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.
Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein(Allied Commander in World War II)
17th November
British
Ernst Röhm(Military officer)
28th November
German
Erich von Manstein(Officer)
24th November
German
Wilhelm Canaris(Intelligence officer, Submariner, Navy officer)
1st January
German
L. S. Lowry(Painter)
1st November
British
Arthur Rubinstein(Classical pianist)
28th January
American
Marjorie Merriweather Post(Socialite)
15th March
American
Masaharu Homma(Military personnel)
27th November
Japanese
M. N. Roy(Politician, Philosopher)
21st March
Indian
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk(Politician, Jurist, Diplomat, Economist)
22nd August
German
Frederick Fleet(Sailor)
15th October
British
Jozef Tiso(Politician)
13th October
Slovak
Tom Longboat(Athletics competitor)
4th June
Canadian
Arthur Percival(Military personnel)
26th December
Malaysian,British
Julian Huxley(British director)
22nd June
British
Samuel Eliot Morison(Officer, Military historian, Historian, University teacher, Professor, Author, Writer)
9th July
American
Hans Oster(Military personnel)
9th August
German
Kurt Schwitters(Painter, Artist, Sculptor, Graphic designer, Writer)
20th June
German
Ruth Benedict(Anthropologist, Folklorist, University teacher, Poet, Sociologist, Biographer)
5th June
American
Floyd Collins(Explorer)
20th July
American
Eubie Blake(American composer)
7th February
American
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.13th September
American
Avery Brundage(Art collector, Basketball player, Athletics competitor)
28th September
American
George Pólya(Mathematician)
13th December
American
Korechika Anami(Officer)
21st February
Japanese
Sukumar Ray(Photographer, Poet, Writer, Illustrator, Playwright, Children's writer)
30th October
Indian
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni(Politician, Military personnel)
3rd December
Japanese
George Abbott(Actor, Film director, Playwright, Screenwriter, Film producer, Writer, Autobiographer, Stage actor, Theatre director, Music director)
25th June
American
Alexander Vandegrift(Officer)
13th March
American
Mitsuru Ushijima(Military personnel)
31st July
Japanese
Nikolai Vavilov(botanist, biologist, explorer, geneticist, geographer)
13th November
Russian
Maria Martinez(potter)
30th November
American
Lothar Rendulic(military personnel)
23rd October
German
Marianne Moore(Poet, Writer)
15th November
American
Robinson Jeffers(Poet, Writer)
10th January
American
August Macke(Painter)
3rd January
German
Emilio Mola(military personnel)
9th June
Spanish
Leonard Bloomfield(linguist)
1st April
American
Marc Mitscher(Officer)
26th January
American
Vincent Massey(Diplomat)
20th February
Canadian
Ernest Holmes(Philosopher, Writer)
21st January
American
Bernard Leach(Ceramist)
5th January
British
Kurt Schneider(Military physician, Psychologist, Psychiatrist, University teacher)
7th January
German
Antonio Moreno(Actor, Film director, Film actor)
26th September
Spanish,American
Alvin C. York(Warrior, Military Leader)
30th November
Heinrich von Vietinghoff(Military personnel)
6th December
German
Erich Mendelsohn(Architect)
21st March
German,British
Joel Teitelbaum(Philosopher, Rabbi)
13th January
Romanian
Pio of Pietrelcina25th May
Italian
Charles Becker(actor)
24th November
German
Georg Trakl(Poet, Writer)
3rd February
Austrian
Blaise Cendrars(War correspondent, Journalist, Poet, Writer, Novelist, Travel writer)
1st September
Swiss,French
Mamoru Shigemitsu(Politician, Diplomat)
29th July
Japanese
Alexander Archipenko(Sculptor, Painter, Artist)
30th May
American
Earnest Hooton(Anthropologist, Archaeologist, Prehistorian, Author, Paleoanthropologist, University teacher, Writer)
20th November
American
Saint-John Perse(Poet, Writer, Diplomat)
31st May
French,Guadeloupean
Hermann Rauschning(Politician, Writer)
7th August
German,American
Tetsu Katayama(Prime Minister,politician)
28th July
Japanese
Charles Galton Darwin(Physicist, University teacher)
18th December
British
Andrew McNaughton(Diplomat, Military personnel)
25th February
Canadian
Bernardo Houssay(Physician, Scientist, Pharmacist)
10th April
Argentinian
Giovanni Gronchi(Italian Politician)
10th September
Italian
Chuichi Nagumo(Admiral)
25th March
American
Samuil Marshak(writer, Poet)
3rd November
Russian
Pavel Postyshev(Politician)
18th September
Russian