About the day » Friday April 8, 1887Calender converter

• Aart van Dijl, Dordrecht († 1909)
• Aggatta Ellens, Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 1887)
• Anna Ruth Ketcham, Ketcham Ranch, Cheyenne, Laramie, Wyoming, Verenigde Staten († 1951)
• Amelia M. MANNS, New York, United States († 1983)
• Anna Jacoba Van Der Haak, Den Haag († 1963)
• Aart Van Dijl, Dordrecht,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aleijda Catharina Peters, Didam
• Albina Betsey St Onge († 1942)
• Albert Rawson Stearns **, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, Verenigde Staten († 1887)
• Aaltje ZEEWUSTER, Grolloo (Rolde), Drenthe, Nederland

• Alfred Baron Renouard de Bussière (82), Parijs
• Andries Torensma (0), nijkerk
• Anna PONS (74), Rotterdam
• Amanda Caroline Gore (0)
• Anna van Schijndel (1), Boxtel
• Arie Mudde (0), Lekkerkerk
• Anna Catharina Christina van Riemsdijk (7), Doesburg
• Anna Elisabeth Jennen (56), Illikhoven, Niederlande
• Annigje Bruinewoud (41), Nieuw-Schoonebeek, Gemeente Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia van der Borden (1), Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1882 » (O.S. 27 March) - Dmytro Doroshenko, Lithuanian-Ukrainian historian and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and Prime Minister of Ukraine († 1951)
• 1883 » Julius Seljamaa, Estonian journalist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia († 1936)
• 1883 » R. P. Keigwin, English cricketer and academic († 1972)
• 1885 » Dimitrios Levidis, Greek-French soldier, composer, and educator († 1951)
• 1886 » Margaret Ayer Barnes, American author and playwright († 1967)
• 1888 » Dennis Chávez, American journalist and politician († 1962)
• 1889 » Adrian Boult, English conductor († 1983)
• 1892 » Mary Pickford, Canadian-American actress, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded United Artists († 1979)
• 1892 » Richard Neutra, Austrian-American architect, designed the Los Angeles County Hall of Records († 1970)
• 1896 » Yip Harburg, American composer († 1981)

• 1848 » Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer (b. 1797)
• 1860 » István Széchenyi, Hungarian statesman and reformer (b.1791)
• 1861 » Elisha Otis, American businessman, founded the Otis Elevator Company (b. 1811)
• 1870 » Charles Auguste de Bériot, Belgian violinist and composer (b. 1802)
• 1894 » Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1838)
• 1906 » Auguste Deter, German woman, first person diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (b. 1850)
• 1919 » Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist, academic, and politician, Hungarian Minister of Education (b. 1848)
• 1920 » Charles Griffes, American pianist and composer (b. 1884)
• 1931 » Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish poet Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1936 » Róbert Bárány, Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)

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 2 » In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
• May 9 » Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
• June 18 » The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed.
• July 4 » The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
• July 26 » Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.
• November 9 » The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

The temperature on April 8, 1887 was about 8.2 °C. The air pressure was 38 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 36%.