Explore 1132 historical events from 1880–1889.
Joseph George Didier "Cannonball" Pitre was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. Nicknamed "Cannonball," he was renowned for having one of the hardest shots during his playin…
Didier Pitre, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1934)
Constance Georgina Adams, also known as Constance Georgina Tardrew, was a South African housewife and collector of botanical specimens. Known by the nicknames Connie and Daisy, Ada…
Constance Georgina Adams, South African botanist (died 1968)
Scott Nearing was an American radical economist, educator, writer, political activist, pacifist, vegetarian and advocate of simple living. In 1915, he was dismissed from a teaching…
Scott Nearing, American economist and educator (died 1983)
Ernest Everett Just was an American biologist, academic and science writer. Just's primary legacy is his recognition of the fundamental role of the cell surface in the development …
Ernest Everett Just, American biologist and academic (died 1941)
Ivan Meštrović was a Croatian sculptor, architect, and writer. He was the most prominent modern Croatian sculptor and a leading artistic personality in contemporary Zagreb. He stud…
Ivan Meštrović, Croatian sculptor and architect (died 1962)
Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel was a French fashion designer, collaborator, businesswoman. The founder and namesake of the Chanel brand, she was credited in the post–World War I e…
Coco Chanel, French fashion designer, founded the Chanel Company (died 1971)
Archduchess Elisabeth Marie Henriette Stephanie Gisela of Austria was the only child of Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, and Princess Stéphanie of Belgium. Her father was the son a…
Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria (died 1963)
Otto Erich Deutsch was an Austrian musicologist. He is known for compiling the first comprehensive catalogue of Franz Schubert's compositions, first published in 1951 in English, w…
Otto Erich Deutsch, Austrian musicologist and scholar (died 1967)
Theophrastos Sakellaridis, was a Greek composer, conductor, and basic creator of Greek operetta.
Theophrastos Sakellaridis, Greek composer and conductor (died 1950)
LeRoy Perry Samse was an American athlete who competed mainly in the pole vault. Samse represented the United States in the 1904 Summer Olympics held in St Louis, United States in …
LeRoy Samse, American pole vaulter (died 1956)
Petros Voulgaris was a Greek Admiral who served briefly as Prime Minister of Greece in 1945. He was famous for his role in suppressing the 1944 Greek naval mutiny and restoring the…
Petros Voulgaris, Greek admiral and politician, 136th Prime Minister of Greece (died 1957)
José Mendes Cabeçadas Júnior, OTE, ComA, MPCE, commonly known as Mendes Cabeçadas, was a Portuguese Navy officer, Freemason and republican, having a major role in the preparation o…
José Mendes Cabeçadas, Portuguese admiral and politician, 9th President of Portugal (died 1965)
Richard Gerstl was an Austrian painter and draughtsman known for his expressive psychologically insightful portraits, his lack of critical acclaim during his lifetime, and his affa…
Richard Gerstl, Austrian painter and illustrator (died 1908)
Esteban Terrades i Illa also known as Esteve Terradas, was a Spanish mathematician, scientist and engineer. He researched and taught widely in the fields of mathematics and the phy…
Esteban Terradas i Illa, Spanish mathematician and engineer (died 1950)
Thomas Ernest Hulme was an English critic and poet who, through his writings on art, literature and politics, had a notable influence upon modernism. He was an aesthetic philosophe…
T. E. Hulme, English poet and critic (died 1917)
William Carlos Williams was an American poet and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism. His Spring and All (1923) was written in the wake of T. S. Eliot's The Was…
William Carlos Williams, American poet, short story writer, and essayist (died 1963)
Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners, also known as Gerald Tyrwhitt, was a British composer, novelist, painter, and aesthete. He was also known as Lord Berners.
Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners, English composer, painter, and author (died 1950)
Andre Morize was a professor of French literature at Harvard University from 1918 to 1951. He is well known for his involvement and activism during World War I and World War II.
Andre Morize, professor of French literature at Harvard University (died 1957)
Mabel Vernon was an American suffragist, pacifist, and a national leader in the United States suffrage movement. She was a Quaker and a member of the National American Woman Suffra…
Mabel Vernon, American educator and activist (died 1975)
Adolph Strauch was a Prussian American landscape architect who conceived the "landscape lawn" design. He applied his thinking to the layout of Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, …
Adolph Strauch, Prussian American landscape architect (born 1822)
John "Jack" Russell, was an English parson, dog breeder, and enthusiastic follower of country sports, particularly fox hunting. He was known as "The Sporting Parson".
John Russell, English hunter and dog breeder (born 1795)
Édouard Manet was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impre…
Édouard Manet, French painter (born 1832)
Abd al-Qadir ibn Muhyi al-Din, known as the Emir Abdelkader or Abd al-Qadir al-Hassani al-Jaza'iri, was an Algerian religious and military leader who led a struggle against the Fre…
Abdelkader El Djezairi, Algerian ruler (born 1808)
Sir John O'Shanassy, KCMG, was an Irish-Australian politician who served as the 2nd Premier of Victoria. O'Shanassy was born near Thurles in County Tipperary, Ireland, the son of a…
John O'Shanassy, Irish-Australian politician, 2nd Premier of Victoria (born 1818)