Explore 1132 historical events from 1880–1889.
Scipio Slataper was an Italian writer, most famous for his lyrical essay My Karst. He is considered, alongside Italo Svevo, the initiator of the prolific tradition of Italian liter…
Scipio Slataper, Italian author and critic (died 1915)
Percy William Kilbride was an American character actor. He made a career of playing country "hicks," most memorably as Pa Kettle in the Ma and Pa Kettle series of feature films.
Percy Kilbride, American actor (died 1964)
Frederik "Frits" Zernike was a Dutch physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1953 for his invention of the phase-contrast microscope.
Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1966)
Shmuel Yosef Agnon was an Austro-Hungarian-born Israeli novelist, poet, and short-story writer. He was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew literature. In Hebrew, he is know…
Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Ukrainian-Israeli novelist, short story writer and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1970)
Enno Lolling was a Nazi doctor. As a member of the SS, he served as a Lagerarzt at Dachau concentration camp. He later headed up the medical division for all the SS concentration c…
Enno Lolling, German physician (died 1945)
Kirk Bryan was an American geologist on the faculty of Harvard University from 1925 until his death in 1950.
Kirk Bryan, American geologist and academic (died 1950)
Selman Abraham Waksman was a Russian-born American inventor, biochemist and microbiologist, whose research into the decomposition of organisms that live in soil enabled the discove…
Selman Waksman, Jewish-American biochemist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1973)
Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at age 44, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company e…
Raymond Chandler, American crime novelist and screenwriter (died 1959)
Arthur John Richardson was an Australian Test cricketer who played nine Tests matches for Australia.
Arthur Richardson, Australian cricketer and coach (died 1973)
Reginald Harry Myburgh Hands was a South African cricketer who played in one Test match in February 1914. He died in France as a result of injuries sustained on the Western Front d…
Reginald Hands, South African cricketer and rugby player (died 1918)
Vladimir Kosma Zworykin was a Russian-American inventor, engineer, and pioneer of television technology. Zworykin invented a television transmitting and receiving system employing …
Vladimir K. Zworykin, Russian-American inventor, engineer, invented the cathode ray tube system (died 1982)
Syedna Taher Saifuddin, also known as Taher Saifuddin, was the 51st and longest serving Da'i al-Mutlaq of the Dawoodi Bohras. Saifuddin adapted the modernisation in Western and Eur…
Taher Saifuddin, Indian religious leader, 51st Da'i al-Mutlaq (died 1965)
Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark was the fifth and youngest son and youngest child of King George I of Greece, belonging to a dynasty which mounted and lost the throne of G…
Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark (died 1940)
John Logie Baird was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer and innovator who demonstrated the world's first mechanical television system on 26 January 1926. He went on to invent…
John Logie Baird, Scottish engineer, invented the television (died 1946)
Gleb W. Derujinsky was a Russian-American sculptor.
Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor (died 1975)
Thomas Edward Lawrence was a British Army officer, archaeologist, diplomat and writer known for his role during the Arab Revolt and Sinai and Palestine campaign against the Ottoman…
T. E. Lawrence, British colonel, diplomat, writer and archaeologist (died 1935)
Armand John "A.J." Piron was an American jazz violinist who led dance bands during the 1910s thru the 1930s.
Armand J. Piron, American violinist, composer, and bandleader (died 1943)
Edgar Montillion "Monty" Woolley was an American film and theater actor. At the age of 50, he achieved a measure of stardom for his role in the 1939 stage play The Man Who Came to …
Monty Woolley, American actor, raconteur, and pundit (died 1963)
Pieter Henricus van der Hoog, also known after converting to Islam as Mohammed Abdul-Ali, was a Dutch bacteriologist, dermatologist, and Islamicist. Born in The Hague, Van der Hoog…
Pieter van der Hoog, Dutch bacteriologist, dermatologist, and Islamicist (died 1957)
Tôn Đức Thắng was the second President of Vietnam under the leadership of Communist Party General Secretary Lê Duẩn. The position of president is ceremonial and Tôn was never a maj…
Tôn Đức Thắng, Vietnamese politician, 2nd President of Vietnam (died 1980)
Captain Valentine Henry Baker MC AFC, nicknamed "Bake", served in all three of the British Armed Forces during the First World War. After the war he became a civilian flight instru…
Valentine Baker, Welsh co-founder of the Martin-Baker Aircraft Company (died 1942)
Gustavo Romeo Vincenti was a Maltese architect and developer. Born into a wealthy and business-oriented family in Valletta and Floriana, he was able to purchase land and design and…
Gustavo R. Vincenti, Maltese architect and developer (died 1974)
Evadne Price, probably born Eva Grace Price, was an Australian British writer, actress, astrologer and media personality. She also wrote under the pseudonym Helen Zenna Smith.
Evadne Price, Australian actress, astrologer, and author (died 1985)
Salme Anette Pekkala-Dutt, known by the pen name Sancho, was an Estonian-British communist politician, essayist, writer and translator.
Salme Dutt, Estonian-English politician (died 1964)