1882

## Events 
* May 20 – Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy.
* March 29 – The Knights of Columbus are set up.
* Edison builds first power station in the United States.

## Births 
* January 6 – Fan S. Noli, Albanian poet and political figure (d. 1965)
* January 18 – A. A. Milne, British writer (d. 1956)
* January 25 – Virginia Woolf, writer (d. 1941)
* January 30 – Franklin D. Roosevelt, thirty-second President of the United States (b. 1945)
* February 1 – Louis Stephen St. Laurent, sixteenth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1973)
* February 2 – James Joyce, writer (d. 1941)
* February 11 – Gheorghe Cucu composer (d. 1932)
* February 15 – John Barrymore, actor (d. 1942)
* March 14 – Waclaw Sierpinski Polish mathematician (d. 1969)
* March 15 – Jim Lightbody, American middle-distance runner
* March 21 – Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, actor (d. 1971)
* March 23 – Emmy Noether, mathematician (d. 1935)
* April 17 – Artur Schnabel, pianist (d. 1951)
* April 18 – Isabel J. Cox, future spouse of Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1985)
* May 6 – Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany, heir of Kaiser Wilhelm II (d. 1951)
* May 9 – Henry J. Kaiser, industrialist (d. 1967)
* May 9 – George Barker, United States painter (d. 1965)
* May 13 – Georges Braque, painter (d. 1963)
* May 16 – Anne McCormick, journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner (d. 1954)
* May 19 – Mohammed Mossadegh, Iranian prime minister (d. 1967)
* May 20 – Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer (d. 1949)
* May 30 – Wyndham Halswelle, British runner
* June 9 – Bobby Kerr, Canadian sprinter
* June 17 – Igor Stravinsky, composer (d. 1971)
* August 14 – Gisela Richter, art historian (d. 1972)
* August 25 – Sean T. O'Kelly, second President of Ireland (d. 1966)
* October 5 – Robert Goddard, rocket scientist (d. 1945)
* October 6 – Karol Szymanowski, composer (d. 1937)
* October 14 – Éamon de Valera, Taoiseach and third President of Ireland (d. 1975)
* October 22 – N.C. Wyeth, artist
* December 9 – Joaquín Turina, composer (d. 1949)
* November 11 – King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden (d. 1973)
* December 16 – Zoltán Kodály, composer (d. 1967)

## Deaths 
* February 11 – Gustav Schmidt, composer
* March 24 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, writer
* April 3 – Jesse James, outlaw
* April 10 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet, painter
* April 19 – Charles Darwin, British naturalist
* July 16 – Mary Todd Lincoln, former First Lady of the United States
* December 27 – Giovanni Losi, Italian Combonian catholic missionary
* Charles A. Alexander, Victorian architect

## Heads of State 
* China – Guāngxù Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (1875-1908)
* Denmark – Christian IX, King of Denmark (1863-1906)
* France – Jules Grévy, President of France (1879-1887)
* Germany – Wilhelm I, German Kaiser (1871-1888)
* Holy See – Pope Leo XIII, Bishop of Rome (1878-1903)
* Japan – Mutsuhito, Meiji emperor (1867-1912)
* Norway – Oscar II, King of Sweden and Norway (1872-1905)
* Ottoman Empire – Abdul Hamid II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1876-1909)
* Russia – Alexander III, Tsar of Russia (1881-1894)
* Spain – Alfonso XII of Spain, King of Spain (1875-1885)
* United States – Chester A. Arthur, President of the United States (1881-1885)