About the day » Monday May 16, 1887Calender converter

• Anna Roelfsema, Smilde
• Antonius Nicolaas Dikhoff, Utrecht
• Aaltje Jongeneel, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Theodorus Gerardus Bakker, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Charles Lucien REDEMANS
• Albertje Kruid, Wapse, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adrianus van der Gaag, Loosduinen († 1887)
• Adelaide Beauprez, Klerken
• Alexandre Désiré BOUFFIOUX, Bois-d'Haine, Henegouwen, België
• Alida Elisabeth Wilhelmina van Gelder, Amsterdam, Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Nederland

• Anna Margaretha Snel (86), Alblasserdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Goossens (75), Teteringen
• Anna Maria Gelissen, Voerendaal,, Limburg, Nederland
• Anneke Raukes Brinksma (68), Oppenhuizen, Friesland, Nederland
• Adrianus Bergman (42), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arnoldus Theodorus Heesbeen (19), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonia Joanna Maria Commenie (0), Schiedam
• Alphonese Maria Franciscus Severens (Zeverens) (0), Maastricht, Nederland
• Antonia, Johanna, Maria Commenie (0), Schiedam,Zuid-Holland,Nederland
• Anne Marie Ludovice Nys (75)

• 1876 » Fred Conrad Koch, American biochemist and endocrinologist († 1948)
• 1879 » Pierre Gilliard, Swiss author and academic († 1962)
• 1882 » Simeon Price, American golfer († 1945)
• 1883 » Celâl Bayar, Turkish politician, 3rd President of Turkey († 1986)
• 1888 » Royal Rife, American microbiologist and instrument maker († 1971)
• 1890 » Edith Grace White, American ichthyologist († 1975)
• 1892 » Osgood Perkins, American actor († 1937)
• 1894 » Walter Yust, American journalist and writer († 1960)
• 1897 » Zvi Sliternik, Israeli entomologist and academic († 1994)
• 1898 » Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-American painter († 1980)

• 1862 » Edward Gibbon Wakefield, English politician (b. 1796)
• 1882 » Reuben Chapman, American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of Alabama (b. 1799)
• 1890 » Mihkel Veske, Estonian poet, linguist and theologist (b. 1843)
• 1891 » Ion C. Brătianu, Romanian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1821)
• 1910 » Henri-Edmond Cross, French Neo-Impressionist painter (b. 1856)
• 1913 » Louis Perrier, Swiss architect and politician (b. 1849)
• 1920 » Levi P. Morton, American politician, 22nd United States Vice President (b. 1824)
• 1926 » Mehmed VI, Ottoman sultan (b. 1861)
• 1936 » Leonidas Paraskevopoulos, Greek general and politician (b. 1860)
• 1938 » Joseph Strauss, American engineer, co designed The Golden Gate Bridge (b. 1870)

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.
• April 10 » On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of the Catholic University of America.
• 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.
• June 23 » The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park.
• November 9 » The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
• November 13 » Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.

The temperature on May 16, 1887 was about 13.8 °C. The air pressure was 21 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 67%.