1887
Portal History | Portal Biographies | Current Events | Annual Calendar | Article of the day
◄ |
18th Century |
19th Century
| 20th Century
| ►
◄ |
1850s |
1860s |
1870s |
1880s
| 1890s
| 1900s
| 1910s
| ►
◄◄ |
◄ |
1883 |
1884 |
1885 |
1886|
1887
| 1888
| 1889
| 1890
| 1891
| ►
| ►►
Heads of State Elections Obituary Year of Literature Year of Music Year of Sport
Calendar overview 1887
Map with all linked pages: | 1887 | |
|---|---|
 |
|
 premieres at the Teatro alla Scala with triumphant success . |
 are on the brink of war. |
 |
|
| 1887 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 1335/36 (July turn of the year) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1879/80 (11/12 September) |
| Baha'i calendar | 43/44 (20/21 March) |
| Bengali solar calendar | 1292/93 (beginning of the year April 14 or 15) |
| Buddhist calendar | 2430/31 (Southern Buddhism); 2429/30 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 76th (77th) cycle
Year of the Fire Pig丁亥 ( at the beginning of the year Fire Dog 丙戌) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 1249/50 (April turn of the year) |
| Dangun era (Korea) | 4220/21 (October 2nd/3rd) |
| Iranian calendar | 1265/66 (around March 21) |
| Islamic calendar | 1304/05 (18/19 September) |
| Japanese calendar |
Meiji 20 (
明治20年); Koki 2547 |
| Jewish calendar | 5647/48 (September 18/19) |
| Coptic calendar | 1603/04 (11/12 September) |
| Malayalam calendar | 1062/63 |
| Rumi Calendar (Ottoman Empire) | 1302/03 (March 1) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 2197/98 (April turn of the year)
Syria: 2198/99 (October turn of the year) |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese calendar) | 1943/44 (April) |
events
politics and world affairs
Europe
- 1 January Numa Droz becomes President of the Swiss Confederation for this year .
- January 14: The German Reichstag is dissolved after a proposal by Otto von Bismarck 's government to increase the army by about 10 percent and to extend the army law by another seven years was rejected. The so-called “cartel parties” win in the following Reichstag elections .
- February 12: The Mediterranean Entente is the result of an agreement between Great Britain and Italy mediated by German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck . The contracting parties want to preserve the status quo in the Mediterranean .
- April 30: Chancellor Otto von Bismarck decrees that customs officer Wilhelm Schnäbele be released. The Frenchman was arrested at a staff meeting on German soil for alleged espionage. The diplomatic crisis that arose during the Schnäbele affair is thus resolved.
- May 23: Pope Leo XIII. ends the Kulturkampf with the German Empire . Among other things, the Church accepts civil marriage , state school supervision, and the ban on priests from politics.
- June 18: The Reinsurance Treaty , a three-year, secret neutrality agreement between the German Empire and Russia , is signed by Imperial Chancellor Otto von Bismarck and Russian Foreign Minister Nikolai Giers .
Africa
Michele Cammarano : Battle of Dogali
- January 26: In the Battle of Dogali , an overwhelming Ethiopian army defeats a 500-strong Italian force advancing into the Abyssinian highlands. Defeat becomes a matter of prestige for Italy and it intensifies its military efforts in East Africa , aiming at a colony of Eritrea .
America
- February 8: Dawes Act privatizes US Indian reservation lands
- May 3: The Nanaimo , British Columbia , Canada mine disaster kills 150 miners, only seven survive.
- November 11: In Chicago , Albert Parsons , August Spies , George Engel , and Adolph Fischer are hanged for the Haymarket Riot . There was no evidence linking the accused anarchists to the bombing. International protests against the verdict remain ineffective.
- November 13: More than 20,000 Chicago workers follow the funeral procession for the four participants in a strike that a court blamed for the Haymarket Riot , who were executed two days ago .
Asia
- October: By French decrees, the Indochinese Union is formed from the French protectorates of Tonkin , Annam , Cochinchina and Cambodia .
business
The Merchandising Marks Act
- August 23: In the Merchandising Marks Act passed by parliament, Great Britain will in future require the indication of the country of origin on all imported industrial products. The term " Made in Germany " is born. German products were stamped with this stamp in Britain to represent them as inferior. Due to the high quality of the goods, they become a seal of quality against their will and sales increase.
patents and copyright
- September 29: Emil Berliner applies for a patent for the gramophone he invented .
- 5 December: The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works , passed the previous year on the initiative of Victor Hugo , comes into force. This international treaty between Belgium, Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Switzerland, Spain and Tunisia establishes the recognition of copyright between sovereign nations for the first time.
- Edward Butler receives a patent for his Petrol-Cycle , a motor-driven tricycle.
Company formations/acquisitions
- March 4: When George Hearst takes office as Senator, he hands over management of his newspaper , The Daily Examiner , to his son, William Randolph Hearst , who renames it the San Francisco Examiner . This is how the gradual construction of a newspaper empire begins.
- March 8: The Wicküler brewery in Elberfeld is converted into a stock corporation. On June 2, it starts producing Pilsner beer .
- March 22: The first edition of the daily newspaper El Espectador appears in Colombia , which is now the oldest newspaper in the country.
- 1 December: A ten-room colonial - style bungalow opens in Singapore and forms the basis for the now luxuriously designed Raffles Hotel .
- December 19: The German Colonial Society is founded.
traffic
- May 23: The first scheduled train arrives in western Canada's Vancouver on the Canadian Pacific Railway . This means that this transcontinental route is officially going into operation after around four years of construction.
- June 3: The German Emperor Wilhelm I lays the foundation stone for the Kiel Canal at Kiel-Holtenau .
science and technology
- The Niederrad sewage treatment plant goes into operation.
- January 18: First synthesis of amphetamine by Lazar Edeleanu at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin
- March 7: North Carolina State University is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina .
- May 16: Emil Berliner presents the gramophone he invented in Washington, DC .
- June 4: The Institut Pasteur is founded in Paris. In addition to research and consulting tasks, the monitoring of infectious diseases is at the forefront of his work.
- July 26: History of Esperanto : First in Russian, Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof publishes the textbook on his “International Language” in Warsaw under the pseudonym Doktoro Esperanto . Other brochures in other languages will soon follow. The pseudonym sticks as the name of the language: Esperanto .
- September 23: William Muir founds the University of Allahabad in British India .
