1882
Portal History | Portal Biographies | Current Events | Annual Calendar | Article of the day
◄ |
18th Century |
19th Century
| 20th Century
| ►
◄ |
1850s |
1860s |
1870s |
1880s
| 1890s
| 1900s
| 1910s
| ►
◄◄ |
◄ |
1878 |
1879 |
1880 |
1881|
1882
| 1883
| 1884
| 1885
| 1886
| ►
| ►►
Calendar overview 1882
Map with all linked pages: | 1882 | |
|---|---|
 |
|
 has its premiere at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus . |
 |
 is put into operation. |
|
| 1882 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 1330/31 (July turn of the year) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1874/75 (10/11 September) |
| Baha'i calendar | 38/39 (20/21 March) |
| Bengali solar calendar | 1287/88 (beginning of the year April 14 or 15) |
| Buddhist calendar | 2425/26 (Southern Buddhism); 2424/25 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 76th (77th) cycle
Year of the Water Horse壬午 ( at the beginning of the year Metal Snake 辛巳) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 1244/45 (April turn of the year) |
| Dangun era (Korea) | 4215/16 (October 2nd/3rd) |
| Iranian calendar | 1260/61 (around March 21) |
| Islamic calendar | 1299/1300 (12/13 November) |
| Japanese calendar |
Meiji 15 (
明治15年); Koki 2542 |
| Jewish calendar | 5642/43 (September 13/14) |
| Coptic calendar | 1598/99 (10/11 September) |
| Malayalam calendar | 1057/58 |
| Rumi Calendar (Ottoman Empire) | 1297/98 (March 1) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 2192/93 (April turn of the year)
Syria: 2193/94 (October turn of the year) |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese calendar) | 1938/39 (April) |
events
politics and world affairs
Europe
- January 1: Simeon Bavier becomes President of Switzerland .
- March 6: The Principality of Serbia is proclaimed the Kingdom of Serbia , Milan I becomes the first king.
- March 28 Compulsory schooling is introduced in France .
- May 6 Phoenix Park Murders – Irish nationalists assassinate Frederick Charles Cavendish , Britain's new Minister for Ireland, and his deputy in Dublin .
- May 15: The May Laws of the Russian Empire restrict the freedom of movement of Jews in the country . Among other things, they are forbidden to settle outside of cities or to trade on Sundays and public holidays .
- May 20: The Dual Alliance concluded between Germany and Austria in 1879 is extended by Italy joining the Triple Alliance ( until 1914/15).
- June 14: The Kreuzberg decision of the Prussian Higher Administrative Court decides that urban planning is not one of the tasks of the police.
- September 16: The Italian irredentist Guglielmo Oberdan is arrested by the Austrian police because of an assassination attempt on Emperor Franz Joseph I planned for the following day in Trieste .
- September 17: During a visit to Trieste , Emperor Franz Joseph I escapes a bomb attack carried out by the irredentist Donato Ragosa , which he had planned together with Guglielmo Oberdan . Two spectators die.
- Düsseldorf exceeds the 100,000-inhabitant mark and thus becomes a big city .
Africa
- March 10: The Kingdom of Italy acquires the Bay of Assab as its first colony
- June 11: Assassination of 50 foreigners in the Egyptian city of Alexandria in the course of the Urabi uprising ; evacuation of Europeans
- 11 July–13 July: Mediterranean Fleet ships bombard Alexandria over June excesses.
- July 26: The Boer Republic of Stellaland is founded in South Africa on the border with the British protectorate of Bechuanaland .
- 29 August: British troops landed at Port Said ; Beginning of the occupation of the Suez Canal zone
- September 13: At the Battle of Tel-el-Kebir in Egypt , a British army under Garnet Joseph Wolseley defeats the army of Urabi Pasha , ending the Urabi movement. British rule in Egypt begins .
America
- May 6: The Chinese Exclusion Act is the first significant US law restricting immigration.
- September 5: In New York, the trade union Central Labor Union organizes a political demonstration followed by a picnic , attended by tens of thousands of people. As a result, Labor Day came into being in the USA , comparable to the later Labor Day in other countries.
Asia
.svg)
National flag of the Joseon Dynasty
- August: Bak Yeong-ho , the first Korean ambassador to Japan, creates the first flag of Korea .
business
fairs and exhibitions
- May 19th / June 1st greg. : The 1882 All-Russian Industry and Crafts Exhibition opens in Moscow, with 5,318 exhibitors. At the exhibition, an electric train from Siemens & Halske will be operated for the first time. The fair is a breakthrough for the Petersburg jeweler Peter Carl Fabergé , as he succeeds in presenting some valuable works to Emperor Alexander III. for sale. The fair lasts until September 27th . / 9 October greg. .
patents and start-ups
- January 2: The Standard Oil Trust is formed in New York , a trust of 40 oil companies.
- March 28th: Paul Carl Beiersdorf gets the patent for the production of coated plaster ; this event is considered the founding date of Beiersdorf AG .
- May 9: German Reich Patent Number 22244 protects the autotype invented by Georg Meisenbach . This printing process enables the reproduction of rasterized photos in the press.
- October 10: The Bank of Japan is established as a monopolistic central bank .
- 22 December: The Kurfürstendamm Society for the development of Kurfürstendamm and the Grunewald villa colony is founded. Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft , which will later merge to form BHF-Bank , and Deutsche Bank have a decisive stake in the company's capital of eight million marks .
traffic
- 6 February: Kaiser Wilhelm I travels the route of the new Berlin Stadtbahn in a special train . The next day the Stadtbahn will be officially opened for city traffic and on May 15th for long-distance traffic .
- 22 May: The Gotthard tunnel is officially opened and ten days later the Gotthard railway begins operations. The railway connection between Göschenen and Airolo greatly facilitates passenger and freight traffic between Switzerland and Italy.
Other Economic Events
- January 19: Paris stock market crash , sparked by the collapse of the Union Générale
- April 29: The German Supreme Court rules that bookmaking in horse racing and betting on the totalizator is gambling .
- June 15: Wilhelm Bartelmann sets up the world's first beach chair on the Baltic Sea in Warnemünde . His customer, Elfriede Maltzahn, wanted to enjoy her wholesome sea climate despite her rheumatism .
science and technology
astronomy
- March 20: French astronomer Édouard Stephan discovers a cluster of galaxies later known as Seyfert's sextet .
