Famous People Born In 1887
Discover the most famous people born in 1887. The list includes people like Srinivasa Ramanujan, Erwin Schrödinger, Chiang Kai-shek, Marcel Duchamp, Le Corbusier and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, soldiers, poets and artists born in 1887. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, Germany & France and many more countries.
Srinivasa Ramanujan22nd December, Indian
Mathematician
Chiang Kai-shek31st October, Chinese
President of the Republic of China
Georgia O'Keeffe15th November, American
Artist
Charles I of Austria17th August, Hungarian
Last ruler of Austro-Hungarian Empire
Conrad Hilton25th December, American
American Hotelier and Businessman
Marcus Garvey17th August, Jamaican
Political leader
Erwin Schrödinger12th August, Austrian
Physicist
Le Corbusier6th October, Swiss, French
Architect
Shoeless Joe Jackson16th July, American
Baseball Player
Marcel Duchamp28th July, French, American
Artist
Boris Karloff23rd November, British
Actor
Marc Chagall6th July, Belarusian, French, Russian
Artist
William Frawley26th February, American
Actor
Vidkun Quisling18th July, Norwegian
World war II Norwegian Politician & Military
Joe Masseria17th January, Italian, American
Mafia Boss
Chico Marx22nd March, American
American comedian
Rupert Brooke3rd August, British
Poet
Aldo Leopold11th January, American
Govind Ballabh Pant10th September, Indian
Freedom Fighter
Henry Moseley23rd November, British
Physicist
Nadia Boulanger16th September, French
Musician
Barnes Wallis26th September, British
Inventor of Bouncing Bomb
Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein17th November, British
Allied Commander in World War II
Alf Landon9th September, American
Governor of Kansas
Juan Gris23rd March, Spanish
Painter
Jamini Roy11th April, Indian
Indian painter
Heitor Villa-Lobos5th March, Brazilian
Latin American Composer
Lynn Fontanne6th December, British, American
Actress
Sigmund Romberg29th July, American
Composer
René Cassin5th October, French
French Jurist
Alexander Woollcott19th January, American
American critic
Beulah Louise Henry11th February, American
Lady Edison
Gustav Ludwig Hertz22nd July, German
Physicists
James B. Sumner19th November, American
Chemist
John Reed22nd October, American
Journalist, Poet
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Ernst Röhm28th November, German
Military officer
Erich von Manstein24th November, German
Officer
Wilhelm Canaris1st January, German
Intelligence officer, Submariner, Navy officer
L. S. Lowry1st November, British
Painter
Marjorie Merriweather Post15th March, American
Socialite
Arthur Rubinstein28th January, American
Classical pianist
Masaharu Homma27th November, Japanese
Military personnel
M. N. Roy21st March, Indian
Politician, Philosopher
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.13th September, American
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk22nd August, German
Politician, Jurist, Diplomat, Economist
Frederick Fleet15th October, British
Sailor
Julian Huxley22nd June, British
British director
Samuel Eliot Morison9th July, American
Officer, Military historian, Historian, University
Tom Longboat4th June, Canadian
Athletics competitor
Jozef Tiso13th October, Slovak
Politician
Hans Oster9th August, German
Military personnel
Arthur Percival26th December, Malaysian, British
Military personnel
Kurt Schwitters20th June, German
Painter, Artist, Sculptor, Graphic designer,
August Macke3rd January, German
Painter
Ruth Benedict5th June, American
Anthropologist, Folklorist, University teacher,
Sukumar Ray30th October, Indian
Photographer, Poet, Writer, Illustrator,
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni3rd December, Japanese
Politician, Military personnel
Floyd Collins20th July, American
Explorer
Avery Brundage28th September, American
Art collector, Basketball player, Athletics
Nikolai Vavilov13th November, Russian
botanist, biologist, explorer, geneticist,
George Abbott25th June, American
Actor, Film director, Playwright, Screenwriter,
Alexander Vandegrift13th March, American
Officer
George Pólya13th December, American
Mathematician
Korechika Anami21st February, Japanese
Officer
Mitsuru Ushijima31st July, Japanese
Military personnel
Lothar Rendulic23rd October, German
military personnel
Marianne Moore15th November, American
Poet, Writer
Marc Mitscher26th January, American
Officer
Robinson Jeffers10th January, American
Poet, Writer
Eubie Blake7th February, American
American composer
Leonard Bloomfield1st April, American
linguist
Emilio Mola9th June, Spanish
military personnel
Maria Martinez30th November, American
potter
Vincent Massey20th February, Canadian
Diplomat
Kurt Schneider7th January, German
Military physician, Psychologist, Psychiatrist,
Ernest Holmes21st January, American
Philosopher, Writer
Heinrich von Vietinghoff6th December, German
Military personnel
Joel Teitelbaum13th January, Romanian
Philosopher, Rabbi
Erich Mendelsohn21st March, German, British
Architect
Antonio Moreno26th September, Spanish, American
Actor, Film director, Film actor
Alvin C. York30th November
Warrior, Military Leader
Mamoru Shigemitsu29th July, Japanese
Politician, Diplomat
Bernard Leach5th January, British
Ceramist
Pio of Pietrelcina25th May, Italian
Blaise Cendrars1st September, Swiss, French
War correspondent, Journalist, Poet, Writer,
Charles Becker24th November, German
actor
Georg Trakl3rd February, Austrian
Poet, Writer
Alexander Archipenko30th May, American
Sculptor, Painter, Artist
Earnest Hooton20th November, American
Anthropologist, Archaeologist, Prehistorian,
Hermann Rauschning7th August, German, American
Politician, Writer
Tetsu Katayama28th July, Japanese
Prime Minister,politician
Saint-John Perse31st May, French, Guadeloupean
Poet, Writer, Diplomat
Andrew McNaughton25th February, Canadian
Diplomat, Military personnel
Charles Galton Darwin18th December, British
Physicist, University teacher
Chuichi Nagumo25th March, American
Admiral
Giovanni Gronchi10th September, Italian
Italian Politician