About the day » Thursday January 6, 1887Calender converter

• Adriana Schuurbiers, Bergen op Zoom,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1983)
• Anna Agatha Le Duc, Amsterdam († 1887)
• Alida van Twisk, Den Helder († 1887)
• * Hille Egberts Smit, Hemeler Oldeferd († 1966)
• Aaltje Hoenhoud (Hoonhoud), Abcoude-Proostdij (UTR) The Netherlands († 1887)
• Aaltje Reinetta De Wijn, Amsterdam Noord Holland (NL) († 1946)
• Alma Mable Welch, Clay County, Nebraska, Verenigde Staten († 1975)
• Adam Ooms, ZEVENHUIZEN (Zuidplas), Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1929)
• Adrianus Gerardus Vermeulen, Utrecht († 1945)
• Albert Last, Steenwijk

• Amelia Sophia Cneut (71), Moorslede,8890,West-Vlaanderen,België
• Adriaan de Waal Malefijt (58), Haarlemmerliede en Spaarnwoude
• Adrianus, Carolus, Augustus Augustinus van Dongen (0), tilburg
• Anita Wallace
• Anna Korbus (1), Plosnica, Powiat Dzia≈Çdowski, Woiwodschaft Ermland-Masuren, Polen
• Adriaan de WAAL MALEFEIJT (58), Haarlemmerliede, 4600, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Braun (3), Eupen
• Andries van der Kloet (45), Surhuizum
• Andries Meershoek (1), Den Haag
• albertus wilhelmus lensen (0), 's-gravenhage,, zuid holland

• 1874 » Fred Niblo, American actor, director, and producer († 1948)
• 1878 » Adeline Genée, Danish-born British ballerina († 1970)
• 1878 » Carl Sandburg, American poet and historian († 1967)
• 1880 » Tom Mix, American cowboy and actor († 1940)
• 1881 » Ion Minulescu, Romanian author, poet, and critic († 1944)
• 1882 » Fan S. Noli, Albanian-American bishop and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Albania († 1965)
• 1882 » Sam Rayburn, American lawyer and politician, 48th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives († 1961)
• 1883 » Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American poet, painter, and philosopher († 1931)
• 1898 » James Fitzmaurice, Irish soldier and pilot († 1965)
• 1899 » Heinrich Nordhoff, German engineer († 1968)

• 1855 » Giacomo Beltrami, Italian jurist, explorer, and author (b. 1779)
• 1882 » Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1815)
• 1884 » Gregor Mendel, Czech geneticist and botanist (b. 1822)
• 1885 » Bharatendu Harishchandra, Indian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1850)
• 1896 » Thomas W. Knox, American journalist and author (b. 1835)
• 1902 » Lars Hertervig, Norwegian painter (b. 1830)
• 1913 » Frederick Hitch, English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1856)
• 1917 » Hendrick Peter Godfried Quack, Dutch economist and historian (b. 1834)
• 1918 » Georg Cantor, German mathematician and philosopher (b. 1845)
• 1919 » Theodore Roosevelt, American colonel and politician, 26th President of the United States (b. 1858)

• 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.
• 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.
• June 8 » Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was his punched card calculator.
• 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.
• September 5 » A fire at the Theatre Royal, Exeter, kills 186.
• November 9 » The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

The temperature on January 6, 1887 was about 1.5 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%.