List of Famous people who died at 87

Jacob Akiba Marinsky was a chemist who was the co-discoverer of the element promethium.

Max Georg von Twickel was a German Catholic bishop.

Hubert Luthe was a German Catholic bishop.

Leone Frollo was an Italian comic book artist.

Raúl Francisco Primatesta was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church of Argentina, and Archbishop Emeritus of Córdoba.

Charles Raymond Bentley was an American glaciologist and geophysicist, born in Rochester, New York. He was a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Mount Bentley and the Bentley Subglacial Trench in Antarctica are named after him. In 1957, he and a handful of other scientists including Mario Giovinetto set out on an expedition across West Antarctica in tracked vehicles to make the first measurements of the ice sheet.

Álvaro de Moya was a Brazilian journalist, professor, researcher, comics artist, illustrator, writer and TV producer. He was one of the pioneers in academic research on comics in Brazil and one of those responsible for the First International Exhibition of Comics, held in São Paulo in 1951. Moya worked on the Disney comics published by Editora Abril, published novel adaptations at the EBAL publishing house, and made cartoons, illustrations and articles about comics for several newspapers. His first book, Shazam!, published in 1970, is considered one of the most important for Brazilian research on comics. In 1989, he was awarded with the Prêmio Angelo Agostini for Master of National Comics, an award that aims to honor artists who have dedicated themselves to Brazilian comics for at least 25 years.