List of Famous people who died at 87

Lawrence Demmy was a British ice dancer. With partner Jean Westwood, he is the 1952-1955 World Champion and 1954 & 1955 European Champion.

Saiichi Maruya was a Japanese author and literary critic.

Margarethe Sylva Elisabeth Wisniewski, known professionally as Margarete Schlegel, was a German theatre and film actress and soprano operetta singer.

Nevitt Sanford (1909–1995) was professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley. He studied ethnocentrism and antisemitism, and was one of the authors of The Authoritarian Personality. His co-authors in this work were Theodor W. Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswik and Daniel Levinson. Sanford studied the interactions between social systems and personality, arguing that social conditions could encourage those with dogmatic biases to persecute those groups against which they were prejudiced.