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- November - Results of the Michelson-Morley Experiment are published, indicating that the speed of light is independent of motion.
- November 3 - Associação Académica De Coimbra , Students' Union of the University Of Coimbra in Portugal , was founded.
- November 10
- --- Louis Lingg , sentenced to be hanged for his alleged role in the Haymarket Riot bomb, kills himself by Dynamite
- ---In London, police and left-wing demonstrators clash. One dead. One of the participants is George Bernard Shaw .
- November 11 - August Spies , Albert Parsons , Adolph Fischer , George Engel , Michael Schwab , and Samuel Fielden hanged for inciting riot and murder in the Haymarket Riot of May 4 , 1886 .
- November 13 - Bloody Sunday , Police clash with pro-Irish independence protesters.
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The last surviving documented person who was born in 1887 was Kamato Hongo , who died on October 31 , 2003 , aged 116 years.
- January 1 - Wilhelm Canaris , head of German military intelligence in World War II (d. 1945 )
- January 3 - August Macke , German painter (d. 1914 )
- January 10 - Robinson Jeffers , American poet (d. 1962 )
- January 19 - Alexander Woollcott , American intellectual (d. 1943 )
- January 21 - Maude Davis , Oldest Person In The World (d. 2002 )
- January 22 - Helen Hoyt , American poet (d. 1972 )
- January 23 - Dorothy Payne Whitney , American-born philanthropist and social activist (d. 1968 )
- January 28 - Arthur Rubinstein , Polish-born pianist and conductor (d. 1982 )
- February 1 - Charles Nordhoff , English-born author (d. 1947 )
- February 2 - Pat Sullivan , Australian director and producer of animated films (d. 1933 )
- February 3 - Georg Trakl , Austrian poet (d. 1914 )
- February 4 - Sheila Kaye-Smith , English writer (d. 1955 )
- February 6 - Josef Frings , Archbishop of Cologne (d. 1978 )
- February 10 - John Franklin Enders , American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1985 )
- February 11
- --- Ernst Hanfstängl , German-born pianist and U.S. politician (d. 1975 )
- --- John Van Melle , Dutch-born writer (d. 1953 )
- February 17 - Leevi Madetoja , Finnish composer (d. 1947 )
- February 20 - Vincent Massey , Governor-General Of Canada (d. 1967 )
- February 26
- --- Grover Cleveland Alexander , baseball player (d. 1950 )
- --- William Frawley , American actor (d. 1966 )
- March 4 - Violet MacMillan , American Broadway theatre actress (d. 1953 )
- March 5 - Heitor Villa-Lobos , Brazilian composer (d. 1959 )
- March 9 - Phil Mead , English cricketer (d. 1958 )
- March 14 - Sylvia Beach , American publisher in Paris (d. 1952 )
- March 14 - Charles Reisner , American silent actor and film director (d. 1962 )
- March 22 - Chico Marx , American comedian and actor (d. 1961 )
- March 23 - Juan Gris , Spanish-born painter and graphic artist (d. 1927 )
- March 23 - Prince Felix Yussupov , Russian assassin of Rasputin (d. 1967 )
- March 24 - Fatty Arbuckle , American actor (d. 1933 )
- April 10 - Bernardo Houssay , Argentine physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971 )
- April 15 - Mike Brady , American golfer (d. 1972 )
- May 2 - Eddie Collins , baseball player (d. 1951 )
- May 5 - Geoffrey Fisher , Archbishop Of Canterbury (d. 1972 )
- May 10 - Mir Ghotbeddin Mohammad Angha , 40th master of Oveyssi Sufi order (d. 1962 )
- May 11 - Paul Wittgenstein , Austrian-born pianist (d. 1951 )
- May 25 - Pio Of Pietrelcina , Italian saint (d. 1968 )
- May 26 - Paul Lukas , Hungarian-born actor (d. 1971 )
- May 31 - Saint-John Perse , French diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975 )
- June 2 - Orrick Johns , American poet and playwright (d. 1946 )
- June 22 - Julian Huxley , British biologist (d. 1975 )
- June 25 - George Abbott , American playwright (d. 1995 )
- July 7 - Marc Chagall , Russian-born painter (d. 1985 )
- July 16 - Shoeless Joe Jackson , baseball player (d. 1951 )
- July 18 - Vidkun Quisling , Norwegian politician and traitor (d. 1945 )
