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

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

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 )

Lord Dudley married firstly in 1891 Rachel Anne Gurney, born in 1868, daughter of Charles Henry Gurney ( born 5 November 1833 ) and Alice Prinsep, sister of Laura Gurney, wife of Sir Thomas Herbert Cochrane Troubridge, 4th Baronet Troubridge, and maternal granddaughters of Sir Henry Thoby Prinsep ( 1793 – 1878 ) and wife ( m. 1835 ) Sara Monckton Pattle ( Calcutta, 1816-Brighton, 1887 ).

* 1915 – Henry Moseley, English physicist ( b. 1887 )

* 1887 – Denys Finch Hatton, English big-game hunter ( d. 1931 )

Henry Mayhew ( 25 November 1812-25 July 1887 ) was an English social researcher, journalist, playwright and advocate of reform.

Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley ( 23 November 1887 – 10 August 1915 ) was an English physicist.

* 1803 – George James Webb, English composer ( d. 1887 )

* 1887 – Julian Huxley, English biologist ( d. 1975 )

* 1814 – Mrs. Henry Wood, English novelist ( d. 1887 )

* 1965 – Frederick Fleet, English crewman and survivor of RMS Titanic ( b. 1887 )

* 1887 – Vernon Castle, English dancer ( d. 1918 )

* 1823 – Thomas Spencer Baynes, English philosopher and editor ( d. 1887 )

* 1887 – Bernard Montgomery, English World War II commander ( d. 1976 )

* 1887 – Henry Moseley, English physicist ( d. 1915 )

* 1887 – Frederick Fleet, English crewman and survivor of RMS Titanic ( d. 1965 )

* 1887 – Edith Sitwell, English poet and critic ( d. 1964 )

* 1887 – Kenneth Mason, English soldier and geographer ( d. 1976 )

Chaos descended on English cricket in the Australian summer of 1887 / 8, as Lillywhite, Shaw and Shrewsbury organised their customary tour, at the invitation of the Melbourne Cricket Club, while a rival tour, that of the future Lord Hawke, was invited by their Sydney counterparts.

* February 2 – Boris Karloff, English actor ( b. 1887 )

* March 2 – Eric Blore, English actor ( b. 1887 )

* June 27 – Lottie Dod, 88, English tennis player ; Wimbledon women's champion, 1887 – 88, 1891-93 ( b. 1871 )

* November 5 – Reginald Owen, English actor ( b. 1887 )

* January 14 – Sheila Kaye-Smith, English writer ( b. 1887 )