Deaths in 1987
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.
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Deaths in 1987
January
- January 2 – Jean de Gribaldy, French road cyclist and directeur sportif (b. 1922)
- January 5 – Herman Smith-Johannsen, Norwegian supercentenarian (b. 1875)
- January 9 – Arthur Lake, American actor (b. 1905)
- January 10
- Håkan Malmrot, Swedish Olympic swimmer (b. 1900)
- Marion Hutton, American singer and actress (b. 1919)
- January 14 – Douglas Sirk, German-American film director (b. 1897)
- January 15 – Ray Bolger, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1904)
- January 22 – R. Budd Dwyer, American politician (b. 1939)
- January 25 – Asim Ferhatović, Yugoslav footballer (b. 1933)
- January 27 – Norman McLaren, Canadian animator and director (b. 1914)
- January 28 – Galo Plaza, Ecuadorian statesman, 29th President of Ecuador (b. 1906)
- January 31 – Yves Allégret, French film director (b. 1905)
February
- February 1
- Gustav Knuth, German film actor (b. 1901)
- Alessandro Blasetti, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1900)
- February 2
- Alistair MacLean, British novelist (b. 1922)[1]
- Carlos José Castilho, Brazilian football goalkeeper (b. 1927)
- February 3 – Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu, younger brother of Japanese Emperor Hirohito (b. 1905)
- February 4 – Liberace, American pianist, singer and actor (b. 1919)
- February 5 – Otto Wöhler, German general, serving during World War I and World War II (b. 1894)
- February 7 – Claudio Villa, Italian singer (b. 1926)
- February 10 – Robert O'Brien, American racing driver (b. 1908)
- February 11 – Mark Ashton, Irish gay rights activist (b. 1960)
- February 12
- Dennis Poore, British entrepreneur, financier and sometime racing driver (b. 1916)
- Raymond Vouel, Luxembourg politician (b. 1923)
- February 14 – Dmitry Kabalevsky, Russian composer (b. 1904)
- February 22 – Andy Warhol, American artist, director, writer (b. 1928)[2]
- February 23
- Esmond Knight, English actor (b. 1906)
- José Afonso, Portuguese singer-songwriter, teacher and activist (b. 1929)[3]
- February 25
- James Coco, American actor (b. 1930)
- Elisabeth Coit, American architect (b. 1897)
- February 27
- Joan Greenwood, English actress (b. 1921)
- Franciszek Blachnicki, Polish priest (b. 1921) [4]
March
- March 1 – Freddie Green, American swing jazz guitarist (b. 1911)
- March 2 – Randolph Scott, American actor (b. 1898)
- March 3 – Danny Kaye, American singer, actor, and comedian (b. 1911)[5]
- March 7 – Waldo Salt, American screenwriter (b. 1914)
- March 11 – Joe Gladwin, English actor (b. 1906)
- March 12 - Woody Hayes, American college football coach, coached for Ohio State University
- March 15 – W. Sterling Cole, American politician, first Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (b. 1904)
- March 19 – Louis de Broglie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
- March 21
- Robert Preston, American actor (b. 1918)
- Dean Paul Martin, American pop singer and film and television actor (b. 1951)
- March 26
- Georg Muche, German painter, printmaker, architect, author, and teacher (b. 1895)
- Eugen Jochum, German conductor (b. 1902)
- March 27 – Stane Kavčič, 6th Prime Minister of Slovenia (b. 1919)
- March 28
- Maria von Trapp, Austrian singer (b. 1905)
- Patrick Troughton, English actor (b. 1920)
- Alphonse Alley, Beninese military officer, former Head of State of Dahomey (b. 1930)
April
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- April 1 – Henri Cochet, French tennis champion (b. 1901)
- April 2
- Wang Renmei, Chinese actress and singer (b. 1914)
- Buddy Rich, American jazz drummer (b. 1917)
- April 4 – C. L. Moore, American writer (b. 1911)
- April 5 – Leabua Jonathan, 2nd Prime Minister of Lesotho (b. 1914)
- April 11
