Explore 1429 historical events from 1880–1889.
Edgar Albert Guest was a British-born American poet who became known as the People's Poet. His poems often had an inspirational and optimistic view of everyday life.
Edgar Guest, English-American poet and author (died 1959)
Aleksander Hellat was an Estonian politician and a Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia. He was a member of the Estonian Social Democratic Workers' Party. After Estonia had been …
Aleksander Hellat, Estonian politician, 6th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 1943)
Bede Jarrett OP was an English Dominican friar and Catholic priest who was also a noted historian and author. Known for works including Mediæval Socialism and The Emperor Charles I…
Bede Jarrett, English Dominican priest (died 1934)
James Ernest Newland, VC was an Australian soldier, policeman and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest decoration for gallantry "in the face of the enemy" that can be awa…
James Newland, Australian soldier and policeman (died 1949)
Harry Livingston Hillman Jr. was one of the longest serving Dartmouth Track and Field Coaches from 1910–45, and an American track and field athlete who won three gold medals at the…
Harry Hillman, American runner and hurdler (died 1945)
İbrahim Refik Saydam was a Turkish physician, politician and the fourth Prime Minister of Turkey, serving from 25 January 1939 until his death on 8 July 1942.
Refik Saydam, Turkish physician and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Turkey (died 1942)
Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti was an Italian-French automobile designer and manufacturer. He received French citizenship in 1946 and is remembered as the founder and proprietor of th…
Ettore Bugatti, Italian-French businessman, founded Bugatti (died 1947)
Otto Bauer was an Austrian politician who was one of the founders and leading thinkers of the Austromarxists who sought a middle ground between social democracy and revolutionary s…
Otto Bauer, Austrian philosopher and politician, Foreign Minister of Austria (died 1938)
Field Marshal Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson, also known as Jumbo Wilson, was a senior British Army officer of the 20th century. He saw active service in the Second Boer W…
Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson, English field marshal (died 1964)
Arthur Clive Heward Bell was an English art critic, associated with formalism and the Bloomsbury Group. He developed the art theory known as significant form.
Clive Bell, English philosopher and critic (died 1964)
Vice-Admiral Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, VC was a Royal Navy officer who was selected by his fellow officers and men to receive the Victoria Cross, the highest and most pres…
Alfred Carpenter, English admiral, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1955)
Lu Xun, pen name of Zhou Shuren, born Zhou Zhangshou, was a Chinese writer. A leading figure of modern Chinese literature, he wrote in both vernacular and literary Chinese as a nov…
Lu Xun, Chinese author and critic (died 1936)
Pedro de Cordoba was an American actor.
Pedro de Cordoba, American actor (died 1950)
Ludwig Heinrich von Mises was an Austrian and American political economist and philosopher of the Austrian school. Mises wrote and lectured extensively on the social contributions …
Ludwig von Mises, Austrian-American economist, sociologist, and philosopher (died 1973)
William Edward Böing was an American aviation pioneer. He founded the Pacific Airplane Company in 1916, which was renamed to Boeing a year later. The company is now the largest exp…
William Boeing, American engineer and businessman who founded the Boeing Company (died 1956)
Walther Heinrich Alfred Hermann von Brauchitsch was a German Generalfeldmarschall and Commander-in-Chief (Oberbefehlshaber) of the German Army during the first two years of World W…
Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (died 1948)
Mikhail Gordeevich Drozdovsky was a Russian army general and one of the military leaders of the anti-Bolshevik White movement during the Russian Civil War. In early 1918 he led a r…
Mikhail Drozdovsky, Ukrainian-Russian general (died 1918)
Hans Kelsen was an Austrian and later American jurist, legal philosopher and political philosopher. He is known principally for his theory of law, which he named the "pure theory o…
Hans Kelsen, Czech-American jurist and philosopher (died 1973)
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was an English writer and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. His creations include the feather-brained Bertie Wooster and his…
P. G. Wodehouse, English novelist and playwright (died 1975)
William Robert Orthwein was an American sportsman, attorney, business executive and political activist. He was an Olympic bronze medalist in both water polo and the 4x50 freestyle …
William Orthwein, American swimmer and water polo player (died 1955)
Maria Zofia Dulęba was a Polish stage and film actress. She made her stage debut in 1902 and performed in a number of films, mostly in the silent era. She later taught drama.
Maria Dulęba, Polish actress (died 1959)
Max Gerson was a German-born American physician who developed the Gerson therapy, a pseudoscientific dietary-based alternative cancer treatment that he falsely claimed could cure c…
Max Gerson, German-born American physician (died 1959)
Clinton Joseph Davisson was an American experimental physicist who shared the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics with George Paget Thomson "for their experimental discovery of the diffrac…
Clinton Davisson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1958)
Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz was a German geophysicist who made important contributions to seismology, in particular the formulation of the Zoeppritz equations.
Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz, German geophysicist and seismologist (died 1908)