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Who Was Alive in 1888

98 of 492 historical figures were alive in 1888

Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe VerdiAge 75
1813–1901 · Music
La Traviata, Aida — operatic master
Otto von Bismarck
Otto von BismarckAge 73
1815–1898 · Politics & Leadership
Unified Germany, the Iron Chancellor
Frederick Douglass
Frederick DouglassAge 70
1818–1895 · Activism & Social Change
Abolitionist, orator, writer
Herman Melville
Herman MelvilleAge 69
1819–1891 · Literature
Moby-Dick
Queen Victoria
Queen VictoriaAge 69
1819–1901 · Politics & Leadership
Longest-reigning British monarch of her era
Walt Whitman
Walt WhitmanAge 69
1819–1892 · Literature
Leaves of Grass, father of free verse
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. AnthonyAge 68
1820–1906 · Activism & Social Change
Women's suffrage pioneer
Florence Nightingale
Florence NightingaleAge 68
1820–1910 · Activism & Social Change
Founder of modern nursing
Friedrich Engels
Friedrich EngelsAge 68
1820–1895 · Philosophy & Thought
Co-author of The Communist Manifesto with Marx
Harriet Tubman
Harriet TubmanAge about 66
1822–1913 · Activism & Social Change
Underground Railroad conductor
Louis Pasteur
Louis PasteurAge 66
1822–1895 · Science & Invention
Germ theory, pasteurization
Jules Verne
Jules VerneAge 60
1828–1905 · Literature
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Leo Tolstoy
Leo TolstoyAge 60
1828–1910 · Literature
War and Peace, Anna Karenina
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik IbsenAge 60
1828–1906 · Literature
Norwegian playwright of A Doll's House
Sitting Bull
Sitting BullAge about 57
1831–1890 · Politics & Leadership
Lakota leader who defeated Custer at Little Bighorn
Alfred Nobel
Alfred NobelAge 55
1833–1896 · Science & Invention
Invented dynamite, founded Nobel Prizes
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri MendeleevAge 54
1834–1907 · Science & Invention
Created the periodic table of elements
Mark Twain
Mark TwainAge 53
1835–1910 · Literature
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew CarnegieAge 53
1835–1919 · Business & Industry
Steel magnate, philanthropist
John D. Rockefeller
John D. RockefellerAge 49
1839–1937 · Business & Industry
Standard Oil tycoon, among the richest Americans in history
Claude Monet
Claude MonetAge 48
1840–1926 · Art
Water Lilies, father of Impressionism
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Pyotr TchaikovskyAge 48
1840–1893 · Music
Swan Lake, The Nutcracker
Émile Zola
Émile ZolaAge 48
1840–1902 · Literature
French novelist who wrote J'Accuse
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste RenoirAge 47
1841–1919 · Art
Impressionist painter of joyful scenes
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich NietzscheAge 44
1844–1900 · Philosophy & Thought
"God is dead," Beyond Good and Evil
Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah BernhardtAge 44
1844–1923 · Film & Entertainment
French stage actress of worldwide fame
Thomas Edison
Thomas EdisonAge 41
1847–1931 · Science & Invention
Light bulb, phonograph, 1000+ patents
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham BellAge 41
1847–1922 · Science & Invention
Invented the telephone
Paul Gauguin
Paul GauguinAge 40
1848–1903 · Art
Post-Impressionist painter of Tahiti
Antoni Gaudí
Antoni GaudíAge 36
1852–1926 · Art
Sagrada Família architect
Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van GoghAge 35
1853–1890 · Art
Starry Night, post-Impressionist icon
Oscar Wilde
Oscar WildeAge 34
1854–1900 · Literature
The Picture of Dorian Gray, wit and charm
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund FreudAge 32
1856–1939 · Philosophy & Thought
Father of psychoanalysis
Nikola Tesla
Nikola TeslaAge 32
1856–1943 · Science & Invention
AC electricity, visionary inventor
Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow WilsonAge 32
1856–1924 · Politics & Leadership
28th US President, League of Nations
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard ShawAge 32
1856–1950 · Literature
Irish playwright of Pygmalion
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore RooseveltAge 30
1858–1919 · Politics & Leadership
26th US President, Rough Rider
Emmeline Pankhurst
Emmeline PankhurstAge 30
1858–1928 · Activism & Social Change
British suffragette leader
Max Planck
Max PlanckAge 30
1858–1947 · Science & Invention
Father of quantum theory
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan DoyleAge 29
1859–1930 · Literature
Creator of Sherlock Holmes
Anton Chekhov
Anton ChekhovAge 28
1860–1904 · Literature
Russian playwright and short-story master
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath TagoreAge 27
1861–1941 · Literature
First non-European Nobel laureate in Literature
Gustav Klimt
Gustav KlimtAge 26
1862–1918 · Art
The Kiss, Art Nouveau master
Claude Debussy
Claude DebussyAge 26
1862–1918 · Music
Clair de Lune, Impressionist music
David Hilbert
David HilbertAge 26
1862–1943 · Science & Invention
German mathematician of Hilbert's problems
Henry Ford
Henry FordAge 25
1863–1947 · Business & Industry
Assembly line, Model T automobile
Edvard Munch
Edvard MunchAge 25
1863–1944 · Art
The Scream
Max Weber
Max WeberAge 24
1864–1920 · Philosophy & Thought
A founder of modern sociology
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard KiplingAge 23
1865–1936 · Literature
