Famous People Who Died In 1887
Discover the most famous people died who died in the year 1887. This list includes people like Jenny Lind, Doc Holliday, Ike Clanton, Dorothea Dix, Henry Ward Beecher and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include poets, journalists, philosophers and chemists who died in 1887. This list includes people from United States, Russia and many more countries.
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Jenny Lind(One of the Most Highly Regarded Singers of the 19th Century)
Birthdate: October 6, 1820
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Stockholm, Sweden
Died: November 2
Birthdate: April 4, 1802
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Maine, US
Died: July 17
Birthdate: January 3, 1831
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Naigaon, British India (now in Satara district, Maharashtra)
Died: March 10
Birthdate: August 14, 1851
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Griffin, Georgia, United States
Died: November 8
Birthdate: November 12, 1833
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Saint Petersburg
Died: February 27
Birthdate: June 24, 1813
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Litchfield, Connecticut, U.S
Died: March 8
Birthdate: March 31, 1865
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Kalyan, Maharashtra, India
Died: February 26
Birthdate: March 12, 1824
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Königsberg, Kingdom of Prussia
Died: October 17
9
Emma Lazarus
(Poet, Writer, Journalist)
Birthdate: July 22, 1849
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: New York City
Died: November 19
Birthdate: June 30, 1819
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Malone
Died: June 4
11
Lysander Spooner
(Lawyer, Journalist, Essayist, Philosopher)
Birthdate: January 19, 1808
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Athol
Died: May 14
12
Gustav Fechner
(Physicist, Psychologist, Statistician, University teacher, Philosopher)
Birthdate: April 19, 1801
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Bad Muskau
Died: November 18
13
James Buchanan Eads
(American Civil Engineer and Inventor Best Known for His 'Triple-Arch Steel Bridge' Over the Mississippi River)
Birthdate: May 23, 1820
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Lawrenceburg, Indiana, United States
Died: March 8
14
Eliza R. Snow
(American Poet and 2nd Relief Society General President (1866 - 1867))
Birthdate: January 21, 1804
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Becket, Massachusetts, United States
Died: December 5
15
Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein
(Noblewoman, Journalist)
Birthdate: February 8, 1819
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Monastyryshche, Ukraine
Died: March 9
16
Józef Ignacy Kraszewski
(Polish Writer Best Known for His Epic Series on the History of Poland)
Birthdate: July 28, 1812
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Warsaw, Poland
Died: March 19
17
Albert Carrier-Belleuse
(Sculptor)
Birthdate: June 12, 1824
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Anizy-le-Chateau, France
Died: June 4
18
Joseph Hayne Rainey
(Politician)
Birthdate: June 21, 1832
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Georgetown, South Carolina
Died: August 1
19
Robert Scott
(Philologist, Educator)
Birthdate: January 26, 1811
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Bondleigh, England
Died: December 2
20
Infante Juan, Count of Montizón
(Infante)
Birthdate: May 15, 1822
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Royal Palace of Aranjuez, Aranjuez, Spain
Died: November 18
21
Alfred Krupp
(Industrialist)
Birthdate: April 26, 1812
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Essen, Germany
Died: July 14
22
Richard Jefferies
(Author)
Birthdate: November 6, 1848
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: near Swindon, England
Died: August 14
23
Henry Mayhew
(British Journalist, Playwright and One of the Co-founders of the Satirical Magazine 'Punch')
Birthdate: November 25, 1812
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: London, England
Died: July 25
24
Fran Levstik(Slovene Writer and Political Activist Know for His Short Tale ‘Martin Krpan From Vrh’)
Birthdate: September 28, 1831
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Dolnje Retje, Slovenia
Died: November 16
25
Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden
(US Geologist Who Made Pioneering Research on the Rocky Mountains and the Great Plains)
Birthdate: September 7, 1829
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Westfield, Massachusetts, United States
Died: December 22
26
Joseph Whitworth
(British Engineer, Entrepreneur, Inventor and Philanthropist Who Devised the 'British Standard Whitworth System')
Birthdate: December 21, 1803
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Stockport, Cheshire, England
Died: January 22
27
Spencer Fullerton Baird
(US Naturalist, Ornithologist, and Zoologist Who Mostly Studied North American Birds and Mammals)
Birthdate: February 3, 1823
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Reading, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: August 19
28
Multatuli
(Former writer, best known for his satirical novel Max Havelaar (1860), which denounced the abuses of colonialism in the Dutch East Indies (today's Indonesia))
Birthdate: March 2, 1820
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Died: February 19
29
Friedrich Theodor Vischer
(Novelist)
Birthdate: June 30, 1807
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Ludwigsburg, Germany
Died: September 14
30
Johann Jakob Bachofen
(Antiquarian)
Birthdate: December 22, 1815
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Basel, Switzerland
Died: November 25
31
Ivan Kramskoi
(Painter, art critic who was an intellectual leader of the art movement known as the Wanderers between 1860–1880)
Birthdate: June 8, 1837
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Ostrogozhsk, Russia
Died: April 6
32
Jules Laforgue
(Franco-Uruguayan Poet)
Birthdate: August 16, 1860
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Montevideo, Uruguay
Died: August 20
33
Isabella Valancy Crawford
(Writer)
Birthdate: September 25, 1846
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland
Died: February 12
34
Shimazu Hisamitsu
(Samurai)
Birthdate: November 28, 1817
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Kagoshima Castle, Kagoshima, Japan
Died: December 6
35
Mark Hopkins
(Theologian, Educator)
Birthdate: February 4, 1802
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Died: June 17
36
C. F. W. Walther
(Theologian)
Birthdate: October 25, 1811
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Langenchursdorf, Germany
Died: May 7
37
Jean-Baptiste Boussingault
(French Chemist Who Made Significant Contributions to Agricultural Science, Petroleum Science and Metallurgy)
Birthdate: February 2, 1801
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: May 11
38
Agostino Depretis
(Statesman)
Birthdate: January 31, 1813
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Mezzana Corti, Italy
Died: July 29
39
Mother Angela Gillespie
(Religious leader)
Birthdate: February 21, 1824
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: near Brownsville, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: March 4
40
William Burnham Woods
(Jurist)
Birthdate: August 3, 1824
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Newark, Ohio, United States
Died: May 14
41
Thomas Ustick Walter
(American Architect)
Birthdate: September 4, 1804
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: October 30
42
Bamba Muller
(Known for a modern 'Cinderella')
Birthdate: July 6, 1848
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Cairo, Egypt
Died: September 18
43
Mary Frances Clarke
(Irish Nun Who Founded the Catholic Order of the 'Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary')
Birthdate: November 15, 1802
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland
Died: December 4
Birthdate: May 20, 1811
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Camberwell Grove, London, England
Died: November 2
45
Aleksandr Ulyanov
(Russian Revolutionary and Elder Brother of Vladimir Lenin)
Birthdate: April 12, 1866
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Died: May 20
46
John Ceiriog Hughes
(Welsh Poet and Collector of Folk Tunes)
Birthdate: September 25, 1832
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog, Wales
Died: April 23
47
Mikhail Katkov
(Journalist)
Birthdate: February 13, 1818
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Moscow, Russia
Died: August 1
48
August W. Eichler
(Botanist)
Birthdate: April 22, 1839
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Neukirchen, Germany
Died: March 2
49
Balfour Stewart
(Scottish Physicist and Meteorologist Known for His Studies of Terrestrial Magnetism and Radiant Heat)
Birthdate: November 1, 1828
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Edinburgh, Scotland
Died: December 19
Birthdate: April 14, 1803
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Vienna, Austria
Died: January 14