- Erskine Caldwell, American writer (b. 1903)
- Kent Taylor, American actor (b. 1907)
- Primo Levi, Italian chemist and writer (b. 1919)[6]
- Hédi Váradi, Hungarian actress (b. 1929)
- April 12 – Mike Von Erich, American professional wrestler (b. 1964)
- April 15 – Masatoshi Nakayama, Japanese karate master (b. 1913)
- April 17
- Carlton Barrett, Jamaican reggae drummer (b. 1950)
- Cornelius Van Til, Dutch Christian philosopher, reformed theologian, and presuppositional apologist (b. 1895)
- Dick Shawn, American actor (b. 1923)
- April 19
- Milt Kahl, Animator for the Disney Studio (b. 1909)
- Antony Tudor, English dancer and choreographer (b. 1908)
- Maxwell D. Taylor, American general and diplomat (b. 1901)
May
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- May 2 - Karl Davis, African-American fashion designer (b. 1962)
- May 3 – Dalida, French rock musician (b. 1933)
- May 4
- Paul Butterfield, American musician (b. 1942)
- Cathryn Damon, American actress (b. 1930)
- May 6 – William J. Casey, American Central Intelligence Agency director (b. 1913)
- May 7 – Colin Blakely, Northern Irish actor (b. 1930)
- May 8
- Sir James Plimsoll, Australian public servant (b. 1917)
- Carl Tchilinghiryan, German businessman (b. 1910)
- May 9 – Thodoros Kefalopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1894)
- May 13
- Ismael Rivera, Puerto Rican composer and salsa singer (b. 1931)
- Signe Amundsen, Norwegian operatic soprano (b. 1899)
- May 14 – Rita Hayworth, American actress and dancer (b. 1918)
- May 17 – Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
- May 19 – James Tiptree, Jr., American author (b. 1915)
- May 21 – Alejandro Rey, Argentine actor (b. 1930)
- May 24 – Hermione Gingold, English actress (b. 1897)
- May 27
- Colin McCahon, New Zealand artist (b. 1919)
- John Howard Northrop, American biochemist (b. 1891)
- May 29
- Charan Singh, 5th Prime Minister of India (b. 1902)
- Jozef Langenus, Belgian middle-distance runner (b. 1898)
- May 31 – John Abraham, Indian film director (b. 1937)
June
- June 1
- Errol Barrow, Caribbean statesman, 1st Prime Minister of Barbados (b. 1920)
- Rashid Karami, Lebanese statesman, 21st Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1921)
- Domenico Piemontesi, Italian road bicycle racer (b. 1903)
- June 2 – Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist (b. 1893)
- June 3 – Will Sampson, American actor (b. 1933)
- June 6 – Richard Münch, German actor (b. 1916)
- June 9
- Madge Kennedy, American actress (b. 1891)
- Raya Dunayevskaya, Russian-American philosopher, founder of Marxist humanism in the United States (b. 1910)
- June 10 – Elizabeth Hartman, American actress (b. 1943)
- June 13
- Vera Caspary, American screenwriter, novelist, playwright (b. 1899)
- Geraldine Page, American actress (b. 1924)
- June 20 – Salim Ali, Indian ornithologist and naturalist (b. 1896)
- June 22 – Fred Astaire, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1899)
- June 24 – Jackie Gleason, American actor and comedian (b. 1916)
- June 26
- Arthur F. Burns, American economist (b. 1904)
- Henk Badings, Dutch composer (b. 1907)
- June 30 – Federico Mompou, Spanish composer and pianist (b. 1893)
July
- July 2 – Michael Bennett, American theater director and choreographer (b. 1943)
- July 3 – Viola Dana, American actress (b. 1897)
- July 4 – Abdul Halim, Indonesian politician, 4th Prime Minister of Indonesia (b. 1911)
- July 8 – Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet (b. 1896)
- July 10 – John Hammond, American record producer (b. 1910)
- July 11 – Tom Waddell, American sportsman and competitor (b. 1937)
- July 17
- Kristjan Palusalu, Estonian wrestler (b. 1908)
- Yujiro Ishihara, Japanese actor (b. 1934)
- July 20 – Richard Egan, American actor (b. 1921)
- July 28 - James Burnham, American philosopher and political theorist (b. 1905)[7]
