1887 births

Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, and writer (1886–1965)

Austrian physicist (1887–1961)

Chinese politician, military leader, and President of the ROC (1887–1975)

Indian mathematician (1887–1920)

Belarusian-French artist (1887–1985)

American modernist artist (1887–1986)

French poet and diplomat (1887–1975)

French painter, sculptor, and chess player (1887–1968)

German physicist (1887–1975)

British Army officer (1887–1976)

Last monarch of Austria-Hungary (r. 1916–1918)

Polish-American classical pianist (1887-1982)

Norwegian politician and Nazi collaborator (1887–1945)

German field marshal (1887-1973)

German Nazi politician, military officer and leader of the Sturmabteilung (1887-1934)

Croatian scientist (1887-1976)

Jamaica-born British political activist, Pan-Africanist, orator, and entrepreneur (1887-1940)

American anthropologist and folklorologist (1887-1948)

German painter of the expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (1887–1914)

Argentine physician (1887–1971)

American chemist (1887-1955)

Spanish artist (1887–1927)

Austrian poet (1887-1914)

Russian (Soviet) agronomist, botanist and geneticist (1887-1943)

American track and field athlete and baseball player (1888-1953)

British actor (1887–1969)

Italian saint, priest, stigmatist and mystic

Slovak politician, priest and president of the Slovak Republic from 1939 to 1945

German admiral, head of military intelligence service (1887–1945)

3rd President of Italy (1887-1978)

English physicist

French musician, conductor, and teacher (1887-1979)

French jurist (1887-1976)

British evolutionary biologist, philosopher, author (1887–1975)

Brazilian composer (1887–1959)

Hungarian mathematician (1887-1985)

American sculptor and artist of Ukrainian origin (1887–1964)

Czech painter and writer (1887–1945)

German nobleman, jurist, and senior Nazi government official (1887–1977)

Swiss writer (1887-1961)

American journalist, poet, and communist activist

English poet (1887–1915)

British poet (1887-1964)

German writer (1887-1968)

German artist (1887–1948)

American actor, director and comedian

American linguist (1887–1949)

American poet (1887–1972)

Polish and French chess player (1887–1956)

Japanese admiral

Jewish-German architect (1887–1953)

Russian and Soviet poet, playwright, translator, literary critic, screenwriter, author of popular children's books (1887–1964)

French actor (1887-1951)

German-American psychologist and phenomenologist (1887-1967)

Polish mathematician (1887–1972)

Queen consort of Spain (1887-1969)

Japanese politician (1887-1959)

president of the International Olympic Committee from 1952 to 1972

Japanese prince (1887-1990)

Japanese politician (1887-1978)