About the day » Thursday May 26, 1887Calender converter

• Anna Sleutel, Sintmaarten, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands († 1956)
• Afra Catharina de Wit, Spierdijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1983)
• Abraham Verlind, Leiden
• Aafje de Wit, Berkhout († 1983)
• Aart van Holland, Ede {GE}
• Aaltje Tweeboom, Wadenoijen († 1895)
• Adriaan SCHOOLMEESTER, 's-Heer Arendskerke, Zeeland, Nederland († 1887)
• Adriaan Schippers, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Nederland († 1941)
• Adrianus Sloof, Bergambacht
• Alberdina Maria Aleida Elbersen, De Bilt († 1895)

• Marivoet (0), Willebroek
• Antje Ekkes Frieling (74), Warffum
• Alice Emilie Blanche Reintjes (1), Parijs, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna de Regt (0), Hoek (Terneuzen), Zeeland, Nederland
• Arie Beekenkamp (0), Waddinxveen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Berta (kind) Goldstein (5), Almen
• Bartholomeus Op den Dreest (0), Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bartholomeus op den Dreest (0), Leiden
• Benjamin Francis Avant (50), Socastee,Horry,South Carolina
• Aleida Hobbelink (56), Wierden, Overijssel, Nederland

• 1876 » Percy Perrin, English cricketer († 1945)
• 1880 » W. Otto Miessner, American composer and educator († 1967)
• 1881 » Adolfo de la Huerta, Mexican politician and provisional president, 1920 († 1955)
• 1883 » Mamie Smith, American singer, actress, dancer, and pianist († 1946)
• 1886 » Al Jolson, American singer and actor († 1950)
• 1887 » Ba U, 2nd President of Burma († 1963)
• 1893 » Eugene Aynsley Goossens, English conductor and composer († 1962)
• 1895 » Dorothea Lange, American photographer and journalist († 1965)
• 1895 » Paul Lukas, Hungarian-American actor and singer († 1971)
• 1898 » Ernst Bacon, American pianist, composer, and conductor († 1990)

• 1881 » Jakob Bernays, German philologist and academic (b. 1824)
• 1883 » Abdelkader El Djezairi, Algerian ruler (b. 1808)
• 1902 » Almon Brown Strowger, American soldier and inventor (b. 1839)
• 1904 » Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French physician and neurologist (b. 1857)
• 1908 » Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Indian religious leader, founded the Ahmadiyya movement (b. 1835)
• 1914 » Jacob August Riis, Danish-American journalist, photographer, and reformer (b. 1849)
• 1924 » Victor Herbert, Irish-American cellist, composer, and conductor, founded the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (b. 1859)
• 1926 » Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet (b. 1904)
• 1933 » Horatio Bottomley, English financier, journalist, and politician (b. 1860)
• 1933 » Jimmie Rodgers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1897)

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 8 » The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
• 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 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.
• November 11 » August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed as a result of the Haymarket affair.

The temperature on May 26, 1887 was about 13.1 °C. The air pressure was 18 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 72%.