Explore 1132 historical events from 1880–1889.
Victor Kraft was an Austrian philosopher. He is best known for being a member of the Vienna Circle.
Victor Kraft, Austrian philosopher from the Vienna Circle (died 1975)
Jan Kubelík was a Czech violinist and composer.
Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist and composer (died 1940)
Constantin Tănase was a Romanian actor and writer for stage, a key figure in the revue style of theater in Romania.
Constantin Tănase, Romanian actor and playwright (died 1945)
Otto Frederick Rohwedder was an American inventor and engineer who created the first automatic bread-slicing machine for commercial use. It was first used by the Chillicothe Missou…
Otto Frederick Rohwedder, American engineer, invented sliced bread (died 1960)
Johann Ludwig Friedrich Lahrs was a German architect and professor.
Friedrich Lahrs, German architect and academic (died 1964)
Tod Browning was an American film director, film actor, screenwriter, vaudeville performer, and carnival sideshow and circus entertainer. He directed a number of films of various g…
Tod Browning, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1962)
Enrique Mosca was an Argentine lawyer and politician prominent in the centrist Radical Civic Union (UCR).
Enrique Mosca, Argentinian lawyer and politician (died 1950)
Kathleen Thompson Norris was an American novelist and newspaper columnist. She was one of the most widely read and highest paid female writers in the United States for nearly fifty…
Kathleen Norris, American journalist and author (died 1966)
Milan Rastislav Štefánik was a Slovak politician, diplomat, aviator and astronomer. During World War I, he served at the same time as a general in the French Army and as Minister o…
Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak astronomer, general, and politician (died 1919)
Ernest Bloch was a Swiss-born American composer. Bloch was a preeminent artist in his day, and left a lasting legacy. He is recognized as one of the most significant Swiss composer…
Ernest Bloch, Swiss-American composer and educator (died 1959)
Volodymyr Kyrylovych Vynnychenko was a Ukrainian statesman, political activist, writer, playwright and artist who served as the first prime minister of the Ukrainian People's Repub…
Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian playwright and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Ukrainian People's Republic (died…
Joseph Bert Tinker was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played from 1902 through 1916 for the Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds of Major League Baseball (MLB…
Joe Tinker, American baseball player (died 1948)
Dhanpat Rai Srivastava, better known as Munshi Premchand based on his pen name Premchand, was an Indian writer famous for his modern Hindustani literature.
Premchand, Indian author and playwright (died 1936)
Gertrude Elzora Durden Rush was the first African-American female lawyer in Iowa, admitted to the Iowa bar in 1918. She helped found the National Bar Association in 1925.
Gertrude Rush, American lawyer and jurist (died 1962)
Ruth Sawyer was an American storyteller and a writer of fiction and non-fiction for children and adults. She is best known as the author of Roller Skates, which won the 1937 Newber…
Ruth Sawyer, American author and educator (died 1970)
Hans Moser was an Austrian actor who, during his long career, from the 1920s up to his death, mainly played in comedy films. He was particularly associated with the genre of the Wi…
Hans Moser, Austrian actor and singer (died 1964)
Arthur Garfield Dove was an American artist. An early American modernist, he is often considered the first American abstract painter. Dove used a wide range of media, sometimes in …
Arthur Dove, American painter and educator (died 1946)
Sir Earle Christmas Grafton Page was an Australian politician and surgeon who served as the 11th Prime Minister of Australia from 7 to 26 April 1939, in a caretaker capacity follow…
Earle Page, Australian lawyer, academic, and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Australia (died 1961)
Robert Lee Thornton was an American banker and politician who served as the 47th mayor of Dallas from 1953 to 1961. A child of tenant farmers, Thornton's early years were divided b…
Robert L. Thornton, American businessman and politician, Mayor of Dallas (died 1964)
John Radclyffe-Hall, born as Marguerite Antonia Radclyffe-Hall and also known by her pen name Radclyffe Hall, was an English poet and author best known for her novel The Well of Lo…
Radclyffe Hall, English poet, author, and activist (died 1943)
Christopher Mathewson, nicknamed "Big Six," "the Christian Gentleman," "Matty," and "the Gentleman's Hurler," was an American professional baseball pitcher who played 17 seasons in…
Christy Mathewson, American baseball player and manager (died 1925)
Percy William Sherwell was a South African cricketer who played in 13 Tests for South Africa as captain, wicketkeeper and batsman from 1906 to 1911.
Percy Sherwell, South African cricketer and tennis player (died 1948)
Johann Wilhelm Kinau, better known by his pseudonym Gorch Fock, was a German author. Other pseudonyms he used were Jakob Holst and Giorgio Focco.
Gorch Fock, German author and poet (died 1916)
George Joseph Herriman III was an American cartoonist best known for the comic strip Krazy Kat (1913–1944). More influential than popular, Krazy Kat had an appreciative audience am…
George Herriman, American cartoonist (died 1944)