List of Famous people who died at 87

Rodrigo Paz Delgado was an Ecuadorian politician and businessman. He was the mayor of Quito from 1988 to 1992. He ran as a presidential candidate in 1995/6. One of his political parties was Democracia Popular (DP).

Yuri Andreyevich Zhdanov was a Russian chemistry professor and rector of the University of Rostov. He was the son of Soviet politician Andrei Zhdanov and a former husband of Joseph Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva.

Jean Marcel Leroy artistically known as Jean-Jacques Perrey was a French electronic music producer and was an early pioneer in the genre. He is known for being member of the electronic music duo Perrey and Kingsley with the German-American composer Gershon Kingsley.

Clara Klabunde, was a German lawyer and the first German in the rank of a court president. On December 1, 1952, she became the first woman at the court to take the post of Regional Labor Court Director of the newly established Third Chamber at the Hamburg Labor Court. Klabunde also had the adjunct in the disciplinary council for judges and since 1953, belonged to the Hamburg Constitutional Court. On September 1, 1966, she called the Hamburg Senate to the President of the State Labor Court thus being the first woman in Germany to reach such a position.

Otto Muehl was an Austrian artist, who was known as one of the co-founders as well as a main participant of Viennese Actionism and for founding the Friedrichshof Commune.

Hansrudi Wäscher was a Swiss-German comics artist and comics author.

Füreya Koral is one of the pioneering ceramics artists in Turkey. Known for her wall panels, Koral worked in a variety of media such as tiles, statuettes, plates, and also created household items. She started working on ceramics after she was diagnosed with tuberculosis, while receiving treatment at a sanatorium in Switzerland. She was a self-taught artist and her works were mostly ignored during her lifetime. Seeking to push the limits of ceramics beyond its function, she was inspired by the art of ancient civilizations of Turkey, Mexico and East Asia—Japan in particular. Her work is commonly known to carry a mix of Western and Eastern artistic elements.

Ingo Maurer was a German industrial designer who specialised in the design of lamps and light installations. He was nicknamed "poet of light".

Yu Chen Yueh-ying was a Taiwanese politician, judge and matriarch of the Yu family, a political family who dominated politics in the former Kaohsiung County for more than thirty years.. Her six children include former Interior Minister Yu Cheng-hsien, who headed the ministry from 2002 to 2004.

Leo Schwarz was from 1982 to 2006 the Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Trier, and was titular bishop of Abbir Germaniciana.