About the day » Thursday May 12, 1887Calender converter

• Aart Ambagtsheer, Ter Aar (Aardam) († 1888)
• Anna Maria Magdalena Rens, Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands († 1926)
• Anna Maria Theresia Leijten, Tilburg (Noord-Brabant, NLD) († 1949)
• Albertus Jan Bovenschen, Rhenen, Nederland († 1969)
• Anna Margaretha Arling, Lindloh, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Anna-Cornelia Heesbeen, 's-Hertogenbosch († 1889)
• Anna Pauline Olga Thiele, Salem near Callington, South Australia
• Alphonse Meseure, Torhout
• († 1951)
• Addie Goodman († 1960)

• Arij Verboom (82), Lekkerkerk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Caelen (76), Niel-bij-As
• Arie Verboom (82), Lekkerkerk
• Adrianus Hendrikus Spiekman (0), Jutphaas
• Antje Aries Dekker (52), Den Burg, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Jans HELDER (61), Smallingerland Friesland Netherlands
• Aaltje Ploeg (47), Pieterzijl, gem. Grijpskerk, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna van den Burg (47), Zoeterwoude
• Anna Frederiks Brinkmann (39)
• Anne SCHUUR (1), Oostwold, Leek

• 1875 » Charles Holden, English architect, designed the Bristol Central Library († 1960)
• 1880 » Lincoln Ellsworth, American explorer († 1951)
• 1885 » Paltiel Daykan, Lithuanian-Israeli lawyer and jurist († 1969)
• 1885 » Saneatsu Mushanokōji, Japanese author († 1976)
• 1886 » Ernst A. Lehmann, German captain and pilot († 1937)
• 1889 » Otto Frank, German-Swiss businessman and Holocaust survivor; father of diarist Anne Frank († 1980)
• 1892 » Fritz Kortner, Austrian-German actor and director († 1970)
• 1895 » Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian-American philosopher and author († 1986)
• 1895 » William Giauque, Canadian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1982)
• 1899 » Abelardo L. Rodríguez, substitute president of Mexico († 1967)

• 1856 » Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1786)
• 1859 » Sergey Aksakov, Russian author and academic (b. 1791)
• 1860 » Charles Barry, English architect, designed Upper Brook Street Chapel and the Palace of Westminster (b. 1795)
• 1864 » J. E. B. Stuart, American general (b. 1833)
• 1867 » Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard Gerhard, German archaeologist and academic (b. 1795)
• 1876 » Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian activist (b. 1843)
• 1878 » Anselme Payen, French chemist and academic (b. 1795)
• 1884 » Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer and educator (b. 1824)
• 1907 » Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author and critic (b. 1848)
• 1916 » James Connolly, Scottish-born Irish socialist and rebel leader (b. 1868)

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 4 » Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
• May 9 » Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
• June 8 » Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was his punched card calculator.
• June 23 » The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park.

The temperature on May 12, 1887 was about 11.8 °C. The air pressure was 22 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 59%.