List of Famous people who died at 87

Nasiba Jahangir gizi Zeynalova was an Azerbaijani actress and People's Artist of Azerbaijan. She was famous mostly for her comedy roles.

Grand Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri was an Iranian Shia Islamic theologian, Islamic democracy advocate, writer and human rights activist. He was one of the leaders of the Iranian Revolution and one the highest-ranking authorities in Shīʿite Islam. In 1979, he became a former designated successor to the revolution's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini, with whom he had a falling-out in 1989 over government policies that Montazeri claimed infringed on people's freedom and denied them their rights. Montazeri spent his later years in Qom and remained politically influential in Iran, but was placed in house arrest in 1997 for questioning "the unaccountable rule exercised by the supreme leader." He was known as the most knowledgeable senior Islamic scholar in Iran and a grand marja of Shia Islam.

Saiza Nabarawi,(Arabic: سيزا النبراوي‎) also spelt as Siza Nabrawi (Nabarui) or Ceza Nabarawi,, (1897-1985) was an Egyptian journalist educated in Paris, and who eventually became the leading journalist for the L'Egyptienne magazine.

Liu Wan-lai was a Japanese–Chinese translator active in Taiwan during the martial law period (1949–1987). He translated genre literature, hobby literature, and manga series including Galaxy Express 999 and Space Battleship Yamato. The popularity of his translations led to him being described as "a legend" and "a literary demigod".