Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1887
Birthdays
- January 1 - Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral (d. 1945)
- January 3 - August Macke, German painter (d. 1914)
- January 3 - Helen Parkhurst, American educator (d. 1973)
- January 10 - Robinson Jeffers, American poet (d. 1962)
- January 11 - Aldo Leopold, American ecologist (d. 1948)
- January 13 - George Gurdjieff, Armenian-Greek mystic (d. 1949)
- January 17 - Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (d. 1975)
- January 19 - Alexander Woollcott, American intellectual (d. 1943)
- January 21 - Georges Vézina, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1926)
- January 22 - Helen Hoyt, American poet (d. 1972)
- January 26 - François Faber, Luxembourgian cyclist (d. 1915)
- January 26 - Marc Mitscher, American Navy Admiral (d. 1947)
- January 28 - Arthur Rubinstein, Polish pianist and conductor (d. 1982)
- February 1 - Charles Nordhoff, English-born author (d. 1947)
- February 2 - Ernst Hanfstängl, German pianist and politician (d. 1975)
- February 3 - Juan Negrín, Spanish Prime Minister (d. 1956)
- February 3 - Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (d. 1914)
- February 6 - Josef Frings, German Archbishop of Cologne (d. 1978)
- February 7 - Eubie Blake, American musician and composer (d. 1983)
- February 11 - John van Melle, South African writer (d. 1953)
- February 16 - Kathleen Clifford, American actress (d. 1962)
- February 17 - Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer (d. 1947)
- February 20 - Vincent Massey, Governor-General of Canada (d. 1967)
- February 22 - Ksawery Tartakower, Polish chess player (d. 1956)
- February 26 - Grover Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player (d. 1950)
- February 26 - William Frawley, American actor (d. 1966)
- February 26 - Stefan Grabinski, Polish writer (d. 1936)
- March 4 - Violet MacMillan, American Broadway theatre actress (d. 1953)
- March 5 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (d. 1959)
- March 7 - Heino Eller, Estonian composer (d. 1970)
- March 9 - Phil Mead, English cricketeer (d. 1958)
- March 9 - Fritz Lenz, German geneticist (d. 1976)
- March 10 - Toshitsugu Takamatsu, Grandmaster of Ninjutsu (d. 1972)
- March 11 - Raoul Walsh, American film director (d. 1980)
- March 14 - Sylvia Beach, American publisher (d. 1962)
- March 14 - Charles Reisner, American silent actor and film director (d. 1962)
- March 15 - Marjorie Merriweather Post, American socialite and businesswoman (d. 1973)
- March 22 - Chico Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1961)
- March 23 - Juan Gris, Spanish artist (d. 1927)
- March 23 - Josef Čapek, Czech writer (d. 1945)
- March 23 - Prince Felix Yussupov, Russian assassin of Rasputin (d. 1967)
- March 24 - Roscoe Arbuckle, American actor (d. 1933)
- April 10 - Bernardo Houssay, Argentine physiologist
- April 12 - Harold Lockwood, American actor (d. 1918)
- April 13 - Gordon S. Fahrni, Canadian physician and President of the Canadian Medical Association (d. 1995)
- April 21 - Joe McCarthy, American baseball manager (d. 1978)
- April 24 - Denys Finch Hatton, English big-game hunter (d. 1931)
- May 1 - Alan Gordon Cunningham, British army officer (d. 1983)
- May 2 - Vernon Castle, English dancer (d. 1918)
- May 2 - Eddie Collins, American baseball player (d. 1951)
- May 5 - Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1972)
- May 9 - Sir Ernest de Silva, Sri Lankan Philanthropist (d. 1957)
- May 18 - Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter (d. 1946)
- May 23 - Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician (d. 1963)
- May 24 - Edward "Mick" Mannock, Irish WWI flying ace (d. 1918)
- May 25 - Pio of Pietrelcina, Catholic saint (d. 1968)
- May 31 - Saint-John Perse, French diplomat
- June 2 - Howard Johnson, American songwriter (d. 1941)
- June 4 - Tom Longboat, marathon runner (d. 1949)
- June 13 - Bruno Frank, German author (d. 1945)
- June 20 - Kurt Schwitters, German painter and writer (d. 1948)
- June 21 - Norman L. Bowen, Canadian petrologist (d. 1956)
- June 22 - Julian Huxley, British biologist (d. 1975)
- June 25 - George Abbott, American playwright (d. 1995)
- July 6 - Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer (d. 1975)
- July 7 - Marc Chagall, Russian painter (d. 1985)
- July 18 - Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian soldier
