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The following is a list of notable deaths in 1987 . Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
Deaths in 1987
January
Håkan Malmrot
Ray Bolger
January 2 –
Jean de Gribaldy , 64, French road cyclist and directeur sportif
January 5 –
Herman Smith-Johannsen , 111, Norwegian skier and supercentenarian
January 9 –
Arthur Lake , 81, American actor
January 10
Håkan Malmrot , 86, Swedish breaststroke swimmer and dual Olympic gold medalist
Marion Hutton , 67, American singer and actress, cancer
January 14 –
Douglas Sirk , 89, German film director
January 15 –
Ray Bolger , 83, American actor, singer and dancer, the Scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz, bladder cancer
January 22 –
R. Budd Dwyer , 47, American politician, suicide
January 23 –
Asim Ferhatović , 53, Yugoslav footballer, heart attack
January 27 –
Norman McLaren , 72, Scottish Canadian animator and director
January 28 –
Galo Plaza , 80, Ecuadorian statesman, President of Ecuador, heart attack
January 31 –
Yves Allégret , 81, French film director
February
Liberace
Andy Warhol
James Coco
February 1
February 2
February 3 –
Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu , 82, younger brother of Japanese Emperor Hirohito, lung cancer
February 4 –
Liberace , 67, American pianist, singer and actor, pneumonia as a complication of AIDS
February 5 –
Otto Wöhler , 92, German general, convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity
February 7 –
Claudio Villa , 61, Italian singer and actor, heart attack
February 10 –
Robert O'Brien , 78, American racing driver
February 11 –
Mark Ashton , 26, Irish gay rights activist, pneumonia as a complication of AIDS
February 12
Dennis Poore , 70, British entrepreneur, financier and racing driver
Raymond Vouel , 63, Luxembourg politician, deputy Prime Minister
February 14 –
Dmitry Kabalevsky , 82, Russian composer, conductor and pianist
February 22 –
Andy Warhol , 58, American artist, director and writer
[2]
February 23
February 25
February 27 –
Franciszek Blachnicki , 65, Polish priest, poisoning
[4]
February 28 –
Joan Greenwood , 65, English actress, acute bronchitis and asthma
March
Randolph Scott
Danny Kaye
Louis de Broglie
March 1 –
Freddie Green , 75, American swing jazz guitarist, heart attack
March 2 –
Randolph Scott , 89, American film actor, heart and lung ailments
March 3 –
Danny Kaye , 76, American singer, actor, dancer and comedian, complications of heart failure, internal bleeding, and hepatitis C
[5]
March 7 –
Waldo Salt , 72, American screenwriter
March 9 –
Bobby Locke , 69, South African professional golfer
March 11 –
Joe Gladwin , 81, English actor, bronco-pneumonia complications
March 12 –
Woody Hayes , 74, American college football coach, heart attack
March 15 –
W. Sterling Cole , 82, American politician, lawyer and civil servant, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, member of the United States House of Representatives
March 19 –
Louis de Broglie , 94, French physicist contributing to quantum theory and Nobel laureate in Physics
March 21
Robert Preston , 68, American stage and film actor and singer, lung cancer
Dean Paul Martin , 35, American pop singer and film and television actor, air crash
March 26
March 27 –
Stane Kavčič , 67, Prime Minister of Slovenia
March 28
Maria von Trapp , 82, Austrian matriarch of the Trapp family, heart failure
Patrick Troughton , 67, English actor, best known for playing Doctor Who, heart attack
Alphonse Alley , 56, Beninese military officer, President of Dahomey (Benin)
April
Leabua Jonathan
Maxwell D. Taylor
Erskine Caldwell
April 1 –
Henri Cochet , 85, French tennis player, world number one player
April 2
Wang Renmei , 72, Chinese actress and singer, cerebral hemorrhage
Buddy Rich , 69, American jazz drummer, songwriter, conductor, and bandleader, cardiac failure related to malignant brain tumour
April 4 –
C. L. Moore , 76, American science fiction and fantasy writer
April 5 –
Leabua Jonathan , 72, Prime Minister of Lesotho, heart attack
