Explore 1429 historical events from 1880–1889.
Mustafa İsmet İnönü was a Turkish politician and military officer who served as the president of Turkey from 1938 to 1950, and as its prime minister three times: from 1923 to 1924,…
İsmet İnönü, Turkish general and politician, 2nd President of Turkey (died 1973)
Hugo Schmeisser was a German firearm developer.
Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer and engineer (died 1953)
Adolph Rudolphovich Bolm was a Russian-born American ballet dancer and choreographer, of German descent.
Adolf Bolm, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer (died 1951)
John Paris Bickell was a Canadian businessman, philanthropist, and sports team owner. He is best known for his long-time association with the Toronto Maple Leafs professional ice h…
Jack Bickell, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (died 1951)
Ram Chandra Shukla, better known as Acharya Shukla, was an Indian historian of Hindi literature. He is regarded as the first codifier of the history of Hindi literature in a scient…
Ramchandra Shukla, Indian historian and author (died 1941)
Major Harold Geiger was an American military officer and pioneer U.S. Army aviator, who was killed in an airplane crash in 1927. He was U.S. military aviator number 6. He was also …
Harold Geiger, American lieutenant and pilot (died 1927)
Nikolai Alekseevich Klyuev was a notable Russian poet. He was influenced by the symbolist movement, intense nationalism, and a love of Russian folklore.
Nikolai Klyuev, Russian poet and author (died 1937)
Ida Wüst was a German stage and film actress whose career was prominent in the 1920s and 1930s with Universum Film AG (UFA).
Ida Wüst, German actress and screenwriter (died 1958)
Siegfried Carl Alban Rumann, billed as Sig Ruman and Sig Rumann, was a German-American character actor known for his portrayals of pompous and often stereotypically Teutonic offici…
Sig Ruman, German-American actor (died 1967)
Archibald Hoxsey was an American aviator who worked for the Wright brothers.
Archibald Hoxsey, American pilot (died 1910)
Walter Karl Gustav August Ernst von Reichenau was a German Generalfeldmarschall in the Heer (Army) of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was nicknamed "The Bull". Reichenau comma…
Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal (died 1942)
Friedrich Karl Rudolf Bergius was a German chemist known for the Bergius process for producing synthetic fuel from coal, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in recognition of contributions to…
Friedrich Bergius, German-Argentinian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1949)
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an American political figure, diplomat, and activist. She was the longest-serving first lady of the United States, during her husband Franklin D. Rooseve…
Eleanor Roosevelt, American humanitarian and politician, 32nd First Lady of the United States (died 1962)
Rembrandt Bugatti was an Italian sculptor, known primarily for his bronze sculptures of wildlife subjects. During World War I, he volunteered for paramedical work at a military hos…
Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (died 1916)
Claire Waldoff, born Clara Wortmann, was a German singer. She was a famous kabarett singer and entertainer in Berlin during the 1910s to the 1930s, chiefly known for performing iro…
Claire Waldoff, German singer and actress (died 1957)
Emil Fjellström was a Swedish stage and film actor.
Emil Fjellström, Swedish actor (died 1944)
Maria Antonina Czaplicka, also referred to as Marya Antonina Czaplicka and Marie Antoinette Czaplicka, was a Polish cultural anthropologist who is best known for her ethnography of…
Maria Czaplicka, Polish cultural anthropologist (died 1921)
William P. Hogenson was an American athlete and sprinter, who competed in the early twentieth century. He won a silver medal in Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics in the men's 6…
William Hogenson, American sprinter (died 1965)
Admiral Shirō Takasu was a career naval officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.
Shirō Takasu, Japanese admiral (died 1944)
William Douglas Cook was the founder of Eastwoodhill Arboretum, now the national arboretum of New Zealand, and one of the founders of Pukeiti, a rhododendron garden, close to New …
William Douglas Cook, New Zealand horticulturalist, founded Eastwoodhill Arboretum (died 1967)
Bedřich Smetana was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style that became closely identified with his people's aspirations to a cultural and political "revi…
Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer and educator (born 1824)
Cyrus Hall McCormick was an American inventor and businessman who founded the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which became part of the International Harvester Company in 1902…
Cyrus McCormick, American businessman, co-founded the International Harvester Company (born 1809)
Juan Bautista Alberdi was an Argentine political theorist and diplomat. Although he lived most of his life in exile in Montevideo, Uruguay and in Chile, he influenced the content o…
Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentinian-French politician and diplomat (born 1810)
Johann Nepomuk Karl Maria Rott was an Austrian composer and organist. His music is little-known today, though he received high praise in his time from Gustav Mahler and Anton Bruck…
Hans Rott, Austrian organist and composer (born 1858)