Famous Deaths in 1887

Jan 1 Johan Hendrik Koelman, portrait painter, dies at 66
Jan 14 Friedrich von Amerling, Austrian painter, dies at 83
Jan 14 Peter Donders, Dutch Roman Catholic missionary to Suriname, dies at 77
Jan 17 William Giblin, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1840)
Feb 10 Ellen Wood, English author (Pomeroy Abbey), dies at 73
Feb 10 Pieter JBCR van der Aa, Dutch geographer, dies at 54
Feb 15 Alexander Borodin, composer, dies
Feb 19 Multatuli [Eduard Douwes Dekker], Dutch writer (Max Havelaar), dies at 66
Feb 27 Alexander Porfir'yevich Borodin, Russian composer, dies at 53
Mar 2 August W Eichler, German botanist, dies at 47
Mar 2 Wilhelm Troszel, composer, dies at 63
Mar 8 Pavel Annenkov, Russian literature historian/critic, dies at 73 (b. 1813)
Mar 8 Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman (b. 1813)
Mar 8 James Buchanan Eads, American engineer (b. 1820)
Mar 16 Emanuel Kania, Polish composer, dies at 59
Mar 24 Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and art critic (b. 1837)

Mar 28 Ditler G Monrad, Danish bishop/premier (1863-..), dies at 75
Apr 11 Pyotr Petrovich Sokal'sky, Russian composer, dies at 54
Apr 20 Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Egyptian statesman (b. 1826)
Apr 28 Carl Ferdinand Pohl, German-Austrian music historian and composer, dies at 67
Apr 30 Friedrich Wilhelm Markull, composer, dies at 71
May 7 C. F. W. Walther, American Lutheran theologian (b. 1811)
May 8 Alexander Ulyanov, brother of Lenin/hanged for assassination of tsar
May 11 Jean Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist (b. 1802)
May 14 Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (b. 1808)
May 14 William Burnham Woods, American politician, judge, and Brevet Major General (Union Army), dies at 62
May 23 Ludwig Mathias Lindeman, composer, dies at 74
May 27 Coenraad J van Houten, Dutch cocoa manufacturer, dies at 86
Jun 12 Gustav Weber, composer, dies at 41
Jun 21 Adolf Schimon, composer, dies at 67
Jul 5 August F Pott, German philological (That Personennamen), dies
Jul 16 Nicaise de Keyser, Flemish painter (Battle at Woeringen), dies at 73
Jul 17 Dorothea Dix, American social activist, dies at 85
Jul 25 John Taylor, American religious leader (b. 1808)
Jul 29 Agostino Depretis, Italian statesman (d. 1813)
Aug 1 Joseph Rainey, American politician, 1st African American in US House of Representatives (1870-1879), dies at 55
Aug 8 Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier, dies at 79
Aug 14 Richard Jefferies, English naturalist and essayist, dies of tuberculosis at 38
Aug 17 Franz Commer, composer, dies at 74
Aug 18 Orson Squire Fowler, American phrenologist and lecturer, dies at 77
Aug 19 Alvan Clark, American astronomer and maker of the Dearborn Observatory telescope, the largest telescope in the world at the time, dies at 83

Aug 20 Jules Laforgue, French poet (Les Complaintas), dies at 27
Aug 27 Wilhelm Volkmar, composer, dies at 74
Sep 14 Friedrich T Vischer, German philosopher/writer (Auch einer), dies
Sep 21 William Preston, American lawyer, politician and Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 70
Sep 29 Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon and founder of Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery, dies at 76
Oct 7 George James Webb, composer, dies at 84
Oct 12 Dinah Craik, English writer (John Halifax, Gentleman), dies at 61
Oct 17 Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (spectroscopy, coined "black body" radiation), dies at 63
Oct 31 George Alexander Macfarren, British composer and musicologist, dies at 74
Nov 2 Swedish Nightingale [Jenny Lind], Swedish soprano, dies at 67