| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| George Abbott |
Playwright |
25-Jun-1887 |
31-Jan-1995 |
Damn Yankees |
| Grover Cleveland Alexander |
Baseball |
26-Feb-1887 |
4-Nov-1950 |
Pitcher, 373 career wins |
| Fatty Arbuckle |
Actor |
24-Mar-1887 |
29-Jun-1933 |
Keystone Cop |
| Jean Arp |
Sculptor |
16-Sep-1887 |
7-Jun-1966 |
Avant-garde sculptor, Dadaist |
| Ruth Benedict |
Anthropologist |
5-Jun-1887 |
17-Sep-1948 |
Anthropologist, Patterns of Culture |
| Eric Blore |
Actor |
23-Dec-1887 |
2-Mar-1959 |
Sullivan's Travels |
| Monte Blue |
Actor |
11-Jan-1887 |
18-Feb-1963 |
Orphans of the Storm |
| Fletcher Bowron |
Politician |
13-Aug-1887 |
11-Sep-1968 |
Mayor of Los Angeles, 1938-53 |
| Rupert Brooke |
Poet |
3-Aug-1887 |
23-Apr-1915 |
1914 and Other Poems |
| Avery Brundage |
Sports Figure |
28-Sep-1887 |
8-May-1975 |
International Olympic Committee Chair 1952-72 |
| Harry F. Byrd |
Politician |
10-Jun-1887 |
20-Oct-1966 |
US Senator from Virginia, 1933-65 |
| Wilhelm Canaris |
Military |
1-Jan-1887 |
9-Apr-1945 |
Nazi spymaster, tried to kill Hitler |
| René Cassin |
Government |
5-Oct-1887 |
20-Feb-1976 |
Legal scholar, Nobel Prize recipient |
| Marc Chagall |
Artist |
7-Jul-1887 |
28-Mar-1985 |
I and the Village |
| Mary Ellen Chase |
Scholar |
24-Feb-1887 |
28-Jul-1973 |
Silas Crockett |
| Eddie Collins |
Baseball |
2-May-1887 |
25-Mar-1951 |
Second baseman, 1914 MVP |
| Karl T. Compton |
Physicist |
15-Sep-1887 |
22-Jun-1954 |
Bikini Island atomic tests |
| Walter Connolly |
Actor |
8-Apr-1887 |
28-May-1940 |
It Happened One Night |
| Jack Conway |
Film Director |
17-Jul-1887 |
11-Oct-1952 |
Too Hot to Handle |
| Le Corbusier |
Architect |
6-Oct-1887 |
27-Aug-1965 |
Most influential 20th century architect |
| John Cromwell |
Film Director |
23-Dec-1887 |
26-Sep-1979 |
The Prisoner of Zenda |
| Floyd Dell |
Journalist |
28-Jun-1887 |
23-Jul-1969 |
Moon-Calf |
| Marcel Duchamp |
Artist |
28-Jul-1887 |
2-Oct-1968 |
Lead proponent of Dadaism |
| Felix Dzerzhinsky |
Government |
11-Sep-1887 |
20-Jul-1926 |
The Black Pope of Bolshevism |
| Glen E. Edgerton |
Military |
17-Apr-1887 |
1956 |
Canal Zone Governor 1940-44 |
| James Finlayson |
Actor |
27-Aug-1887 |
9-Oct-1953 |
D'oh! |
| Norman Foerster |
Critic |
14-Apr-1887 |
1-Aug-1972 |
New Humanist movement |
| Lynn Fontanne |
Actor |
6-Dec-1887 |
30-Jul-1983 |
English-American stage actress |
| William Frawley |
Actor |
26-Feb-1887 |
3-Mar-1966 |
Fred on I Love Lucy |
| Charles E. Fuller |
Religion |
25-Apr-1887 |
18-Mar-1968 |
Co-Founder, Fuller Theological Seminary |
| Marcus Garvey |
Activist |
17-Aug-1887 |
10-Jun-1940 |
