Famous people born in 1887

The best-known people born in 1887, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.

Best known

Le Corbusier
Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, and writer (1886–1965)
October 6 · d. 1965
Photo: Joop van Bilsen for Anefo, CC0
Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian physicist (1887–1961)
August 12 · d. 1961
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Chiang Kai-shek
Chinese politician, military leader, and President of the ROC (1887–1975)
October 31 · d. 1975
Photo: Unknown photographer, Attribution
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Indian mathematician (1887–1920)
December 22 · d. 1920
Photo: Konrad Jacobs, Public domain
Marc Chagall
Belarusian-French artist (1887–1985)
July 6 · d. 1985
Photo: Pierre Choumoff, Public domain
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Ukrainian-born Israeli Hebrew writer, Nobel laureate in Literature (1888–1970)
August 8 · d. 1970
Photo: Israeli GPO photographer, Public domain
Georgia O'Keeffe
American modernist artist (1887–1986)
November 15 · d. 1986
Photo: Alfred Stieglitz, CC0
Saint-John Perse
French poet and diplomat (1887–1975)
May 31 · d. 1975
Photo: Unknown Unknown, Public domain
Marcel Duchamp
French painter, sculptor, and chess player (1887–1968)
July 28 · d. 1968
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Gustav Ludwig Hertz
German physicist (1887–1975)
July 22 · d. 1975
Photo: Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain
Bernard Montgomery
British Army officer (1887–1976)
November 17 · d. 1976
Photo: Possibly Edward George William Malindine, Public domain
Charles I of Austria
Last monarch of Austria-Hungary (r. 1916–1918)
August 17 · d. 1922
Photo: Wenzl Weis, Public domain
Arthur Rubinstein
Polish-American classical pianist (1887-1982)
January 28 · d. 1982
Photo: Joost Evers / Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0
Ruth Benedict
American anthropologist and folklorologist (1887-1948)
June 5 · d. 1948
Photo: World Telegram staff photographer, Public domain
Leopold Ružička
Croatian scientist (1887-1976)
September 13 · d. 1976
Photo: Nobel Foundation, Public domain
Marcus Garvey
Jamaica-born British political activist, Pan-Africanist, orator, and entrepreneur (1887-1940)
August 17 · d. 1940
Bernardo Houssay
Argentine physician (1887–1971)
April 10 · d. 1971
Photo: unknow (uploader Claudio Elias), Public domain
August Macke
German painter of the expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (1887–1914)
January 3 · d. 1914
Photo: August Macke, Public domain
James Batcheller Sumner
American chemist (1887-1955)
November 19 · d. 1955
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Juan Gris
Spanish artist (1887–1927)
March 23 · d. 1927
Photo: Amedeo Modigliani, CC0
Nikolai Vavilov
Russian (Soviet) agronomist, botanist and geneticist (1887-1943)
November 25 · d. 1943
Photo: World Telegram staff photographer, Public domain
Georg Trakl
Austrian poet (1887-1914)
February 3 · d. 1914
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
Carlos Gardel
Uruguayan singer, songwriter, actor; the most prominent figure in the history of tango
December 11 · d. 1935
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Boris Karloff
British actor (1887–1969)
November 23 · d. 1969
Photo: . The original uploader was Wikiwatcher1 at English Wikipedia ., Public domain
Padre Pio
Italian saint, priest, stigmatist and mystic
May 25 · d. 1968
Photo: The original uploader was Manfredonia at Italian Wikipedia ., Public domain
Nadia Boulanger
French musician, conductor, and teacher (1887-1979)
September 16 · d. 1979
Photo: Edmond Joaillier (1886-1939), Public domain
Wilhelm Canaris
German admiral, head of military intelligence service (1887–1945)
January 1 · d. 1945
Photo: Unknown Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Giovanni Gronchi
3rd President of Italy (1887-1978)
September 10 · d. 1978
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Attribution
Julian Huxley
British evolutionary biologist, philosopher, author (1887–1975)
June 22 · d. 1975
Photo: not given in the source, Public domain
Henry Moseley
English physicist
November 23 · d. 1915

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January

January 10 · Robinson Jeffers, American poet (1887–1962)
January 11 · Aldo Leopold, American writer and scientist (1887-1948)
January 14 · Hugo Steinhaus, Polish mathematician (1887–1972)
January 21 · Wolfgang Köhler, German-American psychologist and phenomenologist (1887-1967)
January 26 · François Faber, Luxembourgian racing cyclist (1887–1915)
January 29 · Wellington Koo, Diplomat and former President of the Republic of China

