List of Famous people who died at 87

Fausto Gullo was an Italian politician.

Pierre Samuel was a French mathematician, known for his work in commutative algebra and its applications to algebraic geometry. The two-volume work Commutative Algebra that he wrote with Oscar Zariski is a classic. Other books of his covered projective geometry and algebraic number theory.

Eugene John Gerber was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Dodge City from 1976 to 1982, and Bishop of Wichita from 1982 to 2001.

Vinayak Narahari "Vinoba" Bhave was an Indian advocate of nonviolence and human rights. Often called Acharya, he is best known for the Bhoodan Movement. He is considered as a National Teacher of India and the spiritual successor of Mahatma Gandhi. He was an eminent philosopher. The Gita has also been translated into Marathi language by him with the name as Geetai means mother Geeta.

Sir Francis Gordon Lowe, 2nd Baronet was a British male tennis player.

Erich Schmid was a physicist from Austria. He made important discoveries in the field of crystal plasticity.

Jonathan Frid was a Canadian actor, widely known for his role as vampire Barnabas Collins on the gothic television soap opera Dark Shadows.

Ricardo Montez was a British actor best known for his role as the Spanish bartender Juan Cervantes in the ITV comedy series Mind Your Language.