Explore 1429 historical events from 1880–1889.
George Francis "Gabby" Hayes was an American actor. He began as something of a leading man and a character player, but he was best known for his numerous appearances in B-Western f…
George "Gabby" Hayes, American actor (died 1969)
Thomas Bertram Costain was a Canadian-American journalist who became a best-selling author of historical novels at the age of 57.
Thomas B
Gianni Vella was a Maltese artist. After studying in Rome, he produced many religious works which can be found in many churches in the Maltese Islands, but he also produced some se…
Gianni Vella, Maltese artist (died 1977)
Paltiel Daykan was an Israeli jurist.
Paltiel Daykan, Lithuanian-Israeli lawyer and jurist (died 1969)
Sir Michael Count Gonzi was Roman Catholic Archbishop of Malta from 1944 until 1976. He had been enthroned as Bishop of Malta in December 1943, and was consecrated as the first Arc…
Mikiel Gonzi, Maltese archbishop (died 1984)
Otto Nossan Klemperer was a German conductor and composer, originally based in Germany, and then the United States, Hungary and finally, Great Britain. He began his career as an op…
Otto Klemperer, German composer and conductor (died 1973)
Sophie was Princess of Albania from 7 March to 3 September 1914 as the wife of Prince Wilhelm. In 1906, she married Wilhelm, second son of the Prince of Wied. When her husband beca…
Princess Sophie of Albania, (Princess Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg) (died 1936)
Giacomo Matteotti was an Italian socialist, anti-fascist politician and an opposition leader, who was the secretary of the Unitary Socialist Party (PSU) from 1922 to 1924. Born in …
Giacomo Matteotti, Italian lawyer and politician (died 1924)
Soemu Toyoda was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II.
Soemu Toyoda, Japanese admiral (died 1957)
Villem Grünthal-Ridala, born Wilhelm Grünthal was an Estonian poet, translator, linguist and folklorist.
Villem Grünthal-Ridala, Estonian poet and linguist (died 1942)
Robert Stanley Richards was an Australian politician. He served as premier of South Australia for two months in 1933, leading the Parliamentary Labor faction of the Australian Labo…
Robert Richards, Australian politician, 32nd Premier of South Australia (died 1967)
Arturo Rawson was the provisional President of Argentina from June 4, 1943, to June 7, 1943.
Arturo Rawson, Argentinian general and politician, 26th President of Argentina (died 1952)
Karl August Genzken was a Nazi physician who committed medical atrocities on prisoners of several concentration camps. He was an SS-Gruppenführer of the Waffen-SS and the Chief of …
Karl Genzken, German physician (died 1957)
Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski was a Polish physician, general, and politician who served as Minister of Internal Affairs and as the 28th Prime Minister of Poland before and at the ou…
Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski, Polish general and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Poland (died 1962)
Henry George Lamond was an Australian farmer and writer, notable for his novels about the land, people and animals of outback Queensland. In addition to his fiction and non-ficti…
Henry George Lamond, Australian farmer and author (died 1969)
Erich Roman Ludvig Jacoby was an Estonian architect of Baltic German descent. From 1905 to 1907 he studied at the Leibniz University of Hannover, in 1913 he graduated from the Riga…
Erich Jacoby, Estonian-Polish architect (died 1941)
Andrzej Gawroński was a Polish Indologist, linguist and polyglot. Professor of Jagiellonian University and Lwów University,, the author of the first Polish handbook on Sanskrit, fo…
Andrzej Gawroński, Polish linguist and academic (died 1927)
Milan Vidmar was a Slovenian electrical engineer, chess player, chess theorist, and writer. He was among the top dozen chess players in the world from 1910 to 1930 and in 1950, was…
Milan Vidmar, Slovenian engineer and chess player (died 1962)
Olaf Holtedahl was a Norwegian geologist. He became a senior lecturer at the University of Oslo in 1914, and was Professor of Geology there from 1920 to 1956.
Olaf Holtedahl, Norwegian geologist (died 1975)
Jean Pierre Marie Montet was a French Egyptologist.
Pierre Montet, French historian and academic (died 1966)
Guilhermina Augusta Xavier de Medim Suggia Carteado Mena, known as Guilhermina Suggia was a Portuguese cellist. She studied in Paris with Pablo Casals, and built up an internationa…
Guilhermina Suggia, Portuguese cellist (died 1950)
Izidor "Dori" Kürschner, in Brazil primarily known as Dori Kruschner,, was a Hungarian football player and coach. As player he was successful with Budapest club MTK, and also playe…
Izidor Kürschner, Hungarian football player and coach (died 1941)
Arthur Lismer was an English born-Canadian painter, member of the Group of Seven and educator. He is known primarily as a landscape painter and for his paintings of ships in dazzle…
Arthur Lismer, English-Canadian painter known for his landscapes (died 1969)
Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar was an Australian poet and fiction writer. Her poem "My Country" is widely known in Australia, especially its second stanza, which begins: "I love …
Dorothea Mackellar, Australian author and poet (died 1968)