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| [[Image:Joséphin Péladan’s Istar (1888) frontispiece by Fernand Khnopff.jpg|thumb|right|200px| | [[Image:Joséphin Péladan’s Istar (1888) frontispiece by Fernand Khnopff.jpg|thumb|right|200px| | ||
| [[Frontispiece]] by [[Fernand Khnopff]] for ''[[Istar]]'' ([[1888]]), illustrating the [[erotic]] nature of [[Art Nouveau]]]] | [[Frontispiece]] by [[Fernand Khnopff]] for ''[[Istar]]'' ([[1888]]), illustrating the [[erotic]] nature of [[Art Nouveau]]]] | ||
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| - | :[[1880]] - [[1881]] - [[1882]] - [[1883]] - [[1884]] - [[1885]] - [[1886]] - [[1887]] - [[1888]] - [[1889]] - [[1890]] | + | '''1888''' was a leap year starting on Sunday. |
| == Art and culture == | == Art and culture == | ||
| *[[December 23]] - [[Van Gogh's ear|Vincent van Gogh cuts off the lower part of his left ear]], takes it to a brothel, and gives it to a prostitute named Rachel. | *[[December 23]] - [[Van Gogh's ear|Vincent van Gogh cuts off the lower part of his left ear]], takes it to a brothel, and gives it to a prostitute named Rachel. | ||
| + | *''[[The Red Vineyard]]'' is sold, the only painting by Vincent van Gogh sold during his life. | ||
| *[[Jack the Ripper]] strikes | *[[Jack the Ripper]] strikes | ||
| - | *''[[My Secret Life|My Secret Life: An Erotic Diary of Victorian London]]'' (1888) - Anonymous | + | *''[[My Secret Life|My Secret Life: An Erotic Diary of Victorian London]]'' by anonymous |
| - | *''[[Quaerens Quem Devoret]]'' (1888) - [[Jean-Léon Gérôme]] | + | *''[[Quaerens Quem Devoret]]'' by Jean-Léon Gérôme |
| - | *''[[Starry Night over the Rhone]]'' (1888) - [[Van Gogh]] | + | *''[[Starry Night Over the Rhone]]'' by Van Gogh |
| - | *''[[Démasquée]]'' (1888) - [[Akseli Gallen-Kallela]] | + | *''[[Démasquée]]'' by Akseli Gallen-Kallela |
| + | *First ''[[Gymnopédies|Gymnopédie]]'' by Erik Satie published on August 18 as a supplement to the magazine La musique des familles. | ||
| + | *[[Kryptádia Vol. 4]] (1888) | ||
| == Film== | == Film== | ||
| + | *''[[Roundhay Garden Scene]]'' | ||
| == Births == | == Births == | ||
| * January – [[Lead Belly]], American [[Folk music|folk]] singer (d. [[1949]]) | * January – [[Lead Belly]], American [[Folk music|folk]] singer (d. [[1949]]) | ||
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| ** [[Max Steiner]], Austrian-American composer (d. [[1971]]) | ** [[Max Steiner]], Austrian-American composer (d. [[1971]]) | ||
| * [[May 11]] – [[Irving Berlin]], American composer (d. [[1989]]) | * [[May 11]] – [[Irving Berlin]], American composer (d. [[1989]]) | ||
| + | *[[May 12]] – [[Theodor Reik]], Viennese-born psychoanalyst (d. 1969) | ||
| * [[June 13]] – [[Fernando Pessoa]], Portuguese writer (d. [[1935]]) | * [[June 13]] – [[Fernando Pessoa]], Portuguese writer (d. [[1935]]) | ||
| * [[June 24]] – [[Gerrit Rietveld]], Dutch architect (d. [[1964]]) | * [[June 24]] – [[Gerrit Rietveld]], Dutch architect (d. [[1964]]) | ||
| - | * [[June 27]] – [[Antoinette Perry]], New York stage director, [[Tony Award]] named for her (d. [[1946]]) | + | * [[July 10]] – [[Giorgio de Chirico ]], Italian painter (d. [[1978]]) |
| - | * [[June 29]] – [[Squizzy Taylor|Joseph 'Squizzy' Taylor]], Australian underworld figure (d. [[1927]]) | + | |
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| - | === July–September === | + | |
| - | * [[July 5]] – [[Herbert Spencer Gasser]], American physiologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1963]]) | + | |
| - | * [[July 10]] – [[Giorgio Chirico]], Italian painter (d. [[1978]]) | + | |
| - | * [[July 16]] | + | |
| - | ** [[Percy Kilbride]], American actor (d. [[1964]]) | + | |
| - | ** [[Frits Zernike]], Dutch physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1966]]) | + | |
| - | * [[July 17]] – [[Shmuel Yosef Agnon]], Israeli writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1970]]) | + | |
| - | * [[July 22]] | + | |
| - | ** [[Kirk Bryan (geologist)|Kirk Bryan]], American geologist (d. [[1950]]) | + | |