- July 15: American astronomer Edward Charles Pickering sighted the planetary nebula NGC 6537 , also known as the Red Spider Nebula , in the constellation of Sagittarius .
- August 18: In the constellation Ursa Major , the astronomer Wilhelm Tempel discovers the barred spiral galaxy , now known as NGC 2685 in the catalogue .
- September 7: William Henry Finlay discovers the Great Comet of September .
- November 2: Édouard Stephan discovers the galaxy later named NGC 60 in the constellation Pisces .
- November 5: Édouard Stephan sighted the galaxy NGC 140 in the constellation Andromeda .
- December 6: A transit of Venus .
medicine
- March 24: Robert Koch reports in a lecture on his discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis , the causative agent of tuberculosis .
- April 20: The 1st Congress for Internal Medicine begins in Wiesbaden , at which the German Society for Internal Medicine is founded.
Other scientific events
- March 11: In his speech at the Sorbonne on What is a nation, French historian Ernest Renan expresses the idea of a European community .
- April 29: Werner Siemens ' Elektromote is demonstrated on a 540-meter-long test track in what was then an independent residential area of villas and tenements, Halensee near Berlin .
- September 16: Between Miesbach and Munich , the Frenchman Marcel Deprez succeeds in the world's first major overland transmission of direct current .
- 14 October: The University of the Punjab is established in Lahore .
- The first German electricity exhibition takes place in Munich .
- The Holborn Viaduct power station in London is the world's first public coal-fired power station. Pearl Street Station in New York followed shortly thereafter in the same year .
- In the Portuguese city of Braga , Niklaus Riggenbach is building the Elevador do Bom Jesus , the world's oldest water ballast lift still in operation .
Culture
Visual arts
- Vincent van Gogh creates the drawing Sorrow .
music and theatre
- January 31: The premiere of the opera Gudrun by August Klughardt takes place in Neustrelitz . (According to other sources, the UA took place a year earlier on January 31, 1881).
- July 26: Richard Wagner 's last musico-dramatic work , the "Bühnenweihfestspiel" Parsifal , has its successful premiere at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus . Conductor is Hermann Levi . The stage design is by Paul von Joukowsky .
- August 20: The premiere of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Overture 1812 takes place in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. Despite its success, Tchaikovsky himself viewed the piece with skepticism and denied it any artistic value.
- November 25: The stage play Voyage à travers l'impossible by Jules Verne has its world premiere at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin in Paris . After 97 performances in Paris, the play is lost.
- 5 December: The composer Siegfried Ochs founds the Berlin Philharmonic Choir as a mixed choir under the name of Siegfried Ochs'scher singing association .
- December 6: The premiere of the operetta Der Bettelstudent by Karl Millöcker with the libretto by Friedrich Zell and Richard Genée takes place at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna . The piece from the golden operetta era becomes one of the most popular German-language operettas .
- The Helsingin Musiikkiopisto in Helsinki is founded.
Others
- March 19: In Barcelona , the foundation stone of the Sagrada Família cathedral, designed by Antoni Gaudí and still under construction, is laid .
- 21 October: The Rathausmann , a knight figure weighing 1.8 tons, is placed on the middle tower of the Vienna City Hall .
- The Odenwald Club , one of the first German hiking clubs , is founded.
society
- April 3: Robert Ford shoots Jesse James from behind at his home in Missouri as he dusts off a picture. Immediately after the fact, Ford turned himself in to the authorities, who, to his surprise, arrested him and his brother for murder, charged them and sentenced them to death by hanging. However, the sentence is not carried out and Ford receives the pardon promised by Governor Thomas Theodore Crittenden before the crime and part of the bounty offered on Jesse James .
religion
- Cyril of Alexandria is by Pope Leo XIII. appointed Doctor of the Church .
disasters
- 3 September: The Hugstetten train crash kills 64 people and seriously injures 230. It went down in history as the most serious and momentous railway accident in Germany to date.
nature and environment
- The Ragga Gorge in Flattach in the Mölltal is made accessible to the public for the first time.
Sports
- July 23rd: Off Düsternbrook in the Kiel Fjord, 20 yachts start a sailing regatta , which will develop into the Kiel Week in the following years .
- 5 September: The induction of the first members into Hotspur Football Club is credited with establishing British football club Tottenham Hotspur .
- Kanō Jigorō founds his own sports school for jiu-jitsu , the Kōdōkan , and develops the sport of judo over the next two years .
