List of famous people who died in 1987

Sortable list of celebrities who died in 1987, including name, age, date of death, occupation, nationality and popularity. This list has been viewed 13,661 times.

This list has 3,229 members. See also 1980s deaths, 1987, 1987 events

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#	Celebrity	Age	Date of Death	Description	Views	Rank
1.	Rita Hayworth	68*	May 14, 1987	American actress	269,159	377
2.	Liberace	67*	February 4, 1987	American musician and entertainer	34,219	4,071
3.	Dalida	54*	May 2, 1987	Singer, actress, beauty pageant titleholder	33,281	4,172
4.	Fred Astaire	88*	June 22, 1987	Dancer, actor	32,078	4,317
5.	Randolph Scott	89*	March 2, 1987	Actor	28,909	4,732
6.	Peter Tosh	42*	September 11, 1987	Jamaican reggae musician	24,914	5,395
7.	Mary Astor	81*	September 25, 1987	Actress, author	19,949	6,451
8.	Madeleine Carroll	81*	October 2, 1987	Actor	17,641	7,102
9.	Pola Negri	90*	August 1, 1987	Actress, author, singer	16,972	7,307
10.	Danny Kaye	74*	March 3, 1987	Actor	15,061	7,970
11.	Jackie Gleason	71*	June 24, 1987	comedian, actor, and musician	14,899	8,038
12.	Andy Warhol	58*	February 22, 1987	American artist, avant-garde filmmaker, writer and social figure	14,589	8,146
13.	Lee Marvin	63*	August 29, 1987	United States Marine	14,326	8,268
14.	Raquel Torres	78*	August 10, 1987	American actor	14,025	8,405
15.	Joyce Jameson	54*	January 16, 1987	Actress	12,618	9,148
16.	Bob Fosse	60*	September 23, 1987	Choreographer, director, screenwriter	11,608	9,746
17.	Dean Paul Martin	35*	March 21, 1987	American, Actor	7,904	12,732
18.	Richard Egan	65*	July 20, 1987	American, Actor	6,794	14,107
19.	Lorne Greene	72*	September 11, 1987	Canadian actor and musician	6,560	14,431
20.	Alice Terry	88*	December 22, 1987	Actress	5,652	15,814
21.	Will Sampson	53*	June 3, 1987	Muscogee Creek actor from Oklahoma	5,571	15,945
22.	Anny Ondra	84*	February 28, 1987	Polish, Actress	5,553	15,982
23.	Greg Bautzer	76*	October 26, 1987	American lawyer	5,255	16,549
24.	Joan Greenwood	65*	February 27, 1987	English actress	4,686	17,780
25.	Joan Shawlee	60*	March 2, 1987	American actress	4,637	17,891
26.	Ray Bolger	83*	January 15, 1987	Bolger, Raymond Wallace	4,608	17,960
27.	Sari Maritza	77*	July 1, 1987	British, Actress	4,495	18,244
28.	Viola Dana	90*	July 3, 1987	American, Actress	4,326	18,662
29.	Geraldine Page	62*	June 13, 1987	Actress	4,308	18,705
30.	John Huston	81*	August 28, 1987	American film director, screenwriter and actor	4,094	19,263
31.	Wynne Gibson	83*	May 15, 1987	Actress	4,005	19,553
32.	James Baldwin	63*	November 30, 1987	American writer, novelist	3,832	20,058
33.	June Knight	74*	June 16, 1987	Actress	3,809	20,147
34.	Jaco Pastorius	35*	September 21, 1987	Musician, producer, educator	3,798	20,179
35.	Kevin James	35*	January 24, 1990	American pornographic actor	3,763	20,290
36.	James Coco	56*	February 25, 1987	Actor	3,731	20,393
37.	Elizabeth Hartman	43*	June 10, 1987	Actress	3,526	21,066
38.	Hayden Rorke	76*	August 19, 1987	American, Actor	2,938	23,291
39.	Robert Preston	68*	March 21, 1987	Actor	2,809	23,865
40.	Dorothy Patrick	65*	May 31, 1987	Canadian, Actress	2,501	25,440
41.	Drew Bundini Brown	59*	September 24, 1987	American boxing trainer and cornerman, actor	2,351	26,295
42.	Buddy Rich	69*	April 2, 1987	Jazz drummer and bandleader	2,277	26,753
43.	Priscilla Dean	91*	December 27, 1987	American, Actress	2,154	27,538
44.	Yanina Zhejmo	78*	December 29, 1987	Actor	2,149	27,576
45.	Calvin Culver	43*	August 10, 1987	American pornographic actor	2,108	27,869
46.	June Clyde	77*	October 1, 1987	American singer, dancer and actress	1,900	29,359
