1888  

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1888 was a leap year starting on Sunday.

Art and culture

• 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.
• The Red Vineyard is sold, the only painting by Vincent van Gogh sold during his life.
• Jack the Ripper strikes
• My Secret Life: An Erotic Diary of Victorian London by anonymous
• Quaerens Quem Devoret by Jean-Léon Gérôme
• Starry Night Over the Rhone by Van Gogh
• Démasquée by Akseli Gallen-Kallela
• First Gymnopédie by Erik Satie published on August 18 as a supplement to the magazine La musique des familles.
• Kryptádia Vol. 4 (1888)

Film

• Roundhay Garden Scene

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)
• May 12 – Theodor Reik, Viennese-born psychoanalyst (d. 1969)
• 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)