List of Famous people who died at 87

Julio Mario Santo Domingo Pumarejo was a Colombian-American businessman, diplomat and patriarch of the Santo Domingo family who lived in New York City. He controlled more than 100 companies in the diversified portfolio of the "Santo Domingo Group." He was listed by Forbes magazine as one of the wealthiest men in the world, and the second-wealthiest in Colombia, with a fortune of $8 billion U.S. dollars. He was the founder of a philanthropic foundation, named to honor his father, that benefits Colombia's social development.

Kenneth A. Carey was an American sailor who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.

Glynn Edwards was an English television and cinema character actor, who came to national prominence for his portrayal of the barman Dave Harris in the 1970s–1990s British television comedy-drama Minder.

Melih Cevdet Anday was a Turkish writer whose poetry stands outside the traditional literary movements. He also wrote in many other genres which, over six and a half decades, included eleven collections of poems, eight plays, eight novels, fifteen collections of essays, several of which won major literary awards. He also translated several books from diverse languages into Turkish.

Takeso Shimoda was a Japanese diplomat who served as ambassador to the United States and a justice in the Supreme Court of Japan.

Pedro Julio Mir Valentín was Dominican poet and writer, named Poet Laureate of the Dominican Republic by Congress in 1984, and a member of the generation of "Independent poets of the 1940s" in Dominican poetry.

Benjamin Lauder Nicholson, OM was an English painter of abstract compositions, landscape and still-life.

Rudolf Gelbard was an Austrian Holocaust survivor and political campaigner against anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism. He lectured in schools and universities about his experiences during the Holocaust, and also appeared in a 2007 documentary film about his experiences.

Howard Zinn was an American historian, playwright, philosopher and socialist thinker. He was chair of the history and social sciences department at Spelman College, and a political science professor at Boston University. Zinn wrote over 20 books, including his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United States in 1980. In 2007, he published a version of it for younger readers, A Young People's History of the United States.

Sun Yueh was a Taiwanese actor.