Explore 963 historical events from 1880–1889.
Laurent Barré was a Quebec author, politician and Cabinet Minister for 16 years.
Laurent Barré, Canadian lawyer and politician (died 1964)
Henri Marie Coandă was a Romanian inventor, aerodynamics pioneer, and builder of an experimental aircraft, the Coandă-1910, which never flew. He invented a great number of devices,…
Henri Coandă, Romanian engineer, designed the Coandă-1910 (died 1972)
Frank Charles Clement was a British racing driver who, along with Canadian John Duff, won the 1924 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Frank Clement, British racing driver (died 1970)
George Herbert Leigh-Mallory was an English mountaineer who participated in the first three British Mount Everest expeditions from the early to mid-1920s. He and his climbing part…
George Mallory, English lieutenant and mountaineer (died 1924)
Frank Alexander Wetmore was an American ornithologist and avian paleontologist. He was the sixth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He was also an elected member of both the…
Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist and paleontologist (died 1978)
Randolph Silliman Bourne was a progressive writer and intellectual born in Bloomfield, New Jersey, and a graduate of Columbia University. He is considered to be a spokesman for the…
Randolph Bourne, American theorist and author (died 1918)
Kintarō Hayakawa, known professionally as Sessue Hayakawa, was a Japanese actor. He was a popular star and matinée idol in Hollywood during the silent film era of the 1910s and ear…
Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor and producer (died 1973)
Finley Hamilton was a United States representative from Kentucky. He was born in Vincent, Owsley County, Kentucky. He attended the public schools and Berea College. He studied law …
Finley Hamilton, American lawyer and politician (died 1940)
Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold was an American general officer holding the ranks of General of the Army and later, General of the Air Force. Arnold was an aviation pioneer, Chief of the…
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Charles George Macartney was an Australian cricketer who played in 35 Test matches between 1907 and 1926. He was known as "The Governor-General" in reference to his authoritative b…
Charlie Macartney, Australian cricketer and soldier (died 1958)
Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Robert Schuman was a Luxembourg-born French statesman. Schuman was a Christian democratic political thinker and activist. Twice Prime Minister of France, a re…
Robert Schuman, Luxembourgian-French lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of France (died 1963)
Thomas Charles Longboat was an Onondaga distance runner from the Six Nations Reserve near Brantford, Ontario and, for much of his career, the dominant long-distance runner. He was …
Tom Longboat, Canadian runner and soldier (died 1949)
Willem Drees Sr. was a Dutch politician of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) and later co-founder of the Labour Party (PvdA) and historian who served as Prime Minister of…
Willem Drees, Dutch politician and historian, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1948–1958) (died 1988)
Prince John Konstantinovich of Russia, formerly Grand Duke John Konstantinovich of Russia, sometimes also known as Prince Ivan, Prince Ioann or Prince Johan, was the eldest son of …
Prince John Konstantinovich of Russia (died 1918)
Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch was a French historian. He was a founding member of the Annales School of French social history. Bloch specialised in medieval history and published wid…
Marc Bloch, French historian and academic (died 1944)
Raymond Ames Spruance was a United States Navy admiral during World War II. He commanded U.S. naval forces during the Battle of the Philippine Sea, one of the most significant nava…
Raymond A. Spruance, American admiral and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the Philippines (died 1969)
Boris Grigoriev was a painter, graphic artist, and writer.
Boris Grigoriev, Russian painter and illustrator (died 1939)
Jean Pierre Carl Buron, known professionally as Jean Hersholt, was a Danish-American actor. He is most famous for starring on the CBS radio series Dr. Christian from 1937–1954, rep…
Jean Hersholt, Danish-American actor and director (died 1956)
Edward Joseph Flanagan was an Irish-born priest of the Catholic Church in the United States who served for decades in Nebraska. After serving as a parish priest in the Diocese of O…
Father Edward J. Flanagan, founder of Boys Town (died 1948)
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. was a lieutenant general in the United States Army during World War II who served in the Pacific Theater. As commanding general of Alaska Defense Command,…
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., American general (died 1945)
Michael (Mihály) Fekete was a Hungarian-Israeli mathematician.
Michael Fekete, Hungarian-Israeli mathematician and academic (died 1957)
Hella Maria Wuolijoki, known by the pen name Juhani Tervapää, was an Estonian-born Finnish writer, playwright, parliamentarian, businessperson and farmer. She is best known as a dr…
Hella Wuolijoki, Estonian-Finnish author (died 1954)
Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo was a Spanish "eminent liberal", diplomat, writer, historian and pacifist who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Nobel Peace Prize…
Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish historian and diplomat (died 1978)
Walter Schottky was a German physicist and electrical engineer who played a major early role in developing the theory of thermionic emission, invented the screen-grid vacuum tube i…
Walter H. Schottky, Swiss-German physicist and engineer (died 1976)