April 11
Erskine Caldwell , 83, American novelist and short story writer, complications of emphysema and lung cancer
Kent Taylor , 79, American film and television actor
Primo Levi , 67, Italian chemist and writer and Jewish Holocaust survivor, suicide by jumping
[6]
Hédi Váradi , 57, Hungarian actress
April 12 –
Mike Von Erich (Michael Adkisson), 23, American professional wrestler, suicide by overdose
April 15 –
Masatoshi Nakayama , 74, Japanese karate master
April 17
Carlton Barrett , 36, Jamaican reggae drummer, murdered in conspiracy initiated by his wife
Cornelius Van Til , 91, Dutch-born American Christian philosopher, reformed theologian, and presuppositional apologist
Dick Shawn , 63, American actor and comedian, heart attack
April 19
Milt Kahl , 78, Animator for the Disney Studio, pneumonia
Antony Tudor , 79, English dancer and choreographer
Maxwell D. Taylor , 85, American Army general and diplomat, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
May
Dalida
Rita Hayworth
Gunnar Myrdal
May 2 –
Karl Davis , 25, African-American fashion designer, pneumonia and AIDS
May 3 –
Dalida , 54, Egyptian-French singer and actress, suicide by overdose
May 4
May 6 –
William J. Casey , 74, American CIA director, brain tumour
May 7 –
Colin Blakely , 56, Northern Irish actor, leukaemia
May 8
Sir James Plimsoll , 70, Australian diplomat, Governor of Tasmania, Ambassador to the United States, High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, heart attack
Carl Tchilinghiryan , 77, German businessman
May 9 –
Thodoros Kefalopoulos , 92-93, Greek actor
May 13
May 14 –
Rita Hayworth , 68, American actress and dancer, complications associated with Alzheimer's disease
May 17 –
Gunnar Myrdal , 88, Swedish economist, Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences
May 19 –
James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice Bradley Sheldon), 71, American science fiction and fantasy author, suicide past with husband
May 21 –
Alejandro Rey , 57, Argentine-American actor and television director, lung cancer
May 24 –
Hermione Gingold , 89, English actress, heart problems and pneumonia
May 27
May 29
Charan Singh , 84, Prime Minister of India, cardiovascular collapse
Jozef Langenus , 88, Belgian middle-distance runner and Olympian
May 31 –
John Abraham , 49, Indian filmmaker, short story writer and screenwriter, complications from a fall
June
Elizabeth Hartman
Fred Astaire
Jackie Gleason
June 1
June 2 –
Andrés Segovia , 94, Spanish virtuoso classical guitarist, heart attack
June 3 –
Will Sampson , 53, American painter, actor and rodeo performer, post-operative kidney failure
June 6 –
Richard Münch , 71, German actor
June 9
Madge Kennedy , 96, American stage, film and television actress, respiratory failure
Raya Dunayevskaya , 77, Russian-born American philosopher, founder of Marxist humanism in the United States
June 10 –
Elizabeth Hartman , 43, American stage and screen actress, suicide by jumping
June 13
Vera Caspary , 87, American screenwriter, novelist and playwright, stroke
Geraldine Page , 62, American film, stage and television actress, heart attack
June 14 –
Les Favell , 57, Australian test cricketer
June 20 –
Salim Ali , 90, Indian ornithologist and naturalist, prostate cancer
June 22 –
Fred Astaire , 88, American actor, singer and dancer, pneumonia
June 24 –
Jackie Gleason , 71, American actor and comedian
June 26
Arthur F. Burns , 83, Austro-Hungarian born American economist and diplomat, US Ambassador to West Germany, Chairman of the Federal Reserve
Henk Badings , 80, Indonesian-born Dutch composer
June 30 –
Federico Mompou , 94, Spanish composer and pianist, respiratory failure
July
Viola Dana
Richard Egan
July 2 –
Michael Bennett , 44, American musical theatre director, writer, choreographer and dancer, AIDS-related lymphoma
July 3 –
Viola Dana , 90, American silent-screen actress
July 4 –
Abdul Halim , 75, Indonesian politician, Prime Minister of Indonesia
July 6 –
Elli Stenberg , 84, Finnish politician, member of the Parliament of Finland
[7]
July 8 –
