* 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 – Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.

His parents were Dr. Algernon Sidney Porter ( 1825 – 1888 ), a physician, and Mary Jane Virginia Swaim Porter ( 1833 – 1865 ).

Before he left the United States in March 1888, Chamberlain proposed to Mary, describing her as ' one of the brightest and most intelligent girls I have yet met '.

In November 1888, Chamberlain married Mary in Washington, D. C., wearing white violets, rather than his trademark orchid.

* Doris and Moris Grekel also wrote three-part non church-authorized biography on Eddy, The Discovery of the Science of Man: ( 1821 – 1888 ), ( ISBN 1-893107-23-X ), The Founding of Christian Science: The Life of Mary Baker Eddy 1888 – 1900, ( ISBN 1-893107-24-8 ), and The Forever Leader: ( 1901 – 1910 ) ( ISBN 0-9645803-8-1 ).

* 1888 Town site platted by Alexander and Mary Wickersham.

* Mary Jane Kelly ( 1863 – 1888 ), widely believed to be the fifth and final victim of Jack the Ripper

In late 1888, the 30-year-old crown prince met the 17-year-old Baroness Marie Vetsera, known by the more fashionable Anglophile name Mary and began an affair with her.

In 1888 he moved out of the Kidson household and set up his own home at Seabank, with his sister Mary ( who had earlier come over from Canada ) acting as the housekeeper.

He goes on to allege that “ S ” was certified insane by Gull and placed in a private mental home, from which he escaped and committed the last, and most brutal, murder of Mary Jane Kelly in November 1888.

England interested him deeply ; and his attachment to the gifted English writer, Agnes Mary Frances Robinson, whom he shortly afterwards married ( and who in 1901 became the wife of Professor E. Duclaux, director of the Pasteur Institute at Paris ), led him to translate her poems into French in 1888.

Arthur Lowe was born in Hayfield, Derbyshire, the only child of Arthur ( 1888 – 1971 ) and his wife Mary Annie ( Nan ) née Ford ( 1885 – 1981 ).

Harris, but soon led by his widow Mary Lee Cagle, and a group ( also called the Holiness Church of Christ ), that resulted in November 1904 at Rising Star, Texas from the prior merger of The Holiness Church ( founded in 1888 in Texas ) and the Independent Holiness Church ( formed at Van Alstyne, Texas in 1901, and led by Charles B. Jernigan and J. B. Chapman ).

Pilgrims are drawn to the site because it is considered to be the place where two miracles were performed by the Blessed Virgin Mary, the first being the Miracle of the Ice Bridge ( 1879 ) and the other being the Miracle of the Eyes ( 1888 ).

* Mary Jane Kelly ( 1863 – 1888 ), Jack the Ripper victim

Another claimant to the distinction of being " the worst street in London " was nearby Dorset Street, which was highlighted by the brutal killing and mutilation of a young woman named Mary Kelly in her lodgings here by the serial killer known as Jack the Ripper in the autumn of 1888.

** Mary Jane Kelly ( c. 1863 – 1888 ), lived and was murdered at 13 Millers Court, just off Dorset Street

** Mary Ann Nichols ( 1845 – 1888 ), resided at a common lodging house at 18 Thrawl Street.

On 25 March 1888, a separate vestry was formed as a local authority for The parish of Saint Mary Battersea excluding Penge.

* Robert Shapland George Julian Carew, 3rd Baron Carew ( 1860 – 1923 ) married Julia Mary Lethbridge on 2 June 1888, at St. George's, Hanover Square, London.

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.

Recorded wrecks on the 5 km stretch of coastline between Trwyn y Witch and Nash Point include: the Royal Hunter ( 1747 ), the Indian Prince ( 1752 ), the Elizabeth ( 1753 ), the Prince ( 1764 ), the George ( 1770 ), the Industry ( 1786 ), the Thomas ( 1806 ), the Bee ( 1820 ), the Harriet ( 1827 ), the Jessie Orasie ( 1831 ), the Frolic ( 1831 ), the Providence ( 1832 ), the Mayflower ( 1841 ), the New Felicity ( 1841 ), the Vigo ( 1842 ), the Betsey ( 1849 ), the Lucie ( 1854 ), the Williams ( 1854 ), the Mary & Deffus ( 1861 ), the Gillies ( 1862 ), the Elphis ( 1865 ), the Amelie ( 1870 ), the New Dominian ( 1872 ), the Bessie ( 1872 ), the John & Eliza ( 1876 ), the Jane & Susan ( 1882 ), the Ben-y-gloe ( 1886 ), the Malleny ( 1886 ), the Caterina Camogle ( 1887 ), the Denbigh ( 1888 ), the Tilburnia ( 1888 ), the Claymore ( 1892 ), the Lizzie ( 1892 ), the Elizabeth Couch ( 1913 ), the Narcissus ( 1916 ), the Pollensa ( 1919 ) and the Cato ( 1951 ).