List of Famous people who died in 1987

Zubir Said was a Singaporean composer originally from the Minangkabau highlands of Indonesia who composed the national anthem of Singapore, "Majulah Singapura". A self-taught musician, Zubir also worked as a score arranger and songwriter for Cathay-Keris Film Productions for 12 years, composing numerous songs for the company's Malay films. He is believed to have written about 1,500 songs, with less than 10% of them ever recorded.

Shichirō Fukazawa was a Japanese author and guitarist whose 1960 short story Fūryū mutan caused a nationwide uproar and led to an attempt by an ultranationalist to assassinate the president of the magazine that published it.

Hiroki Nakata is a Japanese professional shogi player, ranked 8-dan.

Upendranath Barman was an Indian politician. He was elected from Cooch Behar, West Bengal to the Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India as a member of the Indian National Congress.

Luis Chávez y González was the seventh Bishop and third Archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador, and immediate predecessor of Archbishop Óscar Romero. Unlike Romero, who served for three years before being assassinated in 1980, Chávez had an archbishopric that was long and low key. Chávez was Archbishop of San Salvador for 38 years, longer than any other Salvadoran bishop. Like his more famous successor, Chávez is also a candidate for the sainthood. His beatification process was started in June 2001.

Noel Ewart Odell FRSE FGS was an English geologist and mountaineer. In 1924 he was an oxygen officer on the Everest expedition in which George Mallory and Andrew Irvine famously perished during their summit attempt. Odell spent two weeks living above 23,000 feet (7,000m), and twice climbed to 26,800-ft and higher, all without supplemental oxygen. In 1936 Noel Odell with Bill Tilman climbed Nanda Devi, at the time the highest mountain climbed.

Óscar Bonfiglio Martínez was a Mexican football goalkeeper, and Olympian, who played for the Mexico national team in the 1930 World Cup.