August
- August 1 – Pola Negri, Polish actress (b. 1897)
- August 2 – Abu Sayeed Chowdhury, 2nd President of Bangladesh (b. 1921)
- August 5 – Anatoli Papanov, Soviet and Russian stage, film and voice actor (b. 1922)
- August 6
- Léon Noël, French diplomat, politician and historian (b. 1888)
- Ira C. Eaker, World War II United States Army Air Forces general (b. 1896)
- August 7
- Camille Chamoun, 7th President of Lebanon (b. 1900)
- Nobusuke Kishi, Japanese politician, 37th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1896)
- August 10 – Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1893)
- August 16 – Andrei Mironov, Soviet and Russian theatre and film actor (b. 1941)
- August 17
- Rudolf Hess, German Nazi official (b. 1894)
- Clarence Brown, American film director (b. 1890)
- Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian poet (b. 1902)
- August 23 – Didier Pironi, French racing driver (b. 1952)
- August 24 – Bayard Rustin, American civil rights activist (b. 1912)
- August 26 – Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
- August 28 – John Huston, American film director, screenwriter, and actor (b. 1906)
- August 29 – Lee Marvin, American actor (b. 1924)
September
- September 1 – Gerhard Fieseler, German World War I flying ace, aerobatics champion, and aircraft designer and manufacturer (b. 1896)
- September 2 – Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean, President of Argentina (1982) (b. 1926)
- September 3 – Morton Feldman, American composer (b. 1926)
- September 4 – Richard Marquand, Welsh film director (b. 1937)
- September 9
- Bill Fraser, Scottish actor (b. 1908)
- Gerrit Jan Heijn, Dutch businessman (b. 1931)
- September 11
- Peter Tosh, Jamaican singer and musician (b. 1944)
- Lorne Greene, Canadian actor, radio personality and singer (b. 1915)
- September 12
- John Qualen, Canadian-American actor (b. 1899)
- J. Lawton Collins, American general (b. 1896)
- September 13 – Mervyn LeRoy, American film producer and director (b. 1900)
- September 17 – Vladimir Basov, Soviet actor, film director and screenwriter (b. 1923)
- September 18 – Américo Tomás, 13th President of Portugal (b. 1894)
- September 19 – Einar Gerhardsen, former Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1897)
- September 21 – Jaco Pastorius, American jazz bassist (b. 1951)
- September 22
- Hákun Djurhuus, 4th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1908)
- Dan Rowan, American comedian (b. 1922)
- September 23
- Bob Fosse, American theater choreographer and director (b. 1927)
- Erland Van Lidth De Jeude, Dutch-American wrestler, opera singer and actor (b. 1953)
- September 25
- Mary Astor, American actress (b. 1906)
- Emlyn Williams, Welsh writer, dramatist and actor (b. 1905)[8]
- September 29 – Henry Ford II, president of Ford Motor Company (b. 1917)
- September 30 – Alfred Bester, American author (b. 1913)
October
- October 2
- Madeleine Carroll, English actress (b. 1906)
- Sir Peter Medawar, Brazilian-British scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1915)
- October 3
- Jean Anouilh, French dramatist (b. 1910)[9]
- Catherine Bramwell-Booth, English Salvation Army officer (b. 1883)[10]
- Hans Gál, composer, teacher and author (b. 1890)
- October 8
- Spencer Gordon Bennet, American film producer (b. 1893)
- Konstantinos Tsatsos, President of Greece (b. 1899)
- October 9 – William P. Murphy, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1892)
- October 11 – Jaime Pardo Leal, Colombian lawyer, union leader, and politician (b. 1941)
- October 12
- Alf Landon, American politician (b. 1887)
- Fahri Korutürk, Turkish diplomat, 6th President of Turkey (b. 1903)
- October 13
- Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
- Kishore Kumar, Indian actor and playback singer (b. 1929)
