List of Famous people who died at 87

Hussein Mahmoud Hassan el-Shafei, also known as Hussein el-Shafei, was a member of Egypt's 1952 revolutionary leadership council and served as Vice-president under two Egyptian presidents, Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat. He was one of the nine men who had constituted themselves as the committee of the Free Officers Movement, led the country's cavalry corps during the uprising and was one of only three living members of the Revolutionary Command Council at the time of his death.

William A. Graham was an American television and film director.

Nancy Coleman was an American film, stage, television and radio actress. After working on radio and appearing on the Broadway stage, Nancy Coleman moved to Hollywood to work for Warner Bros. studios.

Thomas Jerome Welsh was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Arlington, Virginia (1974–1983) and as Bishop of Allentown, Pennsylvania (1983–1997).

Edward Anthony McCarthy was the second Archbishop of Miami, Florida. He was appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Miami on September 17, 1976 and succeeded Coleman Francis Carroll as Archbishop of Miami on July 26, 1977. Archbishop McCarthy retired as Archbishop on November 3, 1994. He died on June 7, 2005 at the age of 87.

Jakov Gotovac was a Croatian composer and conductor of classical music. His comic opera, Ero s onoga svijeta, Croatia's best-known opera, was first performed in Zagreb in 1935.