1887
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Events
- January 1 - Queen Victoria becomes Empress of India
- January 20 - The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
- January 21 - The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is formed
- January 26 - Battle of Dogali: Abyssinian troops defeat Italians
- February 23 - The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000.
- February 2 - In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
- March 4 - Gottlieb Daimler unveils his first automobile
- April 4 - Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna Madora Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
- May 9 - Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show opens in London.
- June 28 - Minot, North Dakota is incorporated as a city.
- July 26 - L. L. Zamenhof publishes "Dr. Esperanto's International Language.
- July 27 - Giuseppe Peano marries Carola Crosio
- L. L. Zamenhof completes the creation of the initial version of Esperanto.
- U.S. National Institutes of Health founded
- Thomas Stevens is 1st man to bicycle around the world
- Michelson-Morley experiment was performed
- Gramophone patented by Emile Berliner
- The New Gate was built in Jerusalem.
- Comptometer patented by Dorr Eugene Felt
Births
- January 1 - Wilhelm Canaris, later head of German Abwehr
- January 3 - August Macke, painter (d. 1914)
- January 19 - Alexander Woollcott, intellectual (d. 1943)
- January 21 - Maude Davis, later Oldest Person in the World (d. 2002)
- January 28 - Artur Rubinstein, musician, conductor (d. 1982)
- February 1 - Charles Nordhoff, author (d. 1947)
- February 2 - Pat Sullivan, Australian director and producer of animated films, alleged co-creator of Felix the Cat
- February 3 - Georg Trakl, poet (d. 1914)
- February 6 - Josef Frings, archbishop of Cologne (d. 1978)
- February 11 - Ernst Hanfstaengl German/US pianist/politician.
- February 11 - John van Melle South African writer
- February 18 - Nikos Kazantzakis, poet (d. 1957)
- February 20 - Carl Ebert, opera manager and director (d. 1980)
- February 20 - Vincent Massey, Governor-General of Canada (d. 1967)
- February 26 - Grover Cleveland Alexander, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1950)
- March 3 - Rupert Brooke, poet
- March 5 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (d. 1959)
- March 14 - Sylvia Beach, publisher
- March 22 - Chico Marx, comedian, actor (d. 1961)
- March 23 - Juan Gris, painter and graphic artist (d. 1927)
- March 23 - Prince Felix Yussupov, assassin of Rasputin (d. 1967)
- March 24 - Fatty Arbuckle, actor (d. 1933)
- May 11 - Paul Wittgenstein, pianist
- May 26 - Paul Lukas, actor (d. 1971)
- May 28 - Jim Thorpe, athlete (d. 1953)
- June 2 - Orrick Johns, poet & playwright
- June 22 - Julian Huxley, British biologist (d. 1975)
- July 18 - Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian politician and famous traitor
- July 29 - Sigmund Romberg, composer (d. 1951)
- August 12 - Erwin Schroedinger, physicist
- August 17 - Emperor Karl of Austria
- August 17 - Marcus Mosiah Garvey, publisher, entrepreneur, black nationalist (d. 1940)
- September 1 - Blaise Cendrars, writer
- September 3 - Frank Christian, jazz musician (d. 1973)
- September 16 - Kamato Hongo, later Oldest Person in the World.
- September 28 - Avery Brundage, American sports official
- October 6 - Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (d. 1965)
- October 8 - Huntley Gordon, pioneer Hollywood actor (d. 1956)
- October 22 - John Reed, journalist (d. 1920)
- November 10 - Arnold Zweig, German writer (d. 1968)
- November 17 - Bernard Montgomery, famous WWII British commander
- December 12 - Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer
- December 22 - Srinivasa Aaiyangar Ramanujan, Indian mathematician
Deaths
- February 27 - Alexander Borodin, composer
- October 17 - Gustav Kirchhoff, physicist
heads of State
- China - Guāngxu Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (1875-1908)
- Denmark - Christian IX, King of Denmark (1863-1906)
- France -
- Jules Grevy, President of France (1879-1887)
- Marie Francois Sadi Carnot, President of France (1887-1894)
- Germany - Wilhelm I, German Kaiser (1871-1888)
- Holy See - Pope Leo XIII, Bishop of Rome (1878-1903)
- Japan - Mutsuhito, Meiji emperor (1867-1912)
- Norway - Oscar II, King of Sweden and Norway (1872-1905)
- Ottoman Empire - Abdul Hamid II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1876-1909)
- Russia - Alexander III, Tsar of Russia (1881-1894)
- Spain - Alfonso XIII of Spain, King of Spain (1886-1931)
- United States - Grover Cleveland, President of the United States (1885-1889)