Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1882
Birthdays
- January 4 - Aristarkh Lentulov, Russian artist (d. 1943)
- January 5 - Herbert Bayard Swope, U.S. journalist who coined the term "Cold War" (d. 1958)
- January 6 - Aleksandra Ekster, Russian painter (d. 1949)
- January 6 - Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1961)
- January 6 - Fan S. Noli, Albanian bishop (d. 1965)
- January 12 - Milton Sills, American actor (d. 1930)
- January 14 - Hendrik Willem van Loon, Dutch-American historian and journalist (d. 1944)
- January 15 - Princess Margaret of Sweden, (d. 1920)
- January 17 - Noah Beery, Sr.
- January 18 - A. A. Milne, English author (d. 1956)
- January 21 - Pavel Florensky, Russian mathematician (d. 1937)
- January 22 - Theodore Kosloff, Russian-born actor
- January 25 - Virginia Woolf, English writer (d. 1941)
- January 30 - Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (d. 1945)
- February 1 - Louis Stephen St. Laurent, 12th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1973)
- February 2 - James Joyce, Irish author (d. 1941)
- February 8 - Thomas Selfridge, First person to die in an airplane crash (d. 1908).
- February 15 - John Barrymore, American actor (d. 1942)
- February 22 - Eric Gill, British sculptor (d. 1940)
- February 26 - Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (d. 1968)
- February 28 - Geraldine Farrar, American soprano (d. 1967)
- February 28 - José Vasconcelos, Mexican writer (d. 1959)
- February 28 - Pádraic Ó Conaire, Irish writer (d. 1928)
- March 4 - Nicolae Titulescu, Romanian diplomat (d. 1941)
- March 6 - F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (d. 1980)
- March 14 - Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician (d. 1969)
- March 15 - Jim Lightbody, American runner (d. 1953)
- March 18 - Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer (d. 1973)
- March 20 - René Coty, French President (d.1962)
- March 23 - Emmy Noether, German mathematician (d. 1935)
- March 26 - Hermann Obrecht, Swiss jurist (d. 1940)
- April 1 - Paul Anspach, Belgian Olympic champion fencer (d. 1991)
- April 4 - Kurt von Schleicher, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1934)
- April 9 - Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- April 10 - Frances Perkins, American politician (d. 1965)
- April 14 - Moritz Schlick, Austrian philosopher
- April 17 - Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist (d. 1951)
- April 18 - Leopold Stokowski, Polish conductor (d. 1977)
- April 19 - Getúlio Vargas, President of Brazil (d. 1954)
- April 20 - Holland Smith, U.S. General (d. 1967)
- April 21 - Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist
- April 23 - Albert Coates, British composer (d. 1953)
- April 24 - Hugh Dowding, commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain (d. 1970)
- April 29 - Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman, Dutch artist and printer (d. 1945)
- May 6 - Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany, (d. 1951)
- May 7 - Willem Elsschot, Flemish writer (d. 1960)
- May 9 - George Barker, American painter (d. 1965)
- May 9 - Henry J. Kaiser, American shipbuilder (d. 1967)
- May 13 - Georges Braque, French painter (d. 1963)
- May 18 - Babe Adams, American baseball player (d. 1968)
- May 19 - Mohammed Mosaddeq, Prime Minister of Iran (d. 1967)
- May 20 - Sigrid Undset, Norwegian author
- May 25 - Marie Doro, American actress (d. 1956)
- May 30 - Wyndham Halswelle, Scottish runner (d. 1915)
- May 31 - Sándor Graf Festetics, Hungarian politician (d. 1956)
- June 9 - Bobby Kerr, Canadian sprinter (d. 1963)
- June 15 - Ion Antonescu, Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1946)
- June 17 - Adolf Friedrich VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1918)
- June 17 - Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (d. 1971)
- June 18 - Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgarian Communist leader (d. 1949)
- June 21 - Rockwell Kent, American artist (d. 1971)
- June 21 - Lluís Companys i Jover, Spanish politician (d. 1940)
- June 24 - Carl Diem, German Olympic official (d. 1962)
- June 24 - Athanase David, Canadian politician and businessman (d. 1953)
- June 27 - Eduard Spranger, German philosopher and educator (d. 1963)
- July 4 - Louis B. Mayer, American film producer (d. 1957)
- July 5 - Inayat Khan, Indian sufi (d. 1927).
