About the day » Thursday August 18, 1887Calender converter

• Alfons Marie VROMANT, Moen († 1968)
• Akke Tigchelaar, slappeterp
• Anna Margarita Maria Lammers, Nieuwe Pekela Groningen, Netherlands († 1918)
• Alida van Rossum, Vreeswijk, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Helena Rickers, Lathen, Emsland
• Akke Kroontje, Exmorra, Friesland, Nederland († 1938)
• Agatha van Beek, Uithoorn
• Akke Tigchelaar, Menaldumadeel
• Andries TOKKIE, Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Netherlands († 1908)
• Albert Croak, Chigaco, Cook,ILLI, Verenigde Staten († 1953)

• Aaltje Levij Stibbe (38), Zwolle
• Ann Hill Cockfield Pandt (0), Sint Eustatius, Netherlands Antilles
• Anton Johan Batist (0), Wassenaar
• Baby Evans (0), Provo, Utah County, Utah, United States of America
• Antje Hendriks Douma (56)
• Aaltje Stibbe (38), Zwolle, Overijssel, Nl
• Akke Roelinga (68), Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
• Antonius Gerardus Snijders (1), Tilburg
• Abraham Brouwer (0), Leiden
• Akke Beens Roelenga (68), Wolvega

• 1879 » Alexander Rodzyanko, Russian general († 1970)
• 1885 » Nettie Palmer, Australian poet and critic († 1964)
• 1887 » John Anthony Sydney Ritson, English rugby player, mines inspector, engineer and professor of mining († 1957)
• 1890 » Walther Funk, German economist and politician, Reich Minister of Economics († 1960)
• 1893 » Burleigh Grimes, American baseball player and manager († 1985)
• 1893 » Ernest MacMillan, Canadian conductor and composer († 1973)
• 1896 » Jack Pickford, Canadian-American actor and director († 1933)
• 1898 » Clemente Biondetti, Italian race car driver († 1955)
• 1900 » Ruth Bonner, Soviet Communist activist, sentenced to a labor camp during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge († 1987)
• 1900 » Ruth Norman, American religious leader († 1993)

• 1842 » Louis de Freycinet, French explorer and navigator (b. 1779)
• 1850 » Honoré de Balzac, French novelist and playwright (b. 1799)
• 1886 » Eli Whitney Blake, American inventor, invented the Mortise lock (b. 1795)
• 1919 » Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian businessman and politician, founded the Seagram Company (b. 1841)
• 1940 » Walter Chrysler, American businessman, founded Chrysler (b. 1875)
• 1943 » Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Azerbaijani general (b. 1865)
• 1944 » Ernst Thälmann, German soldier and politician (b. 1886)
• 1945 » Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian activist and politician (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Paul Mares, American trumpet player and bandleader (New Orleans Rhythm Kings) (b. 1900)
• 1950 » Julien Lahaut, Belgian soldier and politician (b. 1884)

• 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 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.
• May 9 » Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
• June 18 » The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed.
• July 6 » David Kalākaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced to sign the Bayonet Constitution, which transfers much of the king's authority to the Legislature of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
• November 13 » Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.

The temperature on August 18, 1887 was about 18.1 °C. The air pressure was 21 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 65%.