- 17 October: Bremen silver coin find
.svg)
- Albert A. Michelson and Edward W. Morley conduct their experiment to determine the absolute velocity of the earth in the ether ; it comes out negative (see Michelson–Morley experiment ).
- Ferdinand Tönnies is the first German to publish a theoretical foundation for the sociology of community and society.
- Svante Arrhenius publishes his theory of electrolytic dissociation .
- Introduction of the Petri dish in laboratory practice in biology and medicine by Julius Richard Petri
Culture
- December 5: The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works comes into force in the German Reich.
architecture and fine arts
- January 28: Construction of the Eiffel Tower begins in Paris .
- 21 August: The Brabo Fountain is unveiled on the Great Market in Antwerp .
- Construction on the Episcopal Palace of Astorga begins under the direction of Antoni Gaudí .
- John Collier paints Lilith .
literature
- Émile Zola authored the novel La Terre ( The Earth ).
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach publishes the novel Das Gemeindekind .
music and theatre
- February 5: Giuseppe Verdi 's opera Otello , based on the play of the same name by William Shakespeare, with the libretto by Arrigo Boito , premieres at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan with triumphant success. Only Verdi himself is not satisfied with the performance. Francesco Tamagno sings the title role of Otello, Romilda Pantaleoni as Desdemona and Victor Maurel as Jago.
- March 16: First performance of the opera Proserpine by Camille Saint-Saëns at the Grand Opéra Paris
- June 18: Premiere of the comic opera Die Musikanten by Friedrich von Flotow in Mannheim
- October 29: World premiere of the operetta The Seven Swabians by Karl Millöcker at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna
- November 14: August Strindberg's drama Fadren ( The Father ) premieres in Copenhagen.
Others
- 3 December: The Circus Carré gives its first performance at the Theater Carré in Amsterdam. The theater is created as a permanent quarters of the circus over the winter months.
- Foundation of the National University of Fine Arts and Music in Tokyo
- Creation of the National Archaeological Museum in Taranto
religion
- April 29: The religious orders that had been excluded from Prussia by the monastery law around twelve years earlier in the Kulturkampf are legally admitted there again, with the exception of Jesuits .
- October 25: Twenty priests found the Munich Catechists ' Association , which was to become the nucleus for the German Catechists' Association .
- December 22: In the encyclical Officio sanctissimo , Pope Leo XIII expresses himself . about the Church in the Kingdom of Bavaria .
disasters
- January 20: Off the Brazilian coast, the British emigrant ship Kapunda collides with the barque Ada Melmore and sinks within five minutes (297 dead).
- February 23: A powerful earthquake hits the Côte d'Azur , killing around 2,000 people.
- April 17: British passenger liner Tasmania runs aground off the south coast of Corsica , killing 35.
- A flood in China ( Yellow River ) kills 900,000 people.
- November 19: The Dutch ocean liner WA Scholten sinks in the English Channel after colliding with a British coal carrier. 132 passengers and crew die.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
nature and environment
- June 23: In Canada , the "Rocky Mountains Park Act" creates the legal basis for Banff National Park , Canada 's oldest national park .
- August 19: A total solar eclipse occurs .
Sports
- The first organized car race is held in Paris .
- September 29: The SC Germania from 1887 is founded. On June 1, 1919, he and the clubs "Hamburger FC 1888" and "FC Falke 1906" merged to form Hamburger SV .
- 6 November: Scottish football club Celtic Glasgow is incorporated as Celtic Football and Athletic Club .
Born
January
- January 1: Franz Angel , Austrian mineralogist, petrographer and university lecturer († 1974)
- January 1: Wilhelm Canaris , German admiral, participant in the uprising of July 20, 1944 († 1945)
- January 1: Josef Opatoschu , Yiddish writer (died 1954)
- January 1 Joseph T. Rucker , American cinematographer (d. 1957)
- January 2 Erich Franz Leischner , Austrian architect (died 1970)
- January 2: Jules Moriceau , French racing driver (d. 1977)
- January 3 Karl Baier , German politician and resistance fighter (died 1973)
- January 3: Nicolás Cardinal Fasolino , Archbishop of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz (died 1969)
- January 3: August Macke , German Expressionist painter (died 1914)
- January 5: Courtney Hicks Hodges , American 4-star general (d. 1966)
- January 7: Johannes Maximilian Avenarius , German painter, graphic artist and illustrator (died 1954)
- January 7: Kurt Schneider , German psychiatrist (died 1967)
- January 7: Thomas Wimmer , German politician and mayor of Munich (died 1964)
- January 8: Jan Akkersdijk , Dutch footballer (died 1953)
- January 9 Sammy Davis , British racing driver and journalist (died 1981)
- January 10: Robinson Jeffers , American poet, playwright and natural philosopher (d. 1962)
- January 10: Paul Schwandt , one of the first pilots in Mecklenburg († 1920)
- January 11: Juan Carlos Dávalos , Argentine writer (d. 1959)
- January 11 Aldo Leopold , American forest scientist and ecologist (d. 1948)
- January 13 Friedrich Gogarten , German Lutheran theologian (died 1967)
- January 15: Willy Seidel , German writer (died 1934)
- January 16: Kasai Zenzō , Japanese writer (died 1928)
- January 19 Andrei Shkuro , Russian general (died 1947)
- January 21 – Andrei Andreyev , Russian film architect, draftsman and set designer (died 1967)
- January 21: Wolfgang Köhler , German-Baltic-American psychologist, co-founder of Gestalt psychology († 1967)
- January 21 Georges Vézina , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1926)
- January 22: Franz Klebusch , German actor (died 1951)
- January 22: David W. Stewart , American politician (died 1974)
- January 23: József Reményi , Hungarian sculptor and medalist (died 1977)
- January 26: François Faber , Luxembourg cyclist (d. 1915)
