List of Famous people who died at 87

Norman Fitzroy Maclean was an American author and scholar noted for his books A River Runs Through It and Other Stories (1976) and Young Men and Fire (1992).

Mervyn Gordon Rose AM was an Australian male tennis player who won 7 Grand Slam titles.

Nikolai Semyonovich Kardashev was a Soviet and Russian astrophysicist, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, and the deputy director of the Astro Space Center of PN Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.

Michel Corboz was a Swiss conductor.

Helene Jacobs was a member of the Confessing Church and of the German Resistance against National Socialism.

Josep Andreu i Lasserre, best known as Charlie Rivel, was an internationally known Catalan circus clown. He was born in Cubelles. His parents Pere Andreu Pausas (Spanish) and Marie-Louise Lasarre (French) were circus artists as well.

Fei Hsi-ping was a Chinese-born politician who served in the Legislative Yuan from 1948 to 1990.

Ichikawa Fusae was a Japanese feminist, politician and a leader of the women's suffrage movement. Ichikawa was a key supporter of women's suffrage in Japan, and her activism was partially responsible for the extension of the franchise to women in 1945.

Andrés Eugenio Rillón Romani was a Chilean lawyer, actor, film director, and comedian.

Etty Fraser Martins de Sousa was a Brazilian actress.