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| Born : | 07/16/1887 | "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, black sox player (Say it aint so, Joe) |
| Born : | 08/09/1887 | Abraham Schierbeek, biologist (Swammerdam) |
| Born : | 10/20/1887 | Addison Richards, Zanesville Ohio, actor (Col-Pentagon) |
| Born : | 03/31/1887 | Albert P Termote, Flemish/Dutch sculptor (Charles the Great) |
| Born : | 06/22/1887 | Albert PAA Besnard, poet/journalist (Uprising & Remorse) |
| Born : | 03/30/1887 | Albert Termote, Belgian/Neth sculptor |
| Born : | 01/11/1887 | Aldo Leopold, founder (Wilderness Society) |
| Born : | 05/30/1887 | Alexander Archipenko, Ukraine sculptor/lithographer |
| Born : | 01/19/1887 | Alexander Woollcott, NJ, short story writer (Man Who Came to Dinner) |
| Born : | 09/09/1887 | Alfred M Landon, (R-Ks) pres candidate (1932, 1936) |
| Born : | 02/13/1887 | Alvin York, famed US soldier with 25 kills in WW I |
| Born : | 06/26/1887 | Anthony G de Rothschild, Britain, philanthropist |
| Born : | 09/27/1887 | Anton Roemer, actor |
| Born : | 06/20/1887 | Arnaut Colnot, painter/graphic artist |
| Born : | 09/28/1887 | Avery Brundage, AAU & International Olympic Committee president |
| Born : | 02/26/1887 | Benegal Narsing Rau, India, pres of UN Security Council (1950) |
| Born : | 11/17/1887 | Bernard L Montgomery, British general (WW II-African campaign) |
| Born : | 04/10/1887 | Bernardo A Houssay, Argentine physiologist (Nobel 1947) |
| Born : | 11/14/1887 | Bernhard Paumgartner, Austria, musicologist/conductor/composer |
| Born : | 09/01/1887 | Blaise Cendrars, [Fr‚d‚ric Sauser-Hall], Swiss poet/writer |
| Born : | 11/23/1887 | Boris Karloff, [William H Pratt], Dulwich Engld, actor (Frankenstein) |
| Born : | 01/27/1887 | Carl Blegen, Minneapolis, archaeologist (excavator at Troy, Pylos) |
| Born : | 08/17/1887 | Charles I, last emperor of Austria-Hungary (1916-18) |
| Born : | 10/31/1887 | Chiang Kai-shek, Chekiang Province, China, pres of Nationalist China |
| Born : | 03/22/1887 | Chico Marx, [Leonard Martin] NYC, comedian (Marx Brothers) |
| Born : | 12/25/1887 | Conrad Hilton, hotel mogul (Hilton Hotels) |
| Born : | 02/01/1887 | Dirk Roosenburg, architect |
| Born : | 08/15/1887 | Edna Ferber, US, author (American Beauty, Cimarron) |
| Born : | 10/31/1887 | Edouard Lalonde, Canada, NHLer (Mont Candiens)/lacrosse player |
| Born : | 10/30/1887 | Eduardo Ciannelli, Italy, actor (Waldo-Johnny Staccato) |
| Born : | 05/02/1887 | Edward Collins, NY, Hall of Fame infielder (White Sox, A's) |
| Born : | 01/26/1887 | Enrique E Ecker, Cura‡ao, bacteriologist |
| Born : | 05/27/1887 | Erich Kuttner, German journalist/historian (Vorw„rts) |
| Born : | 06/23/1887 | Ernst Rowohlt, German publisher (Rowohlt-Verlag) |
| Born : | 11/28/1887 | Ernst R”hm, German staff member/Bolivian leader/SA |
| Born : | 12/07/1887 | Ernst Toch, Vienna Austria, composer (Melodie Lehre) |
| Born : | 08/12/1887 | Erwin Schr”dinger, Austria, physicist (had a cat) |
| Born : | 07/30/1887 | Felix A Vening Meinesz, geophysicist (black force) |
| Born : | 11/17/1887 | Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, of Alamein, Moville, Ireland |
