About the day » Sunday January 15, 1888Calender converter

• Beerens, Westelbeers
• Albert Bokhove, Almelo, Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland († 1888)
• Aeilke Takens, Zomerdijk († 1967)
• Tempelman, Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1888)
• Adriana Dekker, Yerseke, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Adriana Dina van den Berg, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1916)
• aldegonda houtappels, meijel († 1955)
• Alida VAN DER MEIJ, Rijnsburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Reebergen, Amerongen († 1955)
• Alida Johannsdr van der Meij, Rijnsburg

• Antje Elzes Postma (69), Achtkarspelen, Fr, Nederland
• Adriaan Kraaijeveld (0), Sliedrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• ???? de Vrieze (0), Wildervank
• Aaltje Gelderman (71), Ittersum (Zwollerkerspel)
• Antje Eelzes Postma, Harkema Opeinde, Fryslân, Nederlân
• Dingeman Wilhelmus Berende (0), Geertruidenberg
• Tempelman (0), Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Abe Hofstra (35), Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
• Anna Catharina Swerts (27), Riksingen
• Aaltje Sjoerds Riedstra (78), Tytsjerk, Friesland, Nederland

• 1879 » Mazo de la Roche, Canadian author and playwright († 1961)
• 1882 » Henry Burr, Canadian singer, radio performer, and producer († 1941)
• 1885 » Grover Lowdermilk, American baseball player († 1968)
• 1885 » Lorenz Böhler, Austrian physician and author († 1973)
• 1890 » Michiaki Kamada, Japanese admiral († 1947)
• 1891 » Osip Mandelstam, Russian poet and translator († 1938)
• 1891 » Ray Chapman, American baseball player († 1920)
• 1893 » Ivor Novello, Welsh singer-songwriter and actor († 1951)
• 1895 » Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1973)
• 1896 » Marjorie Bennett, Australian-American actress († 1982)

• 1864 » Isaac Nathan, English-Australian composer and journalist (b. 1792)
• 1866 » Massimo d'Azeglio, Piedmontese-Italian statesman, novelist and painter (b. 1798)
• 1876 » Eliza McCardle Johnson, American wife of Andrew Johnson, 18th First Lady of the United States (b. 1810)
• 1885 » Leopold Damrosch, German-American composer and conductor (b. 1832)
• 1893 » Fanny Kemble, English actress (b. 1809)
• 1896 » Mathew Brady, American photographer and journalist (b. 1822)
• 1905 » George Thorn, Australian politician, 6th Premier of Queensland (b. 1838)
• 1909 » Arnold Janssen, German priest and missionary (b. 1837)
• 1916 » Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian playwright and translator (b. 1850)
• 1919 » Karl Liebknecht, German politician (b. 1871)

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
• March 23 » In England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional association football league, meets for the first time.
• May 16 » Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
• August 14 » An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.
• September 8 » In England, the first six Football League matches are played.
• October 21 » Foundation of the Swiss Social Democratic Party.
• December 22 » The Christmas Meeting of 1888, considered to be the official start of the Faroese independence movement.

The temperature on January 15, 1888 was about -3.9 °C. The air pressure was 41 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%.