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Art and culture

• La Sirène [aka La Mer calme] - Arnold Böcklin
• Gorilla Carrying off a Woman- Emmanuel Frémiet
• Du Fétichisme dans l’amour - Alfred Binet (Alfred Binet was the first to apply the word fetishism in a sexual context)
• She: A History of Adventure - H. Rider Haggard

Births

• January 3 - August Macke, German painter (d. 1914)
• March 14 - Sylvia Beach, American publisher in Paris (d. 1952)
• 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 - December

• 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)
  • Kamato Hongo, last verified living person born in 1887. (d. 2003)
• 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 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)

See also Category: 1887 births.

Deaths