What Happened in January 1882

Historical Events

Jan 13 Richard Wagner completes his opera "Parsifal"

Jan 1 Willem Carel Wendelaar, Dutch lawyer, civil servant, director, and politician (VVD)
Jan 3 Willem Benoy, Flemish actor and director (Pygmalion), born in Antwerpen, Flanders, Belgium (d. 1939)
Jan 4 Aristarkh Lentulov, Russian artist, born in Nizhny Lomov, Russia (d. 1943)
Jan 5 Herbert Bayard Swope, U.S. journalist who coined the term "Cold War", born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1958)
Jan 6 Samuel Rayburn, American politician (Rep-D-Tx), born in Kingston, Tennessee (d. 1961)
Jan 6 Aleksandra Ekster, Russian painter, born in Białystok, Poland (d. 1949)
Jan 6 Fan S. Noli, Albanian bishop, born in İbriktepe, Turkey (d. 1965)
Jan 10 Charles Trowbridge, Mexican-American actor (Fatal Hour), born in Veracruz, Mexico (d. 1967)
Jan 12 Jakob Jud, Swiss linguist/etymologist
Jan 12 Milton Sills, American actor (The Sea Hawk), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1930)
Jan 14 Hendrik Willem van Loon, Dutch-American historian and writer (Story of America), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1944)
Jan 15 Florian Znaniecki, Polish philosopher & sociologist, born in Świątniki, Poland (d. 1958)
Jan 15 Princess Margaret of Sweden, born in Surrey, England (d. 1920)
Jan 17 Noah Beery, American character actor (Story of Esther, The Mark of Zorro), born in Kansas City, Missouri (d. 1946)

Jan 17 Arnold Rothstein, American gambler and mobster (fixed 1919 World Series), born in NYC, New York (d, 1928)

Jan 18 A. A. Milne, English author of the Winnie-the-Pooh books, born in Hampstead Middlesex (d. 1956)

Jan 18 Jacob Clay, Dutch philosopher and phyicist (Mesones)
Jan 21 Pavel Florensky, Russian mathematician (d. 1937)
Jan 22 Theodore Kosloff, Russian-born actor, ballet dancer and choreographer, born in Moscow, Russian Empire (d. 1956)

Jan 25 Virginia Woolf [Adeline], British author (Jacob's Room, To Lighthouse), born in London, England (d. 1941)

Jan 30 Franklin Roosevelt, 32nd US President (Democrat: 1933-1945), born in Hyde Park, New York (d. 1945)

Jan 3 William H Ainsworth, English writer (Guy Fawkes), dies at 76
Jan 3 Clement Claiborne Clay, American politician (U.S. Senator from Alabama), dies at 65
Jan 4 John William Draper, English scientist, photographer (b. 1811)
Jan 6 Richard Henry Dana Jr., American author (Two Years Before the Mast), dies at 66
Jan 11 Theodor Schwann, German physiologist and co-originator of cell theory, dies at 71
Jan 13 Wilhelm Mauser, German weapon designer and manufacturer (b. 1834)
Jan 20 John Linnell, British painter/minaturist/engraver, dies
Jan 21 Anton Emil Titl, Austrian composer, dies at 72
Jan 24 Levi Boone, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1808)
Jan 25 Peter Singer, composer, dies at 71