- January 27: Carl Blegen , American archaeologist (died 1971)
- January 28 – Arthur Rubinstein , Polish-American pianist (d. 1982)
- January 29: August Wilhelm of Prussia , Prussian Prince (died 1949)
- January 29: René A. Spitz , Austrian-American psychoanalyst (d. 1974)
- January 30: Lotte Pritzel , German doll maker, costume designer and draftswoman (d. 1952)
February
- February 2: Ernst Hanfstaengl , former supporter of Hitler, press chief of the NSDAP († 1975)
- February 3: Otto Bäurle , German athlete (died 1951)
- February 3: Max Josef Metzger , German Catholic priest and Nazi victim (died 1944)
- February 3: Georg Trakl , Austrian poet (died 1914)
- February 4: Erna von Abendroth , German nurse (died 1959)
- February 4: Stasys Šimkus , Lithuanian composer (died 1943)
- February 5 Richard Gölz , German church musician and theologian (died 1975)
- February 5 Albert Paris Gütersloh , Austrian painter and writer (died 1973)
- February 6: Cardinal Joseph Frings , Archbishop of Cologne (died 1978)
- February 6 – Ernest Gruening , American politician (died 1974)
- February 8: Heinrich Spoerl , German writer (died 1955)
- February 9: Vasily Chapaev , Russian commander (died 1919)
- February 10: Charles W. Sawyer , American politician (d. 1979)
- February 11: Theodor Schwegler , Roman Catholic religious and chaplain (died 1967)
- February 11 Origuchi Shinobu , Japanese writer and literary scholar (died 1953)
- February 12: Edelmiro Julián Farrell , President of Argentina (d. 1980)
- February 13: Alexander von Antalffy , Hungarian film director and actor
- February 13: Max Neufeld , Austrian actor and film director (d. 1967)
- February 14: Anton Faistauer , Austrian painter (died 1930)
- February 17 Willy Bardas , Austrian pianist and music teacher († 1924)
- February 17: Joseph Bech , Luxembourg politician (died 1975)
- February 17: Maurice Cappé , French racing driver (d. 1930)
- February 17: Leevi Madetoja , Finnish composer (died 1947)
- February 18 Gaik Bshishkyan , Russian military (died 1937)
- February 18 Juan Peiró , Spanish economist and anarchist (died 1942)
- February 19: Nikolai Samuilovich Abelman , Russian revolutionary and participant in the October Revolution (died 1918)
- February 21: Korechika Anami , Japanese general and Minister of the Army (d. 1945)
- February 21: Wilhelm Speyer , German writer (died 1952)
- February 21 Savielly Tartakower , Polish-French chess player (died 1956)
- February 23 – Hermann Asmus , German film architect and theater painter (died 1968)
- February 23: Oskar Lindberg , Swedish composer (died 1955)
- February 24 Mary Ellen Chase , American writer (died 1973)
- February 24: Boris Kostić , Serbian chess champion (d. 1963)
- February 25 – Ewald Mataré , German painter and sculptor (died 1965)
- February 26: William Frawley , American actor (d. 1966)
- February 27: Pyotr Nikolayevich Nesterov , Russian pilot and aircraft designer (died 1914)
March
- March 1: Pavel Argeyev , Franco-Russian fighter pilot (d. 1922)
- March 5: Heitor Villa-Lobos , Brazilian composer and conductor (d. 1959)
- March 8: Anushavan Ter-Gewondyan , Armenian composer (died 1961)
- March 9: Fritz Lenz , German anthropologist and racial hygienist (died 1976)
- March 10: Nils Andersson , Swedish soccer player (died 1947)
- March 11: Raoul Walsh , American film director (d. 1980)
- March 13 Alfred Washington Adson , American neurosurgeon (d. 1951)
- March 13 Carlos Isamitt , Chilean composer and painter (died 1974)
- March 14 Julius Außenberg , Austrian film producer, film salesman and film manager († 1955)
- March 14 Sylvia Beach , American bookseller and publisher (d. 1962)
- March 14: Ernst Goll , Austrian poet (died 1912)
- March 14: Leon Schiller , Polish theater director and theater theorist (died 1954)
- March 15: Francis P. Matthews , American politician (d. 1952)
- March 18 Carlos Rebelo de Andrade , Portuguese architect (died 1971)
- March 19: Josef Böhm , German politician (died 1954)
- March 20: Joseph Orbeli , Armenian orientalist (died 1961)
- March 21: Luis Johnson , Chilean painter (died 1929)
- March 21: Bernard Kälin , Swiss Benedictine and 55th abbot of Muri-Gries Abbey near Bozen (died 1962)
- March 21: Louis Philippe d'Assis Bento , Crown Prince of Portugal (d. 1908)
- March 21 Erich Mendelsohn , German architect (died 1953)
- March 21: Edwin Scharff , German sculptor and painter (died 1955)
- March 22 Chico Marx , American actor and comedian (d. 1961)
- March 22: Giacomo Rimini , American opera singer and music teacher of Italian origin (d. 1952)
- March 23: Josef Čapek , Czech painter, draftsman and illustrator (died 1945)
- March 23: Juan Gris , Spanish-French Cubist painter (died 1927)
- March 23: Anthony van Hoboken , Dutch musicologist and music collector (d. 1983)
- March 23: Rudolf Kinau , Low German writer (died 1975)
- March 24 Fatty Arbuckle , American actor and director (d. 1933)
- March 24 Karl Arnstein , Austrian engineer of zeppelin and blimp design (d. 1974)
- March 24: Helge Arthur Auleb , German officer (died 1964)
- March 25 Geoffrey Keynes , British physician, scientist and bibliophile (died 1982)
- March 25: Chuichi Nagumo , Japanese Vice Admiral (d. 1944)
- March 29: Ernst Aebersold , Swiss politician (died 1958)
- March 29: Phraya Phahon Phonphayuhasena , Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 1947)
- March 29: Alexei Shubnikov , Russian crystallographer and mathematician (died 1970)
April
- April 1: Leonard Bloomfield , American linguist (died 1949)
- April 2 Louise Schroeder , German politician (died 1957)
- April 4 Frederick Levi Attenborough , British academic (died 1973)
- April 5: Hans Ewers , German politician (died 1968)
- April 7: Carl Krauch , German chemist and industrialist (died 1968)
- April 8: Hans Frohwein , German lawyer and diplomat (died 1956)
- April 8: Ludwig Wolker , German co-founder of the League of German Catholic Youth (BdkJ) († 1955)
- April 9 Florence Price , American composer (died 1953)
- April 9 Louis Ziercke , German painter and graphic artist (died 1945)
- April 10 Bernardo Alberto Houssay , Argentine physiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1971)
