1882

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1850s  1860s  1870s  – 1880s –  1890s  1900s  1910s
Years:	1879 1880 1881 – 1882 – 1883 1884 1885

Events

• May 20  – Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy.
• March 29  – The Knights of Columbus are set up.
• Edison builds first power station in the United States.

Births

• January 6  – Fan S. Noli, Albanian poet and political figure (d. 1965)
• January 18  – A. A. Milne, British author (d. 1956)
• January 25  – Virginia Woolf, writer (d. 1941)
• January 30  – Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President of the United States
• February 1  – Louis Stephen St. Laurent, twelfth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1973)
• February 2  – James Joyce, author (d. 1941)
• February 11  – Gheorghe Cucu composer (d. 1932)
• February 15  – John Barrymore, actor (d. 1942)
• March 14  – Waclaw Sierpinski Polish mathematician (d. 1969)
• March 15  – Jim Lightbody, American middle-distance runner
• March 21  – Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, actor (d. 1971)
• March 23  – Emmy Noether, mathematician (d. 1935)
• April 17  – Artur Schnabel, pianist (d. 1951)
• April 18  – Isabel J. Cox, future spouse of Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1985)
• May 6  – Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany, heir of Kaiser Wilhelm II (d. 1951)
• May 9  – Henry J. Kaiser, industrialist (d. 1967)
• May 9  – George Barker, United States painter (d. 1965)
• May 13  – Georges Braque, painter (d. 1963)
• May 16  – Anne McCormick, journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner (d. 1954)
• May 19  – Mohammed Mossadegh, Iranian prime minister (d. 1967)
• May 20  – Sigrid Undset, Norwegian author (d. 1949)
• May 30  – Wyndham Halswelle, British runner
• June 9  – Bobby Kerr, Canadian sprinter
• June 17  – Igor Stravinsky, composer (d. 1971)
• August 14  – Gisela Richter, art historian (d. 1972)
• August 25  – Sean T. O'Kelly, second President of Ireland (d. 1966)
• October 5  – Robert Goddard, rocket scientist (d. 1945)
• October 6  – Karol Szymanowski, composer (d. 1937)
• October 14  – Éamon de Valera, Taoiseach and third President of Ireland (d. 1975)
• October 22  – N.C. Wyeth, artist
• December 9  – Joaquín Turina, composer (d. 1949)
• November 11  – King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden (d. 1973)
• December 16  – Zoltán Kodály, composer (d. 1967)

Deaths

• February 11  – Gustav Schmidt, composer
• March 24  – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, author
• April 3  – Jesse James, outlaw
• April 10  – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet, painter
• April 19  – Charles Darwin, British naturalist
• July 16  – Mary Todd Lincoln, former First Lady of the United States
• Charles A. Alexander, Victorian architect

Heads of State

• China  – Guāngxù Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (1875-1908)
• Denmark  – Christian IX, King of Denmark (1863-1906)
• France  – Jules Grévy, President of France (1879-1887)
• Germany  – Wilhelm I, German Kaiser (1871-1888)
• Holy See  – Pope Leo XIII, Bishop of Rome (1878-1903)
• Japan  – Mutsuhito, Meiji emperor (1867-1912)
• Norway  – Oscar II, King of Sweden and Norway (1872-1905)
• Ottoman Empire  – Abdul Hamid II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1876-1909)
• Russia  – Alexander III, Tsar of Russia (1881-1894)
• Spain  – Alfonso XII of Spain, King of Spain (1875-1885)
• United States  – Chester A. Arthur, President of the United States (1881-1885)