| - | ** [[Selman Waksman]], Ukrainian-born biochemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1973]]) | + | |
| * [[July 23]] – [[Raymond Chandler]], American-born novelist (d. [[1959]]) | * [[July 23]] – [[Raymond Chandler]], American-born novelist (d. [[1959]]) | ||
| - | * [[August 4]] – [[Syedna Taher Saifuddin]], Bohra spiritual leader (d. [[1965]]) | + | * [[August 16]] – [[T. E. Lawrence]] ("Lawrence of Arabia"), British liaison officer during the Arab Revolt, writer, and academic (d. [[1935]]) |
| - | * [[August 6]] | + | |
| - | ** [[Stephen Galatti]], Director of [[American Field Service|AFS, American Field Service]] (d. [[1964]]) | + | |
| - | ** [[Heinrich Schlusnus]], German baritone (d. [[1952]]) | + | |
| - | * [[August 13]] | + | |
| - | ** [[Gleb W. Derujinsky]], Russian-American sculptor (d. [[1975]]) | + | |
| - | ** [[John Logie Baird]], Scottish inventor (d. [[1946]]) | + | |
| - | * [[August 16]] | + | |
| - | ** [[Armand J. Piron]], American jazz musician (d. [[1943]]) | + | |
| - | ** [[T. E. Lawrence]] ("Lawrence of Arabia"), British liaison officer during the Arab Revolt, writer, and academic (d. [[1935]]) | + | |
| - | * [[August 25]] – [[Allama Mashriqi]], Pakistani scholar and politician (d. [[1963]]) | + | |
| - | * [[September 4]] – Margaret Emma Henley, J. M. Barrie's inspiration for the name "Wendy" in ''Peter Pan'' (d. [[1894]]) | + | |
| - | * [[September 5]] – [[Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan]], [[President of India]] (d. [[1975]]) | + | |
| - | * [[September 6]] – [[Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.]], American politician (d. [[1969]]) | + | |
| * [[September 12]] – [[Maurice Chevalier]], French singer and actor (d. [[1972]]) | * [[September 12]] – [[Maurice Chevalier]], French singer and actor (d. [[1972]]) | ||
| - | * [[September 16]] – [[Frans Eemil Sillanpaa|Frans Eemil Sillanpää]], Finnish writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1964]]) | + | * [[September 26]] – [[T. S. Eliot]], British (American-born) writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1965]]) |
| - | * [[September 26]] | + | |
| - | ** [[J. Frank Dobie]], American folklorist and journalist (d. [[1964]]) | + | |
| - | ** [[T. S. Eliot]], British (American-born) writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1965]]) | + | |
| - | + | ||
| - | === October–December === | + | |
| - | * [[October 6]] – [[Roland Garros (aviator)|Roland Garros]], French pilot (d. [[1918]]) | + | |
| - | * [[October 7]] – [[Henry A. Wallace]], [[Vice President of the United States]] (d. [[1965]]) | + | |
| * [[October 8]] – [[Ernst Kretschmer]], German psychiatrist (d. [[1964]]) | * [[October 8]] – [[Ernst Kretschmer]], German psychiatrist (d. [[1964]]) | ||
| - | * [[October 9]] – [[Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin]], Russian politician (d. [[1938]]) | + | * [[October 16]] – [[Eugene O'Neill]], American writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1953]]) |
| - | * [[October 16]] | + | |
| - | ** [[Eugene O'Neill]], American writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1953]]) | + | |
| - | ** [[Paul Popenoe]], American eugenicist (d. [[1979]]) | + | |
| - | * [[October 19]] – [[Venkatarama Ramalingam Pillai]], Indian Freedom Fighter, [[Tamil people|Tamil]] Poet (d. [[1972]]) | + | |
| - | * [[October 25]] – [[Lester Cuneo]], American actor (d. [[1925]]) | + | |
| - | * [[November 7]] – [[Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman]], Indian physicist, [[Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1970]]) | + | |
| - | * [[November 15]] | + | |
| - | ** [[Harald Sverdrup]], Norwegian scientist (d. [[1957]]) | + | |
| - | ** [[José Raúl Capablanca]], [[World chess champion]] 1921–1927 (d. [[1942]]) | + | |
| - | * [[November 16]] – [[Luis Cluzeau Mortet]], Uruguayan composer and musician (d. [[1957]]) | + | |
| * [[November 23]] – [[Harpo Marx]], American comedian (d. [[1964]]) | * [[November 23]] – [[Harpo Marx]], American comedian (d. [[1964]]) | ||
| - | * [[November 26]] – [[Francisco Canaro]], Uruguayan-born violinist and composer (d. [[1964]]) | ||
