* 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 )

In 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle created Sherlock Holmes, the most famous of all fictional detectives.

* 1966 – General Arthur Ernest Percival, British Army Officer ( b. 1887 )

Earnest Hooton ( 1887 – 1954 ), a Classics PhD from the University of Wisconsin, entered anthropology as an Oxford Rhodes Scholar under R. R. Marett and the anatomist Arthur Keith.

* Waite, Arthur Edward ( 1887 ) The Real History of the Rosicrucians G. Redway, London OCLC 7080058 ; reprinted in 1960 by Society of Metaphysicians, Hastings, England, ISBN 1-85228-705-5 ; reprinted in 2000 by Garber Communications, Blauvelt, New York, ISBN 0-89345-018-9 ; see full text from The Internet Sacred Text Archive

These children were Raymond ( 1878 – 1916 ), Herbert ( 1881 – 1947 ), Arthur ( 1883 – 1939 ), Violet ( 1887 – 1969 ), and Cyril ( 1890 – 1954 ).

Alexander F. Lobdell, the store's proprietor, was appointed postmaster by President Abraham Lincoln and was reappointed by Presidents Grant, Hayes, Garfield and Arthur, continuing as Brewster's postmaster until 1887.

The first kite aerial photographs were taken by British meteorologist Douglas Archibald in 1887 and Arthur Batut in Labruguière ( France ) in 1888.

S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz cited other literary inspirations: Guy de Maupassant's " The Horla " ( 1887 ), which Lovecraft described in " Supernatural Horror in Literature " as concerning " an invisible being who ... sways the minds of others, and seems to be the vanguard of a horde of extraterrestrial organisms arrived on earth to subjugate and overwhelm mankind "; and Arthur Machen's " The Novel of the Black Seal " ( 1895 ), which uses the same method of piecing together of disassociated knowledge ( including a random newspaper clipping ) to reveal the survival of a horrific ancient being.

* John Arthur Phillips ( 1822 – 1887 ), British geologist, metallurgist and mining engineer

In 1887 Arthur Conan Doyle introduced Sherlock Holmes, whose mysteries are said to have been singularly responsible for the huge popularity in this genre.

* Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was actually knighted on October 24, 1902 by King Edward VII due to his work The War in South Africa: Its causes and conduct, not by Queen Victoria in 1887, as seen in the film.

See also Arthur Chuquet, De Ewaldi Kleistii vita et scriptis ( Paris, 1887 ), and Heinrich Pröhle, Friedrich der Grosse und die deutsche Literatur ( 1872 ).

Massinger's independent works were collected by Thomas Coxeter ( 4 vols., 1759, revised edition with introduction by Thomas Davies, 1779 ), by J. Monck Mason ( 4 vols., 1779 ), by William Gifford ( 4 vols., 1805, 1813 ), by Hartley Coleridge ( 1840 ), by Lt. Col. Cunningham ( 1867 ), and selections by Arthur Symons in the Mermaid Series ( 1887 – 9 ).

A device similar to the Rogowski coil was described by Arthur Prince Chattock of Bristol University in 1887.

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.

Arthur Edward Stilwell began construction on the first line of what would become the Kansas City Southern Railway in 1887, in suburban Kansas City, Missouri.

From 1887 to 1889 the Minster was mostly rebuilt in the perpendicular style by Sir Arthur Blomfield.

In 1887, Scotsman Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ( 1859 – 1930 ) gave fresh impetus to the emerging form of the detective story by creating Sherlock Holmes, resident at 221B Baker Street, London — probably the most famous of fictional detectives and the first one to have clients, to be hired to solve a case.

Image: Chestnut_Hill_Water_Works_high-service_pumping_station. jpg | The High Service Building at Chestnut Hill Water Works, Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts ; Arthur H. Vinal, architect, 1887

Kansas City Southern was founded in 1887 by Arthur Edward Stilwell, with the goal of connecting the U. S. heartland to the Gulf of Mexico.

* Arthur Herbert Tennyson Somers-Cocks, 6th Baron Somers ( 1887 – 1944 )

Lord Salisbury married Lady Cicely Gore, second daughter of Arthur Gore, 5th Earl of Arran, in 1887.

( Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, 1887 )

Second Lieutenant Basil Arthur Horsfall, VC ( 4 October 1887 – 27 March 1918 ) was a British-Ceylonese recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.