About the day » Monday April 18, 1887Calender converter

• Alida Hendrika van den Dobbelsteen, Rotterdam († 1964)
• Alexis Guns, Haaltert († 1888)
• Alice Myrtle Conner, Wilmington, Clinton, Ohio, United States († 1978)
• Abraham Doorn, Melissant, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Ploegman, Uithuizermeeden (Oosternieland) († 1887)
• Albertus van Zuuk, Epe, Gelderland, Nederland († 1979)
• Anna Elisabeth Meijer, Den Helder
• Albertus van Zuuk, Epe († 1979)
• Alijda Hendrina van Brandenburg, Huissen,Lingewaard,Gelderland,Nederland († 1890)
• Aagje Rinkhoud, Hoek

• Adriana Ripperdina Van Roijen (82), The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
• Alwine Friederike Dorothea Landgraf (37), Berlin, Berlin, Berlin, Germany
• Alijda Schreuder (58), Amersfoort
• Adrianus Smeele (0), 's-Gravenhage
• Alijda Schröder (58), Amersfoort
• Alfred Sigismund Clemens Frederik Willem Von Adelmann Von Adelmannsfelden (38), Wiesbaden, Hessen, Duitsland
• Anna Catharina LEIJSSEN, Deurne en Liessel(N-Br.)
• Ploegman (0), Uithuizermeeden (Oosternieland)
• Aloysius Joseph Rolwing (13), Texas Bend, Mississippi County, Missouri, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana Dubbeldam (23), dubbeldam (zuid holland)

• 1877 » Vicente Sotto, Filipino lawyer and politician († 1950)
• 1879 » Korneli Kekelidze, Georgian philologist and scholar († 1962)
• 1880 » Sam Crawford, American baseball player, coach, and umpire († 1968)
• 1882 » Isaac Babalola Akinyele, Nigerian ruler († 1964)
• 1882 » Leopold Stokowski, English conductor († 1977)
• 1884 » Jaan Anvelt, Estonian educator and politician († 1937)
• 1888 » Duffy Lewis, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1979)
• 1889 » Jessie Street, Australian activist († 1970)
• 1892 » Eugene Houdry, French-American mechanical engineer and inventor († 1962)
• 1893 » Violette Morris, French shot putter and discus thrower († 1944)

• 1859 » Tatya Tope, Indian general (b. 1814)
• 1864 » Juris Alunāns, Latvian philologist and linguist (b. 1832)
• 1873 » Justus von Liebig, German chemist and academic (b. 1803)
• 1898 » Gustave Moreau, French painter and academic (b. 1826)
• 1906 » Luis Martín, Spanish religious leader, 24th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1846)
• 1912 » Martha Ripley, American physician (b. 1843)
• 1917 » Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist and academic (b. 1858)
• 1923 » Savina Petrilli, Italian religious leader (b. 1851)
• 1936 » Milton Brown, American singer and bandleader (b. 1903)
• 1936 » Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer and conductor (b. 1879)

• 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 4 » Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
• 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.
• September 5 » A fire at the Theatre Royal, Exeter, kills 186.
• November 13 » Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.

The temperature on April 18, 1887 was about 13.2 °C. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 47%.