| - | * [[November 28]] – [[Edgar Church]], American [[comic book]] collector (d. [[1978]]) | ||
| - | * [[November 30]] – [[Ralph Hartley]], American electronics researcher and inventor (d. [[1970]]) | ||
| - | * [[December 3]] – Rabbi [[Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog]], Polish-born Chief Rabbi of Ireland and of Israel (d. [[1959]]) | ||
| * [[December 4]] – King [[Alexander I of Yugoslavia|Alexander of Yugoslavia]] (d. [[1934]]) | * [[December 4]] – King [[Alexander I of Yugoslavia|Alexander of Yugoslavia]] (d. [[1934]]) | ||
| - | * [[December 6]] – [[Will Hay]], British actor and comedian (d. [[1949]]) | ||
| - | * [[December 7]] – [[Joyce Cary]], Northern Irish author (d. [[1957]]) | ||
| - | * [[December 16]] – [[Alphonse Juin]], Marshal of France (d. [[1967]]) | ||
| - | * [[December 18]] | ||
| - | ** [[Robert Moses]], American civil engineer, public works director, and highway and bridge builder (d. [[1981]]) | ||
| - | ** [[Gladys Cooper]], English actress, (d. [[1971]]) | ||
| - | * [[December 19]] – [[Fritz Reiner]], Hungarian conductor (d. [[1963]]) | ||
| - | * [[December 20]] – [[Yitzhak Baer]], German-born Israeli historian (d. [[1980]]) | ||
| * [[December 28]] – [[F.W. Murnau]], German film director (d. [[1931]]) | * [[December 28]] – [[F.W. Murnau]], German film director (d. [[1931]]) | ||
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| - | === Date unknown === | ||
| - | * [[Mariano Andreu]], [[List of Spanish artists|Spanish painter]] (d. [[1976]]) | ||
| - | * [[Philip Francis Nowlan]], [[science fiction]] writer, creator of the [[Buck Rogers]] character (d. [[1940]]) | ||
| == Deaths == | == Deaths == | ||
| - | === January–June === | ||
| - | * [[January 19]] – [[Anton de Bary]], German biologist (b. [[1831]]) | ||
| - | * [[January 20]] – [[William Pitt Ballinger]], Texas lawyer, southern statesman (b. [[1825]]) | ||
| * [[January 29]] – [[Edward Lear]], British artist and writer (b. [[1812]]) | * [[January 29]] – [[Edward Lear]], British artist and writer (b. [[1812]]) | ||
| - | * [[January 31]] – [[John Bosco]], Italian priest, youth worker, educator and founder of the [[Salesian Society]] (b. [[1815]]) | + | * [[March 6]] – [[Louisa May Alcott]], American novelist (b. [[1832]]) |
| - | * [[February 3]] – [[Henry Maine]], British jurist (b. [[1822]]) | + | |
| - | * [[February 5]] – [[Anton Mauve]], Dutch painter (b. [[1838]]) | + | |
| - | * [[February 24]] – [[Seth Kinman]], American hunter and settler (b. 1815) | + | |
| - | * [[March 6]] | + | |
| - | ** [[Louisa May Alcott]], American novelist (b. [[1832]]) | + | |
| - | ** [[Josif Pančić]], Serbian botanist (b. [[1814]]) | + | |
| - | * [[March 9]] – [[Wilhelm I of Germany|German Emperor Wilhelm I]] (b. [[1797]]) | + | |
| - | * [[March 12]] – [[Henry Bergh]], founder of the [[American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals]] (b. [[1811]]) | + | |
| - | * [[March 16]] – [[Hippolyte Carnot]], French statesman (b. [[1801]]) | + | |
| - | * [[March 23]] – [[Morrison Waite]], [[Chief Justice of the United States]] (b. [[1816]]) | + | |
| - | * [[March 27]] – [[Francesco Faà di Bruno]], Italian mathematician (b. [[1825]]) | + | |
| * [[March 29]] – [[Charles-Valentin Alkan]], French composer and pianist (b. [[1813]]) | * [[March 29]] – [[Charles-Valentin Alkan]], French composer and pianist (b. [[1813]]) | ||
| * [[April 15]] – [[Matthew Arnold]], English poet (b. [[1822]]) | * [[April 15]] – [[Matthew Arnold]], English poet (b. [[1822]]) | ||
| - | * [[May 26]] – [[Ascanio Sobrero]], Italian chemist (b. [[1812]]) | ||
| - | * [[June 15]] – [[Friedrich III of Germany (Hohenzollern)|German Emperor Friedrich III]] (b. [[1831]]) | ||
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| - | === July–December === | ||
| - | * [[July 20]] – [[Paul Langerhans]], German pathologist and biologist (b. [[1847]]) | ||
| * [[August 9]] – [[Charles Cros]], French poet (b. [[1831]]) | * [[August 9]] – [[Charles Cros]], French poet (b. [[1831]]) | ||
