List of Famous people who died in 1987

Victor Wendell Ganz (1913–1987) was an American business owner and art collector. He was the president of D. Lisner & Company, a small costume jewelry manufacturer. With limited resources he and his wife Sally Wile-Ganz built one of the most important collections of contemporary art in the 20th century. They became known for their ability to choose art, as "collectors who never made a mistake". Their collection was sold after their deaths in record-setting auctions.

Vadim Genrikhovich Knizhnik was a Soviet physicist of Jewish and Russian descent.

Mikhail Ivanovich Tsaryov was a Soviet theater and film actor, theater director, master of the artistic word (reader). People's Artist of the USSR (1949). Hero of Socialist Labor (1973). The winner of the Stalin Prize of the second degree (1947) and the State Prize of the USSR (1969). Member of the CPSU (b) since 1949.

Hubert John Edward Dominic Howard was an English intelligence officer who lived in Italy.