Birthdays In History 1887

1887 Wilhelm Canaris German admiral (d. 1945)

1887 August Macke German-French painter (d. 1914)

1887 Robinson Jeffers American poet and philosopher (d. 1962)

1887 Aldo Leopold American ecologist and author (d. 1948)

1887 Hugo Steinhaus Polish mathematician and academic (d. 1972)

1887 Ola Raknes Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (d. 1975)

1887 Alexander Woollcott American actor playwright and critic (d. 1943)

1887 Wolfgang Köhler German psychologist and phenomenologist (d. 1967)

1887 Ernest Holmes American New Thought writer (d. 1960)

1887 Helen Hoyt American poet and author (d. 1972)

1887 Jean-Henri Humbert French botanist (d. 1967)

1887 Marc Mitscher American admiral and pilot (d. 1947)

1887 Dimitris Pikionis Greek architect and academic (d. 1968)

1887 Ernst Hanfstaengl German businessman (d. 1975)

1887 Georg Trakl Austrian pharmacist and poet (d. 1914)

1887 Eubie Blake American pianist and composer (d. 1983)

1887 Géza Csáth Hungarian playwright and critic (d. 1919)

1887 Kathleen Clifford American actress (d. 1962)

1887 Joseph Bech Luxembourgian lawyer and politician 15th Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d. 1975)

1887 Leevi Madetoja Finnish composer and critic (d. 1947)

1887 Korechika Anami Japanese general and politician 54th Japanese Minister of War (d. 1945)

1887 Savielly Tartakower Polish journalist author and chess player (d. 1956)

1887 Pat Sullivan Australian-American animator and producer (d. 1933)

1887 Pyotr Nesterov Russian captain pilot and engineer (d. 1914)

1887 William Zorach Lithuanian-American sculptor and painter (d. 1966)

1887 Lincoln J. Beachey American pilot (d. 1915)

1887 Heitor Villa-Lobos Brazilian guitarist and composer (d. 1959)

1887 Fritz Lenz German geneticist and physician (d. 1976)

1887 Raoul Walsh American actor and director (d. 1980)

1887 Sylvia Beach American-French bookseller and publisher who founded Shakespeare and Company (d. 1962)

1887 Emilio Lunghi Italian runner (d. 1925)

1887 S. Stillman Berry American marine zoologist (1984)

1887 Clarice Beckett Australian painter (d. 1935)

1887 Lajos Kassák Hungarian poet novelist and painter (d. 1967)

1887 M. N. Roy Indian philosopher and politician (d. 1954)

1887 Chico Marx American actor (d. 1961)

1887 Josef Čapek Czech painter and poet (d. 1945)

1887 Rudolf Kinau German author (d. 1975)

1887 Juan Gris Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 1927)

1887 Sidney Hillman Lithuanian-born American labor leader (d. 1946)

1887 Väinö Siikaniemi Finnish javelin thrower poet and translator (d. 1932)

1887 Beulah Dark Cloud American actress (d. 1945)

1887 Ōtori Tanigorō Japanese sumo wrestler the 24th Yokozuna (d. 1956)