Gerardo Diego , 90, Spanish poet
July 10 –
John Hammond , 76, American record producer, civil rights activist and music critic, strokes
July 11 –
Tom Waddell , 49, American physician, decathlete Olympian and founder of the Gay Olympics, AIDS
July 17
July 20 –
Richard Egan , 65, American actor, prostate cancer
July 28 –
James Burnham , 81, American philosopher and political theorist, kidney and liver cancer
[8]
July 29 –
Arthur Chipperfield , 81, Australian test cricketer
August
Rudolf Hess
Hayden Rorke
Lee Marvin
August 1 –
Pola Negri , 90, Polish-American stage/film actress and singer, pneumonia secondary to a brain tumour
August 2 –
Abu Sayeed Chowdhury , 66, President of Bangladesh, Chairman of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Bangladesh High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, heart attack
August 5 –
Anatoli Papanov , 64, Soviet stage, film and voice actor, heart attack
August 6
Léon Noël , 99, French diplomat, politician and historian
Ira C. Eaker , 91, United States Army Air Forces general during World War II
August 7
August 10
August 16 –
Andrei Mironov , 46, Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, complications from wrongly administered drug
August 17
August 19 –
Hayden Rorke , 76, American actor best known for playing Colonel Bellows in I Dream of Jeannie, multiple myeloma
August 23 –
Didier Pironi , 35, French racing driver and power boat racer, powerboat racing accident
August 24 –
Bayard Rustin , 75, American civil and gay rights activist, perforated appendix
August 26 –
Georg Wittig , 90, German chemist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry
August 28 –
John Huston , 81, American film director, screenwriter, and actor, pneumonia as a complication of lung disease
August 29 –
Lee Marvin , 63, American film and television actor, heart attack
September
Bill Bowes
Peter Tosh
Lorne Greene
Jaco Pastorius
Mary Astor
September 1 –
Gerhard Fieseler , 91, German World War I flying ace, aerobatics champion and aircraft designer and manufacturer
September 2 –
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean , 60, Argentine Army division general and politician, de facto President of Argentina
September 3 –
Morton Feldman , 61, American composer, pancreatic cancer
September 4
Bill Bowes , 79, English test cricketer, player in the Bodyline series, heart attack
Richard Marquand , 49, Welsh film and television director, stroke
September 9
Bill Fraser , 79, Scottish stage, screen and television actor, emphysema
Gerrit Jan Heijn , 56, Dutch businessman, murdered after abduction
September 11
Peter Tosh , 42, Jamaican reggae singer and musician, murdered after being taken hostage at his home
Lorne Greene , 72, Canadian actor, radio personality and singer, pneumonia
September 12
John Qualen , 87, Canadian-born American actor, heart failure
J. Lawton Collins , 91, American Army general, Chief of Staff of the United States Army
September 13 –
Mervyn LeRoy , 86, American film producer, director and actor, heart issues complicated by Alzheimer's disease
September 17 –
Vladimir Basov , 64, Soviet actor, film director and screenwriter
September 18 –
Américo Tomás , 92, Portuguese Navy officer and politician, President of Portugal, infection
September 19 –
Einar Gerhardsen , 90, Norwegian politician, Prime Minister of Norway
September 21 –
Jaco Pastorius , 35, American jazz bassist, composer and producer, brain hemorrhage after being attacked at a club
September 22
September 23
Bob Fosse , 60, American actor, choreographer, dancer, and film and stage director, heart attack
Erland Van Lidth De Jeude , 34, Dutch-American wrestler, opera singer and actor, heart failure
September 25
Mary Astor , 81, American actress, respiratory failure due to pulmonary emphysema
Emlyn Williams , 81, Welsh writer, dramatist and actor, complications from bowel cancer
[9]
September 29 –
Henry Ford II , 70, president of Ford Motor Company, pneumonia
September 30 –
Alfred Bester , 73, American science fiction author, TV and radio scriptwriter, magazine editor and scriptwriter for comics, complications related to broken hip
