What Happened in July 1887

Historical Events

Event of Interest

Jul 4 Future founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, begins his studies at Sindh Madressatul Islam University in Karachi

Jul 5 Columbia University 4's crew becomes first American boat to win at London's Henley Regatta (Visitors Challenge Cup)

Wimbledon Women's Tennis

Jul 6 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Lottie Dod becomes youngest ever Wimbledon champion (15 years, 285 days); defending champion beats Blanche Bingley 6-2, 6-0

Tennis Player and All-Round Athlete Lottie Dod

Wimbledon Men's Tennis

Jul 7 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: 3-time runner-up Herbert Lawford wins his only Wimbledon title beating Ernest Renshaw 1-6, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4

Jul 26 1st Esperanto book published

Events in 1887

Famous Birthdays

Jul 1 Charles D. Brown, American actor (Barefoot Boy, Disbarred, Night Editor), born in Council Bluffs, Iowa (d. 1948)
Jul 2 Marcel Tabuteau, French-American oboist (Philadelphia Orch 1915-54), born in Compiègne, Oise, France (d. 1966)
Jul 6 Annette Kellermann, Australian swimmer, silent-film actress (A Daughter of the Gods; Venus Of The South Seas), and author, born in Marrickville, New South Wales, New South Wales (d. 1975)
Jul 7 Marc Chagall [Moise Shagal], Jewish Belarusan-French modernist painter and stained glass artist (La Mariée; I and the Village), born in Liozna, Russian Empire (now Belarus) (d. 1985) [some sources cite date as July 6]
Jul 7 Raymond Hatton, American actor (Girls in Prison, Lady Killer), born in Red Oak, Iowa (d. 1971)
Jul 9 Samuel Eliot Morison, American historian (Admiral of the Ocean Sea), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1976)
Jul 10 Alfred Ernest Whitehead, English-Canadian composer, born in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England (d. 1974)
Jul 15 Wharton Esherick, American artist and sculptor who worked primarily in wood, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1970)
Jul 16 "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, American baseball outfielder, 1908-20 (Chicago White Sox, and two other teams; 1919 World Series "Black Sox" Scandal), born in Pickens County, South Carolina (d. 1951)

Vidkun Quisling (1887-1945)

Jul 18 Norwegian Minister of Defense and Prime Minister (1942-45), born in Fyresdal, Norway

Jul 20 Willem H. Drucker, Dutch lawyer (d. 1933)
Jul 22 Gustav Hertz, German physicist (Nobel Prize for Physics 1925 for "discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom"), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1975)

Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)

Jul 28 French sculptor and painter (Nude Descending a Staircase), born in Blainville-Crevon, France

Jul 29 Komako Kimura, Japanese suffragette, actress and editor, born in Tokyo (d. 1980)
Jul 29 Rudi Stephan, German composer (Die ersten Menschen), born in Worms, Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine (now Germany) (d. 1915)
Jul 29 Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-American operetta composer (Blossom Time), born in Nagykanizsa, Austria-Hungary (d. 1951)
Jul 29 Tim Mara, American founder and administrator (NFL NY Giants), born in New York (d. 1959)
Jul 30 Felix Andries Vening Meinesz, Dutch geophysicist (gravity), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1966)
Jul 31 Hans Freyer, German sociologist and philosopher, born in Leipzig, Germany (d. 1969)

Born in 1887

Famous Deaths

Jul 5 August Pott, German philological (Etymology Forschungen), dies at 84
Jul 14 Alfred Krupp, German steel merchant and largest arms manufacturer of his day, dies at 75
Jul 16 Nicaise de Keyser, Belgian painter (Battle at Woeringen), dies at 73