| Born : | 10/04/1887 | Francis Bull, Norway, writer (Norsk literature historian) |
| Born : | 08/25/1887 | Friedrich Lbke, German politician |
| Born : | 02/03/1887 | Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (Herbst of Einsamen) |
| Born : | 06/25/1887 | George Abbott, Forestville NY, producer (Damn Yankees, Pajama Game) |
| Born : | 11/15/1887 | Georgia O'Keefe, Sun Prairie, Wisc, painter (Cow's Skull) |
| Born : | 09/10/1887 | Giovanni Gronchi, president of Italy |
| Born : | 02/26/1887 | Grover Cleveland Alexander, HOF baseball pitcher (Phillies, Cubs) |
| Born : | 07/22/1887 | Gustav Hertz, German quantum physicist (Nobel 1925) |
| Born : | 03/05/1887 | Heitor Villa-Lobos, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, composer (Salon Waltz) |
| Born : | 05/07/1887 | Henri Pourrat, French writer (Gaspard of the Montagnes) |
| Born : | 02/09/1887 | Henry Zimmerman, baseball player (1912-batted .372 with 14 HRs) |
| Born : | 02/20/1887 | Hesketh Pearson, England, biographer/playwright (Writ for Libel) |
| Born : | 11/15/1887 | Hitoshi Asida, Japanese politician |
| Born : | 09/22/1887 | Hobart Cavanaugh, US, actor (Border Town, Black Angel) |
| Born : | 08/08/1887 | JC Heldring, businessman |
| Born : | 10/07/1887 | Jack Mulhall, Wappinger Falls NY, actor (Ken Murray Show) |
| Born : | 11/28/1887 | Jacobo Palm, Cura‡aos pianist/organist |
| Born : | 05/10/1887 | Jacobus C Bloem, poet (Sintels) |
| Born : | 02/27/1887 | James D Innes, English painter |
| Born : | 08/07/1887 | Jan HA Eman, Aruban politician |
| Born : | 08/23/1887 | Jo Sternheim, actor/playwright |
| Born : | 06/23/1887 | John Finley Williamson, Canton Ohio, conductor (Westminster Choir) |
| Born : | 10/22/1887 | John Reed, journalist who reported on Mexican, Russian revolutions |
| Born : | 03/23/1887 | Juan Gris, Spain, cubist painter (Still Life Before an Open Window) |
| Born : | 06/22/1887 | Julian Huxley, London, biologist/philosopher, Darwin's Bulldog |
| Born : | 09/14/1887 | Karl Taylor Compton, physicist/atomic bomb scientist |
| Born : | 10/06/1887 | Le Corbusier, Switzerland, architect/city planner/artist (Urbanisme) |
| Born : | 04/01/1887 | Leonard Bloomfield, US translator |
| Born : | 05/05/1887 | Lord Geoffrey Fisher of Lambeth, archbishop of Canterbury |
| Born : | 11/14/1887 | Louis van Gasteren, actor |
| Born : | 12/06/1887 | Lynn Fontanne, Bdwy actress (Dulcy, Arms & the Man) |
| Born : | 08/08/1887 | Malcolm Keen, Bristol England, actor (Uncle Chris-Mama) |
| Born : | 07/07/1887 | Marc Chagall, Vitebsk Russia, artist (I & The Village) |
| Born : | 07/28/1887 | Marcel Duchamp, French painter (Nude Descending a Staircase) |
| Born : | 07/02/1887 | Marcel Tabuteau, Compigne France, oboist (Phila Orch 1915-54) |
| Born : | 08/17/1887 | Marcus Garvey, began back-to-Africa movement among US blacks |
| Born : | 10/06/1887 | Maria Jeritza, [Jedlicka], Austria, singer (Wiener Rebellion) |
| Born : | 11/15/1887 | Marianne Moore, St Louis, poet (Pulitzer 1951, Collected Poems) |
| Born : | 10/06/1887 | Mart¡n Luis Guzm n, Mexico, novelist (Eagle & the Serpent) |
| Born : | 02/22/1887 | Mary Ellen Chase, educator/author (Windswept, 1959 Sarah Hale Award) |
| Born : | 09/25/1887 | May Sutton Bundy, US, 1st US woman to win Wimbeldon (US 1904) |
