About the day » Friday December 2, 1887Calender converter

• Anna Catharina Henckens, Kessenich (B)
• Adriaan Leewis, Utrecht († 1974)
• * Hendrika Johanna Clasina Klumperman, Delft († 1974)
• Adriaan Boeren, Etten Leur
• Albertus Johannes Veldhuis, Tubbergen (gem.) († 1961)
• Adriana Apolonia de Winter, Breda
• Albertje Plaggenborg, Musselkanaal, Onstwedde, Groningen, Nederland
• Aafje Plat, Volendam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albertje Hindriks Plaggenborg, Musselkanaal
• Alida Joanna Van de Cauter, St Amandsberg († 1969)

• Adriana Rijkée (81), Rotterdam, ZH, Nederland
• Aaltje PASTERKAMP (24), Urk, Flevoland, Nederland
• Angenietje van der Bie (72), Oudenhoorn, Bernisse, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Angenietje van der Bie (72), Oudenhoorn
• Alida van der Ham (44), Wassenaar
• Anna(Anne-Marie) GASPARI (44), Bastia,20200,Haute-Corse,CORSE,FRANCE
• Adriana Rijke (81), Rotterdam
• Anthonij Schets (76), Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
• "Wilhelmine" Ludowika Dorothea von Steinmetz (90)
• Antonia van Asten (44), Bakel en Milheeze

• 1876 » Yusuf Akçura, Tatar-Turkish activist and ideologue of Turanism († 1935)
• 1884 » Erima Harvey Northcroft, New Zealand soldier, lawyer, and judge († 1953)
• 1884 » Yahya Kemal Beyatlı, Turkish poet and author († 1958)
• 1885 » George Minot, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1950)
• 1891 » Charles H. Wesley, American historian and author († 1987)
• 1891 » Otto Dix, German painter and illustrator († 1969)
• 1894 » Warren William, American actor († 1948)
• 1895 » Harriet Cohen, English pianist († 1967)
• 1897 » Ivan Bagramyan, Russian general († 1982)
• 1897 » Rewi Alley, New Zealand writer and political activist († 1987)

• 1849 » Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (b. 1792)
• 1859 » John Brown, American abolitionist (b. 1800)
• 1881 » Jenny von Westphalen, German author (b. 1814)
• 1885 » Allen Wright, Principal chief of the Choctaw Nation (1866-1870); proposed the name "Oklahoma", from Choctaw words okra and umma, meaning "Territory of the Red People." (b. 1826)
• 1888 » Namık Kemal, Turkish journalist, poet, and playwright (b. 1840)
• 1892 » Jay Gould, American businessman and financier (b. 1836)
• 1899 » Gregorio del Pilar, Filipino general and politician, 1st Governor of Bulacan (b. 1875)
• 1918 » Edmond Rostand, French poet and playwright (b. 1868)
• 1924 » Kazimieras Būga, Lithuanian linguist and philologist (b. 1879)
• 1927 » Paul Heinrich von Groth, German scientist who systematically classified minerals and founded the journal Zeitschrift für Krystallographie und Mineralogie (b. 1843)

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.
• February 23 » The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000.
• June 23 » The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park.
• July 26 » Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.
• October 1 » Balochistan is conquered by the British Empire.
• November 9 » The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
• November 13 » Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.

The temperature on December 2, 1887 was about 7.9 °C. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%.