Explore 1429 historical events from 1880–1889.
Harry Herbert Frazee was an American theatrical agent, producer, and director, and owner of Major League Baseball's Boston Red Sox from 1916 to 1923. He is well known for selling B…
Harry Frazee, American director, producer, and agent (died 1929)
Curt Sachs was a German musicologist. He was one of the founders of modern organology. Among his contributions was the Hornbostel–Sachs system, which he created with Erich von Horn…
Curt Sachs, German-American composer and musicologist (died 1959)
Sir Edward Battersby Bailey FRS FRSE MC was an English geologist.
Edward Battersby Bailey, English geologist (died 1965)
Royal Hurlburt Weller was an American politician and attorney who was a United States representative from New York from 1923 to 1929. He was assistant district attorney of New York…
Royal Hurlburt Weller, American lawyer and politician (died 1929)
Ulysses Simpson Grant III was a United States Army officer and planner. He was the son of Frederick Dent Grant, and the grandson of General of the Armies and American President Uly…
Ulysses S. Grant III, American general (died 1968)
Isabel Martin Lewis was an American astronomer who was the first woman hired by the United States Naval Observatory as assistant astronomer. In 1918, Lewis was elected a member of…
Isabel Martin Lewis, American astronomer and author (died 1966)
Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova was a Russian avant-garde artist, painter, costume designer, writer, illustrator, and set designer. Goncharova's lifelong partner was fellow Russian av…
Natalia Goncharova, Russian theatrical costume and set designer, painter and illustrator (died 1962)
John Bannerman McLean was a Canadian professional baseball catcher between 1901 until 1915. During his years in Major League Baseball, he played with five different teams. Beginnin…
Larry McLean, Canadian-American baseball player (died 1921)
Friedrich Dessauer was a German physicist, a philosopher, a socially engaged entrepreneur and a journalist.
Friedrich Dessauer, German physicist and philosopher (died 1963)
Augusta Fox Bronner was an American psychologist and criminologist, best known for her work in juvenile psychology. She co-directed the first child guidance clinic, and her researc…
Augusta Fox Bronner, American psychologist, specialist in juvenile psychology (died 1966)
Hans Fischer was a German organic chemist and the recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize for Chemistry "for his researches into the constitution of haemin and chlorophyll and especially…
Hans Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1945)
Major General Smedley Darlington Butler was a United States Marine Corps officer and, later, an anti-war advocate. During his 34-year military career, he fought in the Philippine–A…
Smedley Butler, American general, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1940)
Otto Toeplitz was a German mathematician working in functional analysis. In addition to his mathematical research, Toeplitz is well known for the popular mathematics book The Enjoy…
Otto Toeplitz, German mathematician and academic (died 1940)
Leopoldo Antonio Carrillo was an American actor, vaudevillian, political cartoonist, and conservationist. He was notable for playing Pancho in the television series The Cisco Kid (…
Leo Carrillo, American actor (died 1961)
Louella Rose Oettinger Parsons, was an American gossip columnist and screenwriter. At her peak, her columns were read by 20 million people in 700 newspapers worldwide.
Louella Parsons, American journalist (died 1972)
Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist was a German Generalfeldmarschall of the Wehrmacht during World War II. Born into the Prussian noble family von Kleist, Kleist entered the Prussian Arm…
Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal (died 1954)
Captain Prince Antônio Gastão of Orléans-Braganza MC was a Brazilian-born prince of the House of Orléans-Braganza and a military officer who served with distinction in the forces o…
Prince Antônio Gastão of Orléans-Braganza, Brazilian prince (died 1918)
Aleksander Richard Aberg was an Estonian professional Greco-Roman and free-style wrestling world champion of the early 20th century. He took part in the World Heavyweight Champions…
Aleksander Aberg, Estonian wrestler (died 1920)
Francis Ford was an American film actor, writer and director. He was the mentor and elder brother of film director John Ford. As an actor, director and producer, he was one of the …
Francis Ford, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1953)
Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish physician and microbiologist. He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Howard Florey and Ernst Chain "for the discovery of…
Alexander Fleming, Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1955)
Cecil Blount DeMille, often known in popular culture as Mr. DeMille, was an American filmmaker and actor. Between 1914 and 1958, he created 70 features including silent and sound f…
Cecil B. DeMille, American director and producer (died 1959)
Alfred Wagenknecht was an American Marxist activist and political functionary. He is best remembered for having played a critical role in the establishment of the Communist Party U…
Alfred Wagenknecht, German-American activist and politician (died 1956)
George Enescu, known in France as Georges Enesco, was a Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor, teacher and statesman. He is regarded as one of the greatest musicians in …
George Enescu, Romanian violinist, pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1955)
George Robert Shepherd, 1st Baron Shepherd PC, was a British Labour politician.
George Shepherd, 1st Baron Shepherd (died 1954)