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== Deaths ==
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=== January ===
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* ] – ], French road cyclist and directeur sportif (b. ])
* ] – ], Norwegian supercentenarian (b. ])
* ] – ], American actor (b. ])
* ]
** ], Swedish Olympic swimmer (b. ])
** ], American singer and actress (b. ])
* ] – ], German-born film director (b. ])
* ] – ], American actor, singer, and dancer (b. ])
* ] – ], American politician (b. ])
* ] – ], Yugoslav footballer (b. ])
* ] – ], Canadian animator and director (b. ])
* ] – ], Ecuadorian statesman, 29th ] (b. ])
* ] – ], French film director (b. ])

=== February ===
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* ]
** ], German film actor (b. ])
** ], Italian film director and screenwriter (b. ])
* ]
** ], British novelist (b. ])<ref>{{cite book|last1=Norman|first1=Barry|title=And Why Not?: Memoirs of a Film Lover|date=2003|publisher=Simon and Schuster|location=NY|isbn=978-0684020884|pages=211–14|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=45zivIQLgkEC&q=MacLean%20alistair%20alcoholism&pg=PA211|access-date=11 April 2017}}</ref>
** ], Brazilian football goalkeeper (b. ])
* ] – ], younger brother of Japanese Emperor ] (b. ])
* ] – ], American pianist, singer and actor (b. ])
* ] – ], German general, serving during World War I and World War II (b. ])
* ] – ], Italian singer (b. ])
* ] – ], American racing driver (b. ])
* ] – ], Irish gay rights activist (b. ])
* ]
** ], British entrepreneur, financier and sometime racing driver (b. ])
** ], Luxembourg politician (b. ])
* ] – ], Russian composer (b. ])
* ] – ], American artist, director, writer (b. ])<ref>{{cite book|author=Victor Bockris|title=The Life and Death of Andy Warhol|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AKFIAQAAIAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Fourth Estate|isbn=978-1-85702-805-8|page=488}}</ref>
* ]
** ], English actor (b. ])
** ], Portuguese singer-songwriter, teacher and activist (b. ])<ref>{{cite book|title=Year Book Covering the Year ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S34xAQAAIAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Crowell-Collier Educational Corporation|page=413}}</ref>
* ]
** ], American actor (b. ])
** ], American architect (b. ])
* ]
** ], English actress (b. ])
** ], Polish priest (b. 1921) <ref>{{cite web |title="Układy lokalne, SB, obecne służby". Wciąż nie wyjaśniono śmierci ks. Blachnickiego |url=https://www.tvp.info/51804001/niewyjasniona-smierc-ks-blachnickiego-tvp-info |website=tvp.info |access-date=22 June 2021 |language=pl |date=14 January 2021 |quote=... w najbliższym otoczeniu ks. Blachnickiego w Carlsbergu. Byli oni obecni w czasie jego śmierci 27 lutego 1987 roku.}}</ref>

=== March ===
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* ] – ], American swing jazz guitarist (b. ])
* ] – ], American actor (b. ])
* ] – ], American singer, actor, and comedian (b. ])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9dQ0AAAAIBAJ&pg=5772,634574&dq=danny+kaye&hl=en|title=Actor-comedian Danny Kaye dies|date=March 3, 1987|work=]|access-date=December 15, 2010}}</ref>
* ] – ], American screenwriter (b. ])
* ] – ], English actor (b. ])
* ] - ], American college football coach, coached for ]
* ] – ], American politician, first Director General of the ] (b. ])
* ] – ], French physicist, ] laureate (b. ])
* ]
** ], American actor (b. ])
** ], American pop singer and film and television actor (b. ])
* ]
** ], German painter, printmaker, architect, author, and teacher (b. ])
** ], German conductor (b. ])
* ] – ], 6th Prime Minister of Slovenia (b. ])
* ]
** ], Austrian singer (b. ])
** ], English actor (b. ])
** ], Beninese military officer, former ] (b. ])

=== April ===
* ] – ], French tennis champion (b. ])
* ]
** ], Chinese actress and singer (b. ])
** ], American jazz drummer (b. ])
* ] – ], American writer (b. ])
* ] – ], 2nd Prime Minister of Lesotho (b. ])
* ]
** ], American writer (b. ])
** ], American actor (b. ])
** ], Italian chemist and writer (b. ])<ref>{{Cite web|last=Intern|date=2012-07-09|title=Primo Levi's Last Moments|url=http://bostonreview.net/diego-gambetta-primo-levi-last-moments|access-date=2021-01-12|website=Boston Review|language=en}}</ref>
* ] – ], American professional wrestler (b. ])
* ] – ], Japanese karate master (b. ])
* ]
** ], Jamaican reggae drummer (b. ])
** ], Dutch Christian philosopher, reformed theologian, and presuppositional apologist (b. ])
** ], American actor (b. ])
* ]
** ], Animator for the Disney Studio (b. ])
** ], English dancer and choreographer (b. ])
** ], American general and diplomat (b. ])

=== May ===
* ] - ], African-American fashion designer (b. ])
* ] – ], French rock musician (b. ])
* ]
** ], American musician (b. ])
** ], American actress (b. ])
* ] – ], American Central Intelligence Agency director (b. ])
* ] – ], Northern Irish actor (b. ])
* ]
** ], Australian public servant (b. ])
** ], German businessman (b. ])
* ] – ], Greek actor (b. ])
* ]
** ], Puerto Rican composer and salsa singer (b. ])
** ], Norwegian operatic soprano (b. ])
* ] – ], American actress and dancer (b. ])
* ] – ], Swedish economist, ] laureate (b. ])
* ] – ], American author (b. ])
* ] – ], Argentine actor (b. ])
* ] – ], English actress (b. ])
* ]
** ], New Zealand artist (b. ])
** ], American biochemist (b. ])
* ]
** ], 5th ] (b. ])
** ], Belgian middle-distance runner (b. ])
* ] – ], Indian film director (b. ])

