About the day » Thursday January 27, 1887Calender converter

• Alida gerarda Greuter, Monnickendam († 1910)
• Aleida Maria Olde Boerrichter, Lonneker, 7524, Nederland († 1959)
• * Gerrit van der Putten, Leiden
• ? den Engelsman, Sint Annaland gem. Tholen, Zeeland, Nederland NED († 1887)
• Aafke Frans, Uithuizen, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriana Rijnberk, Rotterdam, Government of Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands († 1964)
• Agnes Breuer, Röhe Stadt Eschweiler Rheinland Deutschland
• Adrianus van der Tol, Utrecht
• ADRIANA NEELTJE VERBOON, ZOETERWOUDE († 1922)
• Alida Mastenbroek, Haskerland

• Barend Gerritsen Beths (46), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Asselina Meijerink (83), Ane
• Barbara Braedt (74), Roeselare
• Amelbergha Mathilda Willems (3), Lillo, Provincie Antwerpen
• adriana huibrechtsdr POOT (86), rotterdam
• *Pieter van Wijck (1), Hoek, Zeeland, Nederland
• Alida Mastenbroek, Haskerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Candace Elizabeth Brown (32), Brainard, Butler, Nebraska, United States
• Bertus Marinus Oskam (0), Rotterdam
• Barend Koldewei (45), Gendringen, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1878 » Dorothy Scarborough, American author († 1935)
• 1885 » Jerome Kern, American composer and songwriter († 1945)
• 1885 » Seison Maeda, Japanese painter († 1977)
• 1886 » Radhabinod Pal, Indian academic and jurist († 1967)
• 1889 » Balthasar van der Pol, Dutch physicist and academic († 1959)
• 1891 » Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian journalist and author († 1967)
• 1893 » Soong Ching-ling, Chinese politician, Honorary President of the People's Republic of China († 1981)
• 1895 » Harry Ruby, American composer and screenwriter († 1974)
• 1895 » Joseph Rosenstock, Polish-American conductor and manager († 1985)
• 1900 » Hyman G. Rickover, American admiral († 1986)

• 1851 » John James Audubon, French-American ornithologist and painter (b. 1789)
• 1860 » János Bolyai, Romanian-Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1802)
• 1880 » Edward Middleton Barry, English architect and academic, co-designed the Halifax Town Hall and the Royal Opera House (b. 1830)
• 1901 » Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (b. 1813)
• 1910 » Thomas Crapper, English plumber and businessman (b. 1836)
• 1919 » Endre Ady, Hungarian poet and journalist (b. 1877)
• 1921 » Maurice Buckley, Australian sergeant (b. 1891)
• 1922 » Nellie Bly, American journalist and author (b. 1864)
• 1927 » Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius, Lithuanian bishop (b. 1871)
• 1931 » Nishinoumi Kajirō II, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 25th Yokozuna (b. 1880)

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.
• February 8 » The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
• 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 6 » David Kalākaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced to sign the Bayonet Constitution, which transfers much of the king's authority to the Legislature of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
• November 13 » Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.

The temperature on January 27, 1887 was about 1.5 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%.