* 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.

* 1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's " The Lost Chord ", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.

* 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

* David Marine ( 1888 – 1976 ), an American pathologist who tested the use of iodide to prevent goiters in schoolgirls, which led to the iodization of salt

David and Goliath, a colour lithograph by Osmar Schindler ( c. 1888 )

David faces Goliath in this 1888 lithograph by Osmar Schindler.

Although Earhart and Putnam had no children, he had two sons by his previous marriage to Dorothy Binney ( 1888 – 1982 ), a chemical heiress whose father's company, Binney & Smith, invented Crayola crayons: the explorer and writer David Binney Putnam ( 1913 – 1992 ) and George Palmer Putnam, Jr. ( born 1921 ).

This commitment was reflected in the words of David Jayne Hill of the Class of 1874, and president of the university from 1879 to 1888: " We need in Pennsylvania, in the geographical centre of the state, a University, not in the German but in the American sense, where every branch of non-professional knowledge can be pursued, regardless of distinction of sex.

Father David summed up his labours in an address delivered before the International Scientific Congress of Catholics at Paris in April, 1888.

* David Jones ( jazz musician ) ( 1888 – 1956 ), American jazz saxophonist

It was opened in 1888 by David Oppenheimer in the name of Lord Stanley of Preston, the Governor-General of Canada.

In 1887 Oppenheimer Brothers opened the first wholesale grocery business in the fledgling city, which still exists as The Oppenheimer Group After the Great Vancouver Fire, David helped found the Vancouver Board of Trade and was its first Chairman from 1887 to 1888.

In 1888 David Oppenheimer was acclaimed the second Mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, serving until 1891.

* David Davies ( footballer born 1888 ), Oldham Athletic F. C.

His other works include a drama in verse, The House of Ravensburg ( 1877 ), an epic on David Livingstone's expedition in Africa, a Life of Byron ( 1890, Great Writers series ), an edition of Edmund Spenser's poems, a selection of Thomas Otway's plays ( 1888 ) for the Mermaid series, and critical papers on literature and philosophy.

When his successor David Howard Harrison proved unable to command a parliamentary majority, Greenway was asked by the Lieutenant Governor to form a new administration in January 1888.

Subsequent stagings of the play by David Garrick, Charles Kean, Henry Irving ( who chose to play Wolsey, the villain and perhaps the showier role of the play, in 1888, with Ellen Terry as the noble Katherine of Aragon ).

Her most famous novel, The Lodger ( 1913 ), based on the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888, has been adapted for the screen five different times ; the first movie version was Alfred Hitchcock's silent film The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog ( 1927 ), followed by Maurice Elvey's in 1932, John Brahm's in 1944, Man in the Attic in 1953, and David Ondaatje's in 2009.

Henry David Thoreau and other 19th-century visitors remarked on the beauty of the area. Hunters at Camp Russell, northeast of Moosehead Lake, 1888

David Ross Locke ( also known by his pseudonym Petroleum V. Nasby ) ( September 20, 1833February 15, 1888 ) was an American journalist and early political commentator during and after the American Civil War.

Lehmann joined Arsenal on 25 July 2003 as a replacement for David Seaman, and played every match as Arsenal went unbeaten for the entire 2003 – 04 FA Premier League season, becoming the first English club to accomplish this feat since Preston North End in the 1888 – 89 season.

Forest Products Ltd .( builders of the Kinleith mill ), Sir David Henry ( 1888 – 1963 ), after places near his home town of Edinburgh, in Scotland.

He was appointed Minister of Marine and Fisheries by Sir John A. Macdonald in 1888, and kept that position in subsequent Conservative cabinets until 1894, under PMs Sir John Abbott and Sir John Sparrow David Thompson.

David Whitmer ( January 7, 1805 – January 25, 1888 ) was an early adherent of the Latter Day Saint movement who eventually became the most interviewed of the Three Witnesses to the Book of Mormon's Golden Plates.

David Whitmer died January 25, 1888 in Richmond.

In the late 19th Century, his uncle Doctor David Marsil was mayor of Saint-Eustache, Quebec from 1871 to 1875 and appointed to the Legislative Council of Quebec in 1888.

In 1888 she spent three months at the Cape Observatory as the guest of the director, Sir David Gill, and his wife, and there became sufficiently familiar with spectroscopic work to be able to write about this newer branch of the science with increased clearness and confidence.