- April 10: Anna von Segesser , Swiss nurse and editor (d. 1973)
- April 10: Heinz Tiessen , German composer (died 1971)
- April 12: Harold Lockwood , American actor (d. 1918)
- April 16: Henry Gordon Bennett , Australian Lieutenant General (d. 1962)
- April 19 Marie Arning , German politician (died 1957)
- April 21: Robert Krups , German entrepreneur (died 1950)
- April 22: Harald Bohr , Danish mathematician (died 1951)
- April 22 James Norman Hall , American writer (died 1951)
- April 22 Paul Rodemann , German politician (died 1963)
- April 23 Abram B. Enns , Black Sea German writer, art critic and educator (died 1993)
- April 24 Denys Finch Hatton , English nobleman and big game hunter (died 1931)
- April 24: Otto Flöl , German politician (died 1959)
- April 25: Charles Edward Fuller , American entrepreneur, evangelist and founder of Fuller Theological Seminary (d. 1968)
- April 26: Lucien Erb , French racing driver (d. 1972)
- April 27 Warren Wood , American golfer (died 1926)
- April 29 Frederik Jacobus Johannes Buytendijk , biologist, anthropologist and psychologist (d. 1974)
- April 29 Otto Dumke , German soccer player (died 1913)
May
- May 1: Vincenzo Cardarelli , Italian journalist, writer and poet (died 1959)
- May 1: Hans Demmelmeier , German politician and MP (died 1973)
- May 3: Wilhelm Ackermann , German journalist (died 1959)
- May 6: Michael Browne , Irish Catholic minister (died 1971)
- May 7: Jacob Walcher , German revolutionary (died 1970)
- May 8: Richard Karl Theodor Ambronn , German geophysicist (died 1954)
- May 9: Francisco Alonso , Spanish composer (died 1948)
- May 9 Erich Hylla , German educator (died 1976)
- May 9: Jan Morávek , Czech historian and archivist (died 1960)
- May 9: Fritz von Waldthausen , German banker (died 1957)
- May 10: Iman Dozy , Dutch footballer (died 1957)
- May 10: Günther Jachmann , German classical philologist († 1979)
- May 10: August Pepöck , Austrian composer and conductor (died 1967)
- May 11 Erich Worm , German gymnast (died 1953)
- May 11: Paul Wittgenstein , Austrian pianist (died 1961)
- May 12 Jean-Charles Roman d'Amat , French archivist and paleographer (died 1976)
- May 12: Johan Wichers , German composer (died 1956)
- May 16: Jakob van Hoddis , German Expressionist poet (died 1942)
- May 17 Octávio Bevilacqua , Brazilian musicologist and educator (died 1953)
- May 17 Gonzaque Lécureul , French racing driver (d. 1984)
- May 17: Ludwig Sievert , German stage designer (died 1966)
- May 18: Ernst Wiechert , Swiss writer (died 1950)
- May 21 – Walter Campbell Allison Aitkenhead , Scottish footballer (d. 1966)
- May 22 Arthur Cravan , British poet, amateur boxer and Dada precursor (died 1918)
- May 22 Wilhelm Kaisen , German politician, mayor of Bremen (died 1979)
- May 22 Jim Thorpe , American track and field athlete (d. 1953)
- May 23 Albert Thoralf Skolem , Norwegian mathematician, logician and philosopher (died 1963)
- May 24: Hermann Aellen , Swiss writer and journalist (died 1939)
- May 25: Padre Pio , Italian Capuchin Father (died 1968)
- May 27: Kasimir Fajans , Polish-American chemist (d. 1975)
- May 29 Carl Schröter , German politician (died 1952)
- May 30 Alexander Archipenko , American sculptor (d. 1964)
- May 31: Saint-John Perse , French poet and diplomat (died 1975)
June
- June 2: Karl Anton , German theologian (died 1956)
- June 2 – Walter Reimann , German painter and film set designer (died 1936)
- June 3 Roland Hayes , American singer (d. 1977)
- June 3: Olga Körner , German politician (died 1969)
- June 4 Tino Danieli , Italian entrepreneur and racing driver (d. 1959)
- June 5 Ruth Benedict , American anthropologist (d. 1948)
- June 8: Bruno Peyn , German writer (died 1970)
- June 8: Walther Bremer , German archaeologist (died 1926)
- June 8 Karl Brunner , Austrian Anglicist (died 1965)
- June 9: Emilio Mola , Spanish general (died 1937)
- June 10 Harry F. Byrd senior , American politician (died 1966)
- June 10: Vladimir Ivanovich Smirnov , Russian Soviet mathematician (died 1974)
- June 13 André François-Poncet , French politician and diplomat (died 1978)
- June 13: Bruno Frank , German writer (died 1945)
- June 14 Oscar Kreuzer , German tennis player (died 1968)
- June 17 Johann Andres , Austrian footballer (died 1970)
- June 17 Fraser Gange , American singer and music educator (d. 1962)
- June 17: Hugo Gieseking , German mathematician (died 1915)
- June 18 Marcet Haldeman , American author (died 1941)
- June 20 Adolf Jutz , German painter and draftsman (died 1945)
- June 20 Kurt Schwitters , German painter, commercial artist and universal artist (d. 1948)
- June 21: Josef Jonsson , Swedish composer (died 1969)
- June 22 Julian Huxley , English biologist, philosopher and writer (died 1975)
- June 23: Paul Altheer , Swiss writer (died 1959)
- June 23: Ernst Rowohlt , German publisher (died 1960)
- June 25 George Abbott , American screenwriter, director and actor (d. 1995)
- June 25: Arnold Trowell , New Zealand cellist, composer and music educator (d. 1966)
- June 29 Albert Ouriou , French racing driver (d. 1955)
- June 30: John Vivian , American politician (died 1964)
July
- July 2: Elisabeth Baumann-Schlachter , Swiss writer (died 1941)
- July 3 Federico Della Ferrera , Italian cyclist and motorcycle racer, engineer and entrepreneur (d. 1965)
- July 5 Georg Andersen , German wrestler
- July 5 Karl Hanssen , German soccer player (died 1916)
- July 6: Marc Chagall , Russian-French painter (died 1985)
- July 6: Walter Flex , German poet (died 1917)
- July 9: Johannes Ackermanns , German local politician (died 1962)
- July 10: Gé Fortgens , Dutch footballer (died 1957)
- July 10: Eduard Hermann , Estonian walker (died 1960)
- July 12 Robert Bürkner , German actor, theater manager, director and author († 1962)
- July 13: Hugo Jury , Austrian National Socialist (died 1945)
- July 13: Walter Graf von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt , German general (died 1943)
- July 13: Robert Land , Austrian-Czech film director (†unknown, believed to be between 1939 and 1942)
- July 14 Anton Aulke , German writer (died 1974)
- July 14 Leopold Cordier , German theologian (died 1939)
- July 16 Karl Uhle , German soccer player (died 1969)
