What is 1882?
{{Year nav|1882}} {{Year in various calendars|1882}} {{Year article header|1882}} == Events == * [[May 20]] – [[Triple Alliance (1882)|Triple Alliance]] between [[Germany]], [[Austria-Hungary]] and [[Italy]]. * [[March 29]] – The [[Knights of Columbus]] are set up. * [[Edison]] builds first [[power station]] in the [[United States]]. == Births == * [[January 6]] – [[Fan S. Noli]], [[Albania]]n poet and political figure (d. [[1965]]) * [[January 18]] – [[A. A. Milne]], British writer (d. [[1956]]) * [[January 25]] – [[Virginia Woolf]], writer (d. [[1941]]) * [[January 30]] – [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]], [[President (United States)|President of the United States]] * [[February 1]] – [[Louis Stephen St. Laurent]], twelfth [[Prime Minister of Canada]] (d. [[1973]]) * [[February 2]] – [[James Joyce]], writer (d. [[1941]]) * [[February 11]] – [[Gheorghe Cucu]] composer (d. [[1932]]) * [[February 15]] – [[John Barrymore]], actor (d. [[1942]]) * [[March 14]] – [[Waclaw Sierpinski]] Polish mathematician (d. [[1969]]) * [[March 15]] – [[Jim Lightbody]], American middle-distance runner * [[March 21]] – [[Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson]], actor (d. [[1971]]) * [[March 23]] – [[Emmy Noether]], mathematician (d. [[1935]]) * [[April 17]] – [[Artur Schnabel]], [[pianist]] (d. [[1951]]) * [[April 18]] – [[Isabel J. Cox]], future spouse of Prime Minister of Canada (d. [[1985]]) * [[May 6]] – [[Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany]], heir of [[Kaiser]] [[Wilhelm II of Germany|Wilhelm II]] (d. [[1951]]) * [[May 9]] – [[Henry J. Kaiser]], industrialist (d. [[1967]]) * May 9 – [[George Barker (painter)|George Barker]], [[United States]] painter (d. [[1965]]) * [[May 13]] – [[Georges Braque]], painter (d. [[1963]]) * [[May 16]] – [[Anne McCormick]], journalist, [[Pulitzer Prize]] winner (d. [[1954]]) * [[May 19]] – [[Mohammed Mossadegh]], Iranian prime minister (d. [[1967]]) * [[May 20]] – [[Sigrid Undset]], Norwegian writer (d. [[1949]]) * [[May 30]] – [[Wyndham Halswelle]], British runner * [[June 9]] – [[Bobby Kerr]], Canadian s