* 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 )

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

Montgomery was born in Kennington, London, in 1887, the fourth child of nine, to an Anglo-Irish Anglican priest, the Reverend Henry Montgomery, and his wife, Maud ( née Farrar ).

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.

Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley was born in Weymouth, Dorset, on the south coast of England in 1887.

* 1813 – Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman and reformer ( d. 1887 )

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

The animal was brought to prominent European attention by speculation on its existence found in popular press reports covering Henry Morton Stanley's journeys in 1887.

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In 1887, Charles Henry Niehaus sculpted a statue of Allen to be placed in the National Statuary Hall.

* June 24 – Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman and reformer ( d. 1887 )

In 1887 Bishop Henry Codman Potter of the Episcopal Diocese of New York called for a cathedral to rival St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan.

Carter Henry Harrison, Sr. ( February 15, 1825October 28, 1893 ) was an American politician who served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois from 1879 until 1887 ; he was subsequently elected to a fifth term in 1893 but was assassinated before completing his term.

Clay and his wife had eleven children ( six daughters and five sons ): Henrietta ( 1800 – 1801 ), Theodore ( 1802 – 1870 ), Thomas ( 1803 – 1871 ), Susan ( 1805 – 1825 ), Anne ( 1807 – 1835 ), Lucretia ( 1809 – 1823 ), Henry, Jr .( 1811 – 1847 ), Eliza ( 1813 – 1825 ), Laura ( 1815 – 1817 ), James Brown ( 1817 – 1864 ), and John ( 1821 – 1887 ).

He inherited £ 8, 000 (£ as of ), from his paternal great-aunt Marianne Thornton ( daughter of the abolitionist Henry Thornton ), who died on 5 November 1887.

William Henry Pratt ( 23 November 1887 – 2 February 1969 ), better known by his stage name Boris Karloff, was an English actor.

Wright continued to farm the land with Colonel Henry Hubbard from 1887 until 1910, when it was sold for subdivision to the Valley Farms Company.

* English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature, Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin, Published by Cassell & Company, limited, 1887

Brewster County was marked off in 1887 from Presidio County and named for Henry Percy Brewster.

Originally surveyed in 1887 and incorporated in 1889 ; Bessemer was the vision of industrialist Henry Fairchild DeBardeleben.

* Henry Brewster Stanton ( 1805 – 1887 ), abolitionist, social reformer and husband of Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in town.

On July 2, 1887, Henry moved his family into their summer villa on Silver Lake: Helen Steel ( 21 ), Mary Jane ( 17 ), Charles William ( 15 ), Henry Jaquess ( 13 ), Margaret ( 11 ), Anne ( 9 ) and James Timothy ( 6 ).

In 1887, Henry B. Shiner donated the land for the town of Shiner to be built.