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
Marcus Garvey17th August, Jamaican
Political leader
Georgia O'Keeffe15th November, American
Artist
Conrad Hilton25th December, American
American Hotelier and Businessman
Erwin Schrödinger12th August, Austrian
Physicist
Le Corbusier6th October, Swiss, French
Architect
Shoeless Joe Jackson16th July, American
Baseball Player
Charles I of Austria17th August, Hungarian
Last ruler of Austro-Hungarian Empire
Ernst Röhm28th November, German
Nazi War Criminal
Marcel Duchamp28th July, French, American
Artist
Boris Karloff23rd November, British
Actor
Marc Chagall6th July, Belarusian, French, Russian
Artist
Vidkun Quisling18th July, Norwegian
World war II Norwegian Politician & Military
Erich von Manstein24th November, German
Military Leader
William Frawley26th February, American
Actor
Felix Yusupov23rd March, Russian
Nobleman
L. S. Lowry1st November, British
Artist
Joe Masseria17th January, Italian, American
Mafia Boss
Chico Marx22nd March, American
American comedian
Wilhelm Canaris1st January, German
Admiral
Henry Moseley23rd November, British
Physicist
Rupert Brooke3rd August, British
Poet
Marjorie Merriweather Post15th March, American
Socialite
Aldo Leopold11th January, American
Barnes Wallis26th September, British
Inventor of Bouncing Bomb
Govind Ballabh Pant10th September, Indian
Freedom Fighter
Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein17th November, British
Allied Commander in World War II
Nadia Boulanger16th September, French
Musician
Alf Landon9th September, American
Governor of Kansas
Juan Gris23rd March, Spanish
Painter
Jamini Roy11th April, Indian
Indian painter
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Heitor Villa-Lobos5th March, Brazilian
Latin American Composer
Gustav Ludwig Hertz22nd July, German
Physicists
René Cassin5th October, French
French Jurist
Alexander Woollcott19th January, American
American critic
Lynn Fontanne6th December, British, American
Actress
James B. Sumner19th November, American
Chemist
Sigmund Romberg29th July, American
Composer
Beulah Louise Henry11th February, American
Lady Edison
John Reed22nd October, American
Journalist, Poet
Roscoe Arbuckle24th March, American
Actor
Alvin York13th December, American
Soldier
Theodore Roosevelt Jr.13th September, American
Military Leader
Nell Carter1st March, British
Actress
Walter Johnson6th November, American
Baseball player
Arthur Rubinstein28th January, American
Classical pianist
M. N. Roy21st March, Indian
Politician, Philosopher
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk22nd August, German
Politician, Jurist, Diplomat, Economist
Sukumar Ray30th October, Indian
Photographer, Poet, Writer, Illustrator,
Samuel Eliot Morison9th July, American
Officer, Military historian, Historian, University
Julian Huxley22nd June, British
British director
Ruth Benedict5th June, American
Anthropologist, Folklorist, University teacher,
Tom Longboat4th June, Canadian
Athletics competitor
Frederick Fleet15th October, British
Sailor
Arthur Percival26th December, Malaysian, British
Military personnel
Jozef Tiso13th October, Slovak
Politician
Kurt Schwitters20th June, German
Painter, Artist, Sculptor, Graphic designer,
Masaharu Homma27th November, Japanese
Military personnel
Hans Oster9th August, German
Military personnel
Avery Brundage28th September, American
Art collector, Basketball player, Athletics
Grover Cleveland Alexander26th February, American
Baseball Player
Floyd Collins20th July, American
Explorer
Alexander Vandegrift13th March, American
Officer
B. N. Rau26th February, Indian
Civil servant
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni3rd December, Japanese
Politician, Military personnel
Marianne Moore15th November, American
Poet, Writer
George Abbott25th June, American
Actor, Film director, Playwright, Screenwriter,
Nikolai Vavilov13th November, Russian
botanist, biologist, explorer, geneticist,
Lothar Rendulic23rd October, German
military personnel
George Pólya13th December, American
Mathematician
Vincent Massey20th February, Canadian
Diplomat
Korechika Anami21st February, Japanese
Officer
Wolfgang Köhler21st January, Russian
Psychologist
Mitsuru Ushijima31st July, Japanese
Military personnel
Eddie Collins2nd May, American
Baseball Player
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.13th September, American
Marc Mitscher26th January, American
Officer
Eubie Blake7th February, American
American composer
Leonard Bloomfield1st April, American
linguist
Robinson Jeffers10th January, American
Poet, Writer
Erich Mendelsohn21st March, German, British
Architect
Emilio Mola9th June, Spanish
military personnel
Ernest Holmes21st January, American
Philosopher, Writer
Sylvia Beach14th March, American
Bookseller
August Macke3rd January, German
Painter
Maria Martinez30th November, American
Artist
Louis Leon Thurstone29th May, American
Psychologist
Pio of Pietrelcina25th May, Italian
Heinrich von Vietinghoff6th December, German
Military personnel
Kurt Schneider7th January, German
Military physician, Psychologist, Psychiatrist,
Joel Teitelbaum13th January, Romanian
Philosopher, Rabbi
Jacob L. Devers8th September, American
General
Blaise Cendrars1st September, Swiss, French
War correspondent, Journalist, Poet, Writer,
Antonio Moreno26th September, Spanish, American
Actor, Film director, Film actor
Alvin C. York30th November
Warrior, Military Leader