* 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

* May 11 – Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1888 )

During the Summer of 1888, Herbert became Seidl's assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic's ten-week summer concert seasons on the Boardwalk at Brighton Beach, a prestigious post.

In Fall 1888, soprano Emma Juchs hired Herbert to music direct a " concert party " tour of cities and towns in the midwest that had seen little art music, presenting a quartet of singers in varied programs of songs, operatic scenes and arias to new audiences.

He m. 1888 Lelia (' Belle '), daughter of Richard Thornton Wilson, Sr., a New York banker and cotton broker, and had ( with one other son ) Sir Sidney Herbert, 1st Baronet.

By the late 1880s, the neighborhood along Graham Avenue was inhabited by many Italian immigrants, as evidenced by The Saint Mary of the Snow Society at 410 Graham Avenue, established 1888, and St. Cecilia's Catholic Church at 84 Herbert Street, established 1871.

Herbert Spencer Gasser ( July 5, 1888 – May 11, 1963 ) was an American physiologist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1944 for his work with action potentials in nerve fibers while on the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis, awarded jointly with Joseph Erlanger.

Captiva was homesteaded in 1888 and a tiny cemetery next to The Chapel by the Sea has the grave of the original resident, William Herbert Binder ( 1850 – 1932 ), an Austrian.

* George Herbert Scott ( 1888 – 1930 ), British airship pilot and engineer

He met Herbert Hoover, a future U. S. president, who moved to Salem in 1888.

Hewlett married Hilda Beatrice Herbert on 3 January 1888 in St. Peter's Church, Vauxhall, where her father was the incumbent vicar.

The linguist Herbert Allen Giles resided in the fort from 1885 to 1888 and completed some of his work on the Wade-Giles system of romanization of Standard Chinese there.

* Herbert Arthur Disney ( December 8, 1888 – January 29, 1961 )

Ernest Herbert Pitcher VC, DSM ( 31 December 1888 – 10 February 1946 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

During Herbert ’ s first two years at Harvard, David became gravely ill, and in 1888 Herbert dropped out of Harvard to become his father ’ s private secretary and companion.

In most of her writings she used her mother's name " Elizabeth Stuart Phelps " as a pseudonym, both before and after her marriage in 1888 to Herbert Dickinson Ward, a journalist seventeen years younger.

Herbert ( Herbie ) Leslie Collins ( 21 January 1888 in Darlinghurst, Sydney, New South Wales – 28 May 1959 in Little Bay, Sydney ) was an Australian cricketer who played 19 Tests between 1921 and 1926.

In addition to numerous private benefactions in educational and charitable fields, he erected memorial windows to William Cowper and George Herbert in Westminster Abbey ( 1877 ), and to John Milton in St. Margaret's, Westminster ( 1888 ), a monument to Leigh Hunt at Kensal Green, a William Shakespeare memorial fountain at Stratford-on-Avon ( 1887 ), and a monument to Richard A. Proctor.

By December 1888, directors were Albert Allen of Elmira, New York, Ashbel Green of Tenafly, New Jersey, Walter Katte, Herbert E. Kinney, James D. Layng, Henry Monett, James W. Musson, Donald B. Toucey, Albert B. Taylor, William C. Taylor, William H. Sanford, all of New York City and Archy McCulloh and Joseph P. Ord of Englewood, New Jersey.

The Schuermann dynasty was founded by Clemens Schuermann ( 1888 – 1956 ), professional track cyclist and later architect, continued by his son Herbert Schuermann ( 1925 – 1994 ) and his grandson Ralph Schuermann ( born 1953 ).