About the day » Tuesday August 16, 1887Calender converter

• Adriana Maaijen, Benschop († 1962)
• Anna Maria Röttger, Rotterdam
• Ale Speerstra, Bovenknijpe, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriaan Arnold Johan Bink, Leiden
• Adriaan Cornelis van Boven, Terneuzen
• Anna Maria Bonfrer, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1976)
• Anna Matthijsdr Spoelstra, Enkhuizen, Nederland († 1952)
• Adriana Maria Bechthum, Stad aan het Haringvliet
• Anna Maria Theodora Hubertina Munnichs
• Adriana Kaptein, Dordrecht († 1978)

• Alida van Vliet (79), Gouda
• Aafje Herkes Heuvel (Dekker) (85), Nieuwe Niedorp
• (2) Aafje (Heuvel) Dekker (85), Nieuwe Niedorp, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Vreezen (0), Rotterdam
• Krols Maria Catharina (40), Baarle-Nassau, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Dirkje de Bruijn (60), Ameide
• Aafje Herkes Heuvel Dekker (85), Nieuwe Niedorp, Hollands Kroon, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Telders (90), Heerewaarden, Gelderland, Nederland
• Cornelia Lucia KAIJEN (0), Hoge en Lage Zwaluwe
• Cornelis de Kroo (69), Koudekerke, Nederland

• 1877 » Roque Ruaño, Spanish priest and engineer († 1935)
• 1882 » Désiré Mérchez, French swimmer and water polo player († 1968)
• 1884 » Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourger-American author and publisher († 1967)
• 1888 » Armand J. Piron, American violinist, composer, and bandleader († 1943)
• 1888 » T. E. Lawrence, British colonel, diplomat, writer and archaeologist († 1935)
• 1892 » Hal Foster, Canadian-American author and illustrator († 1982)
• 1892 » Otto Messmer, American cartoonist and animator, co-created Felix the Cat († 1983)
• 1894 » George Meany, American plumber and labor leader († 1980)
• 1895 » Albert Cohen, Greek-Swiss author and playwright († 1981)
• 1895 » Liane Haid, Austrian-Swiss actress and singer († 2000)

• 1861 » Ranavalona I, Queen consort of Kingdom of Madagascar and then sovereign (b. 1778)
• 1878 » Richard Upjohn, English-American architect (b. 1802)
• 1886 » Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Indian mystic and philosopher (b. 1836)
• 1887 » Webster Paulson, English civil engineer (b. 1837)
• 1888 » John Pemberton, American pharmacist and chemist, invented Coca-Cola (b. 1831)
• 1893 » Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist and academic (b. 1825)
• 1899 » Robert Bunsen, German chemist and academic (b. 1811)
• 1900 » José Maria de Eça de Queirós, Portuguese journalist and author (b. 1845)
• 1904 » Prentiss Ingraham, American soldier and author (b. 1843)
• 1911 » Patrick Francis Moran, Irish-Australian cardinal (b. 1830)

• 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 2 » In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
• February 8 » The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
• 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.
• November 13 » Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.

The temperature on August 16, 1887 was about 13.7 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 67%.