- July 22 - Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist
- July 28 - Marcel Duchamp, French painter (d. 1968)
- July 29 - Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born composer (d. 1951)
- July 31 - Hans Freyer, German sociologist (d. 1969)
- August 2 - Tommy Ward, Former South African cricketer (d. 1936)
- August 3 - Rupert Brooke, English poet (d. 1915)
- August 5 - Reginald Owen, English actor (d. 1972)
- August 6 - Dudley Benjafield, British racing driver (d. 1957)
- August 12 - Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist
- August 13 - Julius Freed, American inventor and banker (d. 1952)
- August 14 - Marija Leiko, Latvian film actress (d.1937)
- August 17 - Marcus Garvey, Jamaican-born Black rights activist (d. 1940)
- August 17 - Charles I of Austria, (d. 1922)
- August 22 - Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German minister of finance (d. 1977)
- August 24 - Harry Hooper, American baseball player (d. 1974)
- September 1 - Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer (d. 1961)
- September 3 - Frank Christian, American musician (d. 1973)
- September 7 - Edith Sitwell, British poet and critic (d. 1964)
- September 8 - Prince George of Yugoslavia, (d. 1972)
- September 9 - Alf Landon, American politician (d. 1987)
- September 13 - Lavoslav Ruzicka, Croatian chemist
- September 15 - Carlos Dávila, former President of Chile (d. 1955)
- September 16 - Nadia Boulanger, French composer and teacher (d. 1979)
- September 19 - Lovie Austin, American jazz pianist (d. 1972)
- September 19 - Lynne Overman, American actor (d. 1943)
- September 26 - Edwin Keppel Bennett, English writer (d. 1958)
- September 26 - Antonio Moreno, Spanish-born actor (d. 1967)
- September 26 - Sir Barnes Wallis, English scientist
- September 28 - Avery Brundage, American athlete and sports official (d. 1975)
- September 30 - Lil Dagover, Dutch-born German actress (d. 1980)
- October 5 - René Cassin, French jurist and Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
- October 6 - Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (d. 1965)
- October 8 - Huntley Gordon, Canadian actor (d. 1956)
- October 12 - Paula von Preradović, Croatian-Austrian poet (d. 1951)
- October 13 - Jozef Tiso, Slovak politician (d. 1947)
- October 14 - Bernard Montgomery, British General. (d. 1976)
- October 22 - John Reed, American journalist (d. 1920)
- October 24 - Octave Lapize, French cyclist (d. 1917)
- October 24 - Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Queen of Spain (d. 1969)
- October 30 - Sukumar Ray, Bengali Writer (d. 1923)
- October 31 - Chiang Kai-shek, Nationalist Chinese leader
- October 31 - Newsy Lalonde, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1970)
- November 1 - L. S. Lowry, British painter of industrial scenes (d. 1976)
- November 3 - Samuil Marshak, Russian writer
- November 5 - Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-born pianist (d. 1961)
- November 6 - Walter Johnson, American baseball player (d. 1946)
- November 10 - Arnold Zweig, German author (d. 1968)
- November 11 - Roland Young, American actor (d. 1953)
- November 15 - Marianne Moore, American poet (d. 1972)
- November 15 - Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter (d. 1986)
- November 17 - Bernard Montgomery, British World War II commander (d. 1976)
- November 19 - James B. Sumner, American chemist
- November 23 - Eduardo Corrochio, Spanish-born dancer (d. 1943)
- November 23 - Boris Karloff, British actor (d. 1969)
- November 23 - Henry Moseley, English physicist (d. 1915)
- November 24 - Erich von Manstein, German military commander (d. 1973)
- November 25 - Nikolai Vavilov, Russian geneticist (d. 1943)
- November 28 - Ernst Röhm, Nazi official (d. 1934)
- December 3 - Naruhiko, Prince Higashikuni of Japan (d. 1990)
- December 6 - Joseph Lamb, American ragtime composer (d. 1960)
- December 7 - Ernst Toch, Austrian composer (d. 1964)
- December 9 - Tim Moore, American actor and vaudevillian (d. 1958)
- December 12 - Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer (d. 1974)
- December 13 - George Polya, Hungarian-born mathematician (d. 1985)
- December 13 - Alvin York, American soldier & Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1964)
- December 17 - Josef Lada, Czech painter (d. 1957)
- December 17 - Hermine Reuss, Empress of Germany and Duchess of Bohemia (d. 1947)
