* 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 – Richard Wetherill and his brother in-law discover the ancient Indian ruins of Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde.

* 1888 – Richard E. Byrd, American explorer ( d. 1957 )

In 1888 Richard Lydekker designated Pterodactylus antiquus the type species.

In 1888, Richard Dedekind proposed a collection of axioms about the numbers, and in 1889 Peano published a more precisely formulated version of them as a collection of axioms in his book, The principles of arithmetic presented by a new method ().

* March 11 – Richard E. Byrd, American explorer ( b. 1888 )

* Richard Francis Burton — translation of The Book of One Thousand and One Nights ( 1885 – 1888 )

* 1885 – 1888 – Sir Richard Francis Burton publishes an English translation from several sources ( largely the same as Payne ).

Design reform began with the organisers of the Exhibition itself, Henry Cole ( 1808 – 1882 ), Owen Jones ( 1809 – 1874 ), Matthew Digby Wyatt ( 1820 – 1877 ) and Richard Redgrave ( 1804 – 1888 ).

The world's first long distance road trip by automobile took place in Germany in August 1888 when Bertha Benz, the wife of Karl Benz, the inventor of the first patented motor car ( the Benz Patent-Motorwagen ), travelled from Mannheim to Pforzheim ( a distance of ) in the third experimental Benz motor car ( which had a maximum speed of ) and back, with her two teenage sons Richard and Eugen but without the consent and knowledge of her husband.

Richard Burke died in 1883, and the school struggled until 1888, when Samual M. Samson arrived in Amity.

A post office was established in November 1888 and named after storekeeper / postmaster Richard J. Gooding.

Under the provostship of Richard Okes, from 1850 until his death in 1888, the college began a period of reform.

The formalization of arithmetic ( the theory of natural numbers ) as an axiomatic theory, started with Peirce in 1881, and continued with Richard Dedekind and Giuseppe Peano in 1888.

* Richard Boyle ( rower ) ( 1888 – 1953 ), British rower ; medallist at the 1908 Summer Olympics

Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Jr., USN ( 25 October 1888 – 11 March 1957 ) was a naval officer who specialized in feats of exploration.

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

* Richard Evelyn Byrd ( 1888 – 1957 )-US naval officer whose expeditions may have been the first to reach the North Pole and the South Pole by air.

His biographies of Henry Fielding ( 1883 ), Thomas Bewick ( 1884 ), Richard Steele ( 1886 ), Oliver Goldsmith ( 1888 ), Horace Walpole ( 1890 ) and William Hogarth ( 1879-1891-1897-1902-1907 ) are studies marked alike by assiduous research, sympathetic presentation and sound criticism.

In 1888 Grossmith joined the company of Richard Mansfield in Wealth, playing the role of Percy Palfreyman.

In 1888, he became music director of Globe Theatre in London, also providing popular incidental music for many of its productions and those of other London theatres, including Richard III ( 1889 ), Henry VIII ( 1892 ) and Nell Gwynn ( 1900 ).

In 1888, with an introduction by conductor Alberto Randegger to theatre manager Richard Mansfield, German was appointed conductor and Musical Director of the Globe Theatre in London.

* 1888: Richard Strauss ' symphonic poem Don Juan

* Richard Evelyn Byrd ( 1888 – 1957 ), admiral, polar explorer, aviator

The use of multisets in mathematics predates the name " multiset " by nearly 90 years: Richard Dedekind used multisets in a paper published in 1888.