Explore 1132 historical events from 1880–1889.
Fernando António Nogueira de Seabra Pessoa was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, and publisher. He has been described as one of the most significant literary …
Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet and critic (died 1935)
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrants and anarchists, controversially accused of murdering Alessandro Berardelli and Frederick Parmenter, a guard and a payma…
Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian-American anarchist and convicted criminal (died 1927)
Martin Cyril D'Arcy was an English Jesuit priest, philosopher of love, and a correspondent, friend, and adviser to a range of literary and artistic figures including Evelyn Waugh, …
Martin D'Arcy, English Jesuit priest (died 1976)
Ramón López Velarde was a Mexican poet. His work was a reaction against French-influenced modernismo which, as an expression of a purely Mexican subject matter and emotional exper…
Ramón López Velarde, Mexican poet and author (died 1921)
Alexander Alexandrovich Friedmann was a Russian and Soviet physicist and mathematician. He originated the pioneering theory that the universe is expanding, governed by a set of equ…
Alexander Friedmann, Russian physicist and mathematician (died 1925)
Peter Stoner was a Christian writer and Chairman of the departments of mathematics and astronomy at Pasadena City College until 1953; Chairman of the science division, Westmont Col…
Peter Stoner, American mathematician and astronomer (died 1980)
Heinz Wilhelm Guderian was a German army general and military theorist. A pioneer and advocate of the "blitzkrieg" approach, he played a central role in the development of the panz…
Heinz Guderian, German general (died 1954)
Arthur Massey "Matt" Berry was a pioneering Canadian bush pilot.
Arthur Massey Berry, Canadian soldier and pilot (died 1970)
Harold Hitz Burton was an American politician and lawyer. He served as the 45th mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, as a U.S. senator from Ohio, and as an associate justice of the Supreme Co…
Harold Hitz Burton, American lawyer and politician, 45th Mayor of Cleveland (died 1964)
Bronson Murray Cutting was a United States senator from New Mexico. A prominent progressive Republican, he had also been a newspaper publisher and military attaché.
Bronson M
Gerrit Rietveld was a Dutch furniture designer and architect.
Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect, designed the Rietveld Schröder House (died 1964)
Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier was a British historian of Polish-Jewish background. His best-known works were The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III (1929), England i…
Lewis Bernstein Namier, Polish-English historian and academic (died 1960)
Mary Antoinette "Tony" Perry was an American actress, producer, director and administrator known for her work in theatre. She was co-founder and secretary of the American Theatre W…
Antoinette Perry, American actress and director (died 1946)
Stefi Geyer was a Hungarian violinist who was considered one of the leading violinists of her generation.
Stefi Geyer, Hungarian violinist and educator (died 1956)
Joseph Theodore Leslie "Squizzy" Taylor was an Australian gangster from Melbourne. He appeared repeatedly and sometimes prominently in Melbourne news media because of suspicions, f…
Squizzy Taylor, Australian gangster (died 1927)
George Challenor was a Barbadian cricketer who was part of the first West Indies Test side, and who faced the very first ball bowled to a West Indian cricketer in a Test match. He …
George Challenor, Barbadian cricketer (died 1947)
Ramón Gómez de la Serna y Puig, born in Madrid, was a Spanish writer, dramatist and avant-garde agitator. He strongly influenced surrealist film maker Luis Buñuel.
Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Spanish author and playwright (died 1963)
Henry Armetta was an American character actor who appeared in at least 150 American films, beginning in silent movies. His last film was released posthumously in 1946, the year aft…
Henry Armetta, Italian-American actor and singer (died 1945)
Herbert Spencer Gasser was an American physiologist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1944 for his work with action potentials in nerve fibers while o…
Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1963)
Louise Freeland Jenkins was an American astronomer who compiled a valuable catalogue of stars within 10 parsecs of the sun, as well as editing the 3rd edition of the Yale Bright St…
Louise Freeland Jenkins, American astronomer and academic (died 1970)
Giuseppe Maria Alberto Giorgio de Chirico was a Greek-Italian artist and writer born in Volos, Greece. In the years before World War I, he founded the scuola metafisica art movemen…
Giorgio de Chirico, Greek-Italian painter and set designer (died 1978)
Toyohiko Kagawa was a Japanese Evangelical Christian pacifist, Christian reformer, and labour activist. Kagawa wrote, spoke, and worked at length on ways to employ Christian princ…
Toyohiko Kagawa, Japanese evangelist, author, and activist (died 1960)
Carl Schmitt was a German jurist and political theorist. An authoritarian conservative theorist, he was noted as a critic of parliamentary democracy, liberalism, and cosmopolitanis…
Carl Schmitt, German philosopher and jurist (died 1985)
Zygmunt Janiszewski was a Polish mathematician.
Zygmunt Janiszewski, Polish mathematician and academic (died 1920)