page_title: 1888
section_title: September–October
hierarchical_section_title: 1888 / Births / September–October
caption_attribution_description: English: Publicity photo of Maurice Chevalier
context_page_description: 1888 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1888th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 888th year of the 2nd millennium, the 88th year of the 19th century, and the 9th year of the 1880s decade. As of the start of 1888, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
  In Germany, 1888 is known as the Year of the Three Emperors. Currently, it is the year that, when written in Roman numerals, has the most digits. The next year that also has 13 digits is the year 2388. The record will be surpassed as late as 2888, which has 14 digits.
context_section_description: September 4 – Margaret Henley, J. M. Barrie's inspiration for the name "Wendy" in Peter Pan (d. 1894)
  September 5 – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher, politician and 2nd President of India (d. 1975)
  September 6
  Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., American politician (d. 1969)
  Zeng Junchen, Chinese drug baron (d. 1964)
  September 12 – Maurice Chevalier, French singer and actor (d. 1972)
  September 14 – Thakur Anukulchandra, Indian social reformer and philanthropist (d. 1969)
  September 16
  Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)
  W. O. Bentley, English engineer, entrepreneur (d. 1971)
  September 18 – Grey Owl, British impostor, writer (d. 1938)
  September 20 – John Painter, American supercentenarian, world's oldest man between 1999 and 2001 (d. 2001)
  September 26
  J. Frank Dobie, American folklorist, journalist (d. 1964)
  T. S. Eliot, British (American-born) poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
  October 3 – Claud Allister, English actor (d. 1970)
  October 4
  Lucy Tayiah Eads, Kaw tribal chief (d. 1961)
  Friedrich Olbricht, German general (d. 1944)
  October 6 – Roland Garros, French pilot (killed in action 1918)
  October 7 – Henry A. Wallace, 33rd Vice President of the United States (d. 1965)
  October 8 – Ernst Kretschmer, German psychiatrist (d. 1964)
  October 9 – Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian Bolshevik and Soviet politician (d. 1938)
  October 14 – Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand fiction writer (d. 1923)
  October 16
  Radu Băldescu, Romanian general (d. 1953)
  Eugene O'Neill, American playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
  Paul Popenoe, American eugenicist (d. 1979)
  October 17 – Paul Bernays, Swiss mathematician (d. 1977)
  October 19 – Venkatarama Ramalingam Pillai, Indian freedom fighter and Tamil poet (d. 1972)
  October 20
  Emanoil Bârzotescu, Romanian general (d. 1968)
  Sadayoshi Tanabe, Japanese academic, bibliographer (d. 2000)
  October 24 – Carlo Bergamini, Italian admiral (d. 1943)
  October 25 – Lester Cuneo, American actor (d. 1925)
  October 28 – Dumitru Carlaonț, Romanian general (d. 1970)
  October 30 – Alan Goodrich Kirk, American admiral (d. 1963)
  October 31 – Hubert Wilkins, Australian explorer of the Arctic (d. 1958)
caption: Maurice Chevalier
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