Explore 1429 historical events from 1880–1889.
Gerrit Rietveld was a Dutch furniture designer and architect.
Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect, designed the Rietveld Schröder House (died 1964)
Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier was a British historian of Polish-Jewish background. His best-known works were The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III (1929), England i…
Lewis Bernstein Namier, Polish-English historian and academic (died 1960)
Mary Antoinette "Tony" Perry was an American actress, producer, director and administrator known for her work in theatre. She was co-founder and secretary of the American Theatre W…
Antoinette Perry, American actress and director (died 1946)
George Challenor was a Barbadian cricketer who was part of the first West Indies Test side, and who faced the very first ball bowled to a West Indian cricketer in a Test match. He …
George Challenor, Barbadian cricketer (died 1947)
Stefi Geyer was a Hungarian violinist who was considered one of the leading violinists of her generation.
Stefi Geyer, Hungarian violinist and educator (died 1956)
Joseph Theodore Leslie "Squizzy" Taylor was an Australian gangster from Melbourne. He appeared repeatedly and sometimes prominently in Melbourne news media because of suspicions, f…
Squizzy Taylor, Australian gangster (died 1927)
Ramón Gómez de la Serna y Puig, born in Madrid, was a Spanish writer, dramatist and avant-garde agitator. He strongly influenced surrealist film maker Luis Buñuel.
Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Spanish author and playwright (died 1963)
Henry Armetta was an American character actor who appeared in at least 150 American films, beginning in silent movies. His last film was released posthumously in 1946, the year aft…
Henry Armetta, Italian-American actor and singer (died 1945)
Herbert Spencer Gasser was an American physiologist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1944 for his work with action potentials in nerve fibers while o…
Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1963)
Louise Freeland Jenkins was an American astronomer who compiled a valuable catalogue of stars within 10 parsecs of the sun, as well as editing the 3rd edition of the Yale Bright St…
Louise Freeland Jenkins, American astronomer and academic (died 1970)
Giuseppe Maria Alberto Giorgio de Chirico was a Greek-Italian artist and writer born in Volos, Greece. In the years before World War I, he founded the scuola metafisica art movemen…
Giorgio de Chirico, Greek-Italian painter and set designer (died 1978)
Toyohiko Kagawa was a Japanese Evangelical Christian pacifist, Christian reformer, and labour activist. Kagawa wrote, spoke, and worked at length on ways to employ Christian princ…
Toyohiko Kagawa, Japanese evangelist, author, and activist (died 1960)
Carl Schmitt was a German jurist and political theorist. An authoritarian conservative theorist, he was noted as a critic of parliamentary democracy, liberalism, and cosmopolitanis…
Carl Schmitt, German philosopher and jurist (died 1985)
Zygmunt Janiszewski was a Polish mathematician.
Zygmunt Janiszewski, Polish mathematician and academic (died 1920)
Scipio Slataper was an Italian writer, most famous for his lyrical essay My Karst. He is considered, alongside Italo Svevo, the initiator of the prolific tradition of Italian liter…
Scipio Slataper, Italian author and critic (died 1915)
Percy William Kilbride was an American character actor. He made a career of playing country "hicks," most memorably as Pa Kettle in the Ma and Pa Kettle series of feature films.
Percy Kilbride, American actor (died 1964)
Frederik "Frits" Zernike was a Dutch physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1953 for his invention of the phase-contrast microscope.
Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1966)
Shmuel Yosef Agnon was an Austro-Hungarian-born Israeli novelist, poet, and short-story writer. He was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew literature. In Hebrew, he is know…
Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Ukrainian-Israeli novelist, short story writer and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1970)
Enno Lolling was a Nazi doctor. As a member of the SS, he served as a Lagerarzt at Dachau concentration camp. He later headed up the medical division for all the SS concentration c…
Enno Lolling, German physician (died 1945)
Kirk Bryan was an American geologist on the faculty of Harvard University from 1925 until his death in 1950.
Kirk Bryan, American geologist and academic (died 1950)
Selman Abraham Waksman was a Russian-born American inventor, biochemist and microbiologist, whose research into the decomposition of organisms that live in soil enabled the discove…
Selman Waksman, Jewish-American biochemist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1973)
Arthur John Richardson was an Australian Test cricketer who played nine Tests matches for Australia.
Arthur Richardson, Australian cricketer and coach (died 1973)
Reginald Harry Myburgh Hands was a South African cricketer who played in one Test match in February 1914. He died in France as a result of injuries sustained on the Western Front d…
Reginald Hands, South African cricketer and rugby player (died 1918)
Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark was the fifth and youngest son and youngest child of King George I of Greece, belonging to a dynasty which mounted and lost the throne of G…
Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark (died 1940)