1787 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).
Events
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
- August 27 - Launching a forty-five-foot craft on the Delaware River, John Fitch demonstrates the first US patent for his design.
September
October
November
December
Births
Deaths
- February 13 - Rudjer Boscovich, Croatian scientist and diplomat (b. 1711)
- February 13 - Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French statesman and diplomat (b. 1717)
- April 1 - Floyer Sydenham, English classical scholar (b. 1710)
- April 2 - Thomas Gage, British general (b. 1719)
- May 10 - William Watson, English physician and scientist (b. 1715)
- May 28 - Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1719)
- June 20 - Karl Friedrich Abel, German composer (b. 1723)
- July 4 - Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise, Marshal of France (b. 1715)
- August 1 - Alphonsus Liguori, Italian founder of the Redemptionist order (b. 1696)
- October 7 - Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church (b. 1711)
- November 3 - Robert Lowth, English bishop and grammarian (b. 1710)
- November 15 - Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer (b. 1714)
- December 18 - Francis William Drake, British admiral and Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1724)
- December 18 - Soame Jenyns, English writer (b. 1704)
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