Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades: 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s - 1890s - 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
Years: 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 - 1892 - 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897
Events
Births
- January 3 - J. R. R. Tolkien, British author (+ 1973)
- January 14 - Hal Roach[?], film producer (+ 1992)
- January 15 - Rex Ingram, director, writer (+ 1950)
- January 18 - Oliver Hardy, comedian, actor (+ 1957)
- January 28 - Ernst Lubitsch, film director (+ 1947)
- January 31 - Eddie Cantor, actor, singer (+ 1964)
- February 13 - Grant Wood, painter (+ 1942)
- February 15 - James Forrestal, first United States Secretary of Defense (+ 1949)
- February 18 - Wendell Wilkie, politican, Presidential candidate (+ 1944)
- February 22 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, writer (+ 1950)
- February 27 - William Demarest[?], actor (+ 1983)
- March 10 - Arthur Honegger, composer
- March 10 - Gregory La Cava[?], director, producer, writer (+ 1952)
- March 30 - Stefan Banach, great Polish mathematician
- March 11 - Raoul Walsh[?], film director (+ 1980)
- April 2 - Jack Warner, Hollywood studio founder (+ 1978)
- April 6 - Donald Wills Douglas[?], American industrialist (+ 1981)
- April 6 - Lowell Thomas[?], travel writer (+ 1981)
- April 8 - Mary Pickford, actress, studio founder (+ 1979)
- April 19 - Germaine Tailleferre, composer
- May 7 - Archibald MacLeish[?], poet, Pulitzer Prize winner (+ 1982)
- May 8 - Ezio Pinza[?], opera singer (+ 1957)
- May 9 - Zita of Bourbon-Parma, empress of Austria-Hungary (+ 1989)
- May 11 - Margaret Rutherford, actress (+ 1972)
- May 12 - Fritz Kortner[?], director
- September 4 - Darius Milhaud, composer
- October 9 - Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet
- October 31 - Alexander Alekhine, chess champion
- November 5 - J. B. S. Haldane, British geneticist
- December 4 - Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975.
- December 12 - Herman Potočnik Noordung, Slovene pioneer of astronautics and cosmonautics, and rocket engineer (+ 1929).
- Ernest Brastins[?] born in Latvia, religious leader (Dievturiba)
Deaths
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