Explore 1429 historical events from 1880–1889.
John Preston "Pete" Hill was an American outfielder and manager in baseball's Negro leagues from 1899 to 1925. He played for the Philadelphia Giants, Leland Giants, Chicago America…
Pete Hill, American baseball player
Charles Warrington Leonard Parker was an English cricketer, who stands as the third highest wicket taker in the history of first-class cricket, behind Wilfred Rhodes and Tich Freem…
Charlie Parker, English cricketer, coach, and umpire (died 1959)
Charles Timothy O'Leary was an American professional baseball shortstop who played eleven seasons with the Detroit Tigers (1904–1912), St. Louis Cardinals (1913), and St. Louis Bro…
Charley O'Leary, American baseball player and coach (died 1941)
Haritina Evstafievna Korotkevich was a Russian soldier who served in the Imperial Russian Army during the Russo-Japanese War. Volunteering to serve disguised as a man under the pse…
Haritina Korotkevich, Russian war heroine (died 1904)
Väinö Kivisalo was a Finnish politician and member of the Parliament of Finland, the national legislature of Finland. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he represented Häme P…
Väinö Kivisalo, Finnish politician (died 1953)
Éamon de Valera was an Irish statesman. He served as the president of Ireland from 1959 to 1973, and three terms as head of government. He had a leading role in introducing the Con…
Éamon de Valera, American-Irish rebel and politician, 3rd President of Ireland (died 1975)
Lucien Georges Mazan, known by the pseudonym Lucien Petit-Breton, was a French racing cyclist best known as the first two-time winner of the Tour de France.
Lucien Petit-Breton, French cyclist (died 1917)
Umberto Boccioni was an influential Italian painter and sculptor. He helped shape the revolutionary aesthetic of the Futurism movement as one of its principal figures. Despite his …
Umberto Boccioni, Italian painter and sculptor (died 1916)
Margaret Dumont was an American stage and film actress. She is best remembered as the comic foil to the Marx Brothers in seven of their films; Groucho Marx called her "practically …
Margaret Dumont, American actress (died 1965)
Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó, better known by his stage name Bela Lugosi was a Hungarian–American actor. He is best remembered for portraying Count Dracula in the horror film classic D…
Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor (died 1956)
Edmund Dulac was a French-British naturalised magazine illustrator, book illustrator and stamp designer. Born in Toulouse, he studied law but later turned to the study of art at th…
Edmund Dulac, French-English illustrator (died 1953)
Newell Convers Wyeth was an American painter and illustrator. He was a student of Howard Pyle and became one of America's most well-known illustrators. Wyeth created more than 3,00…
N. C. Wyeth, American painter and illustrator (died 1945)
Dame Agnes Sybil Thorndike, Lady Casson, was an English actress whose stage career lasted from 1904 to 1969.
Sybil Thorndike, English actress (died 1976)
John Thomas Flynn was an American journalist best known for his opposition to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and to American entry into World War II. In September 1940, Flynn help…
John T. Flynn, American journalist and author (died 1964)
Antonio Junius "Tony" Jackson was an American pianist, singer, and composer.
Tony Jackson, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1921)
André-Damien-Ferdinand Jullien, P.S.S. was a French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Dean of the Roman Rota in the Roman Curia from 1944 to 1958, and was elevate…
André-Damien-Ferdinand Jullien, French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (died 1964)
Theodora Agnes Peck was an American author and poet from Vermont. She published several historical novels when she was in her twenties and thirties, and her poems were published in…
Theodora Agnes Peck, American author and poet (died 1964)
Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and…
Jean Giraudoux, French author and playwright (died 1944)
Oldřich Duras was a Czech chess master. He was among the leading chess masters of the early 20th century.
Oldřich Duras, Czech chess player and composer (died 1957)
William Frederick "Bull" Halsey Jr. was an American Navy admiral during World War II. He is one of four officers to have attained the rank of five-star fleet admiral of the United …
William Halsey Jr., American admiral (died 1959)
Günther Adolf Ferdinand von Kluge was a German Generalfeldmarschall during World War II. Kluge held commands on the Eastern and Western Fronts, until his suicide in connection with…
Günther von Kluge, Polish-German field marshal (died 1944)
George Jennings was an English sanitary engineer and plumber who invented the first public flush toilets. These were first showcased at the Great Exhibition in 1851, and such was t…
George Jennings, English engineer and plumber, invented the flush toilet (born 1810)
Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have…
Charles Darwin, English biologist and theorist (born 1809)
Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of …
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet and philosopher (born 1803)