Famous Deaths in November 1887

  • Nov 2 Swedish Nightingale [Jenny Lind], Swedish soprano, dies at 67

Person of interestDoc Holliday

Nov 8 Doc Holliday, American gambler and gunfighter, dies at 36

Gunfighter in the American Old West Doc Holliday
Gunfighter in the American Old West
Doc Holliday
  • Nov 18 Eduard Marxsen, composer, dies at 81
  • Nov 18 Gustav T Fechner, German psychologist/physicist, dies at 86
  • Nov 18 Heinrich Panofka, German violist/composer, dies at 80

Person of interestEmma Lazarus

Nov 19 Emma Lazarus, US poet ("Give us your tired & poor"), dies in New York at 38

Poet Emma Lazarus
Poet
Emma Lazarus
  • Nov 20 Louis Gallait, Belgian painter (Egmont & Receiver), dies at 77
  • Nov 25 Johann J Bachofen, Swiss historic rights, dies at 71