• Polish ophthalmologist L. L. Zamenhof publishes his Esperanto language.
• Anne Sullivan begins working with Helen Keller.

These people were born in 1887:

• Legendary baseball pitcher Walter Johnson.

These people died in 1887:

• Legendary Indian mathemetician Srinivasa Ramanujan.

1886 - 1887 - 1888

19th century

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