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Born in 1887

838 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Adolfo Tunesi

    artistic gymnast

    1887–1964 · aged 77

    August 27 · 1887

    No external source identified

  2. Nils Andersson

    association football player

    1887–1947 · aged 60

    March 10 · 1887

    Source: Swedish church birth records

  3. Carl Møller

    rower

    1887–1948 · aged 61

    August 24 · 1887

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  4. Nikolai Melnitsky

    sport shooter

    1887–1965 · aged 78

    May 9 · 1887

    No external source identified

  5. Arnfinn Heje*

    skipper, sailor

    Date disputed

    October 26 · 1887

    Source: Hvem er Hvem? (1948)

  6. Attilio Trerè

    association football coach, association football player

    1887–1943 · aged 55

    October 9 · 1887

    No external source identified

  7. Giulio Sarrocchi

    fencer

    1887–1971 · aged 84

    May 24 · 1887

    No external source identified

  8. Algot Lönn

    sport cyclist

    1887–1953 · aged 65

    December 18 · 1887

    No external source identified

  9. Erminio Dones*

    rower

    Date disputed

    April 14 · 1887

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  10. Henri Bonnefoy

    sport shooter

    1887–1914 · aged 26

    October 17 · 1887

    Source: Mémoire des hommes

  11. Karl Johan Svensson

    artistic gymnast

    1887–1964 · aged 76

    March 12 · 1887

    No external source identified

  12. Richard Arnold Dümmer

    botanical collector, botanist

    1887–1922

    1887

    Source: Biographical Database of Southern African Science

  13. Leonard Hanson

    artistic gymnast

    1887–1949 · aged 61

    November 1 · 1887

    No external source identified

  14. Marquard Schwarz

    swimmer

    1887–1968 · aged 80

    July 30 · 1887

    No external source identified

  15. Matti Markkanen

    artistic gymnast

    1887–1942 · aged 54

    May 14 · 1887

    No external source identified

  16. Karl Sandelin

    artistic gymnast, sailor

    1887–1950 · aged 62

    September 28 · 1887

    No external source identified

  17. Aarne Salovaara*

    artistic gymnast, javelin thrower

    Date disputed

    February 25 · 1887

    Source: Tilastopaja

  18. Charley Johnson

    amateur wrestler

    1887–1967 · aged 80

    January 31 · 1887

    No external source identified

  19. Eino Saastamoinen

    artistic gymnast

    1887–1946 · aged 59

    October 9 · 1887

    No external source identified

  20. Douglas Kertland

    architect, coxswain

    1887–1982 · aged 94

    November 23 · 1887

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  21. Karl Ansén

    association football player

    1887–1959 · aged 71

    July 26 · 1887

    Source: Transfermarkt

  22. Giuseppe Domenichelli

    artistic gymnast

    1887–1955 · aged 67

    July 31 · 1887

    No external source identified

  23. Axel Petersen

    association football player

    1887–1968 · aged 81

    December 10 · 1887

    No external source identified

  24. Per Kinde

    sport shooter

    1887–1924 · aged 37

    April 14 · 1887

    No external source identified

  25. Émile Dupont

    sport shooter

    1887–1959 · aged 71

    June 8 · 1887

    Source: Roglo

  26. Olga Knorring

    botanical collector, biologist

    1887–1978

    May 23 · 1887

    No external source identified

  27. Åke Fjästad

    association football player

    1887–1956 · aged 68

    December 16 · 1887

    Source: sok.se

  28. Conrad Brunkman

    rower

    1887–1925 · aged 38

    January 20 · 1887

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  29. Philippe Le Hardy de Beaulieu

