List of Famous people who died at 87
Cahit Arf
Cahit Arf was a Turkish mathematician. He is known for the Arf invariant of a quadratic form in characteristic 2 in topology, the Hasse–Arf theorem in ramification theory, Arf semigroups, and Arf rings.
John Young
John Watts Young was an American astronaut, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and aeronautical engineer. He became the ninth person to walk on the Moon as commander of the Apollo 16 mission in 1972. He flew on four different classes of spacecraft: Gemini, the Apollo command and service module, the Apollo Lunar Module, and the Space Shuttle.
Wolfgang Völz
Wolfgang Otto Völz was a German actor. He is known for his roles in theatre plays, TV shows, feature films and taped radio shows. He was also a very prolific voice actor.
Jorge Rafael Videla
Jorge Rafael Videla Redondo was a General Commander of the Army, member of military junta and dictator of Argentina for five years.
Thor Heyerdahl
Thor Heyerdahl was a Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with a background in zoology, botany and geography.
Ezra Pound
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his 800-page epic poem, The Cantos (c. 1917–1962).
Riccardo Morandi
Riccardo Morandi was an Italian civil engineer best known for his innovative use of reinforced concrete and prestressed concrete, although over the years some of his particular cable-stayed bridges have had some maintenance trouble.
Pierre Mondy
Pierre Mondy was a French film and theatre actor and director.
Joachim Fuchsberger
Joachim "Blacky" Fuchsberger was a German actor and television host, best known to a wide German-speaking audience as one of the recurring actors in various Edgar Wallace movies. In the English-speaking world, he was sometimes credited as Akim Berg or Berger.
Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, formerly also called The Red Prince, was a Saudi Arabian politician, dissident, businessman, and philanthropist. A member of the House of Saud, he was notable for his liberal stance, striving for a national Constitution, the full rule of law and equality before the law. He was also the leader of Free Princes Movement in the 1960s.