- July 17 – Jack Conway , American director, actor and producer (d. 1952)
- July 17: Josef Gerstmann , Austrian neurologist (d. 1969)
- July 18: Vidkun Quisling , Norwegian Nazi (died 1945)
- July 20: Heinrich Freyschmidt , German diver
- July 20: Louis Rigal , French racing driver (d. 1974)
- July 22: Louis Bonne , French racing driver (d. 1974)
- July 22 Gustav Hertz , German physicist and Nobel laureate (died 1975)
- July 26 Karl Anshelm Ansén , Swedish footballer (d. 1959)
- July 27: Yamamoto Yūzō , Japanese writer († 1974)
- July 28 Jules-François Blondel , French diplomat (died 1965)
- July 28 - Marcel Duchamp , French painter and object artist (died 1968)
- July 28 Hugo Urban-Emmerich , Czechoslovak entrepreneur and racing driver (d. 1939)
- July 29 – Tim Mara , American football official (d. 1959)
- July 29: Rudi Stephan , German composer (died 1915)
- July 29 – Sigmund Romberg , Hungarian composer of operettas (died 1951)
August
- August 2 Oskar Anderson , German statistician, economist (died 1960)
- August 2: Louis Audouin-Dubreuil , French officer (died 1960)
- August 2: Fritz Jöde , German music teacher (died 1970)
- August 3 Ernst Deutsch-Dryden , Austrian graphic and fashion designer († 1938)
- August 6 – Dudley Benjafield , British doctor and racing driver (d. 1957)
- August 6: Oliver Wallace , British-American composer and conductor (d. 1963)
- August 7: Hermann Rauschning , German musicologist and politician (died 1982)
- August 9: Hans Oster , German career officer and resistance fighter († 1945)
- August 10: Edward Leedskalnin , Latvian sculptor and engineer (d. 1951)
- August 12: Helene Roth , Swiss painter (d. 1966)
- August 12: Erwin Schrödinger , Austrian physicist (d. 1961)
- August 13: Otton Marcin Nikodým , Polish mathematician (died 1974)
- August 14 – Kenelm Lee Guinness , British entrepreneur and racing driver (d. 1937)
- August 15: Otto Schniewind , German politician, ministerial director in the Reich Ministry of Economics († 1970)
- August 15: Stanley Vestal , American novelist, poet and historian (died 1957)
- August 17: Egon Lustgarten , Austrian conductor and composer (died 1961)
- August 17: Charles I , Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary (died 1922)
- August 17 Marcus Garvey , Jamaican journalist (died 1940)
- August 17: Samuel Alphonse Stritch , Archbishop of Chicago and Cardinal (d. 1958)
- August 18: Louis Balart , French racing driver (d. 1967)
- August 18: Alma Johanna Koenig , Austrian poet and storyteller (d. 1942)
- August 18 Hermann Finsterlin , German architect, painter, poet and composer (died 1973)
- August 21: Hermann Hammerschmidt , German lawyer and notary (died 1944)
- August 22: Johann Ludwig Graf Schwerin von Krosigk , German politician, Reich Minister of Finance and Reich Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 1977)
- August 24: Alexander Falzmann , Polish evangelical clergyman, pastor of Zgierz (died 1942)
- August 24: Franz Wallack , Austrian planner and engineer (d. 1966)
- August 25: Fartein Valen , Norwegian composer (died 1952)
- August 25: Friedrich Wilhelm Lübke , German Prime Minister (died 1954)
- August 26: Carl Boese , German film director, actor and author (d. 1958)
- August 27 – James Finlayson , Scottish-American film actor and comedian (d. 1953)
- August 28 Daniel Zamudio Guerrero , Colombian composer and musicologist (died 1952)
- August 29: Luis Abraham Delgadillo , Nicaraguan composer (d. 1961)
- August 30: Kaarlo Johan Jalmari Anttila , Finnish wrestler (d. 1975)
- August 30: Adam Kuckhoff , German writer and resistance fighter (died 1943)
- August 31: Friedrich Adolf Paneth , German-Austrian chemist (died 1958)
September
- September 1: Blaise Cendrars , French author (died 1961)
- September 3: Max Brauer , German politician (died 1973)
- September 3 Ludwig Gies , German painter and sculptor (died 1966)
- September 4 – Otto Adams , German politician and trade unionist (died 1966)
- September 4: Placide Morency , Canadian singer (d. 1980)
- September 4: Erich Lasse , German painter (died 1948)
- September 4: Hermann Zondek , German doctor (died 1979)
- September 7: Robert Laly , French racing driver (d. 1972)
- September 7 Herman Peltzer , Dutch footballer (died 1957)
- September 7: Edith Sitwell , British novelist (died 1964)
- September 8 Jacob L. Devers , United States general (died 1979)
- September 8: Sivananda , yoga master (died 1963)
- September 8: Walther Hensel , German folksong researcher and folksong collector († 1956)
- September 10: Giovanni Gronchi , Italian President 1955 to 1962 († 1978)
- September 12 Friedrich Wilhelm Hermann Aevermann , German educator and politician (died 1962)
- September 12: Yusif Vəzir Çəmənzəminli , Azerbaijani writer and statesman († 1943)
- September 12: Auguste Lazar , Austrian writer (died 1970)
- September 13: Lancelot Holland , British admiral (died 1941)
- September 13: Hipólito Lázaro , Spanish opera singer (tenor) (died 1974)
- September 13 Arno Philippsthal , German Jewish doctor (died 1933)
- September 13: Leopold Ružička , Swiss chemist and Nobel laureate (died 1976)
- September 13: Theodore Roosevelt Jr. , US civil servant, politician and army officer (died 1944)
- September 14: Friedrich Wagner , German archaeologist (died 1963)
- September 14 Karl Taylor Compton , American physicist (d. 1954)
- September 15 Carlos Dávila , Chilean politician, diplomat and journalist (died 1955)
- September 16: Nadia Boulanger , French music teacher, composer and conductor (d. 1979)
- September 18 Giacinto Ghia , Italian automobile designer (d. 1944)
- September 19: Erwein Freiherr von Aretin , German journalist and homeland politician († 1952)
- September 19: Lovie Austin ; American blues and jazz pianist, arranger and composer († 1972)
- September 19 Paul Dölz , German politician (died 1975)
- September 19: Lynne Overman , American actor (d. 1943)
- September 20: Erich Hecke , German mathematician (died 1947)
- September 22 Denis Nowell Pritt , British lawyer and politician (died 1972)
- September 23: Willy Hallstein , German graphic artist, caricaturist and draftsman († 1923)
- September 23 Wilhelm Hoegner , German lawyer and politician (died 1980)