Pan-African black nationalist |
| Howard M. Gore |
Politician |
12-Oct-1887 |
20-Jun-1947 |
Governor of West Virginia, 1925-29 |
| Juan Gris |
Painter |
23-Mar-1887 |
11-May-1927 |
Spanish Synthetic Cubist painter |
| Ernest Gruening |
Politician |
6-Feb-1887 |
26-Jun-1974 |
US Senator from Alaska, 1959-69 |
| E. Newton Harvey |
Zoologist |
25-Nov-1887 |
21-Jul-1959 |
Light-emitting organisms |
| Gustav Hertz |
Physicist |
22-Jul-1887 |
30-Oct-1975 |
Franck-Hertz experiment |
| Georg Heym |
Poet |
30-Oct-1887 |
16-Jan-1912 |
Der ewige Tag |
| Conrad Hilton |
Business |
25-Dec-1887 |
3-Jan-1979 |
Founder, Hilton Hotels |
| Bernardo Houssay |
Scientist |
10-Apr-1887 |
21-Sep-1971 |
Pituitary hormones in sugar metabolism |
| Julian Huxley |
Biologist |
22-Jun-1887 |
14-Feb-1975 |
Evolutionary biologist |
| Robinson Jeffers |
Poet |
10-Jan-1887 |
20-Jan-1962 |
Tamar and Other Poems |
| Walter Johnson |
Baseball |
6-Nov-1887 |
10-Dec-1946 |
American League MVP in 1913 and 1924 |
| Louis Jouvet |
Actor |
24-Dec-1887 |
16-Aug-1951 |
The Strange Adventures of Doctor Molyneaux |
| Chiang Kai-Shek |
Head of State |
31-Oct-1887 |
5-Apr-1975 |
President of Nationalist China |
| Boris Karloff |
Actor |
23-Nov-1887 |
2-Feb-1969 |
Horror actor |
| Sheila Kaye-Smith |
Novelist |
4-Feb-1887 |
14-Jan-1956 |
The End of the House of Alard |
| Robert Keable |
Novelist |
6-Mar-1887 |
23-Dec-1927 |
Simon Called Peter |
| George Kelly |
Playwright |
16-Jan-1887 |
18-Jun-1974 |
Craig's Wife |
| Martin H. Kennelly |
Politician |
11-Aug-1887 |
29-Nov-1961 |
Mayor of Chicago, 1947-55 |
| Alf Landon |
Politician |
9-Sep-1887 |
12-Oct-1987 |
Republican Presidential candidate 1936 |
| Francis Ledwidge |
Poet |
19-Aug-1887 |
31-Jul-1917 |
Songs of the Fields |
| Alfred Lee Loomis |
Physicist |
4-Nov-1887 |
1-Aug-1975 |
Millionaire scientist |
| Paul Lukas |
Actor |
26-May-1887 |
15-Aug-1971 |
Watch on the Rhine |
| Frederic Manning |
Poet |
1887 |
22-Feb-1935 |
The Middle Parts of Fortune |
| Chico Marx |
Actor |
22-Mar-1887 |
11-Oct-1961 |
An Italian con-man of a Marx Brother |
| Vincent Massey |
Government |
20-Feb-1887 |
30-Dec-1967 |
Governor-General of Canada, 1952-59 |
| Joe McCarthy |
Baseball |
21-Apr-1887 |
13-Jan-1978 |
Yankees manager for 15 years |
| James L. McConaughy |
Politician |
21-Oct-1887 |
7-Mar-1948 |
Governor of Connecticut, 1947-48 |
| Paul W. Merrill |
Astronomer |
15-Aug-1887 |
19-Jul-1961 |
S-process of nucleosynthesis |
| Gaston Modot |
Actor |
30-Dec-1887 |
24-Feb-1970 |
Age of Gold |
| Bernard Montgomery |
Military |
17-Nov-1887 |
24-Mar-1976 |
Won Battle of El Alamein during WWII |
