1987 deaths

American film director and producer (1900–1987)

German film director (1897–1987)

Greek politician ,former president of the Hellenic Republic (1899–1987)

American composer (1926–1987)

American film director (1890–1987)

Afghan activist (1956–1987)

Indian ornithologist (1896-1987)

Italian singer and actor (1926–1987)

American automotive industry executive (1917–1987)

Palestinian Cartoonist (c.1937-1987)

American jazz musician and bandleader (1913–1987)

(1894-1987) President of Portugal

American astronaut (1930–1987)

English actress (1906–1987)

American military officer and diplomat (1901-1987)

French racing driver (1952-1987)

American actor and singer (1918–1987)

American science fiction writer (1915–1987)

Italian film director, screenwriter and film editor (1900–1987)

President of Lebanon from 1952 to 1958

Canadian track and field athlete

matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers (1905–1987)

Nigerian politician (1909-1987)

Russian Soviet writer, dissident and emigrant (1911–1987)

French tennis player (1901-1987)

Argentine association football player (1908-1987)

English actress (1897–1987)

Brazilian poet (1902–1987)

Portuguese singer, composer and politician (1929-1987)

American actor (1904–1987)

Polish-Romani classical poet and singer

Québécois politician and journalist (1922–1987)

Brazilian footballer and manager (1927–1987)

half-nephew of Adolf Hitler

Hungarian-born British author (1912–1987)

Italian painter (1911–1987)

American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987)

United States Army general

comic artist and writer (1904-1987)

(1914–1987); head of the House of Hanover from 1953-1987

Danish astronomer (1908-1987)

British film director (1937-1987)

American blues harmonica player (1942–1987)

President of Ecuador (1948 - 1952)

Tibetan Buddhist lama and writer (1939-1987)

German conductor (1902-1987)

President of Argentina (1926-1987)

American civil rights activist (1912–1987)

Czech actress (1902–1987)

American astronomer (1950-1987)

Canadian actor, musician, singer, and radio personality (1915–1987)

American blues and folk musician, singer and songwriter (1893-1987)

Scottish Canadian animator (1914-1987)

Swedish swimmer (1901-1987)

Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan (7 March 1911 – 4 April 1987), popularly known by his pen name Agyeya (also transliterated Ajneya, meaning 'the unknowable'), was an Indian writer, poet, novelist, literary critic, journalist, translator and revolutionary in Hindi language. He pioneered modern trends in Hindi poetry, as well as in fiction, criticism and journalism. He is regarded as the pioneer of the Prayogavaad (experimentalism) movement in modern Hindi literature.

Turkish stage, voice and film actress; comedian, story teller (1930-1987)

Muscogee Creek actor from Oklahoma (1933–1987)

American author (1911-1987)

French filmmaker (1912–1987)

Jewish Hebrew poet, writer, and partisan leader (1918–1987)