In the year 1887, construction of the Eiffel Tower begins (Jan 28), the first Groundhog Day is observed in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania (Feb 2), Chester Greenwood patents earmuffs (Mar 4), Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show opens in London (May 9), Emile Berliner is granted a patent for his Gramophone (Nov 8), Heinrich Hertz discovers the photoelectric effect on the production and reception of electromagnetic (EM) waves i.e. radio - and all these fine people were born: 1887-0101 Max Ritter von Müller* WWI fighter ace - Rottenburg an der Laaber, Bavaria, German Empire (1918/31) 1887-0104 Viljo Huttunen* Finnish actor/theater director - Toksova, Ingria, Russian Empire (1951/64) 1887-0110 1887-0111 Monte Blue* actor - Indianapolis, IN USA (1963/76) 1887-0120 1887-0121 Georges Vézina* hockey goalie (NHL 100)/the Vezina Trophy since 1926 - Chicoutimi, QC Canada (1926/39) 1887-0122 Helen Hoyt* poet - Norwalk, CT USA (1972/85) 1887-0128 Arthur Rubinstein* pianist - Lodz, Poland, Russian Empire (1982) 1887-0131 1887-0201 1887-0210 John Franklin Enders* biomedical scientist/N/“the Father of Modern Vaccines” - West Hartford, CT USA (1985/88) 1887-0217 Leevi Madetoja* composer - Oulu, GD of Finland (1947/60) 1887-0220 1887-0223 Kössi Kanto* actor/killed by an ice block - Kangasala, GD of Finland (1917/30) 1887-0228 Annie Mörk* actress/ theater director - Hanko, GD of Finland (1959/72) 1887-0303 Kurt Wolff* journalist/ writer/publisher - Bonn, Prussia, German Empire (1963/76) 1887-0311 Raoul Walsh* film director/actor - New York, NY USA (1980/93) 1887-0314 Sylvia Beach* bookseller/publisher/active in France - Baltimore, MD USA (1962/75) 1887-0315 Marjorie Merriweather Post* businesswoman/ socialite/ philanthropist - Springfield, IL USA (1973/86) 1887-0322 Chico Marx* actor/comedian/musician - New York, NY USA (1961/74) 1887-0323 Juan Gris* (b González-Pérez) painter - Madrid, Spain (1927/40) 1887-0324 Roscoe Arbuckle* actor/screenwriter/director - Smith Center, KS USA (1933/46) 1887-0324 Dickinson Bishop* businessman/ honeymoon survivor of the Titanic - Dowagiac, MI USA (1961/73) 1887-0325 1887-0331 1887-0401 1887-0402 Louise Schroeder* politician - Altona, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (1957/70) 1887-0403 Edgar Lansbury* politician/ father of Angela Lansbury - London, England (1935/48) 1887-0403 Nishizō Tsukahara* 塚原 二四三 navy admiral - Fukui Prefecture,  Empire of Japan (1966/78) 1887-0410 Bernardo Houssay* physiologist/N - Buenos Aires, Argentina (1971/84) 1887-0412 Harold Lockwood* actor/ director/producer - Brooklyn, NY USA (1918/31) 1887-0415 Felix Pipes* Austrian tennis player (OSd)/physician - Prague, Austria-Hungary (1983/95) 1887-0420 1887-0422 Harald Bohr* football player/mathematician/brother of Niels Bohr - Copenhagen, Denmark (1951/63) 1887-0425 Kojo Tovalou Houénou* (b Marc Tovalou Quénum) prominent critic of the French colonial empire in Africa - Porto-Novo, Kingdom of Dahomey (1936/49) 1887-0426 Elisabeth Risdon* actress - London, England (1958/71) 1887-0430 1887-0502 Vernon Castle* (b William Vernon Blyth) dancer - Norwich, Norfolk, England (1918/30) 1887-0510 1887-0513 Lorna Hodgkinson* educator/psychologist - Melbourne, Australia (1951/63) 1887-0522/28 Jim Thorpe* athlete/first native American to win OG - Prague, Indian Territory, USA (1953/65) 1887-0531 Saint-John Perse* (b Alexis Leger) French poet-diplomat/N - Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe (1975/88) 1887-0603 Toivo Niskanen* dancer/choreographer/ popularizer of tango in Finland - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1961/74) 1887-0620 Floyd Collins* cave explorer - Auburn, KY USA (1925/37) 1887-0622 Julian Huxley* evolutionary biologist/eugenicist - London, England (1975/87) 1887-0630 William Rosenberg* painter - Nurmijärvi, GD of Finland (1952/64) 1887-0706 Marc Chagall* Russian-French painter - Liozna, Russian Empire (1985/97) 1887-0716 Shoeless Joe Jackson* baseball player - Pickens County, SC USA (1951/64) 1887-0718 Vidkun Quisling* military officer/politician - Fyresdal, Telemark, Norway (1945/58) 1887-0722 Gustav Ludwig Hertz* physicist/N - Hamburg, German Empire (1975/88) 1887-0812 Erwin Schrödinger* physicist/N - Vienna, Austria-Hungary (1961/73) 1887-0817 Marcus Garvey* proponent of Black nationalism - Saint Ann’s Bay, Jamaica (1940/52) 1887-0830 Kalle Anttila* wrestler/OG - Muhos, Finland (1975/87) 1887-0830 Adam Kuckhoff* writer/journalist/ German resistance member (Rote Kapelle) - Aachen, German Empire (1943/55) 1887-0901 Blaise Cendrars* (b Frédéric-Louis Sauser) Swiss-French novelist - La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland (1961/73) 1887-0903 Frank Christian* jazz trumpeter - New Orleans, LA USA (1973/86) 1887-0905 Irene Fenwick* (b Frizell) actress/m to Lionel Barrymore - Chicago, IL USA (1936/49) 1887-0910 Giovanni Gronchi* politician/P - Pontedera, Tuscany, Kingdom of Italy (1978/91) 1887-0913 Frank Gray* physicist/ researcher at Bell Labs/remembered for the Gray code - Alpine, IN USA (1969/81) 1887-0913 Theodore Roosevelt Jr* government&business& military leader - Cove Neck, NY USA (1944/56) 1887-0913 Leopold Ružička* chemist/N - Vukovar, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary (1976/89) 1887-0916 Nadia Boulanger* music teacher/conductor - Paris, France (1979/92) 1887-0928 Avery Brundage* athlete/ businessman/IOC president - Detroit, MI USA (1975/87) 1887-0930 Tyyne Savia* photographer/ photography teacher - Tampere, GD of Finland (1959/72) 1887-1001 1887-1015 Frederick Fleet* sailor/ Titanic crewman and survivor - Liverpool, England (1965/77) 1887-1020 Arne Halse* athlete (javelin/OS) - Kristiansund, Norway (1975/87) 1887-1022 John Reed* journalist/political activist - Portland, Oregon USA (1920/32) 1887-1031 Chiang Kai-shek* Chinese political and military leader - Fenghua, Zheijang (1975/87) 1887-1110 Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu* one of the first female engineers - Galati, Kingdom of Romania (1973/86) 1887-1119 James B. Sumner* chemist/N - Canton, MA USA (1955/67) 1887-1123 Boris Karloff* actor - Camberwell, London, England (1969/81) 1887-1127 Eric Vasström* caricaturist/ illustrator/painter - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1958/70) 1887-1128 Ernst Röhm* military officer/leading member of the Nazi Party - Munich, Bavaria, German Empire (1934/46) 1887-1130 1887-1201 1887-1206 Margaret Bechstein Hays* Titanic survivor/cared for two small children known as the “Titanic Orphans” - New York City, NY USA (1956/68) 1887-1212 Kurt Atterberg* composer/engineer - Gothenburg, Sweden (1974/86) 1887-1222 Srinivasa Ramanujan* mathematician - Erode, Madras, British India (1920/32) 1887-1225 Conrad Hilton* hotelier - San Antonio, New Mexico Territory USA (1979/91) 1887-0 1887-0 1887-0 Updated 2025-0423 Helsinki-Tallinn Search for another year here