Explore 963 historical events from 1880–1889.
Frederick Wellington "Cyclone" Taylor was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and civil servant. A cover-point and rover, he played professionally from 1906 to 1922, and is a…
Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player and politician (died 1979)
Frank Laird Waller was an American athlete who specialized in the 400 metres. He later became a vocal coach.
Frank Waller, American runner (died 1941)
Géza Gyóni was a Hungarian war poet. He died in a Russian prisoner of war camp during the First World War. His many verse contributions to Hungarian literature are considered to be…
Géza Gyóni, Hungarian soldier and poet (died 1917)
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler was a German-born art collector, and one of the most notable French art dealers of the 20th century. He became prominent as an art gallery owner in Paris be…
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, German-French art collector and historian (died 1979)
Gaston Louis Pierre Bachelard was a French philosopher. He made contributions in the fields of poetics and the philosophy of science. To the latter, he introduced the concepts of e…
Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher and poet (died 1962)
Lamina Sankoh, born Etheldred Nathaniel Jones, was a Sierra Leone Creole pre-independence politician, educator, banker and cleric. Sankoh is known most prominently for helping to f…
Lamina Sankoh, Sierra Leonean banker and politician (died 1964)
Georges Duhamel was a French author, born in Paris. Duhamel trained as a doctor, and during World War I was attached to the French Army. In 1920, he published Confession de minuit,…
Georges Duhamel, French author and critic (died 1966)
Alfons Maria Jakob was a German neurologist who worked in the field of neuropathology.
Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist and author (died 1931)
Enrico Dante was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Papal Master of Ceremonies from 1947 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1965.
Enrico Dante, Italian cardinal (died 1967)
Harold Stirling Vanderbilt CBE was an American railroad executive, a champion yachtsman, an innovator and champion player of contract bridge, and a member of the Vanderbilt family.
Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, American businessman and sailor (died 1970)
Lion Feuchtwanger was a German Jewish novelist and playwright. A prominent figure in the literary world of Weimar Germany, he influenced contemporaries including playwright Bertolt…
Lion Feuchtwanger, German author and playwright (died 1958)
Robert "Bob" Diry was an Austrian middleweight world champion 1908 in wrestling. In 1910, he trained in Jiu-Jitsu under T.Tobari of the Tenshin-Shin-Yo-ryu and Kodokan Judo at the …
Bob Diry, Austrian-born wrestler and boxer (died 1935)
Louis Burt Mayer was a Canadian-American film producer and co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios (MGM) in 1924. Under Mayer's management, MGM became the film industry's most pr…
Louis B. Mayer, Russian-born American film producer, co-founded Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (died 1957)
Amedeo Clemente Modigliani was an Italian painter and sculptor of the École de Paris who worked mainly in France. He is known for portraits and nudes in a modern style characterise…
Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (died 1920)
Yrjö Erik Mikael Saarela was a Finnish wrestler who won Olympic gold and a world championship.
Yrjö Saarela, Finnish wrestler and coach (died 1951)
Anna Alexandrovna Vyrubova was a Russian lady-in-waiting. She was the best friend and confidante of Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna.
Anna Vyrubova, Russian author (died 1964)
Alberto di Jorio was a cardinal of the Catholic Church and for many years along with the layman Bernardino Nogara the powerhouse behind the growing wealth of the Vatican and the Is…
Alberto di Jorio, Italian cardinal (died 1979)
Odell Shepard was an American professor, poet, and politician who was the 86th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1941 to 1943. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1938.
Odell Shepard, American poet and politician, 66th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (died 1967)
Emil Jannings was a Swiss-born German actor who was popular in Hollywood films in the 1920s. He was the first recipient of the Academy Award for Best Actor for starring in The Last…
Emil Jannings, Swiss-German actor (died 1950)
Maria Caserini was an Italian stage and film actress, as well as a pioneer of filmmaking during the early 20th century. She often starred in adaptations of stage and film productio…
Maria Caserini, Italian actress (died 1969)
Ralph Austin Bard was a Chicago financier who served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1941–1944, and as Under Secretary, 1944–1945. He is noted for a memorandum he wrote to Secr…
Ralph Austin Bard, American financier and politician, 2nd Under Secretary of the Navy (died 1975)
Charles Edward was at various points in his life a British prince and royal duke, a German duke, and a Nazi politician. He was the last ruling Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, a stat…
Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, British-born German nobleman and Nazi politician (died 1954)
Davidson Black was a Canadian paleoanthropologist, best known for his naming of Sinanthropus pekinensis. He was Chairman of the Geological Survey of China and a Fellow of the Royal…
Davidson Black, Canadian paleoanthropologist, discovered and named the Peking Man fossil (died 1934)
Carl Friedrich Goerdeler was a German conservative politician, monarchist, executive, economist, civil servant and opponent of the Nazi regime. He opposed anti-Jewish policies whil…
Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, Polish-German economist and politician (died 1945)