German artist, made 110 paintings and drawings during World War I while interned as a prisoner of war (d. 1971)
    • Michał Sopoćko, Polish-Lithuanian saint, the Apostle of Divine Mercy (d. 1975)
    • Viliami Tungī Mailefihi, 7th Premier of Tonga (d. 1941)
  • November 7
    • Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarcho-communist revolutionary (d. 1934)
    • Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Indian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
  • November 9 – Jean Monnet, French political economist, diplomat and a founding father of the European Union (d. 1979)
  • November 13 – Philip Francis Nowlan, American science fiction writer, creator of the Buck Rogers character (d. 1940)
  • November 14 – Andreas Malandrinos, Greek actor, (d. 1970)
  • November 15
    • José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban World chess champion (1921–1927) (d. 1942)
    • Harald Sverdrup, Norwegian scientist (d. 1957)
  • November 16 – Luis Cluzeau Mortet, Uruguayan composer and musician (d. 1957)
  • November 23 – Harpo Marx, American comedian (d. 1964)
  • November 26 – Francisco Canaro, Uruguayan-born violinist, composer (d. 1964)
  • November 24
    • Dale Carnegie, American writer, lecturer (d. 1955)
    • Cathleen Nesbitt, British actress (d. 1982)
  • November 28 – Edgar Church, American comic book collector (d. 1978)
  • November 30 – Ralph Hartley, American electronics researcher, inventor (d. 1970)
  • December 3 – Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, Polish-born Chief Rabbi of Ireland and Israel (d. 1959)
  • December 4
    • King Alexander of Yugoslavia (d. 1934)
    • Donald B. Beary, American admiral (d. 1966)
  • December 6 – Will Hay, British actor, comedian (d. 1949)
  • December 7
    • Joyce Cary, Northern Irish author (d. 1957)
    • Jinichi Kusaka, Japanese admiral (d. 1972)
  • December 16 – Alphonse Juin, French general, Marshal of France (d. 1967)
  • December 18
    • Dame Gladys Cooper, English actress (d. 1971)
    • Robert Moses, American civil engineer, public works director, highway and bridge builder (d. 1981)
  • December 19 – Fritz Reiner, Hungarian conductor (d. 1963)
  • December 20 – Yitzhak Baer, German-born Israeli historian (d. 1980)
  • December 22 – Theodore Stark Wilkinson, American admiral (d. 1946)
  • December 26 – Marius Canard, French orientalist (d. 1982)
  • December 28 – F. W. Murnau, German film director (d. 1931)

Date unknown[edit]

  • Mariano Andreu, Spanish painter (d. 1976)
  • Tudorancea Ciurea, Romanian general (d. 1971)
  • Traian Cocorăscu, Romanian general (d. 1970)
  • Nicolae Costescu, Romanian general (d. 1963)
  • Ibrahim Hashem, 3-time Prime Minister of Jordan (d. 1958)
  • Virginia Pereira Álvarez, first Venezuelan woman to study medicine in Venezuela (d. 1947)

Deaths[edit]

January–June[edit]

