* 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 )

** Joe McCarthy, American baseball manager ( b. 1887 )

* Shoeless Joe Jackson ( 1887 – 1951 ), American baseball player most known for being banned from baseball for his part in the 1919 Black Sox Scandal

Joseph Jefferson Jackson ( July 16, 1887 – December 5, 1951 ), nicknamed " Shoeless Joe ", was an American baseball player who played Major League Baseball in the early part of the 20th century.

Along with Hornsby's two, Tip O ' Neill won in the now-defunct American Association in 1887 while the team was known as the St. Louis Browns, and Joe Medwick added the Cardinals ' fourth in 1937.

** Joe McCarthy ( manager ), ( 1887 – 1978 ) Hall of Fame baseball manager

It was named in memory of Joe McGrath ( 1887 – 1966 ), the founder of the Irish Hospitals ' Sweepstake and a successful racehorse owner.

His older brother, Joe Denton, also had a brief first-class career with Yorkshire in 1887 and 1888.

The next challenge was Burns ’ much-awaited rematch against Evan “ Strangler ” Lewis, who was now the reigning Catch-as-Catch-Can Heavyweight Champion, having defeated Joe Acton on March 14, 1887.

In 1887 he formed a law practice with Peter McCarthy and two years later in 1889 He became a QC.

Joseph Vincent McCarthy ( April 21, 1887 – January 13, 1978 ) was a US manager in Major League Baseball, most renowned for his leadership of the " Bronx Bombers " teams of the New York Yankees from 1931 to 1946.

* 1948 – Aldo Leopold, American ecologist and author ( b. 1887 )

* 1887 – Joseph Stadler, American athlete

In 1887, the National League and American Association agreed to abide by some uniform rule changes and decreased the number of balls required for a walk to five.

Cleveland went without major league baseball for two seasons until gaining a team in the American Association ( AA ) in 1887.

* 1887 – Joseph Lamb, American ragtime composer ( d. 1960 )

* 1887 – Tim Moore, American actor and comedian ( d. 1958 )

* 1946 – Walter Johnson, American baseball player ( b. 1887 )

* 1887 – Alvin York, American soldier & Medal of Honor recipient ( d. 1964 )

* 1958 – Tim Moore, American actor ( b. 1887 )

1887 ) from the Archives of American Art

* 1887 – Eubie Blake, American musician and composer ( d. 1983 )

* 1887 – Grover Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player ( d. 1950 )

* 1887 – William Frawley, American actor ( d. 1966 )

* 1887 – The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.

* 1887 – Kathleen Clifford, American actress ( d. 1962 )

* 1887 – Marc Mitscher, American admiral ( d. 1947 )

* 1995 – George Abbott, American stage director and producer ( b. 1887 )

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

* 1887 – Aldo Leopold, American ecologist ( d. 1948 )

* 1808 – Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier ( d. 1887 )

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

* 1887 – Marquard Schwarz, American swimmer ( d. 1968 )