    fencer

    1887–1922 · aged 35

    October 27 · 1887

    No external source identified

  30. Einar Werner Sahlstein

    artistic gymnast

    1887–1936 · aged 48

    May 30 · 1887

    No external source identified

  31. Harry Johnson

    boxer

    1887–1947 · aged 60

    August 10 · 1887

    No external source identified

  32. Elis Sipilä

    artistic gymnast

    1887–1958 · aged 71

    October 27 · 1887

    No external source identified

  33. Alessandro Alvisi

    event rider

    1887–1951 · aged 64

    February 12 · 1887

    No external source identified

  34. Otto Granström

    artistic gymnast

    1887–1945 · aged 57

    October 4 · 1887

    No external source identified

  35. Henrik Robert

    sailor, skipper

    1887–1971 · aged 84

    March 20 · 1887

    Source: historical register of persons

  36. Andrea Marrazzi

    fencer

    1887–1972 · aged 85

    October 2 · 1887

    No external source identified

  37. Pierre Bertran de Balanda

    show jumper

    1887–1946 · aged 58

    September 28 · 1887

    No external source identified

  38. William Bruhn-Möller*

    rower

    Date disputed

    February 12 · 1887

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  39. Gustaf Rosenquist

    artistic gymnast

    1887–1961 · aged 74

    September 10 · 1887

    No external source identified

  40. Harald Wallin

    sailor

    1887–1946 · aged 59

    February 27 · 1887

    No external source identified

  41. Bertrand Turnbull

    cricketer, field hockey player

    1887–1943 · aged 56

    April 19 · 1887

    No external source identified

  42. Alfred de Rauch

    ice hockey player

    1887–1948 · aged 61

    June 1 · 1887

    Source: Elite Prospects

  43. Johan Burk

    rower

    Born 1887

    May 11 · 1887

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  44. Yngve Stiernspetz*

    artistic gymnast

    Date disputed

    April 27 · 1887

    No external source identified

  45. Colin Campbell

    field hockey player

    1887–1955 · aged 67

    November 4 · 1887

    No external source identified

  46. István Herczeg

    artistic gymnast, journalist

    1887–1949 · aged 61

    December 7 · 1887

    No external source identified

  47. Jordi Rubió

    romanist, literary historian

    1887–1982 · aged 95

    January 30 · 1887

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  48. Nils Granfelt

    artistic gymnast

    1887–1959 · aged 72

    February 17 · 1887

    No external source identified

  49. Sven Rosén

    artistic gymnast

    1887–1963 · aged 76

    March 10 · 1887

    No external source identified

  50. Becher Gale

    rower

    1887–1950 · aged 63

    April 14 · 1887

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  51. Axel Henry Hansen

    artistic gymnast

    1887–1980 · aged 92

    June 25 · 1887

    No external source identified

  52. Eugen Lunde

    sailor, skipper

    1887–1963 · aged 76

    May 18 · 1887

    Source: historical register of persons

  53. Alf Lie

    artistic gymnast

    1887–1969 · aged 81

    April 10 · 1887

    Source: historical register of persons

  54. Ilmari Keinänen

    artistic gymnast

    1887–1934 · aged 47

    November 5 · 1887

    No external source identified

  55. Alfred Messenger

    artistic gymnast

    1887–1968

    December 4 · 1887

    No external source identified

  56. Umberto Zanolini

    artistic gymnast

    1887–1973 · aged 85

    March 31 · 1887

    No external source identified

  57. Bengt Lagercrantz

    sport shooter, military personnel

    1887–1924 · aged 37

    March 12 · 1887

    No external source identified

  58. Reginald Crummack

    field hockey player

    1887–1966 · aged 79

    February 16 · 1887

    No external source identified

  59. Otto Blom*

    tennis player

    Date disputed

    March 9 · 1887

    Source: Amsterdam municipal archive

  60. Kurt Runge

    coxswain

    1887–1959 · aged 72

    September 13 · 1887

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  61. Frigyes Mezei

    athletics competitor

    1887–1938 · aged 50

    September 26 · 1887

    No external source identified

  62. Marcel Godivier

    sport cyclist

    1887–1963 · aged 76

    January 17 · 1887

    Source: BnF authorities

  63. Axel Rydin

    sailor, skipper

    1887–1971 · aged 84

    February 14 · 1887

    Source: Sveriges dödbok 1830–2020

  64. Anders Moen

    artistic gymnast

    1887–1966 · aged 78

    October 1 · 1887

    Source: historical register of persons

  65. Sigurd Jørgensen

    artistic gymnast

    1887–1929 · aged 41

    December 15 · 1887

    No external source identified

  66. Henry Brown

    field hockey player

    1887–1961

    1887

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  67. Thoralf Hagen

    coxswain

    1887–1979 · aged 91

    September 22 · 1887

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  68. Carl Klæth

    artistic gymnast

    1887–1966 · aged 79

    July 3 · 1887

    Source: historical register of persons

  69. Iivar Väänänen

    sport shooter

    1887–1959 · aged 71

    September 17 · 1887

    No external source identified

  70. Niels Turin Nielsen

    gymnast, artistic gymnast

    1887–1964 · aged 77

    January 22 · 1887

    Source: Kunstindeks Danmark

  71. Léon Darrien

    artistic gymnast

    1887–1973 · aged 85

    October 25 · 1887

    No external source identified

  72. Ferdinand Minnaert

    artistic gymnast, politician

    1887–1975 · aged 87

    November 27 · 1887

    No external source identified

  73. Charles Guiraist

    sailor, rugby union player

    1887–1947 · aged 60

    May 31 · 1887

    No external source identified

  74. Annan Knudsen

    rower

    1887–1982 · aged 94

    November 23 · 1887

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  75. Petter Martinsen

    artistic gymnast

    1887–1972 · aged 85

    May 14 · 1887

    Source: historical register of persons

  76. Ronald Maitland

    sailor

    1887–1937 · aged 50

    January 6 · 1887

    No external source identified

  77. Oscar Olstad

    artistic gymnast

    1887–1977 · aged 89

    June 22 · 1887

    Source: historical register of persons

  78. Otto Maier

    coxswain

    1887–1957 · aged 69

    December 23 · 1887

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  79. Hans Rønne

    artistic gymnast

    1887–1951 · aged 63

    December 30 · 1887

    No external source identified

  80. Folke Johnson

    sailor, skipper

    1887–1962 · aged 74

    June 15 · 1887

    No external source identified

  81. Marcelle Barbey-Gampert

    geologist, climatologist

    1887–1949

    1887

    No external source identified

  82. Avenir Aleksandrovich Yakovkin

    astronomer, university teacher

    1887–1974 · aged 87

    May 21 · 1887

    No external source identified

  83. Alexander Richardson

    military personnel, bobsledder

    1887–1964 · aged 77

    May 11 · 1887

    No external source identified

  84. Ernest Thorn

    tug of war competitor

    1887–1968 · aged 81

    June 7 · 1887

    No external source identified

  85. Édouard Bourguignon

    tug of war competitor

    1887–date unavailable

    August 18 · 1887

    Source: olympedia.org

  86. Kamato Hongō*

    Date disputed

    September 16 · 1887

    No external source identified

  87. Maude Farris-Luse

    1887–2002 · aged 115

    January 21 · 1887

    No external source identified

  88. Reinhard Goering

    physician writer, playwright

    1887–1936

    June 23 · 1887

    No external source identified

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