About the day » Saturday August 13, 1887Calender converter

• Albertus Hilbrink, Amsterdam († 1965)
• Albertus Lenters, Hardenberg, Overijssel, Nederland († 1961)
• Adriaantje Messemaker, Rhoon († 1964)
• Adriana Quirijnen, Gilze en Rijen († 1956)
• Abram J. Dyck († 1888)
• Adriaantje Messemaker Messemaker, Rhoon († 1962)
• Adrianus Cornelis van den Elshout, Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1951)
• Aaltje Rijpma, Tietjerk, gem. Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1971)
• Aletta Maria de Graaf, Rotterdam († 1959)
• Aleida Theodora Pruijn-, Bemmel, Nederland († 1911)

• Anna Christina Van Sweevelt (94), Averbode, 3271, België
• "Antonius" Antoon Antoon (80), Meijel, NL
• Berend Mulder (0), Beerta, Groningen, Netherlands
• (w)esselina Stoltenborg (72), Ambt Doetinchem
• Alida Goossens ongehuwd (26), Rotterdam, ZH, Nederland
• Berendina Margaretha van Tongerloo (1), Gouda
• Aaltje Harmenzon (69), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Antonia Rotthier, Kieldrecht
• Anna Clazina (Clazina Johanna) Ouwerling (86), Delft
• Anna Clazina Ouwerling (86), Delft, South Holland, Netherlands

• 1879 » John Ireland, English composer and educator († 1962)
• 1884 » Harry Dean, English cricketer and coach († 1957)
• 1888 » Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor († 1975)
• 1888 » John Logie Baird, Scottish engineer, invented the television († 1946)
• 1889 » Camillien Houde, Canadian lawyer and politician, 34th Mayor of Montreal († 1958)
• 1895 » Bert Lahr, American actor († 1967)
• 1895 » István Barta, Hungarian water polo player († 1948)
• 1898 » Jean Borotra, French tennis player († 1994)
• 1898 » Regis Toomey, American actor († 1991)
• 1899 » Alfred Hitchcock, English-American director and producer († 1980)

• 1826 » René Laennec, French physician, invented the stethoscope (b. 1781)
• 1863 » Eugène Delacroix, French painter and lithographer (b. 1798)
• 1865 » Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian physician and obstetrician (b. 1818)
• 1910 » Florence Nightingale, Italian-English nurse and theologian (b. 1820)
• 1912 » Jules Massenet, French composer (b. 1842)
• 1917 » Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)
• 1934 » Mary Hunter Austin, American author and playwright (b. 1868)
• 1937 » Sigizmund Levanevsky, Soviet aircraft pilot of Polish origin (b. 1902)
• 1946 » H. G. Wells, English novelist, historian, and critic (b. 1866)
• 1954 » Demetrius Constantine Dounis, Greek violinist and mandolin player (b. 1886)

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.
• 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 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.
• September 5 » A fire at the Theatre Royal, Exeter, kills 186.

The temperature on August 13, 1887 was about 12.9 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%.