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Calendar overview 1888
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| 1888 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 1336/37 (turn of the year July) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1880/81 (turn of the year 10/11 September) |
| Baha'i calendar | 44/45 (March 20/21) |
| Bengali solar calendar | 1293/94 (beginning of April 14th or 15th) |
| Buddhist calendar | 2431/32 (southern Buddhism); 2430/31 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 76th (77th) cycle
Year of the earth-rat戊子 ( at the beginning of the year fire-pig 丁亥) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 1250/51 (turn of the year April) |
| Dangun era (Korea) | 4221/22 (October 2/3) |
| Iranian calendar | 1266/67 (around March 21) |
| Islamic calendar | 1305/06 (September 7/8) |
| Japanese calendar |
Meiji 21 (
明治 21 年 ); Koki 2548 |
| Jewish calendar | 5648/49 (September 5-6) |
| Coptic calendar | 1604/05 (September 10-11) |
| Malayalam calendar | 1063/64 |
| Rumi Calendar (Ottoman Empire) | 1303/04 (March 1) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 2198/99 (turn of the year April)
Syria: 2199/2200 (turn of the year October) |
| Suriyakati Calendar (Thai Solar Calendar) | 2430/31 (April 1st) |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 1944/45 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
German Empire
- March 9 : Kaiser Wilhelm I dies in Berlin at the age of almost 91. He follows when Emperor Friedrich III. his eldest son, Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm (99-day emperor).
- June 15 : Friedrich III. dies and the last emperor of the German Empire, Wilhelm II , ascends the imperial throne after the death of his father ( three emperor year in Germany).
Other events in Europe
- January 1st : Wilhelm Hertenstein becomes President of Switzerland .
- October 21 : The Swiss Social Democratic Party is founded.
- October 29th : The train of Tsar Alexander III derails at Borki south of Kharkov for an unexplained cause . on the way back from the Caucasus to St. Petersburg. The imperial family remains unharmed in the railway accident.
- December 26th : The Faroese Christmas Meeting sprouts the local national movement. In the history of the Faroe Islands , the desire for their own language and independence from Danish rule arises.
- December 30th : The Hainfeld party congress for the establishment of the Social Democratic Workers' Party in Austria begins. Victor Adler has worked out a program for this, which Karl Kautsky approved. 69 of the 110 delegates from the Habsburg crown lands are entitled to vote.
Africa
- April 28th : The German East African Society (DOAG) signs a contract with Sultan Chalifa ibn Said of Zanzibar , according to which the society takes over the administration of the Zanzibari mainland and the collection of the coastal tariffs in the name of the Sultan for an annual rent.
- August 16 : The uprising of the East African coastal population against the German-East African Society breaks out from Pangani and spreads rapidly. The trigger is the hoisting of the DOAG flag next to that of the Sultan and the imperious appearance of DOAG representative Emil von Zelewski .
- Except Bagamoyo and Dar es Salaam DOAG must leave by the end of September all of their stations on the coast. Thereupon there is an official request for help from the DOAG to the German government.
- November 22nd : The Reichspost founds the Lamu postal agency as the first postal service of the German Empire on the soil of East Africa.
United States of America
- November 6 : Democratic incumbent Grover Cleveland wins the most votes in the United States presidential election , but Republican challenger Benjamin Harrison gets more electoral votes and is elected 23rd President of the United States .
South America
- May 13th : Princess Isabella of Brazil , who reigns for her father Pedro II , who is in Europe , signs the Lei Áurea decided by the Senate the day before to abolish slavery in Brazil . With the signing of the law, Brazil will be the last western country to abolish slavery. The law releases around one million slaves into freedom. Isabella receives popularly the honorary title A Redentora ("the Redeemer") and is given by Pope Leo XIII. honored with a golden rose .
Oceania
- April 16 : The German Empire annexes the island of Nauru on the basis of the British-German declarations over the western Pacific from 1886 .
- October 3 : The German occupiers end the Nauruan tribal war that has raged for ten years and brought the island's population to the brink of extinction.
- June 6th : After the discovery of phosphate deposits, Christmas Island is annexed by Great Britain.
- The Cook Islands become a British protectorate .
Other events worldwide
- October 29th : The Constantinople Convention proclaims freedom of navigation in the Suez Canal .
economy
World exhibition
- For the 8. April bis 9. December held World Expo 1888 in Barcelona which is just 53 days Gran Hotel Internacional built.
Patents
- May 22 : Leroy S. Buffington, the architect of Pillsbury A Mill in Minneapolis , is granted a US patent on a steel construction for skyscrapers .
- August 7th : The inventor Theophilus Van Kannel receives the patent for the revolving door in the United States .
- August 21 : William Seward Burroughs receives the US - patent number 388,116 on the model he invented a calculating machine .
- December 7th : The Scottish tire pioneer John Boyd Dunlop files the first patent for the pneumatic bicycle tire.
- The photographer Ottomar Anschütz patented the shutter of the blind in front of the image plane.
Business start-ups
- February 13 : The Financial Times is available for the first time in London . The London Financial Guide published around a month earlier will be continued under this title .
- March 12th : Cecil Rhodes , together with the Rothschild Bank in Paris and other business partners, founds “ De Beers Consolidated Diamond Mines ”, a company that after a short period of time achieved an almost worldwide monopoly in the diamond trade and still has it today.
- September 6th : The Flensburg brewery opens.
traffic
- June 4th : The King of the Belgians, Leopold II , opens the first of the hydraulic boat lifts on the Belgian Canal du Center . The further construction of the waterway has been delayed for reasons of cost.
- June 14 : In Switzerland, the Brünigbahn from Brienz over the Brünig Pass to Alpnachstad, built by the Jura – Bern – Lucerne , is officially opened.
- July 1 : The Stralsund – Rostock railway is officially opened by the Prussian State Railways .
- August 18 : The Frankfurt Centralbahnhof opens as the largest train station in Europe.
- September 18 : The German-Australian Steamship Company is founded in Hamburg to set up a regular service to the fifth continent .
- September 25 : The Nerobergbahn in Wiesbaden opens.
- October 4 : Under its CEO Georg von Siemens, Deutsche Bank acquires the concession to build the Anatolian Railway. She is supported by Reich Chancellor Bismarck.
Others
- October 29 : In a solemn ceremony, Kaiser Wilhelm II lays the keystone for the first section of the Speicherstadt in Hamburg .
science and technology
- January 13 : In Washington, DC , 33 men form the National Geographic Society for the Advancement of Geography . Gardiner Greene Hubbard is elected first President of the Society on January 27th .
- June 23 : The German Association for the Promotion of Airship Travel conducts the first of the so-called Berlin scientific aviation flights . On board the Herder gas balloon are among others the club member Hans Bartsch von Sigsfeld and the meteorologist Victor Kremser .