- September 23: Alfieri Maserati , Italian automobile engineer and racer (d. 1932)
- September 24 Wilhelm Niklas , German politician (died 1957)
- September 25: Jacques Margueritte , French auto racer
- September 25 Armand Weiser , architect and technical writer (d. 1933)
- September 26 Giuseppe Milano , Italian football player and coach (d. 1971)
- September 27 Alexander Willwoll , Swiss Jesuit and psychologist (d. 1961)
- September 28 Avery Brundage , American sports official, President of the IOC (d. 1975)
- September 30: Lil Dagover , German actress (died 1980)
October
- October 2 Yasuhiko Asaka , Japanese nobleman and general (died 1981)
- October 3 – Rudolf Hermann , German theologian and philosopher of religion (died 1962)
- October 5: Max Ackermann , German painter, a student of Adolf Hölzel († 1975)
- October 5 – René Cassin , French lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (died 1976)
- October 5 Nils Middelboe , Danish footballer (died 1976)
- October 6: Le Corbusier , Swiss-French architect, architectural theorist, urban planner, painter, draftsman, sculptor and furniture designer (died 1965)
- October 6: Maria Jeritza , Austrian Kammersängerin (soprano) († 1982)
- October 8: Franz Dischinger , German civil engineer (died 1953)
- October 8 – Hugo Krueger , German engineer and mine director (died 1964)
- October 9: Manuel Ortiz de Zárate , Chilean painter (died 1946)
- October 10: Walther Jesinghaus , German gymnast (died 1918)
- October 11: Oscar Shaw , American actor (d. 1967)
_ca._1910-1915.jpg)
- October 11 – Willie Hoppe , American carom player and 51-time world champion (d. 1959)
- October 12 Fritz Eichler , Austrian archaeologist (died 1971)
- October 12: Paula von Preradović , Austrian writer († 1951)
- 13 October: Jozef Tiso , de facto leader of the Slovak People's Party (died 1947)
- October 14 Carlo Grano , Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (died 1976)
- October 14: Auguste Lemaître , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university teacher (died 1970)
- October 15 Chester Ray Longwell , American geologist (died 1975)
- October 15: Oliver Godfrey , British motorcycle racer and aviator in World War I (died 1916)
- October 15: Emil Hegetschweiler , Swiss actor (d. 1959)
- October 15: Fernán Silva Valdés , Uruguayan writer (died 1975)
- October 16 – Lily Hildebrandt , German painter and printmaker (d. 1974)
- October 20 Karl Alfred Kihn , German politician (died 1976)
- October 20 – Vic Gonsalves , Dutch footballer (died 1922)
- October 22: John Reed , American journalist (died 1920)
- October 24 Giuseppe Armellini , Italian astronomer (died 1958)
- October 24 Octave Lapize , French cyclist (died 1917)
- October 24: Victoria Eugénie of Battenberg , Queen of Spain (d. 1969)
- October 24 – Curt Proskauer , German-American dentist and medical historian (d. 1972)
- October 25 Radaslau Astrouski , Belarusian politician and activist (died 1976)
- October 25: Hans von Tschammer und Osten , Reich sports leader in the Third Reich († 1943)
- October 25: Lothar Rendulic , Austrian general (died 1971)
- October 25 – Willem Andriessen , Dutch composer and professor (d. 1964)
- October 27 Arvo Ylppö , Finnish pediatrician (died 1992)
- October 27: Mikhayl Assaf , Syrian Archbishop in Jordan (died 1970)
- October 27: Nico de Wolf , Dutch footballer (died 1967)
- October 28: Fred Barry , Canadian actor and singer (d. 1964)
- October 29: Hans Thuar , German painter (died 1945)
- October 30: Aadriaan Cornelis van Leeuwen , Dutch composer and conductor (d. 1991)
- October 30: Georg Heym , German writer (died 1912)
- October 31 Chiang Kai-shek , Chinese politician, President of the Republic of China (d. 1975)
- October 31 – Hector Pellerin , Canadian singer, actor and entertainer (d. 1953)
November
- November 1: Lawrence Stephen Lowry , English artist (d. 1976)
- November 1: Max Trapp , German composer (died 1971)
- November 2: Hans Schmidt , German soccer player (died 1916)
- November 3: Magda Spiegel , German opera singer (died 1944)
- November 4 Carlos López y Valles , Mexican actor (d. 1942)
- November 4: Štefan Lux , Czechoslovakian artist and journalist (died 1936)
- November 4: Smicjer Zhylunowitsch , Belarusian politician (died 1937)
- November 7 Guus van Hecking-Colenbrander , Dutch footballer (died 1945)
- November 8: Yuri Alexandrovich Shaporin , Russian composer (died 1966)
- November 9 Gertrude Astor , American actress (d. 1977)
- November 10: Adam Ankenbrand , German SS-Unterscharführer (died 1948)
- November 10 Robert O. Blood , American politician (died 1975)
- November 10 – Hans Ehard , German lawyer and politician (died 1980)
- November 10: Arnold Zweig , German writer (died 1968)
- November 12: Fritz Schori , Swiss composer and conductor (died 1971)
- November 12 Charles A. Sprague , American politician (died 1969)
- November 13 Arcadio María Larraona Saralegui , Roman Catholic cardinal (died 1973)
- November 14: Lajos Áprily , Hungarian poet and translator (died 1967)
- November 14 Bernhard Paumgartner , Austrian musician (died 1971)
- November 14: Elisabeth Tombrock , German founder of the order (died 1938)
- November 15: Ashida Hitoshi , Japanese politician and prime minister (died 1959)
- November 15 Marianne Moore , American writer (died 1972)
- November 15 Georgia O'Keeffe , American painter (died 1986)
- November 16: Hans Blume , Dutch footballer (died 1978)
- November 16: Oskar Helmer , Austrian politician (died 1963)
- November 17: Bernard Montgomery , British Field Marshal of World War II (d. 1976)
- November 17: Ernst August , German nobleman, last reigning Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (died 1953)
- November 17: Georg Haar , German founder and notary (died 1945)
- November 17 Martin Werner , Swiss Reformed theologian (died 1964)
- November 18: Lucia Apicella , Italian philanthropist (d. 1982)
- November 18 Peter Christel Asmussen , German politician (died 1959)
- November 18: Luigi Ferraris , Italian soccer player (died 1915)
- November 19 Alfred Baeumler , German philosopher and educator (died 1968)
- November 19 – James Batcheller Sumner , American chemist (d. 1955)
