1888

► | قرن 18 | << قرن 19 >> | قرن 20 | ◄
► | عقد 1850 | عقد 1860 | عقد 1870 | << عقد 1880 >> | عقد 1890 | عقد 1900 | عقد 1910 | ◄
► | ► | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | << 1888 >> | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | ◄ | ◄

تحويل 1-1-1888م الى هجري  ^{(وصلة خارجية)}  | تحويل 31-12-1888م الى هجري  ^{(وصلة خارجية)}  | ابحث في الموسوعة عن مواضيع متعلقة بسنة 1888

الألفية:	الألفية 2
القرون:	القرن 18 - القرن 19 - القرن 20
العقود:	عقد 1850  عقد 1860  عقد 1870  - عقد 1880 -  عقد 1890  عقد 1900  عقد 1910
السنوات:	1885 1886 1887 - 1888 - 1889 1890 1891

1888 في موضوعات:

الإنسانيات

الآثار – العمارة – الفن – الأدب (الشعر) – الموسيقى

حسب البلد

مصر – سوريا - إيران – الصين - فرنسا – ألمانيا – الدولة العثمانية – إيطاليا - اسبانيا - المغرب– روسيا - اليابان – البرازيل - الهند - المملكة المتحدة – الولايات المتحدة – إندونسيا

موضوعات أخرى

السكك الحديدية – العلوم – الرياضة

قوائم الزعماء

الدول ذات السيادة – زعماء الدول – حكام الأقاليم – الزعماء الدينيون

تصنيفا المواليد والوفيات

المواليد – الوفيات

تصنيفا التأسيسات والانحلالات

التأسيسات – الانحلالات

تصنيف الأعمال

الأعمال

1888 في التقاويم الأخرى

التقويم الگريگوري	1888 MDCCCLXXXVIII
آب أوربه كونديتا	2641
التقويم الأرمني	1337 ԹՎ ՌՅԼԷ
التقويم الآشوري	6638
التقويم البهائي	44–45
التقويم البنغالي	1295
التقويم الأمازيغي	2838
سنة العهد البريطاني	51 Vict. 1 – 52 Vict. 1
التقويم البوذي	2432
التقويم البورمي	1250
التقويم البيزنطي	7396–7397
التقويم الصيني	丁亥年 (النار الخنزير) 4584 أو 4524     — إلى — 戊子年 (التراب الفأر) 4585 أو 4525
التقويم القبطي	1604–1605
التقويم الديسكوردي	3054
التقويم الإثيوپي	1880–1881
التقويم العبري	5648–5649
التقاويم الهندوسية
- ڤيكرام سامڤات	1944–1945
- شاكا سامڤات	1810–1811
- كالي يوگا	4989–4990
تقويم الهولوسين	11888
تقويم الإگبو	888–889
التقويم الإيراني	1266–1267
التقويم الهجري	1305–1306
التقويم الياباني	Meiji 21 (明治２１年)
تقويم جوچى	N/A
التقويم اليوليوسي	الگريگوري ناقص 12 يوم
التقويم الكوري	4221
تقويم مينگوو	24 قبل جمهورية الصين 民前24年
التقويم الشمسي التايلندي	2431

سنة 1888 (MDCCCLXXXVIII) كانت سنة كبيسة تبدأ يوم الأحد (الرابط يعرض التقويم كاملاً) التقويم الگريگوري، السنة 1888 بعد الميلاد (م)، السنة 888 في الألفية 2، السنة 88 في القرن 19، والسنة 9 في عقد 1880 بين 1583 و 1929 ومع فارق 1888 is 12 يوم عن التقويم اليوليوسي، والذين ظلوا مستخدمين حتى التحول الكامل إلى التقويم الگريگوري في 1929. In Germany, 1888 is known as the Year of the Three Emperors. Currently, it is the year that, when written in Roman numerals, has the most digits (13). The next year that also has 13 digits is the year 2388. The record will be surpassed as late as 2888, which has 14 digits.

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 أحداث

 January–March

March 11: Great Blizzard of 1888.