Born
January
- January 1: Martin Charles Ansorge , American lawyer and politician (died 1967)
- January 5: Hans Eduard Fierz ( Hans Eduard Fierz-David ), Swiss chemist (d. 1953)
- January 5: Clyde Tingley , American politician (died 1960)
- January 6: Fan Noli , Albanian Orthodox bishop and politician (died 1965)
- January 6: Ivan Olbracht , Czech writer, publicist, journalist and translator (died 1952)
- January 10: Eugène Delporte , Belgian astronomer (died 1955)
- January 13: Alois Hitler junior , half-brother of Adolf Hitler (d. 1956)
- January 13: Darius Paul Bloch , French Resistance general (died 1969)
- January 15: Margaret of Connaught , Crown Princess of Sweden (d. 1920)
- January 15: Kawada Jun , Japanese poet and business executive (died 1966)
- January 18 Arthur Deicke , German aircraft designer (died 1958)
- January 18: Lazare Lévy , French pianist, music teacher and composer (died 1964)
- January 18: A.A. Milne , English novelist (died 1956)
- January 18 Anna Siemsen , German educator and politician (died 1951)
- January 20: Sebastião Leme da Silveira Cintra , Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro and Cardinal (d. 1942)
- January 21: Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky , Russian philosopher of religion (died 1937)
- January 22: Ernesto Drangosch , Argentine composer and pianist (died 1925)
- January 22: Karl Ettlinger , German writer (died 1939)
- January 23 Martin Steinke , German Buddhist and writer (died 1966)
- January 24: Harold D. Babcock , American astronomer (d. 1968)
- January 25: Virginia Woolf , British writer and idol of the women's movement (d. 1941)
- January 26 – Toni Attenberger , German film director, film producer, screenwriter, journalist and writer († 1949)
- January 28: Pascual Orozco , Mexican revolutionary and general (died 1915)
- January 29: Paul Goerens , German professor and metallurgist (died 1945)
- January 30: Franklin D. Roosevelt , American politician, 32nd President of the USA (died 1945)
February
- February 1: Andrew of Greece , Greek prince (died 1944)
- February 1 Louis Saint-Laurent , Canadian politician (died 1973)
- February 2: Candelario Huízar , Mexican composer (died 1970)
- February 2: James Joyce , Irish writer (died 1941)
- February 2 Geoffrey O'Hara , Canadian singer and composer (d. 1967)
- February 4: Erich Aschenheim , German medical councilor and university lecturer († 1941)
- February 4 Raúl Borges , Colombian composer, guitarist and music educator (died 1967)
- February 4 – EJ Pratt (1964-1964) Canadian writer, academic, and critic
- February 5: August Kopff , German astronomer (died 1960)
- February 5: Louis Wagner , French racing driver (died 1960)
- February 8: Karl Hayd , Austrian painter and graphic artist (died 1945)
- February 8 Thomas E. Selfridge , American officer, aviation pioneer (d. 1908)
- February 9 Arthur Duray , French-American racing driver (d. 1954)
- February 10: Alfred La Liberté , Canadian composer, pianist and music educator (d. 1952)
- February 13: Ernst Trendelenburg , German politician, Reich Minister (died 1945)
- February 13: Rudolf Schneider , German naval officer (died 1917)
- February 14: Saitō Mokichi , Japanese poet and essayist († 1952)
- February 14 Friedrich Hermann Ernst Schneidler , German typeface designer (d. 1956)
- February 14: John Barrymore , American actor (d. 1942)
- February 15: Elisabeth Rotten , German reform educator and peace activist († 1964)
- February 17 – Kurt Schindler , German-American conductor and composer (d. 1935)
- February 19: Nicolai Hartmann , German philosopher (died 1950)
- February 20 Margarethe Faas-Hardegger , Swiss women's rights activist and trade unionist († 1963)
- February 22 – Eric Gill , British sculptor, printmaker and typographer (died 1940)
- February 23: Ladislav Vycpálek , Czech composer (died 1969)
- February 24 Karl Fahrenhorst , German journalist and politician (died 1945)
- February 25 Roméo Beaudry , Canadian composer, music critic, producer and publisher (d. 1932)
- February 26 – Husband E. Kimmel , United States Admiral, Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Fleet (d. 1968)
- February 27 Edmund Glaise-Horstenau , Austrian Vice-Chancellor and Infantry General (died 1946)
- February 28: B. Traven , German writer (died 1969)
March
- March 1 Wilhelm Schomburgk , German soccer player and President of the German Tennis Association († 1959)
- March 3: Elisabeth Abegg , German resistance fighter (died 1974)
- March 5: Pauline Donalda , Canadian singer and singing teacher (d. 1970)
- March 5 Arthur Hussey , American golfer (d. 1915)
- March 6: Jean-Pierre Lamboray , Luxembourg draftsman and graphic artist (died 1962)
- March 9: Adolf Hamm , German organist (died 1938)
- March 9 Cyril Monk , Australian violinist, music educator and composer (d. 1970)
- March 10: Hans Steinhoff , German film director (died 1945)
- March 11 – Gunnar Gundersen , Australian mathematician, university lecturer and chess player (died 1943)
- March 12: Alfred Apfel , German lawyer, defense attorney and author (died 1941)
- March 12: Alfred Goeldel-Bronikowen , German marksman (†unknown)
- March 12: Franz Krezdorn , German soccer player (died 1914)
- March 14: Waclaw Sierpinski , Polish mathematician (died 1969)
- March 15 – James Lightbody , American track and field athlete and Olympic gold medalist (d. 1953)
- March 16: Josef Aicher , Austrian architect and master builder (d. 1973)
- March 16: Paul Lejeune-Jung , German economist and politician; Member of the Reichstag, resistance fighter, Nazi victim († 1944)
- March 17: Franz Grell , German druggist, author and politician (died 1959)
- March 18: Gian Francesco Malipiero , Italian composer and musicologist (died 1973)
- March 19 Vladimir Dyck , Ukrainian composer and music teacher (died 1943)
- March 20: René Coty , French politician and President of the French Fourth Republic (died 1962)
- March 20: Arnold Heim , Swiss geologist (died 1965)
- March 20: Harold Weber , American golfer (d. 1933)
- March 21: Rudolf Fettweis , German civil servant, senior director of the Baden water and road construction († 1956)
- March 21: Fritzi Massary , Austrian singer and actress (d. 1969)
