Explore 1132 historical events from 1880–1889.
Carl Diem was a German sports administrator, and as a Secretary General of the Organizing Committee of the Berlin Olympic Games, he was also the chief organizer of the 1936 Olympic…
Carl Diem, German businessman (died 1962)
Eduard Spranger was a German philosopher and psychologist. A student of Wilhelm Dilthey, Spranger was born in Berlin and died in Tübingen. He was considered a humanist who develope…
Eduard Spranger, German philosopher and academic (died 1963)
Henry Courtenay Hawtrey was a British track and field athlete, winner of 5 miles (8.0 km) run at the 1906 Summer Olympics.
Henry Hawtrey, English runner (died 1961)
Tobias Wilhelm Franz Seldte was a German reactionary politician who served as the Reich Minister for Labour in Nazi Germany. Prior to his ministry, Seldte was a founding leader of …
Franz Seldte, German captain and politician, Reich Minister for Labour (died 1947)
Bidhan Chandra Roy was an Indian physician and politician who served as Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1950 until his death in 1962. He played a key role in the founding of sev…
Bidhan Chandra Roy, Indian physician and politician, 2nd Chief Minister of West Bengal (died 1962)
Inayat Khan Rehmat Khan, was an Indian professor of musicology, singer, exponent of the sarasvati vina, poet, philosopher, writer, and pioneer of the transmission of Sufism to the …
Inayat Khan, Indian mystic and educator (died 1927)
Ivan Daminikavich Lutsevich, better known by his pen name Yanka Kupala, was a Belarusian poet and writer.
Yanka Kupala, Belarusian poet and writer (died 1941)
Percy Aldridge Grainger was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist who moved to the United States in 1914 and became an American citizen in 1918. In the course of a long…
Percy Grainger, Australian-American pianist and composer (died 1961)
Ima Hogg, known as "The First Lady of Texas", was an American society leader, philanthropist, mental health advocate, patron and collector of the arts, and one of the most respecte…
Ima Hogg, American society leader, philanthropist, patron and collector of the arts (died 1975)
James Larkin White was a cowboy, guano miner, cave explorer, and park ranger for the National Park Service. He is best remembered as the discoverer, early promoter and explorer of …
James Larkin White, American miner, explorer, and park ranger (died 1946)
Violette Neatley Anderson became the first African-American woman to practice law before the United States Supreme Court on January 29, 1926. She was one of the most prominent advo…
Violette Neatley Anderson, American judge (died 1937)
Olga Hahn-Neurath was an Austrian mathematician and philosopher. She is best known for being a member of the Vienna Circle. She was sister of the mathematician Hans Hahn.
Olga Hahn-Neurath, Austrian mathematician and philosopher (died 1937)
David Davidovich Burliuk was a Russian poet, artist and publicist of Ukrainian origin associated with the Futurist and Neo-Primitivist movements. Burliuk has been described as "the…
David Burliuk, Ukrainian author and illustrator (died 1967)
Edward Hopper was an American realist painter and printmaker. He is one of America's most renowned artists and known for his skill in depicting modern American life and landscapes.
Edward Hopper, American painter and etcher (died 1967)
George Snavely Rentz was a United States Navy chaplain who served during World War I and World War II. For selfless heroism following the loss of USS Houston (CA-30) in the Battle …
George S. Rentz, American commander (died 1942)
Admiral of the Fleet Sir James Fownes Somerville, was a Royal Navy admiral. He served in the First World War as fleet wireless officer for the Mediterranean Fleet where he was invo…
James Somerville, English admiral and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Somerset (died 1949)
Musa Kâzım Karabekir was a Turkish general and politician. He was the commander of the Eastern Army of the Ottoman Empire during the Turkish War of Independence, and fought a succe…
Kâzım Karabekir, Turkish general and politician, 5th Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (died 1948)
Sir Albert Arthur Dunstan, KCMG was an Australian politician who served as the 33rd premier of Victoria from 1935 to 1943 and from 1943 to 1945 and as the third deputy premier of V…
Albert Dunstan, Australian politician, 33rd Premier of Victoria (died 1950)
Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, was an English aviation pioneer and aerospace engineer who founded the aircraft company de Havilland. The company produced the Mosquito, which has been c…
Geoffrey de Havilland, English pilot and engineer, founded the de Havilland Aircraft Company (died 1965)
Leon Kessling "Red" Ames was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1903 to 1919 for the New York Giants, Cincinnati Reds, St. Lou…
Red Ames, American baseball player and manager (died 1936)
Albert Bloch was an American Modernist artist and the only American artist associated with Der Blaue Reiter, a group of early 20th-century European modernists.
Albert Bloch, American painter and academic (died 1961)
Anne Crawford Acheson was a British-Irish sculptor. She and Elinor Hallé invented plaster casts for soldier's broken limbs. Acheson exhibited at the Royal Academy and international…
Anne Acheson, Irish sculptor (died 1962)
Ladislas Starevich was a Polish-Russian stop-motion animator notable as the author of the first puppet-animated film The Beautiful Leukanida (1912). He also used dead insects and o…
Ladislas Starevich, Russian-French animator, screenwriter, and cinematographer (died 1965)
Marion Eugénie Bauer was an American composer, teacher, writer, and music critic. She played an active role in shaping American musical identity in the early half of the twentieth …
Marion Bauer, American composer and critic (died 1955)