* 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

Eugene Gladstone O ' Neill ( October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953 ) was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature.

A commemorative plaque is posted on the outside wall with the inscription " Eugene O ' Neill, October 16, 1888 ~ November 27, 1953 America's greatest playwright was born on this site then called Barrett Hotel, Presented by Circle in the Square.

Founded in 1888, railroad engineer Eugene Cornwall named the city for his hometown of Irvington, New York.

* Eugene O ' Neill ( 1888 – 1953 ), playwright.

In 1888, Herschell attracted expatriate Belgian Eugene de Kleist to North Tonawanda, who started the North Tonawanda Barrel Organ Factory to produce band organs.

** Eugene O ' Neill, playwright ( born 1888 )

Previously the word praxiology, with the meaning Espinas gave to it, was used by Tadeusz Kotarbiński ( in 1923 ) and some time later by several economists, such as the Ukrainian, Eugene Slutsky ( 1926 ) in his attempt to base economics on a theory of action, the Austrian Ludwig von Mises ( 1933 ), the Russian, Nikolai Bukharin ( 1888 – 1938 ) during the Second International Congress of History of Science and Technology in London ( in 1931 ), and the Pole, Oscar Lange ( 1904 – 1965 ) in 1959, and later.

In the 1900s, Jack London ( 1876 – 1916 ), Theodore Dreiser ( 1871 – 1945 ), Sherwood Anderson ( 1876 – 1941 ), Eugene O ' Neill ( 1888 – 1953 ), Clifford Odets ( 1906 – 1963 ), T. S. Eliot ( 1888 – 1965 ), John Dos Passos ( 1896 – 1970 ), Francis Scott Fitzgerald ( 1896 – 1940 ), and Henry Louis Mencken ( 1880 – 1956 ).

The earlier date, 293, is sometimes assigned and apparently supported by the authority of a " Coptic Fragment " ( published by Dr. O. von Lemm among the Mémoires de l ' académie impériale des sciences de S. Péterbourg, 1888 ) and corroborated by the maturity revealed in his two earliest treatises Contra Gentes ( Against the Heathens ) and De Incarnatione ( On the Incarnation ), which were admittedly written about the year 318 before Arianism had begun to make itself felt, as those writings do not show an awareness of Arianism.

They divorced in 1929, after O ' Neill abandoned Boulton and the children for the actress Carlotta Monterey ( born San Francisco, California, December 28, 1888 ; died Westwood, New Jersey, November 18, 1970 ).

On February 9, 1928, Hartsdale became the birthplace of the American " Couch Potato " when the Scottish inventor John Logie Baird ( 1888 – 1946 ) transmitted the world's first inter-continental short-wave television signal from a transmitter ( call sign 2KZ ) in Coulsdon, Surrey ( a suburb of London ) to his colleague O. G. Hutchinson in the cellar of Robert M. Hart, an amateur radio operator ( call sign 2CVJ ) in Hartsdale.

Railroad Town: With the completion in 1888 of the O. R.

* O Keindl, F. T. Vischer, Erinnerungsblätter ( 1888 )

On August 16, 1888, George O. Jones, chairman of the national committee, called a second session of the national convention.

On 1 April 1894, with the proposed extension to Oxford still intended, the O & AT exercised a clause of the 1888 Act and took over the Wotton Tramway.

Hugh O ' Brien ( July 13, 1827 – August 1, 1895 ) was the 31st mayor of Boston, from 1884 – 1888.

* John Joseph O ' Neill ( UK politician ) ( 1888 – 1953 ), Liberal Party politician in England, Member of Parliament for Lancaster 1923 – 1924

The Cathedral was commissioned by late Cardinal O ' Donnell, then Bishop of Raphoe, who in 1888 aged 32 became the youngest bishop in the world at that time.

Alexander Alexandrovich Friedmann ( also spelled Friedman or Fridman, ) ( June 29 ( 17 old style ) by himself, June 16 ( 4 old style ) by J. O ' Conor in 1888, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire – September 16, 1925, Leningrad, USSR ) was a Russian and Soviet physicist and mathematician.

John Francis O ' Hara, CSC ( August 1, 1888 – August 28, 1960 ) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church.

In The National League Story ( 1961 ), Lee Allen described O ' Day as " a crusty old pitcher who had umpired in the league as early as 1888 and had the scars to prove it.

* Art O ' Connor ( 1888 – 1950 ), Minister for Agriculture in the second Dáil cabinet ( 1921 ) and briefly leader of Sinn Féin after the foundation of Fianna Fáil by Éamon de Valera ( 1927 ).

* John O ' Brien ( basketball ) ( 1888 – 1967 ), basketball referee and executive

* 21 May-Eugene O ' Callaghan, Bishop of Clogher 1943-1969 ( born 1888 ).

* 10 May-Art O ' Connor, Sinn Féin MP, member of 1st Dáil, Cabinet Minister, lawyer and judge ( born 1888 ).

* 21 August-Gerald Robert O ' Sullivan, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1915 at Gallipoli, Turkey ( born 1888 ).