- June 29th : A wax cylinder phonograph developed by Thomas Alva Edison is used to record parts of Handel's oratorio Israel in Egypt - which is the first recorded music recorded in the United Kingdom to date.
- August 1 : Carl Benz received the world's first driving license for his motor vehicle , issued on August 1, 1888 by the Grand Ducal Baden District Office.
- August 5th : Bertha Benz drives with her two children in her husband Carl Benz's car (without his knowledge) from Mannheim to Pforzheim . It is the first cross-country trip by an automobile .
- September 7th : The baby Edith Eleanor McLean is the first child in the USA to be placed in an incubator .
- December 9th : Statistician Herman Hollerith installs the punched card-controlled calculating machine he invented in the US War Department.
- December 13th : Heinrich Hertz informs the Berlin Academy of Sciences about the existence of electromagnetic waves in his report "About Rays of Electric Force" . His discovery provided the decisive impetus for developments in the direction of wireless telegraphy and broadcasting .
- Wilhelm Hallwachs discovers the photo effect (also known as the photoelectric effect).
- The first parts of the Kittelsthal stalactite cave are discovered.
- The Suriyakati calendar is introduced in Thailand .
- The German engineer Andreas Flocken produces the Flocken electric car in the A. Flocken machine factory in Coburg , the world's first electric car .
Culture
architecture
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The Eiffel Tower is still under construction in 1888
Paul Louis Delance , Eiffel Tower, View from the Seine , 1888, oil on canvas
- The Mole Antonelliana , the tallest building in Italy, is completed in Turin .
Visual arts
- March / May: The painter Vincent van Gogh paints the picture Bridge of Langlois (in 2 versions).
- August: Vincent van Gogh paints several versions of the painting Sunflowers .
Langlois Bridge
Three sunflowers
Five sunflowers
Twelve sunflowers in a vase
Fifteen sunflowers
Paul Gauguin : Vincent van Gogh, painting sunflowers
- Summer: Vincent van Gogh paints the sunset at Montmajour .
- September: Vincent van Gogh produces the paintings The Night Café , Café Terrace in the Evening and Starry Night over the Rhone in oil on canvas .
- October 23 : Paul Gauguin arrives in Arles to found a “Atelier of the South” with van Gogh.
- Vincent van Gogh paints the first version of his bedroom in the “Yellow House” in Arles.
The night cafe
Café terrace in the evening
Starry night over the Rhone
Bedroom in Arles
(1st version)
- December 23 : Vincent van Gogh injured his right ear under unknown circumstances.
- The artist Claude Monet paints the picture Antibes seen from the hill 'Notre Dame' .
- The Milwaukee Art Association is founded
literature
- September 30th : Friedrich Nietzsche finishes work on his work The Antichrist in Turin ; Start of the alternative calendar suggested at the end of the book.
- Theodor Fontane's novel Irrungen, Wirrungen is published.
Music and theater
- Feb. 13 : First performance of Symphonia Tragica of Felix Draeseke in Dresden
- February 25 : First performance of Benjamin Godard's opera Jocelyn at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels
- April 11th : The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam opens.
- October 4th : The pantomime divertissement Die Puppenfee is premiered at the K. uk Hofoperntheater in Vienna with music by Josef Bayer based on a joint libretto by Joseph Haßreiter and Franz Gaul.
- October 28 : World premiere of the one-act "joke" Der Bär by Anton Chekhov at the Korsch Theater in Moscow
- John Philip Sousa composes the Semper Fidelis military march .
Others
- October 17th : The first edition of National Geographic Magazine appears in the USA , whose monthly editions of their pictures, reports and essays will soon have a regular customer base.
- October 14 : With Roundhay Garden Scene , Louis Le Prince shoots the oldest film in film history . The film Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge will follow at the end of October .
- December 4th : Foundation of the heraldic association "Zum Kleeblatt" in Hanover
- December 13 : Foundation of the German School in Thessaloniki , Greece
- Foundation of the German Historical Institute in Rome
society
- February 12 : William Robert Woodman , Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers and William Wynn Westcott found the magical secret society Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in England .
- July 31 : In Munich, during a centenary celebration on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Ludwig I, the so-called elephant catastrophe occurs when a group of elephants shy away from a pageant, causing a mass panic. Four people are killed and 42 injured.
- August 13 : At the invitation of Valentin Salzmann , the Swabian Alb Association is founded in Plochingen . On November 12 , a first draft constitution will be submitted.
- August 31 (possibly earlier) to November 9 : Jack the Ripper is up to mischief in the London borough of Whitechapel .
- September 27 : Stanley Park in Vancouver , Canada's largest urban park , opens.
- November 29th : Six carpenters found the German Workers' Samaritan Association in Berlin .
religion
Roman Catholic Church
- June 20 : In the encyclical Libertas praestantissimum donum , Pope Leo XIII recognizes. the freedom of conscience "Unrestricted: but also upholds freedom of thought and public thoughts notice of a person are not on the rights of citizens."
- June 24th : Pope Leo XIII. advises the Irish through the bishops in the encyclical Saepe nos on obedience, justice and legal action in times of upheaval in Ireland .
- December 10th : In the encyclical Quam aerumnosa , Pope Leo XIII worries . about the Italian immigrants in America. A shortage of priests and language problems could have repercussions on the giving of the sacraments . Sent clergy from Italy are supposed to remedy the bottleneck.
Anglican Church
- 3. - July 27 : Third Lambeth Conference of Anglican Church
Disasters
- January 12th : A snowstorm suddenly set in in the more northerly landlocked United States, killing several hundred people, including numerous school children. That's why it 's called Schoolchildren's Blizzard .
- March 11th : A blizzard begins to cripple life on the east coast of the USA . The great snowstorm of 1888 raged uninterruptedly for a day and a half. At the end of the bad weather, around 400 deaths are counted. On March 15, the Cuban writer José Martí wrote the experience report Nueva York bajo la nieve , which was published on April 27 in the Argentine magazine La Nación .
- June 25 : In Sundsvall , Sweden’s largest city fire breaks out. 400 farms are destroyed and 9,000 residents are left homeless. On the same day, a major fire raged in Umeå , killing 2,500 of the 3,000 residents there.
- July 15 : The eruption of the Bandai volcano in Japan kills 461; 70 people are injured.
- August 14 : The Danish passenger steamer Geiser sinks off Sable Island after colliding with a ship from the same shipping company. 118 people die.
- October 29th : 23 people die in the railway accident in Borki , the family of Tsar Alexander III. who is on the train remains unharmed.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- January 21 : The United States creates the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU).
- March 22nd : The Scot William McGregor founds The Football League , the world's first professional football league . The Football League 1888/89 starts with 12 participating clubs on September 8th .
- April 1 : The Rotterdamsche Cricket & Football Club Sparta is founded, from which later the football club Sparta Rotterdam emerges.
