* 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 – 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 )

* Tommy Hall ( cyclist ) ( 1887 – 1949 ), British cyclist

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

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

The Texas state legislature carved Ward County from a portion of Tom Green County in 1887.

* Ward Melville, businessman and local philanthropist ( 1887 – 1977 )

London: Ward and Downey, 1887.

Huxley was born on 22 June 1887, at the London house of his aunt, the novelist Mary Augusta Ward, while his father was attending the jubilee celebrations of Queen Victoria.

* Henry Ward Beecher ( 1813 – 1887 ), abolitionist

Henry Ward Beecher ( June 24, 1813 – March 8, 1887 ) was a prominent Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, abolitionist, and speaker in the mid to late 19th century.

John Ward Studebaker ( June 10, 1887 – July 26, 1989 ) served as U. S. Commissioner of Education from 1934 to 1948.

Caricature by Leslie Ward | Spy published in Vanity Fair ( British magazine 1868-1914 ) | Vanity Fair in 1887.

* P. Kropotkin, In Russian and French Prisons, London: Ward and Downey ; 1887.

Dance engagements card for 11 January 1887, published by M W & Co Ltd ( Marcus Ward & Co ) 184 x 95mm ( 7¼ x 3¾in ) ( inside this dance engagements card is a list of all the dances for the evening-valse, polka, lancers and quadrille ; opposite each dance is a space to record the name of the partner for that dance )

Until spring 1887 Crosby attended churches of various denominations, including the Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims in Brooklyn Heights pastored by Congregationalist abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher who was an innovator with church music.

The levitation of Daniel Dunglas Home at Ward Cheney's house interpreted in a lithograph from Louis Figuier, Les Mystères de la science 1887

The GBP was first described by Harry Marshall Ward in 1892, from samples he received in 1887.

* Henry Ward Beecher ( 1813 – 1887 ), clergyman, social reformer, abolitionist.

* 1887 – 1891: Adolphus William Ward ( also Principal of Owens College 1889 – 1897 )

Ward was appointed Acting Supreme Court Judge on four occasions: September 1867 Dunedin ; September 1886 Auckland ; September 1887 Christchurch ; March 1894 Dunedin again.

* Henry Ward Beecher ( 1813 – 1887 ), American preacher who left behind the Calvinist orthodoxy of his famous father, the Reverend Lyman Beecher, to instead preach the Social Gospel of liberal Christianity.

In 1887, Ward stood for Parliament, winning the seat of Awarua.

The reported levitation at Ward Cheney's house interpreted in a lithograph from Louis Figuier, Les Mystères de la science 1887

A UK edition followed in 1887, with Ward Lock publishing Sir G Campbell's translation under the title Workers of the Sea, followed by an 1896 Routledge edition under the title Toilers of the Sea.

In 1887 he visited the United States, where he delivered a eulogy on Henry Ward Beecher, with whom he had been on very intimate terms.

Ward County, Texas, created in 1887, was also named in his honor fifteen years after his death.