What Happened In March 1887 In History

Famous Birthdays on March in 1887

• 3rd » Lincoln J. Beachey, American pilot (d. 1915)
• 4th » John Alexander Buchanan, Canadian engineer and politician (d. 1976)
• 4th » Violet MacMillan, American actress (d. 1953)
• 5th » Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (d. 1959)
• 7th » Heino Eller, Estonian composer and educator (d. 1970)
• 9th » Fritz Lenz, German geneticist (d. 1976)
• 9th » Phil Mead, English cricketer (d. 1958)
• 11th » Raoul Walsh, American actor and director (d. 1980)
• 14th » Sylvia Beach, American-French publisher, founded Shakespeare and Company (bookstore) called Shakespeare and Company (d. 1962)
• 14th » Charles Reisner, American actor and director (d. 1962)
• 15th » Marjorie Merriweather Post, American businesswoman, founded General Foods (d. 1973)
• 21st » M. N. Roy, Indian philosopher and politician (d. 1954)
• 22nd » Chico Marx, American actor and singer (d. 1961)
• 23rd » Josef Čapek, Czech painter and poet (d. 1945)
• 23rd » Juan Gris, Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 1927)
• 23rd » Sidney Hillman, Lithuanian-American labor leader (d. 1946)
• 23rd » Felix Yusupov, Russian assassin of Grigori Rasputin (d. 1967)
• 24th » Roscoe Arbuckle, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1933)
• 27th » Väinö Siikaniemi, Finnish javelin thrower (d. 1932)
• 27th » Chapman Grant, American herpetologist, historian, and publisher (d. 1983)

Famous Deaths for March 1887

• 8th » Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman (b. 1813)
• 8th » James Buchanan Eads, American engineer, designed the Eads Bridge (b. 1820)
• 24th » Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and critic (b. 1837)

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