Year 1882 (MDCCCLXXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). [edit] Events [edit] February3–March [edit] April–June [edit] July–September  Photograph of the comet as seen from Cape Town by David Gill - September 18 – Great Comet of 1882: Her Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape, David Gill, reported watching the comet rise a few minutes before the Sun and described it as "The nucleus was then undoubtedly single, and certainly rather under than over 4″ in diameter; in fact, as I have described it, it resembled very much a star of the 1st magnitude seen by daylight.".
[edit] October–December [edit] Undated [edit] Births [edit] January–June - January 6
- January 12 – Milton Sills, American stage & film actor (d. 1930)
- January 13 – Alois Hitler, Jr., Austrian elder half-brother of Adolf Hitler (d. 1956)
- January 17 – Arnold Rothstein, Jewish/American gangster (d. 1928)
- January 17 – Noah Beery, American actor (d. 1946)
- January 18 – A. A. Milne, British author (d. 1956)
- January 25 – Virginia Woolf, English writer (d. 1941)
- January 30 – Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (d. 1945)
- February 1 – Louis Stephen St. Laurent, twelfth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1973)
- February 2 – James Joyce, Irish author (d. 1941)
- February 4 – E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet (d. 1964)
- February 8 – Thomas Selfridge, United States Army officer and first person killed in airplane crash (d. 1908)
- February 11 – Valli Valli, Broadway actress (d. 1927)
- February 15 – John Barrymore, American actor (d. 1942)
- February 22 – Eric Gill, British sculptor and writer (d. 1940)
- February 26 – Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (d. 1968)
- February 28 – Geraldine Farrar, American soprano (d. 1967)
- 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 23 – Emmy Noether, German mathematician (d. 1935)
- March 26 – Hermann Obrecht, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1940)
- March 30 – Melanie Klein, Viennese child psychoanalyst (d. 1960)
- April 4 – Kurt von Schleicher, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1934)
- April 17 – Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist (d. 1951)
- April 18
- April 19 – Getúlio Vargas, president of Brazil (d. 1954)
- April 21 – Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)
- April 24 – Hugh Dowding, commander of the RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain (d. 1970)
- April 29 – H.N. Werkman, Dutch artist and printer (d. 1945)
- May 5 – Sylvia Pankhurst, suffragette (d. 1960)
- May 6 – Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany, heir of Kaiser Wilhelm II (d. 1951)
- May 9
- May 13 – Georges Braque, French painter (d. 1963)
- May 19 – Mohammed Mossadegh, Iranian prime minister (d. 1967)
- May 20 – Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949)
- May 30 – Wyndham Halswelle, British runner (d. 1915)
- June 9 – Bobby Kerr, Canadian sprinter (d. 1963)
- June 15 – Ion Antonescu, Romanian prime minister and dictator (d. 1946)
- June 17
- June 28 – Valeska Surratt, stage actress & silent film star (d. 1962)
[edit] July–December - July 8 – Percy Aldridge Grainger, Australian composer (d. 1962)
- July 22 – Edward Hopper, American painter (d. 1967)
- July 25 – George S. Rentz, United States Navy Chaplain and Navy Cross winner (d. 1942)
- July 27 – Geoffrey de Havilland, British aviation pioneer and aircraft company founder (d. 1965)
- August 11 – Rodolfo Graziani, Italian General (d. 1955)
- August 14 – Gisela Richter, English art historian (d. 1972)
- August 17 – Samuel Goldwyn, Hollywood movie mogul (d. 1974)
- August 25 – Seán T. O'Kelly, second President of Ireland (d. 1966)
- August 26 – James Franck, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)
- September – Ma Rainey, blues singer (d. 1939)
- September 13 – Ramón Grau, Cuban president (d. 1969)
- September 16 – Robert Hichens, Titanic Quartermaster, man at the wheel when Titanic hit the iceberg (d. 1940)
- October 3 – A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (d. 1974)
- October 5 – Robert Goddard, American rocket scientist (d. 1945)
- October 6 – Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer (d. 1937)
- October 14
- October 20 – Béla Lugosi, Hungarian-born actor (d. 1956)
- October 24 – Sybil Thorndike, British stage & film actress (d. 1976)
- October 25 – Florence Easton, English opera soprano (d. 1955)
- November 8 – Ethel Clayton, silent screen star (d. 1966)
- November 11 – King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (d. 1973)
- November 15 – Felix Frankfurter, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1965)
- November 18 – Jacques Maritain, Catholic philosopher (d. 1973)
- November 29 – Henri Fabre, pioneer French aviator, inventor of Le Canard (d. 1984)
- December 9 – Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (d. 1949)
- December 11
- December 16
- December 23 – Mokichi Okada, Japanese Religious(d. 1955)
- December 31 – Martin O'Meara, Australian soldier (d. 1935)
[edit] Deaths [edit] January–June - January 7 – Ignacy Lukasiewicz, Polish pharmacist and inventor of the first method of distilling kerosene from seep oil, creator of the first oil lamp (b. 1822)
- January 6 – Richard Henry Dana, Jr., founder of Dana Point, CA (b. 1815)
- January 13 – Juraj Dobrila, Croatian bishop (b. 1812)
- February 6 – J. J. McCarthy, Irish architect (b. 1817)
- March 9 – Giovanni Lanza, Italian politician (b. 1810)
- March 24 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American author (b. 1807)
- April 3 – Jesse James, American Western outlaw (b. 1847)
- April 10 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet and painter (b. 1828)
- April 17
- April 19 – Charles Darwin, British naturalist (b. 1809)
- April 27 – Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher and writer (b. 1803)
- June 2 – Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian patriot (b. 1807)
- June 3 – Christian Wilberg, German painter (b. 1839)
- June 25
- June 30 – Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (b. 1827)
[edit] July–December - July 4 – Joseph Brackett, American Shaker religious leader and composer (b. 1797)
- July 16 – Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (b. 1818)
- July 20 – Fanny Parnell, Irish poet and founder of the Ladies' Land League (b. 1848)
- August 31 – Pedro Luiz Napoleão Chernoviz, Brazilian physician, writer and publisher (b. 1812)
- September 8 – Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (b. 1809)
- September 30 – José Milla y Vidaurre, Guatemalan writer (b. 1822)
- November 7 – Julius Hübner, German painter (b. 1806)
- November 14 – Billy Claiborne, American gunfighter (b. 1860)
- December 3 – Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1811)
- December 6
- December 18 – Henry James Sr., American theologian (b. 1811)
- December 21 – Francesco Hayez, Italian painter (b. 1791)
- December 31 – Léon Gambetta, French statesman (b. 1838)
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