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

* 1966 – General Arthur Ernest Percival, British Army Officer ( b. 1887 )

Earnest Hooton ( 1887 – 1954 ), a Classics PhD from the University of Wisconsin, entered anthropology as an Oxford Rhodes Scholar under R. R. Marett and the anatomist Arthur Keith.

* Waite, Arthur Edward ( 1887 ) The Real History of the Rosicrucians G. Redway, London OCLC 7080058 ; reprinted in 1960 by Society of Metaphysicians, Hastings, England, ISBN 1-85228-705-5 ; reprinted in 2000 by Garber Communications, Blauvelt, New York, ISBN 0-89345-018-9 ; see full text from The Internet Sacred Text Archive

These children were Raymond ( 1878 – 1916 ), Herbert ( 1881 – 1947 ), Arthur ( 1883 – 1939 ), Violet ( 1887 – 1969 ), and Cyril ( 1890 – 1954 ).

Alexander F. Lobdell, the store's proprietor, was appointed postmaster by President Abraham Lincoln and was reappointed by Presidents Grant, Hayes, Garfield and Arthur, continuing as Brewster's postmaster until 1887.

The first kite aerial photographs were taken by British meteorologist Douglas Archibald in 1887 and Arthur Batut in Labruguière ( France ) in 1888.

S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz cited other literary inspirations: Guy de Maupassant's " The Horla " ( 1887 ), which Lovecraft described in " Supernatural Horror in Literature " as concerning " an invisible being who ... sways the minds of others, and seems to be the vanguard of a horde of extraterrestrial organisms arrived on earth to subjugate and overwhelm mankind "; and Arthur Machen's " The Novel of the Black Seal " ( 1895 ), which uses the same method of piecing together of disassociated knowledge ( including a random newspaper clipping ) to reveal the survival of a horrific ancient being.

* John Arthur Phillips ( 1822 – 1887 ), British geologist, metallurgist and mining engineer

In 1887 Arthur Conan Doyle introduced Sherlock Holmes, whose mysteries are said to have been singularly responsible for the huge popularity in this genre.

* Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was actually knighted on October 24, 1902 by King Edward VII due to his work The War in South Africa: Its causes and conduct, not by Queen Victoria in 1887, as seen in the film.

See also Arthur Chuquet, De Ewaldi Kleistii vita et scriptis ( Paris, 1887 ), and Heinrich Pröhle, Friedrich der Grosse und die deutsche Literatur ( 1872 ).

Massinger's independent works were collected by Thomas Coxeter ( 4 vols., 1759, revised edition with introduction by Thomas Davies, 1779 ), by J. Monck Mason ( 4 vols., 1779 ), by William Gifford ( 4 vols., 1805, 1813 ), by Hartley Coleridge ( 1840 ), by Lt. Col. Cunningham ( 1867 ), and selections by Arthur Symons in the Mermaid Series ( 1887 – 9 ).

A device similar to the Rogowski coil was described by Arthur Prince Chattock of Bristol University in 1887.

Emilia Tennyson ( 1811 – 1887 ), known simply as Emily within her family, was a younger sister of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and the fiancée of Arthur Henry Hallam, for whom Tennyson's great poem, In Memoriam A. H. H., was written.

Arthur Edward Stilwell began construction on the first line of what would become the Kansas City Southern Railway in 1887, in suburban Kansas City, Missouri.

From 1887 to 1889 the Minster was mostly rebuilt in the perpendicular style by Sir Arthur Blomfield.

In 1887, Scotsman Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ( 1859 – 1930 ) gave fresh impetus to the emerging form of the detective story by creating Sherlock Holmes, resident at 221B Baker Street, London — probably the most famous of fictional detectives and the first one to have clients, to be hired to solve a case.

Image: Chestnut_Hill_Water_Works_high-service_pumping_station. jpg | The High Service Building at Chestnut Hill Water Works, Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts ; Arthur H. Vinal, architect, 1887

Kansas City Southern was founded in 1887 by Arthur Edward Stilwell, with the goal of connecting the U. S. heartland to the Gulf of Mexico.

* Arthur Herbert Tennyson Somers-Cocks, 6th Baron Somers ( 1887 – 1944 )

Lord Salisbury married Lady Cicely Gore, second daughter of Arthur Gore, 5th Earl of Arran, in 1887.

( Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, 1887 )

Second Lieutenant Basil Arthur Horsfall, VC ( 4 October 1887 – 27 March 1918 ) was a British-Ceylonese recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

They first appeared in Conan Doyle's original Sherlock Holmes story, A Study In Scarlet ( written 1886, published 1887 ).

* Clyde Doyle ( 1887 – 1963 ), U. S. Representative from California

In October 1887 the first torpedo division was created at Wilhelmshaven and the second torpedo division based at Kiel.

After the Volta Associates gave several demonstrations in the City of Washington, businessmen from Philadelphia created the American Graphophone Company on March 28, 1887, in order to produce and sell the machines for the budding phonograph marketplace.

The next year Benz created the Motorwagen Model 2 which had several modifications, and in 1887, the definitive Model 3 with wooden wheels was introduced, showing at the Paris Expo the same year.

The commune of Dakar was created by the French colonial administration on June 17, 1887 by detaching it from the commune of Gorée.

In the United States, containerization and other advances in shipping were impeded by the Interstate Commerce Commission ( ICC ), which was created in 1887 to keep railroads from using monopolist pricing and rate discrimination but fell victim to regulatory capture.

* Hatch Act of 1887, United States federal legislation that created agricultural experiment stations

Citrus County was created in 1887.

The neighborhood now known as the Castro was created in 1887 when the Market Street Railway Company built a line linking Eureka Valley to downtown.

DeSoto County was created in 1887.

Lake County was created in 1887 from portions of Sumter County and Orange County.

Lee County was created in 1887 from Monroe County.

Osceola County was created in 1887.

On May 12, 1887, Osceola was named a county, having been created from both Orange and Brevard Counties.

Pasco County was created on June 2, 1887, from the southern third of Hernando County.

In 1887, van Gogh painted Mand met viooltjes, and, in 1926, Georgia O ' Keeffe created a painting of a black pansy called simply, Pansy and followed it with White Pansy in 1927.

Heppner was designated the temporary county seat at the time the county was created and narrowly defeated Lexington in the election held in 1887 to determine the permanent county seat.

Malheur County was created February 17, 1887, from the southern portion of Baker County.

The county was created by the 1887 territorial legislature and named for Gilbert Ashville Pierce, governor of Dakota Territory from 1884 to 1886 and a representative of North Dakota in the United States Senate from 1889 to 1891.

In 1887, Lee County was created out of part of Monroe County, including Chokoloskee, but the county seat was in Fort Myers, almost in the opposite direction from Key West.

Culbertson was created in June 1887 following the arrival of the Great Northern Railway, then known as the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway.

Jamesburg was formed as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 19, 1887, when it was created from portions of Monroe Township, based on the results of a referendum held on March 15, 1887.

Dorothea Lynde Dix ( April 4, 1802 – July 17, 1887 ) was an American activist on behalf of the indigent insane who, through a vigorous program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, created the first generation of American mental asylums.

That started to change in 1887, when professors William J. Beal and Rolla C. Carpenter created Collegeville, along what is now Harrison Road and Center and Beal Streets, north of Michigan Avenue.