About the day » Saturday October 8, 1887Calender converter

• Alvah Reynolds Todd Williams († 1984)
• Adolf Noppen, Renkum († 1956)
• Alfons von Auersperg, Ljubljana, Slovenia († 1942)
• Aloijsia Anastasia de Vos, Ossendrecht
• Albert John Bland [sWls], Mississippi († 1979)
• Adolph Noppen, Renkum († 1956)
• Albertina Louisa SCHOTTE, Dudzele,8380,West-Vlaanderen,BELGIE († 1890)
• Adrianus Johannes van Dreumel, Wamel († 1969)
• Aaffien Meijer, Muntendam, Groningen, Nederland († 1889)
• Meijer († 1887)

• Anne Marie Celestine BECKERS (35), Sint-Truiden, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie
• Antoon Straatman (5), Kralingen
• Aleida Johanna Kelderman (76), Süderwick (D)
• Jaeger (57), Magdeburg
• Alida Gerritzen (72), Aalten (Dale)
• Auguste Henriëtte Anna Maria van Solms-Wildenfels (68)
• Meijer (0)
• Anna Maria Kuijpers (81), Megen, Haren en Macharen
• Anna Catharina PAUWELS (68), Sint-Amands, 12034, Antwerpen, Belgique
• Antonia Allegonda Stenis (64), Ambarawa, Semarang (Ned.Indië)

• 1883 » Dick Burnett, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1977)
• 1884 » Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal († 1942)
• 1887 » Donie Bush, American baseball player, manager, and team owner († 1972)
• 1887 » Ping Bodie, American baseball player († 1961)
• 1888 » Ernst Kretschmer, German psychiatrist and author († 1964)
• 1889 » Collett E. Woolman, American businessman, co-founded Delta Air Lines († 1966)
• 1889 » R. Fraser Armstrong, Canadian engineer († 1983)
• 1890 » Eddie Rickenbacker, American soldier and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient († 1973)
• 1890 » Philippe Thys, Belgian cyclist († 1971)
• 1890 » Snuffy Browne, Barbadian cricketer († 1964)

• 1869 » Franklin Pierce, American general, lawyer, and politician, 14th President of the United States (b. 1804)
• 1879 » Miguel Grau Seminario, Peruvian admiral (b. 1834)
• 1886 » Austin F. Pike, American lawyer and politician (b. 1819)
• 1897 » Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter and academic (b. 1830)
• 1928 » Larry Semon, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1889)
• 1931 » John Monash, Australian general and engineer (b. 1865)
• 1936 » Ahmet Tevfik Pasha, Ottoman politician, 292nd Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1845)
• 1936 » Premchand, Indian author and screenwriter (b. 1880)
• 1936 » Red Ames, American baseball player and manager (b. 1882)
• 1936 » William Henry Stark, American businessman (b. 1851)

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.
• 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.
• June 23 » The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park.
• July 4 » The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
• November 9 » The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

The temperature on October 8, 1887 was about 12.4 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%.