- March 22 Oliver Gardner , American politician (died 1947)
- March 23 Walter Friedrich August Arnold , German politician (died 1933)
- March 23: Emmy Noether , German mathematician (died 1935)
- March 25 Otto Neururer , Austrian Catholic minister (died 1940)
- March 26: Hermann Obrecht , Swiss politician (died 1940)
- March 28: Michael Amlacher , Austrian politician (died 1964)
- March 28: Friedrich Andres , German religious scholar (died 1947)
- March 30: Melanie Klein , Austro-British psychoanalyst (d. 1960)
- March 31: Kornei Chukovsky , Russian poet (died 1969)
April
- April 1 Paul Anspach , Belgian fencing athlete (died 1981)
- April 2 Herbert von Dirksen , German diplomat (died 1955)
- April 3: Hermann August Korff , German literary historian (died 1963)
- April 4 Noud Stempels , Dutch footballer (died 1970)
- April 7: Kurt von Schleicher , German soldier and politician; Lieutenant General and Chancellor of the Weimar Republic († 1934)
- April 8: Dmytro Doroshenko , Ukrainian historian and politician (died 1951)
- April 9: Friedrich Franz IV , last Grand Duke of Mecklenburg († 1945)
- April 10 Ludwig Hermann , German chemist and entrepreneur (died 1938)
- April 11: Rudolf Egger , Austrian ancient historian and archaeologist († 1969)
- April 14: Moritz Schlick , German physicist and philosopher, founder of logical empiricism († 1936)
- April 14 – Rudolf Watzl , Austrian wrestler in the lightweight class († 1915)
- April 15 Giovanni Amendola , Italian journalist and politician (died 1926)
- April 15: Pierre Ramus , Austrian theorist of anarchism (d. 1942)
- April 17 Artur Schnabel , Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1951)
- April 18 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld , American physicist (d. 1963)
- April 18: Leopold Stokowski , English conductor (died 1977)
- April 19: William Palmer , British walker (died 1967)
- April 21 – W.H. Anderson , Canadian singer, choir director and singing teacher (d. 1955)
- April 21: Percy Williams Bridgman , American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1961)
- April 21: Ikuta Chōkō , Japanese literary critic and translator († 1936)
- April 24: Hugh Dowding , British officer in the Royal Air Force (d. 1970)
- April 27 Jessie Redmon Fauset , American writer (d. 1961)
May
- May 3 Hans Trapp , German soccer player and sports official
- May 4: Karel Domin , Czech botanist (died 1953)
- May 4: Wilhelm Lehmann , German writer (died 1968)
- May 5: Albert H. Rausch , German writer (died 1949)
- May 5: Douglas Mawson , British Antarctic explorer (d. 1958)
- May 5: Sylvia Pankhurst , British women's rights activist (died 1960)
- May 6: Emilio Bontà , Swiss teacher and local historian (died 1953)
- May 6: Wilhelm of Prussia , Crown Prince of the German Empire († 1951)
- May 7: Emmerich David , German clergyman and vicar general in Cologne (died 1953)
- May 7 Willem Elsschot , Dutch-language writer from Belgium (died 1960)
- May 9 Edward Aloysius Mooney , Archbishop of Detroit and Cardinal (1958)
- May 9: Richard Weissbach , German publisher (died 1950)
- May 10 Luis Subercaseaux Errázuriz , Chilean diplomat, track and field athlete and soccer player (d. 1973)
- May 10: Edmond Pichon , French racing driver (d. 1961)
- May 11: Joseph Marx , Austrian composer (died 1964)
- May 12 Ludovic Lamothe , Haitian pianist and composer (died 1953)
- May 13: Franz Aigner , Austrian physicist (died 1945)
- May 13: Georges Braque , French Cubist painter (died 1963)
- May 16 Simeon Price , American golfer (died 1945)
- May 18: Georgi Atanasov , Bulgarian composer and conductor (died 1931)
- May 18: Eduardo Fabini , Uruguayan composer (died 1950)
- May 20 – Sigrid Undset , Norwegian novelist, novelist and essayist (died 1949)
- May 22 – Hugo Häring , German architect and author (died 1958)
- May 22: Walter Behrmann , German geographer (died 1955)
- May 23 Francesco Alberti , Swiss Roman Catholic cleric, journalist and politician (died 1939)
- May 24: Heinz Hanus , Austrian director († 1972)
- May 25: Maurice Le Boucher , French composer, organist and music teacher (died 1964)
- May 25: Ernst von Weizsäcker , German diplomat and politician (died 1951)
- May 26: Heinrich Deiters , German writer and journalist (died 1971)
- May 29 Jan Schoemaker , Dutch footballer (died 1954)
- May 30: Wyndham Halswelle , British athlete and Olympic champion (d. 1915)
- May 31 Friedrich Uhl , German hockey player (died 1953)
June
- June 3: Hugo Rudolph Kruyt , Dutch chemist (d. 1959)
- June 4: Erwin Lendvai , Hungarian composer (died 1949)
- June 4: John Bauer , Swedish painter and illustrator (died 1918)
.jpg)
- June 4 – Karl Valentin , Bavarian comedian, cabaret artist, author and film producer († 1948)
- June 5: Franz Hörner , German racing driver (died 1944)
- June 5: Ludwig Mathar , German writer (died 1958)
- June 6: Ernst Krieck , German educator and writer (died 1947)
- June 9 – Bobby Kerr , Canadian track and field athlete, Olympic gold medalist and later sports official (d. 1963)
- June 11 Alvin Langdon Coburn , American photographer (d. 1966)
- June 11 – Géza de Kresz , Austro-Hungarian-Canadian violinist, music teacher and composer (d. 1959)
- June 13: Olga Alexandrovna Romanova , Grand Duchess of Russia (died 1960)
- June 15: Ion Antonescu , Prime Minister and Chief of General Staff of Romania (died 1946)
- June 15 Morgan Foster Larson , American politician (died 1961)
- June 16: Mohammad Mossadegh , Prime Minister of Iran (died 1967)
- June 17: Adolf Friedrich VI. , Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz († 1918)
- June 17: Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky , Russian-American composer (died 1971)
- June 17 Wilhelm Hausenstein , German writer, publicist and diplomat (died 1957)
- June 18 Louis Bailly , Canadian violinist and music educator (d. 1974)
- June 18 Georgi Mihajlov Dimitrov , Bulgarian politician, communist (died 1949)
- June 18 Hermann Foppa , Austrian politician (died 1959)
- June 21 Hermann Etzel , German politician (died 1978)
- June 21 Lluís Companys i Jover , Spanish (Catalan) politician (died 1940)
- June 21: Rockwell Kent , American painter and printmaker (d. 1971)
