About the day » Sunday August 21, 1887Calender converter

• Aaltje Garritsen, Hengelo, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Duye Anne Seekles, Workum († 1948)
• Anna Maria - Maria Book, Barger-Compascuum († 1932)
• Anna Maria van Vegten, Nieuwer-Amstel, Amstelveen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna ten Have, Wageningen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1960)
• Alphonsus Arnoldus Kemperman, Waalwijk († 1958)
• Verschuuren, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1887)
• Adriaan IJkelenstam, Vreeswijk, Utrecht, Nederland († 1888)
• Adrianus Jassies, Steenwijkerwold, Overijssel, Netherlands
• 'Baron' Paul de SADELEER, St-Josse-ten-Noode († 1973)

• Alberdina Wilhelmina Braaij (14), Haarlem
• Adriana Maulus (Meelis)- (76), Udenhout, Nederland
• Anna Maria van den Brink (0), Bunnik zie Utrecht-Bunnik
• Andre BENOIT (70), Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten
• Antonius Franciscus Maria Broekhuijsen (0), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Arie van der Hoeven (33), Overschie, Zuid Holland, Netherlands
• Aagje Kuijt (81), Zaandijk
• van der Zee, Oudemirdum
• Anna Margaretha Ipskamp (0), Doesburg
• Adriana Mourisse (77), Udenhout

• 1878 » Richard Girulatis, German footballer and manager († 1963)
• 1879 » Claude Grahame-White, English pilot and engineer († 1959)
• 1884 » Chandler Egan, American golfer and architect († 1936)
• 1885 » Édouard Fabre, Canadian runner († 1939)
• 1886 » Ruth Manning-Sanders, Welsh-English author and poet († 1988)
• 1887 » James Paul Moody, English sailor († 1912)
• 1891 » Emiliano Mercado del Toro, Puerto Rican-American soldier († 2007)
• 1892 » Charles Vanel, French actor and director († 1989)
• 1894 » Christian Schad, German painter († 1982)
• 1895 » Blossom Rock, American actress († 1978)

• 1838 » Adelbert von Chamisso, German botanist and poet (b. 1781)
• 1853 » Charles Tristan, marquis de Montholon, French general (b. 1783)
• 1854 » Thomas Clayton, American lawyer and politician (b. 1777)
• 1867 » Juan Álvarez, Mexican general and president (1855) (b. 1790)
• 1870 » Ma Xinyi, Chinese general and politician, Viceroy of Liangjiang (b. 1821)
• 1888 » James Farnell, Australian politician, 8th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1825)
• 1905 » Alexander von Oettingen, Estonian theologian and statistician (b. 1827)
• 1910 » Bertalan Székely, Hungarian painter and academic (b. 1835)
• 1919 » Laurence Doherty, English tennis player (b. 1875)
• 1935 » John Hartley, English tennis player (b. 1849)

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.
• April 4 » Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
• June 18 » The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed.
• July 26 » Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.
• September 5 » A fire at the Theatre Royal, Exeter, kills 186.
• November 13 » Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.

The temperature on August 21, 1887 was about 14.5 °C. The air pressure was 28 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%.