Born in 1887

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• 1887–1968Padre Pio20th-century Italian saint, priest, stigmatist and mysticMay 25
• 1887–1968Marcel DuchampFrench-American painter, sculptor, and chess playerJuly 28
• 1887–1973Erich von MansteinGerman field marshalNovember 24
• 1887–1933Roscoe ArbuckleAmerican actorMarch 24
• 1887–1982Arthur RubinsteinPolish pianistJanuary 28
• 1887–1945Wilhelm CanarisGerman admiralJanuary 1
• 1887–1969Victoria Eugenie of BattenbergQueen of Spain from 1906 to 1931October 24
• 1887–1979Conrad HiltonAmerican hotel tycoon and politicianDecember 25
• 1887–1977Lutz Graf Schwerin von KrosigkGerman politicianAugust 22
• 1887–1947Jozef TisoPresident of the Slovak Republic from 1939 to 1945October 13
• 1887–1961Chico MarxAmerican comedianMarch 22
• 1887–1920John ReedAmerican journalist, poet, and activistOctober 22
• 1887–1979Nadia BoulangerFrench musician and teacherSeptember 16
• 1887–1975Julian HuxleyEnglish biologist and philosopherJune 22
• 1887–1915Henry MoseleyEnglish physicistNovember 23
• 1887–1964Alvin YorkAmerican soldierDecember 13
• 1887–1915Rupert BrookeEnglish poetAugust 3
• 1887–1990Prince Naruhiko HigashikuniPrime Minister of Japan in 1945December 3
• 1887–1943Nikolai VavilovRussian botanist and geneticistNovember 25
• 1887–1980Raoul WalshAmerican film director and actorMarch 11
• 1887–1948Ruth BenedictAmerican anthropologist and folkloristJune 5
• 1887–1959Heitor Villa-LobosBrazilian composerMarch 5
• 1887–1927Juan GrisSpanish artistMarch 23
• 1887–1975Avery BrundagePresident of the IOC from 1952 to 1972September 28
• 1887–1964Edith SitwellBritish poet and criticSeptember 7
• 1887–1975Ernst HanfstaenglGerman American businessmanFebruary 2
• 1887–1963Sivananda SaraswatiHindu spiritual teacherSeptember 8
• 1887–1985George PólyaHungarian-American mathematician and educatorDecember 13
• 1887–1948Kurt SchwittersGerman artistJune 20
• 1887–1966William FrawleyAmerican actorFebruary 26
• 1887–1954M. N. RoyIndian revolutionary and political theoristMarch 21
• 1887–1914August MackeGerman painterJanuary 3
• 1887–1975Saint-John PerseFrench poet and diplomatMay 31
• 1887–1948Aldo LeopoldAmerican conservationistJanuary 11
• 1887–1914Georg TraklAustrian poetFebruary 3
• 1887–1976L. S. LowryBritish visual artistNovember 1
• 1887–1965Frederick FleetBritish sailor, RMS Titanic survivorOctober 15
• 1887–1972Reginald OwenBritish actorAugust 5
• 1887–1979Barnes WallisEnglish engineer and inventorSeptember 26
• 1887–1951Louis JouvetFrench actorDecember 24
• 1887–1972Marianne MooreAmerican poetNovember 15
• 1887–1978Giovanni GronchiPresident of Italy from 1955 to 1962September 10
• 1887–1946Masaharu HommaJapanese army officer and war criminalNovember 27
• 1887–1975Gustav Ludwig HertzGerman physicistJuly 22
• 1887–1981Prince Yasuhiko AsakaJapanese prince and generalOctober 20
• 1887–1961Blaise CendrarsSwiss-born novelist and poetSeptember 1
• 1887–1966Arthur PercivalBritish Army officerDecember 26
• 1887–1975Annette KellermanAustralian swimmer, vaudeville star, film actress and writerJuly 6
• 1887–1976Leopold RužičkaCroatian-Swiss chemistSeptember 13
• 1887–1967Wolfgang KöhlerGerman-American psychologist and phenomenologistJanuary 21
• 1887–1987Alf LandonAmerican politicianSeptember 9
• 1887–1961Govind Ballabh PantIndian politician and independence activistSeptember 10
• 1887–1976René CassinFrench jurist and Nobel laureateOctober 5
• 1887–1964Alexander ArchipenkoUkrainian-American avant-garde artist and sculptorMay 30
• 1887–1946Walter JohnsonAmerican baseball player and managerNovember 6
• 1887–1983Lynn FontanneEnglish actressDecember 6
• 1887–1945Josef ČapekCzech painter and writerMarch 23
• 1887–1951Shoeless Joe JacksonAmerican baseball playerJuly 16
• 1887–1951Harald BohrDanish mathematician and footballerApril 22
• 1887–1971Bernardo HoussayArgentinian physicianApril 10