• January 3 – The 91-centimeter telescope is first used, at Lick Observatory in California.
• January 12 – The Schoolhouse Blizzard hits Dakota Territory, the states of Montana, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Texas, leaving 235 dead, many of them children on their way home from school.
• January 13 – The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.
• January 21 – The Amateur Athletic Union is founded by William Buckingham Curtis, in the United States.
• 26 يناير – The Lawn Tennis Association is founded in England.
• February 6 – Gillis Bildt becomes Prime Minister of Sweden (1888–1889).
• February 27 – In West Orange, New Jersey, Thomas Edison meets with Eadweard Muybridge, who proposes a scheme for sound film.
• March 8 – The Agriculture College of Utah (later Utah State University) is founded in Logan, Utah.
• March 9 – Frederick III becomes German Emperor and King of Prussia.
• March 11 – The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
• March 13 – De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. is founded in Kimberley.
• March 15 – The Sikkim Expedition, a British military expedition to expel the Tibetans from northern Sikkim, begins.
• March 16 – The foundation stone for a new National Library of Greece is laid in Athens.
• March 20 – The very first Romani language operetta premieres in Moscow, Russia.
• March 23 – A meeting called by William McGregor, to discuss establishment of The Football League, is held in London.
• March 25 – Opening of an international Congress for Women's Rights organized by Susan B. Anthony in Washington, D.C., leading to formation of the International Council of Women, a key event in the international women's movement.
• March 27 – The Rescue of the Renown: Dorus Rijkers saves the 30-man crew of the Renown off the Netherlands coast, risking his own life.

 April–June

• April 3
  • London prostitute Emma Elizabeth Smith is brutally attacked by two or three men, dying of her injuries the following day, first of the Whitechapel murders, but probably not a victim of Jack the Ripper.
  • The Brighton Beach Hotel in Coney Island (New York) is moved 520 ft (160 m), using six steam locomotives, by civil engineer B. C. Miller, to save it from ocean storms.
• April 6 – The first New Year's Day is observed, of the solar calendar adopted by Siamese King Chulalongkorn, with the 106th anniversary of Bangkok's founding in 1782 as its epoch (reference date).
• April 11 – The Concertgebouw orchestra in Amsterdam is inaugurated.
• April 16 – The German Empire annexes the island of Nauru.
• April 18 - Westminster School is founded in Simsbury, Connecticut
• April 21 – The Texas State Capitol building, completed at a cost of 3 million dollars, opens to the public in Austin.
• May 1 – Fort Belknap Indian Reservation is established by the United States Congress.
• May 8 – The International Exhibition of Science, Art and Industry in Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow opens (continues to November).
• May 12 – The North Borneo Chartered Company's territories (including Sabah) become the British protectorate of North Borneo.
• May 13 – In Brazil, the Lei Áurea abolishes the last remnants of slavery.
• May 28 – In Scotland, Celtic F.C. plays its first official match, winning 5–2 against Rangers F.C.
• May 30 – Hong Kong's Peak Tram begins operation.
• June 3
  • The Kingdom of Sedang is formed, in modern-day Vietnam.
  • American writer Ernest Thayer's baseball poem "Casey at the Bat" is first published (under the pen name "Phin") as the last of his humorous contributions to The San Francisco Examiner.
• June 14 – The White Rajahs territories become the British protectorate of Sarawak.
• June 15 – Wilhelm II becomes German Emperor and King of Prussia; 1888 is the Year of the Three Emperors.
• June 19 – In Chicago, the Republican Convention opens at the Auditorium Building. Benjamin Harrison and Levi P. Morton win the nominations for President and Vice President of the United States, respectively.
• June 29 – Handel's Israel in Egypt is recorded onto wax cylinder at The Crystal Palace in London, the earliest known recording of classical music.
• June 30 – The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom opens its laboratory, on Plymouth Hoe.

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 July–September

August 31: Victim found from Jack the Ripper?

