Explore 1132 historical events from 1880–1889.
Ernst Bernhard Wilhelm Busch was a German Generalfeldmarschall during World War II who commanded the 16th Army and Army Group Centre.
Ernst Busch, German field marshal (died 1945)
Ernst Simon Bloch was a German Marxist philosopher. Bloch was influenced by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Karl Marx, as well as by apocalyptic and religious thinkers such as Th…
Ernst Bloch, German philosopher, author, and academic (died 1977)
Hugo Ferdinand Boss was a German businessman who founded the fashion house Hugo Boss. He was an active member of the Nazi Party from 1931, and remained so until Nazi Germany's capi…
Hugo Boss, German fashion designer, founded Hugo Boss (died 1948)
King Sisavangvong, known by his courtesy name Sisavangvong, was the last ruler of the Lao Kingdom of Luang Prabang and the founding king of the Kingdom of Laos. Born Prince Khao on…
Sisavang Vong, Laotian king (died 1959)
Jacques Feyder was a Belgian film director, screenwriter and actor who worked principally in France, but also in the US, Britain and Germany. He was a director of silent films duri…
Jacques Feyder, Belgian actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1948)
Izaak Walton Killam was a Canadian financier.
Izaak Killam, Canadian financier and philanthropist (died 1955)
Prince Georges Vasili Matchabelli was a Georgian perfumer. A nobleman and diplomat, he emigrated to the United States after the 1921 Soviet invasion of Georgia.
Georges V. Matchabelli, Georgian-American businessman, created Prince Matchabelli perfume (died 1935)
Royal Eugene Castleton was a relief pitcher for the New York Highlanders and Cincinnati Reds. The first native of the state of Utah and the first Mormon to play in the major league…
Roy Castleton, American baseball player (died 1967)
André Maurois was a French author.
André Maurois, French soldier and author (died 1967)
Theda Bara was an American silent film and stage actress. Bara was one of the more popular actresses of the silent era and one of cinema's early sex symbols. Her femme fatale roles…
Theda Bara, American actress (died 1955)
George Charles de Hevesy was a Hungarian radiochemist and Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate, recognized in 1943 for his key role in the development of radioactive tracers to study …
George de Hevesy, Hungarian-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1966)
Stephen Butterworth (1885–1958) was a British physicist who invented the filter that bears his name, a class of electrical circuits that separates electrical signals of different f…
Stephen Butterworth, English physicist and engineer (died 1958)
Jean Cabannes was a French physicist specialising in optics.
Jean Cabannes, French physicist and academic (died 1959)
Sir Keith Arthur Murdoch was an Australian journalist and media proprietor who was the founder of the Murdoch media empire. He amassed significant media holdings in Australia which…
Keith Murdoch, Australian journalist (died 1952)
Juhan Simm was an Estonian composer, conductor, and choir director.
Juhan Simm, Estonian composer and conductor (died 1959)
Edna Ferber was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels include the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big (1924), Show Boat, Cimarron, Giant and Ice Palace (195…
Edna Ferber, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (died 1968)
Ernest Regnard Leonce Dezentjé was a Dutch-Indonesian painter. Dezentjé worked for the office of the auditor general until the 1910s, when he took up painting and began learning fr…
Ernest Dezentjé, Dutch-Indonesian painter (died 1972)
Janet Gertrude "Nettie" Palmer was an Australian poet, essayist and Australia's leading literary critic of her day. She corresponded with women writers and collated the Centenary G…
Nettie Palmer, Australian poet and critic (died 1964)
Grace Hutchins was an American labor reformer and researcher, journalist, political activist and communist. She spent many years of her life writing about labor and economics, in a…
Grace Hutchins, American labor reformer and researcher (died 1969)
Dino Campana was an Italian visionary poet. His fame rests on his only published book of poetry, the Canti Orfici, as well as his wild and erratic personality, including his ill-fa…
Dino Campana, Italian poet and author (died 1932)
Édouard Fabre was a Canadian marathon runner.
Édouard Fabre, Canadian runner (died 1939)
Jules Romains was a French poet and writer and the founder of the Unanimism literary movement. His works include the play Knock ou le Triomphe de la médecine, and a cycle of works …
Jules Romains, French author and poet (died 1972)
Edward Vivian "Vance" Palmer was an Australian novelist, dramatist, essayist and critic.
Vance Palmer, Australian author, playwright, and critic (died 1959)
Ed "Tedda" Courtney was a pioneer Australian rugby league footballer and coach. He played club football for North Sydney, Western Suburbs and representative football for the New So…
Tedda Courtney, Australian rugby league player and coach (died 1957)