February

February 2 · Mario Roatta, Italian general (1887-1968)
February 9 · Vasily Chapayev, Red Army commander (1887–1919)
February 12 · Edelmiro Julián Farrell, 23rd President of Argentina (1887–1980)
February 17 · Joseph Bech, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (1887-1975)
February 22 · Savielly Tartakower, Polish and French chess player (1887–1956)
February 25 · Les Kurbas, Ukrainian and Soviet actor, theatre director, film director (1887—1937)

March

March 5 · Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (1887–1959)
March 21 · Erich Mendelsohn, Jewish-German architect (1887–1953)
March 23 · Josef Čapek, Czech painter and writer (1887–1945)
March 23 · Felix Yusupov, Russian prince
March 24 · Roscoe Arbuckle, American actor, director and comedian
March 25 · Chūichi Nagumo, Japanese admiral

April

April 1 · Leonard Bloomfield, American linguist (1887–1949)
April 5 · Hedwig Kohn, German-American physicist
April 11 · Jack Phillips, British wireless operator (1887–1912)
April 11 · Jamini Roy, Indian artist (1887-1972)
April 21 · Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Prussian princess (1887-1957)
April 22 · Harald Bohr, Danish mathematician and footballer (1887–1951)

May

May 16 · Igor Severyanin, Russian poet (1887–1941)
May 19 · Gregorio Marañón, Spanish physician and historian (1887-1960)
May 23 · Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician (1887-1963)
May 25 · Sydir Kovpak, Soviet general (1887–1967)
May 27 · Kazimierz Fajans, Polish-American scientist
May 30 · Alexander Archipenko, American sculptor and artist of Ukrainian origin (1887–1964)

June

June 17 · Şükrü Saracoğlu, 5th Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey (1887–1953)
June 20 · Kurt Schwitters, German artist (1887–1948)
June 21 · Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay, British army officer and diplomat, 1st Secretary General of NATO (1887-1965)
June 21 · Norman L. Bowen, Canadian geologist (1887-1956)
June 25 · Frigyes Karinthy, Hungarian writer (1887–1938)
June 25 · George Abbott, American writer and director (1887-1995)

July

July 12 · Rudolph Lewis, South African road racing cyclist (1887-1933)
July 17 · Jack Conway, American film director and actor (1887–1952)
July 28 · Tetsu Katayama, Japanese politician (1887-1978)
July 29 · Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japanese diplomat and politician (1887–1957)
July 29 · Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born American composer (1887–1951)
July 31 · Mitsuru Ushijima, general in the Imperial Japanese Army (1887–1945)

August

August 3 · Rupert Brooke, English poet (1887–1915)
August 5 · Reginald Owen, British actor (1887–1972)
August 9 · Hans Oster, German general (1887–1945)
August 15 · Edna Ferber, American novelist, short story writer and playwright (1885–1968)
August 23 · Friedrich Zander, Russian and Soviet engineer, rocket designer (1887-1933)
August 23 · Alvin Hansen, American economist (1887–1975)

September

September 1 · Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer (1887-1961)
September 7 · Edith Sitwell, British poet (1887-1964)
September 8 · Sivananda Saraswati, Hindu spiritual teacher (1887–1963)
September 13 · Ramón Grau, president of Cuba (1887-1969)
September 28 · Avery Brundage, president of the International Olympic Committee from 1952 to 1972
September 30 · Lil Dagover, German actress (1887–1980)

October

October 5 · René Cassin, French jurist (1887-1976)
October 12 · Paula von Preradović, Austrian writer, poet (1887-1951)
October 22 · John Reed, American journalist, poet, and communist activist
October 24 · Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Queen consort of Spain (1887-1969)
October 24 · Octave Lapize, French racing cyclist (1887–1917)
October 30 · Georg Heym, German writer (1887-1912)

November

November 3 · Samuil Marshak, Russian and Soviet poet, playwright, translator, literary critic, screenwriter, author of popular children's books (1887–1964)
November 10 · Arnold Zweig, German writer (1887-1968)
November 14 · Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, Portuguese artist (1887-1918)
November 15 · Marianne Moore, American poet (1887–1972)
November 15 · Hitoshi Ashida, Japanese politician (1887-1959)
November 21 · Joseph Plunkett, Irish nationalist, poet, journalist and 1916 Easter Rising leader

December

December 3 · Naruhiko Higashikuni, Japanese prince (1887-1990)
December 6 · Lynn Fontanne, British actress (1887–1983)
December 13 · George Pólya, Hungarian mathematician (1887-1985)
December 17 · Josef Lada, Czech illustrator, painter, caricaturist, scenographer and writer (1887-1957)
December 24 · Louis Jouvet, French actor (1887-1951)
December 25 · Conrad Hilton, American hotelier and member of the Hilton family

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