• July 2–27 – London matchgirls strike of 1888: About 200 workers, mainly teenaged girls, strike following the dismissal of three colleagues from the Bryant and May match factory, precipitated by an article on their working conditions published on June 23 by campaigning journalist Annie Besant, and the workers unionise on July 27.
• July 25 – Frank Edward McGurrin, a court stenographer from Salt Lake City, Utah, purportedly the only person using touch typing at this time, wins a decisive victory over Louis Traub in a typing contest held in Cincinnati, Ohio. This date can be called the birthday of the touch typing method that is widely used now.
• August 5 – Bertha Benz arrives in Pforzheim having driven 40 miles (64 km) from Mannheim in a car manufactured by her husband Karl Benz, thus completing the first "long-distance" drive in the history of the automobile.
• August 7 – Whitechapel murders: The body of London prostitute Martha Tabram is found, a possible victim of Jack the Ripper.
• August 9
  • A fire destroys the Main Building, the heart of Wells College in Aurora, New York, causing a loss of $130,000.
  • The Oaths Act permits the oath of allegiance taken to the Sovereign by Members of Parliament to be affirmed, rather than sworn to God, thus confirming the ability of atheists to sit in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.
• August 10 – Dr Friedrich Hermann Wölfert’s motorised airship successfully completes the world’s first engine-driven flight, from Cannstatt to Kornwestheim in Germany.
• August 13 – The Local Government Act, effective from 1889, establishes county councils and county borough councils in England and Wales, redraws some county boundaries, and gives women the vote in local elections. It also declares that "bicycles, tricycles, velocipedes, and other similar machines" be carriages within the meaning of the Highway Acts (which remains the case), and requires that they give audible warning when overtaking "any cart or carriage, or any horse, mule, or other beast of burden, or any foot passenger", a rule abolished in 1930.
• August 20 – A mutiny at Dufile, Equatoria, results in the imprisonment of the Emin Pasha.
• August 24 –The first trams in Tallinn (Reval), horsecars, begin operation.
• August 28 – The longest date in Roman numerals (VIII-XXVIII-MDCCCLXXXVIII) occurs.
• August 31 – Whitechapel murders: The mutilated body of London prostitute Mary Ann Nichols is found; she is considered the first victim of Jack the Ripper.
• 4 سبتمبر - جورج إيستمان يسجل الماركة التجارية كوداك، , and receives a patent for his camera, which uses roll film.
• September 6 – Charles Turner becomes the first bowler in cricket to take 250 wickets in an English season – a feat since accomplished only by Tom Richardson (twice), J. T. Hearne, Wilfred Rhodes (twice) and Tich Freeman (six times).
• September 8
  • Whitechapel murders: The mutilated body of London prostitute Annie Chapman is found (considered to be the second victim of Jack the Ripper).
  • In England, the first six Football League matches are played.
  • In a letter accepting renomination as President of the United States, Grover Cleveland declares the Chinese "impossible of assimilation with our people and dangerous to our peace and welfare".
• September 27
  • Whitechapel murders: The 'Dear Boss letter' signed "Jack the Ripper", the first time the name is used, is received by London's Central News Agency.
  • Stanley Park is officially opened by Vancouver (B.C.) mayor David Oppenheimer.
• September 30 – Whitechapel murders: The bodies of London prostitutes Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes, the latter mutilated, are found. They are generally considered Jack the Ripper's third and fourth victims, respectively.

 October–December

• October 1 – Sofia University officially opens, becoming the first university in liberated Bulgaria.
• October 2 – The Whitehall Mystery: Dismembered remains of a woman's body are discovered at three central London locations, one being the construction site of New Scotland Yard.
• October 9 – The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public, in Washington, D.C.
  