- June 24 Carl Diem , German sports official and scientist (died 1962)
- June 27 – Eduard Spranger , German educator, psychologist, philosopher (died 1963)
- June 29: Franz Seldte , German politician and Reich Minister of Labor (died 1947)
- June 29: Henri Fabre , French aviation pioneer (d. 1984)
- June 30: Hans Mierendorff , German actor (died 1955)
- June 30: Sven Rudolphsson Lidman , Swedish writer (died 1960)
July
- July 1 Friedrich Wilhelm Andreas , German sculptor, porcelain designer and interior designer (d. 1951)
- July 2 Marie Bonaparte , French psychoanalyst (died 1962)
- July 3 Dirk Lotsy , Dutch footballer (died 1965)
- July 4: Agostino Mancinelli , Archbishop of Benevento (died 1962)
- July 4: Hermann von Wenckstern , German forester and economist (died 1964)
- July 5 Hazrat Inayat Khan , Sufi mystic (died 1927)
- July 7 Israel Aharoni , Israeli zoologist (died 1946)
- July 7: Zdzisław Jachimecki , Polish musicologist and educator (died 1953)
- July 8: John Anderson , British politician (died 1958)
- July 8: Percy Grainger , Australian composer and professor (d. 1961)
- July 9: Robert Oppenheim , German private banker (died 1956)
- July 10: Josef Bayer , Austrian archaeologist (died 1931)
- July 11: Leonard Nelson , German mathematician and philosopher (died 1927)
- July 12 Juan Gualberto Guevara , Peruvian cleric, Archbishop of Lima and cardinal (died 1954)
- July 12: Tod Browning , American film director (d. 1968)
- July 12: Eugen Schmitz , German musicologist and critic († 1959)
- July 14: Heinrich von Gleichen-Rußwurm , German publicist (died 1959)
- July 16 – Alfons Brehm , German hockey player (died 1968)
- July 17 James Fownes Somerville , British admiral (d. 1949)
- July 18 Marcello Mimmi , Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (d. 1961)
- July 21 Georg Jacoby , German director and author (died 1964)
- July 22 Edward Hopper , American painter (died 1967)
- July 22: Emil Lederer , Bohemian-Austrian economist (died 1939)
- July 22: Matthias Pier , German chemist (died 1965)
- July 22 – Marceli Popławski , Polish composer, violinist, conductor and music teacher (died 1948)
- July 23 – Hans Kyser , German writer and film director (died 1940)
- July 26: Rudolf Pummerer , Austro-German chemist (died 1973)
- July 27 Donald Crisp , British actor and director (d. 1974)
- July 27: Geoffrey de Havilland , English aviation pioneer and designer (d. 1965)
- July 27 Oswald Thomas , Austrian astronomer (died 1963)
- July 30: Peter Mieden , German farmer, agricultural functionary and politician (died 1962)
- July 31: Grete Gulbransson , Austrian writer and local poet († 1934)
August
- August 1: Agapios Salomon Naoum , Lebanese Archbishop (died 1967)
- August 1: Reinhold Wulle , German politician and publicist (died 1950)
- August 2: Friedrich Hauck , German evangelical clergyman and university teacher (died 1954)
- August 2 Johannes Tralow , German novelist, short story writer, playwright and publicist (died 1968)
- August 3 Louis Biester , German politician (died 1965)
- August 3 Vilém Mathesius , Czech linguist, historian and Anglicist (died 1945)
- August 3: Segundo Luis Moreno , Ecuadorian composer (d. 1972)
- August 4 Leonhard Maria Adler , Austro-German engineer, politician and worker priest (died 1965)
- August 7: Hanns FJ Kropff , German advertiser (died 1963)
- August 8: Oscar K. Allen , American politician (died 1936)
- August 9: Titus Maria Horten , German Catholic priest and saint (died 1936)
- August 9: Hermann Romberg , German actor (died 1929)
- August 10: William Van Alen , American architect (d. 1954)
- August 11: Walter Streule , Swiss football player and official (†unknown)
- August 13 Jean Blake Coulthard , Canadian pianist and music teacher (d. 1933)
- August 15 Marion Bauer , American composer (d. 1955)
- August 16: Erhard Doebler , German-Baltic clergyman and educator, Protestant martyr (died 1919)
- August 16: Christian Mortensen , Dane, oldest man ever (secured) († 1998)
- August 17 Paul Andres , Swiss doctor and politician (died 1974)
- August 18 Hermann Liebmann , German politician (died 1935)
- August 18: Marcel Samuel-Rousseau , French composer (d. 1955)
- August 19: Otto Steinwachs , Auxiliary Bishop of the Old Catholic Church in Germany (died 1977)
- August 20: Ricardo Joaquín Alfaro Jované , President of Panama (d. 1971)
- August 21: Franz Kruckenberg , German engineer (died 1965)
- August 22: Heinrich User , Romanian journalist, politician and printer († 1948)
- August 22: Raymonde de Laroche , French pilot, first woman in the world to get a pilot's license (d. 1919)
- August 22: Elisabeth de Meuron , personality in Bern († 1980)
- August 24: Walter Stengel , German cultural historian (died 1960)
- August 25 Seán Ó Ceallaigh , Irish politician and President (died 1966)
- August 26: James Franck , German-American physicist (d. 1964)
- August 27 Hubert Marischka , Austrian director and screenwriter († 1959)
- August 27: Jaroslav Křička , Czech composer (died 1969)
- August 28: Ernst Weiß , Austrian doctor and writer (died 1940)
- August 31: Franz Hofer , German film director (died 1945)
September
- September 2: Paul Robien , German conservation activist, thought leader of the environmental movement (died 1945)
- September 4: Leonhard Frank , German writer and pacifist (died 1961)
- September 6: John Powell , American pianist and composer (d. 1963)
- September 6: Paul Fischer , German national soccer player († 1942)
- September 7 August Thienemann , German zoologist and ecologist (died 1960)
- September 8: Alberto Vojtěch Frič , Czech cactus collector and plant hunter (died 1944)
- September 9: Milton Manaki , Ottoman film pioneer (d. 1964)
- September 9: Friedrich Weigle , German organ builder (died 1958)
- September 11: Emil Rausch , German swimmer (died 1954)
- September 13 Herbert Berliner , Canadian music producer and inventor (d. 1966)
- September 13 Ramón Grau San Martín , President of Cuba (died 1969)
- September 14: Harald Fryklöf , Swedish organist, music teacher and composer (died 1919)
- September 14 Marjorie Pickthall , English-Canadian writer (d. 1922)