Born
January
- January 1 : Hermann Arnold , German entrepreneur († 1973 )
- January 1 : Eduard Bass , Czech writer and actor († 1946 )
- January 1 : Frank Stokes , American blues musician († 1955 )
- January 1 : Johannes Hohlfeld , German genealogist and historian († 1950 )
- January 4 : Walther Kossel , German physicist († 1956 )
- January 5th : Lauri Pihkala , Finnish athlete, inventor of the Pesäpallo († 1981 )
- January 8 : Richard Courant , German mathematician († 1972 )
- January 10 : Alfred Birlem , German football referee († 1956 )
- January 12 : Claude Delvincourt , French composer († 1954 )
- January 13 : Wassil Boschinow , Bulgarian composer († 1966 )
- January 18 : Michael Horlacher , German politician († 1957 )
- January 18 : Wim Bronger , Dutch football player († 1965 )
- January 19 : Ernesto Ruffini , Italian bishop and cardinal († 1967 )
- January 20 : Tryggve Gran , Norwegian pilot, explorer and author (first solo flight over the North Sea in 1914) († 1980 )
- January 20 : Paul Weyland , German chemist († 1972 )
- January 21 : Ernst Kapp , German classical philologist († 1978 )
- January 22 : Willy Moog , German philosopher († 1935 )
- January 23 : Paul Peter Ewald , German physicist († 1985 )
- January 23 : Jerzy Gablenz , Polish composer († 1937 )
- January 23 : Bianca Stagno Bellincioni , Italian singer and actress († 1980 )
- January 24th : Ernst Heinkel , German aviation pioneer († 1958 )
- January 24th : Vicki Baum , Austrian harpist and writer († 1960 )
- January 27 : Otto Schmidt-Hannover , German politician († 1971 )
- January 27 : Victor Moritz Goldschmidt , geochemist († 1947 )
- January 29 : Walter Bau (teacher) , German teacher, geologist, paleontologist and zoologist († 1967 )
- January 29 : Sydney Chapman , British astronomer and geophysicist († 1970 )
February
- February 1 : Hans Anton Aschenborn , German animal painter, illustrator and author († 1931 )
- February 2 : Johannes Eckert , Frankfurter Original († 1959 )
- February 2 : Irene Scharrer , English pianist († 1971 )
- February 4 : Paul Althaus , German Protestant theologian († 1966 )
- February 5 : Hedwig Anneler , Swiss ethnologist and writer († 1969 )
- February 6 : Oscar Gans , German dermatologist († 1983 )
- February 7th : Lothar van Gogh , Dutch football player († 1945 )
- February 8 : Hans Arko , Austrian lawyer and politician († 1953 )
- February 8 : Edith Evans , British actress († 1976 )
- February 8 : Jakob Kaiser , German politician († 1961 )
- February 8 : Matthijs Vermeulen , Dutch composer († 1967 )
- February 9 : Cas Ruffelse , Dutch football player († 1958 )
- February 10 : Alfredo Pacini , Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal († 1967 )
- February 10 : Giuseppe Ungaretti , Italian writer († 1970 )
- February 10 : Harry Beaumont , American film director († 1966 )
- February 10 : Wilhelm Thöny , Austrian painter and graphic artist († 1949 )
- February 10 : Willy Jaeckel , German artist († 1944 )
- February 11 : Alfred Johan Asikainen , Finnish wrestler († 1942 )
- February 11 : Rolf Gustav Haebler , German politician and local researcher († 1974 )
- February 12 : Anders Oscar Ahlgren , Swedish wrestler († 1976 )
- February 12 : Hans von Sponeck , Major General of the Wehrmacht in World War II († 1944 )
- February 13 : Georgios Papandreou , Greek politician and head of government († 1968 )
- February 14 : Robert Remak , German mathematician († 1942 )
- February 17 : Otto Stern , German physicist († 1969 )
- February 17 : Hans Blüher , German writer and philosopher († 1955 )
- February 19 : Adelina Domingues , Cape Verdean American age record holder († 2002 )
- February 19 : Tom Spencer Vaughan Phillips , British Admiral († 1941 )
- February 19 : Rosy Wertheim , Dutch composer, pianist and music teacher († 1949 )
- February 20 : Georges Bernanos , French writer († 1948 )
- February 21 : Albert Förster , German labor leader and resistance fighter († 1958 )
- February 22 : Owen Brewster , American politician († 1961 )
- February 22 : Gussy Holl , actually Auguste Marie Holl, German actress and Diseuse († 1966 )
- February 22nd : Leo Waibel , German geographer († 1951 )
- February 23 : Josef Eichheim , German actor († 1945 )
- February 25 : John Foster Dulles , US Secretary of State († 1959 )
- February 25 : Heinrich Kemper , German politician († 1962 )
- February 26 : Maria Grengg , Austrian narrator and painter († 1963 )
- February 26 : Maurice Schilles , French cyclist († 1957 )
- February 27 : Roberto Assagioli , Italian doctor, psychiatrist and psychotherapist († 1974 )
- February 27 : Lotte Lehmann , German-American opera singer († 1976 )
- February 28 : Eugène Bigot , French conductor and composer († 1965 )
- February 29 : Herbert Ihering , German theater critic († 1977 )
- February 29 : Gyula Kertész , Hungarian football player and coach († 1982 )
- February 29 : Domenico Tardini , Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal († 1961 )
March
- March 1 : Josef Brendle , German painter († 1954 )
- March 1 : Robert Petschow , German balloonist, photographer and sports official († 1945 )
- March 2 : Adolf Rading , German architect († 1957 )
- March 3 : Hans von Borstel , German communist politician († 1962 )
- March 3 : Olaf Hytten , Scottish actor († 1955 )
- March 5 : Joshua Barnes Howell , American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter († 1966 )
- March 5 : Ramón Otero Pedrayo , Spanish-Galician writer († 1976 )
- March 5 : Friedrich Schnack , German poet († 1977 )
- March 5 : Franz Schwede , German National Socialist politician († 1960 )
- March 7th : Alidius Warmoldus Lambertus Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer , Governor General of the Dutch East Indies († 1978 )
- March 9 : Willy Westra van Holthe , Dutch football player († 1965 )
- March 9 : Raquel Meller , Spanish singer and film actress († 1962 )
- March 10 : Ilo Wallace , American politician's wife († 1981 )
- March 12 : Hans Knappertsbusch , German conductor († 1965 )
- March 12 : Erich Rothacker , German philosopher and sociologist († 1965 )
- March 13 : Josef Loos , Czechoslovak ice hockey player († 1955 )
- March 13 : Anton Semjonowitsch Makarenko , Soviet pedagogue and writer († 1939 )
- March 14 : Knud Ahlborn , German personalities of the early youth movement († 1977 )
- March 16 : Lenka von Koerber , German journalist († 1958 )
- March 16 : Anton Köllisch , German chemist († 1916 )
- March 17 : Eduard Fraenkel , German-English classical philologist († 1970 )
- March 17 : Hans Schimank , German physicist and history of science († 1979 )
- March 18 : Gabriel del Orbe , Dominican violinist († 1966 )
- March 19 : Josef Albers , German painter, art theorist and teacher († 1976 )
- March 20 : Franz Dornseiff , German classical philologist († 1960 )
