Year (''' MDCCCLXXXII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Friday of the 12-day slower Julian Calendar ).
- April 3 - Old West outlaw Jesse James is shot in the back and killed by Robert Ford for a $5,000 reward.
- April 19 - British naturalist Charles Darwin , the originator of the concept of natural selection, dies at his home, Down House in Kent , England , aged 73.
- May 2 - Charles Stewart Parnell is released.
- May 6
- ---"Invincibles", militant Irish republicans kill Lord Frederick Cavendish , chief secretary for Ireland and permanent undersecretary T.H. Burke in Phoenix Park , Dublin ;
- ---'' Chinese Exclusion Act '' - the first important law which restricted immigration into the USA.
- May 20 - Triple Alliance between Germany , Austria-Hungary and Italy .
- June 6
- ---A Cyclone in the Arabian Sea causes Flood ing in Bombay harbor, leaving about 100,000 dead.
- ---The Shewa n forces of Menelik defeat the Gojjam e army in the Battle Of Embabo . The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot Of Gojjam , and their victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River .
- June 11 - Urabi Revolt , Egypt . Popular revolt in Egypt against the Khedive and European influence in that country.
- June 30 - Assassin Charles Guiteau is hanged.
Bernard Conlon opens his first practice at 22 Mt Pleasant Liverpool - Conlon & Sons Limited an opticians serving the carriage trade of Liverpool
- January 6
- --- Fan S. Noli , Albanian poet and political figure (d. 1965 )
- --- Sam Rayburn , Speaker Of The United States House Of Representatives (d. 1961 )
- January 17 - Noah Beery , American actor (d. 1946 )
- January 18 - A. A. Milne , British author (d. 1956 )
- January 25 - Virginia Woolf , English writer (d. 1941 )
- January 30 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt , 32nd President Of The United States (d. 1945 )
- February 1 - Louis Stephen St. Laurent , twelfth Prime Minister Of Canada (d. 1973 )
- February 2 - James Joyce , Irish author (d. 1941 )
- February 4 - E. J. Pratt , Canadian poet born Newfoundland (d. 1964 )
- February 15 - John Barrymore , American actor (d. 1942 )
- February 22 - Eric Gill , British sculptor and writer (d. 1940 )
- February 26 - Husband E. Kimmel , American admiral (d. 1968 )
- February 28 - Geraldine Farrar , American soprano (d. 1967 )
- March 6 - F. Burrall Hoffman , American architect {d. 1980 )
- March 14 - Waclaw Sierpinski , Polish mathematician (d. 1969 )
- March 15 - Jim Lightbody , American runner (d. 1953 )
- March 18 - Gian Francesco Malipiero , Italian composer (d. 1973 )
- March 23 - Emmy Noether , German mathematician (d. 1935 )
- March 26 - Hermann Obrecht , Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1940 )
- April 4 - Kurt Von Schleicher , Chancellor Of Germany (d. 1934 )
- April 17 - Artur Schnabel , Polish pianist (d. 1951 )
- April 18
- --- Isabel J. Cox , wife of Canadian prime minister Arthur Meighen (d. 1985 )
- --- Leopold Stokowski , English conductor (d. 1977 )
- --- Monteiro Lobato , Brazilian writer (d. 1948 )
- April 19 - Getúlio Vargas , president of Brazil (d. 1954 )
- April 21 - Percy Williams Bridgman , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961 )
- April 28 - Lord of Kalyug, Shree Shubhananda Gurudev. Gurudev established a Atmabodhodaya Sangham in Kerala .