1887 Nishizō Tsukahara Japanese admiral (d. 1966)

1887 William Cowhig British gymnast (d. 1964)

1887 Konrad Tom Polish actor writer singer and director (d. 1957)

1887 Jamini Roy Indian painter (d. 1972)

1887 Harold Lockwood American actor and director (d. 1918)

1887 Gordon S. Fahrni Canadian physician and golfer (d. 1995)

1887 Harald Bohr Danish mathematician and footballer (d. 1951)

1887 Denys Finch Hatton English hunter (d. 1931)

1887 Kojo Tovalou Houénou Beninese lawyer and critic (d. 1936)

1887 Warren Wood American golfer (d. 1926)

1887 Raymond Thorne American swimmer (d. 1921)

1887 Alan Cunningham Anglo-Irish general and diplomat High Commissioners for Palestine and Transjordan (d. 1983)

1887 Vernon Castle English-American dancer (d. 1918)

1887 Marika Kotopouli Greek actress (d. 1954)

1887 Andrew Dasburg French-American painter (d. 1979)

1887 Mervyn S. Bennion American captain Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1941)

1887 Lorna Hodgkinson Australian educator and educational psychologist (d. 1951)

1887 Ants Kurvits Estonian general and politician 10th Estonian Minister of War (d. 1943)

1887 Maria Lacerda de Moura Brazilian teacher and anarcha-feminist (d. 1945)

1887 Ion Jalea Romanian soldier and sculptor (d. 1983)

1887 A. W. Sandberg Danish film director and screenwriter (d. 1938)

1887 Thoralf Skolem Norwegian mathematician and theorist (d. 1963)

1887 Nikolai Vekšin Estonian-Russian sailor and captain (d. 1951)

1887 C. R. M. F. Cruttwell English historian (d. 1941)

1887 Mick Mannock Irish soldier and pilot Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1918)

1887 Padre Pio Italian priest and saint (d. 1968)

1887 Ba U 2nd President of Burma (d. 1963)

1887 Frank Woolley English cricketer (d. 1978)

1887 Alexander Archipenko Ukrainian-American sculptor and illustrator (d. 1964)

1887 Emil Reesen Danish pianist composer and conductor (d. 1964)

1887 Saint-John Perse French poet and diplomat Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)

1887 André François-Poncet French politician and diplomat (d. 1978)

1887 Bruno Frank German-American author poet and playwright (d. 1945)

1887 Tancrède Labbé Canadian businessman and politician (d. 1956)

1887 Kurt Schwitters German painter and illustrator (d. 1948)

1887 Norman L. Bowen Canadian geologist and petrologist (d. 1956)

1887 Julian Huxley English biologist and academic (d. 1975)

1887 George Abbott American director producer and screenwriter (d. 1995)

1887 Frigyes Karinthy Hungarian author poet and journalist (d. 1938)

1887 Amber Reeves New Zealand-English author and scholar (d. 1981)

1887 Pio Pion Italian engineer and businessman (d. 1965)

1887 Marc Chagall Belarusian-French painter and poet (d. 1985)

1887 Annette Kellermann Australian swimmer and actress (d. 1975)

1887 James Ormsbee Chapin American-Canadian painter and illustrator (d. 1975)

1887 Saturnino Herrán Mexican painter (d. 1918)

1887 Samuel Eliot Morison American admiral and historian (d. 1976)

1887 Wharton Esherick American sculptor (d. 1970)

1887 Gustav Ludwig Hertz German physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)

1887 Willard Price Canadian-American journalist and author (d. 1983)

1887 Sigmund Romberg Hungarian-American pianist and composer (d. 1951)

1887 Hans Freyer German sociologist and philosopher (d. 1969)

1887 Oskar Anderson Bulgarian-German mathematician and statistician (d. 1960)

1887 August Wesley Finnish journalist trade unionist and revolutionary (d. ?)

1887 Albert M. Greenfield Ukrainian-American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1967)

1887 Reginald Owen English-American actor and singer (d. 1972)

1887 Dudley Benjafield English racing driver (d. 1957)

1887 Anna Elisabet Weirauch German author and playwright (d. 1970)

1887 Charles I of Austria (d. 1922)

1887 John Anthony Sydney Ritson English rugby player mines inspector engineer and professor of mining (d. 1957)

1887 S. Satyamurti Indian lawyer and politician (d. 1943)

1887 Phan Khôi Vietnamese journalist and scholar (d. 1959)

1887 James Paul Moody English sailor (d. 1912)

1887 Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk German jurist and politician German Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1977)

