About the day » Friday August 12, 1887Calender converter

• Assendelft 26
• Hiemstra, Franekeradeel
• ADELINA - MARIA MASSCHELEIN, Beselare, 8980, Belgique
• Amelia Goos, Vorst Kempen, 2430, België
• Anna Alida Schallig, Amsterdam
• Allegonda Francisca van Opbergen, Venray
• Alfons Maria Belli, S. Giacomo, Bolzano, Italia († 1889)
• Aaltien Koster, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Netherlands(Hollandscheveld) († 1901)
• Alphonse Victor, Torhout († 1888)
• Aaltje van Rhoden, Zuidwolde, Drenthe, The Netherlands († 1929)

• Antonius van de Moosdijk (80), Meijel
• Adrianus van Mierlo (75), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alphonsus Joannes Van de Walle (29), Parijs
• Adrianus Adriaan van MIERLO (74), Eindhoven,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aleida Geertruida Siebelink (1), Stad Doetinchem, Nederland
• Anna Margaretha Berden (43), Meerlo
• Antonius de Leest (68), Veghel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonius de Leest (68), Veghel, Meierijstad, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriaan Oprins (64), Gilze en Rijen, Nederland
• Anna Helena Maria Adelheid Wittenbrink (27), Oldenzaal,Gemeente Oldenzaal,Overijssel,Nederland

• 1883 » Marion Lorne, American actress († 1968)
• 1883 » Martha Hedman, Swedish-American actress and playwright († 1974)
• 1885 » Jean Cabannes, French physicist and academic († 1959)
• 1885 » Juhan Simm, Estonian composer and conductor († 1959)
• 1885 » Keith Murdoch, Australian journalist († 1952)
• 1887 » Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1961)
• 1889 » Zerna Sharp, American author and educator († 1981)
• 1891 » C. E. M. Joad, English philosopher and academic († 1953)
• 1891 » John McDermott, American golfer († 1971)
• 1892 » Alfred Lunt, American actor and director († 1977)

• 1861 » Eliphalet Remington, American inventor and businessman, founded Remington Arms (b. 1793)
• 1864 » Sakuma Shōzan, Japanese scholar and politician (b. 1811)
• 1865 » William Jackson Hooker, English botanist and academic (b. 1785)
• 1891 » James Russell Lowell, American poet and critic (b. 1819)
• 1896 » Thomas Chamberlain, American colonel (b. 1841)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player and theoretician (b. 1836)
• 1901 » Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish botanist, geologist, mineralogist, and explorer (b. 1832)
• 1904 » William Renshaw, English tennis player (b. 1861)
• 1914 » John Philip Holland, Irish engineer, designed HMSHolland 1 (b. 1840)
• 1918 » William Thompson, American archer (b. 1848)

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. Wilhelmus

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.
• May 9 » Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
• June 8 » Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was his punched card calculator.
• July 4 » The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
• July 26 » Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.
• November 13 » Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.

The temperature on August 12, 1887 was about 16.7 °C. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 57%.