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)