Author of The Jungle Book, Nobel laureate
H.G. Wells
H.G. WellsAge 22
1866–1946 · Literature
The War of the Worlds, science fiction pioneer
Sun Yat-sen
Sun Yat-senAge 22
1866–1925 · Politics & Leadership
Father of the Republic of China
Marie Curie
Marie CurieAge 21
1867–1934 · Science & Invention
Radioactivity, first woman Nobel laureate
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd WrightAge 21
1867–1959 · Art
American architect of Fallingwater
Scott Joplin
Scott JoplinAge 20
1868–1917 · Music
King of Ragtime
Maxim Gorky
Maxim GorkyAge 20
1868–1936 · Literature
Russian writer of The Lower Depths
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma GandhiAge 19
1869–1948 · Politics & Leadership
Nonviolent independence leader of India
Grigori Rasputin
Grigori RasputinAge 19
1869–1916 · Politics & Leadership
Mystic who influenced the Russian royal family
Henri Matisse
Henri MatisseAge 19
1869–1954 · Art
Leader of Fauvism, master of color and cut-outs
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir LeninAge 18
1870–1924 · Politics & Leadership
Bolshevik leader of the October Revolution
Marcel Proust
Marcel ProustAge 17
1871–1922 · Literature
In Search of Lost Time
Orville Wright
Orville WrightAge 17
1871–1948 · Science & Invention
Co-inventor of the airplane
Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa LuxemburgAge 17
1871–1919 · Activism & Social Change
Marxist theorist and revolutionary
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest RutherfordAge 17
1871–1937 · Science & Invention
Father of nuclear physics
Roald Amundsen
Roald AmundsenAge 16
1872–1928 · Exploration
First to reach the South Pole
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand RussellAge 16
1872–1970 · Philosophy & Thought
Logician, philosopher and Nobel laureate
Ernest Shackleton
Ernest ShackletonAge 14
1874–1922 · Exploration
Heroic Antarctic explorer, Endurance expedition
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo MarconiAge 14
1874–1937 · Science & Invention
Pioneer of long-distance radio
Winston Churchill
Winston ChurchillAge 14
1874–1965 · Politics & Leadership
British PM who led WWII effort
Harry Houdini
Harry HoudiniAge 14
1874–1926 · Film & Entertainment
Legendary escape artist & illusionist
Carl Jung
Carl JungAge 13
1875–1961 · Philosophy & Thought
Analytical psychology, archetypes
Albert Schweitzer
Albert SchweitzerAge 13
1875–1965 · Philosophy & Thought
Nobel Peace Prize physician, theologian and organist
Thomas Mann
Thomas MannAge 13
1875–1955 · Literature
German novelist of The Magic Mountain
Pancho Villa
Pancho VillaAge 10
1878–1923 · Politics & Leadership
Mexican revolutionary general
Lise Meitner
Lise MeitnerAge 10
1878–1968 · Science & Invention
Discovered nuclear fission, overlooked for Nobel
Joseph Stalin
Joseph StalinAge 10
1878–1953 · Politics & Leadership
Leader of the Soviet Union 1924–1953
Albert Einstein
Albert EinsteinAge 9
1879–1955 · Science & Invention
Theory of relativity, E=mc²
Leon Trotsky
Leon TrotskyAge 9
1879–1940 · Politics & Leadership
Russian revolutionary, founder of the Red Army
Helen Keller
Helen KellerAge 8
1880–1968 · Activism & Social Change
Deafblind author and activist, The Story of My Life
Pablo Picasso
Pablo PicassoAge 7
1881–1973 · Art
Cubism, Guernica, most prolific artist
Alexander Fleming
Alexander FlemingAge 7
1881–1955 · Science & Invention
Discovered penicillin
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Mustafa Kemal AtatürkAge 7
1881–1938 · Politics & Leadership
Founder and first president of modern Turkey
Virginia Woolf
Virginia WoolfAge 6
1882–1941 · Literature
Mrs Dalloway, modernist pioneer
James Joyce
James JoyceAge 6
1882–1941 · Literature
Ulysses, literary revolutionary
Igor Stravinsky
Igor StravinskyAge 6
1882–1971 · Music
The Rite of Spring, modern classical
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. RooseveltAge 6
1882–1945 · Politics & Leadership
32nd US President, New Deal, WWII leader
Coco Chanel
Coco ChanelAge 5
1883–1971 · Business & Industry
Fashion icon, Chanel No. 5
Franz Kafka
Franz KafkaAge 5
1883–1924 · Literature
The Metamorphosis, surreal fiction
Benito Mussolini
Benito MussoliniAge 5
1883–1945 · Politics & Leadership
Fascist dictator of Italy 1922–1943
John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard KeynesAge 5
1883–1946 · Philosophy & Thought
Economist who founded Keynesian economics
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor RooseveltAge 4
1884–1962 · Activism & Social Change
First Lady, UN delegate, human rights champion
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. TrumanAge 4
1884–1972 · Politics & Leadership
33rd US president at the end of World War II
Niels Bohr
Niels BohrAge 3
1885–1962 · Science & Invention
Atomic model, quantum mechanics pioneer
Diego Rivera
Diego RiveraAge 2
1886–1957 · Art
Mexican muralist, political artist
Erwin Schrödinger
Erwin SchrödingerAge 1
1887–1961 · Science & Invention
Schrödinger's cat, wave equation
Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O'KeeffeAge 1
1887–1986 · Art
Mother of American modernism
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang Kai-shekAge 1
1887–1975 · Politics & Leadership
Nationalist leader of the Republic of China
Le Corbusier
Le CorbusierAge 1
1887–1965 · Art
Pioneer of modern architecture
T. S. Eliot
T. S. EliotAge 0
1888–1965 · Literature
The Waste Land, Nobel-winning modernist poet

