* 1882 – American Old West: Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford.

* John James Maximilian Oertel ( 1811 – 1882 ), born in Ansbach, was a Lutheran clergyman who later converted to Roman Catholicism, became a professor of German at Fordham University in the United States, and later edited and founded several newspapers in the United States, including one that would become the leading German-language newspaper in the county, Baltimore's Kirchenzeitung.

* 1882 – James Joyce, Irish author ( d. 1941 )

* 1882 – Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D. C. for the assassination of U. S. President James Garfield.

* 1882 – James Larkin White, miner, explorer, and park ranger, discovered the Carlsbad Caverns ( d. 1946 )

Henri Bergson ( 1859 – 1941 ), on the other hand, emphasized the difference between scientific, clock time and the direct, subjective, human experience of time His work on time and consciousness " had a great influence on twentieth-century novelists ," especially those modernists who used the stream of consciousness technique, such as Dorothy Richardson, Pointed Roofs, ( 1915 ), James Joyce, Ulysses ( 1922 ) and Virginia Woolf ( 1882 – 1941 ) Mrs Dalloway ( 1925 ), To the Lighthouse ( 1927 ).

Other philosophers who embraced panentheism have included Thomas Hill Green ( 1839 – 1882 ), James Ward ( 1843 – 1925 ), Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison ( 1856 – 1931 ) and Samuel Alexander ( 1859 – 1938 ).

* 1847 – Jesse James, American criminal and murderer ( d. 1882 )

* 1841 – Charles J. Guiteau, American preacher, writer, and lawyer, assassin of James A. Garfield ( d. 1882 )

* May 21 – James Franck, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1882 )

** Neil James Archibald Primrose, MP ( killed in action ) ( b. 1882 )

* March 19 – James Somerville, British admiral ( b. 1882 )

* January 13 – James Joyce, Irish writer ( b. 1882 )

* April 12 – James Gleason, American actor ( b. 1882 )

* 3 April 1882 — Bob Ford assassinates Jesse James, legendary outlaw.

* 1882 – 1883: James Wimshurst of Poplar, London, England

** James Young, Scottish footballer, motorcycle accident ( b. 1882 )

* September 8 – Charles J. Guiteau, American lawyer and assassin of James A. Garfield ( d. 1882 )

* September 5 – Jesse James, American outlaw ( d. 1882 )

Porter traveled with Dr. James K. Hall to Texas in March 1882, hoping that a change of air would help alleviate a persistent cough he had developed.

He came from a political family: his father James Herbert Wilson ( December 1882 – 1971 ) was a works chemist who had been active in the Liberal Party and then joined the Labour Party.

* 1882 – James Atkinson invents the Atkinson cycle engine, now common in some hybrid vehicles.

* Grimm, Jacob ( 1882 ) translated by James Steven Stallybrass.

Painted in Nottingham, England around 1860 by John James Story ( d. 1900 ), it depicts the life and career of the great Italian patriot, Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 – 1882 ).

The Atkinson cycle engine is a type of internal combustion engine invented by James Atkinson in 1882.

* Overbeck by J. Beavington Atkinson, 1882, ( London: Sampson Low, Marston ), 114 pages

Atkinson pursued a business career from 1882 onwards and in 1894 he was admitted as an attorney to the Bar of Pennsylvania.

* James Atkinson ( inventor ) ( 1846 – 1914 ), inventor of the Single-Stroke combustion engine in 1882

After dying in 1882 from accidental drowning, he was buried in the Hampstead Cemetery.

Westfield College in Hampstead, the University of London's first women's college, opened in 1882.

He returned to England in September 1882, settling in Hampstead, where he died.

Westfield College was a small college situated in Kidderpore Avenue, Hampstead, London, and was a constituent college of the University of London from 1882 to 1989.

On their tour that year ( 1882 ) the Australians played just one Test, at The Oval in London.

The London docks in 1882.

* H. D. Traill, Laurence Sterne, " English Men of Letters ", ( London, 1882 )

* 1882 – Britain's first electric trams run in east London.

The Society for Psychical Research ( SPR ) was founded in London in 1882.

The SPR was founded in 1882 in London by a group of eminent thinkers including Edmund Gurney, Frederic William Henry Myers, William Fletcher Barrett, Henry Sidgwick and Edmund Dawson Rogers.

Earlier in the year, in January 1882, he had switched on the first steam-generating power station at Holborn Viaduct in London.

Lucien Gaulard and John Dixon Gibbs first exhibited a device with an open iron core called a " secondary generator " in London in 1882, then sold the idea to the Westinghouse company in the United States.

In 1882, incandescent electric lights were introduced to London streets, although it took many years before they were installed everywhere.

* A statue of Gladstone by Albert Bruce-Joy and erected in 1882, stands near the front gate of St. Marys Church in Bow, London.

* 1882: William Edward Ayrton of London, England and John Perry of Garvagh, County Londonderry, Ireland build an electric tricycle.

When a post office was established in 1882, the site was named London.

She later married Greek-born actor Aristides Damala ( known in France by the stage name Jacques Damala ) in London in 1882, but the marriage, which legally endured until Damala's death in 1889 at age 34, quickly collapsed, largely due to Damala's dependence on morphine.

His parents were Thomas Sullivan ( 1805 – 1866 ), a military bandmaster, clarinettist and music teacher born in Ireland and raised in Chelsea, London, and Mary Clementina ( née Coghlan, 1811 – 1882 ), English born, of Irish and Italian descent.

Iolanthe was first produced in London at the Savoy Theatre, on 25 November 1882, three days after Patience closed, and ran for 398 performances.

Richard Wagner's Ring cycle premiered in London earlier in 1882.

Iolanthe, the first opera to premiere at the new Savoy Theatre, had a successful initial run in London of 398 performances, spanning the holiday seasons of both 1882 and 1883.

The Guild, initially established as The London Guild in 1882, was renamed several times, and was named after Mary between 1914 and 2010.

Inayat Khan () ( July 5, 1882 – February 5, 1927 ) was the founder of The Sufi Order in the West in 1914 ( London ) and teacher of Universal Sufism.

On 13 March 1882 he lectured at the Royal Institution in London in front of a sell-out audience, which included members of the Royal Family, notably the future King Edward VII.

Fuelled by this new resolve, Rivers studied medicine at the University of London, where he matriculated in 1882, and St Bartholomew's Hospital in London.

Other important portraits by Whistler include those of Thomas Carlyle ( historian, 1873 ), Maud Franklin ( his mistress, 1876 ), Cicely Alexander ( daughter of a London banker, 1873 ), Lady Meux ( socialite, 1882 ), and Théodore Duret ( critic, 1884 ).