Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades: 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s - 1890s - 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
Years: 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 - 1893 - 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898
Events
Births
- January 5 - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru
- January 12 - Hermann Göring, Nazi offical (+ 1946)
- January 12 - Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi official (+ 1946)
- January 15 - Ivor Novello, actor, musician (+ 1951)
- January 22 - Conrad Veidt[?], actor (+ 1943)
- February 10 - Jimmy Durante, actor, singer, comedian, vaudevillean (+ 1980)
- February 11 - Johan Alberts[?] Dutch literary figure.
- February 12 - Omar Bradley, general (+ 1981)
- February 21 - Andrés Segovia, musician (+ 1987)
- March 3 - Beatrice Wood, artist/ceramist
- March 26 - James Bryan Conant[?], chemist and politician (+ 1978)
- April 3 - Leslie Howard, actor (+ 1943)
- April 7 - Allen Dulles, director of the Central Intelligence Agency (+ 1969)
- June 26 - Big Bill Broonzy
- July 3 - Mississippi John Hurt
- October 15 - King Carol II of Romania
- December 26 - Mao Zedong, Chinese leader
Deaths