List of Famous people who died at 87

Carl Erik Soya,, also known by the single appellation Soya, was a Danish author and dramatist. His works were often satirical provocations against double standards and dishonesty. In 1975, Soya received Denmark's foremost literary award, Grand Prize of the Danish Academy.

Wilhelm Krelle was a German economist.

Franz Xaver Schwarzenböck was the Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of Vageata and the auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, Germany.

Todor Dimitrov Pavlov was a Bulgarian Marxist philosopher, politician, journalist and leading member of the Bulgarian Communist Party. He was one of the three regents for the underage Simeon II from 1944 to 1946. From 1947 to 1962 he was the president of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

Anton Franz Edthofer was an Austrian actor.

Ivan Petrovich Ivanov-Vano, born Ivanov, was a Soviet and Russian animation director, animator, screenwriter, educator, professor at Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK). One of the pioneers of the Soviet animation school, he is sometimes called the "Patriarch of Soviet animation". People's Artist of the USSR (1985).

Martin Lewis Perl was an American chemical engineer and physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton.