In the year 1882, P. T. Barnum acquires Jumbo the elephant from the London Zoo (Feb 3), polygamy is made a felony in the United States (Mar 22),  the world’s first trolley bus begins operating in Berlin (Apr 29), the Chinese Exclusion Act is the first law restricting immigration into the U.S. (May 8), the first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City (Sep 4), Egypt becomes a British protectorate (Sep 13) - and all these fine people were born:

1882-0101 1882-0102 Ernsti Turja* farmer/ politician - Lapua, GD of Finland (1960/78) 1882-0105 Ville Vainio* businessman/ politician - Rautalampi, GD of Finland (1956/74) 1882-0105 Niels Høegh Brønnum** physician/ missioner - Aalborg, Denmark (1966/84) 1882-0116 W. G. Palmqvist* architect - Kalajoki, GD of Finland (1964/82) 1882-0117 Noah Beery Sr.* actor - Clay County, MO USA (1946/64) 1882-0117 Arnold Rothstein* racketeer/ businessman/ gambler - New York, NY USA (1928/46) 1882-0118 A. A. Milne* author (Winnie-the-Pooh) - Kilburn, London, England (1956/74) 1882-0123 Eero Kilpi* (b Ericsson) actor - Kustavi, GD of Finland (1954/72) 1882-0125 Virginia Woolf* author - Kensington, Middlesex, England (1941/59) 1882-0130 Franklin D. Roosevelt* politician/32usp - Hyde Park, NY USA (1945/63) 1882-0201 Louis St. Laurent* lawyer/ politician/PM- Compton, QC Canada (1973/91) 1882-0202 James Joyce* novelist (Ulysses)/short story writer/poet - Dublin, Ireland (1941/57) 1882-0215 John Barrymore* actor - Philadelphia, PA USA (1942/60) 1882-0218 Uunio Saalas* (b Sahlberg) entomologist/writer - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1969/87) 1882-0301 1882-0303 Charles Ponzi* swindler/con artist - Lugo, Italy (1949/66) 1882-0313 Fanni Luukkonen* longtime leader of the Finnish Lotta Svärd - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1947/65) 1882-0316 Jim Lightbody* middle-distance runner/OG - Pittsburgh, PA USA (1953/70) 1882-0320 1882-0322 Johan Axel Stenvall* brother of Karl Fredrik Stenvall - Järvenpää, Tuusula, GD of Finland (1885/2) 1882-0330 Melanie Klein* Austrian-British child psychoanalyst/author - Vienna, Austria-Hungary (1960/78) 1882-0331 1882-0401 Paul Anspach* épée and foil fencer/OG - Brussels, Belgium (1981/99) 1882-0403 George Copeland* pianist/ friends with Claude Debussy - Boston, MA USA (1971/89) 1882-0415 Konstantin Taipale* chemist - Virolahti, GD of Finland (1937/55) 1882-0418 Leopold Stokowski* conductor - London, England (1977/95) 1882-0420 1882-0421 Percy Williams Bridgman* physicist/N - Cambridge, MA USA (1961/79) 1882-0427 Heikki Tandefelt* painter/artistic leader - Sysmä, GD of Finland (1943/60) 1882-0501 1882-0502 Isabel González* activist/helped pave the way for Puerto Ricans to be given United States citizenship - San Juan, Puerto Rico (1971/89) 1882-0506 Prince Wilhelm* the last crown prince of the German Empire - Potsdam, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (1951/69) 1882-0517 Nares Chandra Sen-Gupta* legal scholar/novelist - Bogra, British India (1964/82) 1882-0518 1882-0520 Antti Favén* painter/ illustrator - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1948/66) 1882-0520 Sigrid Undset* Norwegian novelist/N - Kalundborg, Denmark (1949/67) 1882-0524 Creighton Hale* (b Fitzgerald) Irish-American actor/to U.S. at age 28 - County Cork, Ireland (1965/83) 1882-0531 1882-0601 Signe Hammarsten-Jansson* graphic artist/designer of postage stamps/mother of Tove Jansson - Hannäs, Sweden-Norway (1970/88) 1882-0613 Olga Alexandrovna* Grand Duchess/ daughter of Tsar Alexander III - Peterhof Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (1960/78). 1882-0617 Igor Stravinsky* composer/pianist/ conductor - St. Petersburg, Russia (1971/88) 1882-0710 Ima Hogg* society leader/philanthropist/ “The First Lady of Texas” - TX USA (1975/93) 1882-0715 Dallas B. Phemister* surgeon/gave his name to many medical techniques - USA (1951/69) 1882-0717 James Somerville* Royal Navy officer - Weybridge, Surrey, England (1949/66) 1882-0816 Christian Mortensen* Danish-American supercentenarian/to U.S. at age 20 - Skårup, Denmark (1998/115) 1882-0823 Max von Bonsdorff* the first Bishop of Porvoo - Turku, GD of Finland (1967/84) 1882-0826 James Franck* physicist/N - Hamburg, German Empire (1964/81) 1882-0901 Nicholas H. Heck* geophysicist/ career officer - Heckton Mills, PA USA(1953/71) 1882-0916 Robert Hichens* sailor/Titanic quartermaster/survivor - Newlyn, Cornwall, England (1940/58) 1882-0924 Franklin Clarence Mars* business magnate/founder of Mars Inc. - Hancock, MN USA (1934/51) 1882-0930 Hans Geiger* physicist/inventor - Neustadt,  Rhineland, German Empire (1945/62) 1882-1005 Herbert Blaché* British-American film director/producer/ screenwriter - London, England (1953/71) 1882-1005 Robert H. Goddard* physicist/rocket scientist - Worcester, MA USA (1945/62) 1882-1006 Xavier Mertz* polar explorer/mountaineer - Basel, Switzerland (1913/30) 1882-1006 Karol Szymanowski* Polish pianist/ composer - Tymoszowka, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire (1937/54) 1882-1020 Bela Lugosi* actor - Lugos, Austria-Hungary (1956/73) 1882-1111 King Gustaf VI Adolf* of Sweden/amateur archaeologist - Stockholm Palace, Sweden (1973/90) 1882-1111 Raoul Nordling* Swedish businessman/diplomat/for his war efforts honorary citizen of Paris - Paris, French Third Republic (1962/79) 1882-1118 Frances Gertrude McGill* forensic pathologist/criminologist/ allergologist/ - Minnedosa, MB Canada (1959/76) 1882-1130 1882-1201 1882-1209 Léon Jules Biaudet* physician/active in Loviisa - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1968/85) 1882-1211 Subramania Bharati* Tamil writer/ Indian independence activist - Ettayapuram, Madras, British India (1921/38) 1882-1211 Max Born* physicist/mathematician/N - Breslau, German Empire (1970/87) 1882-1211 Fiorello H. La Guardia* politician/mayor - Greenwich Village, NY USA (1947/64) 1882-1218 Richard Maury* railway engineer/naturalized Argentine - Philadelphia, PA USA (1950/67) 1882-1228 Arthur Eddington* astronomer/ physicist/mathematician  - Kendal, Wetsmorland, England (1944/61) 1882-0 1882-0 1882-0 Updated 2025-0429 Helsinki Search for another year here