| Marianne Moore |
Poet |
15-Nov-1887 |
5-Feb-1972 |
Collected Poems |
| Antonio Moreno |
Actor |
26-Sep-1887 |
15-Feb-1967 |
Spanish-American character actor |
| Samuel Eliot Morison |
Historian |
9-Jul-1887 |
15-May-1976 |
Rear Admiral and naval historian |
| Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley |
Physicist |
23-Nov-1887 |
10-Aug-1915 |
Confirmed importance of atomic number |
| Roy William Neill |
Film Director |
4-Sep-1887 |
14-Dec-1946 |
Pursuit to Algiers |
| Georgia O'Keeffe |
Painter |
15-Nov-1887 |
6-Mar-1986 |
American abstract and landscape painter |
| Reginald Owen |
Actor |
5-Aug-1887 |
5-Nov-1972 |
Prolific character actor |
| Saint-John Perse |
Poet |
31-May-1887 |
20-Sep-1975 |
Exile |
| Vidkun Quisling |
Politician |
18-Jul-1887 |
24-Oct-1945 |
Norwegian president, Nazi collaborator |
| John Reed |
Activist |
22-Oct-1887 |
19-Oct-1920 |
Ten Days That Shook the World |
| Addison Richards |
Actor |
20-Oct-1887 |
22-Mar-1964 |
American character actor |
| Absalom Willis Robertson |
Politician |
27-May-1887 |
1-Nov-1971 |
US Senator from Virginia, 1946-66 |
| Ernst Roehm |
Government |
28-Nov-1887 |
1-Jul-1934 |
Organizer of Hitler's Brownshirts, the SA |
| Alice Grant Rosman |
Novelist |
1887 |
20-Aug-1961 |
Visitors to Hugo |
| Artur Rubinstein |
Pianist |
28-Jan-1887 |
20-Dec-1982 |
Polish-American piano virtuoso |
| Leopold Ruzicka |
Chemist |
13-Sep-1887 |
26-Sep-1976 |
Studied terpenes |
| Charles Sawyer |
Government |
10-Feb-1887 |
7-Apr-1979 |
US Commerce Secretary, 1948-53 |
| Erwin Schrödinger |
Physicist |
12-Aug-1887 |
4-Jan-1961 |
Schrödinger's wave equation |
| Kurt Schwitters |
Artist |
20-Jun-1887 |
8-Jan-1948 |
Collagist, Merz |
| Edith Sitwell |
Poet |
7-Sep-1887 |
9-Dec-1964 |
Façade |
| James B. Sumner |
Chemist |
19-Nov-1887 |
12-Aug-1955 |
First to crystallize an enzyme |
| Jim Thorpe |
Football |
28-May-1887 |
28-Mar-1953 |
Olympics and football |
| Alexander A. Vandegrift |
Military |
13-Mar-1887 |
8-May-1973 |
18th USMC Commandant, 1944-48 |
| Heitor Villa-Lobos |
Composer |
5-Mar-1887 |
17-Nov-1959 |
Bachianas Brasileiras |
| Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk |
Head of State |
22-Aug-1887 |
4-Mar-1977 |
German Chancellor 1945 |
| Erich von Manstein |
Military |
24-Nov-1887 |
10-Jun-1973 |
Nazi general |
| Raoul Walsh |
Film Director |
11-Mar-1887 |
31-Dec-1980 |
The Naked and the Dead |
| Alexander Woollcott |
Critic |
18-Jan-1887 |
23-Jan-1943 |
The Man Who Came to Dinner |
| Alvin York |
Military |
13-Dec-1887 |
2-Sep-1964 |
Highly decorated WWI veteran |
| Roland Young |
Actor |
11-Nov-1887 |
5-Jun-1953 |
Cosmo Topper |