- December 22 - Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (d. 1920)
- December 24 - Louis Jouvet, French actor and producer (d. 1951)
- December 25 - Conrad Hilton, American hotelier (d. 1979)
- December 26 - Arthur Ernest Percival, British Army officer (d. 1966)
Deaths
- January 17 - William Giblin, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1840)
- February 19 - Multatuli, Dutch writer (b. 1820)
- February 27 - Alexander Borodin, Russian composer and chemist (b. 1833)
- March 8 - Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman (b. 1813)
- March 8 - James Buchanan Eads, American engineer (b. 1820)
- March 24 - Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and art critic (b. 1837)
- April 20 - Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Egyptian statesman (b. 1826)
- May 7 - C. F. W. Walther, American Lutheran theologian (b. 1811)
- May 11 - Jean Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist (b. 1802)
- May 14 - Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (b. 1808)
- July 17 - Dorothea Dix, french social activist (b. 1802)
- July 25 - John Taylor, American religious leader (b. 1808)
- July 29 - Agostino Depretis, Italian statesman (d. 1813)
- August 8 - Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1808)
- August 20 - Jules Laforgue, French poet (b. 1860)
- September 29 - Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon (b. 1810)
- October 17 - Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (b. 1824)
- November 2 - Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (b. 1820)
- November 8 - John Henry "Doc" Holliday, American gambler and gunfighter (b. 1851)
- November 19 - Emma Lazarus, American poet (b. 1849)
- December 5 - Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (b. 1804)
- December 9 - Mahmadu Lamine, Senegalese marabout and military leader
Events
- January 6 - `Abd-allah II of Harar opens the Battle of Chelenqo with an attack on the camp of the Shewan army of Negus Menelik II.
- January 20 - The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
- January 21 - Brisbane receives a daily rainfall of 465 millimetres (18.3 inches), a record for any Australian capital city.
- January 24 - Battle of Dogali: Abyssinian troops defeat Italians.
- January 28 - In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world's largest snowflakes are reported, being 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick.
- February 2 - In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
- February 8 - The Dawes Act authorized the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
- February 23 - The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000.
- February 26 - At the SCG, George Lohmann becomes the first bowler to take eight wickets in a Test innings.
- March 4 - Gottlieb Daimler unveils his first automobile which he test runs in Esslingen and Cannstatt, Germany.
- March 7 - North Carolina State University is founded by the North Carolina General Assembly.
- April 4 - Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
- April 10 - On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of The Catholic University of America.
- May 9 - Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
- June 8 - Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his punch card calculator.
- June 18 - The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed.
- June 23 - The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park.
- June 28 - Minot, North Dakota incorporated as a city.
- July 4 - The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
- July 6 - David Kalakaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced at gunpoint, at the hands of the Americans, to sign the Bayonet Constitution giving Americans more power in Hawaii while stripping Hawaiian citizens of their rights.
- September 5 - Fire at Theatre Royal in Exeter, England killed 186
- September 16 - The first game of softball was played in Chicago, Illinois
- October 1 - Balochistan conquered by the British Empire.
- November 9 - The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
- November 11 - Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed.
- November 11 - Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal starts at Eastham.
- November 13 - Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.
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