* 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

See H Dumesnil, Constant Troyon: Souvenirs intimes ( Paris, 1888 ); A Hustin, " Troyon ", L ' Art, pp. 77 and 85 ( Paris, 1889 ); Albert Wolff, Constant Troyon, La Capitale de l ' art ( Paris, 1886 ); DC Thomson, The Barbizon School of Painters ( London, 1890 ); Constant Troyon, The Art Journal ( 1893 ), p. 22.

In 1888, Wolff was transferred to Pretoria to establish a branch office.

* 1977 – Paul Bernays, Swiss mathematician ( b. 1888 )

He served as the Mayor of Berne from 1888 to 1895, and was an elected member of the Swiss Federal Council from 1895 to 1919.

Wilhelm Friederich Hertenstein ( 5 May 1825-27 November 1888 ) was a Swiss politician.

Hertenstein was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on 21 March 1879 and died in office on 27 November 1888.

* May 27-Johannes Itten, Swiss painter ( born 1888 )

In 1888, Bismarck convinced the Swiss government to expel a number of key members of the German social democratic movement from its country, and so Bernstein moved to London, where he had close contacts with Friedrich Engels and Karl Kautsky.

Johannes Itten ( 11 November 1888 – 27 May 1967 ) was a Swiss expressionist painter, designer, teacher, writer and theorist associated with the Bauhaus ( Staatliche Bauhaus ) school.

* Walter Hauser ( 1837 – 1902 ), Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council from 1888 to 1902

Paul Niggli ( June 26, 1888 – January 13, 1953 ) was a Swiss crystallographer who was a leader in the field of X-ray crystallography.

* Albert Friedländer ( 1888 – 1966 ), German bank director, later French and Swiss author

He married Maria Lívia Ferrari Schindler ( 1858 – 1950 ), of Swiss German and Italian descent, 915th Dame of the Royal Order of Queen Maria Luisa of Spain ( 3 November 1893 ), daughter of Gaspar Schindler and Maria Lívia Ferrari, both born and married in Lisbon, and had a son Frederico Gaspar Schindler Franco Castelo-Branco ( 18 March 1888 – 3 January 1931 ), married on 22 May 1919 to Maria Rita de Sá Pais do Amaral ( 14 September 1897 – 27 July 1926 ), daughter of the 5th Counts of Anadia, and had issue.

In 1880, he became a professor of Swiss civil and federal law at the University of Basel and later, in 1888, he became a professor at Halle University in Halle and Wittenberg, where he taught legal history, private and commercial law, public land law as well as canon law and philosophy of law.

Paul Isaac Bernays ( 17 October 1888, London – 18 September 1977, Zurich ) was a Swiss mathematician, who made significant contributions to mathematical logic, axiomatic set theory, and the philosophy of mathematics.

Edmund Gurney ( 23 March 1847 – 23 June 1888 ) was an English psychologist and psychic researcher.

Jacob Robert Kantor ( 1888 – 1984 ), aka J. R. Kantor, was a prominent psychologist who pioneered a naturalistic system in psychology he called interbehavioral psychology or interbehaviorism.

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

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

* 1814 – Josif Pančić, Serbian botanist ( d. 1888 )

* 1888 – Taher Saifuddin, Indian Dawoodi Bohra leader, 51st Da ' i al-Mutlaq ( d. 1965 )

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

* 1888 – King Alexander I of Yugoslavia ( d. 1934 )

* 1888 – Alphonse Juin, marshal of France ( d. 1967 )

* 1888 – Will Hay, English comedian and actor ( d. 1949 )

* 1822 – Matthew Arnold, British poet ( d. 1888 )

* 1888 – Thea von Harbou, German author and actress ( d. 1954 )

* 1888 – J. Arthur Rank, British film producer ( d. 1972 )

* 1888 – Yitzhak Baer, German-born Israeli historian ( d. 1980 )