* 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

Fernando Pessoa ( 1888 – 1935 ) was a Portuguese poet.

Instead of Cabanas, there is a mansion with chapel, where he died on December 25, 1888, resigning the Archbishop of Braga, D. John Chrysostom de Amorim Pessoa.

The Kingdom of Kongo was reduced to a small enclave in the north of Angola with King Pedro V in 1888 finally accepting to become a vassal of the Portuguese.

The Casamance was subject to both French and Portuguese colonial efforts before a border was negotiated in 1888 between the French colony of Senegal and Portuguese Guinea ( now Guinea-Bissau ) to the south.

The boat was launched on May 13, 1888, the very day slavery was abolished in Brazil, and therefore the ship was given the Portuguese name Liberdade.

In 1883, 1886 and 1888 he ruled as regent as his father was traveling in Europe, as it became tradition among the Portuguese constitutional kings.

The population of Ribeirão Preto includes, amongst other groups, descendents of Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Japanese immigrants who were attracted to the region because of the coffee agriculture, right after the Abolition of Slavery in 1888, when immigrants were granted lands, after being indentured workers.

Following the end of the slave trade, Portuguese commerce stultified, and the town was eventually handed over to France on 22 April 1888, in a deal brokered amongst the colonial powers at the Berlin conference of 1886.

His literary works include numerous translations from the Greek, German, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese ; several books of verse ; the book of short stories The Twilight of the Gods ( 1888, 16 stories ; 12 stories added in the 1903 edition );

An 1888 U. S. Fish Commission Report stated that whales had been caught from Portuguese Bend as late as 1884, suggesting another party utilized the area for whaling up until that date.

Other rifles utilizing a frequently improved en-bloc clip include the German 1888 Commission Rifle, the French 1890 Berthier Cavalry Carbine and later models ( upgraded to 5 rounds in 1916 ), the Italian M1870 / 87 Vetterli-Vitali and M91 Carcano, the various ( Romanian, Dutch, Portuguese ) turnbolt Mannlichers, the Austro-Hungarian straight-pull Steyr-Mannlicher M1895, the M1895 Lee Navy, the Hungarian 35M Mannlicher, and the US M1 Garand.

* 1888 – Namık Kemal, Turkish poet ( b. 1840 )

* 1822 – Matthew Arnold, British poet ( d. 1888 )

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

* 1822 – Nguyen Dinh Chieu, Vietnamese poet ( d. 1888 )

* 1888 – Nguyen Dinh Chieu, Vietnamese poet ( b. 1822 )

* 1916 – Alan Seeger, American poet ( b. 1888 )

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

* 1888 – Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek poet ( d. 1944 )

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

* May 26 – Julian Grenfell, poet ( killed in action ) ( b. 1888 )

* May 12 – Edward Lear, English artist and poet ( d. 1888 )

* December 24 – Matthew Arnold, English poet ( d. 1888 )

Shortly after graduation, on 9 June 1908, he married Aline Murray ( 1888 – 1941 ), a fellow poet to whom he had been engaged since his sophomore year at Rutgers.

Charles Cros ( October 1, 1842 – August 9, 1888 ) was a French poet and inventor.

The Honourable Julian Henry Francis Grenfell DSO ( 30 March 1888 – 26 May 1915 ), was a British soldier and poet of World War I.

* Matthew Arnold, ( 1822 – 1888 ), poet, lived in Cobham from 1873 to 1888.

* May 26-Julian Grenfell, war poet ( born 1888 )

* December 24-Matthew Arnold, poet ( died 1888 )

* September 14-Theodor Storm, German novelist and poet ( died 1888 )

He came to know the Provençal poet Frédéric Mistral in 1888 and shared the federalist thesis of Mistral's Félibrige movement.

Pinafore ( 1878 ); Major-General Stanley in The Pirates of Penzance, who is an expert at everything except " military knowledge " ( 1880 ); the aesthetic poet, Reginald Bunthorne in Patience ( 1881 ); the love-lonely Lord Chancellor in Iolanthe ( 1882 ); the sarcastic cripple, King Gama, in Princess Ida ( 1884 ); Ko-Ko the cheap tailor, elevated to the post of Lord High Executioner, in The Mikado ( 1885 ); the accursed Robin Oakapple in Ruddigore ( 1887 ); and the pathetic jester, Jack Point, in The Yeomen of the Guard ( 1888 ).

* Namık Kemal ( 1840 – 1888 ), Turkish nationalist poet

Photo by Robie Macauley. John Crowe Ransom ( April 30, 1888, Pulaski, Tennessee – July 3, 1974, Gambier, Ohio ) was an American poet, essayist, magazine editor, and professor.