Explore 1429 historical events from 1880–1889.
Johannes Brahms was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period. His music features expressive counterpoint, freer dissonance, rhythmic vitality, and tradi…
Johannes Brahms conducts the premiere of his Double Concerto, composed for violinist Joseph Joachim and cellist Robert…
Joseph Vincent McCarthy was an American manager in Major League Baseball (MLB), most renowned for his leadership of the "Bronx Bombers" teams of the New York Yankees from 1931 to 1…
Joe McCarthy, American baseball manager (died 1978)
Kojo Tovalou Houénou was a prominent African critic of the French colonial empire in Africa. Born in Porto-Novo to a wealthy father and a mother who belonged to the royal family of…
Kojo Tovalou Houénou, Beninese lawyer and critic (died 1936)
Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham,, was a senior officer of the British Army noted for his victories over Italian forces in the East African Campaign during the Second World War. He then …
Alan Cunningham, Anglo-Irish general and diplomat, High Commissioners for Palestine and Transjordan (died 1983)
Andrew Michael Dasburg was an American modernist painter and "one of America's leading early exponents of cubism".
Andrew Dasburg, French-American painter (died 1979)
Mervyn Sharp Bennion was a United States Navy captain who served during World War I and was killed while he was in command of battleship USS West Virginia during the Japanese attac…
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Lorna Myrtle Hodgkinson was an Australian educator and educational psychologist who worked with intellectually disabled children. She was the first woman to receive a Doctor of Edu…
Lorna Hodgkinson, Australian educator and educational psychologist (died 1951)
Ants Kurvits or Hans Kurvits was an Estonian military commander, reaching rank of major general. He participated in the Estonian War of Independence and later became the founder an…
Ants Kurvits, Estonian general and politician, 10th Estonian Minister of War (died 1943)
Edward Trowbridge Collins Sr., nicknamed "Cocky", was an American professional baseball player, manager and executive. He played as a second baseman in Major League Baseball from 1…
Eddie Collins, American baseball player and manager (died 1951)
Maria Lacerda de Moura was a Brazilian teacher, writer and anarcha-feminist. The daughter of spiritist and anti-clerical parents, she grew up in the city of Barbacena, in the inter…
Maria Lacerda de Moura, Brazilian teacher and anarcha-feminist (died 1945)
Ion Jalea was a Romanian sculptor, monumentalist, teacher, and member of the Romanian Academy.
Ion Jalea, Romanian soldier and sculptor (died 1983)
Thoralf Albert Skolem was a Norwegian mathematician who worked in mathematical logic, set theory, and number theory.
Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician and theorist (died 1963)
Nikolai Vekšin was a Russian and Estonian sailor and helmsman of the bronze-medallist Estonian team at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Games.
Nikolai Vekšin, Estonian-Russian sailor and captain (died 1951)
Charles Robert Mowbray Fraser Cruttwell was a British historian and academic who served as dean and later principal of Hertford College, Oxford. His field of expertise was modern …
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Edward Corringham "Mick" Mannock was a British-Irish flying ace who served in the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force during the First World War. Mannock was a pioneer of fighte…
Mick Mannock, Irish soldier and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1918)
Pio of Pietrelcina, widely known as Padre Pio was an Italian friar of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, priest, stigmatist and mystic. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic …
Padre Pio, Italian priest and saint (died 1968)
Sir Ba U, was a Anglo-Burmese politician and lawyer. He served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Burma from 1948 to 1952, and the second president of Burma from 16 March 195…
Ba U, 2nd President of Burma (died 1963)
Frank Edward Woolley was an English professional cricketer who played for Kent County Cricket Club between 1906 and 1938 and represented the England cricket team. A genuine all-rou…
Frank Woolley, English cricketer (died 1978)
Alexander Porfyrovych Archipenko was a Ukrainian-American avant-garde artist, sculptor, and graphic artist, active in France and the United States. He was one of the first to apply…
Alexander Archipenko, Ukrainian-American sculptor and illustrator (died 1964)
Emil Reesen was a Danish composer, conductor and pianist. Aside from composing for ballets and operas he was also a noted film score composer. He is remembered mainly for his opere…
Emil Reesen, Danish pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1964)
Alexis Leger, better known by his pseudonym Saint-John Perse, was a French poet, writer and diplomat, awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the soaring flight and the evo…
Saint-John Perse, French poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1975)
Clifford Hardman "Clive" Brook was an English stage and film actor.
Clive Brook, English actor (died 1974)
André François-Poncet was a French politician and diplomat whose post as ambassador to Germany allowed him to witness first-hand the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Part…
André François-Poncet, French politician and diplomat (died 1978)