- September 15: Otto Weddigen , German submarine commander (d. 1915)
- September 16 Ricardo Rojas , Argentine writer, essayist, educational politician and educator (died 1957)
- September 19 Domingos Leite Pereira , Portuguese politician (died 1956)
- September 19: Robert Storm Petersen , Danish painter, cartoonist, quick draftsman, emcee, cabaret artist and actor (d. 1949)
- September 20 Ossip Bernstein , French chess player (died 1962)
- September 21 Hubert Eisdell , English singer (d. 1948)
- September 21: Friedrich Ranke , German scholar and folklorist (died 1950)
- September 22: Wilhelm Keitel , Field Marshal in the Third Reich († 1946)
- September 24: Alfons Petzold , Austrian writer (died 1923)
- September 24: Max Décugis , French tennis player (died 1978)
- September 26: Eduard von der Heydt , German banker, art collector and patron (died 1964)
- September 27 Elly Ney , German pianist and interpreter of the works of Ludwig van Beethoven († 1968)
- September 28: Alexander Pavlovich Kutepov , general in the Russian Civil War (d. 1930)
- September 29: Julius Adler , German lawyer (died 1934)
- September 29 Suzuki Miekichi , Japanese novelist and children's book author (died 1936)
- September 30 George Bancroft , American actor (d. 1956)
- September 30: Hans Geiger , German physicist (died 1945)
October
- October 2 Martin Armstrong , British novelist, poet, editor and journalist (died 1974)
- October 2: Boris Mikhailovich Shaposhnikov , Soviet Marshal (died 1945)
- October 5 Giorgio Abetti , Italian astronomer (died 1982)
- October 5 Robert Goddard , American scientist (died 1945)
- October 6: Karol Szymanowski , Polish composer (died 1937)
- October 10 Behice Maan , wife of Sultan Abdülhamid II (died 1969)
- October 11: John Francis D'Alton , Archbishop of Armagh and Cardinal (d. 1963)
- October 11: Robert Nathaniel Dett , Canadian composer and pianist (d. 1943)
- October 11 Will Vesper , German writer and literary critic (died 1962)
- October 12: Harry Liedtke , German actor (died 1945)
- October 14 – Eamon de Valera , Irish politician, Prime Minister and President of the Republic (died 1975)
- October 15 Carl von Schubert , German civil servant and diplomat (died 1947)
- October 16 – Hermann Detzner , German officer and writer (died 1970)
- October 17: Olaf Fønss , Danish actor (died 1949)
- October 18 Lucien Petit-Breton , French cyclist (died 1917)
- October 19: Otto Rudolf Salvisberg , Swiss architect (died 1940)
- October 19 Umberto Boccioni , Italian painter and sculptor (died 1916)
- October 20 – Bela Lugosi , Austro-Hungarian-American actor (d. 1956)
- October 20 Margaret Dumont , American actress (died 1965)
- October 21: Hermann Mutschmann , German classics scholar (died 1918)
- October 24 – Hans Flatterich , German journalist and politician (died 1964)
- October 24: Emmerich Kálmán , Hungarian composer (died 1953)
- October 25: Florence Easton , English soprano (died 1955)
- October 25 André-Damien-Ferdinand Jullien , Roman Catholic cardinal (died 1964)
- October 25: Paul Kiem , German (Bavarian) folk musician (d. 1960)
- October 26 Georg Hellmuth Neuendorff , German writer and reform pedagogue († 1949)
- October 26 William Henry Wills , American politician (died 1946)
- October 27 – Charles Du Bos , French writer and literary critic (died 1939)
- October 27: Wilhelm Stapel , German publicist (died 1954)
- October 27 Lazare Saminsky , Russian-Jewish composer (died 1959)
- October 28 Friedrich Wilhelm Neuffer , German civil engineer and scientist (died 1960)
- October 28 Grigol Robakidze , Georgian writer (died 1962)
- October 29: Jean Giraudoux , French playwright (died 1944)
- October 29: Jenő Fuchs , Hungarian fencer (died 1955)
- October 30: Günther von Kluge , Field Marshal in the Third Reich († 1944)
- October 30: Frauke Missfeldt-Bünz , German painter (died 1976)
- 30 October: Oldřich Duras , Czechoslovak chess champion (died 1957)
- October 30: William F. Halsey , United States Admiral (d. 1959)
November
- November 2: Leo Perutz , Austrian writer (died 1957)
- November 3: Jakub Kolas , Belarusian poet and writer (died 1956)
- November 4: Bob Douglas , American sports executive, founder of the New York Renaissance (d. 1979)
- November 5 Ludwig Marum , German lawyer and politician (died 1934)
- November 7: Sam Ford , American politician (died 1961)
- November 10: August Frickenhaus , German archaeologist (died 1925)
- November 10: Max Mell , Austrian playwright and poet (d. 1971)
- November 11: Gustavus VI. Adolf , King of Sweden (died 1973)
- November 11 – Viggo Kihl , Canadian pianist and music teacher (d. 1945)
- November 11 Theodor Roeingh , German farmer and politician (died 1945)
- November 12 Giuseppe Antonio Borgese , Italian critic and writer (died 1952)
- November 13 Joseph Cardijn , Belgian Roman Catholic minister, founder of the International Christian Worker Youth (died 1967)
- November 13: Estanislao Mejía , Mexican composer (d. 1967)
- November 14: Norah de Kresz , English pianist and music teacher (d. 1960)
- November 16: Carl Wenglein , German needle manufacturer and conservationist (died 1935)
- November 17 Maurice Germot , French tennis player (died 1958)
- November 18: Édouard Brisson , French racing driver (d. 1948)
- November 18: Amelita Galli-Curci , Italian coloratura soprano (d. 1963)
- November 18: Jacques Maritain , French philosopher (died 1973)
- November 18: Wyndham Lewis , English writer and painter (died 1957)
- November 19: Dmitri Alexeyevich Smirnov , Russian singer (tenor) (died 1944)
- November 20: Felix Linnemann , German football official, President of the German Football Association († 1948)
- November 23: Victor Antoni , French politician (died 1966)
- November 23 Fernand Alfred Désiré Augereau , French cyclist (died 1958)
- November 23: John Rabe , German merchant (died 1950)
- November 24: Eric Rucker Eddison , English fantasy writer (d. 1945)
- November 25: Herbert Assmann , German internist and university lecturer († 1950)
- November 26: Arishima Ikuma , Japanese writer and painter (died 1974)
- November 27 Adolf Abel , German architect (died 1968)
- November 29: Vali von der Osten , German soprano (died 1923)
December
