* 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 – Raymond Lawler, American soccer player ( d. 1946 )

* March 26 – Raymond Chandler, American-born novelist ( b. 1888 )

* A Semicentennial History of the American Mathematical Society, 1888 – 1938 – by Raymond Clare Archibald

* Antonin Raymond ( 1888 – 1976 ), Czech architect

* Raymond Chandler ( 1888 – 1959 ), American writer

They had twelve children, six boys and six girls: Oliver William Foster ( 1878 – 1955 ), Francis Brodie ( 1880 – 1967 ), Alec ( 1881 – 1938 ), Lionel ( 1883 – 1948 ), Noel ( 1885 – 1962 ), Violet ( 1888 – 1924 ), Raymond ( 1889 – 1915 ), Honor ( 1891 – 1979 ), Lorna ( 1892 – 1987 ), Norah ( 1894 – 1990 ), Barbara ( 1896 – 1983 ), and Rosalynde ( 1896 – 1983 ).

Writers like Dashiell Hammett ( 1894 – 1961 ), Raymond Chandler ( 1888 – 1959 ), Jonathan Latimer ( 1906 – 1983 ), Mickey Spillane ( 1918 – 2006 ), and many others decided on an altogether different, innovative approach to crime fiction.

In 1887 one Mr. E. C. Webster began construction of a hotel on the southeast corner of Raymond Avenue and Kansas Street ( 1929 Green St .) When he was unable to complete the job, a newcomer to the area, Colonel G. G. Green, took over the construction and finished the Green Hotel, which opened in 1888.

Royal Raymond Rife ( May 16, 1888 – August 5, 1971 ) was an American inventor and early exponent of high-magnification time-lapse cine-micrography.

* 1811 – Henry Bergh, American activist and writer, founder of ASPCA ( d. 1888 )

* 1888 – Duffy Lewis, American baseball player ( d. 1979 )

* 1944 – Charles Jordan, American magician ( b. 1888 )

* Schoolhouse Blizzard of 1888, North American Great Plains

In the summer of 1888, with classes in summer recess, Beaux worked in the fishing village of Concarneau with the American painters Alexander Harrison and Charles Lasar.

* 1888 – Maxwell Anderson, American writer ( d. 1959 )

* 1888 – Fred Merkle, American baseball figure ( d. 1958 )

* 1888 – Owen Brewster, American politician ( d. 1961 )

At the 1888 Republican National Convention, Douglass became the first African American to receive a vote for President of the United States in a major party's roll call vote.

* 1888 – Earl Caddock, American professional wrestler ( d. 1950 )

* 1807 – Thomas Green Clemson, American politician and educator, founded Clemson University ( d. 1888 )

* 1888 – Joseph B. Keenan, American political figure ( d. 1954 )

* 1916 – Alan Seeger, American poet ( b. 1888 )

* 1888 – Tom Brown, American trombonist ( d. 1958 )

* 1888 – Harold Hitz Burton, American politician and lawyer, 45th Mayor of Cleveland ( d. 1964 )

* 1888 – Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1963 )

* 1831 – John Pemberton, American chemist, inventor of Coca-Cola ( d. 1888 )

* 1888 – Peter Stoner, American mathematician and astronomer ( d. 1980 )

* 1888 – Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player ( d. 1951 )

* 1888 – Percy Kilbride, American actor ( d. 1964 )

* 1888 – Kirk Bryan, American geologist ( d. 1950 )

* 1888 – Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-born American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1973 )