  October 9: Washington Monument opens.
• October 14
  • Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene in Roundhay, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, two seconds and 18 frames in length (followed by his movie Leeds Bridge).
  • Battle of Guté Dili: Seeking to extend Mahdist control over what is now southwestern Ethiopia, governor Khalil al-Khuzani is routed by an alliance of Shewan forces, under Ras Gobana Dacche and Moroda Bekere, ruler of Leqa Naqamte. Only a handful, including Khalil, barely manage to flee the battlefield.
• October 25 – St Cuthbert's Society at the University of Durham in England is founded, after a general meeting chaired by the Reverend Hastings Rashdall.
• 29 اكتوبر توقيع اتفاقية القسطنطينية الخاصة بحرية الملاحة في قناة السويس بين تركيا و بريطانيا و فرنسا و روسيا و المانيا
• October 30 – The Rudd Concession, a written concession for exclusive mining rights in Matabeleland, Mashonaland and adjoining territories, is granted by King Lobengula of Matabeleland to Charles Rudd, James Rochfort Maguire and Francis Thompson, who are acting on behalf of South African-based politician and businessman Cecil Rhodes, providing a basis for white settlement of Rhodesia.
• November 6 – United States presidential election, 1888: Democratic Party incumbent Grover Cleveland wins the popular vote, but loses the Electoral College vote to Republican challenger Benjamin Harrison, therefore losing the election.
• November 8 – Joseph Assheton Fincher files a patent in the United Kingdom for the parlour game which he calls "Tiddledy-Winks".
• November 9 – Whitechapel murders: The mutilated body of London prostitute Mary Jane Kelly is found. She is considered to be the fifth, and last, of Jack the Ripper's victims. A number of similar murders in England follow, but the police attribute them to copy-cat killers.
• November 20 – The first St V parade by students is held in Brussels.
• November 27 – International sorority Delta Delta Delta is founded at Boston University.
• November 29 – The celebration of Thanksgiving (United States) and the first day of Hanukkah coincide.
• December 7 – John Boyd Dunlop patents the pneumatic bicycle tyre in the United Kingdom.
• December 17 – The Lyric Theatre (London) opens.
• December 18 – Richard Wetherill and his brother-in-law discover the Indian ruins of Mesa Verde in southwestern Colorado.
• December 23 – During a bout of mental illness (and having quarreled with his friend Paul Gauguin), Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh infamously cuts off the lower part of his own left ear in a brothel, and is removed to the local hospital in Arles.

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 مجهولة التاريخ

• Edward King, Anglican bishop of Lincoln in England, is prosecuted for using ritualistic practices; the special ecclesiastical court finds largely in his favour.
• The dolphin Pelorus Jack is first sighted in Cook Strait, New Zealand.
• The Camborne School of Mines is founded in Cornwall, England.
• John Robert Gregg first publishes Gregg shorthand in the United States.
• Rudyard Kipling's short story collection Plain Tales from the Hills is published in Calcutta, India.
• The Finnish epic Kalevala is published for the first time in the English language, by American linguist John Martin Crawford.
• The Baldwin School is founded in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, as "Miss [Florence] Baldwin's School for Girls, Preparatory for Bryn Mawr College".
• Chin Gee Hee starts the Quong Tuck Company to supply construction workers to North American railroads.
• G. D. Searle is founded as a pharmaceutical company, originally in Omaha, Nebraska.
• Katz's Delicatessen is founded in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
• First International Forestry Exhibition opens in Edinburgh.
• First British rugby union tour of Australia and New Zealand.

 مواليد

 January–February

Carlos Quintanilla

Otto Stern

• 1 يناير – Victor Goldschmidt, Swiss geochemist (ت. 1947)
• January 8 – Matt Moore, Irish-born actor (ت. 1960)
• January 16 – Robert Henry English, American admiral (ت. 1943)
• January 18 – Thomas Sopwith, English aviation pioneer, yachtsman (ت. 1989)
• January 19 – Millard Harmon, American general (ت. 1945)
• c. January 20 – Huddie William Ledbetter (Lead Belly), American folk, blues singer (ت. 1949)
• January 22 – Carlos Quintanilla, 44th President of Bolivia (ت. 1964)
• January 23 – Aritomo Gotō, Japanese admiral (ت. 1942)
• January 24
  • Vicki Baum, Austrian writer (ت. 1960)
  • Ernst Heinkel, German aircraft designer (ت. 1958)
• February 2 – Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (ت. 1969)
• February 5 – Bruce Fraser, British admiral (ت. 1981)
• February 8 – Edith Evans, British actress (ت. 1976)
• February 13 – Georgios Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece (ت. 1968)
• February 17 – Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (ت. 1969)
• February 19
  • Adelina Domingues, World's oldest person between May and August 2002 (ت. 2002)
  • Tom Phillips, British admiral (ت. 1941)
  • Aurora Quezon, First Lady of the Philippines (ت. 1949)
  • José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (ت. 1928)
• February 20 – Georges Bernanos, French writer (ت. 1948)
• February 25 – John Foster Dulles, United States Secretary of State (ت. 1959)
• February 27
  • Arthur Schlesinger, Sr., American historian (ت. 1965)
  • Lotte Lehmann, German singer (ت. 1976)

