* 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

" Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888 " is a baseball poem written in 1888 by Ernest Thayer.

Incidentally, the first public performance of the poem was on August 14, 1888, by actor De Wolf Hopper, on Thayer's 25th birthday.

The new influences from Ritter resulted in what is widely regarded as Strauss's first piece to show his mature personality, the tone poem Don Juan ( 1888 ), which displays a new kind of virtuosity in its bravura orchestral manner.

* " Over the Banister ," 19th-century melody adapted by Conrad Salinger, lyrics from the 1888 poem " Over the Banisters " by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, adapted by Roger Edens ( 1944 ), performed by Judy Garland.

* An 1888 illustrated version of Robert Browning's poem ( Illustrated by Kate Greenaway )

His last poem As I laye a-thynkynge, published in 1888, was set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar.

Mahler completed what would become the first movement of the symphony in 1888 as a single-movement symphonic poem called Totenfeier ( Funeral Rites ).

* 1888: Richard Strauss ' symphonic poem Don Juan

Pierre De Geyter ( 1848 – 1932 ) set the poem to music in 1888.

" Eliot said " The Love Song of " portion of the title came from " The Love Song of Har Dyal ," a poem by Rudyard Kipling, published in the 1888 collection Plain Tales from the Hills.

As such it has become extremely popular sung to the English composer Hubert Parry's tune Repton taken from the 1888 oratorio Judith and set to the latter part of Whittier's poem in 1924 by Dr George Gilbert Stocks.

There is an unsettled debate about whether Kelly was the model for the title character in Ernest Lawrence Thayer ’ s 1888 poem " Casey at the Bat.

* Hugo Wolf used Goethe's poem for his lied Anakreons Grab ( written 1888, published 1890, orchestrated version 1893 ).

English translations of the poem were published by William Probert in 1820 and by John Williams ( Ab Ithel ) in 1852, followed by translations by William Forbes Skene in his Four Ancient Books of Wales ( 1866 ) and by Thomas Stephens for the Cymmrodorion Society in 1888.

H. Leivick ( pen name of Leivick Halpern, December 25, 1888 – December 23, 1962 ) was a Yiddish language writer, known for his 1921 " dramatic poem in eight scenes " The Golem.

His first ( known ) poem was titled * The Prince ’ s Lodge ( later retitled as " Passing Away " and published in 1888 ).

A lifelong baseball enthusiast and New York Giants fan, he first performed Ernest Thayer's then-unknown poem Casey at the Bat to the Giants and Chicago Cubs the day his friend, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Tim Keefe had his record 19 game winning streak stopped, August 14, 1888.

As a poet Arnsztajnowa debuted at the age of 23 with the poem " Na okręcie " ( On Board a Ship ) published in the newspaper Kuryer Codzienny of 1 October 1888.

Kitamura married Ishizaka Mina at the age of 19 in 1888, and in the same year he published the long verse Soshū no shi (" The Poem of the Prisoner "), which was the longest Japanese poem written in free verse up until that time.