List of Famous people who are 87

Silvia Telles was a Brazilian jazz samba and bossa nova singer of the 1950s and 1960s.

Vladimir Sergeevich Dashkevich is a Russian composer, known mainly for his film music. Originally, he studied chemical technology at Moscow State University of Fine Chemical Technologies, but he later studied music under Aram Khachaturian. He achieved prominence in Russia for his music for the series of films The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, as well as numerous other films. His longtime collaboration with famous singer Elena Kamburova has resulted in a number of vocal cycles based on the lyrics by the Russian Silver Age poets, including Requiem of Anna Akhmatova.

Sun Wenguang is an activist and vocal critic of Chinese government. He was a professor of Physics at Shandong University in Jinan from 1982 until 1994 when he retired.

René Victor Pilhes was a French writer and publicist.

Hideo Watanabe is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan and was a member of the House of Representatives and House of Councillors in the Diet from 1976 to 1993 and 1998 to 2010 respectively.

Dghine Benali, commonly known as Colonel Lotfi, was born on 5 May 1934 in Tlemcen in Algeria. Benali was an Algerian leader in the Algerian War, organising the Wilaya V from 1958 to 1960. He first worked as a Political leader with the National Liberation Front then moved to fighting in battlefield; he was killed in Béchar by French troops in 1960

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Dzasokhov is the former head of the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania.

Taichi Yamada is a Japanese screenwriter and novelist. His real name is Taichi Ishizaka .

Horacio Enrique Accavallo is an Argentine retired flyweight boxer and the former WBA and WBC world flyweight champion.

Paul Gauselmann is a German businessman, the founder and CEO of Gauselmann, a German company that produces slot machines, and runs gambling arcades.