1888
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- December 23 - Vincent van Gogh cuts off the lower part of his left ear, takes it to a brothel, and gives it to a prostitute named Rachel.
- Jack the Ripper strikes
- My Secret Life: An Erotic Diary of Victorian London (1888) - Anonymous
- Quaerens Quem Devoret by Jean-Léon Gérôme
- Starry Night over the Rhone by Van Gogh
- Démasquée by Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Film
Births
- January – Lead Belly, American folk singer (d. 1949)
- February 20 – Georges Bernanos, French writer (d. 1948)
- April 6 – Hans Richter, German filmmaker (d. 1976)
- April 26 – Anita Loos, American writer (d. 1981)
- May 10 – Karl Barth, Protestant theologian (d. 1968)
- Max Steiner, Austrian-American composer (d. 1971)
- May 11 – Irving Berlin, American composer (d. 1989)
- June 13 – Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese writer (d. 1935)
- June 24 – Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect (d. 1964)
- July 10 – Giorgio de Chirico , Italian painter (d. 1978)
- July 23 – Raymond Chandler, American-born novelist (d. 1959)
- August 16 – T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia"), British liaison officer during the Arab Revolt, writer, and academic (d. 1935)
- September 12 – Maurice Chevalier, French singer and actor (d. 1972)
- September 26 – T. S. Eliot, British (American-born) writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
- October 8 – Ernst Kretschmer, German psychiatrist (d. 1964)
- October 16 – Eugene O'Neill, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
- November 23 – Harpo Marx, American comedian (d. 1964)
- December 4 – King Alexander of Yugoslavia (d. 1934)
- December 28 – F.W. Murnau, German film director (d. 1931)
Deaths
- January 29 – Edward Lear, British artist and writer (b. 1812)
- March 6 – Louisa May Alcott, American novelist (b. 1832)
- March 29 – Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer and pianist (b. 1813)
- April 15 – Matthew Arnold, English poet (b. 1822)
- August 9 – Charles Cros, French poet (b. 1831)
- August 23 – Philip Henry Gosse, British scientist (b. 1810)
- December 3 – Carl Zeiss, Optician and founder of company now known as Carl Zeiss AG (b. 1816)
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