Born in 1888

T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
1888–1965 · Literature
The Waste Land, Nobel-winning modernist poet

Also Born in 1888

1888–1965 · born September 26
Poet, essayist and playwright (1888–1965)
1888–1970 · born November 7
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
1888–1953 · born October 16
American playwright (1888–1953)
1888–1935 · born June 13
Portuguese poet, writer, and philosopher (1888–1935)
1888–1955 · born November 24
American writer and lecturer (1888–1955)
1888–1970 · born July 17
Israeli writer and Nobel laureate
1888–1935 · born August 16
British Army officer, diplomat and writer (1888–1935)
1888–1942 · born November 19
Cuban chess player (1888–1942)
1888–1969 · born February 17
German–American physicist (1888–1969)
1888–1959 · born July 23
American novelist and screenwriter (1888–1959)
1888–1975 · born September 5
President of India from 1962 to 1967
1888–1964 · born September 16
Finnish writer (1888–1964)

Also Died in 1888

1832–1888 · died March 6
American novelist (1832–1888)
1815–1888 · died January 31
19th-century Italian Roman Catholic priest, educator, and writer
1822–1888 · died August 24
German physicist and mathematician (1822–1888)
1831–1888 · died June 15
German Emperor in 1888
1822–1888 · died April 15
English poet and cultural critic (1822–1888)
1816–1888 · died December 3
German optician and optical instrument maker (1816–1888)
1839–1888 · died November 1
Polish-Russian explorer (1839–1888)
1812–1888 · died January 29
British artist, poet and writer (1812–1888)
1811–1888 · died September 11
President of Argentina from 1868 to 1874
1855–1888 · died March 24
Russian author of short stories (1855–1888)
1855–1888 · died April 5
Russian author of short stories (1855–1888)
1840–1888 · died December 2
Turkish writer and activist (1840–1888)

