Question: In what year was the writer of the 1887 story "Kidnapped" born?

Related documents: [0]  [DOC] Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( ; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. [END] 
[1]  [DOC] The Rudyard Kipling story "Kidnapped" was first published in the "Civil and Military Gazette" on March 21, 1887, in the first Indian edition of "Plain Tales from the Hills" (1888), and in subsequent editions of that collection. [END]  
Answer: 1865
1865