October
Madeleine Carroll
William P. Murphy
Walter Houser Brattain
Woody Herman
October 2
October 3
Jean Anouilh , 77, French dramatist and screenwriter, heart attack
[10]
Catherine Bramwell-Booth , 104, English Salvation Army officer, granddaughter of Salvation Army founder,
[11]
Hans Gál , 97, Austrian-Scottish composer, teacher and author
October 8
October 9 –
William P. Murphy , 95, American physician, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine
October 11 –
Jaime Pardo Leal , 46, Colombian lawyer, union leader, and politician, assassinated
October 12
Snake Henry , 92, American baseball player
Fahri Korutürk , 84, Turkish admiral, diplomat and politician, President of Turkey
Alf Landon , 100, American oil man and politician, Republican candidate in 1936 presidential election
October 13
October 15 –
Thomas Sankara , 37, Burkinabe politician, Prime Minister and President of Burkina Faso, assassinated
October 19
October 20 –
Andrey Kolmogorov , 84, Russian mathematician
October 22 –
Lino Ventura , 68, Italian-born French actor
October 27 –
Vijay Merchant , 76, Indian test cricketer
October 28 –
André Masson , 91, French artist
October 29 –
Woody Herman , 74, American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, singer, and big band leader
October 30 –
Joseph Campbell , 83, American writer on comparative mythology and comparative religion, complications of esophageal cancer
November
Seyni Kountché
November 1 –
René Lévesque , 65, Canadian politician, Premier of Quebec, heart attack
November 5 –
Georges Franju , 75, French filmmaker
November 6
Zohar Argov , 32, Israeli singer and convicted rapist, suicide by hanging
Jean Rivier , 91, French composer of classical music
November 7 –
Arne Borg , 86, Swedish swimmer, 5-time Olympic gold medalist and holder of multiple world records
November 10 –
Seyni Kountché , 56, Nigerien military officer, President of Niger, brain tumour
November 12 –
Cornelis Vreeswijk , 50, Dutch-born Swedish singer-songwriter, poet and actor
November 18 –
Jacques Anquetil , 53, French road racing cyclist, 5-time Tour de France winner, stomach cancer
November 23 –
Antonio Sastre , 76, Argentine international footballer
November 26 –
Duncan Sandys , 79, British politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies
December
James Baldwin
Jascha Heifetz
Joop den Uyl
December 1
James Baldwin , 63, African-American novelist, essayist, playwright and poet, stomach cancer
[12]
Donn F. Eisele , 57, American Air Force officer and NASA astronaut, heart attack
December 2
Juan Alberto Melgar Castro , 57, Honduran military officer, president of Honduras, heart attack
Luis Federico Leloir , 81, French-born Argentine physician and biochemist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry, heart attack
Yakov Zeldovich , 73, Soviet physicist
December 4 –
Rouben Mamoulian , 90, Georgian-born American film director
December 8
December 10 –
Jascha Heifetz , 86, Lithuanian-born American violinist, complications from a fall
December 17 –
Bernardus Johannes Alfrink , 87, Dutch cardinal, Archbishop of Utrecht
December 21 –
Ralph Nelson , 71, American film and television director, producer, writer, and actor
December 22 –
Alice Terry , 88, American screen actress and director, Alzheimer's disease
December 23 -
Pablo Gomez Sarino , 76, Filipino politician, longest serving mayor of
Bacoor, Cavite
Pablo Gomez Sarino
December 24
Joop den Uyl , 68, Dutch politician and journalist, Prime Minister of the Netherlands, brain tumour
M. G. Ramachandran , 70, Indian actor and politician, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, heart attack and stroke as complications of kidney failure
December 27
Priscilla Dean , 91, American theatre and silent-screen actress, complications from a fall
Anna Eliza Williams , 114, British supercentenarian and oldest person in the world
December 29 -
Ellen Louise Mertz , 91, Denmark's first female geologist
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