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<html> <head> <title>Died in 1887</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr> <tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 15px 15px 15px 15px;"><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0> Died in 1887 LISTS <table border=1 class="sortable" id="sort_grunk"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/241/000100938/">Spencer Fullerton Baird</a></td> <td><center>Naturalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Feb-1823</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Aug-1887</tt></td> <td>History of North American Birds</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/093/000100790/">Henry Ward Beecher</a></td> <td><center>Religion</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Jun-1813</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Mar-1887</tt></td> <td>American Congregationalist preacher</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/295/000093016/">Aleksandr Borodin</a></td> <td><center>Composer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Nov-1833</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Feb-1887</tt></td> <td>Prince Igor</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/702/000167201/">Alvan Clark</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Mar-1804</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Aug-1887</tt></td> <td>Telescope maker</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/010/000094725/">Agostino Depretis</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Jan-1813</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jul-1887</tt></td> <td>Three-time Prime Minister of Italy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/415/000115070/">Dorothea Dix</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Apr-1802</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Jul-1887</tt></td> <td>Activist for the insane</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/989/000162503/">Doc Holliday</a></td> <td><center>Doctor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Aug-1851</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Nov-1887</tt></td> <td>Wyatt Earp's reliable friend</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/530/000097239/">Gustav Robert Kirchhoff</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Mar-1824</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Oct-1887</tt></td> <td>Theory of spectrum analysis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/026/000258249/">Jules Laforgue</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Aug-1860</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Aug-1887</tt></td> <td>Pessimistic poet who inspired T. S. Eliot</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/091/000047947/">Emma Lazarus</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Jul-1849</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Nov-1887</tt></td> <td>The New Colossus</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/842/000206224/">Jenny Lind</a></td> <td><center>Singer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Oct-1820</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Nov-1887</tt></td> <td>Soprano, The Swedish Nightingale</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/435/000209805/">Daniel Manning</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-May-1831</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Dec-1887</tt></td> <td>US Secretary of the Treasury, 1885-87</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/412/000096124/">Henry Mayhew</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1812</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Jul-1887</tt></td> <td>Punch</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/332/000131936/">Albert Parsons</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Jun-1848</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Nov-1887</tt></td> <td>Haymarket Martyr</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/618/000096330/">Carlo Passaglia</a></td> <td><center>Religion</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-May-1812</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Mar-1887</tt></td> <td>Advocate of Italian unity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/187/000205569/">Samuel Lowell Price</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Jan-1821</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-May-1887</tt></td> <td>The Price of Price Waterhouse Coopers</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/855/000137444/">Joseph Rainey</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jun-1832</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Aug-1887</tt></td> <td>Congressman from South Carolina, 1870-79</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/769/000118415/">Thomas Caute Reynolds</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Oct-1821</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Mar-1887</tt></td> <td>Missouri governor, committed suicide</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/130/000164635/">Lysander Spooner</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Jan-1808</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-May-1887</tt></td> <td>No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/117/000097823/">Balfour Stewart</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Nov-1828</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-1887</tt></td> <td>Studied magnetism, radiant heat</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/520/000050370/">Elihu Benjamin Washburne</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Sep-1816</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Oct-1887</tt></td> <td>Congressman and Ambassador to France</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/226/000093944/">William A. 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