List of Famous people who died at 87

Tadeusz Rybak was a Polish Roman Catholic bishop,

László Benedek was a Hungarian-born film director and cinematographer, most notable for directing The Wild One (1953).

Petrus Canisius Jean van Lierde, O.S.A., served forty years from 1951 to 1991 as Vicar General for the Vatican City State, and was the longest serving official in that position.

Ellis J. "Bud" Thackery was an American cinematographer who spent the bulk of his film career at Republic Pictures before successfully transitioning to television. His first credit as a director of photography came in 1941, on the film The Gay Vagabond, and he worked steadily from that point well into the 1970s, chalking up an extensive filmography in both features and television.

Lawrence Joseph Riley was a Roman Catholic bishop.

Charles Darwin Cooper was an American actor who played a wide variety of television and film roles for more than a half century from 1950 to 2001.

Antoine Faivre was a French scholar of Western esotericism. He played a major role in the founding of the discipline as a scholarly field of study, and he was the first-ever person to be appointed to an academic chair in the discipline. Together with Roland Edighoffer he founded the predecessor to the journal Aries in 1983, which in 2001 was relaunched with Wouter Hanegraaff as its editor.