About the day » Friday April 1, 1887Calender converter

• de Bie, Asperen (West Betuwe) (GL) († 1887)
• Adrianus Smeele, 's-Gravenhage († 1887)
• Alida Elizabeth Butter, Amsterdam († 1965)
• Adrianus Hubertus Maria Koene, ,, Naaldwijk, Nederland († 1972)
• Ágnes Kenéz, Mezősas, 4134, Magyarország
• Albert Meutgeert, Rotterdam († 1912)
• van der Weerd, Kampen, Overijssel, Netherlands († 1887)
• Alphonsus Bernardus Francoscus DE Cock, CLINGE (NL) († 1951)
• Adriaantje Boelhouwer († 1909)
• Adrianus Hubertus Maria Koene, Naaldwijk, Zuid Holland, Nederland († 1972)

• Alexis GULICKX (1), Baarle-Nassau
• Antonij van Overdijk, Oirschot, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus (Aart) Teunissen (63), Stompwijk, ZH, Nederland
• Galema (0), Workum, Friesland (Nederland)
• de Bie (0), Asperen (West Betuwe) (GL)
• Amanda Zana Slade (79), Harford County, Maryland
• Abram Eijkelenburg, Nieuwkoop
• Aafje Vlas (0), Oudeschild
• Boels (0), Vledderveen, Onstwedde, Groningen, Nederland
• van der Weerd (0), Kampen, Overijssel, Netherlands

• 1879 » Stanislaus Zbyszko, Polish wrestler and strongman († 1967)
• 1881 » Octavian Goga, Romanian Prime Minister († 1938)
• 1883 » Edvard Drabløs, Norwegian actor and director († 1976)
• 1883 » Laurette Taylor, Irish-American actress († 1946)
• 1883 » Lon Chaney, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1930)
• 1885 » Clementine Churchill, English wife of Winston Churchill († 1977)
• 1885 » Wallace Beery, American actor († 1949)
• 1889 » K. B. Hedgewar, Indian physician and activist († 1940)
• 1893 » Cicely Courtneidge, Australian-English actress († 1980)
• 1895 » Alberta Hunter, African-American singer-songwriter and nurse († 1984)

• 1865 » Giuditta Pasta, Italian soprano (b. 1797)
• 1872 » Frederick Denison Maurice, English theologian and academic (b. 1805)
• 1878 » John C.W. Daly, English-Canadian soldier and politician (b. 1796)
• 1890 » Alexander Mozhaysky, Russian soldier, pilot, and engineer (b. 1825)
• 1890 » David Wilber, American politician (b. 1820)
• 1914 » Charles Wells, English founder of Charles Wells Ltd (b. 1842)
• 1914 » Rube Waddell, American baseball player (b. 1876)
• 1917 » Scott Joplin, American pianist and composer (b. 1868)
• 1920 » Walter Simon, German banker and philanthropist (b. 1857)
• 1922 » Charles I, emperor of Austria (b. 1887)

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.
• April 10 » On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of the Catholic University of America.
• 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 18 » The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed.
• September 5 » A fire at the Theatre Royal, Exeter, kills 186.
• November 13 » Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.

The temperature on April 1, 1887 was about 4.1 °C. There was 9 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%.