- March 20 : Krsto Odak , Croatian composer († 1965 )
- March 20 : Renée Sintenis , German sculptor and graphic artist († 1965 )
- March 20 : Siegfried von Vegesack , German writer († 1974 )
- March 21 : Norbert von Hellingrath , German Germanist († 1916 )
- March 21 : Franz Koch , German-Austrian Germanist and literary historian († 1969 )
- March 23 : Heinrich Thieslauk , German resistance fighter against the Nazi regime († 1937 )
- March 23 : Hans Thirring , Austrian physicist († 1976 )
- March 24th : Friedrich Burmeister , politician of the GDR († 1968 )
- March 26 : Elsa Brändström , Swedish philanthropist († 1948 )
- March 26 : Gustav Geierhaas , German composer († 1976 )
- March 26 : Émile Lacharnay , French racing car driver († 1962 )
- March 27 : Agnes Windeck , German stage, film and television actress († 1975 )
- March 30 : Edvardas Adamkevičius , Lithuanian general († 1957 )
April
- April 1 : Edmund Friedemann Dräcker , fictional German diplomat
- April 1 : Hermann Pünder , German politician († 1976 )
- April 1 : Gerhard Storm , German martyr of the Catholic Church († 1942 )
- April 2 : Marietta Shaginjan , Soviet writer († 1982 )
- April 3 : Georg Alexander , German actor, director and producer († 1945 )
- April 3 : Sibylle Ascheberg von Bamberg , German painter († 1966 )
- April 6 : Dan Andersson , Swedish working-class poet and lyric poet († 1920 )
- April 6 : Hans Richter , German painter and film artist of Dadaism († 1976 )
- April 6 : Gerhard Ritter , German historian († 1967 )
- April 8 : Dennis Chavez , American politician († 1962 )
- April 8 : Wilhelm Andreae , German social economist († 1962 )
- April 9 : Mary Barratt Due , Norwegian pianist and music teacher († 1969 )
- April 9 : Joseph Ferche , auxiliary bishop in Breslau and Cologne († 1965 )
- April 12 : Dan Ahearn , American athlete († 1942 )
- April 12 : Carlos Julio Arosemena Tola , Ecuadorian banker and president († 1952 )
- April 12 : Cecil Kimber , English automobile designer († 1945 )
- April 12 : Heinrich Neuhaus , Russian-Ukrainian pianist († 1964 )
- April 14 : August Adam , German priest and theologian († 1965 )
- April 14 : Franz Seitz Sr. , German film producer, film director and screenwriter († 1952 )
- April 15 : Hermann Köhl , German aviation pioneer († 1938 )
- April 17th : Maggie Teyte , British soprano († 1976 )
- April 17 : Jan Vos , Dutch football player († 1939 )
- April 18 : Arnold Lunn , British ski pioneer, mountaineer and writer († 1974 )
- April 19 : Elias Aslaksen , Norwegian preacher († 1976 )
- April 19 : Oswald Menghin , Austrian university professor, prehistorian, Minister of Education († 1973 )
- April 20 : Charles D. Hall , British-American production designer († 1970 )
- April 21 : Ludwig Ankenbrand , German clergyman, writer and journalist († 1971 )
- April 22nd : Carlo Agostini , Archbishop and Patriarch of Venice and Cardinal († 1952 )
- April 23 : Hans Freiherr von Pranckh , Bavarian officer and Austrian Heimwehr leader († 1945 )
- April 24 : Ivan Alexejewitsch Akulow , Soviet trade unionist, party and state functionary († 1937 )
- April 26 : Robert Bloch , French racing car driver († 1984 )
- April 26 : Hans Krebs , German publicist and politician († 1947 )
- April 27 : Alexander Andrae , German officer († 1979 )
- April 29 : Dionys Schönecker , Austrian football player and coach († 1938 )
- April 30 : David Jacobs , British athlete and Olympic champion († 1976 )
- April 30 : Hans Reingruber , Minister for Transport of the GDR († 1964 )
May
- May 1 : Wilhelm Knothe , German politician and Member of the Bundestag († 1952 )
- May 1 : Jan Morávek , Czech writer and journalist († 1958 )
- May 1 : John Francis O'Hara , Archbishop of Philadelphia and Cardinal († 1960 )
- May 3 : Alfred Braun , German radio pioneer († 1978 )
- May 5 : Cuno Raabe , German politician († 1971 )
- May 7 : Hermann Fränkel , German-American classical philologist († 1977 )
- May 9 : Francesco Baracca , Italian fighter pilot in World War I († 1918 )
- May 10 : Max Steiner , Austrian composer († 1971 )
- May 11 : Irving Berlin , American composer († 1989 )
- May 11 : Paul Gury , Canadian actor, director and screenwriter of French origin († 1974 )
- May 12 : Egmont Colerus , Austrian writer († 1939 )
- May 12 : Theodor Reik , Austrian-American psychoanalyst († 1969 )
- May 12 : Fritz Schäffer , German politician, Federal Minister († 1967 )
- May 13 : Inge Lehmann , Danish seismologist († 1993 )
- May 15 : John E. Miller , American politician († 1981 )
- May 16 : Wilhelm von Kaufmann , German doctor and film producer († 1959 )
- May 17 : Horace Elgin Dodge , American automobile manufacturer († 1920 )
- May 17 : Annie Rosar , Austrian actress († 1963 )
- May 18 : Maria Niggemeyer , German politician († 1968 )
- May 19 : Nikolai Schwernik , Soviet politician († 1970 )
- May 20 : Theodor August Ankermann , German trade unionist and politician († 1967 )
- May 20 : Mannes Francken , Dutch football player († 1948 )
- May 21 : May Frances Aufderheide Kaufman , American ragtime composer († 1972 )
- May 21 : Evasio Lampiano , Italian racing driver († 1923 )
- May 21 : Michael Schulien , German Catholic clergyman, papal apostolic visitor for the Saar area († 1968 )
- May 23 : Alexander N. Vyssotsky , Russian astronomer († 1973 )
- May 24th : Melecio Arranz , Filipino politician († 1966 )
- May 24 : Johannes Göderitz , German architect and urban planner († 1978 )
- May 24 : Walter Hammer , German writer and publisher († 1966 )
- May 24 : Walter Hösterey , German publisher and writer († 1966 )
- May 24 : Alex Osborn , American author († 1966 )
- May 25 : Anatoly Alexandrov , Russian composer († 1982 )
- May 25 : Max Becker , German politician († 1960 )
- May 27 : Louis Durey , French composer († 1979 )
- May 27 : Rosi Wolfstein , German politician († 1987 )
- May 28 : Nikolaus von Arseniev , Russian emigrant and theologian († 1977 )
- May 28 : Johanna Geisler , German singer and actress († 1956 )
- May 30th : Hans Arnhold , German-American banker († 1966 )
June
- June 1 : Herbert Garbe , German sculptor († 1945 )
- June 1 : Imre Payer , Hungarian football player and coach († 1956 )
- June 2 : Hans Karl Breslauer , Austrian film director and writer († 1965 )
- June 4 : Fritz Arendt , German classical philologist and high school teacher († 1915 )
- June 4 : Ingeborg Steffensen , Danish opera singer (mezzo-soprano) († 1964 )
- June 5 : Armand Léon Annet , French politician and governor († 1973 )
- June 5 : J. Hervey Germain , Canadian actor and humorist († 1961 )
- June 5 : Max Picard , Swiss doctor and writer († 1965 )
- June 7 : Helen Smith Woodruff , American writer († 1924 )
- June 9 : Martin Honecker , German psychologist and philosopher († 1941 )
- June 9 : Christian Schmidt , German football player († 1917 )
