List of Famous people who died at 87

Agnes Windeck was a German theatre and film actress. She appeared in 55 films between 1939 and 1973. She was born in Hamburg and started her career at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in 1904. She later worked as a teacher at the drama school of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. In the 1930s she began to play minor roles in several films but it was not until she was in her seventies when she became a popular character actress of West German cinema and television.

Marilyn Eastman was an American actress.

Johanna König was a German actress. She appeared in more than 50 films and television shows between 1952 and 1999. König was born in Leipzig, Germany and died in Berlin on 3 March 2009.

Ela Stein-Weissberger was a Czech holocaust survivor who became well known for her roles as a contemporary witness and intelligence officer for the Israel Defense Forces. In her later years she traveled the world discussing her time in concentration camps during World War II. She even wrote about her experiences in a book titled The Cat with the Yellow Star: Coming of Age in Terezin.

Mário de Miranda Quintana was a Brazilian writer and translator.

Louis Seigner was a French actor.

Jacques Rouffio was a French film director and screenwriter. His 1986 film My Brother-in-law Killed My Sister was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival.

Erich Padalewski (1930–2018) was an Austrian stage, film and television actor.

Françoise Xenakis was a French novelist and journalist, born in Blois, Loir-et-Cher. She started her literary career in the early 1960s, and became better known during the 1980s, when she started working at Le Matin de Paris, a daily newspaper, and for Télématin, a breakfast television news show. She chaired the judging panel for the literary prize 30 Million Friends.

Gevork Andreevich Vartanian was a Soviet intelligence officer.