About the day » Tuesday December 6, 1887Calender converter

• Annie Thurman, Lacey, Arkansas († 1938)
• Alice 'Allie' Corbin, Calamus, Clinton, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 1962)
• Antje Romkes Laanstra, Augustinusga, Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland († 1961)
• Albertus van de Lagemaat, Alphen († 1978)
• Alfred David Breedlove, Tazewell Co.Illinois († 1965)
• Antje Christina Maria van der Kooij, Maassluis (Maassluis), Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antoinetta Frederica Voorberg, Naaldwijk († 1887)
• "Heinrich" Gottfried Otto Richard von Vietinghoff-Scheel, Mainz, Allemagne († 1952)
• Adrianus Cornelis van Wolferen, Nieuwenhoorn, Hellevoetsluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anthonius Petrus Nicolaas MAKKEE, Utrecht (Utrecht) (NL) († 1889)

• Anna Antonia van Swambagt (29), Bergharen
• Anna Adelheid von HOLTZ (69), Bremen, Duitsland, Schüsselkorb 19
• Alexander Franciscus D'hont (63), Gent
• Anna Meiboom (73), Hollandscheveld ( Hoogeveen )
• Antje Kuyper (65), Zwaag, North Holland, Netherlands
• Aleida Anna Weisfelt (64), Barchem (Laren)
• Adrianus van Haarlem (67), Culemborg
• Aafje Klaas Bloedjes (73), Assendelft, Zaanstad, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alfred Jean Matherne (63), Raceland, Lafourche, LA
• Antje Grootendorst (0), Benthuizen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1882 » Warren Bardsley, Australian cricketer († 1954)
• 1884 » Cornelia Meigs, American author, playwright, and academic († 1973)
• 1886 » Joyce Kilmer, American soldier, author, and poet († 1918)
• 1887 » Joseph Lamb, American pianist and composer († 1960)
• 1887 » Lynn Fontanne, British actress († 1983)
• 1888 » Will Hay, English actor, director, and screenwriter († 1949)
• 1890 » Dion Fortune, Welsh occultist, psychologist, and author († 1946)
• 1890 » Rudolf Schlichter, German painter and illustrator († 1955)
• 1890 » Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist and academic († 1951)
• 1892 » Osbert Sitwell, English-Italian captain, poet, and author († 1969)

• 1855 » William John Swainson, English ornithologist and entomologist (b. 1789)
• 1867 » Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist and academic (b. 1794)
• 1868 » August Schleicher, German linguist and academic (b. 1821)
• 1878 » Theodoros Vryzakis, Greek painter and educator (b. 1814)
• 1879 » Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American businessman (b. 1814)
• 1882 » Alfred Escher, Swiss businessman and politician, founded Credit Suisse (b. 1819)
• 1882 » Anthony Trollope, English novelist, essayist, and short story writer (b. 1815)
• 1889 » Jefferson Davis, American general and politician, President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1808)
• 1892 » Werner von Siemens, German engineer and businessman, founded the Siemens Company (b. 1816)
• 1918 » Alexander Dianin, Russian chemist (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.
• January 20 » The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
• February 8 » The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
• June 8 » Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was his punched card calculator.
• June 18 » The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed.
• 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 9 » The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

The temperature on December 6, 1887 was about 4.7 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%.