About the day » Tuesday March 15, 1887Calender converter

• Aaltje Koome, Aalsmeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1935)
• Aaltje Mellema, Eestrum, gem. Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Anthonie Wilhelm (Antonie) Reijn, Hilversum, Nederland († 1949)
• Anthonie Wilhelm Reijn, Hilversum († 1949)
• Aagje van der Jagt, Katwijk aan den Rijn
• Aleida Maria Aalbers, Heteren, Gemeente Over Betuwe, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1956)
• Aldous Edward North Hitchcock, Wangford, Suffolk († 1940)
• Alida Heertjes, Hoorn (NH, NLD) († 1965)
• Alida Heertjes, Hoorn
• van den Brand, Schijndel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Antje Postma (13), Drachten, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriana (Arendje) (Aaltje) Bom (77), ,, Monster, Nederland
• Aaltje Sybes Hoekstra (40)
• Arendje (Adriana) Bom (77), Monster, 2681, Nederland
• ARIE LAMBERTS (2), KAMPEN
• Anna Margarita Smits (61), Utrecht, Utr, Nederland
• aart scholtus (64), Kesteren, Nederland
• Albert Jochems (90), Lieren (Gem. Apeldoorn)
• Antje Rintjes Hofman (0), Hallum
• van Dijken (0), Holwierde, Groningen, Nederland

• 1874 » Eugène Fiset, Canadian physician, general, and politician, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec († 1951)
• 1874 » Harold L. Ickes, American journalist and politician, 32nd United States Secretary of the Interior († 1952)
• 1878 » Reza Shah, Iranian king († 1944)
• 1879 » Benjamin R. Jacobs, American biochemist († 1963)
• 1886 » Wladimir Burliuk, Ukrainian-Greek painter and illustrator († 1917)
• 1887 » Lütfi Kırdar, Turkish physician and politician, Turkish Minister of Health († 1961)
• 1887 » Marjorie Merriweather Post, American businesswoman and philanthropist, founded General Foods († 1973)
• 1890 » Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician and mountaineer († 1980)
• 1892 » James Basevi Ord, Mexican-American colonel († 1938)
• 1897 » Jackson Scholz, American runner († 1986)

• 1842 » Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer and theorist (b. 1760)
• 1849 » Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian cardinal and linguist (b. 1774)
• 1891 » Joseph Bazalgette, English engineer and academic (b. 1819)
• 1897 » James Joseph Sylvester, English mathematician and academic (b. 1814)
• 1898 » Henry Bessemer, English engineer and businessman (b. 1813)
• 1921 » Talaat Pasha, Ottoman politician, 281st Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1874)
• 1927 » Hector Rason, English-Australian politician, 7th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1858)
• 1933 » Gustavo Jiménez, Peruvian colonel and politician, 73rd President of Peru (b. 1886)
• 1937 » H. P. Lovecraft, American short story writer, editor, and novelist (b. 1890)
• 1938 » Nikolai Bukharin, Russian journalist and politician (b. 1888)

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 2 » In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
• April 4 » Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
• June 8 » Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was his punched card calculator.
• September 5 » A fire at the Theatre Royal, Exeter, kills 186.
• November 13 » Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.

The temperature on March 15, 1887 was about -2.7 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%.