* 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 – 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 )

* January 4 – Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1887 )

* Contributions toward a bibliography of peach yellows, 1887 – 1888 Digital copy of scientist Erwin Frink Smith's manuscript on peach yellows disease.

* Erwin Schrödinger ( 1887 – 1961 ), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1933

* January 4-Erwin Schrödinger ( born 1887 ), Austrian physicist.

Part 2 Schrödinger in Vienna and Zurich 1887 – 1925.

The establishment of the Dual Alliance led Russia to take a more conciliatory stance, and in 1887, the so-called Reinsurance Treaty was signed between Germany and Russia: in it, the two powers agreed on mutual military support in the case that France attacked Germany, or in case of an Austrian attack on Russia.

* Carl Ferdinand von Arlt ( 1812 – 1887 ), the elder ( Austrian ) proved that myopia is largely due to an excessive axial length, published influential textbooks on eye disease, and ran annual eye clinics in needy areas long before the concept of volunteer eye camps became popular.

* 16 May-Albert Paris Gütersloh, Austrian painter and writer ( b. 1887 ).

Johann Karl August Radon ( 16 December 1887 – 25 May 1956 ) was an Austrian mathematician.

Paula Preradović ( October 12, 1887 – May 25, 1951 ), known professionally as Paula von Preradović or by her married name as Paula Molden, was an Austrian writer and poet.

* Dagobert Peche ( 1887 – 1923 ), Austrian artist and metalworker designer

In 1885 he became a member of the Imperial Austrian Academy of Sciences and in 1887 he became the President of the University of Graz.

Count Teleki and his companion, Lieutenant Ludwig von Höhnel, an Austrian naval officer, left Pangani ( Tanzania ) in February 1887 with around 400 porters, following the Ruvu river.

Generaloberst Lothar Rendulic ( 23 November 1887 – 18 January 1971 ) was an Austro-Hungarian and Austrian Army officer of Croatian origin who served as a German general during World War II.

Julius Pokorny ( June 12, 1887 – April 8, 1970 ) was an Austrian linguist and scholar of the Celtic languages, particularly Irish, and a supporter of Irish nationalism.

Albert Paris Gütersloh ( born Albert Conrad Kiehtreiber ; 5 February 1887 in Vienna – 16 May 1973 in Baden bei Wien ) was an Austrian painter and writer.

* Johann Nordmann ( 1820 – 1887 ), an Austrian journalist and travel writer

Marian Tumler ( 21 October 1887 – 18 November 1987 ) was an Austrian theologian who served as the 62nd Grand Master of the Teutonic Order from 1948 – 1970.

Hermann, Freiherr Dahlen-Orlaburg ( 1828 – 1887 ) was an Austrian administrator.

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

** Charles Galton Darwin ( 1887 – 1962 ), physicist and activist

However, the general concept of functional had previously been introduced in 1887 by the Italian mathematician and physicist Vito Volterra.

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

* 1887 – Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1975 )

* 1887 – Alfred Lee Loomis, American physicist, philanthropist, scientific research patron ( d. 1975 )

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

* March 12 – Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist ( d. 1887 )

The first primitive radio transmitters ( called Hertzian oscillators ) were built by German physicist Heinrich Hertz in 1887 during his pioneering investigations of radio waves.

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

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.

* March 12-Gustav Kirchhoff ( died 1887 ), physicist.

British physicist Oliver Lodge demonstrated the existence of Maxwell ’ s waves transmitted along wires in 1887 – 88.

* Gustav Hertz ( 1887 – 1975 ), physicist, Nobel Prize for physics in 1925

* Gustav Kirchhoff ( 1824 – 1887 ), physicist

Gustav Ludwig Hertz ( 22 July 1887 – 30 October 1975 ) was a German experimental physicist and Nobel Prize winner, and a nephew of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz.

* August 10-Henry Moseley ( born 1887 ), English physicist ( killed in action on the Gallipoli Campaign ).

* Werner Kolhörster ( 1887 – 1946 ), physicist

Raymond Thayer Birge ( March 13, 1887 – March 22, 1980 ) was a physicist.

* William Wilson ( physicist ) ( 1887 – 1948 ), recipient of the IEEE Medal of Honor in 1943

* Charles Galton Darwin ( 1887 – 1962 ), physicist.

The first example of an electrical resonance curve was published in 1887 by German physicist Heinrich Hertz in his pioneering paper on the discovery of radio waves, showing the length of spark obtainable from his spark-gap LC resonator detectors as a function of frequency.