About the day » Sunday August 7, 1887Calender converter

• Adriana Petronella van Zuijdam, Zaltbommel,Gemeente Zaltbommel,Gelderland,Nederland († 1890)
• Peeters Floriaan Antoon, Wuustwezel, Antwerpen, België
• Albert Jan Heijenk, Warnsveld († 1978)
• Adriana Catharina Elisabeth Roodenburg, Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1889)
• Adrianus Joannes Vullings, Oss, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1957)
• Adrianus Cornelis Josephus van Iersel, Geldrop († 1968)
• Adriana Dijmphna Josephina van Merrienboer, Oud en Nieuw Gastel
• Martinus Izarin, Gorinchem († 1955)
• Adrianus Nicolaas Beugelsdijk, Den Haag
• Aaltje Verschoor, den Helder, prov. Noord Holland

• Anna Elbers (18), Uden
• Antje Jans Dragstra (43), Terwispel
• Aaltje Jans Boersma (75), Appelscha, gem. Ooststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
• Anje Oosterhoff (30), Onderdendam
• (49), Ambt Vollenhove (Leeuwte)
• Arend Kleis, Vledder, Drenthe, Netherlands(Nijensleek)
• Aaltje van der Sluis (0), Drachten, gem. Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Constant Bernardin Pierre PELGRIMS (51), Antwerpen, 11002, Antwerpen, Belgique
• Anna Maria Groenen (69), Overasselt, Gelderland, Nederland
• van Belkum (0), Steenwijk, Netherlands

• 1869 » Mary Frances Winston, American mathematician († 1959)
• 1876 » Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy († 1917)
• 1879 » Johannes Kotze, South African cricketer († 1931)
• 1884 » Billie Burke, American actress and singer († 1970)
• 1884 » Nikolai Triik, Estonian painter and illustrator († 1940)
• 1887 » Anna Elisabet Weirauch, German author and playwright († 1970)
• 1890 » Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, American author and activist († 1964)
• 1901 » Ann Harding, American actress and singer († 1981)
• 1903 » Louis Leakey, Kenyan-English palaeontologist and archaeologist († 1972)
• 1904 » Ralph Bunche, American political scientist, academic, and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate († 1971)

• 1834 » Joseph Marie Jacquard, French weaver and inventor, invented the Jacquard loom (b. 1752)
• 1848 » Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Swedish chemist and academic (b. 1779)
• 1855 » Mariano Arista, Mexican general and politician, 19th President of Mexico (b. 1802)
• 1864 » Li Xiucheng, Chinese field marshal (b. 1823)
• 1893 » Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer and academic (b. 1854)
• 1899 » Jacob Maris, Dutch painter and educator (b. 1837)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Liebknecht, German lawyer and politician (b. 1826)
• 1912 » François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss limnologist and academic (b. 1841)
• 1917 » Edwin Harris Dunning, South African-English commander and pilot (b. 1891)
• 1938 » Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian actor and director (b. 1863)

• 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 8 » The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
• February 23 » The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000.
• April 4 » Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
• 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.

The temperature on August 7, 1887 was about 16.1 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 73%.