Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1987

Tawfiq al-Hakim o Tawfik el-Hakim fue un destacado escritor egipcio. Es uno de los pioneros de la novela y el teatro neoárabes. La acogida de su enorme producción teatral es representativa de los problemas que ha enfrentado el género dramático egipcio, ya que el autor se esforzó por adaptar sus complejas formas de comunicación a la sociedad egipcia.

Vice Admiral Sir Alan Wedel Ramsay McNicoll, was a senior officer in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) and a diplomat. Born in Melbourne, he entered the Royal Australian Naval College at the age of thirteen and graduated in 1926. Following training and staff appointments in Australia and the United Kingdom, he was attached to the Royal Navy at the outbreak of the Second World War. As torpedo officer of the 1st Submarine Flotilla in the Mediterranean theatre, McNicoll was decorated with the George Medal in 1941 for disarming enemy ordnance. He served aboard HMS King George V from 1942, sailing in support of several Arctic convoys and taking part in the Allied invasion of Sicily. McNicoll was posted for staff duties with the Admiralty from September 1943 and was involved in the planning of the Normandy landings. He returned to Australia in October 1944.

Ilse Sonja Totzke fue una músico alemána y Justa entre las Naciones.

Yevgeniya Nikandrovna Khanayeva was a Soviet and Russian actress. People's Artist of the USSR (1987).

Chögyam Trungpa fue un maestro tibetano de meditación budista y titular de los linajes Kagyu y Nyingma del budismo tibetano, el undécimo del linaje Tülkus Trungpa, un tertön, abad supremo de los monasterios Surmang, intelectual, profesor, poeta, artista, y artífice de una reelaboración de las enseñanzas budistas tibetana y el mito de Shambhala como una sociedad ilustrada que más tarde se llamó budismo Shambhala.

Audrey Marie Hilley was an American murderer. Her life and killing spree are the subjects of the 1991 telefilm Wife, Mother, Murderer.

Arthur Lake fue un actor estadounidense.

Lucy Monroe was an American operatic soprano and dancer. She was noted for her performances of "The Star-Spangled Banner", the national anthem of the United States, at sporting and military events, which earned her the nickname of "The Star-Spangled Soprano".

Jeevan, born Omkar Nath Dhar, was an Indian actor who played Narad Muni in mythological films of the 1950s a total of 49 times. Later, he played the villain in popular Bollywood films of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. His son Kiran Kumar is also a film and television actor.

Major John "Johnnie" Whitby Cradock was an English cook, writer and broadcaster and the fourth husband of television cook and writer Fanny Cradock.