1887
1887 is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar).
Events
In London, police and left-wing demonstrators clash. One dead. One of the participants is George Bernard Shaw .
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Births
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 Hanfstängl , 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 )
Deaths
February 27 - Alexander Borodin , Russian composer (b. 1833 )
March 8 - Henry Ward Beecher , American clergyman and reformer (b. 1813 )
May 14 - Lysander Spooner , individualist anarchist (b. 1808 )
July 17 - Dorothea Dix , American social activist (b. 1802 )
July 25 - John Taylor , American religious leader (b. 1808 )
August 8 - Alexander William Doniphan , American lawyer and soldier (b. 1808 )
August 20 - Jules Laforgue , French poet (b. 1860 )
October 17 - Gustav Kirchhoff , physicist
November 2 - Jenny Lind , Swedish soprano (b. 1820 )
November 8 - Doc Holliday , American gambler and gunfighter (b. 1851 )
November 19 - Emma Lazarus , American poet (b. 1859 )
December 5 - Eliza Roxcy Snow , American poet (b. 1804 )
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