page_title: 1888
section_title: January–February
hierarchical_section_title: 1888 / Births / January–February
caption_attribution_description: Español: ex presidente carlos quintanilla
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: January 1 – Victor Goldschmidt, Swiss geochemist (d. 1947)
  January 8 – Matt Moore, Irish-born actor (d. 1960)
  January 16 – Robert Henry English, American admiral (d. 1943)
  January 18 – Thomas Sopwith, English aviation pioneer, yachtsman (d. 1989)
  January 19 – Millard Harmon, American general (d. 1945)
  c. January 20 – Huddie William Ledbetter (Lead Belly), American folk, blues singer (d. 1949)
  January 22 – Carlos Quintanilla, 44th President of Bolivia (d. 1964)
  January 23 – Aritomo Gotō, Japanese admiral (d. 1942)
  January 24
  Vicki Baum, Austrian writer (d. 1960)
  Ernst Heinkel, German aircraft designer (d. 1958)
  January 29 – Wellington Koo, Chinese statesman (d. 1985)
  February 2 – Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (d. 1969)
  February 5 – Bruce Fraser, British admiral (d. 1981)
  February 8 – Edith Evans, British actress (d. 1976)
  February 13 – Georgios Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1968)
  February 17 – Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1969)
  February 19
  Adelina Domingues, World's oldest person between May and August 2002 (d. 2002)
  Tom Phillips, British admiral (d. 1941)
  Aurora Quezon, First Lady of the Philippines (d. 1949)
  José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (d. 1928)
  February 20 – Georges Bernanos, French writer (d. 1948)
  February 25 – John Foster Dulles, United States Secretary of State (d. 1959)
  February 27
  Lotte Lehmann, German singer (d. 1976)
  Arthur Schlesinger, Sr., American historian (d. 1965)
caption: Carlos Quintanilla
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