About the day » Friday December 23, 1887Calender converter

• Agatha Bardina Cornelia DRIEHUIJS, Utrecht († 1889)
• Gjalt Veenstra, Weststellingwerf († 1888)
• Beltman, Zwollerkerspel gem. Zwolle Ov. NL († 1887)
• Assendelft 251A
• Andries Laan van der, Waarder Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1966)
• Aartje van Veenendaal, Amerongen
• Aaltje Lekkerkerker, Benschop († 1976)
• Anna Maria Catharina Gorren, Sint Pieter
• Anthonius Adrianus van Rijnsoever, Utrecht, Nederland († 1888)
• Annigje Jans Kalsbeek, Terwispel, Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland († 1955)

• Balk (38)
• Anna Catharina Landa (59), Amsterdam
• Aafke Meiles Salverda (0), Franeker, Franekeradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Berends Houwen (71), Bellingwolde, Bellingwedde, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth Bijlstra (1), Westdongeradeel
• Albert Jozef Hubert Kisters (69), Heerlen, Nederland
• Anna Maria Josephina Balendong (0), Maastricht
• Alida Wilhelmina van der Wolf (3), Rotterdam
• Adrianus Augustinus Olsthoorn (0), 's-Gravenzande, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andries Balk (38), Huissen, Nederland

• 1878 » Stephen Timoshenko, Ukrainian-American engineer and academic († 1972)
• 1885 » Pierre Brissaud, French illustrator, painter, and engraver († 1964)
• 1894 » Arthur Gilligan, English cricketer († 1976)
• 1895 » Nola Luxford, New Zealand-American actress and broadcaster († 1994)
• 1896 » Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Italian lieutenant and author († 1957)
• 1900 » Marie Bell, French actress and stage director († 1985)
• 1900 » Merle Barwis, American-Canadian supercentenarian († 2014)
• 1900 » Otto Soglow, American cartoonist († 1975)
• 1902 » Charan Singh, Indian lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of India († 1987)
• 1902 » Norman Maclean, American author and academic († 1990)

• 1834 » Thomas Robert Malthus, English economist and demographer (b. 1766)
• 1884 » John Chisum, American businessman and poker player (b. 1824)
• 1889 » Constance Naden, English poet and philosopher (b. 1858)
• 1902 » Frederick Temple, English archbishop and academic (b. 1821)
• 1906 » Mdungazwe Ngungunyane Nxumalo, last emperor of the Gaza Empire (b. c.1850)
• 1912 » Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist and academic (b. 1850)
• 1926 » Swami Shraddhanand, Indian monk, missionary, and educator (b. 1856)
• 1930 » Mustafa Fehmi Kubilay, Turkish lieutenant and educator (b. 1906)
• 1931 » Wilson Bentley, American meteorologist and photographer (b. 1865)
• 1939 » Anthony Fokker, Indonesia-born Dutch pilot and engineer, designed the Fokker Dr.I and Fokker D.VII (b. 1890)

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• July 26 » Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.
• November 13 » Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.

The temperature on December 23, 1887 was about -1.5 °C. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%.