* 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 )

# Charles Bruno Blondeau, Conservative ( 1882 – 1887 )

* 1887 – Frank Christian, American trumpet player ( d. 1973 )

* November 27 – Frank Christian, American musician ( b. 1887 )

During the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland several prominent figures involved in it were in Lewes Prison, including Éamon de Valera ( 1882 – 1975 ); Thomas Ashe ( 1885 – 1917 ); Frank Lawless ( 1871 – 1922 ); and Harry Boland ( 1887 – 1922 ).

In 1887, John Weston and Frank Mondell found rich coal deposits north of Newcastle which caused a railroad to be built through the area.

In 1887, the Metropolitan Railway was extended from Harrow-on-the-Hill to Rickmansworth, and Carnegie sold his land to Frank Murray Maxwell Hallowell Carew for development for £ 59, 422.

Frank Joseph Christian ( September 3, 1887 – November 27, 1973 ) was an early jazz trumpeter.

With the aide of Major Frank P. Crandon, tax commissioner with the Chicago and North Western Transportation Company, he successfully lobbied the Wisconsin Legislature for the creation of Forest County, which was established in 1887.

* Frank C. Whitmore ( 1887 – 1947 ), American chemist

Her siblings included Dora Furry ( born 1880 ); Sherman Furry ( born 1882 ); Cameron Furry ( born 1887 ); Edgar Furry ( 1889 – 1975 ); Frank M. Furry ( born 1891 ); and Margaret Furry ( born 1897 ).

Frank H. Chapman ( November 1861-December 2, 1937 ) was a professional baseball player who appeared in one game for the Philadelphia Athletics of the American Association in 1887.

He opened a shoe repair store in his hometown and played baseball on weekends, earning a professional contract in 1886 with an Oshkosh, Wisconsin, team which was managed by Frank Selee in 1887.

Although built in traditional fashion of stone without steel frame, Richardson's well-integrated Marshall Field's Wholesale Store | Marshall Field Wholesale Store was very influential in the development of modern approaches to building facades. The noted Marshall Field Wholesale Store ( Chicago, 1885 – 1887, demolished 1930 ) is Richardson's " culminating statement of urban commercial form ", and its remarkable design influenced Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and many other architects.

The 1887 player was actually named Frank Chapman, and he was 25 years old at the time of his only major league appearance.

In part due to Anson's influence and of those of other white players, on July 14, 1887, the directors of the International League voted to prohibit the signing of additional black players – although blacks under contract, like Frank Grant of the Buffalo Bisons and Fleet Walker of the Syracuse franchise, could remain with their teams.

The Edge-Sweets Company was founded in 1887 as the Frank Edge Company, to produce saw blades for the furniture industry.

* Frank Nelson ( 1887 – 1970 ), Olympic athlete ( DUS )

* Frank Parkinson ( 1887 – 1946 ), British industrialist

* Frank Hodges ( trade unionist ) ( 1887 – 1947 ), English trade union leader

The introduction of the electrical streetcar in Richmond, Virginia in 1887 by Frank J. Sprague marked the start of a new era of transportation-influenced suburbanization through the birth of the " streetcar suburb ".

Frank Alexander de Pass VC ( 26 April 1887 – November 1914 ) was an English 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.

The Elisha Taylor House ( 1870 ) and the Hudson-Evans House ( 1872 ) are both in Brush Park ; the Col. Frank J. Hecker House ( 1888 ) and the Charles Lang Freer House ( 1887 ) are in the East Ferry Avenue neighbhorhood.

Additional buildings they designed include: Theodore Roosevelt's country house Sagamore Hill in Oyster Bay Long Island ( completed 1887 ), Mount Morris Bank in Harlem ( 1883 ), the Victorian Renaissance revival style Main Building at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn ( 1887 ), the Queen Anne style Astral Apartments ( commissioned by Charles Pratt-built 1885 / 86 ) at 184 Franklin St. in Greenpoint, Brooklyn ( national register # 82001178 ), the Frank Babbott house at 153 Lincoln Place in Park Slope, Brooklyn, the main building of Barnard College in Manhattan, the John M. Greene Hall at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts and " Copshaholm ," James Oliver's house in South Bend, Indiana.

* Frank J. Wilson ( 1887 – 1970 ), IRS agent who helped convict Al Capone