* 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 )

After Krupp's death in 1887, his only son, Friedrich Alfred, carried on the work.

The following year, 1887, Alfred Nobel invented and patented a smokeless propellant he called Ballistite.

Howerd was born the son of a soldier, Francis Alfred William ( 1887 – 1935 ) and Edith Florence Howard ( née Morrison, 1888 – 1962 ) at the City Hospital in York, England, in 1917 ( not 1922 as he later claimed ).

* Colonel Alfred P. C. Petsch ( 1887 – 1981 ) Lawyer, legislator, civic leader, and philanthropist.

* The Old Executive Office Building ( 1871 – 1887 ), Washington, D. C., Alfred B. Mullett, architect.

Alfred von Reumont ( August 15, 1808-April 27, 1887 ) was a German scholar and diplomatist.

Alfred Lee Loomis ( November 4, 1887 – August 11, 1975 ) was an American attorney, investment banker, philanthropist, scientist / physicist, pioneer in military radar usages, inventor of the LORAN or Long Range Navigation System, and lifelong patron of scientific research.

Among his other more important works are G. Courbet, et ses œuvres ( 1878 ); L ' Histoire des Beaux-Arts en Belgique 1830-1887 ( 1887 ); En Allemagne ( 1888 ), dealing especially with the Pinakothek at Munich ; La Belgique ( 1888 ), an elaborate descriptive work with many illustrations ; La Vie belge ( 1905 ); and Alfred Stevens et son œuvre ( 1906 ).

* Alfred Townsend ( 1887 – 93 ), ( 2 caps )

Emilia Tennyson ( 1811 – 1887 ), known simply as Emily within her family, was a younger sister of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and the fiancée of Arthur Henry Hallam, for whom Tennyson's great poem, In Memoriam A. H. H., was written.

* 1886 – 1887 Alfred Vulpian

Held in typical Victorian red brick design, most was built by architect Alfred Waterhouse between 1872 and 1887.

The initial and defining parts of the college were designed by Alfred Waterhouse: The architect built the main site with the Old Wing, the Hospital Wing, the Orchard Wing, the Stanley library and Old Kitchens between 1873 and 1886, as well as the parapetted gatehouse tower in 1886 and 1887.

The pipe organ was relocated from the Unitarian Church in Melbourne, where it had been originally installed in 1887 by Alfred Fuller and rebuilt by Kilner's Piano Works in 1965.

* Alfred Deakin-Second Prime Minister of Australia ; lived at " Llanarth " in Walsh Street from 1887.

# Marie ( 1816 – 1887 ), married Count Alfred von Neipperg ( 1807 – 1865 )

Meanwhile, in 1887, Alfred Nobel obtained an English patent for a smokeless gunpowder he called Ballistite.

Arthur Ernest Percival was born on 26 December 1887 in Aspenden Lodge, Aspenden near Buntingford in Hertfordshire, England, the second son of Alfred Reginald and Edith Percival ( née Miller ).

Alfred Domett, CMG ( 20 May 1811 – 2 November 1887 ) was an English colonial statesman and poet.

From 1876 to 1887, he was professor of clinical medicine at Penn and in 1887 succeeded Dr Alfred Still as professor of theory and practice of medicine.

After this the brewery became the property of one Richard Alfred Glover, before being taken over by Glover Bell & Co in 1887.

Alfred Nobel patented ballistite in 1887 whilst he was living in Paris.