Explore 1132 historical events from 1880–1889.
Joseph-Tancrède Labbé was a prominent Quebec politician and businessman. He was the father of media mogul François Labbé.
Tancrède Labbé, Canadian businessman and politician (died 1956)
Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters was a German artist. He was born in Hanover, Germany, but lived in exile from 1937.
Kurt Schwitters, German painter and illustrator (died 1948)
Norman Levi Bowen FRS was a Canadian geologist. Bowen "revolutionized experimental petrology and our understanding of mineral crystallization". Beginning geology students are famil…
Norman L
Sir Julian Sorell Huxley was an English evolutionary biologist, eugenicist and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth-…
Julian Huxley, English biologist and academic (died 1975)
George Francis Abbott was an American theatre producer, director, playwright, screenwriter, film director and producer whose career spanned eight decades. He received numerous hono…
George Abbott, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1995)
Frigyes Karinthy was a Hungarian author, playwright, poet, journalist, and translator. He was the first proponent of the six degrees of separation concept, in his 1929 short story,…
Frigyes Karinthy, Hungarian author, poet, and journalist (died 1938)
Amber Blanco White was a New Zealand–born British feminist writer and scholar.
Amber Reeves, New Zealand-English author and scholar (died 1981)
Pio Pion was an Italian entrepreneur, known for founding the first Italian company producing movie projectors, the Fumagalli, Pion & C.
Pio Pion, Italian engineer and businessman (died 1965)
Marc Chagall was a Russian and French artist of Jewish ancestry. An early modernist, he was associated with the École de Paris, as well as several major artistic styles and created…
Marc Chagall, Belarusian-French painter and poet (died 1985)
Annette Marie Sarah Kellermann was an Australian professional swimmer, vaudeville star, film actress, and writer, usually spelt with a single final n as Annette Kellerman.
Annette Kellermann, Australian swimmer and actress (died 1975)
James Ormsbee Chapin was an American painter and illustrator. He was the father of jazz musician Jim Chapin and grandfather of folk singer Harry Chapin.
James Ormsbee Chapin, American-Canadian painter and illustrator (died 1975)
Saturnino Herrán Guinchard was a Mexican painter influential to Latin culture in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Saturnino Herrán, Mexican painter (died 1918)
Samuel Eliot Morison was an American historian noted for his works of maritime history and American history that were both authoritative and popular. He received his Ph.D. from Har…
Samuel Eliot Morison, American admiral and historian (died 1976)
Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling was a Norwegian military officer, politician and Nazi collaborator who headed the puppet government of Norway during the country's occupatio…
Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian military officer and politician, Minister President of Norway (died 1945)
Gustav Ludwig Hertz was a German experimental physicist who shared the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics with James Franck "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an ele…
Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1975)
Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp was a French American artist, chess player, and inventor who played a key role in the development of the avant-garde in the United States and in New Yor…
Marcel Duchamp, French-American painter and sculptor (died 1968)
Willard DeMille Price was a Canadian-born American traveller, journalist and author.
Willard Price, Canadian-American journalist and author (died 1983)
Sigmund Romberg was a Hungarian-born American composer. He is best known for his musicals and operettas, particularly The Student Prince (1924), The Desert Song (1926) and The New …
Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-American pianist and composer (died 1951)
Wharton Esherick was an American artist and designer. An artistic polymath, he worked in a wide variety of art media including painting, printmaking, and sculpture. His design work…
Wharton Esherick, American sculptor (died 1970)
Joseph Jefferson Jackson, nicknamed "Shoeless Joe", was an American professional baseball outfielder who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the early 20th century. His .356 c…
Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player and manager (died 1951)
Johannes "Hans" Freyer was a German sociologist and philosopher of the conservative revolutionary movement.
Hans Freyer, German sociologist and philosopher (died 1969)
Oskar Johann Viktor Anderson was a Russian-German mathematician of Baltic German descent. He is best known for his work on mathematical statistics and econometrics.
Oskar Anderson, Bulgarian-German mathematician and statistician (died 1960)
Rupert Chawner Brooke was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, such as "The Dead" and "The Soldier". He was also known for his b…
Rupert Brooke, English poet (died 1915)
August Anselm Wesley was a Finnish journalist, trade unionist, and revolutionary who was the chief of the Red Guards general staff in the Finnish Civil War. He later served as a li…
August Wesley, Finnish journalist, trade unionist, and revolutionary (died ?)[citation needed]