| - | * [[August 16]] – [[John Stith Pemberton]], American founder of ''Coca-Cola'' | ||
| - | * [[August 20]] – [[Henry Richard]], Welsh peace campaigner (b. [[1812]]) | ||
| * [[August 23]] – [[Philip Henry Gosse]], British scientist (b. [[1810]]) | * [[August 23]] – [[Philip Henry Gosse]], British scientist (b. [[1810]]) | ||
| - | * [[August 24]] – [[Rudolf Clausius]], German physicist, contributor to [[thermodynamics]] (b. [[1822]]) | ||
| - | * [[September 6]] – [[John Lester Wallack|Lester Wallack]], Theater Impresario (b. [[1820]]) | ||
| - | * [[September 11]] – [[Domingo Faustino Sarmiento]], Politician, writer and father of education (b. [[1811]]) | ||
| - | * [[September 24]] – [[Karl von Prantl]], German philosopher (b. [[1820]]) | ||
| - | * [[October 16]] | ||
| - | ** [[John Wentworth (mayor)|John Wentworth]], Mayor of Chicago (b. [[1815]]) | ||
| - | ** [[Horatio Spafford]], American author of the hymn ''"It Is Well With My Soul"'' (b. [[1828]]) | ||
| - | * [[December 2]] – [[Namık Kemal]], [[Turkish people|Turkish]] patriotic poet, social reformer (b. [[1840]]) | ||
| * [[December 3]] – [[Carl Zeiss]], Optician and founder of company now known as Carl Zeiss AG (b. [[1816]]) | * [[December 3]] – [[Carl Zeiss]], Optician and founder of company now known as Carl Zeiss AG (b. [[1816]]) | ||
| - | * [[December 31]] – [[Samson Raphael Hirsch]], German rabbi (b. [[1808]]) | ||
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Art and culture
- December 23 - Vincent van Gogh cuts off the lower part of his left ear, takes it to a brothel, and gives it to a prostitute named Rachel.
- The Red Vineyard is sold, the only painting by Vincent van Gogh sold during his life.
- Jack the Ripper strikes
- My Secret Life: An Erotic Diary of Victorian London by anonymous
- Quaerens Quem Devoret by Jean-Léon Gérôme
- Starry Night Over the Rhone by Van Gogh
- Démasquée by Akseli Gallen-Kallela
- First Gymnopédie by Erik Satie published on August 18 as a supplement to the magazine La musique des familles.
- Kryptádia Vol. 4 (1888)
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Film
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Births
- January – Lead Belly, American folk singer (d. 1949)
- February 20 – Georges Bernanos, French writer (d. 1948)
- April 6 – Hans Richter, German filmmaker (d. 1976)
- April 26 – Anita Loos, American writer (d. 1981)
- May 10 – Karl Barth, Protestant theologian (d. 1968)
- Max Steiner, Austrian-American composer (d. 1971)
- May 11 – Irving Berlin, American composer (d. 1989)
- May 12 – Theodor Reik, Viennese-born psychoanalyst (d. 1969)
- June 13 – Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese writer (d. 1935)
- June 24 – Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect (d. 1964)
- July 10 – Giorgio de Chirico , Italian painter (d. 1978)
- July 23 – Raymond Chandler, American-born novelist (d. 1959)
- August 16 – T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia"), British liaison officer during the Arab Revolt, writer, and academic (d. 1935)
- September 12 – Maurice Chevalier, French singer and actor (d. 1972)
- September 26 – T. S. Eliot, British (American-born) writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
- October 8 – Ernst Kretschmer, German psychiatrist (d. 1964)
- October 16 – Eugene O'Neill, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
- November 23 – Harpo Marx, American comedian (d. 1964)
- December 4 – King Alexander of Yugoslavia (d. 1934)
- December 28 – F.W. Murnau, German film director (d. 1931)
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Deaths
- January 29 – Edward Lear, British artist and writer (b. 1812)
- March 6 – Louisa May Alcott, American novelist (b. 1832)
- March 29 – Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer and pianist (b. 1813)
- April 15 – Matthew Arnold, English poet (b. 1822)
- August 9 – Charles Cros, French poet (b. 1831)
- August 23 – Philip Henry Gosse, British scientist (b. 1810)
- December 3 – Carl Zeiss, Optician and founder of company now known as Carl Zeiss AG (b. 1816)
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