List of Famous people who died in 1987

Max Seydewitz was a German politician. Between 1947 and 1952 he was the Minister-President of Saxony in the German Democratic Republic.

Akaki Shanidze was a Georgian linguist and philologist. He was one of the founders of the Tbilisi State University (1918) and Academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (1941); Doctor of Philological Sciences (1920), Professor (1920). He was first doctor in Tbilisi state university, his works in Georgian is most important in linguistic Sciences.

Emiliano Álvarez Arana was a Spanish cyclist. He was professional from 1932 to 1939. He was born in Errenteria.

Francis Edwin Dorn was a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.

Fabio Battesini was an Italian professional road bicycle racer. He won one stage in the 1931 Tour de France and three stages of the Giro d'Italia in 1932–1936.

Jean de Gribaldy was a French road cyclist and directeur sportif. He rode in the Tour de France in 1947 and 1948.

Mariano Cañardo Lacasta was a Spanish professional road racing cyclist. He won a record seven editions of the Volta a Catalunya in the 1920s and 1930s, as well as four Spanish national championship titles and one Tour de France stage win. Born in Olite, Navarra, his nickname was the Catalan of Olite.

Maria Ivogün was a distinguished soprano singer of Hungarian origin. She was an especially outstanding interpreter of the works of Mozart: her recording of the aria of the Queen of the Night became legendary.

Max Stern (1904-1987) was a German-Canadian arts benefactor, art historian, and owner of Montreal's Dominion Gallery.