About the day » Monday August 13, 1888Calender converter

• Aaltje Sybrens Post, Barradeel
• Albert James COCKER, Latrobe, Tasmania, Australia († 1957)
• Aaltje Breekveldt, Baarn († 1888)
• Aaltje Post, Barradeel († 1976)
• Adrianus Reuneker, Zegwaart
• Alexandre Marie Ghislaine Emmanuel PATERNOTTE de La VAILLÉE, Arquennes, Henegouwen, België († 1966)
• Aaltje Lof, Broek in Waterland
• Alphonse Léon Emmanuel Louchart, Aire-sur-la-Lys, 62120, Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, Frankrijk († 1973)
• Allegonda Johanna van Oudheusden, Besoyen († 1977)
• Allegonda Wolff, Nijmegen († 1891)

• Antoon Lodewijk Haverhoek (0), Arnhem (Gelderland)
• Catharina Riebeek (1), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Roelen (37), Oosterhout
• Alida Kapper (72), Amsterdam
• Anna Elizabeth van Asten (Alten- Aste) (49), Haarlem
• Aagje~Corndr Kostelijk (0), Zd-Scharwoude
• Adrianus Leonardus Spanjaard (0), Wijk aan Zee en Duin, Beverwijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Paul Jean de Limbourg (1), Theux, Liège, Belgique
• in 't Veld (0), Dubbeldam
• Adriaan Wilhelmus van Woerkens (65), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1879 » John Ireland, English composer and educator († 1962)
• 1884 » Harry Dean, English cricketer and coach († 1957)
• 1888 » Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor († 1975)
• 1888 » John Logie Baird, Scottish engineer, invented the television († 1946)
• 1889 » Camillien Houde, Canadian lawyer and politician, 34th Mayor of Montreal († 1958)
• 1895 » Bert Lahr, American actor († 1967)
• 1895 » István Barta, Hungarian water polo player († 1948)
• 1898 » Jean Borotra, French tennis player († 1994)
• 1898 » Regis Toomey, American actor († 1991)
• 1899 » Alfred Hitchcock, English-American director and producer († 1980)

• 1826 » René Laennec, French physician, invented the stethoscope (b. 1781)
• 1863 » Eugène Delacroix, French painter and lithographer (b. 1798)
• 1865 » Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian physician and obstetrician (b. 1818)
• 1910 » Florence Nightingale, Italian-English nurse and theologian (b. 1820)
• 1912 » Jules Massenet, French composer (b. 1842)
• 1917 » Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)
• 1934 » Mary Hunter Austin, American author and playwright (b. 1868)
• 1937 » Sigizmund Levanevsky, Soviet aircraft pilot of Polish origin (b. 1902)
• 1946 » H. G. Wells, English novelist, historian, and critic (b. 1866)
• 1954 » Demetrius Constantine Dounis, Greek violinist and mandolin player (b. 1886)

• 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.
• September 4 » George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.
• September 8 » Isaac Peral's submarine is first tested.
• September 30 » Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
• October 15 » The "From Hell" letter allegedly sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.
• October 29 » The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace.

The temperature on August 13, 1888 was about 19.7 °C. The air pressure was 60 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 66%.