 March–April

Ilo Wallace

• March 1 – Ewart Astill, English cricketer (Leicestershire) (ت. 1948)
• March 4 – Knute Rockne, American football player, coach (ت. 1931)
• March 7
  • William L. Laurence, American journalist (ت. 1977)
  • Claude Roger-Marx, French writer (ت. 1977)
• March 10
  • Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (ت. 1961)
  • Ilo Wallace, Second Lady of the United States (ت. 1981)
• March 16 – Anton Köllisch, German chemist noted for synthesising MDMA (ت. 1916)
• March 17 – Paul Ramadier, Prime Minister of France (ت. 1961)
• March 26 – Elsa Brändström, Swedish nurse (ت. 1948)
• March 28 – Léon Noël, French diplomat, politician and historian (ت. 1987)
• March 29
  • Enea Bossi, Sr., Italian-born American aerospace engineer, aviation pioneer (ت. 1963)
  • James E. Casey, American founder of the United Parcel Service (ت. 1983)
• March 30 – Anna Q. Nilsson, Swedish-American silent film star (ت. 1974)
• April 1 – Terry de la Mesa Allen, Sr., American general (ت. 1969)
• April 3
  • Sir Neville Cardus, British music, cricket writer (ت. 1975)
  • Thomas C. Kinkaid, American admiral (ت. 1972)
• April 4
  • Tris Speaker, American professional baseball player, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame (ت. 1958)
  • Zdzisław Żygulski, Sr., Polish literary historian (ت. 1975)
• April 6
  • Hans Richter, German filmmaker (ت. 1976)
  • Gerhard Ritter, German historian (ت. 1967)
• April 12 – Carlos Julio Arosemena Tola, 28th President of Ecuador (ت. 1952)
• April 18 – Duffy Lewis, American Major League Baseball player (ت. 1979)
• April 26 – Anita Loos, American writer (ت. 1981)
• April 27 – Florence La Badie, Canadian actress (ت. 1917)

 May–June

David Dougal Williams (artist)

• May 8 – Maurice Boyau, French World War I fighter ace (ت. 1918)
• May 9 – Francesco Baracca, Italian World War I fighter ace (ت. 1918)
• May 10 – Max Steiner, Austrian-American composer (ت. 1971)
• May 11
  • Irving Berlin, American composer (ت. 1989)
  • Willis Augustus Lee, American admiral (ت. 1945)
• May 13 – Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist, geophysicist (ت. 1993)
• May 17 – Tich Freeman, English cricketer (ت. 1965)
• May 18 – William Hood Simpson, American general (ت. 1980)
• May 23 – Zack Wheat, American Baseball Hall of Famer (ت. 1972)
• May 24 – Stanley Sylvester Alexander Watkins, English talking pictures pioneer
• May 25
  • Harukichi Hyakutake, Japanese general (ت. 1947)
  • Miles Malleson, English actor (ت. 1969)
• May 27 – Louis Durey, French composer (ت. 1979)
• May 28 – Kaarel Eenpalu, Prime Minister of Estonia (ت. 1942)
• May 31 – Jack Holt, American actor (ت. 1951)
• June 3 – Tom Brown, American jazz musician (ت. 1958)
• June 5 – Armand Annet, French colonial official (ت. 1973)
• June 6 – Pete Wendling, American composer, pianist, and piano roll recording artist (ت. 1974)
• June 9 – Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, Australian illustrator (ت. 1960)
• June 13 – Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese writer (ت. 1935)
• June 16 – Peter Stoner, American mathematician, astronomer and Christian apologist (ت. 1980)
• June 17 – Heinz Guderian, German general (ت. 1954)
• June 21 – Cecil King, New Zealand rugby league footballer (ت. 1975)
• June 22
  • Milton Allen, Governor of Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla (ت. 1981)
  • Harold Hitz Burton, American politician, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (ت. 1964)
• June 23 – F. Ryan Duffy, American judge and politician (ت. 1979)
• June 24
  • Boshirō Hosogaya, Japanese admiral (ت. 1964)
  • Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect (ت. 1964)
• June 27 – Antoinette Perry, New York stage director for whom the Tony Award was named (ت. 1946)
• June 29 – Joseph 'Squizzy' Taylor, Australian underworld figure (ت. 1927)

