List of Famous people who died in 1987

Anakletus Tjilik Riwut commonly known as Tjilik Riwut was the second governor of Central Kalimantan for nine years between 1958 and 1967. He is now regarded as a National Hero of Indonesia. An airport in Palangkaraya is named after him.

Heinrich Mückter was a Nazi doctor, pharmacologist and chemist. During the Nazi occupation of Poland, Mückter was deputy director of the Kraków Institute for Typhus and Virus Research. Mückter and his colleagues repeatedly experimented on concentration camp prisoners in Buchenwald. Many prisoners died as a result of the experiments.

Tomohiro Kojiri , a Japanese journalist for Asahi Shimbun, a popular newspaper with its main office is located in Tokyo, Japan, was killed in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture near Osaka. During the shooting at the bureau of Asahi Shimbun, the shooter killed Tomohiro and fired at two other colleagues injuring one. Investigators believed that Kojiri was targeted by a right-wing, political extremist group, known as Sekihōtai (赤報隊), as Kojiri had written a story that was about how the Japanese discriminated against the Korean minority, and typed letters were sent in the group's name claiming responsibility.

Rouben Zachary Mamoulian was an Armenian-American film and theatre director.

Harold Royce Gross was a Republican United States Representative from Iowa's 3rd congressional district for thirteen terms. The role he played on the House floor, objecting to spending measures and projects that he considered wasteful, prompted Time magazine to label him "the useful pest."

Rudolf Lenz was an Austrian actor.

Hans Eidenbenz was a Swiss Nordic combined skier who competed in the 1920s. Competing in two Winter Olympics, his best finish was 15th in the Nordic combined event at Chamonix in 1924.