* 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 )

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

In 1888, when the University was still Kansas State Agricultural College, H. W.

* Newell, William, W. " Reports of Voodoo Worship in Hayti and Louisiana ," Journal of American Folk-lore, 41-47, 1888. p. 41-47.

* F. W. Murnau ( 1888 – 1931 ), movie director in the silent era.

In 1888, Whistler married Beatrix Godwin, the widow of the architect E. W. Godwin, who had designed Whistler's White House.

Friedrich Wilhelm " F. W ." Murnau ( born Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe ; December 28, 1888 – March 11, 1931 ) was one of the most influential German film directors of the silent era, and a prominent figure in the expressionist movement in German cinema during the 1920s.

W. F. Mitchell built the first barbed wire fence in the county at Antelope Springs in 1888.

In 1888, George Wyatt Justice established the first business in Crossville, and in 1903, W. B.

The office was transferred and renamed Hallston on December 19, 1888, with railroad agent Julius W. Gogarn as ist first postmaster.

Joel B. Peck, H. A. Cook ; 1879, William Moul ; 1880, C. Snyder ; 1881, Albert Kilmer ; 1882, Ezra W. Knowlton ; 1883, William Moul ; 1884, B. J. L. Sliter ; 1885, Albert Kilmer ; 1885, A. H. Cipperly ( appointed to fill, vacancy ); 1886, A. H. Cipperly ; 1887, Addison P. Lape ; 1888, C. Snyder ; 1889, Albert Kilmer ; 1890, Addison P. Lape ; 1891, Addison TJline ; 1892, E. M. Gregory, Le Grand M. Turner ( appointed to fill vacancy ); 1893, Sanford B. Horton ; 1894, Le Grand M. Turner ; 1895, Addison Uline ; 1896, Aipheus Bailey.

In 1888, Patrick Downey in his homestead claim cited Peter Buckley, John McRae, John Davis of Bellevue, Washington Territory and W. W. Easter of Seattle, Washington Territory as references for his claim.

* W. Ben Hunt ( 1888 – 1970 ) educator and author

* W. F. Ainsworth, Personal Narrative of the Euphrates Expedition ( 1888 )

W. H. Denny | Denny ( Wilfred ) and Jessie Bond | Bond ( Phœbe ), 1888

The company's early investors included 1888 Prohibition Party presidential candidate General Clinton B. Fisk, who served as the company's first president, Quaker Oats co-founder Ferdinand Schumacher, and publishers Isaac Funk and A. W. Wagnalls.

According to legend, Thomas W. Holley of Holyoke, Massachusetts invented the legal pad around the year 1888 when he innovated the idea to collect all the sortings, various sort of substandard paper scraps from various factories, and stitch them together in order to sell them as pads at an affordable and fair price.

* Kritik der Kantischen Philosophie ( Munich, 1883 ; translated into English by W. S. Hough, London 1888 )

His poems were first edited by Rufus Wilmot Griswold ( New York, 1844 ); another American edition, by W. A. Whitmore, appeared in 1859 ; an authorized edition with a memoir by Derwent Coleridge appeared in 1864: The Political and Occasional Poems of W. M. Praed ( 1888 ), edited with notes by his nephew, Sir George Young, included many pieces collected from various newspapers and periodicals.

A few years later, in 1888, this condition would be named myxoedema by W. M. Ord.

The original academy building burned early in the school's history, and the school operated in a church for 44 years until a new school building was built in 1888. Notable alumni of the Black River Academy include U. S. President Calvin Coolidge ; Rotary founder Paul P. Harris ; John Garibaldi Sargent, who was U. S. Attorney General during Coolidge's presidency ; and Vermont governor William W. Stickney.

* Oxford English Dictionary ( 1888 – 1923 ): E, F – G, L, M, S – Sh, St, and part of W

At this period of his life he wrote Grégoire de Tours et Marius d ' Avenche ( 1872 ); Frédégaire, whose history, taken from original manuscripts, he published in 1885 ; a translation of a book of W. Junghans, Histoire critique des règnes de Childerich et de Chlodovech, with introduction and notes ( 1879 ); Études critiques sur les sources de l ' histoire carolingienne ( 1898, 1st part only published ); and Bibliographie de l ' histoire de France ( 1888 ).

Much Ado about Nothing ( 1882 ) was followed by Twelfth Night ( 1884 ); an adaptation of Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield by W. G. Wills ( 1885 ); Faust ( 1886 ); Macbeth ( 1888, with incidental music by Arthur Sullivan ); The Dead Heart, by Watts Phillips ( 1889 ); Ravenswood by Herman, and Merivales ' dramatic version of Scott's Bride of Lammermoor ( 1890 ).