Explore 963 historical events from 1880–1889.
Karl August Genzken was a Nazi physician who committed medical atrocities on prisoners of several concentration camps. He was an SS-Gruppenführer of the Waffen-SS and the Chief of …
Karl Genzken, German physician (died 1957)
Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski was a Polish physician, general, and politician who served as Minister of Internal Affairs and as the 28th Prime Minister of Poland before and at the ou…
Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski, Polish general and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Poland (died 1962)
Henry George Lamond was an Australian farmer and writer, notable for his novels about the land, people and animals of outback Queensland. In addition to his fiction and non-ficti…
Henry George Lamond, Australian farmer and author (died 1969)
Robert Stanley Richards was an Australian politician. He served as premier of South Australia for two months in 1933, leading the Parliamentary Labor faction of the Australian Labo…
Robert Richards, Australian politician, 32nd Premier of South Australia (died 1967)
Erich Roman Ludvig Jacoby was an Estonian architect of Baltic German descent. From 1905 to 1907 he studied at the Leibniz University of Hannover, in 1913 he graduated from the Riga…
Erich Jacoby, Estonian-Polish architect (died 1941)
Andrzej Gawroński was a Polish Indologist, linguist and polyglot. Professor of Jagiellonian University and Lwów University,, the author of the first Polish handbook on Sanskrit, fo…
Andrzej Gawroński, Polish linguist and academic (died 1927)
Milan Vidmar was a Slovenian electrical engineer, chess player, chess theorist, and writer. He was among the top dozen chess players in the world from 1910 to 1930 and in 1950, was…
Milan Vidmar, Slovenian engineer and chess player (died 1962)
Olaf Holtedahl was a Norwegian geologist. He became a senior lecturer at the University of Oslo in 1914, and was Professor of Geology there from 1920 to 1956.
Olaf Holtedahl, Norwegian geologist (died 1975)
Jean Pierre Marie Montet was a French Egyptologist.
Pierre Montet, French historian and academic (died 1966)
Guilhermina Augusta Xavier de Medim Suggia Carteado Mena, known as Guilhermina Suggia was a Portuguese cellist. She studied in Paris with Pablo Casals, and built up an internationa…
Guilhermina Suggia, Portuguese cellist (died 1950)
Izidor "Dori" Kürschner, in Brazil primarily known as Dori Kruschner,, was a Hungarian football player and coach. As player he was successful with Budapest club MTK, and also playe…
Izidor Kürschner, Hungarian football player and coach (died 1941)
Arthur Lismer was an English born-Canadian painter, member of the Group of Seven and educator. He is known primarily as a landscape painter and for his paintings of ships in dazzle…
Arthur Lismer, English-Canadian painter known for his landscapes (died 1969)
Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar was an Australian poet and fiction writer. Her poem "My Country" is widely known in Australia, especially its second stanza, which begins: "I love …
Dorothea Mackellar, Australian author and poet (died 1968)
Anna Dickie Olesen was an American politician from the state of Minnesota who was the first woman to be nominated by a major party for the United States Senate.
Anna Dickie Olesen, American politician (died 1971)
Blas Infante Pérez de Vargas was an Andalusian socialist politician, Georgist, writer, historian and musicologist. He is considered the "father of Andalusia" by Andalusian national…
Blas Infante, Spanish historian and politician (died 1936)
André Lhote was a French Cubist painter of figure subjects, portraits, landscapes, and still life. He was also active and influential as a teacher and writer on art.
André Lhote, French sculptor and painter (died 1962)
Ernst Bernhard Wilhelm Busch was a German Generalfeldmarschall during World War II who commanded the 16th Army and Army Group Centre.
Ernst Busch, German field marshal (died 1945)
Ernst Simon Bloch was a German Marxist philosopher. Bloch was influenced by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Karl Marx, as well as by apocalyptic and religious thinkers such as Th…
Ernst Bloch, German philosopher, author, and academic (died 1977)
Hugo Ferdinand Boss was a German businessman who founded the fashion house Hugo Boss. He was an active member of the Nazi Party from 1931, and remained so until Nazi Germany's capi…
Hugo Boss, German fashion designer, founded Hugo Boss (died 1948)
King Sisavangvong, known by his courtesy name Sisavangvong, was the last ruler of the Lao Kingdom of Luang Prabang and the founding king of the Kingdom of Laos. Born Prince Khao on…
Sisavang Vong, Laotian king (died 1959)
Jacques Feyder was a Belgian film director, screenwriter and actor who worked principally in France, but also in the US, Britain and Germany. He was a director of silent films duri…
Jacques Feyder, Belgian actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1948)
Izaak Walton Killam was a Canadian financier.
Izaak Killam, Canadian financier and philanthropist (died 1955)
Prince Georges Vasili Matchabelli was a Georgian perfumer. A nobleman and diplomat, he emigrated to the United States after the 1921 Soviet invasion of Georgia.
Georges V. Matchabelli, Georgian-American businessman, created Prince Matchabelli perfume (died 1935)
Royal Eugene Castleton was a relief pitcher for the New York Highlanders and Cincinnati Reds. The first native of the state of Utah and the first Mormon to play in the major league…
Roy Castleton, American baseball player (died 1967)