List of Famous people who are 87

Kai Fischer is a German film actress. She has appeared in 54 films between 1955 and 1999.

Michael Fairman is an American actor and writer.

Yoshiko Shinohara is a Japanese businesswoman. She is the founder of Persol Holdings, and is Japan's first self-made female billionaire.

Francisco "Paco" Ibáñez is a Spanish singer and musician. He never composed his own lyrics, but used famous poems, like those of Federico García Lorca, Luis Cernuda, Rafael Alberti or Miguel Hernández. He also sang compositions from Georges Brassens.

Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka, known as Wole Soyinka, is a Nigerian playwright, poet and essayist in the English language. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first sub-Saharan African to be honoured in that category. Soyinka was born into a Yoruba family in Abeokuta. In 1954, he attended Government College in Ibadan, and subsequently University College Ibadan and the University of Leeds in England. After studying in Nigeria and the UK, he worked with the Royal Court Theatre in London. He went on to write plays that were produced in both countries, in theatres and on radio. He took an active role in Nigeria's political history and its struggle for independence from Great Britain. In 1965, he seized the Western Nigeria Broadcasting Service studio and broadcast a demand for the cancellation of the Western Nigeria Regional Elections. In 1967, during the Nigerian Civil War, he was arrested by the federal government of General Yakubu Gowon and put in solitary confinement for two years.

Ornella Vanoni is one of the most credited pop singers of Italy. She is known for her sophisticated pop style.

Shaikh Muhammad bin Hamad bin Abdullah bin Jassim bin Muhammed Al Thani was born in 1929.

Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira is a Brazilian economist and social scientist. He teaches at the Getulio Vargas Foundation, in São Paulo. Since 1981, he has edited the Brazilian Journal of Political Economy.

Aldo Moser was an Italian cyclist.

Chikara Sakaguchi is a Japanese politician who served in the House of Representatives between 1972 and 2012, and as Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare from 2001 to 2004.