47.	Marion Hutton	67*	January 10, 1987	American, Actress	1,875	29,569
48.	Verree Teasdale	83*	February 17, 1987	Actor	1,815	30,037
49.	Edgar Rosenberg	61*	August 14, 1987	German-American film and tv producer	1,787	30,310
50.	Dick Shawn	63*	April 17, 1987	Actor	1,623	31,769
51.	Jascha Heifetz	86*	December 11, 1987	Russian violinist	1,529	32,687
52.	Greta Granstedt	80*	October 7, 1987	American, Actress	1,521	32,755
53.	Arthur Lake	81*	January 9, 1987	Actor	1,451	33,535
54.	Lino Ventura	68*	October 22, 1987	Actor	1,422	33,976
55.	Lawrence Anini	37*	March 29, 1987		1,377	34,586
56.	Lolo Soetoro	52*	March 2, 1987	Indonesian geographer	1,364	34,518
57.	Alejandro Rey	57*	May 21, 1987	Actor	1,348	34,896
58.	Dan Rowan	65*	September 22, 1987	United States Army officer	1,282	35,630
59.	Barry Mannakee	39*	May 14, 1987	English, Other	1,275	35,673
60.	Andrey Mironov	46*	August 16, 1987	Russian, Actor	1,216	36,443
61.	Errol Barrow	67*	June 1, 1987	Barbadian, Head of State	1,211	36,521
62.	Cornelis Vreeswijk	50*	November 12, 1987	Dutch musician	1,201	36,707
63.	Patrick Troughton	67*	March 28, 1987	Character Actor	1,194	36,839
64.	Hugh Brannum	77*	April 19, 1987	American, Actor	1,152	37,465
65.	M.G. Ramachandran	70*	December 29, 1987	Indian politician	1,148	37,509
66.	Cathryn Damon	56*	May 4, 1987	American actor	1,135	37,730
67.	Clare Boothe Luce	84*	October 9, 1987	American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist	1,082	38,517
68.	Danièle Gaubert	44*	November 15, 1987		1,002	39,944
69.	Mervyn LeRoy	86*	September 13, 1987	American film director	974	40,408
70.	Kishore Kumar	58*	October 13, 1987	Indian actor	960	40,655
71.	Madge Kennedy	96*	June 9, 1987	American, Actress	923	41,333
72.	Gustav Fröhlich	85*	December 22, 1987	Actor	885	42,146
73.	Ajita Wilson		May 26, 1987	American actor	845	42,960
74.	Murder of Sian Kingi	12*	November 27, 1987		836	43,229
75.	Kenny Price	56*	August 3, 1987		829	43,374
76.	Tommy Abbott	52*	April 8, 1987	American actor	796	44,054
77.	Hermione Gingold	89*	May 24, 1987	Actress	751	45,189
78.	Igor Ilyinsky	85*	January 13, 1987	Russian actor, director and comedian	724	45,851
79.	Claudio Villa	61*	February 7, 1987	Italian singer	642	48,220
80.	Colin Blakely	56*	May 7, 1987	British, Actor	636	48,390
81.	John Qualen	87*	September 12, 1987	Actor	629	48,619
82.	Anne Grey	80*	April 3, 1987	British, Actress	627	48,683
83.	Maria von Trapp	82*	March 28, 1987	Singer and main subject of the film The Sound of Music	616	49,046
84.	Linda Wong	36*	December 17, 1987	American pornographic actor	614	49,155
85.	Archie Campbell	72*	August 29, 1987	American, Actor	574	50,452
86.	Vivian Martin	93*	March 16, 1987	American, Actress	564	50,774
87.	William Collier Jr.	84*	February 5, 1987	American, Actor	526	52,270
88.	Sydney Bromley	78*	August 14, 1987	British, Actor	520	52,556
89.	Hannelore Schroth	65*	July 7, 1987	German actor	516	52,643
90.	Woody Herman	74*	October 29, 1987	Musician	510	53,035
91.	Thornton Freeland	89*	May 22, 1987	American, Film Director	503	53,233
92.	Arthur Fuller	93*	March 21, 1987	Australian politician	498	53,478
93.	Winifred Bryson	94*	August 20, 1987	Actor	476	54,405
94.	Irene Handl	85*	November 29, 1987	English actress	474	54,512
95.	Bertrand de Jouvenel	83*	March 1, 1987	French, Philosopher	474	54,621
96.	Walter Abel	88*	March 26, 1987	Actor	457	55,301
97.	Morton Lowry	73*	November 26, 1987	British, Actor	454	55,520
98.	Vladimir Basov	64*	September 17, 1987	Actor, film director, screenwriter	451	55,627
99.	Bayard Rustin	75*	August 24, 1987	Christian pacifist civil rights advocate	437	56,386
100.	David Adler	51*	March 31, 1987	Physicist, MIT professor	436	56,384

* deceased (age at death)