1887
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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
- The Horla by Guy de Maupassant
- La Marquise de Sade by Rachilde
- Capriccio espagnol
- Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
- On the Genealogy of Morality
Births
- January 3 - August Macke, German painter (d. 1914)
- March 14 - Sylvia Beach, American publisher in Paris (d. 1952)
- March 23 - Juan Gris, Spanish-born painter and graphic artist (d. 1927)
- March 24 - Fatty Arbuckle, American actor (d. 1933)
- July 7 - Marc Chagall, Russian-born painter (d. 1985)
- July 28 - Marcel Duchamp, French-born artist (d. 1968)
- August 17 - Marcus Garvey, American publisher, entrepreneur, and black nationalist (d. 1940)
- September 1 - Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer (d. 1961)
- October 6 - Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (d. 1965)
- November 23 - Boris Karloff, English actor (d. 1967)
Deaths
January - June
- 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 - December
- 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)
Notes
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