* 1887 – Harold Lockwood, American actor ( d. 1918 )

* 1887 – George, Crown Prince of Serbia ( d. 1972 )

* 1887 – Dudley Benjafield, English race car driver ( d. 1957 )

There was more chopping and changing in the teams, given that there was no official board of selectors for each country ( in 1887 – 88, two separate English teams were on tour in Australia ) and popularity with the fans varied.

* 1887 – Tommy Ward, South African cricketer ( d. 1936 )

* 1887 – Mumbai Fire Brigade is established.

* 1922 – Charles I of Austria ( b. 1887 )

After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce ( 1855 – 1916 ), botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey ( 1858 – 1954 ), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), historian A. Whitney Griswold ( 1906 – 1963 ), environmentalist Aldo Leopold ( 1887 – 1948 ), Ralph Borsodi ( 1886 – 1977 ), and present-day authors Wendell Berry ( b. 1934 ), Gene Logsdon ( b. 1932 ), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson ( b. 1949 ).

* 1887 – Rupert Brooke, English poet ( d. 1915 )

Alfred William Lawson ( March 24, 1869 – November 29, 1954 ) was a professional baseball player, manager and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the US aircraft industry, publishing two early aviation trade journals.

* 1851 – Doc Holliday, American gambler and dentist ( d. 1887 )

* 1887 – Marija Leiko, Latvian actress ( d. 1937 )

* 1860 – Jules Laforgue, French poet ( d. 1887 )

* 1887 – Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1961 )

* 1887 – James Paul Moody, English 6th Officer of the RMS Titanic ( d. 1912 )

* 1887 – A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, Alsatian police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of German Emperor William I, defusing a possible war.

1929 portrait of King Alfonso XIIIOn 31 May 1906, at the Royal Monastery of San Geronimo in Madrid, Alfonso married Scottish-born Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg ( 1887 – 1969 ), a niece of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, and a granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

* 1887 – István Kühár, Prekmurian priest, politician, and writer ( d. 1922 )

* 1814 – Dimitri Kipiani, Georgian politician and writer ( d. 1887 )

* 1887 – Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Egyptian statesman ( b. 1826 )

The word " mimeograph " was first used by Albert Blake Dick when he licensed Edison's patents in 1887.

* 1887 – Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed.

Their countryman the poet Albert Giraud also identified intensely with the zanni: the fifty rondels of his Pierrot lunaire ( Moonstruck Pierrot ) would inspire several generations of composers ( see Pierrot lunaire below ), and his verse-play Pierrot-Narcissus ( 1887 ) offered a definitive portrait of the solipsistic poet-dreamer.

In 1887, Heinrich Rudolf Hertz discovered the photoelectric effect that was explained in 1905 by Albert Einstein ( Nobel Prize in Physics 1921 ).

The Michelson – Morley experiment was performed in 1887 by Albert Michelson and Edward Morley at what is now Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

* Albert Palmer ( 1831 – 1887 ), 29th mayor of Boston

Joel B. Peck, H. A. Cook ; 1879, William Moul ; 1880, C. Snyder ; 1881, Albert Kilmer ; 1882, Ezra W. Knowlton ; 1883, William Moul ; 1884, B. J. L. Sliter ; 1885, Albert Kilmer ; 1885, A. H. Cipperly ( appointed to fill, vacancy ); 1886, A. H. Cipperly ; 1887, Addison P. Lape ; 1888, C. Snyder ; 1889, Albert Kilmer ; 1890, Addison P. Lape ; 1891, Addison TJline ; 1892, E. M. Gregory, Le Grand M. Turner ( appointed to fill vacancy ); 1893, Sanford B. Horton ; 1894, Le Grand M. Turner ; 1895, Addison Uline ; 1896, Aipheus Bailey.

After spending some time with Albert von Julin's brother-in-law, Edvard Bergenheim, at Kharkov, in modern Ukraine-where he received lessons in Russian-Mannerheim attended the Helsinki Private Lyceum, passing his university entrance examinations in June 1887.

At his trial the following January, the prosecution produced documents showing that Haddon's enlistment papers, marriage certificate, officer's commission, demobilisation papers and employment records all showed he was born in or before 1887, at least two years before Albert Victor met Mrs. Haddon.

( Albert Anker, 1887 )

One such example was seen in 1887, when Case physicist Albert Michelson and Reserve chemist Edward Morley collaborated on the famous Michelson – Morley experiment.

* Rear Admiral Albert C. Read ( 1887 – 1967 ), Commander / Navigator of the NC-4, the first aircraft to complete a transatlantic flight in 1919

* The History of Milton, Mass., 1640 – 1887 by Albert Kendall Teele, published 1886, 688 pages.

* Albert Smith ( footballer born 1887 ), English football winger

* C. A. G. Russell ( Charles Albert George Russell, 1887 – 1961 ), Essex and England batman

However, the modern club was founded in 1887 by Albert Close White, a local teacher.

Thoralf Albert Skolem ( 23 May 1887 – 23 March 1963 ) () was a Norwegian mathematician known mainly for his work on mathematical logic and set theory.

* Ernest Albert Whitfield, 1st Baron Kenswood ( 1887 – 1963 )

Albert Park has a long beach frontage, with several distinctive features, including many grand buildings ( such as the Victoria Hotel, a grand hotel and former coffee palace, now cafe bar, built in 1887 ) and Victorian terrace homes ; Kerferd Kiosk, an iconic Edwardian bathing pavilion and Kerferd Pier, which terminates Kerferd Road and is a jetty onto Port Phillip, used for fishing by many and sharks have occasionally been found around it.

In 1887, an experiment was performed by Albert Michelson and Edward Morley to attempt to confirm the existence of the ether.

Albert Richard Parsons ( June 20, 1848 – November 11, 1887 ) was a pioneer American socialist and later anarchist newspaper editor, orator, and labor activist.

* 1887 – Albert Michelson and Edward Morley: lack of evidence for the aether