- June 10 : Leo Weismantel , German writer († 1964 )
- June 13 : Fernando Pessoa , Portuguese poet and writer († 1935 )
- June 13 : Elisabeth Schumann , German-American soprano († 1952 )
- June 14 : Jacques de Lacretelle , French writer († 1985 )
- June 15 : Frank Clement , British racing car driver († 1970 )
- June 15 : Theodor Steinbüchel , German Catholic moral theologian and social ethicist († 1949 )
- June 16 : Alexander Friedmann , Russian physicist and mathematician († 1925 )
- June 16 : Alfred Wilhelm Arnold , German politician († 1960 )
- June 17 : Friedrich Grimm , German international lawyer and criminal defense attorney († 1959 )
- June 17 : Heinz Guderian , German general († 1954 )
- June 18 : Walter von Sanden-Guja , German writer, naturalist and poet († 1972 )
- June 18 : Margarita Xirgu , Catalan actress († 1969 )
- June 22 : Harold Hitz Burton , American judge and politician († 1964 )
- June 22nd : Lo La Chapelle , Dutch football player († 1966 )
- June 22nd : Alan Seeger , American poet († 1916 )
- June 22nd : Jeanette Wolff , German politician († 1976 )
- June 23 : Bronson M. Cutting , American politician († 1935 )
- June 23 : F. Ryan Duffy , American politician and lawyer († 1979 )
- June 23 : Paul Hertz , German politician († 1961 )
- June 24th : José de Jesús Angulo del Valle y Navarro , Mexican bishop († 1966 )
- June 24 : Gerrit Rietveld , Dutch architect and designer († 1964 )
- June 25 : Tami Oelfken , German writer and reform pedagogue († 1957 )
- June 28 : Alfons von Czibulka , Austrian writer and painter († 1969 )
- June 29 : Vladimir Wettschinkin , Soviet aerodynamicist († 1950 )
- June 30 : Rudolf Amelunxen , German politician († 1969 )
July
- July 1 : Alberto Magnelli , Italian painter († 1971 )
- July 3 : Ramón Gómez de la Serna , Spanish writer († 1963 )
- July 4 : Henry Armetta , Italian-American actor († 1945 )
- July 5 : Herbert Spencer Gasser , American neurophysiologist († 1963 )
- July 5 : Jacques de la Presle , French composer and music teacher († 1969 )
- July 6 : Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy , German cultural philosopher, lawyer, historian and sociologist († 1973 )
- July 7th : Lambert Schill , German politician († 1976 )
- July 8 : Timothy Carroll , Irish athlete († unknown)
- July 9 : Kawaji Ryūkō , Japanese poet († 1959 )
- July 10 : Hazel Hempel Abel , American politician († 1966 )
- July 10 : Giorgio de Chirico , Italian painter († 1978 )
- July 10 : Charles Flohot , French racing car driver († 1927 )
- July 10 : Kagawa Toyohiko , Japanese theologian and social reformer († 1960 )
- July 11 : Carl Schmitt , German constitutional lawyer and philosopher († 1985 )
- July 12 : Adolf Horion , German Roman Catholic clergyman and entomologist († 1977 )
- July 14 : Satomi Ton , Japanese writer († 1983 )
- July 14 : Kakuza Choloqashvili , Georgian partisan leader († 1930 )
- July 14 : Odile Defraye , Belgian cyclist († 1965 )
- July 15 : Hans Avé-Lallemant , German company director († 1945 )
- July 15 : Ernst von Harnack , German politician and resistance fighter († 1945 )
- July 16 : Frits Zernike , Dutch physicist († 1966 )
- July 17 : Johannes Brockmann , German politician († 1975 )
- July 17 : Milán Füst , Hungarian writer († 1967 )
- July 17 : Samuel Agnon , Israeli writer († 1970 )
- July 20 : Selman Abraham Waksman , American researcher († 1973 )
- July 20 : Franz Jacobi , smelter in the Dortmund steel industry († 1979 )
- July 23 : Raymond Chandler , American crime novelist († 1959 )
- July 24th : Nils Åberg , Swedish historian, archaeologist († 1957 )
- July 24th : Einar Ralf , Swedish opera singer and composer († 1971 )
- July 25 : Giacomo Acerbo , Italian agronomist and politician († 1969 )
- July 26 : Marcel Jouhandeau , French writer († 1979 )
- July 27 : Prince Oskar of Prussia , Prussian officer, 5th emperor's son († 1958 )
- July 29 : Robert Görlinger , German politician († 1954 )
- July 29 : Vladimir Kosmitsch Sworykin , Russian engineer, physicist and inventor († 1982 )
- July 30 : Raden Soetomo , Indonesian doctor († 1938 )
- July 30 : Emilie Kiep-Altenloh , German politician († 1985 )
- July 30 : Harry Smith , American long-distance runner († 1961 )
- July 30 : Werner Jaeger , German classical philologist († 1961 )
- July 31 : Otto Erich Strasser , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor († 1985 )
August
- August 1 : Vito Frazzi , Italian composer and music teacher († 1975 )
- August 1 : Charles Winslow , South African tennis player († 1963 )
- August 3rd : August Kubizek , Austrian, only friend of Adolf Hitler during his time in Vienna († 1956 )
- August 5 : Joseph Cattaneo , Italian entrepreneur and racing car driver († 1975 )
- August 6 : Nagayo Yoshirō , Japanese writer († 1961 )
- August 6 : Heinrich Schlusnus , German opera and concert singer (baritone) († 1952 )
- August 6 : Arthur Fields , American singer († 1953 )
- August 8 : Josef Adlmannseder , Austrian politician († 1971 )
- August 9 : Ludwig Schaschek , Austrian cameraman († 1948 )
- August 10 : Lauri Ikonen , Finnish composer († 1966 )
- August 13 : John Logie Baird , British television pioneer († 1946 )
- August 13 : Walter Jauch , German insurance salesman († 1976 )
- August 14 : Emma Zimmer , SS supervisor in the Ravensbrück concentration camp († 1948 )
- August 15 : Gottlieb Duttweiler , Swiss entrepreneur and politician († 1962 )
- August 15 : Hermann Leopoldi , Austrian composer, cabaret artist and piano humorist († 1959 )
- August 15 : Albert Spalding , American violin virtuoso and composer († 1953 )
- August 16 : Thomas Edward Lawrence (better known as Lawrence of Arabia ), British archaeologist and secret agent († 1935 )
- August 18 : Gerhard Wagner , physician and Reichsärzteführer († 1939 )
- August 19 : Sam Gilbert Bratton , American politician († 1963 )
- August 21 : Giulio Foresti , Italian racing driver († 1965 )
- August 21 : Wilhelm Schmidt , German politician, former Member of the Bundestag († 1962 )
- August 22 : Willi Schur , German actor, singer and director († 1940 )
- August 22nd : Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach , German general († 1976 )
- August 24 : Leo Bosschart , Dutch football player († 1951 )
- August 29 : Mikawa Gunichi , Japanese Vice Admiral in the Imperial Navy († 1981 )
- August 30 : Walther Penck , German geomorphologist and son of Albrecht Penck († 1923 )
September
- September 1 : Ephraim Lipson , British economic historian († 1960 )
- September 2 : Charles Gossett , American politician († 1974 )
- September 2 : Leo Wohleb , German politician († 1955 )
- September 3 : Hans Friedrich Blunck , German lawyer and writer († 1961 )
- September 4 : La Argentina , Spanish ballet dancer and choreographer († 1936 )
- September 4th : Charles Belben , French racing driver (†?)