| Born : | 01/23/1887 | Mikl¢s K llay, premier Hungary (1942-44) |
| Born : | 09/16/1887 | Nadia Boulanger, Paris, music teacher (Lasir‚ne Ideology) |
| Born : | 11/05/1887 | Oscar Bossaert, Belgium, chocolate manufacturer/min of Middenstand |
| Born : | 11/05/1887 | Paul Wittgenstein, Vienna Austria, left hand specialist pianist |
| Born : | 11/16/1887 | Philip Frohman, US architect |
| Born : | 12/15/1887 | Pieter C A Geyl, historian (History of the Dutch Tribe) |
| Born : | 10/05/1887 | Ren‚ Cassin, pacifist (Nobel Peace Prize 1968) |
| Born : | 11/15/1887 | Ren‚ Maran, Martinique, author (Batouala, Prix Goncourt) |
| Born : | 10/10/1887 | Rie Cramer, [Marie Holman], poster artist/author |
| Born : | 01/10/1887 | Robinson Jeffers, US, poet/playwright (Tamar & Other Poems, Medea) |
| Born : | 03/24/1887 | Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, US actor (Keystone comedies) |
| Born : | 03/28/1887 | Rudolf F W Boskaljon, Cura‡ao, musician/composer |
| Born : | 08/03/1887 | Rupert Brooke, British WW I poet (1914) |
| Born : | 06/05/1887 | Ruth Benedict, US, anthropologist (Patterns of Culture) |
| Born : | 05/31/1887 | Saint-John Perse, France, poet/diplomat (Nobel 1960) |
| Born : | 07/09/1887 | Samuel Eliot Morison, historian (Admiral of the Ocean Sea) |
| Born : | 02/21/1887 | Savielly [Xavier] G Tartakower, Austrian/Polish/French chess player |
| Born : | 03/23/1887 | Sidney Hillman, union leader, Sidney Hillman Foundation |
| Born : | 07/29/1887 | Sigmund Romberg, Nagykanizsa Hungary, operetta composer (Blossom Time) |
| Born : | 12/22/1887 | Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indies mathematician (ã/Notebooks) |
| Born : | 09/14/1887 | Stanley "Midnight Assassin" Ketchel, HW boxing champ (1908-10) |
| Born : | 07/30/1887 | Timothy Mara, NFL owner (NY Giants) |
| Born : | 07/18/1887 | Vidkun Al Quisling, Norwegian minister of Defense/premier (1942-45) |
| Born : | 02/09/1887 | Vital Celen, Flemish writer (Puppy Love) |
| Born : | 04/08/1887 | Walter Connolly, actor (Good Earth, 5th Avenue Girl) |
| Born : | 11/06/1887 | Walter Johnson, Kansas, Wash Senator pitcher (1907-27) (414-218) |
| Born : | 01/01/1887 | Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral/head German military intelligence |
| Born : | 10/25/1887 | Willem CN Andriessen, composer/pianist (Beethoven) |
| Born : | 09/02/1887 | Willem De M‚rode, protestant poet |
| Born : | 07/20/1887 | Willem H Drucker, lawyer |
| Born : | 06/07/1887 | William Walraven, journalist/writer (Indian Current) |
| Born : | 02/28/1887 | William Zorach, Lithuania, US sculptor (Spirit of the Dance) |
| Born : | 01/21/1887 | Wolfgang K”hler, Gestalt psychologist (The Mentality of Apes) |
| Died : | 05/08/1887 | Alexander Ulyanov, brother of Lenin/hanged for assassination of tsar |
| Died : | 07/05/1887 | August F Pott, German philological (That Personennamen), dies |
| Died : | 03/02/1887 | August W Eichler, German botanist, dies |
| Died : | 02/10/1887 | Ellen Wood, English author (Pomeroy Abbey), dies at 73 |
| Died : | 11/19/1887 | Emma Lazarus, US poet ("Give us your tired & poor"), dies in NY at 38 |
| Died : | 09/14/1887 | Friedrich T Vischer, German philosopher/writer (Auch einer), dies |
