* 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

* 1888 – Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian Bolshevik politician ( d. 1922 )

** Aleksander Uurits, Estonian painter and graphic artist ( b. 1888 )

* May 3 – Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian Communist politician ( b. 1888 )

* Karl August Einbund ( 1888 – 1942 ), Estonian journalist, politician and head of state

* Heywood Broun ( 1888 – 1939 ), United States journalist

* November 8-John Charles Dent, journalist and historian ( died 1888 )

It emerged that the letters were forgeries written by journalist Richard Pigott, and Parnell was personally vindicated by the Parnell Commission in 1888 – 89.

* Thomas Storrow Brown ( 1803 – 1888 ), Canadian journalist, orator, and revolutionary

James Maxwell Anderson ( 15 December 1888 – 28 February 1959 ) was an American playwright, author, poet, journalist and lyricist.

* Alva Johnston ( 1888 – 1950 ), Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author and biographer

* August 7-Thomas White, journalist and politician ( died 1888 )

Many of the writers in the Tanzimat period wrote in several different genres simultaneously: for instance, the poet Nâmık Kemal ( 1840 – 1888 ) also wrote the important 1876 novel İntibâh ( انتباه ; " Awakening "), while the journalist İbrahim Şinasi ( 1826 – 1871 ) is noted for writing, in 1860, the first modern Turkish play, the one-act comedy " Şair Evlenmesi " ( شاعر اولنمسى ; " The Poet's Marriage ").

* Heywood Broun ( 1888 – 1939 ), journalist

David Ross Locke ( also known by his pseudonym Petroleum V. Nasby ) ( September 20, 1833February 15, 1888 ) was an American journalist and early political commentator during and after the American Civil War.

* TURATI, Augusto ( 1888 – 1955 ) Fascist journalist and politician.

A growing militant in her views, she became friends with fellow journalist and feminist, Marguerite Durand but following a confrontation with the Marxist Jules Guesde she left the newspaper in 1888.

William Augustus Bird ( 1888 – 1963 ) was an American journalist, now remembered for his Three Mountains Press, a small press he ran while in Paris in the 1920s for the Consolidated Press Association.

* In 1888, the astronomer and journalist Joseph Norman Lockyer built an observatory on the side of his house in Westgate-on-Sea, from where he took observations that formed the basis for his book, The Sun's Place in Nature.

Frederick William Chesson ( 1833 – 1888 ) was an English journalist and prominent anti-slavery campaigner.

* John Charles Dent ( 1841 – 1888 ), Canadian author and journalist

Theodor Rosetti ( 4 May 1837 – 17 July 1932 ) was a Romanian writer, journalist and politician who served as Prime Minister of Romania between 13 April 1888 and 11 April 1889.

William Mellor ( 1888 – 1942 ) was a left-wing British journalist.

An overview of the land war, the reforms and the effect of the Coercion Act was published in 1888 by the journalist WH Hurlbert, an Irish-American Catholic.

Jean-Charles Houzeau de Lehaie ( October 7, 1820 – July 12, 1888 ) was a Belgian astronomer and journalist.

* F. Tennyson Jesse ( 1888 – 1958 ), English criminologist, journalist and author

* Arunah Abell ( 1808 – 1888 ), journalist, newspaper publisher, founder of the Philadelphia Public Ledger and Baltimore Sun newspapers.

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.