- September 4 : Oskar Schlemmer , German painter, sculptor and set designer († 1943 )
- September 5 : Marie-Anne Asselin , Canadian singer and music teacher († 1971 )
- September 5 : Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan , Indian philosopher and President († 1975 )
- September 6 : Joseph P. Kennedy , American politician and diplomat († 1969 )
- September 9 : Lothar Kreuz , last rector of the Friedrich Wilhelm University Berlin († 1969 )
- September 9 : Armand Leclaire , Canadian actor and author († 1931 )
- September 12 : Maurice Chevalier , French actor, singer († 1972 )
- September 13 : Fritz Becker , German football player († 1963 )
- September 15 : Hans Christoph Ade , German writer († 1981 )
- September 15 : Antonio Ascari , Italian racing driver († 1925 )
- September 16 : Til Brugman , Dutch writer († 1958 )
- September 16 : Charles Ruffell , British athlete († 1923 )
- September 16 : Frans Eemil Sillanpää , Finnish writer († 1964 )
- September 18 : Gray Owl , English writer († 1938 )
- September 23 : Rudolf Freidhof , German politician († 1983 )
- September 23 : Gerhard Kittel , German Protestant theologian († 1948 )
- September 24 : Georges Darrieus , French engineer († 1979 )
- September 24th : Kanken Toyama , Japanese karate master and nobleman († 1966 )
- September 26 : Thomas Stearns Eliot , American poet, playwright and essayist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature († 1965 )
October
- October 3 : Joseph Noyon , French composer and church musician († 1962 )
- October 3 : Clawson Roop , American business manager and government official († 1972 )
- October 4 : Friedrich Olbricht , German general († 1944 )
- October 5 : Takashi Akiba , Japanese sociologist († 1954 )
- October 5 : Oskar Kanehl , German writer and editor († 1929 )
- October 6 : Max Butting , German composer († 1976 )
- October 6 : Roland Garros , French aviation pioneer († 1918 )
- October 6 : John Howard , Canadian athlete († 1937 )
- October 7 : Henry A. Wallace , American politician, Vice President of the USA († 1965 )
- October 8 : Adolf Aeschbach , Swiss politician († 1969 )
- October 8 : Ernst Kretschmer , German psychiatrist († 1964 )
- October 8 : Friedrich Fromm , German officer († 1945 )
- October 9 : Nikolai Bukharin , Soviet politician and Marxist theorist († 1938 )
- October 9 : Josesito García Vila , Dominican pianist and composer († 1919 )
- October 10 : Pietro Lana , Italian football player († 1950 )
- October 11 : Alfred Agostinelli , French mechanic, chauffeur and secretary († 1914 )
- October 11 : Christine Teusch , German politician, Minister of Education in North Rhine-Westphalia († 1968 )
- October 11 : Emil Bohnke , German violist, composer and conductor († 1928 )
- October 11 : Norman S. Case , American politician († 1967 )
- October 13 : Heinrich Welsch , Saarland Prime Minister from 1955 to 1956 († 1976 )
- October 14 : Paul Burkhard , Swiss sculptor and draftsman († 1964 )
- October 14 : Katherine Mansfield , British writer († 1923 )
- October 14 : Oskar Hagen , German art historian and founder of the Handel Festival († 1957 )
- October 15 : Willard Huntington Wright , American writer and art critic († 1939 )
- October 16 : Eugene O'Neill , American playwright († 1953 )
- October 16 : Gustav Klingelhöfer , German politician († 1961 )
- October 19 : Arnold Brügger , Swiss painter († 1975 )
- October 20 : Sadayoshi Tanabe , oldest man in the world from April 29, 1999 until his death († 2000 )
- October 21 : Richard Katz , German-Bohemian journalist and travel writer († 1968 )
- October 22 : Renzo Bracesco , Italian composer and music teacher († 1982 )
- October 24 : Marek Weber , German violinist and orchestra leader († 1964 )
- October 25 : Richard Evelyn Byrd , American polar explorer and admiral († 1957 )
- October 26 : Iver Callø , Danish-German politician († 1972 )
- October 27 : Wilhelm Bahlburg , German politician († 1958 )
- October 30 : Marie Ulfers , German writer († 1960 )
- October 31 : Hubert Wilkins , Australian polar explorer, aviation pioneer and photographer († 1958 )
November
- November 1 : George Kenner , German visual artist († 1971 )
- November 2 : Ivar Rooth , Swedish banker († 1972 )
- November 4 : Richard Queck , German football player († 1968 )
- November 5 : Jupp Wiertz , German graphic artist († 1939 )
- November 7 : Nestor Makhno , leader of an anarchist popular movement in Ukraine († 1934 )
- November 7 : CV Raman , Indian physicist († 1970 )
- November 7th : Karl Ritter , German director († 1977 )
- November 7th : Reinhold Schünzel , German actor and director († 1954 )
- November 8 : Piet Valkenburg , Dutch football player († 1950 )
- November 9 : Jean Monnet , French statesman and politician († 1979 )
- November 10 : Andrei Nikolajewitsch Tupolew , Russian aircraft designer († 1972 )
- November 10 : Juan Antonio Ríos Morales , Chilean politician († 1946 )
- November 12th : Hans Howaldt , German submarine commander in World War I († 1970 )
- November 12 : Max Breunig , German football player († 1961 )
- November 15 : Harald Ulrik Sverdrup , Norwegian oceanographer and professor († 1957 )
- November 17 : Curt Goetz , German writer and actor († 1960 )
- November 17 : Max Lingner , German painter, graphic artist and resistance fighter († 1959 )
- November 18 : Georg Adlmüller , German architect and construction officer († 1966 )
- November 18 : Jakob Ahrer , Austrian lawyer and politician († 1962 )
- November 19 : Georg Richard Kinat , German politician († 1973 )
- November 19 : José Raúl Capablanca , Cuban chess player and world chess champion († 1942 )
- November 19 : Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira , Archbishop of Lisbon and Cardinal († 1977 )
- November 20 : Willi Tillmans , German painter († 1985 )
- November 22nd : Hans von Benda , German conductor, music editor and officer († 1972 )
- November 23 : Harpo Marx , American comedian († 1964 )
