Famous People Born in 1887

Le Corbusier

Swiss-French architect who pioneered modernist design and urban planning, from the Villa Savoye to the city of Chandigarh

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier, was a French-Swiss architectural designer, painter, urban planner and writer who is described as one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture.

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Erwin Schrödinger

Austrian physicist who devised the wave equation of quantum mechanics, won the Nobel Prize and imagined the famous cat paradox

Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger (12 August 1887 – 4 January 1961), sometimes anglicised as Schroedinger or Schrodinger, was an Austrian theoretical physicist who developed fundamental results in quantum theory.

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Chiang Kai-shek

Nationalist leader who ruled the Republic of China, fought Japan and the Communists, and retreated to Taiwan in 1949

Chiang Kai-shek (31 October 1887 – 5 April 1975) was a Chinese military commander, revolutionary, and statesman who was President of the Republic of China from 1948 to 1975 and the head of the Nationalist government from 1925 to 1948.

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Srinivasa Ramanujan

Self-taught Indian mathematician who worked with G. H. Hardy at Cambridge and transformed number theory before dying at 32

Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar (22 December 1887 – 26 April 1920) was an Indian mathematician who worked during the early 20th century.

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Marc Chagall

Russian-born French artist known for his colourful modernist paintings

Marc Chagall (born Moishe Shagal; 6 July 1887 – 28 March 1985) was a Russian and French artist of Jewish ancestry.

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Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements.

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Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Nobel Prize-winning author and central figure in modern Hebrew literature

Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Hebrew: שמואל יוסף עגנון \ שְׁמוּאֵל יוֹסֵף עַגְנוֹן shmuél yoséf agnón; August 8, 1887 – February 17, 1970) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Israeli novelist, poet, and short-story writer. He was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew literature.

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Marcel Duchamp

Artist who challenged traditional ideas with his readymade sculptures

Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French-American artist, chess player, and inventor who played a key role in the development of the avant-garde in the United States and in New York City, where he spent the last 25 years of his life.

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