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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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
Gertrude Astor
Actor
9-Nov-1887 9-Nov-1977 The Cat and the Canary
Charles Bedaux
Business
26-Oct-1887 18-Feb-1944 Industrial efficiency expert
Ruth Benedict
Anthropologist
5-Jun-1887 17-Sep-1948 Anthropologist, Patterns of Culture
Robert O. Blood
Politician
10-Nov-1887 3-Aug-1975 Governor of New Hampshire, 1941-45
Leonard Bloomfield
Linguist
1-Apr-1887 18-Apr-1949 Structural linguistics of Tagalog
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
Michael Bohnen
Singer
2-May-1887 26-Apr-1965 Operatic bass baritone
Edwin G. Booz
Business
2-Sep-1887 1-Oct-1951 Founder of Booz Allen Hamilton
Fletcher Bowron
Politician
13-Aug-1887 11-Sep-1968 Mayor of Los Angeles, 1938-53
Clive Brook
Actor
1-Jun-1887 17-Nov-1974 Shanghai Express
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
Vernon Castle
Dancer
2-May-1887 15-Feb-1918 Vernon & Irene Castle
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
Albert Conti
Actor
29-Jan-1887 18-Jan-1967 American character actor
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
Lil Dagover
Actor
30-Sep-1887 24-Jan-1980 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Floyd Dell
Journalist
28-Jun-1887 23-Jul-1969 Moon-Calf
Charles Dingle
Actor
28-Dec-1887 19-Jan-1956 The Little Foxes
Marcel Duchamp
Artist
28-Jul-1887 2-Oct-1968 Lead proponent of Dadaism
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
Nelson T. Hartson
Government
26-Nov-1887 ? Solicitor of the IRS
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
Harry Hooper
Baseball
24-Aug-1887 18-Dec-1974 MLB Hall of Famer
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
Hastings Ismay
Military
21-Jun-1887 17-Dec-1965 Churchill's chief military assistant
Robinson Jeffers
Poet
10-Jan-1887 20-Jan-1962 Tamar and Other Poems
Howard Johnson
Songwriter
2-Jun-1887 1-May-1941 We All Scream for Ice Cream
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
Thomas Kennedy
Labor Leader
2-Nov-1887 19-Jan-1963 UMW President, 1960-63
Martin H. Kennelly
Politician
11-Aug-1887 29-Nov-1961 Mayor of Chicago, 1947-55
Alfred Kohlberg
Business
27-Jan-1887 7-Apr-1960 The China Lobby Man
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
Aldo Leopold
Naturalist
11-Jan-1887 21-Apr-1948 A Sand County Almanac
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
Tim Mara
Football
29-Jul-1887 16-Feb-1959 Founder, Owner of NY Giants, 1925-59
Chico Marx
Actor
22-Mar-1887 11-Oct-1961 An Italian con-man of a Marx Brother
Alfieri Maserati
Business
23-Sep-1887 3-Mar-1932 Founder of Maserati S.p.A
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
Charles Nordhoff
Novelist
1-Feb-1887 10-Apr-1947 Mutiny on the Bounty
Georgia O'Keeffe
Painter
15-Nov-1887 6-Mar-1986 American abstract and landscape painter
Lynne Overman
Actor
19-Sep-1887 19-Feb-1943 Reap the Wild Wind
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
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Mathematician
22-Dec-1887 26-Apr-1920 Self-educated mathematician
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
Elisabeth Risdon
Actor
26-Apr-1887 20-Dec-1958 The Roaring Twenties
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
Sigmund Romberg
Composer
29-Jul-1887 9-Nov-1951 The New Moon
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 Terpenes and hormones
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
Samuel Cardinal Stritch
Religion
17-Aug-1887 27-May-1958 Archbishop of Chicago, 1939-58
James B. Sumner
Chemist
19-Nov-1887 12-Aug-1955 Crystallized enzymes
Michio Suzuki
Business
10-Feb-1887 1982 Founder of Suzuki Motor Co.
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
Raymond Walburn
Actor
9-Sep-1887 26-Jul-1969 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Raoul Walsh
Film Director
11-Mar-1887 31-Dec-1980 The Naked and the Dead
Pierre Watkin
Actor
29-Dec-1887 3-Feb-1960 Adventures of Superman
Edwin E. Witte
Economist
4-Jan-1887 20-May-1960 Father of Social Security
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


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