1887
1887 is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar).
Events
- In London, police and left-wing demonstrators clash. One dead. One of the participants is George Bernard Shaw.
Unknown Dates
Births
- February 1 - Charles Nordhoff, author (d. 1947)
- February 2 - Pat Sullivan, Australian director and producer of animated films, alleged co-creator of Felix the Cat
- February 3 - Georg Trakl, poet (d. 1914)
- February 6 - Josef Frings, archbishop of Cologne (d. 1978)
- February 11 - Ernst Hanfstängl, German/US pianist/politician.
- February 11 - John van Melle South African writer
- February 18 - Nikos Kazantzakis, poet (d. 1957)
- February 20 - Carl Ebert , opera manager and director (d. 1980)
- February 20 - Vincent Massey, Governor-General of Canada (d. 1967)
- February 26 - Grover Cleveland Alexander, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1950)
Deaths
- February 27 - Alexander Borodin, Russian composer (b. 1833)
- March 8 - Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman and reformer (b. 1813)
- May 14 - Lysander Spooner, individualist anarchist (b. 1808)
- July 17 - Dorothea Dix, American social activist (b. 1802)
- July 25 - John Taylor, American religious leader (b. 1808)
- August 8 - Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1808)
- August 20 - Jules Laforgue, French poet (b. 1860)
- October 17 - Gustav Kirchhoff, physicist
- November 2 - Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (b. 1820)
- November 8 - Doc Holliday, American gambler and gunfighter (b. 1851)
- November 19 - Emma Lazarus, American poet (b. 1859)
- December 5 - Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (b. 1804)
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