- July 22 - Gustav Hertz , German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975 )
- July 28 - Marcel Duchamp , French-born artist (d. 1968 )
- July 29 - Sigmund Romberg , Hungarian-born composer (d. 1951 )
- August 3 - Rupert Brooke , British war poet (d. 1915 )
- August 12 - Erwin Schrödinger , Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961 )
- August 13 - Julius Freed , American inventor and banker (d. 1952 )
- August 15 - Edna Ferber , American novelist (d. 1968 )
- August 17
- ---Emperor Karl I Of Austria (d. 1922 )
- --- Marcus Garvey , American publisher, entrepreneur, and black nationalist (d. 1940 )
- August 24 - Harry Hooper , baseball player (d. 1974 )
- September 1 - Blaise Cendrars , Swiss writer (d. 1961 )
- September 3 - Frank Christian , American jazz musician (d. 1973 )
- September 13 - Lavoslav Ružička , Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976 )
- September 16 - Nadia Boulanger , French composer and composition teacher (d. 1979 )
- September 26 - Edwin Keppel Bennett , British writer (d. 1958 )
- September 28 - Avery Brundage , American sports official (d. 1975 )
- October 1 - Violet Jessop , RMS Titanic survivor (d. 1971 )
- October 5 - René Cassin , French judge, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1976 )
- October 6 - Le Corbusier , Swiss architect (d. 1965 )
- October 8 - Huntley Gordon , Canadian-born actor (d. 1956 )
- October 15 - H.W. Hughes , British entreprenuer and Philantrophist (d. 1968 )
- October 22 - John Reed , American journalist (d. 1920 )
- October 31 - Chiang Kai-shek , 1st ～ 5th President of the Republic of China (d. 1975 )
- November 1 - L. S. Lowry , English painter (d. 1976 )
- November 6 - Walter Johnson , baseball player (d. 1946 )
- November 10 - Arnold Zweig , German writer (d. 1968 )
- November 15 - Georgia O'Keeffe , American Woman Painter (d. 1986 )
- November 17 - Bernard Montgomery , World War II British commander (d. 1976 )
- November 19 - James B. Sumner , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955 )
- November 23 - Boris Karloff , English actor (d. 1967 )
- December 12 - Kurt Atterberg , Swedish composer (d. 1974 )
- December 13 - Alvin Cullum York , American war hero during World War I (d. 1964 )
- December 22 - Srinivasa Aaiyangar Ramanujan , Indian mathematician (d. 1920 )
- ''date unknown'' - Pauline Sabin , American activist for Repeal Of Prohibition in U.S. (d. 1955 )
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- February 26 - Anandi Gopal Joshi , first Indian woman doctor (b. 1865 )
- February 27 - Alexander Borodin , Russian composer (b. 1833 )
- March 8 - Henry Ward Beecher , American clergyman and reformer (b. 1813 )
- March 24 - Ivan Kramskoi , painter (b. 1837 )
- March 28 - Ditlev Gothard Monrad , Danish politician (b. 1811 )
- April 23 - John Ceiriog Hughes , Welsh poet (b. 1832 )
- May 8 - Aleksandr Ulyanov , Russian revolutionary, brother of V. I. Lenin (b. 1866 )
- May 14 - Lysander Spooner , American philosopher and abolitionist (b. 1808 )
- June 10 - Richard Lindon , Inventor of the Rugby Ball, the India-rubber inflatable bladder and the Brass Hand Pump for the same (b. 1816 )
- July 8 - John Wright Oakes , Landscape Painter (b. 1820 )
- July 17 - Dorothea Dix , American social activist (b. 1802 )
- July 25 - John Taylor , American religious leader (b. 1808 )
- August 8 - Alexander William Doniphan , American lawyer and soldier (b. 1808 )
- August 19 - Alvan Clark , telescope manufacturer (b. 1804 )
- August 20 - Jules Laforgue , French poet (b. 1860 )
- October 17 - Gustav Kirchhoff , German physicist (b. 1824 )
- October 21 - Bernard Jauréguiberry , admiral (b. 1815 )
- November 2 - Jenny Lind , Swedish soprano (b. 1820 )
- November 8 - Doc Holliday , American gambler and gunfighter (b. 1851 )
- November 19 - Emma Lazarus , American poet (b. 1859 )
- November 28 - Gustav Fechner , experimental psychologist (b. 1801 )
- December 5 - Eliza Roxcy Snow , American poet (b. 1804 )
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