1887
Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades: 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s - 1880s - 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s
Years: 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 - 1887 - 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892
Events:
- January 1 - Queen Victoria becomes Empress of India
- July 27 - Giuseppe Peano marries Carola Crosio
- - L. L. Zamenhof completes the creation of the initial version of Esperanto.
- U.S. National Institutes of Health founded
- Thomas Stevens is 1st man to bicycle around the world
- Michelson-Morley experiment was performed
Births:
- January 3 - August Macke, painter (+ 1914)
- January 19 - Alexander Woollcott, intellectual (+ 1943)
- February 11 -
- Ernst Hanfstängl German/US pianist/politician.
- John van Melle South African writer
- March 22 - Chico Marx, comedian
- May 11 - Paul Wittgenstein, pianist
- July 18 - Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian politician and famous traitor
- August 12 - Erwin Schrodinger, physicist
- September 1 - Blaise Cendrars, writer
- December 22 - Srinivasa Aaiyangar Ramanujan, Indian mathematician
- Bernard Montgomery, famous WWII British commander
- Pat Sullivan, Australian director and producer of animated films, alleged co-creator of Felix the Cat
Deaths:
- February 27 - Alexander Borodin, composer
- October 17 - Gustav Kirchhoff, physicist