About the day » Monday October 31, 1887Calender converter

• Angela Sophia Maria MESEURE, OOSTENDE
• Adele Adelaide Pauwels, Mariekerke († 1887)
• Achille Joseph (Achiel) HAEZAERT, Torhout
• Assendelft 315
• Adele Pauwels, Mariakerke
• Aaltje Schonewille, De Krim, Gramsbergen, Overijssel, Nederland († 1959)
• Aaltje Schonewille, Gramsbergen, Overijssel, Netherlands(De Krim) († 1959)
• Albertus Theodorus Fraterman, den haag († 1945)
• Adolf Frank, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Egeter, Bodegraven

• Berend Hazenberg (58), Doezum gem. Grootegast
• Anna Sluis (0), Haarlem
• Arien Groothedde (62), Wilp
• Anne Catherine Baar (64), Theux
• Amy A. KERRY (10)
• Antonius van den Boom (54), Valkenswaard
• Anna Kolij (38), Delft
• Arend ter Stege (32), Kleine Kerkstraat, Hoogeveen
• Amanda Evaline Mounger (40)
• Cornelia Dirkje in 't Veld (0), Sprang

• 1879 » Karel Hašler, Czech actor, director, and composer († 1941)
• 1880 » Julia Peterkin, American author († 1961)
• 1880 » Mikhail Tomsky, Soviet politician, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union († 1936)
• 1881 » Toshizō Nishio, Japanese general († 1960)
• 1883 » Anthony Wilding, New Zealand tennis player, cricketer, and soldier († 1915)
• 1883 » Marie Laurencin, French painter and illustrator († 1956)
• 1887 » Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese general and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) († 1975)
• 1887 » Newsy Lalonde, Canadian ice hockey player and lacrosse player († 1970)
• 1888 » Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek poet and author († 1944)
• 1892 » Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player and author († 1946)

• 1860 » Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, Scottish-English admiral and politician (b. 1775)
• 1869 » Charles A. Wickliffe, American politician, 14th Governor of Kentucky (b. 1788)
• 1879 » Jacob Abbott, American author and academic (b. 1803)
• 1879 » Joseph Hooker, American general (b. 1814)
• 1884 » Marie Bashkirtseff, Ukrainian-Russian painter and sculptor (b. 1858)
• 1905 » Bryan O'Loghlen, Irish-Australian politician, 13th Premier of Victoria (b. 1828)
• 1913 » William Evans-Gordon, English soldier and politician (b. 1857)
• 1916 » Charles Taze Russell, American minister (b. 1852)
• 1916 » Huang Xing, Chinese revolutionary leader and statesman (b. 1874)
• 1918 » Egon Schiele, Austrian painter (b. 1890)

• 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.
• January 20 » The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
• April 10 » On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of the Catholic University of America.
• 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.
• September 5 » A fire at the Theatre Royal, Exeter, kills 186.
• November 11 » August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed as a result of the Haymarket affair.

The temperature on October 31, 1887 was about 5.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 24 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%.