* 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 photograph by Napoleon Sarony used in the second edition of Sherman's Memoirs, 1889.

The engraving was modeled after a photograph taken by Napoleon Sarony in 1888.

* Viktor Napoleon Procopé 1884 – 1888

* Victor Napoleon Procopé 1888

* Viktor Napoleon Procopé 1884 – 1888

English caricature and satire on Napoleon I. London: Chatto & Windus, 1888.

Coquelin photographed by the United States | American Napoleon Sarony c. 1888.

Napoleon Lapathiotis ( Ναπολέων Λαπαθιώτης ; 31 October 1888 – 7 January 1944 ) was a Greek poet.

Rufus Napoleon Rhodes ( June 5, 1856, Pascagoula, Mississippi – January 12, 1910, Birmingham, Alabama ) was the founder and managing editor of the Birmingham News from 1888 until his death.

( The symbol ∈ is a derivation from the Greek letter epsilon, " ε ", introduced by Peano in 1888.

The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, founded in 1888, incorporates air and the other Greek classical elements into its teachings.

* 1888 – Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Greek Olympic champion ( d. 1913 )

Influence of Greek Ideas and Usages Upon the Christian Church ( 1888 Hibbert Lectures ).

* Metaxa, the first alcoholic drink consumed in space, is a Greek distilled spirit invented by Spyros Metaxas in 1888, continuing the tradition of making distilled wines since the Classical antiquity.

Blass is chiefly known for his works in connection with the study of Greek oratory: Die griechische Beredsamkeit von Alexander bis auf Augustus ( 1865 ); Die attische Beredsamkeit ( 1868 – 1880 ; 2nd ed., 1887 – 1898 ), his greatest work ; editions for the Teubner series of Andocides ( 1880 ), Antiphon ( 1881 ), Hypereides ( 1881, 1894 ), Demosthenes ( Dindorf's ed., 1885 ), Isocrates ( 1886 ), Dinarchus ( 1888 ), Demosthenes ( Rehdantz ed., 1893 ), Aeschines ( 1896 ), Lycurgus, Leocrates ( 1902 ); Die Rhythmen der attischen Kunstprosa ( 1901 ); Die Rhythmen der asianischen und römischen Kunstprosa ( 1905 ).

During later life he researched and wrote books on the early history of chemistry such as Les Origines de l ' alchimie ( 1885 ) and Introduction à l ' étude de la chimie des anciens et du moyen âge ( 1889 ), He also translated various old Greek, Syriac and Arabic treatises on alchemy and chemistry: Collection des anciens alchimistes grecs ( 1887 – 1888 ) and La Chimie au moyen âge ( 1893 ).

Georgios Papandreou ( – Geórgios Papandréou ; Kalentzi, 13 February 1888 – Athens, 1 November 1968 ) was a Greek politician, the founder of the Papandreou political dynasty.

This word can lead to confusion ; the Visigothic scholars used it to contrast with Greek or Hebrew, and Simonet ( 1888: XXIII-IV, XXXV-VII ) established that in Moslem Spain it was used to refer to the non-Arabic vernacular ( as was Arabic Al-Lathinī )

Leno was a replacement in the role of Leontes in the 1888 musical burlesque of the ancient Greek character Atalanta at the Strand Theatre, directed by Charles Hawtrey.

( The Twilight of the Gods and Other Tales, 1888, revised 1903 ) and John Kendrick Bangs ( Olympian Nights, 1902 ) used the Greek myths for satirical purposes.

Metaxa () is a Greek distilled spirit invented by Spyros Metaxas in 1888.

He created the first brandy and was involved in the foundation of the first distillation facility in 1888, a little over 50 years after the Greek War of Independence.

The label shows a Salaminomaho ( Salamina fighter ), a figure of an Ancient Greek trireme that was carved on a coin of that period, found during the excavation of the first factory in Piraeus in 1888.

Hale wrote also The sequence of tenses in Latin ( 1887 – 1888 ), The anticipatory subjunctive in Greek and Latin ( 1894 ), and a Latin grammar ( 1903 ), to which the parts on sounds, inflection and word-formation were contributed by Carl Darling Buck.

His literary works include numerous translations from the Greek, German, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese ; several books of verse ; the book of short stories The Twilight of the Gods ( 1888, 16 stories ; 12 stories added in the 1903 edition );

He is best known as the author of the book Influence of Greek Ideas and Usages Upon the Christian Church, which was based on the lectures he presented during the 1888 Hibbert Lectures and which were edited and published following his death.

* Influence of Greek Ideas and Usages Upon the Christian Church ( 1888 )

In 1888 Ioannes Trampatzes, another expatriate Greek merchant, this one in Romania, donated the funds for the Trampatzeion Gymnasium.

Though he wrote several inflammatory theological pamphlets, such as The Liturgy and the Dissenters ( 1860 ) and Leaves from an Egyptian Notebook ( 1888 ), he is chiefly remembered today for his archaeological and philological studies, which include Words and Places ( 1864 ), Etruscan Researches ( 1874 ), The Alphabet ( 1883 ), and Greeks and Goths ( 1879 ), in which he argued that the runes were derived from a variety of the Hellenic alphabet used in the Greek colonies on the Black Sea about the 6th century B. C.

Born in Mesolongi in 1869 to Themistoklis Trikoupis, he entered the Greek Army Academy, which he graduated in 1888 as an Artillery Second Lieutenant.