* 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 – 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 )

Radio waves were not detected first from a natural source, but were rather produced deliberately an artificially by the German scientist Heinrich Hertz in 1887, using electrical circuits calculated to produce oscillations in the radio frequency range, following recipies suggested by the equations of James Clerk Maxwell.

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

* 1887 – James Ormsbee Chapin, American painter and illustrator ( d. 1975 )

* 1820 – James Buchanan Eads, American engineer and inventor, designed and built the Eads Bridge ( d. 1887 )

* 1887 – James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate ( d. 1955 )

Occidental College was founded on April 20, 1887, by a group of Presbyterian clergy and laymen, including James George Bell.

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Radio waves were not detected first from a natural source, but were rather produced deliberately an artificially by the German scientist Heinrich Hertz in 1887, using electrical circuits calculated to produce oscillations in the radio frequency range, following recipes suggested by the equations of James Clerk Maxwell.

** James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1887 )

* June 24 – George James Webb, English-born composer ( d. 1887 )

The is named after James Curtis Hepburn, who used it to transcribe the sounds of the Japanese language into the Latin alphabet in the third edition of his Japanese – English dictionary, published in 1887.

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 was named after his father, also James Callaghan ( 1887 – 1921 ), who was of Irish descent and was a Royal Navy Chief Petty Officer.

* James Dixon Murray ( 1887 – 1965 ), British Labour Party MP 1942 – 1955

The county is named for James Proctor Knott, Governor of Kentucky ( 1883 – 1887 ).

Later works include Laurence Sterne's eighteenth-century psychological novel Tristam Shandy, while in the nineteenth-century it has been suggested that Edgar Allan Poe's short story " The Tell-Tale Heart " foreshadows this literary technique .< ref >< http :// www. britannica. com / EBchecked / topic / 1785800 / The-Tell-Tale-Heart >.</ ref > Because of his renunciation of chronology in favor of free association, Édouard Dujardin's Les Lauriers Sont Coupés ( 1887 ) is also an important precursor to the stream of consciousness narratives of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, and Joyce is believed to have known this work.

James M. and Catherine Wells donated one-half acre of land in 1887 for the site of the church and cemetery.

James Hubert Blake ( February 7, 1887 – February 12, 1983 ) was an American composer, lyricist, and pianist of ragtime, jazz, and popular music.

* James Proctor Knott ( August 29, 1830 – June 18, 1911 ) was a U. S. Representative from Kentucky and served as the 29th Governor of Kentucky from 1883 to 1887.

This, in turn, enticed the Ramage family to establish the James Ramage Paper Company in 1887.

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 ).

It is not known how long he continued in office, but records indicate that in 1887, Green Fowler served as postmaster and that in 1893 the position was held by James Dickson.

Glasgow was founded in 1887 as a railroad town by James J. Hill, who was responsible for creating many communities along the Hi-Line.

On January 11, 1887 at 11: 30 p. m., David Hoffman and James Bell derailed a passenger train 1. 5 miles north of Dunbar.