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Le Corbusier
Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, and writer (1886–1965)
Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian physicist (1887–1961)
Chiang Kai-shek
Chinese politician, military leader, and President of the ROC (1887–1975)
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Indian mathematician (1887–1920)
Marc Chagall
Belarusian-French artist (1887–1985)
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American modernist artist (1887–1986)
Saint-John Perse
French poet and diplomat (1887–1975)
Marcel Duchamp
French painter, sculptor, and chess player (1887–1968)
Gustav Ludwig Hertz
German physicist (1887–1975)
Bernard Montgomery
British Army officer (1887–1976)
Charles I of Austria
Last monarch of Austria-Hungary (r. 1916–1918)
Arthur Rubinstein
Polish-American classical pianist (1887-1982)
Vidkun Quisling
Norwegian politician and Nazi collaborator (1887–1945)
Erich von Manstein
German field marshal (1887-1973)
Ernst Röhm
German Nazi politician, military officer and leader of the Sturmabteilung (1887-1934)
Leopold Ružička
Croatian scientist (1887-1976)
Marcus Garvey
Jamaica-born British political activist, Pan-Africanist, orator, and entrepreneur (1887-1940)
Ruth Benedict
American anthropologist and folklorologist (1887-1948)
August Macke
German painter of the expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (1887–1914)
Bernardo Houssay
Argentine physician (1887–1971)
James B. Sumner
American chemist (1887-1955)
Juan Gris
Spanish artist (1887–1927)
Georg Trakl
Austrian poet (1887-1914)
Nikolai Vavilov
Russian (Soviet) agronomist, botanist and geneticist (1887-1943)
Jim Thorpe
American track and field athlete and baseball player (1888-1953)
Boris Karloff
British actor (1887–1969)
Padre Pio
Italian saint, priest, stigmatist and mystic
Jozef Tiso
Slovak politician, priest and president of the Slovak Republic from 1939 to 1945
Wilhelm Canaris
German admiral, head of military intelligence service (1887–1945)
Giovanni Gronchi
3rd President of Italy (1887-1978)
Henry Moseley
English physicist
Nadia Boulanger
French musician, conductor, and teacher (1887-1979)
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French jurist (1887-1976)
Julian Huxley
British evolutionary biologist, philosopher, author (1887–1975)
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Brazilian composer (1887–1959)
George Pólya
Hungarian mathematician (1887-1985)
Alexander Archipenko
American sculptor and artist of Ukrainian origin (1887–1964)
Josef Čapek
Czech painter and writer (1887–1945)
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk
German nobleman, jurist, and senior Nazi government official (1887–1977)
Blaise Meliani
Swiss writer (1887-1961)
John Reed
American journalist, poet, and communist activist
Rupert Brooke
English poet (1887–1915)
Edith Sitwell
British poet (1887-1964)
Arnold Zweig
German writer (1887-1968)
Kurt Schwitters
German artist (1887–1948)
Roscoe Arbuckle
American actor, director and comedian
Leonard Bloomfield
American linguist (1887–1949)
Marianne Moore
American poet (1887–1972)
Savielly Tartakower
Polish and French chess player (1887–1956)
Chūichi Nagumo
Japanese admiral
Erich Mendelsohn
Jewish-German architect (1887–1953)
Samuil Marshak
Russian and Soviet poet, playwright, translator, literary critic, screenwriter, author of popular children's books (1887–1964)
Louis Jouvet
French actor (1887-1951)
Wolfgang Köhler
German-American psychologist and phenomenologist (1887-1967)
Hugo Steinhaus
Polish mathematician (1887–1972)
Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg
Queen consort of Spain (1887-1969)
Hitoshi Ashida
Japanese politician (1887-1959)
Avery Brundage
president of the International Olympic Committee from 1952 to 1972
Naruhiko Higashikuni
Japanese prince (1887-1990)
Tetsu Katayama
Japanese politician (1887-1978)