Year 1880 (MDCCCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). [edit] Events of 1880 [edit] January–March [edit] April – July [edit] October–December [edit] Undated [edit] Ongoing [edit] Births [edit] January–June - January 6 – Tom Mix, American actor (d. 1940)
- January 11 – Rudolph Palm, Curaçao born composer (d. 1950)
- January 17 – Mack Sennett, Canadian director and producer (d. 1960)
- January 26 – Douglas MacArthur, American general (d. 1964)
- January 28 – Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer (d. 1970)
- January 29 – W.C. Fields, American actor (d. 1946)
- February 5 – Gabriel Voisin, French aviation pioneer (d. 1973)
- February 8 – Franz Marc, German artist (d. 1916)
- February 12
- February 14 – Frederick J. Horne, American four star Admiral (d. 1959)
- February 16 – Frank Burke, American baseball player (d. 1946)
- February 21 – Waldemar Bonsels, German writer (d. 1952)
- February 22 – Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1956)
- February 27 – Olivia Nordgren, Swedish politician (d. 1969)
- March 1 – Giles Lytton Strachey, British writer and biographer (d. 1932)
- March 4 – Channing Pollock (writer), American playwright and critic (d. 1946)
- March 10 – Bronco Billy Anderson, American actor (d. 1971)
- March 11 – Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenicist (d. 1943)
- March 22 – Kuniaki Koiso, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1950)
- March 23 – Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish Minister of the Interior (d. 1922)
- March 28 – Louis Wolheim, American character actor (d. 1931)
- March 30 – Sean O'Casey, Irish writer (d. 1964)
- April 13 – Charles Christie, Canadian-born film studio owner (d. 1955)
- April 15 – Max Wertheimer, father of Gestalt Theory (d. 1943)
- April 18 – Sam Crawford, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1968)
- May 6 – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German painter (d. 1938)
- May 14 – B.C. Forbes, Scottish-born financial publisher (d. 1954)
- May 21 – Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer (d. 1967)
- May 25
- May 29 – Oswald Spengler, German philosopher (d. 1936)
- June 3 – Didier Bonvitesse, Belgian painter and sculptor (d. 1945)
- June 6 – W. T. Cosgrave, Irish politician (d. 1965)
- June 17 – Carl Van Vechten, American writer and photographer (d. 1964)
- June 21 – Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, British civil servant, industrialist and economist (d. 1941)
- June 27 – Helen Keller, American spokeswoman for the deaf and blind (d. 1968)
[edit] July–December - July 5 – Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist (d. 1940)
- July 12 – Tod Browning, American motion picture director, horror film pioneer (d. 1962)
- July 21 – Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak General, politician, and astronomer (d. 1919).
- July 24
- August 6 – Hans Moser, Austrian actor (d. 1964)
- August 8 – Earle Page, eleventh Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1961)
- August 10 – Robert L. Thornton, American businessman, philanthropist, and mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. 1964)
- August 12– Christy Mathewson, American Baseball player(d.1925)
- August 22 – George Herriman, American cartoonist (d. 1944)
- August 23 – Wyndham Standing, British actor of stage & film (d. 1963)
- August 26 – Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet (d. 1918)
- August 29 – Marie-Louise Meilleur, verified as longest-lived Canadian ever (d. 1998)
- August 30 – Nikolai Astrup, Norwegian painter (d. 1928)
- August 31 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (d. 1962)
- September 12 – H. L. Mencken, American journalist (d. 1956)
- September 14
- September 16 – Alfred Noyes, English poet (d. 1958)
- September 22 – Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragette (d. 1958)
- September 23 – John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1971)
- September 24 – Sarah Knauss, verified as longest-lived American ever (d. 1999)
- October 4 – Damon Runyon, American writer (d. 1946)
- October 23 – Una O'Connor, Irish actress (d. 1959)
- November 1
- November 2 – John Foulds, British classical music composer (d. 1939)
- November 5 – Richard Oswald, Austrian film director (d. 1963)
- November 6 – Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (d. 1942)
- November 10 – Jacob Epstein, American-born sculptor (d. 1959)
- November 25 – Elsie J. Oxenham, British children's novelist (d. 1960)
- December 1 – Joseph Trumpeldor, Russian Zionist (d. 1920)
- December 4 – Garfield Wood, American motorboat racer (d. 1971)
- December 10 – Jessie Aspinall, Australian doctor, first female junior medical resident at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (d. 1953)
- December 11 – Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer (d. 1951)
- December 24 – Johnny Gruelle, American cartoonist and children's book author (d. 1938)
- December 31 – George Marshall, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1959)
- date unknown
[edit] Deaths [edit] January–June - January 4
- January 8 – Joshua A. Norton, self-anointed Emperor Norton I of the United States of America (b. 1811)
- January 14 – Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1829)
- January 12 – Ida, Countess von Hahn-Hahn, author (b. 1805)
- January 20 – Captain Moonlite, Australian bushranger (b. 1842) (hanged)
- January 31 – Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac, French politician (b. 1806)
- April 23 – Raden Saleh, Indonesian painter (b. 1807)
- March 14 – Pagan Min, King of Ava (b. 1811)
- March 31 – Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer (b. 1835)
- May 4 – Edward Clark, Confederate Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
- May 8 – Gustave Flaubert, French novelist (b. 1821)
- May 20 – Károly Alexy, Hungarian sculptor (b. 1816)
- June 8 – Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse), Empress Consort of Czar Alexander II of Russia (b. 1824)
- June 28 – Texas Jack Omohundro, American frontier scout, actor, and cowboy (b. 1846)
[edit] July–December - July 7 – Lydia Maria Child, American novelist and abolitionist (b. 1802)
- July 17 – Tomasz Chołodecki, Polish political activist (b. 1813)
- July 21 – Hiram Walden, American politician (b. 1800)
- August 15 – Adelaide Neilson, English actress (b. 1848)
- August 17 – Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (b. 1810)
- August 24 – Chief Ouray, Native American leader (b. c. 1833)
- October – Victorio, Chiricahua Apache chief
- October 4 – Jacques Offenbach, German-born composer (b. 1819)
- October 22 – Alphonse Penaud, French aviation pioneer (b. 1850)
- November 11 – Ned Kelly, Australian bush ranger (hanged) (b. c. 1855)
- November 28 – Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos, (Portuguese) Archbishop of Goa (b. 1837)
- December 22 – George Eliot, English writer (b. 1819)
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