* Albert G. Ingalls ( 1888 – 1958 ), editor of Amateur Telescope Making, Vols.

In 1859, Nobel's father left his factory in the care of the second son, Ludvig Nobel ( 1831 – 1888 ), who greatly improved the business.

* 1888 – Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.

* 1810 – Philip Henry Gosse, English naturalist ( d. 1888 )

* 1888 – Hans Richter, Swiss painter, filmmaker, and graphic artist ( d. 1976 )

* 1888 – Gerhard Ritter, German historian ( d. 1967 )

* 1839 – Nikolai Przhevalsky, Russian explorer ( d. 1888 )

* 1888 – Heinrich Neuhaus, Soviet pianist ( d. 1964 )

* 1846 – Anna Haining Bates, Canadian giant ( d. 1888 )

* 1888 – Heinrich Schlusnus, German singer ( d. 1952 )

* 1888 – John Logie Baird, Scottish engineer and inventor ( d. 1946 )

* 1888 – Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor ( d. 1975 )

Eastern European theorists include Pyotr Stolypin ( 1862 – 1911 ) and Alexander Chayanov ( 1888 – 1939 ) in Russia ; Adolph Wagner ( 1835 – 1917 ), and Karl Oldenberg in Germany, and Bolesław Limanowski ( 1835 – 1935 ) in Poland.

* 1800 – George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, English soldier ( d. 1888 )

Amos Bronson Alcott ( November 29, 1799 – March 4, 1888 ) was an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer.

* 1815 – John Bosco, Italian priest and educator ( d. 1888 )

* 1888 – T. E. Lawrence, English writer and soldier ( d. 1935 )

* 1888 – Armand J. Piron, American violinist, bandleader, and composer ( d. 1943 )

* 1888 – The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.

* He married 1908, Cleope Teresa Magliano ( 1888 – 1926 ), a dancer with the Ballet Opera of Monte Carlo.

* Alexander I of Yugoslavia ( 1888 – 1934 ), first king of Yugoslavia

Commonly known simply as " records " in their era of greatest popularity ( c. 1888 – 1915 ), these cylinder shaped objects had an audio recording engraved on the outside surface which could be reproduced when the cylinder was played on a mechanical phonograph.

Magnetic storage in the form of audio recording on a wire was publicized by Oberlin Smith in 1888.

* 1888 – George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.

Magnetic recording was proposed as early as 1888 by Oberlin Smith, who published 1888-09-08 in The Electrical World as " Some possible forms of phonograph ".

* Accordion Player-the recording date is believed to be 1888.

Feré demonstrated the exosomatic method of recording of skin electrical activity by passing a small current through the skin in 1888.

Previously, the earliest known recording of vocal music was an 1888 Edison wax cylinder phonograph recording of a Handel choral concert.

As recording technology developed, children's songs were soon being sold on record ; in 1888, the first recorded discs ( called " plates ") offered for sale included Mother Goose nursery rhymes.

* 1888 – Will Hay, English comedian and actor ( d. 1949 )

IX: an English translation of an Arabic text, published at Rome in 1888.

In the Georgian era, patronage of such seaside places ( such as nearby Brighton ) gave it a new lease of life so that, when the time came with the reform of English local government in 1888, Hastings became a County Borough, responsible for all its local services, independent of the surrounding county, then Sussex ( East ); less than one hundred years later, in 1974, that status was abolished.

* 1888 – Edward Lear, English artist, illustrator, author, and poet ( b. 1812 )

* 1888 – Ewart Astill, English cricketer ( d. 1948 )

* 1812 – Edward Lear, English artist and poet ( d. 1888 )

* 1888 – Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot, English governess and writer ( d. 1947 )

Philip Henry Gosse ( 6 April 1810 – 23 August 1888 ) was an English naturalist and popularizer of natural science, virtually the inventor of the seawater aquarium, and a painstaking innovator in the study of marine biology.

An English translation of 152 quatrains, published in 1888.

* 1846 – Anna Kingsford, English doctor ( d. 1888 )

* The Son of a Star ( 1888 ), an English novel by Benjamin Ward Richardson

* 1888 – Charles Turner becomes the first bowler to take 250 wickets in an English season – a feat since accomplished only by Tom Richardson ( twice ), J. T.

Unua Libro por Angloj ( first edition in English, 1888, Steinhaus translation ).

Albion were one of the founding members of The Football League in 1888 and have spent the majority of their existence in the top tier of English football.

In March 1888, William McGregor wrote to what he considered to be the top five English teams, including Albion, informing them of his intention to form an association of clubs that would play each other home and away each season.

* March 23 – T. P. Cameron Wilson, English poet and novelist ( b. 1888 )

* April 18 – Will Hay, English comedian and actor ( b. 1888 )

* January 21 – Robert Henry English, American admiral ( b. 1888 )

* February 8 – Miles Mander, English actor ( b. 1888 )

** George Relph, English actor ( b. 1888 )

* November 17 – Gladys Cooper, English actress ( b. 1888 )