Explore 963 historical events from 1880–1889.
Samuel Eliot Morison was an American historian noted for his works of maritime history and American history that were both authoritative and popular. He received his Ph.D. from Har…
Samuel Eliot Morison, American admiral and historian (died 1976)
Wharton Esherick was an American artist and designer. An artistic polymath, he worked in a wide variety of art media including painting, printmaking, and sculpture. His design work…
Wharton Esherick, American sculptor (died 1970)
Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling was a Norwegian military officer, politician and Nazi collaborator who headed the puppet government of Norway during the country's occupatio…
Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian military officer and politician, Minister President of Norway (died 1945)
Gustav Ludwig Hertz was a German experimental physicist who shared the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics with James Franck "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an ele…
Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1975)
Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp was a French American artist, chess player, and inventor who played a key role in the development of the avant-garde in the United States and in New Yor…
Marcel Duchamp, French-American painter and sculptor (died 1968)
Willard DeMille Price was a Canadian-born American traveller, journalist and author.
Willard Price, Canadian-American journalist and author (died 1983)
Joseph Jefferson Jackson, nicknamed "Shoeless Joe", was an American professional baseball outfielder who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the early 20th century. His .356 c…
Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player and manager (died 1951)
Sigmund Romberg was a Hungarian-born American composer. He is best known for his musicals and operettas, particularly The Student Prince (1924), The Desert Song (1926) and The New …
Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-American pianist and composer (died 1951)
Johannes "Hans" Freyer was a German sociologist and philosopher of the conservative revolutionary movement.
Hans Freyer, German sociologist and philosopher (died 1969)
Oskar Johann Viktor Anderson was a Russian-German mathematician of Baltic German descent. He is best known for his work on mathematical statistics and econometrics.
Oskar Anderson, Bulgarian-German mathematician and statistician (died 1960)
Rupert Chawner Brooke was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, such as "The Dead" and "The Soldier". He was also known for his b…
Rupert Brooke, English poet (died 1915)
August Anselm Wesley was a Finnish journalist, trade unionist, and revolutionary who was the chief of the Red Guards general staff in the Finnish Civil War. He later served as a li…
August Wesley, Finnish journalist, trade unionist, and revolutionary (died ?)[citation needed]
Albert Monroe Greenfield was a real estate broker and developer who built his company into a vast East Coast network of department stores, banks, finance companies, hotels, newspap…
Albert M. Greenfield, Ukrainian-American businessman and philanthropist (died 1967)
John Reginald Owen was a British actor, known for his many roles in British and American films and television programmes.
Reginald Owen, English-American actor and singer (died 1972)
Joseph Dudley "Benjy" Benjafield, MD was a British medical doctor and racing driver.
Dudley Benjafield, English racing driver (died 1957)
Anna Elisabet Weirauch was a German author. Weirauch was an important figure for lesbians in Germany in the early 1900s, as well as for lesbians in the 1970s-1980s following an Eng…
Anna Elisabet Weirauch, German author and playwright (died 1970)
Charles I and IV was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, and the ruler of the other states of the Habsburg monarchy from November 1916 until the monarchy was abolished in November…
Charles I of Austria (died 1922)
Sundara Sastri Satyamurti was an Indian independence activist and politician. He was acclaimed for his rhetoric and was one of the leading politicians of the Indian National Congre…
S. Satyamurti, Indian lawyer and politician (died 1943)
Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger, sometimes anglicised as Schroedinger or Schrodinger, was an Austrian theoretical physicist who developed fundamental results in quantum th…
Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1961)
Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. was a Jamaican political activist. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities Le…
Marcus Garvey, Jamaican journalist and activist, founded Black Star Line (died 1940)
John Anthony Sydney Ritson DSO & Bar, was an English mines inspector and engineer who became professor of mining at Leeds University and at the Royal School of Mines, Imperial Coll…
John Anthony Sydney Ritson, English rugby player, mines inspector, engineer and professor of mining (died 1957)
Phan Khôi was an intellectual leader who inspired a North Vietnamese variety of the Chinese Hundred Flowers Campaign, in which scholars were permitted to criticize the government, …
Phan Khôi, Vietnamese journalist and scholar (died 1959)
James Paul Moody was a British merchant sailor, who served as sixth officer aboard RMS Titanic. He died when the ship sank on her maiden voyage, the only junior officer not to surv…
James Paul Moody, English sailor (died 1912)
Johann Ludwig "Lutz" Graf Schwerin von Krosigk was a German senior government official who served as the minister of finance of Germany from 1932 to 1945 and de facto chancellor of…
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German jurist and politician, German Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 1977)