Wilhelm I
Ascanio Sobrero
Frederick III
  • January 19 – Anton de Bary, German biologist (b. 1831)
  • January 20 – William Pitt Ballinger, Texas lawyer, southern statesman (b. 1825)
  • January 29 – Edward Lear, British artist, writer (b. 1812)
  • January 31 – John Bosco, Italian priest, youth worker, educator and founder of the Salesian Society (b. 1815)
  • February 3 – Sir Henry Maine, British jurist (b. 1822)
  • February 5 – Anton Mauve, Dutch painter (b. 1838)
  • February 22 – Anna Kingsford, British women's rights activist (b. 1846)
  • February 24 – Seth Kinman, American hunter, settler (b. 1815)
  • March 6
    • Louisa May Alcott, American novelist (b. 1832)[8]
    • Josif Pančić, Serbian botanist (b. 1814)
  • March 9 – William I, German Emperor, King of Prussia (b. 1797)
  • March 12 – Henry Bergh, founder of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (b. 1813)
  • March 16 – Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman (b. 1801)
  • March 23 – Morrison Waite, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1816)
  • March 27 – Francesco Faà di Bruno, Italian mathematician (b. 1825)
  • March 29 – Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer, pianist (b. 1813)
  • April 4 – Emma Elizabeth Smith, Whitechapel Murders victim (b. 1843)
  • April 14 – Emil Czyrniański, Polish chemist (b. 1824)
  • April 15 – Matthew Arnold, English poet (b. 1822)
  • April 17 – Ephraim George Squier, American archaeologist, newspaper editor (b. 1821)
  • April 19 – Thomas Russell Crampton, English engineer (b. 1816)
  • May 11 – Frederick Miller, German-born American brewer and businessman (b. 1824)
  • May 15 – Edwin Hamilton Davis, American archaeologist, physician (b. 1811)
  • May 19 – Julius Rockwell, United States politician (b. 1805)
  • May 26 – Ascanio Sobrero, Italian chemist (b. 1812)
  • June 7 – Edmond Le Bœuf, French general, Marshal of France (b. 1809)
  • June 8 – Sir Duncan Cameron, British army general (b. 1808)
  • June 15 – Frederick III, German Emperor, King of Prussia (b. 1831)
  • June 23  – Edmund Gurney, British psychologist (b. 1847)

July–December[edit]

Paul Langerhans
John Pemberton
Carl Zeiss
  • July 1 – Maiden of Ludmir, Jewish religious leader (b. 1805)
  • July 4 – Theodor Storm, German writer (b. 1817)
  • July 9 – Jan Brand, 4th president of the Orange Free State (b. 1823)
  • July 20 – Paul Langerhans, German pathologist, biologist (b. 1847)
  • August 5 – Philip Sheridan, American general (b. 1831)
  • August 7 – Martha Tabram, possible first victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1849)
  • August 9 – Charles Cros, French poet (b. 1831)
  • August 16 – John Pemberton, American founder of Coca-Cola (b. 1831)
  • August 20 – Henry Richard, Welsh peace campaigner (b. 1812)
  • August 23 – Philip Henry Gosse, British scientist (b. 1810)
  • August 24 – Rudolf Clausius, German physicist, contributor to thermodynamics (b. 1822)
  • August 31 – Mary Ann Nichols, first confirmed victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1845)
  • September 6 – John Lester Wallack, American theater impresario (b. 1820)
  • September 8 – Annie Chapman, victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1841)
  • September 11 – Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Argentine politician, writer, and father of education (b. 1811)
  • September 23 – François Achille Bazaine, French general (b. 1811)
  • September 24 – Karl von Prantl, German philosopher (b. 1820)
  • September 30
    • Catherine Eddowes, victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1842)
    • Elizabeth Stride, victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1843)
  • October 16
    • Horatio Spafford, American author of the hymn It Is Well With My Soul (b. 1828)
    • John Wentworth, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1815)
  • October 26 - William Thomas Hamilton, American politician (b. 1820)
  • November 1 – Nikolay Przhevalsky, Russian explorer (b. 1839)
  • November 9 – Mary Jane Kelly, fifth and final confirmed victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1863)
  • November 10 – George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, British army officer and aristocrat (b. 1800)
  • November 17 – Dora d'Istria, Romanian/Albanian writer and nationalist (b. 1828)
  • November 24 – Cicero Price, American commodore (b. 1805)
  • December 2 – Namık Kemal, Turkish patriotic poet, social reformer (b. 1840)
  • December 3 – Carl Zeiss, German optician, founder of Carl Zeiss AG (b. 1816)
  • December 10 – William E. Le Roy, American admiral (b. 1818)
  • December 20 – Rose Mylett, Whitechapel murders victim (b. 1859)
  • December 24 – Mikhail Loris-Melikov, Russian statesman, general (b. 1826)
  • December 31 – Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi (b. 1808)

Date unknown[edit]

Caroline Howard Gilman
  • Caroline Howard Gilman, American author (b. 1794)

References[edit]

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Further reading and year books[edit]

  • 1888 Annual Cyclopedia (1889) highly detailed coverage of "Political, Military, and Ecclesiastical Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical Industry" for year 1888; massive compilation of facts and primary documents; worldwide coverage; 831 pp