| Died : | 10/17/1887 | Gustav Kirchoff, discoverer of laws of spectroscopy, dies |
| Died : | 11/18/1887 | Gustav T Fechner, German psychologist/physicist, dies at 86 |
| Died : | 02/21/1887 | Jean C F Demolombe, [prince l'ex‚gse], French lawyer, dies at 82 |
| Died : | 11/02/1887 | Jenny Lind, [Swedish Nightengale], soprano, dies |
| Died : | 08/14/1887 | Richard Jeffries, naturalist/essayist, dies |
| Interest: | 10/11/1887 | [C] Commemoration of St Mary Soledad, foundress of Handmaidens of Mary |
| Special : | 07/26/1887 | 1st Esperanto book published |
| Special : | 02/21/1887 | 1st US bacteriology laboratory opens, in Brooklyn |
| Special : | 01/05/1887 | 1st US school of librarianship opens at Columbia University |
| Special : | 01/04/1887 | 1st bicycle trip around the world (SF-SF) completed; 21,700 km |
| Special : | 11/30/1887 | 1st indoor softball game (Chicago) |
| Special : | 02/20/1887 | 1st minor league baseball association organizes in Pittsburgh |
| Special : | 03/15/1887 | 1st salaried fish & game warden (William Alden Smith) |
| Special : | 05/23/1887 | 1st transcontinental train arrives in Vancouver, BC |
| Special : | 06/08/1887 | A Borrelly discovers asteroid #268 Adorea |
| Special : | 05/27/1887 | A Charlois discovers asteroid #267 Tirza |
| Special : | 10/11/1887 | A Miles patents the elevator |
| Special : | 01/21/1887 | Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) forms |
| Special : | 03/03/1887 | American Protective Assn forms (anti-Catholic) in Clinton Iowa |
| Special : | 03/02/1887 | American Trotting Association organized in Detroit |
| Special : | 03/03/1887 | Anne Sullivan begins teaching Helen Keller |
| Special : | 04/05/1887 | Anne Sullivan teaches "water" to Helen Keller |
| Special : | 01/26/1887 | Battle of Dogali: Abyssinian Emperor John IV defeats Italians |
| Special : | 06/21/1887 | Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria |
| Special : | 11/15/1887 | British SS Wah Yeung catches fire on Canton River off Hong Kong |
| Special : | 10/08/1887 | C H F Peters discovers asteroid #270 Anahita |
| Special : | 12/02/1887 | Charles Dickens' 1st public reading in US (NYC) |
| Special : | 03/13/1887 | Chester Greenwood of Maine patents earmuffs |
| Special : | 01/16/1887 | Cliff House damaged when schooner "Parallel"'s powder cargo explodes |
| Special : | 02/23/1887 | Congress grants Seal Rocks to SF |
| Special : | 02/08/1887 | Congress passes Dawes Act, a homestead act for Indians |
| Special : | 02/08/1887 | Dawes Act passed (indians living apart from tribe granted citizenship) |
| Special : | 10/26/1887 | Detroit (NL) beats St Louis (AA) 10 games to 5 in World Series |
| Special : | 03/08/1887 | Everett Horton, CT, patents fishing rod of telescoping steel tubes |
| Special : | 08/10/1887 | Excursion train crashes killing 101. (Chatsworth, Illinois) |
| Special : | 02/23/1887 | French/Italian Riviera struck by Earthquake; 2,000 die |
| Special : | 05/25/1887 | Gas lamp at Paris Opera catches fire; 200 die |
| Special : | 09/05/1887 | Gas lamp at Theatre Royal in Exeter catches fire killing about 200 |
| Special : | 09/28/1887 | Gele Rivier (Huang Ho) in China floods, kills about 1.5 million |
