Born in 1887
- ️Wed Dec 17 2008
Born in 1887
LISTS
| 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 |
| 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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