- December 1 Armida Barelli , Italian feminist activist (died 1952)
- December 3 – Edmond Audemars , Swiss cyclist, aviation pioneer and entrepreneur (d. 1970)
- December 3 Giovanni Rossignoli , Italian cyclist (died 1954)
- December 6: Eugen Neufeld , Austrian actor (died 1950)
- December 8: Manuel María Ponce , Mexican composer (died 1948)
- December 10: James Lawton Collins , US 2-star general (d. 1963)
- December 10 Otto Neurath , Austrian philosopher, sociologist and economist (died 1945)
- December 10 Martina Wied , Austrian writer (died 1957)
- December 11 Thea Arnold , German politician (died 1966)
- December 11: Max Born , German mathematician and physicist (died 1970)
- December 11: Fiorello LaGuardia , US Mayor (d. 1947)
- December 12: William N. Doak , American politician (died 1933)
- December 13: Fritz Strich , German-Swiss literary scholar († 1963)
- 14 December: Wilhelm Keppler , German entrepreneur and SS Obergruppenfuhrer (died 1960)
- December 16: Zoltán Kodály , Hungarian composer and ethnomusicologist (died 1967)
- December 16: Walther Meißner , German physicist (died 1974)
- December 17 Edward Russell Ayrton , British Egyptologist (died 1914)
- December 17 Hanns Sassmann , Austrian writer (died 1944)
- December 19: Walter Braunfels , German composer and pianist (died 1954)
- December 19 Ralph DePalma , American motorcycle and automobile racer (d. 1956)
- December 19 Bronisław Huberman , Polish violinist (died 1947)
- December 20: Max Sailer , German racing driver (died 1964)
- December 27: Agustín Abarca , Chilean painter (died 1953)
- December 27: Fridolin Keidel , German aviation pioneer (died 1960)
- December 27 Alexander Rueb , Dutch chess official, President of FIDE (died 1959)
- December 28 Arthur Stanley Eddington , British astrophysicist (d. 1944)
- December 29 – Frank Delahanty , American baseball player (d. 1966)
Exact date of birth unknown
- Albert Ackermann , German entrepreneur (died 1954)
- Abdülhak Adnan Adıvar , Turkish politician, writer, historian and physician (died 1955)
- Daniel Anguiano , Spanish politician and trade unionist (died 1964)
- Shigeru Aoki , Japanese painter (died 1911)
- Theodor Artmann , German businessman and politician (died 1954)
- Morteza Gholi Bayat , Prime Minister of Iran (died 1955)
- Marguerite-Fadhma Aït Mansour Amrouche , Algerian singer († 1967)
- Cemil Cem , Turkish cartoonist and editor († 1950)
- Ishii Hakutei , Japanese painter and printmaker (died 1958)
- Arturo Rossato , Italian journalist, playwright, librettist and lyricist (died 1942)
- Mulai Yusuf , Sultan of the Alawids in Morocco (died 1927)
Died
January to March
- January 3: James William Harrison Ainsworth , English author (b. 1805)
- January 3: Alfred Dehodencq , French painter (b. 1822)
- January 3: Clement Claiborne Clay , American politician (born 1816)
- January 6: Richard Henry Dana, Jr. , American politician and writer (b. 1815)
- January 6: Nathan Davis , English explorer of Africa (b. 1812)
- January 7: Ignacy Łukasiewicz , Polish chemist, pharmacist and inventor. (*1822)
- January 10: Giovanni Dupré , Italian sculptor (b. 1817)
- January 11: Theodor Schwann , German physiologist (b. 1810)
- January 17: Alexander H. Bullock , American politician (born 1816)
- January 17: Adolf Mützelburg , German writer (b. 1831)
- January 17: Carlo Piaggia , Italian traveler to Africa (b. c. 1830)
- January 19: Hermann von Schlagintweit , German naturalist and explorer (b. 1826)
- January 23: Karl Maria Kertbeny , Austrian journalist and human rights activist (b. 1824)
- January 26: Robert Byington Mitchell , American politician (born 1823)
- January 29: Alfred von Henikstein , Austrian Field Marshal Lieutenant (b. 1810)
- January 30: Georg Jakob Friedrich Karl Aulenbach , German poet (born 1810)
- January 31: James Spriggs Payne , President of Liberia (b. 1819)
- February 3: Johann Bartholome Arpagaus , Swiss politician and physician (b. 1810)
- February 4: John Hiles , English organist and music teacher (b. 1810)
- February 5: Ludwig von Aretin , German politician (b. 1845)
- February 6: James Joseph McCarthy , Irish architect (b. 1817)
- February 8: Berthold Auerbach , German writer (b. 1812)
- February 14: Henri-Auguste Barbier , French writer (b. 1805)
- February 16: Julián Gavino Arcas Lacal , Spanish guitarist, composer and guitar teacher (born 1832)
- February 21: Gottfried Wilhelm Lehmann , founding father of the German Baptists (b. 1799)
- February 21: Hugo Emil Schober , German agronomist (b. 1820)
- February 23: Karl Christian Aubel , German portrait painter (b. 1796)
- February 26: Moritz Daniel Oppenheim , German portrait and history painter (b. 1800)
- February 27: Alfred Jaell , Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1832)
- March 1: Theodor Kullak , German pianist and composer (born 1818)
- March 2: Louis Kufferath , German composer (b. 1811)
- March 3: Ludwig Kalisch , German writer (b. 1814)
- March 4: Milton Latham , American politician (b. 1827)
- March 5: Gustav August Freiherr von Aichelburg , German politician (b. 1813)
- March 10: Charles Wyville Thomson , British professor of zoology (b. 1830)
- March 16: Johann Nepomuk Amberg , Austrian priest and politician (b. 1802)
- March 24: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , American writer (b. 1807)
- March 27: Thomas Jones Barker , English painter (b. 1815)
- March 27: Stephen Augustus Hurlbut , American politician, diplomat and commander (b. 1815)
- March 27: Jørgen Moe , Norwegian writer and clergyman (born 1813)
- March 27: Mütercim Mehmed Rüşdi Pasha , Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1811)
April to June
- April 3: Jesse James , American outlaw (b. 1847)
- April 6: Martin Achleitner , "water supervisor" in Munich (b. 1823)
- April 9: Dante Gabriel Rossetti , British painter (b. 1828)
- April 13: Bruno Bauer , German philosopher, Bible critic and writer (b. 1809)
- April 15 Karl Friedrich Christian Hasselmann , German pastor and politician (b. 1794)
- April 19: Charles Darwin , British naturalist (discoverer of the theory of evolution) (b. 1809)
- April 20: Tuiskon Ziller , German philosopher and educator (Herbartians) (b. 1817)
