About the day » Thursday January 20, 1887Calender converter

• Wytze van der Veen, Leeuwarderadeel († 1968)
• Anna Weiland, Stanischitsch also called Örszállás, Hungary
• Anna Friederika Fens, Carroll County IA (USA) († 1971)
• Anna Maria Joosten, Dinther,Gemeente Bernheze,North Brabant,Nederland († 1972)
• Anna Maria ROMBOUTS, Hasselt, 71022, Hasselt, Belgique († 1893)
• Albert Chamberlain Aylward, Peckham Camberwell Surrey England († 1953)
• Adrianus (Arie) Johannes Antonius Van der Geest, Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 1968)
• ALBERTUS BERNARDUS GOEDEMANS, WEESP,NOORD-HOLLAND,NEDERLAND († 1956)
• Adriana Smits, Heusden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Afra de Haan, Wervershoof († 1922)

• Anna Sibilla Bosten (79), Wittem
• Adolph Julius Walter (55), Magetan,63313,Nederlands Oost Indië,Oost-Java,Indonesië
• Anna, Sybilla Bosten (79), Wittem (Mechelen), Limburg, Netherlands
• Adriana Cornelis Magnus (42), 's-Heer-Arendskerke, Goes, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Aaltje de Vries (17), Lutten,Overijssel,Nederland
• Adrianus Wilhelmus van der Pluijm (1), Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Petronella Bon (20), Nieuwer-Amstel, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Jans Busaan (51), Schoterland, Friesland, NL
• Abigail C Davis (73), Erie Co., OH
• Antje de Vries (17), Lutten

• 1880 » Walter W. Bacon, American accountant and politician, 60th Governor of Delaware († 1962)
• 1882 » Johnny Torrio, Italian-American mob boss († 1957)
• 1883 » Enoch L. Johnson, American mob boss († 1968)
• 1883 » Forrest Wilson, American journalist and author († 1942)
• 1888 » Lead Belly, American folk/blues musician and songwriter († 1949)
• 1889 » Allan Haines Loughead, American engineer and businessman, founded the Alco Hydro-Aeroplane Company († 1969)
• 1891 » Mischa Elman, Ukrainian-American violinist († 1967)
• 1893 » Georg Åberg, Swedish triple jumper († 1946)
• 1894 » Harold Gray, American cartoonist, created Little Orphan Annie († 1968)
• 1894 » Walter Piston, American composer, theorist, and academic († 1976)

• 1873 » Basil Moreau, French priest, founded the Congregation of Holy Cross (b. 1799)
• 1875 » Jean-François Millet, French painter and educator (b. 1814)
• 1891 » Kalākaua, king of Hawaii (b. 1836)
• 1900 » John Ruskin, English painter and critic (b. 1819)
• 1901 » Zénobe Gramme, Belgian engineer, invented the Gramme machine (b. 1826)
• 1907 » Agnes Mary Clerke, Irish astronomer and author (b. 1842)
• 1908 » John Ordronaux, American surgeon and academic (b. 1830)
• 1913 » José Guadalupe Posada, Mexican engraver and illustrator (b. 1852)
• 1915 » Arthur Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun, Irish businessman, philanthropist, and politician (b. 1840)
• 1920 » Georg Lurich, Estonian-Russian wrestler and strongman (b. 1876)

• 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.
• 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.
• 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 11 » August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed as a result of the Haymarket affair.

The temperature on January 20, 1887 was about 1.3 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 78 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%.