- April 29 - H.N. Werkman , Dutch artist and printer (d. 1945 )
- May 6 - Crown Prince Wilhelm Of Germany , heir of Kaiser Wilhelm II (d. 1951 )
- May 9
- --- Henry J. Kaiser , American industrialist (d. 1967 )
- --- George Barker , American painter (d. 1965 )
- May 13 - Georges Braque , French painter (d. 1963 )
- May 19 - Mohammed Mossadegh , Iranian prime minister (d. 1967 )
- May 20 - Sigrid Undset , Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949 )
- May 30 - Wyndham Halswelle , British runner (d. 1915 )
- June 9 - Bobby Kerr , Canadian sprinter (d. 1963 )
- June 15 - Ion Antonescu , Romanian prime minister and dictator (d. 1946 )
- June 17 - Igor Stravinsky , Russian composer (d. 1971 )
- July 22 - Edward Hopper , American painter (d. 1967 )
- August 14 - Gisela Richter , English art historian (d. 1972 )
- August 17 - Samuel Goldwyn , Hollywood movie mogul (d. 1974 )
- August 25 - Seán T. O'Kelly , second President Of Ireland (d. 1966 )
- August 26 - James Franck , German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964 )
- September - Ma Rainey , blues singer (d. 1939 0
- September 13 - Ramón Grau , Cuban president (d. 1969 )
- September 19 - Christopher Stone , first disc jockey in the United Kingdom (d. 1965 )
- October 3 - A. Y. Jackson , Canadian painter (d. 1974 )
- October 5 - Robert Goddard , American rocket scientist (d. 1945 )
- October 6 - Karol Szymanowski , Polish composer (d. 1937 )
- October 14 - Éamon De Valera , Taoiseach and third President Of Ireland (d. 1975 )
- October 14 - Charlie Parker , English cricketer (d. 1959 )
- October 25 - Florence Easton , English opera soprano (d. 1955 )
- November 11 - King Gustav VI Adolf Of Sweden (d. 1973 )
- November 15 - Felix Frankfurter , Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1965 )
- December 9 - Joaquín Turina , Spanish composer (d. 1949 )
- December 11
- --- Subramanya Bharathy , Tamil Indian poet (d. 1921 )
- --- Max Born , German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970 )
- December 16 - Zoltán Kodály , Hungarian composer (d. 1967 )
- --- Jack Hobbs , English cricketer (d. 1963 )
- December 31 - Martin O'Meara , Australian soldier (d. 1935 )
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- January 7 - Ignacy Lukasiewicz , Polish pharmacist and inventor of the first method of distilling kerosene from seep oil, creator of first oil lamp (b. 1822 )
- January 13 - Juraj Dobrila , Croatian bishop (b. 1812 )
- February 6 - J. J. McCarthy , Irish architect (b. 1817 )
- March 9 - Giovanni Lanza , politician (b. 1810 )
- March 24 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , American author (b. 1807 )
- April 3 - Jesse James , American Western outlaw (b. 1847 )
- April 10 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti , English poet and painter (b. 1828 )
- April 19 - Charles Darwin , British naturalist (b. 1809 )
- April 27 - Ralph Waldo Emerson , American philosopher and writer (b. 1803 )
- June 2 - Giuseppe Garibaldi , Italian patriot (b. 1807)
- June 3 - Christian Wilberg , German painter (b. 1839 )
- June 25
- --- François Jouffroy , French sculptor (b. 1806 )
- --- Mikhail Skobelev , Russian general (b. 1843 )
- July 4 - Joseph Brackett , Shaker religious leader and composer (b. 1797 )
- July 16 - Mary Todd Lincoln , First Lady Of The United States (b. 1818 )
- July 20 - Fanny Parnell , poet and founder of the Ladies' Land League (b. 1848 )
- September 8 - Joseph Liouville , French mathematician (b. 1809 )
- November 7 - Julius Hübner , painter (b. 1806 )
- November 14 - Billy Claiborne , gunfighter (b. 1860 )
- December 3 - Archibald Campbell Tait , Archbishop Of Canterbury (b. 1811 )
- December 6 - Alfred Escher , Swiss politician, railroad entrepreneur (b. 1819 )
- December 6 - Louis Blanc , French politician and historian (b. 1811 )
- December 18 - Henry James Sr. , American theologian (b. 1811 )
- December 21 - Francesco Hayez , painter (b. 1791 )
- December 31 - Léon Gambetta , French statesman (b. 1838 )
: ''See also .''
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