* 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 )

* 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

In his classic UHF experiments of 1888, Heinrich Hertz transmitted ( via a spark-gap transmitter ) and detected radio waves using electrical equipment.

** 29 October 1955 – 10 January 1956 Heinrich Welsch ( b. 1888 – d. 1976 ), Non-party

Between 1886 and 1888, Heinrich Rudolf Hertz studied Maxwell's theory and validated it through experiment.

Heinrich Hertz ( 1888 ) demonstrated the existence of electromagnetic radiation ( radio waves ) in a series of experiments in Germany during the 1880s.

* 1888: Heinrich Hertz of Hamburg, a city-state of the German Empire, successfully transmits and receives radio waves.

Heinrich Anton de Bary ( 26 January 1831 – 19 January 1888 ) was a German surgeon, botanist, microbiologist, and mycologist ( fungal systematics and physiology ).

In 1888, Heinrich Hertz demonstrated the existence of electromagnetic waves, the underlying basis of most wireless technology.

The first antennas were built in 1888 by German physicist Heinrich Hertz in his pioneering experiments to prove the existence of electromagnetic waves predicted by the theory of James Clerk Maxwell.

The first parabolic antenna, built by Heinrich Hertz in 1888.

German physicist Heinrich Hertz constructed the world's first parabolic reflector antenna in 1888.

The German physicist Heinrich Hertz showed experimentally, in 1888, the existence of electromagnetic waves in free space.

Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer ( 21 February 1801 – 10 February 1888 ) was a German Orientalist.

In 1883, following from Maxwell's equations, FitzGerald suggested a device for producing rapidly oscillating electric currents to generate electromagnetic waves, a phenomenon which was first shown to exist experimentally by the German physicist Heinrich Hertz in 1888.

* 1888: Heinrich Rudolf Hertz confirms the existence of electromagnetic radiation.

Alfred Ludwig Heinrich Karl Graf von Waldersee ( 8 April 1832, Potsdam – 5 March 1904, Hanover ) was a German Generalfeldmarschall who served as Chief of the Imperial German General Staff from 1888 to 1891 and as Allied Supreme Commander in China in 1900-1901.

Although it was written in 1888, its controversial content made Franz Overbeck and Heinrich Köselitz delay its publication, along with Ecce Homo.

: 1887 to 1888 – Heinrich Hertz verifies the existence of electromagnetic waves.

* Life of Heinrich Heine ( 1888 )

In 1888 physicist Heinrich Hertz set out to scientifically verify Maxwell's predictions.

The first modern and scientific excavations took place under the guidance of retired army chief of staff of the Württemberg army, General Eduard von Kallee and by Major Heinrich Steimle in the years 1886 to 1888, i. e. before the Empire-Limes-Commission ( Reichslimeskommision ) had been set up.

Johannes Heinrich August Ebrard ( 18 January 1818 – 23 July 1888 ) was a German theologian.

* Heinrich Anton de Bary ( 1831 – 1888 ), German scientist.

In 1888, Heinrich Kreutz published a paper showing that the comets of 1843 ( C / 1843 D1, the Great March Comet ), 1880 ( C / 1880 C1, the Great Southern Comet ), and 1882 ( C / 1882 R1, Great September Comet ) were probably fragments of a giant comet that had broken up several orbits before.