What Happened In August 1887 In History

Famous Birthdays on August in 1887

• 2nd » Oskar Anderson, Bulgarian-German mathematician and statistician (d. 1960)
• 2nd » Tommy Ward (cricketer) or Tommy Ward, Indian-South African cricketer (d. 1936)
• 3rd » Rupert Brooke, English poet (d. 1915)
• 4th » Albert M. Greenfield, Ukrainian-American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1967)
• 5th » Reginald Owen, English-American actor and singer (d. 1972)
• 6th » Dudley Benjafield, English race car driver (d. 1957)
• 7th » Anna Elisabet Weirauch, German author (d. 1970)
• 12th » Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics or Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)
• 14th » Marija Leiko, Latvian actress (d. 1937)
• 17th » Charles I of Austria (d. 1922)
• 17th » Marcus Garvey, Jamaican journalist and activist, founded Black Star Line (d. 1940)
• 19th » S. Satyamurti, Indian lawyer and politician (d. 1943)
• 20th » Phan Khôi, Vietnamese journalist and scholar (d. 1959)
• 21st » James Paul Moody, English 6th officer of the RMS Titanic (d. 1912)
• 22nd » Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs (Germany) named Foreign Minister of Germany (d. 1977)
• 24th » Harry Hooper, American baseball player and National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum called Baseball Hall of Fame inductee (d. 1974)
• 27th » George, Crown Prince of Serbia (d. 1972)
• 28th » August Kippasto, Estonian-Australian wrestler (d. 1973)
• 28th » István Kühár, Slovenian priest and politician (d. 1922)
• 29th » Jivraj Narayan Mehta, Indian politician, 1st Chief Minister of Gujarat (d. 1978)

Famous Deaths for August 1887

• 8th » Alexander William Doniphan, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (b. 1808)
• 20th » Jules Laforgue, French poet (b. 1860)

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