- November 23 : Al Bernard , American singer († 1949 )
- November 24 : Dale Carnegie , American writer and personality trainer († 1955 )
- November 24th : Fritz Klein , Romanian German concentration camp doctor († 1945 )
- November 26 : Francisco Canaro , Uruguayan-Argentine musician, arranger, band leader and composer († 1964 )
- November 26 : Franz Jung , German writer, economist and politician († 1963 )
- November 27 : Michael Aures , German music teacher († 1982 )
- November 29th : Toni Sender , German politician († 1964 )
- November 30 : Kenneth Macgowan , American film producer and Oscar winner († 1963 )
- November 30th : Hans von Tettau , German infantry general during World War II († 1956 )
December
- December 3 : Heinrich Backhaus , German politician of the NSDAP († 1943 )
- December 3 : Algernon Kingscote , British tennis player († 1964 )
- December 6 : Willie Eckstein , Canadian pianist and composer († 1963 )
- December 7th : Albert Florath , German actor († 1957 )
- December 11th : Maud von Ossietzky , wife of Carl von Ossietzky († 1974 )
- December 12 : Philip Neame , British Lieutenant General († 1978 )
- December 13 : Alfred Landé , German physicist († 1976 )
- December 14 : Hans Adt , German paper industrialist († 1980 )
- December 14 : Harold Hardwick , Australian swimmer, boxer and rugby union player († 1959 )
- December 15 : Aloys Heuvers , German mechanical engineer († 1967 )
- December 15 : James Maxwell Anderson , American playwright and librettist († 1959 )
- December 15 : William Holloway , American politician († 1970 )
- December 16 : Alexander I , King of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes († 1934 )
- December 16 : Wilhelm Murr , German Nazi politician, Reich Governor of Württemberg († 1945 )
- December 17 : Rudolf Martin Argus , German politician († 1969 )
- December 18 : Robert Moses , American urban planner († 1981 )
- December 18 : Karl Albrecht von Habsburg-Lothringen , Austrian and Polish military and landowner († 1951 )
- December 19 : Fritz Reiner , American conductor († 1963 )
- December 19 : Gustav Gundelach , German politician († 1962 )
- December 21 : Frederick von Antal , Hungarian-British art historian († 1954 )
- December 22nd : J. Arthur Rank , English industrialist and film producer († 1972 )
- December 23 : Friedrich Wolf , German doctor and writer († 1953 )
- December 24th : Willi Schlage , German chess master and trainer († 1940 )
- December 25 : Leivick Halpern , Yiddish-speaking poet († 1962 )
- December 25th : Bodewin Keitel , German general († 1953 )
- December 25 : Bernhard Marschall , German Catholic clergyman and journalist († 1963 )
- December 27th : Thea von Harbou , German actress and author († 1954 )
- December 27 : Tito Schipa , Italian tenor and composer († 1965 )
- December 28 : Friedrich Murnau , German director († 1931 )
- December 29 : Josef Beran , Archbishop of Prague and Cardinal († 1969 )
- December 30th : Ilse Fromm-Michaels , German composer († 1986 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Ali Abd ar-Raziq , Egyptian scholar of Islam and Sharia judge († 1966 )
- Ali-Akbar Davar , Iranian lawyer and politician († 1937 )
- Alexander Stepanowitsch Antonow , Russian revolutionary († 1922 )
- Egmont H. Arens , American industrial designer and editor († 1966 )
- Otto Aschmann , German businessman and politician († 1965 )
- Julio Bertrand Vidal , Chilean architect, photographer and draftsman († 1918 )
- Abelardo Bustamante , Chilean painter and sculptor († 1934 )
- Paul Panda Farnana , Congolese agronomist († 1930 )
- Mert Plunkett , Canadian impresario and composer († 1966 )
- Sundar Singh , Indian messenger of faith and Christian sadhu († 1929 )
- Rudolf Steinweg , German automobile racing driver († 1935 )
Died
First quarter
- January 2 : Joel Parker , American politician (* 1816 )
- January 8 : Auguste Maquet , French writer (* 1813 )
- January 10 : Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans , French painter (* 1801 )
- January 17th : Big Bear , Cree chief, last Indian revolt in Canada (* around 1825 )
- January 19 : Anton de Bary , German scientist, physician and botanist (* 1831 )
- January 21 : Jakob Joseph Adam , Swiss politician (* 1828 )
- January 21 : Adolph Douai , German-American journalist, publisher and educator (* 1819 )
- January 22nd : Eugène Marin Labiche , French comedy poet (* 1815 )
- January 31 : Johannes Bosco , Italian priest and founder of the order (* 1815 )
- February 8 : Robert Houston Anderson , American Brigadier General (* 1835 )
- February 9 : Benjamin Eggleston , American politician (* 1816 )
- February 10 : Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer , German Arabist (* 1801 )
- February 19 : Karl Bartsch , German philologist and founder of the first German Institute in Germany (* 1832 )
- March 4 : Amos Bronson Alcott , American writer and educator (* 1799 )
- March 4 : Giovanni Antonio Farina , Seliger, Italian bishop (* 1803 )
- March 5 : Franz von Sonnenfeld , Swiss writer (* 1821 )
- March 6 : Louisa May Alcott , American writer (* 1832 )
- March 9 : Wilhelm I , German Emperor and King of Prussia (* 1797 )
- March 11th : Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen , local politician, co-founder of the cooperative movement in Germany (* 1818 )
- March 13 : Carl Hunstein , German colonial official and ornithologist (* 1843 )
- March 16 : Ludwig Steub , German writer (* 1812 )
- March 17th : Horace Fairbanks , American politician (* 1820 )
- March 18 : Charles Monselet , French writer, journalist, poet and librettist (* 1825 )
- March 19 : John Pendleton King , American politician (* 1799 )
- March 23 : Morrison R. Waite , Chief Justice of the USA 1874–1888 (* 1816 )
- March 24th : John Thompson Hoffman , governor of the state of New York from 1869 to 1873 (* 1828 )
- March 25 : Désiré Nisard , French literary historian (* 1806 )
