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1887 births
- Alvin HansenAlvin Harvey Hansen was born on the 23rd of August 1887 in Viborg, South Dakota. His father Niels Hansen worked as a farmer while his mother Marie Bergitta…
- Marcel DuchampHenri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp was born on the 28th of July 1887 in Rouen, France. He grew up in a household where art was not merely a hobby but a family…
- Le CorbusierCharles-Édouard Jeanneret was born on the 6th of October 1887 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, a city nestled in the Jura Mountains near the French border.
- Chiang Kai-shekOn the 31st of October 1887, a boy named Chiang Jui-yüan was born in the small town of Xikou. This place sat at the foot of the Wuling Mountains in Fenghua…
- Marc ChagallIn 1887, Moishe Shagal was born into a Jewish family in Liozna, near the city of Vitebsk. The town held about 66,000 people at that time.
- Erwin SchrödingerErwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger entered the world on the 12th of August 1887 in Vienna. He was the only child of Rudolf Schrödinger, a botanist, and…
- Sheila Kaye-SmithSheila Kaye-Smith entered the world on the 4th of February 1887 in St Leonards-on-Sea. Her father worked as a physician and her mother was his wife.
- Mamoru ShigemitsuMamoru Shigemitsu was born in what is now part of the city of Bungo-ōno, located within Oita Prefecture. He graduated from the Law School of Tokyo Imperial…
- Lutz Graf Schwerin von KrosigkJohann Ludwig von Krosigk entered the world on the 22nd of August 1887 in Rathmannsdorf, a small village within the Duchy of Anhalt.
- Nikolai VavilovNikolai Vavilov entered the Petrovskaya Agricultural Academy in 1906. He carried a pet lizard in his pocket wherever he went during those early years.
- Edwin MuirEdwin Muir was born on the 15th of May 1887 at the farm of Folly in Deerness, Orkney. His childhood there represented an idyllic Eden to him.
- Pieter GeylPieter Geyl entered the world on the 15th of December 1887 in Dordrecht. He completed his studies at the University of Leiden by 1913.
- Prince Naruhiko HigashikuniPrince Naruhiko Higashikuni entered the world on the 3rd of December 1887 in Kyoto. He was the ninth son of Prince Kuni Asahiko and court lady Terao Utako.
- Jim ThorpeJames Francis Thorpe was born in Indian Territory, now Oklahoma, between May 22 and May 28 of 1887. No birth certificate exists to confirm the exact date or…