List of Famous people who died in 1987

Luca Prodan was an Italian-Scottish musician and singer who rose to fame as the leading vocalist of Sumo, one of the most influential rock bands of Argentina, and is widely considered as one of the country's most important artists. He was the older brother of film actor and composer Andrea Prodan.

Leonid Vladimirovich Kharitonov was a Soviet and Russian actor. He played in the films Private Ivan, Ivan Brovkin on the State Farm and Street Full of Surprises. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1972).

Hans Rosenthal was a radio editor, director, and one of the most popular German radio and television hosts of the 1970s and 1980s.

Jacques Anquetil was a French road racing cyclist and the first cyclist to win the Tour de France five times, in 1957 and from 1961 to 1964.

Bayard Rustin was an American leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights.

Major Ramaswamy Parameswaran, PVC was an Officer of the Indian Army who was awarded the Param Vir Chakra, India's highest military decoration, for his bravery.

Althea Flynt was the fourth wife of Larry Flynt and the co-publisher of Flynt's pornography magazine, Hustler.

Colin George Blakely was a Northern Irish actor. He had roles in the films A Man for All Seasons (1966), The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), and Equus (1977).

William Patrick Stuart-Houston was the half-nephew of Adolf Hitler. He was born to Adolf Hitler's half-brother Alois Hitler Jr. and his Irish wife Bridget Dowling in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. William relocated to Germany, but immigrated to the United States, where he served in the United States Navy in World War II. He eventually received American citizenship.

Margarete Berta "Gretl" Braun was one of the two sisters of Eva Braun. She was a member of the inner social circle of Adolf Hitler at the Berghof. Braun married SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein, a liaison officer on Hitler's staff, on 3 June 1944. Fegelein was shot for desertion in the closing days of World War II. Gretl became the sister-in-law of the Nazi dictator following his marriage to Eva, less than 40 hours before the couple killed themselves together.