List of Famous people who died at 87

James M. Cross was an American ice hockey player and coach who led the Vermont Catamounts of the University of Vermont for nineteen seasons.

Leonard Solomon Lerman was an American scientist most noted for his work on DNA.

James Lindenberg was an American-born Filipino engineer and businessman. He moved to the Philippines in the 1940s. He is credited for his founding of Bolinao Electronics Corporation (BEC), the precursor of ABS-CBN Corporation, and dubbed as the Father of Philippine Television.

Abdul Rahim Hatif was a politician in Afghanistan. He served as one of the vice presidents during the last years of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. He was born in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Clement Graham Crowden was a Scottish actor. He was best known for his many appearances in television comedy dramas and films, often playing eccentric "offbeat" scientist, teacher and doctor characters.

Florence La Caze Gould was American writer and salon-holder who became involved in a money laundering plot before creating a legacy as a patron of the arts at institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She held a salon under the Nazi Occupation of Paris entertaining Nazi officers, and narrowly escaped high treason charges in 1945.

John Aloysius Mone was the third Roman Catholic Bishop of Paisley.