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
Erwin Schrödinger12th August, Austrian
Physicist
Georgia O'Keeffe15th November, American
Artist
Marcus Garvey17th August, Jamaican
Political leader
Conrad Hilton25th December, American
American Hotelier and Businessman
Shoeless Joe Jackson16th July, American
Baseball Player
Le Corbusier6th October, Swiss, French
Architect
Ernst Röhm28th November, German
Nazi War Criminal
Marjorie Merriweather Post15th March, American
Socialite
Boris Karloff23rd November, British
Actor
Charles I of Austria17th August, Hungarian
Last ruler of Austro-Hungarian Empire
William Frawley26th February, American
Actor
L. S. Lowry1st November, British
Artist
Marc Chagall6th July, Belarusian, French, Russian
Artist
Marcel Duchamp28th July, French, American
Artist
Erich von Manstein24th November, German
Military Leader
Vidkun Quisling18th July, Norwegian
World war II Norwegian Politician & Military
Joe Masseria17th January, Italian, American
Mafia Boss
Chico Marx22nd March, American
American comedian
Wilhelm Canaris1st January, German
Admiral
Felix Yusupov23rd March, Russian
Nobleman
Rupert Brooke3rd August, British
Poet
Aldo Leopold11th January, American
Alf Landon9th September, American
Governor of Kansas
Nadia Boulanger16th September, French
Musician
Barnes Wallis26th September, British
Inventor of Bouncing Bomb
Henry Moseley23rd November, British
Physicist
Jamini Roy11th April, Indian
Indian painter
Heitor Villa-Lobos5th March, Brazilian
Latin American Composer
Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein17th November, British
Allied Commander in World War II
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Juan Gris23rd March, Spanish
Painter
Govind Ballabh Pant10th September, Indian
Freedom Fighter
Sigmund Romberg29th July, American
Composer
Lynn Fontanne6th December, British, American
Actress
Alexander Woollcott19th January, American
American critic
René Cassin5th October, French
French Jurist
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
Alvin York13th December, American
Soldier
Roscoe Arbuckle24th March, American
Actor
Theodore Roosevelt Jr.13th September, American
Military Leader
Nell Carter1st March, British
Actress
Grover Cleveland Alexander26th February, American
Baseball Player
Arthur Rubinstein28th January, American
Classical pianist
Nikolai Vavilov13th November, Russian
botanist, biologist, explorer, geneticist,
M. N. Roy21st March, Indian
Politician, Philosopher
Joel Teitelbaum13th January, Romanian
Philosopher, Rabbi
Walter Johnson6th November, American
Baseball player
Frederick Fleet15th October, British
Sailor
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk22nd August, German
Politician, Jurist, Diplomat, Economist
Hans Oster9th August, German
Military personnel
Jozef Tiso13th October, Slovak
Politician
Arthur Percival26th December, Malaysian, British
Military personnel
Julian Huxley22nd June, British
British director
Floyd Collins20th July, American
Explorer
Samuel Eliot Morison9th July, American
Officer, Military historian, Historian, University
Kurt Schwitters20th June, German
Painter, Artist, Sculptor, Graphic designer,
Sukumar Ray30th October, Indian
Photographer, Poet, Writer, Illustrator,
George Abbott25th June, American
Actor, Film director, Playwright, Screenwriter,
Ruth Benedict5th June, American
Anthropologist, Folklorist, University teacher,
Avery Brundage28th September, American
Art collector, Basketball player, Athletics
Masaharu Homma27th November, Japanese
Military personnel
Emilio Mola9th June, Spanish
military personnel
Marianne Moore15th November, American
Poet, Writer
Alexander Vandegrift13th March, American
General
Eubie Blake7th February, American
American composer
Korechika Anami21st February, Japanese
Officer
B. N. Rau26th February, Indian
Civil servant
Mitsuru Ushijima31st July, Japanese
Military personnel
Lothar Rendulic23rd October, German
military personnel
Alvin C. York30th November
Warrior, Military Leader
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.13th September, American
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni3rd December, Japanese
Politician, Military personnel
Geoffrey Fisher5th May, British
Archbishop
George Pólya13th December, American
Mathematician
Eddie Collins2nd May, American
Baseball Player
Marc Mitscher26th January, American
Admiral of the navy
Wolfgang Köhler21st January, Russian
Psychologist
Maria Martinez30th November, American
Artist
Robinson Jeffers10th January, American
Poet, Writer
Leonard Bloomfield1st April, American
linguist
Tom Longboat4th June, Canadian
Athletics competitor
August Macke3rd January, German
Painter
Sylvia Beach14th March, American
Bookseller
Ernest Holmes21st January, American
Philosopher, Writer
Vincent Massey20th February, Canadian
Diplomat
Bernard Leach5th January, British
Ceramist
Heinrich von Vietinghoff6th December, German
Military personnel
Antonio Moreno26th September, Spanish, American
Actor, Film director, Film actor
Lil Dagover30th September, German, Indonesian
Film Actress
Blaise Cendrars1st September, Swiss, French
War correspondent, Journalist, Poet, Writer,