| Special : | 02/05/1887 | Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Otello" premieres at La Scala in Italy |
| Special : | 04/26/1887 | Huntsville Electric Co established to sell electricity |
| Special : | 02/04/1887 | Interstate Commerce Act authorizes federal regulation of railroads |
| Special : | 02/25/1887 | J Palisa discovers asteroid #265 Anna |
| Special : | 05/17/1887 | J Palisa discovers asteroid #266 Aline |
| Special : | 09/21/1887 | J Palisa discovers asteroid #269 Justitia |
| Special : | 12/19/1887 | Jake Kilrain & Jem Smith fight 106 round bare knuckle draw |
| Special : | 05/26/1887 | Legal betting at rece tracks begins |
| Special : | 03/15/1887 | Michigan appoints 1st salaried game & fish warden in US |
| Special : | 08/21/1887 | Mighty (Dan) Casey struck-out in a game with NY Giants! |
| Special : | 06/07/1887 | Monotype type-casting machine patented by Tolbert Lanston, Wash DC |
| Special : | 06/15/1887 | NY Giants beat Phila Phillies 29-1 |
| Special : | 11/23/1887 | Notre Dame loses its 1st football game 8-0 to Michigan |
| Special : | 02/05/1887 | Opera "Otello" is produced (Milan) |
| Special : | 11/23/1887 | Opera "Trumpeter of S„ckingen" 1st American production (NYC) |
| Special : | 02/21/1887 | Oregon becomes 1st US state to make Labor Day a holiday |
| Special : | 03/24/1887 | Oscar Straus appointed 1st Jewish ambassador from US (to Turkey) |
| Special : | 09/15/1887 | Phila celebrates 100th anniversary of US Constitution |
| Special : | 06/28/1887 | Phillies most lopsided shut-out beating Indianapolis 24-0 |
| Special : | 10/08/1887 | Phillies set club record 16th straight victory |
| Special : | 12/01/1887 | Sherlock Holmes 1st appears in print: "Study in Scarlet" |
| Special : | 12/01/1887 | Sino-Portuguese treaty recognizes Portugal's control of Macao |
| Special : | 12/28/1887 | Sir John Layton Jarvis, 1st British race horse trainer knighted |
| Special : | 02/05/1887 | Snow falls on SF |
| Special : | 12/27/1887 | Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Blue Carbuncle" (BG) |
| Special : | 11/19/1887 | Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Dying Detective" (BG) |
| Special : | 09/30/1887 | Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure "Five Orange Pips" (BG) |
| Special : | 10/18/1887 | Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "A Case of Identity" (BG) |
| Special : | 04/14/1887 | Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Reigate Squires" (BG) |
| Special : | 04/04/1887 | Susanna Medora Salter elected 1st US woman mayor (Argonia, KS) |
| Special : | 08/31/1887 | Thomas A Edison patents Kinetoscope, (produces moving pictures) |
| Special : | 01/20/1887 | US Senate approves the naval base lease of Pearl Harbor |
| Special : | 11/29/1887 | US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii |
| Special : | 02/22/1887 | Union Labor Party organized in Cincinnati |
| Special : | 10/13/1887 | V Knorre discovers asteroid #271 Penthesilea |
| Special : | 09/30/1887 | Volunteer (US) beats Thistle (Scotland) in 8th America's Cup |
| Special : | 09/25/1887 | 49øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC |
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