Explore 1132 historical events from 1880–1889.
Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch was a French historian. He was a founding member of the Annales School of French social history. Bloch specialised in medieval history and published wid…
Marc Bloch, French historian and academic (died 1944)
Boris Grigoriev was a painter, graphic artist, and writer.
Boris Grigoriev, Russian painter and illustrator (died 1939)
Edward Joseph Flanagan was an Irish-born priest of the Catholic Church in the United States who served for decades in Nebraska. After serving as a parish priest in the Diocese of O…
Father Edward J. Flanagan, founder of Boys Town (died 1948)
Michael (Mihály) Fekete was a Hungarian-Israeli mathematician.
Michael Fekete, Hungarian-Israeli mathematician and academic (died 1957)
Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo was a Spanish "eminent liberal", diplomat, writer, historian and pacifist who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Nobel Peace Prize…
Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish historian and diplomat (died 1978)
Walter Schottky was a German physicist and electrical engineer who played a major early role in developing the theory of thermionic emission, invented the screen-grid vacuum tube i…
Walter H. Schottky, Swiss-German physicist and engineer (died 1976)
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki was a Japanese author who is considered to be one of the most prominent figures in modern Japanese literature. The tone and subject matter of his work range fr…
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Japanese author (died 1965)
Jean Pierre Carl Buron, known professionally as Jean Hersholt, was a Danish-American actor. He is most famous for starring on the CBS radio series Dr. Christian from 1937–1954, rep…
Jean Hersholt, Danish-American actor and director (died 1956)
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. was a lieutenant general in the United States Army during World War II who served in the Pacific Theater. As commanding general of Alaska Defense Command,…
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., American general (died 1945)
Hella Maria Wuolijoki, known by the pen name Juhani Tervapää, was an Estonian-born Finnish writer, playwright, parliamentarian, businessperson and farmer. She is best known as a dr…
Hella Wuolijoki, Estonian-Finnish author (died 1954)
Edward McClellan Cummins was an American golfer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. In 1904 he was part of the American team which won the gold medal. He finished 25th in thi…
Edward Cummins, American golfer (died 1926)
Lars Mauritz Hanson was a Swedish film and stage actor, internationally mostly remembered for his motion picture roles during the silent film era.
Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (died 1965)
Ernst Georg May was a German architect and city planner.
Ernst May, German architect and urban planner (died 1970)
Salvatore Maranzano, nicknamed Little Caesar, was an Italian-American mobster from the town of Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, and an early Cosa Nostra boss who led what later wou…
Salvatore Maranzano, Italian-American mob boss (died 1931)
Frederick Clinton Quimby was an American animation producer best known for producing the Tom and Jerry cartoon series, for which he won seven Academy Awards for Best Animated Short…
Fred Quimby, American animation producer (died 1965)
John Alexander Douglas McCurdy, was a Canadian aviation pioneer and the 20th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia from 1947 to 1952.
John Alexander Douglas McCurdy, Canadian pilot and politician, 20th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (died 1961)
Dr Maithilisharan Gupt was one of the most important modern Hindi poets. He is considered one among the pioneers of Khari Boli poetry and wrote in Khari Boli dialect, at a time whe…
Maithili Sharan Gupt, Indian poet and playwright (died 1964)
Edward Ballantine, was an American composer and professor of music.
Edward Ballantine, American composer and academic (died 1971)
Arthur Jeffrey Dempster was a Canadian-American physicist best known for his work in mass spectrometry and his discovery in 1935 of the uranium isotope 235U. As part of his researc…
Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, Canadian-American physicist and academic (died 1950)
Florence Laura Goodenough was an American psychologist and professor at the University of Minnesota who studied child intelligence and various problems in the field of child develo…
Florence Goodenough, American child psychologist (died 1959)
Lawrence Joseph Doyle, nicknamed "Laughing Larry", was an American second baseman in Major League Baseball from 1907 to 1920 who played almost his entire career for the New York Gi…
Larry Doyle, American baseball player (died 1974)
William James Whitty was an Australian cricketer who played 14 Test matches between 1909 and 1912.
Bill Whitty, Australian cricketer (died 1974)
Paul Johannes Tillich was a German and American Christian existentialist philosopher, religious socialist, and Lutheran theologian who was one of the most influential theologians o…
Paul Tillich, German-American philosopher and theologian (died 1965)
Ruth Manning-Sanders was an English poet and author born in Wales, known for a series of children's books for which she collected and related fairy tales worldwide. She published o…
Ruth Manning-Sanders, Welsh-English author and poet (died 1988)