About the day » Saturday October 22, 1887Calender converter

• Aleida Maria Winters, Warm, Wintershuis († 1972)
• Adrianus Schoon († 1969)
• Adriana Anna Mas, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adrianus Schoon, Vlaardingen († 1969)
• Aaltje Huetinck, Haarlem
• Anna Cornelia Juliana Van Bouwel
• Abraham Dekker, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, VS († 1918)
• Alexander Dow Cornett, Lansdowne, Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Ontario, Canada († 1948)
• Agnes Catharina Kok, Haarlem
• Anna Hogetvedt, Hetland, Kingsbury, South Dakota, Verenigde Staten († 1951)

• Anna Maria Thoolen (81), Stevensweert
• Augustinus Schoormans (2), Hooge en Lage Mierde
• VENHOEK (0), Zutphen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Arend Boom (1), Ambt Almelo
• Anthonie Rond (18), Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aagtje de Ruijter (67)
• Aleida Boom (44), Almelo
• Adriaan Peters (53), Oosterhout
• Anna Geertruida Borghuis (44), Ommerlanderwijk Veendam Groningen
• Anton Priebsch (48), Gränzendorf (Janov nad Nisou-Hraničná), Böhmen, Österreich-Ungarn (jetzt: Tschechien)

• 1881 » Clinton Davisson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1958)
• 1881 » Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz, German geophysicist and seismologist († 1908)
• 1882 » Edmund Dulac, French-English illustrator († 1953)
• 1882 » N. C. Wyeth, American painter and illustrator († 1945)
• 1885 » Giovanni Martinelli, Italian tenor and actor († 1969)
• 1886 » Erik Bergman, Swedish minister († 1970)
• 1887 » John Reed, American journalist and poet († 1920)
• 1893 » Ernst Öpik, Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist († 1985)
• 1893 » Luis Otero, Spanish footballer († 1955).
• 1894 » Mei Lanfang, Chinese actor and singer († 1961)

• 1859 » Louis Spohr, German violinist and composer (b. 1784)
• 1883 » George Coulthard, Australian cricketer and footballer (b. 1856)
• 1883 » Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish-American soldier and author (b. 1818)
• 1885 » Lewis Majendie, English politician (b. 1835)
• 1891 » Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, Austrian physiologist and physician (b. 1846)
• 1902 » Herman Adolfovich Trautschold, German geologist and paleontologist (b. 1817)
• 1906 » Paul Cézanne, French painter (b. 1839)
• 1914 » Konishiki Yasokichi I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 17th Yokozuna (b. 1866)
• 1917 » Bob Fitzsimmons, English-American boxer (b. 1863)
• 1917 » Charles Pardey Lukis, founder of the Indian Journal of Medical Research and later Director-General of the Indian Medical Service (b. 1857)

• 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.
• April 10 » On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of the Catholic University of America.
• 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 13 » Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.

The temperature on October 22, 1887 was about 6.9 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%.