1887 Harry Hooper American baseball player (d. 1974)

1887 August Kippasto Estonian-Australian wrestler and poet (d. 1973)

1887 István Kühár Slovenian priest and politician (d. 1922)

1887 Jivraj Narayan Mehta Indian physicians and politician 1st Chief Minister of Gujarat (d. 1978)

1887 Paul Kochanski Polish violinist and composer (d. 1934)

1887 Blaise Cendrars Swiss author and poet (d. 1961)

1887 Frank Christian American trumpet player (d. 1973)

1887 Roy William Neill Irish-English director producer and screenwriter (d. 1946)

1887 Edith Sitwell English poet and critic (d. 1964)

1887 Alf Landon American lieutenant banker and politician 26th Governor of Kansas (d. 1987)

1887 Giovanni Gronchi Italian soldier and politician 3rd President of the Italian Republic (d. 1978)

1887 Kenneth Mason English soldier and geographer (d. 1976)

1887 Govind Ballabh Pant Indian lawyer and politician 1st Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (d. 1961)

1887 Leopold Ružička Croatian-Swiss biochemist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)

1887 Karl Taylor Compton American physicist (d. 1954)

1887 Carlos Dávila Chilean journalist and politician President of Chile (d. 1955)

1887 Nadia Boulanger French composer and educator (d. 1979)

1887 Lovie Austin American pianist composer and bandleader (d. 1972)

1887 Lynne Overman American actor and singer (d. 1943)

1887 Bhaurao Patil Indian educator and activist (d. 1959)

1887 Edwin Keppel Bennett English author and poet (d. 1958)

1887 Antonio Moreno Spanish-American actor and director (d. 1967)

1887 Barnes Wallis English scientist and engineer invented the Bouncing bomb (d. 1979)

1887 Avery Brundage American businessman 5th President of the International Olympic Committee (d. 1975)

1887 Lil Dagover Indonesian-German actress (d. 1980)

1887 Ned Hanlon Australian politician 26th Premier of Queensland (d. 1952)

1887 Shizuichi Tanaka Japanese general (d. 1945)

1887 René Cassin French judge and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)

1887 Manny Ziener German actress (d. 1972)

1887 Jack Russell English cricketer and coach (d. 1961)

1887 Ping Bodie American baseball player (d. 1961)

1887 Donie Bush American baseball player manager and team owner (d. 1972)

1887 Frederick Fleet English sailor (d. 1965)

1887 Takashi Sakai Japanese general and politician Governor of Hong Kong (d. 1946)

1887 Prince Yasuhiko Asaka of Japan (d. 1981)

1887 Krishna Singh Indian lawyer and politician 1st Chief Minister of Bihar (d. 1961)

1887 John Reed American journalist and poet (d. 1920)

1887 Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (d. 1969)

1887 Octave Lapize French cyclist and pilot (d. 1917)

1887 Alexander McCulloch British rower (d. 1951)

1887 Sukumar Ray Indian-Bangladeshi author poet and playwright (d. 1923)

1887 Newsy Lalonde Canadian ice hockey player and lacrosse player (d. 1970)

1887 L.S. Lowry English painter and illustrator (d. 1976)

1887 Samuil Marshak Russian author and poet (d. 1964)

1887 Eileen Hendriks British geologist (d. 1978)

1887 Alfred Lee Loomis American physicist and philanthropist (d. 1975)

1887 Paul Wittgenstein Austrian-American pianist and educator (d. 1961)

1887 Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu Romanian engineer and academic (d. 1973)

1887 Arnold Zweig German author and activist (d. 1968)

1887 Roland Young English-American actor (d. 1953)

1887 Marianne Moore American poet critic and translator (d. 1972)

1887 James B. Sumner American chemist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)

1887 Jean Ducret French footballer

1887 Henry Moseley English physicist and chemist (d. 1915)

1887 Raoul Paoli French boxer and rower (d. 1960)

1887 Erich von Manstein German field marshal (d. 1973)

1887 Nikolai Vavilov Russian botanist and geneticist (d. 1943)

1887 Masaharu Homma Japanese general (d. 1946)

1887 Ernst Röhm German soldier and politician (d. 1934)

1887 Andrej Gosar Slovenian economist lawyer and politician (d. 1970)

1887 Beatrice Kerr Australian swimmer and diver (d. 1971)

1887 Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni Japanese general and politician 43rd Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1990)

1887 Winifred Carney Irish suffragist trade unionist and Irish republican (d. 1943)

1887 Lynn Fontanne British actress (d. 1983)

1887 Joseph Lamb American pianist and composer (d. 1960)

1887 Ernst Toch Austrian-American composer and songwriter (d. 1964)

1887 Tim Moore American actor (d. 1958)

1887 George Pólya Hungarian-American mathematician and academic (d. 1985)

1887 Alvin C. York American colonel Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1964)

1887 Xul Solar Argentinian painter and sculptor (d. 1963)

1887 Josef Lada Czech painter and illustrator (d. 1957)

1887 Bhikhari Thakur Indian actor singer and playwright (d. 1971)

1887 Srinivasa Ramanujan Indian mathematician and theorist (d. 1920)

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

1887 Conrad Hilton American entrepreneur (d. 1979)

1887 Arthur Percival English general (d. 1966)

1887 Werner Kolhörster German physicist and academic (d. 1946)

1887 William Kolehmainen Finnish-American runner and coach (d. 1967)

1887 K.M.Munshi Indian politician writer and educationist founder of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (d. 1971)

1887 Arthur Rubinstein Polish-American pianist and educator (d. 1982)

1887 Charles Nordhoff English-American lieutenant pilot and author (d. 1947)

1887 Josef Frings German cardinal (d. 1978)

1887 Grover Cleveland Alexander American baseball player and coach (d. 1950)

1887 William Frawley American actor and vaudevillian (d. 1966)

1887 Stefan Grabiński Polish author and educator (d. 1936)

1887 Roscoe Arbuckle American actor director and screenwriter (d. 1933)

1887 Bernardo Houssay Argentinian physiologist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)

1887 Shoeless Joe Jackson American baseball player and manager (d. 1951)

1887 Clive Brook English actor (d. 1974)

1887 Felix Pipes Austrian tennis player (d. 1983)

1887 William Forgan Smith Scottish-Australian politician 24th Premier of Queensland (d. 1953)

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