List of Famous people who died in 1987

Howard Shoup was an American costume designer who received 5 Academy Award nominations.

George Harold Brown was an American research engineer. He was a prolific inventor who held more than 80 patents and wrote over 100 technical papers.

Josef Vrana was the administrator of the archbishopric of Olomouc, as well as titular bishop of Octabia.

Georg Gaßmann was a German politician.

Michel Tapié was a French art critic, curator, and collector. He was an early and influential theorist and practitioner of "tachisme", a French style of abstract painting popular in the 1940s and 1950s which is regarded as a European version of abstract expressionism.Tapié was a founder member of the Compagnie de l'Art Brut with Dubuffet and Breton In 1948, as well he managed the Foyer De l'Art Brut at the Galerie René Drouin.Tapié was from an aristocratic French family and was a second cousin once removed of the painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The painter's mother Adèle Tapié de Celeyran was Tapié's great-aunt.

King Donovan was an American film, stage, and television actor, as well as a film and television director.

Brigitte Heinrich was a German journalist, and an Alliance '90/The Greens politician.

Wolfgang Zeidler was a German legal scholar and judge. He served as the 5th president of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany from 1983 to 1987. Zeidler also served as president of the British-German-Jurists' Association.