Explore 1132 historical events from 1880–1889.
John Abram Boland Sr. was an American politician and businessman from South Dakota. He was an early supporter of Mount Rushmore and served as treasurer for its construction costs b…
John Boland, American politician (died 1958)
Richard Romer Claude Baggallay was an English army officer and cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire between 1912 and 1919 and captained the side in 1913, 1914 an…
Richard Baggallay, English army officer and cricketer (died 1975)
Charles Albert "Chief" Bender was a Native American professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball during the 1900s and 1910s. In 1911, Bender tied a record by p…
Chief Bender, American baseball player and coach (died 1954)
Valdemar Einar Psilander was a Danish silent film actor, who was the highest-paid performer of his period and received critical acclaim as the greatest male lead during the golden …
Valdemar Psilander, Danish actor (died 1917)
Oskar Rosenfeld was an Austrian-Jewish writer killed at Auschwitz concentration camp.
Oskar Rosenfeld, Jewish-Austrian writer and Holocaust victim (died 1944)
David Curtiss Munson was an American athlete who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.
David Munson, American runner (died 1953)
Manuel Pérez y Curis was a Uruguayan poet, born in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet and publisher (died 1920)
Harry S. Truman was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. As the 34th vice president in 1945, he assumed the presidency upon the death of Franklin D. …
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Wilhelmina Hay Abbott, also known by the name "Elizabeth Abbott," was a Scottish suffragist, editor, and feminist lecturer, and wife of author George Frederick Abbott.
Wilhelmina Hay Abbott, Scottish suffragist and feminist (died 1957)
Corrado Gini was an Italian statistician, demographer and sociologist who developed the Gini coefficient, a measure of the income inequality in a society. Gini was a proponent of o…
Corrado Gini, Italian sociologist and demographer (died 1965)
Max Brod was an Israeli author, composer and journalist, born as a German-speaking Czech. He is notable for promoting the work of writer Franz Kafka and composer Leoš Janáček.
Max Brod, Czech journalist, author, and composer (died 1968)
Edvard Beneš was a Czech politician and statesman who served as the president of Czechoslovakia from 1935 to 1938, and again from 1939 to 1948. During the first six years of his se…
Edvard Beneš, Czech academic and politician, 2nd and 4th President of Czechoslovakia (died 1948)
Siegmund Glücksmann was a German-Jewish socialist politician. In the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most prominent figures of the German minority socialist movement in Poland, …
Siegmund Glücksmann, German soldier and politician (died 1942)
Ralph Benatzky was a Czech-Austrian composer. He composed operas and operettas, such as Casanova (1928), Die drei Musketiere (1929), The White Horse Inn (1930) and Meine Schwester …
Ralph Benatzky, Czech-Swiss composer (died 1957)
Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, was an English novelist, published in the original editions as I. Compton-Burnett. She was awarded the 1955 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for her novel …
Ivy Compton-Burnett, English author (died 1969)
Frederick Lorz was an American long-distance runner who won the 1905 Boston Marathon. Lorz is also known for his "finish" in the marathon at the 1904 Summer Olympics, where he did …
Frederick Lorz, American runner (died 1914)
Ester Laura Matilda Claesson was a Swedish landscaping pioneer and is considered the first female landscape architect in Sweden.
Ester Claesson, Swedish landscape architect (died 1931)
Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache was a captain in the British Army who died during the First World War.
Leone Sextus Tollemache, English captain (died 1917)
Leon Chwistek was a Polish logician, philosopher, mathematician, avant-garde painter, theoretician of modern art and literary critic.
Leon Chwistek, Polish painter, philosopher, and mathematician (died 1944)
Étienne Henri Gilson was a French Catholic philosopher and historian of philosophy. A scholar of medieval philosophy, he originally specialised in the thought of Descartes; he also…
Étienne Gilson, French philosopher and academic (died 1978)
Count John Francis McCormack, was an Irish lyric tenor celebrated for his performances of the operatic and popular song repertoires, and renowned for his diction and breath control…
John McCormack, Irish tenor and actor (died 1945)
Georg Zacharias was a German backstroke and breaststroke swimmer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. He was born in Gdańsk and died in Berlin. In the 1904 Olympics he won a g…
Georg Zacharias, German swimmer (died 1953)
Henry Philmore "Harry" Langdon was an American actor and comedian who appeared in vaudeville, silent films, and talkies.
Harry Langdon, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1944)
Édouard Daladier was a French Radical-Socialist (centre-left) politician, who was the Prime Minister of France in 1933, 1934 and again from 1938 to 1940.
Édouard Daladier, French captain and politician, Prime Minister of France (died 1970)