Explore 1132 historical events from 1880–1889.
Albert Monroe Greenfield was a real estate broker and developer who built his company into a vast East Coast network of department stores, banks, finance companies, hotels, newspap…
Albert M. Greenfield, Ukrainian-American businessman and philanthropist (died 1967)
John Reginald Owen was a British actor, known for his many roles in British and American films and television programmes.
Reginald Owen, English-American actor and singer (died 1972)
Joseph Dudley "Benjy" Benjafield, MD was a British medical doctor and racing driver.
Dudley Benjafield, English racing driver (died 1957)
Anna Elisabet Weirauch was a German author. Weirauch was an important figure for lesbians in Germany in the early 1900s, as well as for lesbians in the 1970s-1980s following an Eng…
Anna Elisabet Weirauch, German author and playwright (died 1970)
Charles I and IV was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, and the ruler of the other states of the Habsburg monarchy from November 1916 until the monarchy was abolished in November…
Charles I of Austria (died 1922)
Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger, sometimes anglicised as Schroedinger or Schrodinger, was an Austrian theoretical physicist who developed fundamental results in quantum th…
Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1961)
Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. was a Jamaican political activist. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities Le…
Marcus Garvey, Jamaican journalist and activist, founded Black Star Line (died 1940)
John Anthony Sydney Ritson DSO & Bar, was an English mines inspector and engineer who became professor of mining at Leeds University and at the Royal School of Mines, Imperial Coll…
John Anthony Sydney Ritson, English rugby player, mines inspector, engineer and professor of mining (died 1957)
Sundara Sastri Satyamurti was an Indian independence activist and politician. He was acclaimed for his rhetoric and was one of the leading politicians of the Indian National Congre…
S. Satyamurti, Indian lawyer and politician (died 1943)
Phan Khôi was an intellectual leader who inspired a North Vietnamese variety of the Chinese Hundred Flowers Campaign, in which scholars were permitted to criticize the government, …
Phan Khôi, Vietnamese journalist and scholar (died 1959)
James Paul Moody was a British merchant sailor, who served as sixth officer aboard RMS Titanic. He died when the ship sank on her maiden voyage, the only junior officer not to surv…
James Paul Moody, English sailor (died 1912)
Johann Ludwig "Lutz" Graf Schwerin von Krosigk was a German senior government official who served as the minister of finance of Germany from 1932 to 1945 and de facto chancellor of…
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German jurist and politician, German Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 1977)
Harry Bartholomew Hooper was an American professional baseball right fielder who played in Major League Baseball (MLB). Hooper batted left-handed and threw right-handed. Hooper was…
Harry Hooper, American baseball player (died 1974)
August Johannes Kippasto was an Estonian wrestler who competed for the Russian Empire at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm.
August Kippasto, Estonian-Australian wrestler and poet (died 1973)
István Kühár was a Slovene Roman Catholic priest, politician, and writer in Hungary, and later in Yugoslavia.
István Kühár, Slovenian priest and politician (died 1922)
Jivraj Narayan Mehta was an Indian politician and the first Chief Minister of Gujarat. He also served as the first "Dewan" of the erstwhile Baroda state, and Indian high commission…
Jivraj Narayan Mehta, Indian physicians and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Gujarat (died 1978)
Paul Kochanski was a Polish violinist, composer and arranger active in the United States.
Paul Kochanski, Polish violinist and composer (died 1934)
Frédéric-Louis Sauser, better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss-born novelist and poet who became a naturalized French citizen in 1916. He was a writer of considerable influenc…
Blaise Cendrars, Swiss author and poet (died 1961)
Frank Joseph Christian was an American early jazz trumpeter.
Frank Christian, American trumpet player (died 1973)
Roy William Neill was an Irish-born American film director best known for producing and directing almost all of the Sherlock Holmes films starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, m…
Roy William Neill, Irish-English director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1946)
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells. She reacted badly to her eccentric, unloving parents and lived much of her li…
Edith Sitwell, English poet and critic (died 1964)
Swami Sivananda Saraswati, also called Swami Sivananda, was a yoga guru, a Hindu spiritual teacher, and a proponent of Vedanta. Sivananda was born in Pattamadai, in the Tirunelveli…
Sivananda Saraswati, Hindu monk, spiritual leader, physician, proponent of Vedanta, etc. (died 1963)
Alfred Mossman Landon was an American oilman and politician who served as the 26th governor of Kansas from 1933 to 1937. A member of the Republican Party, he was the party's nomine…
Alf Landon, American lieutenant, banker, and politician, 26th Governor of Kansas (died 1987)
Giovanni Gronchi was an Italian politician from Christian Democracy who served as the president of Italy from 1955 to 1962 and was marked by a controversial and failed attempt to b…
Giovanni Gronchi, Italian soldier and politician, 3rd President of the Italian Republic (died 1978)