* 1935 – Amalie Emmy Noether, German mathematician ( b. 1882 )

* 1882 – Kurt von Schleicher, German general and politician ( d. 1934 )

* John James Maximilian Oertel ( 1811 – 1882 ), born in Ansbach, was a Lutheran clergyman who later converted to Roman Catholicism, became a professor of German at Fordham University in the United States, and later edited and founded several newspapers in the United States, including one that would become the leading German-language newspaper in the county, Baltimore's Kirchenzeitung.

Although the term “ biochemistry ” seems to have been first used in 1882, it is generally accepted that the formal coinage of biochemistry occurred in 1903 by Carl Neuberg, a German chemist.

* 1882 – Walther Meissner, German physicist ( d. 1974 )

* 1882 – Max Born, German physicist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1970 )

Friedrich Wöhler ( 31 July 1800 – 23 September 1882 ) was a German chemist, best known for his synthesis of urea, but also the first to isolate several chemical elements.

* 1882 – Max Hainle, German swimmer ( d. 1961 )

* 1812 – Berthold Auerbach, German poet and author ( d. 1882 )

By 1882 German makers also produced hexagonal grained powders of a similar size for artillery.

* 1882 – Herbert von Petersdorff, German swimmer ( d. 1917 )

* 1882 – Carl Diem, German sports administrator ( d. 1962 )

* 1917 – Herbert von Petersdorff, German swimmer ( b. 1882 )

The Klein bottle was first described in 1882 by the German mathematician Felix Klein.

* 1882 – William, German Crown Prince ( d. 1951 )

* 1839 – Christian Wilberg, German painter ( d. 1882 )

* 1882 – Günther von Kluge, German field marshal ( d. 1944 )

In 1882, Ito and his staff, Itō Miyoji and Saionji Kinmochi, traveled to Europe and investigated constitutions in constitutional monarchies, the British Empire and the German Empire.

In 1882 – 1883, a German expedition for the First International Polar Year was stationed at Royal Bay on the southeast side of the island.

* 1882 – Hans Geiger, German physicist ( d. 1945 )

* 1818 – Theodor Kullak, German pianist, composer, and educator ( d. 1882 )

* September 24 – Johannes Hans Geiger, German physicist and inventor ( b. 1882 )

** Wilhelm Keitel, German Nazi Generalfeldmarschall ( b. 1882 )

* September 17 – Eduard Spranger, German philosopher and psychologist ( b. 1882 )

* November 20 – Christian Wilberg, German painter ( d. 1882 )

* 1945 – Robert H. Goddard, American physicist and inventor ( b. 1882 )

* 1882 – Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1961 )

In 1882, Italian physicist Luigi Palmieri detected helium on Earth, for the first time, through its D < sub > 3 </ sub > spectral line, when he analyzed the lava of Mount Vesuvius.

* May 21 – James Franck, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1882 )

* August 20 – Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1882 )

* April 23 – John Thomas Romney Robinson, Irish astronomer and physicist ( d. 1882 )

Hans " Gengar " Geiger ( 30 September 1882 – 24 September 1945 ) was a German physicist.

* Fred C. Allison ( 1882 – 1974 ), was an American physicist.

* Max Born ( 1882 – 1970 ), German mathematician and physicist

Dr. Thomas Romney Robinson ( 23 April 1792-28 February 1882 ) was an astronomer and physicist.

Friedrich Albert Moritz Schlick ( April 14, 1882 – June 22, 1936 ) was a German philosopher, physicist and the founding father of logical positivism and the Vienna Circle.

Robert Hutchings Goddard ( October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945 ) was an American professor, physicist and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, which he successfully launched on March 16, 1926.

* Max Born ( 1882 – 1970 ), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1954

* James Franck ( 1882 – 1964 ), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1925

* Wilhelm Heinrich Westphal ( 1882 – 1978 ), physicist

William Barton Rogers ( December 7, 1804 – May 30, 1882 ) was a geologist, physicist and educator.

* John Thomas Romney Robinson ( 1792 – 1882 ), Irish astronomer and physicist

James Franck ( 26 August 1882 – 21 May 1964 ) was a German physicist and Nobel laureate.

Percy Williams Bridgman ( 21 April 1882 – 20 August 1961 ) was an American physicist who won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the physics of high pressures.

James Challis FRS ( 12 December 1803 – 3 December 1882 ) was an English clergyman, physicist and astronomer.