About the day » Thursday June 23, 1887Calender converter

• Albert Wubs, Mussel (Onstwedde, Groningen)
• Akke Ymes Bruinsma, Wolsum, Wymbritseradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1971)
• Adriaan Wabeke, Waarde, Zeeland, Nederland († 1955)
• Alois Everaert, Mechelen († 1887)
• Adriana Josephina van Paassen, Monster
• Albert Wubs, Mussel, Onstwedde, Groningen, Netherlands († 1986)
• Adrianus Gijsbertus Maat, Wateringen
• Amy Florence Pulford, Campbell Town, Tasmania, Australia
• Aaltje Aartje Lageweg, 's-Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Jozephina van Paassen, Poeldijk († 1983)

• Adriana Petronilla Jansen (0), Tilburg
• Adriana Maria Hamers (69), Tilburg
• Anna Maria Gooffers (0), Stratum (Eindhoven)
• Adrianus van Bakel (7), Zeeland (N.Br.)
• Pijffers (0), Rijssen
• Cornelia van der Knaap (91)
• Ann Eggleton (63), Nettlebed, Oxfordshire, England
• Cornelis de LEPPER (75), Tilburg,,Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bernardus Koch (0), Utrecht
• Antonius Johannes Bezuijen (0), Mijdrecht, De Ronde Venen, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1877 » Norman Pritchard, Indian-English hurdler and actor († 1929)
• 1879 » Huda Sha'arawi, Egyptian feminist and journalist († 1947)
• 1884 » Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player and politician († 1979)
• 1888 » Bronson M. Cutting, American publisher and politician († 1935)
• 1889 » Anna Akhmatova, Ukrainian-Russian poet and author († 1966)
• 1889 » Verena Holmes, English engineer († 1964)
• 1894 » Alfred Kinsey, American entomologist and sexologist († 1956)
• 1894 » Edward VIII, King of the United Kingdom († 1972)
• 1894 » Harold Barrowclough, New Zealand military leader, lawyer and Chief Justice († 1972)
• 1899 » Amédée Gordini, Italian-born French race car driver and sports car manufacturer († 1979)

• 1832 » Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet, Scottish geologist and geophysicist (b. 1761)
• 1836 » James Mill, Scottish economist, historian, and philosopher (b. 1773)
• 1848 » Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este, Electress of Bavaria (b. 1776)
• 1856 » Ivan Kireyevsky, Russian philosopher and critic (b. 1806)
• 1881 » Matthias Jakob Schleiden, German botanist and academic (b. 1804)
• 1891 » Samuel Newitt Wood, American lawyer and politician (b. 1825)
• 1891 » Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist and academic (b. 1804)
• 1893 » Theophilus Shepstone, English-South African politician (b. 1817)
• 1893 » William Fox, English-New Zealand lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1812)
• 1914 » Bhaktivinoda Thakur, Indian guru and philosopher (b. 1838)

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.
• January 20 » The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
• February 8 » The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
• April 4 » Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
• 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.
• November 11 » August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed as a result of the Haymarket affair.

The temperature on June 23, 1887 was about 12.9 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%.