- November 20: Eck Robertson , American country music artist (d. 1975)
- November 22 Pietro Bordino , Italian racing driver (d. 1928)
- November 22: Kurt Feldt , German cavalry general during World War II (died 1970)
- November 23 – Alina Borioli , Swiss teacher and writer (died 1965)
- November 23: Boris Karloff , English film actor (died 1969)
- November 23: Henry Moseley , English physicist (died 1915)
- November 24: Walter Baumgartner , Swiss Protestant theologian, philologist, philosopher and professor of Old Testament and Semitic languages (died 1970)
- November 24: Erich von Manstein , German Field Marshal (died 1973)
- November 24 Raoul Paoli , French athlete and film actor (died 1960)
- November 25: Paul Amstutz , Swiss civil servant (died 1963)
- November 25: Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov , Russian botanist and geneticist (died 1943)
- November 28: Arthur Ney , Swiss composer and conductor (d. 1963)
- November 28: Ernst Röhm , German National Socialist and longtime leader of the Sturmabteilung (died 1934)
- November 30 Auguste Distave , Belgian graphic artist (died 1947)
December
- December 3: Richard Becker , German physicist (died 1955)
- December 3: Higashikuni Naruhiko , Japanese politician and prime minister (died 1990)
- December 4 Will Grohmann , German art historian and art critic (died 1968)
- December 5: Louis Chenard , French entrepreneur and racing driver (d. 1949)
- December 6: Minakami Takitarō , Japanese writer († 1940)
- December 7: Ernst Toch , German-Austrian composer (died 1964)
- December 8: Vicente Emilio Sojo , Venezuelan composer (died 1974)
- December 9 Andor Arató , Romanian-German church musician and composer (died 1964)
- December 10 Wladimir Eliasberg , German psychiatrist (died 1969)
- December 10 Arthur Hoffmann , German athlete (died 1932)
- December 11: Hanns Kerrl , German politician and Reich Minister, Reich Minister of Churches († 1941)
- December 11: Ralph Carr , American politician (died 1950)
- December 12: Guido Ascoli , Italian mathematician (died 1957)
- December 12: Kurt Atterberg , Swedish composer, conductor and music critic (died 1974)
- December 13: Friedrich Eymann , Swiss Reformed theologian, educator and anthroposophist († 1954)
- December 13 George Pólya , American mathematician (died 1985)
- December 13 Alvin C. York , US soldier (died 1964)
- December 14 Xul Solar , Argentine painter (died 1963)
- December 16: Johann Radon , Austrian mathematician (died 1956)
- December 17 Josef Lada , Czech illustrator and children's book author (died 1957)
- December 18: Franz Schnabel , German historian (died 1966)
- December 19 August Abel , German politician and journalist (died 1962)
- December 19 Willis Smith , American politician (died 1953)
- December 20: Jean Douarinou , French racing driver (†unknown)
- December 20: Frank Klaus , American middleweight boxer and held the world title in 1913 († 1948)
- December 22 – Edgar Atzler , German physiologist (died 1938)
- December 22 Srinivasa Ramanujan , Indian mathematician (died 1920)
- December 23 Thomas Otto Hermannus Achelis , German high school teacher, historian and author (died 1967)
- December 23: John Cromwell , American actor and director (d. 1979)
- December 24 Heinrich Addicks , German politician (died 1975)
- December 25: Conrad Hilton , American hotelier, founder of Hilton Hotels Corporation (d. 1979)
- December 26: Pierre Kamel Medawar , Bishop of Israel (died 1985)
- December 26 Arthur Ernest Percival , British Lieutenant General (d. 1966)
- December 27 Edward Neville da Costa Andrade , British physicist (d. 1971)
- December 28: Walter Ruttmann , German film director (died 1941)
- December 30: CD Broad , English philosopher (died 1971)
- December 31: Gaston Modot , French film actor (died 1970)
- December 31: Willy Römer , German press photographer (died 1979)
Exact date of birth unknown
- Pyotr Andreyevich Arshinov , Russian anarchist (died 1938)
- Marion Blackwell , American Dominican sister, composer and music teacher (died 1987)
- Eduardo Fornarini , Italian music teacher and composer (died 1967)
- Leif Halvorsen , Norwegian composer, violinist and conductor (died 1959)
- Pieter Herfst , Dutch pianist and conductor (died 1960)
- Jorge Letelier , Chilean painter (died 1966)
- Enrique Lobos , Chilean painter (died 1918)
- Red Newman , Canadian comedian and singer (died 1952)
- Vizconde de Lascano Tegui , Argentine diplomat (died 1966)
- Ali-Naghi Vaziri , Iranian musician and composer (died 1979)
- Ricardo Wolf , inventor, Cuban ambassador to Israel and philanthropist (died 1981)
Died
First quarter
- January 9: Gottfried Adolf Kinau , German pastor and astronomer (born 1814)
- January 14: Friedrich von Amerling , Austrian painter (b. 1803)
- January 17: Eduard von Todesco , Austrian banker, entrepreneur and philanthropist (b. 1814)
- January 19: André-Charles-Victor Reille , French general (b. 1815)
- January 22: António Maria de Fontes Pereira de Melo , Portuguese politician and statesman (b. 1819)
- January 24: Moritz Brosig , German composer and organist (born 1815)
- January 25: Johannes Carl , German Protestant theologian, consistorial councilor and poet (b. 1806)
- January 27: Wilhelm Henzen , German epigraphist (b. 1816)
- February 4: Thomas Samuel Ashe , American politician (b. 1812)
- February 8: Albert Adamo , German genre painter (b. 1849)
- February 13: Nicolas Adames , Bishop of Luxembourg (b. 1813)
- February 17: Leopold von Pebal , Austrian chemist (b. 1826)
- February 19 – Multatuli (Eduard Douwes Dekker), Dutch writer (b. 1820)
- February 26: Anandi Gopal Joshi , Indian doctor (b. 1865)
- February 27: Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin , Russian composer, chemist and physician (b. 1833)
- March 4: Pierre Jean Beckx , Belgian General of the Jesuits (b. 1795)
- March 6: Paul Arnold , Hessian court architect and politician (b. 1804)
- March 7: Carl Ferdinand von Arlt , Austrian surgeon and ophthalmologist (born 1812)
- March 8: Henry Ward Beecher , American preacher (born 1813)
- March 8: Paul Féval , French writer (b. 1816)
- March 18: Ferdinand Scheller , German piano and organ builder (b. 1807)
