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1882 births
- Franklin D. RooseveltFranklin Delano Roosevelt entered the world on the 30th of January 1882, inside Springwood, a sprawling estate located south of Hyde Park in New York.
- Virginia WoolfAdeline Virginia Woolf entered the world on the 25th of January 1882 within a grand house in South Kensington, London. Her father was Sir Leslie Stephen, a…
- James JoyceJames Augustine Aloysius Joyce was born on the 2nd of February 1882 at 41 Brighton Square, Rathgar, Dublin, and died 58 years later in Zurich after surgery…
- Igor StravinskyIgor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was born in Oranienbaum, Russia, on the 17th of June 1882. His father worked as a bass singer at the Mariinsky Theater in Saint…
- Sharda MehtaSharda Mehta entered the world on the 26th of June 1882 in Ahmedabad. Her father Gopilal Manilal Dhruva served as a judicial officer.
- A. A. MilneAlan Alexander Milne was born in Kilburn, London on the 18th of January 1882. He grew up at Henley House School where his father taught him to read by the…
- Ion AntonescuIon Antonescu was born in the town of Pitești, north-west of the capital Bucharest. He grew up as the scion of an upper-middle class Romanian Orthodox family…
- Lynn ThorndikeLynn Thorndike coined a phrase that historians still use every day, and he did it almost in passing. In A Short History of Civilization, published in 1926…
- Jean GiraudouxHippolyte Jean Giraudoux entered the world on the 29th of October 1882 in Bellac, a small town in Haute-Vienne. His father Léger worked for the Ministry of…
- Mohammad MosaddeghDr. Mohammad Mosaddegh entered the world on the 19th of May 1882, in Ahmedabad near Tehran. His father served as finance minister under the Qajar dynasty…
- Herbert Bayard SwopeHerbert Bayard Swope entered the world on the 5th of January 1882, in St. Louis, Missouri. His parents were German immigrants named Ida Cohn and Isaac Swope.
- Max BornMax Born entered the University of Göttingen in April 1904, stepping into a world dominated by three renowned mathematicians.
- James F. ByrnesJames Francis Byrnes was born at 538 King Street in Charleston, South Carolina, on the 2nd of May 1882. His father died shortly after his birth, leaving a…
- Arthur EddingtonOn the 28th of December 1882, Arthur Stanley Eddington was born in Kendal, Westmorland. His parents were Quakers who valued education and quiet reflection.
- Emmy NoetherIn a joint faculty meeting at the University of Göttingen, one professor protested aloud: "What will our soldiers think when they return to the university…
- Nevile HendersonSir Nevile Meyrick Henderson was born at Sedgwick Park, near Horsham, Sussex on the 10th of June 1882. He grew up as the third child of Robert Henderson and…
- Pavel FlorenskyPavel Alexandrovich Florensky was born on the 19th of January 1882 in the town of Yevlakh within the Elisabethpol Governorate.