About the day » Friday May 13, 1887Calender converter

• Adriaantje Johans Kors, Steenwijkerwold, Overijssel, Nederland († 1975)
• Aaltje Knippels, De Wijk, Drenthe, Nederland († 1944)
• Anna Cornelia van der Valk, Katwijk († 1959)
• Aaltje Verdoorn, Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, Niederlande († 1966)
• Albert van Ieperen, Venlo
• Albert van Ieperen, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1888)
• Albertus ten Broek, Amerongen († 1940)
• Aaltje Makkinga, Ommen († 1892)
• Anna Maria Okkerse, Vinkeveeen en Waverveen († 1962)
• Anna Maria den Hollander, Rotterdam

• Arend Lefferts Bloemberg (61), Smilde, Drenthe, Netherlands(Hijkersmilde)
• Aarnout de Waard (60), Sliedrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arend Bloemberg (61), Smilde
• Arnout de Waard (60), Sliedrecht
• Albertus Companjen (62), Nijmegen, Nederland
• Anna Ooms (73), Stolwijk
• Anna Catharina Bette (73), Weesp, Noord Holland
• Andreas Moons (52), Gouda
• Abel Benoni Linsley (74), Near Summersville, York Twp., Union Co., OH
• Anne Bolton (76), Tumut, NSW, Australia

• 1881 » Joe Forshaw, American runner († 1964)
• 1881 » Lima Barreto, Brazilian journalist and author († 1922)
• 1882 » Georges Braque, French painter and sculptor († 1963)
• 1883 » Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek-American pathologist, invented the pap smear († 1962)
• 1884 » Oskar Rosenfeld, Jewish-Austrian writer and Holocaust victim (d.1944)
• 1885 » Mikiel Gonzi, Maltese archbishop († 1984)
• 1887 » Lorna Hodgkinson, Australian educator and educational psychologist († 1951)
• 1888 » Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist and geophysicist († 1993)
• 1894 » Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, Icelandic politician, 2nd President of Iceland († 1972)
• 1895 » Nandor Fodor, Hungarian-American psychologist, parapsychologist, and author († 1964)

• 1866 » Nikolai Brashman, Czech-Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1796)
• 1878 » Joseph Henry, American physicist and academic (b. 1797)
• 1884 » Cyrus McCormick, American businessman, co-founded the International Harvester Company (b. 1809)
• 1885 » Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician, pathologist, and anatomist (b. 1809)
• 1903 » Apolinario Mabini, Filipino lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Philippines (b. 1864)
• 1916 » Sholem Aleichem, Ukrainian-American author and playwright (b. 1859)
• 1921 » Jean Aicard, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1848)
• 1926 » Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian-American bishop (b. 1857)
• 1929 » Arthur Scherbius, German electrical engineer, invented the Enigma machine (b. 1878)
• 1930 » Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian scientist, explorer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)

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.
• February 23 » The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000.
• 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.
• 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.

The temperature on May 13, 1887 was about 9.2 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 48 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%.