- March 19: Józef Ignacy Kraszewski , Polish writer (b. 1812)
- March 20: Paul Vasilyevich Annenkov , Russian landowner (b. 1813)
- March 24: Justin Holland , American guitarist, composer and music educator (b. 1819)
- March 25: Jean Désiré Montagney Artôt , Belgian horn player (b. 1803)
- March 26: Johann Heinrich Schäfer , German organ builder (b. 1810)
- March 28: William Smithe , Canadian politician (b. 1842)
Second quarter
- April 3: Friedrich Wilhelm Grimme , German writer, local poet and botanist (b. 1827)
- April 6: David Wyatt Aiken , American politician (b. 1828)
- April 10: Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt , German historian (b. 1812)
- April 13: Edouard Millault , French composer, violinist and music teacher (b. 1808)
- April 18: Alfred Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden , German officer and writer (b. 1848)
- April 24: Peter Karl Adam Christian Friedrich Wilhelm von Aretin auf Haidenburg , German politician (born 1814)
- April 27: Alfred von Reumont , German statesman and historian (b. 1808)
- May 7: Adolph Bermpohl , German navigation instructor, one of the initiators of the establishment of the DGzRS (b. 1833)
- May 8: Johannes von Kuhn , German theologian (born 1806)
- May 19: Charles E. Stuart , American politician (b. 1810)
- May 20 Alexander Ecker , German anatomist and anthropologist (b. 1816)
- May 21: Georg Gustav Ludwig August Mylius , German missionary (b. 1819)
- May 23: Ludvig Mathias Lindeman , Norwegian composer (b. 1812)
- May 31: Christian Friedrich Ehrlich , German composer, pianist and music teacher (b. 1807)
- May 31: Moritz Wagner , German traveller, geographer and naturalist (b. 1813)
- June 4: William Almon Wheeler , US Vice President (b. 1819)
- June 21: Gozewijn Jan Loncq , Dutch physician (b. 1810)
- June 22 E. Marlitt , German writer of the Biedermeier period (b. 1825)
- June 25: James Speed , American lawyer and politician (b. 1812)
Third quarter
- July 2: Luke P. Poland , American politician (b. 1815)
- July 4: Félix Le Couppey , French music teacher, pianist and composer (b. 1811)
- July 4: Friedrich Hundt , German photographer (b. 1807)
- July 5: August Friedrich Pott , German linguist (b. 1802)
- July 14: Alfred Krupp , German inventor and industrialist (b. 1812)
- July 25: John Taylor , English President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1808)
- July 26: Louise Aglaé Massart , French pianist, music teacher and composer (b. 1827)
- July 28: Ernst von Leutsch , German classics scholar (b. 1808)
- August 1: Santiago González Portillo , President of El Salvador (b. 1818)
- August 2: Gustav Werner , German Protestant pastor and founder of the foundation of the same name (b. 1809)
- August 8: Alexander William Doniphan , American officer, jurist and politician (b. 1808)
- August 13: Jules Pasdeloup , French conductor (b. 1819)
- August 14: Aaron Augustus Sargent , American politician (b. 1827)
- August 20: Johann Nordmann , Austrian journalist and writer (b. 1820)
- August 27: Wilhelm Valentin Volckmar , German composer and organist (b. 1812)
- September 12: Washington Bartlett , American politician (b. 1824)
- September 14: Friedrich Theodor Vischer , German writer and politician (b. 1807)
- September 16: William Aiken Jr. , American politician (b. 1806)
- September 16: Joseph Cilley , American politician (b. 1791)
- September 19: James W. Flanagan , American politician (b. 1805)
- September 21: William Preston , American politician (b. 1816)
- September 29: Bernhard von Langenbeck , German surgeon (b. 1810)
- September 30: Josef Matras , Austrian actor and singer (b. 1832)
Fourth Quarter
- October 6: Hugo Ewald von Kirchbach , Prussian general (b. 1809)
- October 6: Philipp Wilhelm Wernher , Hessian politician (b. 1802)
- October 7: George J. Webb , American organist and composer (b. 1803)
- October 9: Maurice Strakosch , American concert entrepreneur and composer (born 1825)
- October 17: Gustav Robert Kirchhoff , German physicist (b. 1824)
- October 26: Victor Delannoy , French composer and music teacher (b. 1825)
- October 26: Johannes Ronge , German Catholic priest (b. 1813)
- October 27 Karl Goedeke , German literary historian (b. 1814)
- 2 November: Alfred Domett , Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1811)
- November 2: Jenny Lind , Swedish singer (b. 1820)
- November 3: Nicolaus Zink , German-American civil engineer and farmer (b. 1812)
Eugène Pottier's grave in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris
- November 6: Eugène Pottier , French poet (b. 1816)
- November 7: Heinrich Richard Baltzer , German mathematician (born 1818)
- November 8: Doc Holliday , American dentist and gunslinger of the Wild West (b. 1851)
- November 10: Gibson Atherton , American politician (b. 1831)
- November 10: August Reifferscheid , German classical scholar (b. 1835)
- November 11: August Spies , German-US editor and publisher (b. 1855)
- November 11: George Engel , German anarchist (b. 1836)
- November 17: Carl Greith , Swiss composer (b. 1828)
- November 18: Gustav Theodor Fechner , German physicist and philosopher (b. 1801)
- November 19 Emma Lazarus , American poet (b. 1849)
- November 20: Louis Gallait , Belgian painter (b. 1810)
- 21 November: Juan Carlos de Borbón , pretender to the Carlist throne in Spain and France (b. 1822)
- November 22: Josef Groll , German (Bavarian) master brewer (b. 1813)
- November 25: Johann Jakob Bachofen , Swiss jurist and archaeologist (b. 1815)
- November 28: Levi Spear Burridge , American dentist (b. 1829)
- December 5: Philippe Rousseau , French painter (b. 1816)
- December 15: Adolf von Arnim-Boitzenburg , German politician (b. 1832)
- December 20: František Hegenbarth , Czech cellist and music teacher (b. 1818)
- December 23: Landaff Watson Andrews , American politician (b. 1803)
- December 23: Leonard Sowiński , Polish poet and literary historian (b. 1831)
- December 24: Daniel Manning , American politician (b. 1831)
- December 28: John S. Marmaduke , American politician (b. 1833)
Exact date of death unknown
- Francesco Malipiero , Italian composer (b. 1824)
web links
Commons : 1887 - Collection of images, videos and audio files
