* 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 )

* 1887 – Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian soldier, politician, and traitor ( d. 1945 )

* 1887 – Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician ( d. 1963 )

* October 24 – Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian traitor ( executed ) ( b. 1887 )

* March 23 – Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician ( b. 1887 )

Thoralf Albert Skolem ( 23 May 1887 – 23 March 1963 ) () was a Norwegian mathematician known mainly for his work on mathematical logic and set theory.

The family name originally was " Aursnes ," but when Rolf's Norwegian father, Peter Aursnes, immigrated to New York City in 1887, he changed the spelling.

* Fartein Valen ( 1887 – 1952 ), Norwegian composer and musical theorist

* Eugen Lunde, ( 1887 – 1963 ) Norwegian sailor who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics

* Arne Halse ( 1887 – 1975 ), Norwegian athlete who specialized in the different forms of javelin throw

The United Norwegian Lutheran Church of America was the result of the union formed in 1890 between the Norwegian Augustana Synod ( 1870 ), the Conference of the Norwegian-Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America ( 1870 ), and the Anti-Missourian Brotherhood ( 1887 ).

* HNoMS Tyr ( 1887 ), a Royal Norwegian Navy minelaying vessel

Francisque Xavier Michel ( Lyon, February 18, 1809-Paris, May 18, 1887 ) was a French historian and philologist.

* Robert Scott ( philologist ) ( 1811 – 1887 ), Dean of Rochester, co-editor with Henry George Liddell of the Greek dictionary A Greek-English Lexicon

* Karl August Friedrich Mahn ( 1802 – 1887 ), German philologist and language teacher and researcher

Robert Scott ( 26 January 1811 – 2 December 1887 ) was an English academic philologist, clergyman, and a Fellow ( later Master ) of Balliol College, Oxford.

* 1887 – Joe McCarthy, American baseball manager ( d. 1978 )

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

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

* 1887 – Lynn Fontanne, British-American actress ( d. 1983 )

* 1887 – Louis Jouvet, French actor and producer ( d. 1951 )

* 1887 – Arthur Ernest Percival, British Army officer ( d. 1966 )

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

* 1887 – Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician ( d. 1920 )

* 1887 – George Polya, Hungarian-born mathematician ( d. 1985 )

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