About the day » Friday October 28, 1887Calender converter

• Adriana Maria de Ruijter, Raamsdonk
• Albertje Jans Smid*, Weststellingwerf (Frl.) (Frl.)
• Anna Gertruda Kunkels, Weert († 1937)
• Adrianus Mijnster, Zwijndrecht
• Albert Vos, Amsterdam, Nederland
• Aagenitus Eden, Wildervank († 1967)
• Aafke Smit, Westeremden, Stedum, Groningen, Nederland († 1957)
• Albert Westrik, Zwollerkerspel (gem. Zwolle)
• Anna Catharina SCHOEMANS, Sint-Huibrechts-Lille († 1972)
• Alida Hermina Johanna Hemsing, Amsterdam, Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1954)

• Aart Stalenhoef (72), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Grol (56), Oude Pekela
• Versteeg (0), Lopik, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Anna van Polen (9), Bolsward, Friesland, Nederland
• Catharina WILS (50), Dendermonde, Province of East Flanders, Belgium
• Adam Joseph DELAVIGNETTE (0), 54,Sur la Heid
• Aaltje van de Pavert (91), Rhenen
• Alida Nordeman (0), Den Haag, Zuid Holland, The Netherlands
• Adriana Van Gils (0), Princenhage * NL *
• Alida Ridder (71), Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

• 1880 » Billy Wedlock, English footballer († 1965)
• 1880 » Wilhelm Anderson, Belarusian-Estonian astrophysicist and astronomer († 1940)
• 1881 » Vin Coutie, Australian footballer († 1951)
• 1884 » William Douglas Cook, New Zealand horticulturalist, founded Eastwoodhill Arboretum († 1967)
• 1885 » Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet and playwright († 1922)
• 1886 » Noel Macklin, English soldier and engineer († 1946)
• 1888 » Christopher Vane, 10th Baron Barnard, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Durham († 1964)
• 1889 » Juliette Béliveau, Canadian actress and singer († 1975)
• 1892 » Dink Johnson, American pianist, drummer, and clarinet player († 1954)
• 1893 » Christopher Kelk Ingold, British chemist († 1970)

• 1857 » Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, French general and politician, 26th Prime Minister of France (b. 1802)
• 1877 » Robert Swinhoe, English ornithologist and entomologist (b. 1835)
• 1879 » Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French economist and politician (b. 1799)
• 1899 » Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-American engineer, invented the Linotype machine (b. 1854)
• 1900 » Max Müller, German philologist and orientalist (b. 1823)
• 1914 » Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer and critic (b. 1850)
• 1916 » Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist and academic (b. 1838)
• 1916 » Oswald Boelcke, German WWI flying ace (b. 1891)
• 1917 » Dimitrios Votsis, Greek lawyer and politician (b. 1841)
• 1917 » Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1831)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Arie
13. Dirk
14. Hendrikus
15. Gerardus
16. Albert

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Adriana
6. Elisabeth
7. Wilhelmina
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Aaltje
11. Grietje
12. Neeltje
13. Jacoba
14. Geertruida
15. Antje
16. Petronella

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
• February 2 » In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
• April 28 » A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, French police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of William I, German Emperor, defusing a possible war.
• June 8 » Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was his punched card calculator.
• June 23 » The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park.
• September 5 » A fire at the Theatre Royal, Exeter, kills 186.
• November 13 » Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.

The temperature on October 28, 1887 was about 3.7 °C. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%.