Explore 1429 historical events from 1880–1889.
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Ferenc Oslay was a Hungarian-Slovene historian, writer, Trianon irredentist, and propagandist.
Ferenc Oslay, Hungarian-Slovene historian and author (died 1932)
Frank George Woollard was a British mechanical engineer who worked for nearly three decades in the British motor industry in various roles in design, production, and management. He…
Frank George Woollard, English engineer (died 1957)
Franklin Clarence Mars was an American business magnate who founded the food company Mars Inc., which mostly makes chocolate candy. Mars' son Forrest Mars developed M&M's and the M…
Franklin Clarence Mars, American businessman, founded Mars, Incorporated (died 1934)
Lawson "Robbie" N. Robertson was considered one of the more accomplished American track coaches of the first half of the twentieth century. From 1904-1936, he was with the American…
Lawson Robertson, Scottish-American high jumper and coach (died 1951)
Albert Peyriguère was a Catholic priest, hermit and ethnologist from Southern France. Following the example of Charles de Foucauld, he lived as a hermit in the Atlas mountains in M…
Albert Peyriguère, French priest, hermit and ethnologist (died 1959)
Bernhard Rust was Minister of Science, Education and National Culture (Reichserziehungsminister) in Nazi Germany. A combination of school administrator and zealous Nazi, he issued …
Bernhard Rust, German educator and politician (died 1945)
Nora Stanton Barney was an English-born American civil engineer, and suffragist. Barney was among the first women to graduate with an engineering degree in the United States. Given…
Nora Stanton Blatch Barney, American civil engineer, architect, and suffragist (died 1971)
Karl von Terzaghi was an Austrian mechanical engineer, geotechnical engineer, and geologist known as the "father of soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering".
Karl von Terzaghi, Austrian geologist and engineer (died 1963)
Ernst Pittschau was a German stage and film actor.
Ernst Pittschau, German actor (died 1951)
Richard Daniel Burnett was an American folk musician and songwriter from Kentucky.
Dick Burnett, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1977)
Otto Heinrich Warburg was a German physiologist, medical doctor, and Nobel laureate. He served as an officer in the elite Uhlans (cavalry) during the First World War, and was award…
Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1970)
Maria Filotti was a Romanian actress. She was described as one of the "prestigious actors of the great realistic school" and the "directress" of a theater "that made an important c…
Maria Filotti, Greek-Romanian actress (died 1956)
Kristian Welhaven was a Norwegian police officer. He was chief of police of Oslo for 27 years, from 1927 to 1954. He was a leading force in establishing an organized Norwegian inte…
Kristian Welhaven, Norwegian police officer (died 1975)