 July–August

Herbert Spencer Gasser

Frits Zernike

• July 5 – Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (ت. 1963)
• July 8 – John R. Sinnock, 8th Chief Engraver of the United States Mint (ت. 1947)
• July 9 – Wang Yun-wu, Chinese scholar of history and political science (ت. 1979)
• July 10 – Giorgio de Chirico, Italian painter (ت. 1978)
• July 16
  • Percy Kilbride, American actor (ت. 1964)
  • Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (ت. 1966)
• July 17 – Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israeli writer, Nobel Prize laureate (ت. 1970)
• July 20 – Geneve L. A. Shaffer, American realtor, lecturer and author (ت. 1976)
• July 22
  • Kirk Bryan, American geologist (ت. 1950)
  • Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (ت. 1973)
• July 23 – Raymond Chandler, American-born novelist (ت. 1959)
• July 25 – Wilhelm Fritz von Roettig, German Waffen SS general (ت. 1939)
• August 4 – Syedna Taher Saifuddin, Indian Bohra spiritual leader (ت. 1965)
• August 6
  • Stephen Galatti, American Field Service director (ت. 1964)
  • Heinrich Schlusnus, German baritone (ت. 1952)
• August 8 (8/8/88)
  • Shōjirō Iida, Japanese general (ت. 1980)
  • César Vezzani, French opera singer (ت. 1951)
• August 9 – Eduard Ritter von Schleich, German fighter ace, air force general (ت. 1947)
• August 13
  • Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor (ت. 1975)
  • John Logie Baird, Scottish inventor (ت. 1946)
• August 16
  • Armand J. Piron, American jazz musician (ت. 1943)
  • T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia"), British liaison officer during the Arab Revolt, writer, and academic (ت. 1935)
• August 17 – Monty Woolley, American actor (ت. 1963)
• August 20 – Tôn Đức Thắng, 2nd President of Vietnam (ت. 1980)
• August 25 – Allama Mashriqi, Pakistani scholar, politician (ت. 1963)
• August 26 – Gustavo R. Vincenti, Maltese architect and developer (ت. 1974)
• August 28 – Evadne Price, Australian-British writer, actress and astrologer (ت. 1985)
• August 29 – Gunichi Mikawa, Japanese admiral (ت. 1981)

 September–October

Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.

Maurice Chevalier

T. S. Eliot

Henry A. Wallace

• September 4 – Margaret Henley, J. M. Barrie's inspiration for the name "Wendy" in Peter Pan (ت. 1894)
• September 5 – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher, politician and 2nd President of India (ت. 1975)
• September 6
  • Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., American politician (ت. 1969)
  • Zeng Junchen, Chinese drug baron (ت. 1964)
• September 12 – Maurice Chevalier, French singer and actor (ت. 1972)
• September 14 – Thakur Anukulchandra, Indian social reformer and philanthropist (ت. 1969)
• September 16
  • Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (ت. 1964)
  • W. O. Bentley, English engineer, entrepreneur (ت. 1971)
• September 18 – Grey Owl, British impostor, writer (ت. 1938)
• September 20 – John Painter, American supercentenarian, world's oldest man between 1999 and 2001 (ت. 2001)
• September 26
  • J. Frank Dobie, American folklorist, journalist (ت. 1964)
  • T. S. Eliot, British (American-born) poet, Nobel Prize laureate (ت. 1965)
• October 3 – Claud Allister, English actor (ت. 1970)
• October 4
  • Lucy Tayiah Eads, Kaw tribal chief (ت. 1961)
  • Friedrich Olbricht, German general (ت. 1944)
• October 6 – Roland Garros, French pilot (killed in action 1918)
• October 7 – Henry A. Wallace, 33rd Vice President of the United States (ت. 1965)
• October 8 – Ernst Kretschmer, German psychiatrist (ت. 1964)
• October 9 – Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician (ت. 1938)
• October 14 – Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand fiction writer (ت. 1923)
• October 16
  • Eugene O'Neill, American playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (ت. 1953)
  • Paul Popenoe, American eugenicist (ت. 1979)
• October 17 – Paul Bernays, Swiss mathematician (ت. 1977)
• October 19 – Venkatarama Ramalingam Pillai, Indian freedom fighter and Tamil poet (ت. 1972)
• October 20 – Sadayoshi Tanabe, Japanese academic, bibliographer (ت. 2000)
• October 24 – Carlo Bergamini, Italian admiral (ت. 1943)
• October 25 – Lester Cuneo, American actor (ت. 1925)
• October 30 – Alan Goodrich Kirk, American admiral (ت. 1963)
• October 31 – Hubert Wilkins, Australian explorer of the Arctic (ت. 1958)

