List of Famous people who died at 87

Upendranath Barman was an Indian politician. He was elected from Cooch Behar, West Bengal to the Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India as a member of the Indian National Congress.

Habis Majali was a Jordanian soldier. Majali served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Jordanian Armed Forces from 1958 to 1975, as Minister of Defense from 1967 to 1968, and as a member of the Jordanian Senate for 30 years from 1967 to 1997.

Jan Arnoldus Schouten was a Dutch mathematician and Professor at the Delft University of Technology. He was an important contributor to the development of tensor calculus and Ricci calculus, and was one of the founders of the Mathematisch Centrum in Amsterdam.

Şerife Feriha Sanerk was the first female police chief in Turkey.

Miles Henry Jackson-Lipkin, GCLJ, QC, SC, JP was a British barrister-at-law based in Hong Kong, serving as a High Court judge between 1981 and 1987. In January 2007, he became the first former judge to be convicted and sent to prison in Hong Kong's history for social welfare fraud charges against him and his wife Lucille Fung.

Hussain Imam was a prominent politician of Bihar. He was a member of the Constituent Assembly of India in 1946. One of the founding members of the Pakistan Muslim league, Hussain imam played a key role in Pakistan's foundation. One of Jinnah's closest friends, Hussain imam played an influential role in Pakistani politics using his immense wealth and remained and affluent figure for the Pakistan movement. Hussain imam's family now remains in Pakistan.

Jairamdas Daulatram was an Indian political leader in the Indian independence movement. After India's independence, Daulatram served as the Governor of the Indian states of Bihar and later Assam.

Yahya Haqqi (7 January 1905 – 9 December 1992) was an Egyptian writer and novelist. Born to a middle-class family in Cairo, he was trained as a lawyer at the Cairo School of Law, graduating in 1925. Like many other Egyptian writers, such as Naguib Mahfouz and Yusuf Idris, he spent most of his life as a civil servant, supplementing his literary income; he eventually rose to become adviser to the National Library of Egypt.