- July 8 - Percy Grainger, Australian composer (d. 1961)
- July 21 - David Burliuk, Ukrainian artist (d. 1967)
- July 22 - Edward Hopper, American painter (d. 1967)
- July 25 - George S. Rentz, Navy Chaplain
- July 27 - Geoffrey de Havilland, British aircraft designer (d. 1965)
- August 2 - Red Ames, baseball player (d. 1936)
- August 8 - Ladislas Starevich, Polish animator (d. 1965)
- August 14 - Gisela Richter, English art historian (d. 1972)
- August 17 - Samuel Goldwyn, Hollywood producer (d. 1974)
- August 25 - Seán T. O'Kelly, Irish politician (d. 1966)
- August 26 - James Franck, German-born physicist
- August 27 - Samuel Goldwyn, Polish-born Hollywood film producer (d. 1974)
- September 3 - Johnny Douglas, England cricketer and boxer (d. 1930)
- September 9 - Clem McCarthy, American sportscaster (d. 1962)
- September 13 - Ramón Grau, Cuban president (d. 1969)
- September 19 - Christopher Stone, first disc jockey in the United Kingdom (d. 1965)
- September 22 - Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal (d. 1946)
- September 30 - Hans Geiger, German physicist (d. 1945)
- October 2 - Boris Shaposhnikov, Russian military commander (d. 1945)
- October 3 - A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (d. 1974)
- October 5 - Robert Goddard, American rocket scientist (d. 1945)
- October 6 - Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer and pianist (d. 1937)
- October 14 - Eamon de Valera, Irish politician and patriot (d. 1975)
- October 14 - Charlie Parker, English cricketer (d. 1959)
- October 15 - Charley O'Leary, American baseball player (d. 1941)
- October 18 - Lucien Petit-Breton, Argentine-French cyclist (d. 1917)
- October 19 - Umberto Boccioni, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1916)
- October 20 - Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-born actor (d. 1956)
- October 24 - Dame Sybil Thorndike, British actress (d. 1976)
- October 29 - Jean Giraudoux, French writer (d. 1944)
- October 30 - William Halsey, Jr
- October 30 - Günther von Kluge, German field marshal (d. 1944)
- November 6 - Thomas Ince, American movie actor
- November 11 - King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden, (d. 1973)
- November 15 - Felix Frankfurter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1965)
- November 18 - Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian soprano (d. 1963)
- November 18 - Jacques Maritain, French philosopher (d. 1973)
- November 20 - Andy Coakley, American baseball player and coach (d. 1963)
- December 9 - Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (d. 1949)
- December 10 - Otto Neurath, Austrian philosopher (d. 1945)
- December 11 - Subramanya Bharathy, Indian poet (d. 1921)
- December 11 - Max Born, German physicist
- December 11 - Fiorello La Guardia, American statesman (d. 1947)
- December 16 - Sir Jack Hobbs, English cricketer (d. 1963)
- December 16 - Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (d. 1967)
- December 16 - Walther Meissner, German physicist (d. 1974)
- December 28 - Arthur Stanley Eddington, British astronomer (d. 1944)
- December 31 - Martin O'Meara, Australian soldier (d. 1935)
Deaths
- January 3 - William Harrison Ainsworth, English novelist (b. 1805)
- January 4 - John William Draper, English scientist
- January 6 - Richard Henry Dana, U.S. novelist (Two Years Before the Mast) (b. 1815)
- January 11 - Theodor Schwann, German physiologist (b. 1810)
- January 13 - Wilhelm Mauser, German weapon designer and manufacturer (b. 1834)
- January 24 - Levi Boone, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1808)
- March 24 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American author (b. 1807)
- April 2 - Jesse James, American outlaw
- April 3 - Jesse James, American outlaw (b. 1847)
- April 10 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet and painter (b. 1828)
- April 13 - Bruno Bauer, German theologian (b. 1809)
- April 17 - George Jennings Sanitary engineer, (b. 1810)
- April 19 - Charles Darwin, English biologist (b. 1809)
- April 27 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist (b. 1803)
- May 6 - Thomas Henry Burke, civil servant (b.1829) and Lord Frederick Cavendish
- May 29 - Vasily Perov, Russian painter (b. 1833)
- June 2 - Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian revolutionarist (b. 1807)
- June 3 - Christian Wilberg, German painter (b. 1839)
- June 11 - Louis Maigret, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1804)
- June 25 - François Jouffroy, French sculptor (b. 1806)
- June 30 - Charles J. Guiteau, American assassin of President James A. Garfield (b. 1841)
- June 30 - Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (b. 1827)
- July 4 - Joseph Brackett, American composer (b. 1797)
- July 9 - Ignacio Carrera Pinto, Chilean war hero(b. 1848)
- July 13 - Johnny Ringo, American Gunfighter (b. 1850)
- July 16 - Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (b. 1818)
- September 8 - Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (b. 1809)
- October 13 - Arthur de Gobineau, French philosopher (b. 1816)
- December 3 - Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1811)
- December 6 - Anthony Trollope, British author (b. 1815)
- December 6 - Alfred Escher, Swiss politician and railroad entrepreneur (b. 1819)
Events
- January 2 - John D. Rockefeller unites his oil holdings into the Standard Oil trust.
- February 2 - The Knights of Columbus are formed in New Haven, Connecticut.
- February 7 - The last heavyweight boxing championship bare-knuckle fight takes place in Mississippi City, Mississippi.
- February 22 - The Serbian kingdom is refounded.
- March 4 - Britain's first electric trams run in East London.
- March 24 - Robert Koch announces the discovery of the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis (mycobacterium tuberculosis).
- March 29 - The Knights of Columbus are established.
- April 3 - American Old West: Outlaw Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford.
- April 29 - The "Elektromote" – forerunner of the trolleybus – is tested by Ernst Werner von Siemens in Berlin.
- May 6 - Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed and killed during the Phoenix Park Murders in Dublin.
- May 6 - The United States Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act.
- May 20 - The Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy is formed.
- June 6 - More than 100,000 inhabitants of Bombay are killed as a cyclone in the Arabian Sea pushes huge waves into the harbour.
- June 6 - The Shewan forces of Menelik defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and heir victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River.
- June 30 - Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the shooting death of President James Garfield.
- July 11 - The British Mediterranean fleet begins the Bombardment of Alexandria in Egypt as part of the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War.
- July 26 - Premiere of Richard Wagner's Parsifal at Bayreuth.
- August 5 - Standard Oil of New Jersey is established.
- August 5 - Martial law is imposed in Japan.
- August 20 - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow.
- August 29 - The date attributed to the death of English Cricket and the origin of the legend of The Ashes. This is the date according to the mock obituary in The Sporting Times.
- September 5 - The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.
- September 13 - The Battle of Tel el-Kebir is fought in the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War.
- September 18 - The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.
- September 30 - The world's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.
- October 14 - University of the Punjab is founded in present day Pakistan.
- October 16 - The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
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