 November–December

Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman

Harpo Marx

Gladys Cooper

F. W. Murnau

• November 1
  • George Kenner, German artist, made 110 paintings and drawings during World War I while interned as a prisoner of war (ت. 1971)
  • Michał Sopoćko, Polish-Lithuanian saint, the Apostle of Divine Mercy (ت. 1975)
  • Viliami Tungī Mailefihi, 7th Premier of Tonga (ت. 1941)
• November 7
  • Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Indian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (ت. 1970)
  • Nestor Makhno, Anarcho-communist revolutionary (ت. 1934)
• November 9 – Jean Monnet, French political economist, diplomat and a founding father of the European Union (ت. 1979)
• November 13 – Philip Francis Nowlan, American science fiction writer, creator of the Buck Rogers character (ت. 1940)
• November 15
  • Harald Sverdrup, Norwegian scientist (ت. 1957)
  • José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban World chess champion (1921–1927) (ت. 1942)
• November 16 – Luis Cluzeau Mortet, Uruguayan composer, and musician (ت. 1957)
• November 23 – Harpo Marx, American comedian (ت. 1964)
• November 26 – Francisco Canaro, Uruguayan-born violinist, composer (ت. 1964)
• November 24
  • Dale Carnegie, American writer, lecturer (ت. 1955)
  • Cathleen Nesbitt, British actress (ت. 1982)
• November 28 – Edgar Church, American comic book collector (ت. 1978)
• November 30 – Ralph Hartley, American electronics researcher, inventor (ت. 1970)
• December 3 – Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, Polish-born Chief Rabbi of Ireland and Israel (ت. 1959)
• December 4
  • King Alexander of Yugoslavia (ت. 1934)
  • Donald B. Beary, American admiral (ت. 1966)
• December 6 – Will Hay, British actor, comedian (ت. 1949)
• December 7
  • Joyce Cary, Northern Irish author (ت. 1957)
  • Jinichi Kusaka, Japanese admiral (ت. 1972)
• December 16 – Alphonse Juin, French general, Marshal of France (ت. 1967)
• December 18
  • Dame Gladys Cooper, English actress (ت. 1971)
  • Robert Moses, American civil engineer, public works director, highway and bridge builder (ت. 1981)
• December 19 – Fritz Reiner, Hungarian conductor (ت. 1963)
• 20 ديسمبر – Yitzhak Baer, German-born Israeli historian (ت. 1980)
• December 22 – Theodore Stark Wilkinson, American admiral (ت. 1946)
• December 26 – Marius Canard, French orientalist (ت. 1982)
• December 28 – F. W. Murnau, German film director (ت. 1931)

 Date Unknown

• Mariano Andreu, Spanish painter (ت. 1976)
• Ibrahim Hashem, 3-time Prime Minister of Jordan (ت. 1958)
• June 1888 – David Dougal Williams FRSA Cheshire-born artist and art teacher who lived and worked in Dundee (ت. 1944)