Sources

  1. 1888 — Wikipedia. Births, deaths and events of the year
  2. Giuseppe Verdi — Wikipedia
  3. Otto von Bismarck — Wikipedia
  4. Frederick Douglass — Wikipedia
  5. Herman Melville — Wikipedia
  6. Queen Victoria — Wikipedia
  7. Walt Whitman — Wikipedia
  8. Susan B. Anthony — Wikipedia
  9. Florence Nightingale — Wikipedia
  10. Friedrich Engels — Wikipedia
  11. Harriet Tubman — Wikipedia
  12. Louis Pasteur — Wikipedia
  13. Jules Verne — Wikipedia
  14. Leo Tolstoy — Wikipedia
  15. Henrik Ibsen — Wikipedia
  16. Sitting Bull — Wikipedia
  17. Alfred Nobel — Wikipedia
  18. Dmitri Mendeleev — Wikipedia
  19. Mark Twain — Wikipedia
  20. Andrew Carnegie — Wikipedia
  21. John D. Rockefeller — Wikipedia
  22. Claude Monet — Wikipedia
  23. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Wikipedia
  24. Émile Zola — Wikipedia
  25. Pierre-Auguste Renoir — Wikipedia
  26. Friedrich Nietzsche — Wikipedia
  27. Sarah Bernhardt — Wikipedia
  28. Thomas Edison — Wikipedia
  29. Alexander Graham Bell — Wikipedia
  30. Paul Gauguin — Wikipedia
  31. Antoni Gaudí — Wikipedia
  32. Vincent van Gogh — Wikipedia
  33. Oscar Wilde — Wikipedia
  34. Sigmund Freud — Wikipedia
  35. Nikola Tesla — Wikipedia
  36. Woodrow Wilson — Wikipedia
  37. George Bernard Shaw — Wikipedia
  38. Theodore Roosevelt — Wikipedia
  39. Emmeline Pankhurst — Wikipedia
  40. Max Planck — Wikipedia
  41. Arthur Conan Doyle — Wikipedia
  42. Anton Chekhov — Wikipedia
  43. Rabindranath Tagore — Wikipedia
  44. Gustav Klimt — Wikipedia
  45. Claude Debussy — Wikipedia
  46. David Hilbert — Wikipedia
  47. Henry Ford — Wikipedia
  48. Edvard Munch — Wikipedia
  49. Max Weber — Wikipedia
  50. Rudyard Kipling — Wikipedia
  51. H. G. Wells — Wikipedia
  52. Sun Yat-sen — Wikipedia
  53. Marie Curie — Wikipedia
  54. Frank Lloyd Wright — Wikipedia
  55. Scott Joplin — Wikipedia
  56. Maxim Gorky — Wikipedia
  57. Mahatma Gandhi — Wikipedia
  58. Grigori Rasputin — Wikipedia
  59. Henri Matisse — Wikipedia
  60. Vladimir Lenin — Wikipedia
  61. Marcel Proust — Wikipedia
  62. Wright brothers — Wikipedia
  63. Rosa Luxemburg — Wikipedia
  64. Ernest Rutherford — Wikipedia
  65. Roald Amundsen — Wikipedia
  66. Bertrand Russell — Wikipedia
  67. Ernest Shackleton — Wikipedia
  68. Guglielmo Marconi — Wikipedia
  69. Winston Churchill — Wikipedia
  70. Harry Houdini — Wikipedia
  71. Carl Jung — Wikipedia
  72. Albert Schweitzer — Wikipedia
  73. Thomas Mann — Wikipedia
  74. Pancho Villa — Wikipedia
  75. Lise Meitner — Wikipedia
  76. Joseph Stalin — Wikipedia
  77. Albert Einstein — Wikipedia
  78. Leon Trotsky — Wikipedia
  79. Helen Keller — Wikipedia
  80. Pablo Picasso — Wikipedia
  81. Alexander Fleming — Wikipedia
  82. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk — Wikipedia
  83. Virginia Woolf — Wikipedia
  84. James Joyce — Wikipedia
  85. Igor Stravinsky — Wikipedia
  86. Franklin D. Roosevelt — Wikipedia
  87. Coco Chanel — Wikipedia
  88. Franz Kafka — Wikipedia
  89. Benito Mussolini — Wikipedia
  90. John Maynard Keynes — Wikipedia
  91. Eleanor Roosevelt — Wikipedia
  92. Harry S. Truman — Wikipedia
  93. Niels Bohr — Wikipedia
  94. Diego Rivera — Wikipedia
  95. Erwin Schrödinger — Wikipedia
  96. Georgia O'Keeffe — Wikipedia
  97. Chiang Kai-shek — Wikipedia
  98. Le Corbusier — Wikipedia
  99. T. S. Eliot — Wikipedia
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