- October 15 – Thomas Sankara, Burkinabe politician, 5th Prime Minister of Burkina Faso and 2nd President of Burkina Faso (b. 1949)
- October 19
- Jacqueline du Pré, British cellist (b. 1945)
- Hermann Lang, German race car driver (b. 1909)
- October 20 – Andrey Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1903)
- October 22 – Lino Ventura, Italian actor (b. 1919)
- October 27 – Vijay Merchant, Indian cricketer (b. 1911)
- October 28 – André Masson, French artist (b. 1896)
- October 29 – Woody Herman, American jazz musician (b. 1913)
- October 30 – Joseph Campbell, American mythologist, author (b. 1904)
November
- November 1 – René Lévesque, Canadian politician, 23rd Premier of Quebec (b. 1922)
- November 5 – Georges Franju, French filmmaker (b. 1912)
- November 6
- Zohar Argov, Israeli singer (b. 1955)
- Jean Rivier, French composer of classical music (b. 1896)
- November 7 – Arne Borg, Swedish Olympic swimmer (b. 1901)
- November 10 – Seyni Kountché, Nigerien military officer and statesman, 2nd President of Niger (b. 1931)
- November 12 – Cornelis Vreeswijk, Dutch-Swedish singer-songwriter, poet and actor (b. 1937)
- November 18 – Jacques Anquetil, French road racing cyclist (b. 1934)
- November 23 – Antonio Sastre, Argentine footballer (b. 1911)
- November 26 – Duncan Sandys, British politician (b. 1908)
December
- December 1 – James Baldwin, African-American novelist, essayist, playwright and poet (b. 1924)[11]
- December 2
- Juan Alberto Melgar Castro, Honduran military officer (b. 1930)
- Donn F. Eisele, American astronaut (b. 1930)
- Luis Federico Leloir, French-Argentine chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
- Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian physicist (b. 1914)
- December 4 – Rouben Mamoulian, Armenian-American film director (b. 1897)
- December 8
- Marcos Calderón, Peruvian football coach (b. 1928)
- José González Ganoza, Peruvian footballer (b. 1954)
- December 10 – Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian-American violinist (b. 1901)
- December 17 – Bernardus Johannes Alfrink, Dutch cardinal (b. 1900)
- December 21 – Ralph Nelson, American film and television director, producer, writer, and actor (b. 1916)
- December 22 – Alice Terry, American actress (b. 1899)
- December 24
- Joop den Uyl, Dutch politician and journalist, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1973–1977) (b. 1919)
- M. G. Ramachandran, Indian actor and Chief Minister of the Tamil Nadu (1977–1987) (b. 1917)
- December 27 – Priscilla Dean, American actress (b. 1896)
References
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- Victor Bockris (1998). The Life and Death of Andy Warhol. Fourth Estate. p. 488. ISBN 978-1-85702-805-8.
- Year Book Covering the Year ... Crowell-Collier Educational Corporation. 1987. p. 413.
- ""Układy lokalne, SB, obecne służby". Wciąż nie wyjaśniono śmierci ks. Blachnickiego". tvp.info (in Polish). 14 January 2021. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
... w najbliższym otoczeniu ks. Blachnickiego w Carlsbergu. Byli oni obecni w czasie jego śmierci 27 lutego 1987 roku.
- "Actor-comedian Danny Kaye dies". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. March 3, 1987. Retrieved December 15, 2010.
- Intern (2012-07-09). "Primo Levi's Last Moments". Boston Review. Retrieved 2021-01-12.
- Obituary The New York Times.
- Krebs, Albin (September 26, 1987). "Emlyn Williams, Welsh Actor and Writer, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved 2016-10-18.
- Jane Gross (October 5, 1987). "Jean Anouilh, the French Playwright, Is Dead at 77". New York Times. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
- "Remembering Catherine Bramwell-Booth". Retrieved December 18, 2022.
- "James Baldwin: His Voice Remembered". The New York Times. December 20, 1987.
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