 وفيات

 January–June

Wilhelm I

Ascanio Sobrero

• January 19 – Anton de Bary, German biologist (و. 1831)
• January 20 – William Pitt Ballinger, Texas lawyer, southern statesman (و. 1825)
• January 29 – Edward Lear, British artist, writer (و. 1812)
• January 31 – John Bosco, Italian priest, youth worker, educator and founder of the Salesian Society (و. 1815)
• February 3 – Sir Henry Maine, British jurist (و. 1822)
• February 5 – Anton Mauve, Dutch painter (و. 1838)
• February 7 – Jonathan Joestar, English businessman (و. 1868)
• February 22 – Anna Kingsford, British women's rights activist (و. 1846)
• February 24 – Seth Kinman, American hunter, settler (و. 1815)
• March 6
  • Louisa May Alcott, American novelist (و. 1832)
  • Josif Pančić, Serbian botanist (و. 1814)
• March 9 – William I, German Emperor, King of Prussia (و. 1797)
• March 12 – Henry Bergh, founder of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (و. 1813)
• March 16 – Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman (و. 1801)
• March 23 – Morrison Waite, Chief Justice of the United States (و. 1816)
• March 27 – Francesco Faà di Bruno, Italian mathematician (و. 1825)
• March 29 – Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer, pianist (و. 1813)
• April 4 – Emma Elizabeth Smith, Whitechapel Murders victim (و. 1843)
• April 15 – Matthew Arnold, English poet (و. 1822)
• April 17 – Ephraim George Squier, American archaeologist, newspaper editor (و. 1821)
• April 19 – Thomas Russell Crampton, English engineer (و. 1816)
• May 15 – Edwin Hamilton Davis, American archaeologist, physician (و. 1811)
• May 19 – Julius Rockwell, United States politician (و. 1805)
• May 26 – Ascanio Sobrero, Italian chemist (و. 1812)
• June 7 – Edmond Le Bœuf, marshal of France (و. 1809)
• June 8 – Sir Duncan Cameron, British army general (و. 1808)
• June 15 – Frederick III, German Emperor, King of Prussia (و. 1831)
• June 23  – Edmund Gurney, British psychologist (و. 1847)

 July–December

Paul Langerhans

John Pemberton

Carl Zeiss

• July 1 – Maiden of Ludmir, Jewish religious leader (و. 1805)
• July 4 – Theodor Storm, German writer (و. 1817)
• July 9 – Jan Brand, 4th president of the Orange Free State (و. 1823)
• July 20 – Paul Langerhans, German pathologist, biologist (و. 1847)
• August 5 – Philip Sheridan, American general (و. 1831)
• August 7 – Martha Tabram, possible first victim of Jack the Ripper (و. 1849)
• August 9 – Charles Cros, French poet (و. 1831)
• August 16 – John Pemberton, American founder of Coca-Cola (و. 1831)
• August 20 – Henry Richard, Welsh peace campaigner (و. 1812)
• August 23 – Philip Henry Gosse, British scientist (و. 1810)
• August 24 – Rudolf Clausius, German physicist, contributor to thermodynamics (و. 1822)
• August 31 – Mary Ann Nichols, first confirmed victim of Jack the Ripper (و. 1845)
• September 6 – John Lester Wallack, American theater impresario (و. 1820)
• September 8 – Annie Chapman, victim of Jack the Ripper (و. 1841)
• September 11 – Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Argentine politician, writer, and father of education (و. 1811)
• September 23 – François Achille Bazaine, French general (و. 1811)
• September 24 – Karl von Prantl, German philosopher (و. 1820)
• September 30
  • Catherine Eddowes, victim of Jack the Ripper (و. 1842)
  • Elizabeth Stride, victim of Jack the Ripper (و. 1843)
• October 16
  • Horatio Spafford, American author of the hymn It Is Well With My Soul (و. 1828)
  • John Wentworth, Mayor of Chicago (و. 1815)
• November 9 – Mary Jane Kelly, fifth and final confirmed victim of Jack the Ripper (و. 1863)
• November 10 – George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, British army officer and aristocrat (و. 1800)
• November 24 – Cicero Price, American commodore (و. 1805)
• December 2 – Namık Kemal, Turkish patriotic poet, social reformer (و. 1840)
• December 3 – Carl Zeiss, German optician, founder of Carl Zeiss AG (و. 1816)
• December 10 – William E. Le Roy, American admiral (و. 1818)
• 20 ديسمبر – Rose Mylett, Whitechapel murders victim (و. 1859)
• December 22 – Mikhail Loris-Melikov, Russian statesman, general (و. 1826)
• December 31 – Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi (و. 1808)

 مجهولة التاريخ

Caroline Howard Gilman

• Caroline Howard Gilman, American author (و. 1794)

 Further reading and year books

• 1888 Annual Cyclopedia (1889) highly detailed coverage of "Political, Military, and Ecclesiastical Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical Industry" for year 1888; massive compilation of facts and primary documents; worldwide coverage; 831 pp

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