- March 28 : Erneste-Louis-Henri-Hyacinthe Arrighi de Casanova , Duke of Padua and French politician (* 1814 )
- March 29 : Charles Valentin Alkan , French composer and piano virtuoso (* 1813 )
Second quarter
- April 1 : Jean Conte , French composer (* 1830 )
- April 4 : Benjamin H. Brewster , American politician (* 1816 )
- April 15 : Matthew Arnold , English poet and cultural critic (* 1822 )
- April 15 : Anton Stecker , Austrian traveler to Africa (* 1855 )
- April 16 : Friedrich Grillo , German industrialist (* 1825 )
- April 19 : Arunah Shepherdson Abell , American publisher (* 1806 )
- April 19 : Thomas Russell Crampton , British mechanical engineer and engineer (* 1816 )
- April 22 : Ferdinand Gustav Kühne , German writer and literary critic (* 1806 )
- May 1 : William Wirt Adams , American Brigadier General of the Confederate Army in the American Civil War (* 1819 )
- May 6 : Vinzenz Kreuzer , Austrian draftsman and landscape painter (* 1809 )
- May 11 : Frederick Miller , American entrepreneur (* 1824 )
- May 19 : Julius Rockwell , American politician (* 1805 )
- May 26th : Ascanio Sobrero , Italian chemist (* 1812 )
- June 1 : Anton Sommer , German (Thuringian) dialect poet (* 1816 )
- June 7th : Edmond Lebœuf , French general, Marshal of France (* 1809 )
- June 15 : Friedrich III. , German Emperor and King of Prussia (* 1831 )
- June 15 : Ole Richter , Norwegian lawyer, editor and politician (* 1829 )
- June 16 : Georg von Adelmann , German medic (* 1811 )
- June 20 : Johannes Hermann Zukertort , Polish chess player (* 1842 )
- June 21 : Victoria Benedictsson , Swedish writer (* 1850 )
- June 22nd : Franz Napoleon Heigel , French-German painter (* 1813 )
- June 22nd : Edmund Neupert , Norwegian pianist, composer and music teacher (* 1842 )
Third quarter
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- July 4th : Theodor Storm , German writer (* 1817 )
- July 4th : Friedrich Albert Mehmel , German organ builder (* 1827 )
- July 11 : Peter Taugwalder , Swiss mountaineer and mountain guide (* 1820 )
- July 11th : Hugo Ernst Heinrich Rühle , German medic (* 1824 )
- July 20 : Paul Langerhans , German pathologist (* 1847 )
- July 20 : Thomas L. Young , American politician (* 1832 )
- August 9 : Charles Cros , French poet and inventor (* 1842 )
- August 10 : Georg Weber , German philologist and historian (* 1808 )
- August 11 : Arend Berkholz , Mayor of Riga (* 1808 )
- August 16 : John Pemberton , American druggist and Coca-Cola inventor (* 1831)
- August 22nd : Charles W. Cathcart , American politician (* 1809 )
- August 24 : Rudolf Clausius , German physicist (* 1822 )
- August 24 : Jakob Eisendle , South Tyrolean farmer and inventor (* 1811 )
- August 25 : Karl Heine , German lawyer, entrepreneur and industrial pioneer (* 1819 )
- August 28 : Georg Beseler , German lawyer and politician (* 1809 )
- September 7th : Tito Ricordi , Italian music publisher (* 1811 )
- September 11 : Domingo Faustino Sarmiento , Argentine President (* 1811 )
- September 17 : John Cummins Edwards , American politician (* 1806 )
- September 23 : François-Achille Bazaine , Marshal of France (* 1811 )
- September 26th : Emil Baehrens , German classical philologist (* 1848 )
Fourth Quarter
- October 2 : John Ella , English violinist, music writer and concert organizer (* 1802 )
- October 8 : Moritz Schmidt , German classical philologist (* 1823 )
- October 18 : Alessandro Antonelli , Italian architect (* 1798 )
- October 18 : Albert Zimmermann , German painter (* 1809 )
- October 23 : Robert Justus Kleberg , German-American farmer, soldier and civil servant (* 1803 )
- October 26 : William Thomas Hamilton , American politician (* 1820 )
- October 27 : Emil Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Annecke , German revolutionary and American journalist and lawyer (* 1823 )
- November 1st : Nikolai Prschewalski , Russian explorer (* 1839 )
- November 5 : Kanō Hōgai , Japanese painter (* 1828 )
- November 7th : Ludwig Müller-Uri , German glass artist (* 1811 )
- November 10 : George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan , British Field Marshal (* 1800 )
- November 15 : Duke Max in Bavaria , Bavarian Duke (* 1808 )
- November 18 : Nikolaus Delius , German Anglicist and Shakespeare researcher (* 1813 )
- November 19 ; Hermann Christian Arndts , Prussian civil servant, syndic, administrator and member of the state parliament (* 1831 )
- November 21 : Elias Erkko , Finnish writer (* 1863 )
- November 25 : Wilhelm Mohr , German journalist (* 1838 )
- November 27 : Wilhelm Hertenstein , Swiss politician (* 1825 )
- December 1 : Anthim I , Bulgarian prelate, politician, exarch and head of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church (* 1816 )
- December 3 : Carl Zeiss , German mechanic and entrepreneur (* 1816 )
- December 6th : Samuel Earnshaw , English clergyman, physicist and mathematician (* 1805 )
- December 9th : Maria Brignole Sale De Ferrari , Italian aristocrat, salonière and patroness (* 1811 )
- December 10 : Auguste Placet , French violinist and conductor (* 1816 )
- December 15 : Alexander von Hessen-Darmstadt , founder of the modern House of Battenberg (* 1823 )
- December 24th : Mikhail Loris-Melikow , General of the Russian Army, Minister of the Interior and Chief of the Secret Police (* 1824 )
Exact date of death unknown
- Nataniel Aguirre , Bolivian poet, dramaturge, lawyer, politician and diplomat (* 1843 )
- Anne Childes Seguin , American opera singer (* 1809 )
- Francesco Corradini , Italian philologist (* 1820 )
Trivia
Because of the shape of the last three digits, the year 1888 was humorously called the three- pretzel year .
Web links
Commons : 1888 - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl August Schleiden: Saarbrücken - as it was . 2nd Edition. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1975, p. 95 (there the first page of the chronicle of the Saarbrücker Musikverein “Harmonie”).