Explore 1429 historical events from 1880–1889.
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)
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)
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)
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)
Rebecca Helferich Clarke was a British classical composer and violist. Internationally renowned as a viola virtuoso, she also became one of the first female professional orchestral…
Rebecca Clarke, English viola player and composer (died 1979)
Othmar Schoeck was a Swiss Romantic composer and conductor. He was known for his considerable output of art songs and song cycles but also wrote operas, notably the one-act Penthes…
Othmar Schoeck, Swiss composer and conductor (died 1957)
Shigeyasu Suzuki was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army during the early part of the Second Sino-Japanese War. His elder brother, Suzuki Minoru was a major general…
Shigeyasu Suzuki, Japanese general (died 1957)
Albert William Thomas Orsborn was the sixth General of The Salvation Army (1946–1954). He became an Officer of The Salvation Army in 1905. Albert served as a Corps Officer and in d…
Albert Orsborn, English 6th General of The Salvation Army (died 1967)
Eugénie "Ninon" Vallin was a French lyric soprano who achieved considerable popularity in opera, operetta and classical song recitals during an international career that lasted for…
Ninon Vallin, French soprano and actress (died 1961)
Amelie Hedwig Boutard-Beese, also known as Melli Beese, was the first female German pilot, qualifying in 1911, as well as the first such aircraft engineer. Together with Lilly Stei…
Amelie Beese, German pilot and sculptor (died 1925)
Sir Robert Robinson was a British organic chemist and Nobel laureate recognised in 1947 for his research on plant dyestuffs (anthocyanins) and alkaloids. In 1947, he also received …
Robert Robinson, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1975)
Jan Garrigue Masaryk was a Czech diplomat and politician who served as the Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia from 1940 to 1948. American journalist John Gunther described Masaryk …
Jan Masaryk, Czech soldier and politician, Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 1948)
Paul Pierre Lévy was a French mathematician who was active especially in probability theory, introducing fundamental concepts such as local time, stable distributions and character…
Paul Lévy, French mathematician and theorist (died 1971)
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon was an English war poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His p…
Siegfried Sassoon, English captain, journalist, and poet (died 1967)
Hilda Doolittle was an American modernist poet, novelist, and memoirist who wrote under the name H.D. throughout her life. Her career began in 1911 after she moved to London and co…
H.D., American poet, novelist, and memoirist (died 1961)
Hans Peter Wilhelm Arp, better known as Jean Arp in English, was a German-French sculptor, painter and poet. He was known as a Dadaist and an abstract artist.
Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor and painter (died 1966)
Anton Irv VR I/2, VR II/2, VR II/3 was a highly decorated Estonian combat soldier and military officer during World War I and in the Estonian War of Independence.
Anton Irv, Estonian captain (died 1919)
Powel Crosley Jr. was an American inventor, industrialist, and entrepreneur. He was also a pioneer in radio broadcasting and owner of the Cincinnati Reds major league baseball team…
Powel Crosley Jr., American entrepreneur (died 1961)
Charles Walter Stansby Williams was an English poet, novelist, playwright, theologian and literary critic. Most of his life was spent in London, where he was born, but in 1939 he m…
Charles Williams, English author, poet, and critic (died 1945)
Archibald Vivian Hill, better known to friends and colleagues as A. V. Hill, was a British physiologist, one of the founders of the diverse disciplines of biophysics and operations…
Archibald Hill, English physiologist, academic, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1977)
Henri-Alban Fournier, known by the pseudonym Alain-Fournier, was a French author and soldier. He was the author of a novel, Le Grand Meaulnes (1913), which has been filmed twice an…
Alain-Fournier, French soldier, author, and critic (died 1914)
Edwin Fischer was a Swiss classical pianist and conductor. He is regarded as one of the great interpreters of J.S. Bach and Mozart in the twentieth century.
Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (died 1960)