- April 21: Carl Gustav Friedrich Hasselbach , German politician, Privy Councilor, Lord Mayor of Magdeburg (b. 1809)
- April 25: Joseph Aschbach , German historian (b. 1801)
- April 27: Carl Aubel , German engineer (b. 1837)
- April 27: Ferdinand Reich , German chemist and physicist (b. 1799)
- April 27: Ralph Waldo Emerson , American philosopher and poet (born 1803)
- April 29: John Nelson Darby , British theologian, co-founder of the Brethren (b. 1800)
- May 1: Friedrich August Abt , German jurist and politician (b. 1811)
- May 3: Horace Maynard , American politician (b. 1814)
- May 5: Johann Zeh , Austrian engineer (b. 1816)
- May 17: François Chabas , French Egyptologist (b. 1817)
- May 23: Maria Arndts , German writer (b. 1823)
- May 29 Hermann Hettner , German literary and art historian (b. 1821)
- June 1: Johannes Zeltner , German manufacturer and entrepreneur, honorary citizen in Wittenberg (b. 1805)
.jpg)
- June 2: Giuseppe Garibaldi , Italian freedom fighter (b. 1807)
- June 8: John Scott Russell , British shipbuilder (b. 1808)
- June 15: William Dennison junior , American politician (b. 1815)
- June 17: Vladimir Sollogub , Russian writer (b. 1813)
- June 24: Joachim Raff , Swiss composer (b. 1822)
July to September
- July 4: Ichabod Goodwin , American politician (b. c. 1794)
- July 7: Mikhail Skobelev , Russian general (b. 1843)
- July 13: Johnny Ringo , American gunslinger (b. 1850)
- July 18: Carl Hesse , German organ builder in Vienna and Trieste (b. 1808)
- July 22: Ludwig Auerbach , German poet (b. 1840)
- July 25: Abel Burckhardt , Swiss pastor and composer (b. 1805)
- July 27: Johannes Jacobus van Oosterzee , Dutch Reformed theologian (born 1817)
- July 29: Andrew Leith Adams , Scottish physician, naturalist and geologist (b. 1827)
- August 1: Henry Kendall , Australian writer (b. 1839)
- August 10: Dethloff Carl Hinstorff , German publisher (b. 1811)
- August 13: George R. Dennis , American politician (b. 1822)
- August 17: Dietrich Wilhelm Landfermann , German educator, democrat and school principal in Duisburg (b. 1800)
- August 17: Václav Bolemír Nebeský , Czech poet and philosopher (born 1818)
- August 20: Friedrich Benjamin von Lütke , Russian naval officer, geographer and Arctic explorer (b. 1797)
- August 21: Jurij Mihevec , Slovenian composer (b. 1805)
- August 25: Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald , Estonian physician and writer (b. 1803)
- August 26: Orazio Antinori , Italian zoologist and traveler (b. 1811)
- September 8: Joseph Liouville , French mathematician (b. 1809)
- September 10: Edmond Membrée , French composer (b. 1820)
- September 14: Georges Leclanché , French chemist (b. 1839)
- September 15: Otto Delitsch , German geographer (b. 1821)
- September 20: Albert Bitzius , Swiss theologian and politician (b. 1835)
- September 30: Adolf Heinrich Lier , South Tyrolean landscape painter (b. 1826)
- September 23: Friedrich Wöhler , German chemist (b. 1800)
- September 30: Alois von Anreiter , Austrian miniaturist (b. 1803)
October to December
- October 1: Jules Noriac , French novelist and librettist (b. 1827)
- October 5 Karl Felix Halm , German classical scholar and librarian (b. 1809)
- October 13: Arthur de Gobineau , French nobleman (b. 1816)
- October 19: Johann Fürst , Austrian actor and theater director (b. 1825)
- October 20: Julius Jacob the Elder , German painter (b. 1811)
- October 20: Arnold Rohlfs , German organ builder (b. 1808)
- October 22: Ion Andreescu , Romanian painter (b. 1850)
- October 23: Ezekiel A. Straw , American politician (b. 1819)
- October 27: Emile Guers , Franco-Swiss cleric and founder of the Geneva Free Church (b. 1794)
- October 28: Muhammad III. al-Husayn , Bey of Tunis (b. 1814)
- October 30: Olegario Víctor Andrade , Argentine poet (b. 1839)
- 2 November: David Morgenstern , Bavarian state parliamentarian and tin foil manufacturer (b. 1814)
- November 2: Cenobio Paniagua , Mexican composer (b. 1821)
- November 2: Willard Preble Hall , American politician (b. 1820)
- November 3: Giovanni Battista Pioda , Swiss politician (b. 1808)
- November 4: Otto Wartmann-Kägi , Swiss merchant in the Orient (b. 1841)
- November 7: Julius Hübner , German painter and museum curator (b. 1806)
- November 11: Victor Chéri , French composer and conductor (b. 1830)
- November 11: Franz von Kobell , German mineralogist and writer (b. 1803)
- November 12: August von Werder , German organ builder (b. 1819)
- November 13: Gottfried Kinkel , German theologian, writer and politician (b. 1815)
- November 16: Carl Gottlieb Weigle , German organ builder (b. 1810)
- November 19: Mathias Mack , German pharmacist (b. 1801)
- November 20: Ludwig von Arco-Zinneberg , German politician (b. 1840)
- November 20: Adalbert Keler , Hungarian composer (b. 1820)
- November 21: Georgiana Archer , Scottish teacher (b. 1827)
- November 26: Otto Theodor von Manteuffel , Prussian politician (b. 1805)
- November 30: Joachim Marquardt , German high school teacher and historian (b. 1812)
- 2 December: Leopold Stein , German rabbi (b. 1810)
- December 6: Alfred Escher , Swiss politician and railway pioneer (b. 1819)
- December 6: Louis Blanc , French founder of social democracy (b. 1811)
- December 9: Hugh Allan , Canadian entrepreneur (b. 1810)
- 14 December: Heinrich Wilhelm Krausnick , Lord Mayor of Berlin (b. 1797)
- December 20: Benjamin G. Humphreys , American politician (b. 1808)
- December 20: Friedrich Ludwig Wilhelm Herbst , German educator, philologist, lexicographer and historian. (* 1825)
- December 22: Leopold Alexander Friedrich Arends , German stenographer and systems inventor (b. 1817)
- December 26: Henri Le Secq , French photographer (b. 1818)
- 30 December: Anton Lutterbeck , German Catholic theologian and classical philologist (b. 1812)
- December 31: Léon Gambetta , French statesman of the Third Republic (b. 1838)
- December 31: Francis Strother Lyon , American politician (b. 1800)
Exact date of death unknown
- Georg Julius Andresen , German author, physician and hydrotherapist (born 1815)
web links
Commons : 1882 - Collection of images, videos and audio files
itemizations
- ↑ For details see en:Bombardment of Alexandria