List of Famous people who died in 1987

Thomas Trenchard, 2nd Viscount Trenchard MC was a hereditary peer and junior minister in Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government from 1979 to 1983.

Christopher Wentworth Dilke, born 15 December 1913, died 9 November 1987, was an English writer. He was a member of a literary family. His mother and grandmother, as well as his great-uncle, Sir Charles Dilke, the statesman, were authors. He was educated at Winchester College and Trinity College, Cambridge, which he left after a year to become a journalist with the Daily Express. He then worked in publishing.

Per Gunnar Fredrik de Frumerie was a Swedish composer and pianist. He was the son of architect Gustaf de Frumerie and Maria Helleday.

Sir John Rupert Colville, CB, CVO, known as Jock Colville, was a British civil servant. He is best known for his diaries, which provide an intimate view of number 10 Downing Street during the wartime Premiership of Winston Churchill.