=== June ===
* ]
** ], Caribbean statesman, 1st ] (b. ])
** ], Lebanese statesman, 21st ] (b. ])
** ], Italian road bicycle racer (b. ])
* ] – ], Spanish guitarist (b. ])
* ] – ], American actor (b. ])
* ] – ], German actor (b. ])
* ]
** ], American actress (b. ])
** ], Russian-born philosopher, founder of Marxist humanism in the United States (b. ])
* ] – ], American actress (b. ])
* ]
** ], American screenwriter, novelist, playwright (b. ])
** ], American actress (b. ])
* ] – ], Indian ornithologist and naturalist (b. ])
* ] – ], American actor, singer, and dancer (b. ])
* ] – ], American actor and comedian (b. ])
* ]
** ], American economist (b. ])
** ], Dutch composer (b. ])
* ] – ], Spanish composer and pianist (b. ])

=== July ===
* ] – ], American theater director and choreographer (b. ])
* ] – ], American actress (b. ])
* ] – ], Indonesian politician, 4th ] (b. ])
* ] – ], Spanish poet (b. ])
* ] – ], American record producer (b. ])
* ] – ], American sportsman and competitor (b. ])
* ]
** ], Estonian wrestler (b. ])
** ], Japanese actor (b. ])
* ] – ], American actor (b. ])
* ] - ], American philosopher and political theorist (b. ])<ref> ''The New York Times''.</ref>

=== August ===
* ] – ], Polish born actress (b. ])
* ] – ], 2nd ] (b. ])
* ] – ], Soviet and Russian stage, film and voice actor (b. ])
* ] – ], World War II United States Army Air Forces general (b. ])
* ]
** ], 7th ] (b. ])
** ], Japanese politician, 37th ] (b. ])
* ] – ], Prime Minister of Greece (b. ])
* ] – ], Soviet and Russian theatre and film actor (b. ])
* ]
** ], German Nazi official (b. ])
** ], American film director (b. ])
** ], Brazilian poet (b. ])
* ] – ], French racing driver (b. ])
* ] – ], American civil rights activist (b. ])
* ] – ], German chemist, ] laureate (b. ])
* ] – ], American film director, screenwriter, and actor (b. ])
* ] – ], American actor (b. ])

=== September ===
* ] – ], German World War I flying ace, aerobatics champion, and aircraft designer and manufacturer (b. ])
* ] – ], President of Argentina (1982) (b. ])
* ] – ], American composer (b. ])
* ] – ], Welsh film director (b. ])
* ]
** ], Scottish actor (b. ])
** ], Dutch businessman (b. ])
* ]
** ], Jamaican singer and musician (b. ])
** ], Canadian actor, radio personality and singer (b. ])
* ]
** ], Canadian-American actor (b. ])
** ], American general (b. ])
* ] – ], American film producer and director (b. ])
* ] – ], Soviet actor, film director and screenwriter (b. ])
* ] – ], 13th ] (b. ])
* ] – ], former ] (b. ])
* ] – ], American jazz bassist (b. ])
* ]
** ], 4th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. ])
** ], American comedian (b. ])
** ], Hungarian actress (b. ])
* ]
** ], American theater choreographer and director (b. ])
** ], Dutch-born wrestler, opera singer and actor (b. ])
* ]
** ], American actress (b. ])
** ], Welsh writer, dramatist and actor (b. ])<ref>{{cite news |last=Krebs |first=Albin |date=September 26, 1987 |title=Emlyn Williams, Welsh Actor and Writer, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/26/obituaries/emlyn-williams-welsh-actor-and-writer-dies.html |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2016-10-18 }}</ref>
* ] – ], president of ] (b. ])
* ] – ], American author (b. ])
=== October ===
* ]
** ], English actress (b. ])
** ], Brazilian-born British scientist, recipient of the ] (b. ])
* ]
** ], French dramatist (b. ])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/05/obituaries/jean-anouilh-the-french-playwright-is-dead-at-77.html|title=Jean Anouilh, the French Playwright, Is Dead at 77|date=October 5, 1987|author=Jane Gross|website=New York Times|access-date=30 May 2022}}</ref>
** ], English Salvation Army officer (b. ])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thewarcry.com/articles/remembering-catherine-bramwell-booth/|title=Remembering Catherine Bramwell-Booth|accessdate=December 18, 2022}}</ref>
** ], composer, teacher and author (b. ])
* ]
** ], American film producer (b. ])
** ], President of Greece (b. ])
* ] – ], American physician, recipient of the ] (b. ])
* ] – ], Colombian lawyer, union leader, and politician (b. ])
* ]
** ], American politician (b. ])
** ], Turkish diplomat, 6th ] (b. ])
* ]
** ], American physicist, ] laureate (b. ])
** ], Indian actor and ] (b. ])
* ] – ], Burkinabe politician, 5th ] and 2nd ] (b. ])
* ]
** ], British cellist (b. ])
** ], German race car driver (b. ])
* ] – ], Russian mathematician (b. ])
* ] – ], Italian actor (b. ])
* ] – ], Indian cricketer (b. ])
* ] – ], French artist (b. ])
* ] – ], American jazz musician (b. ])
* ] – ], American ], author (b. ])

=== November ===
* ] – ], Canadian politician, 23rd ] (b. ])
* ] – ], French filmmaker (b. ])
* ]
** ], Israeli singer (b. ])
** ], French composer of classical music (b. ])
* ] – ], Swedish Olympic swimmer (b. ])
* ] – ], Nigerien military officer and statesman, 2nd ] (b. ])
* ] – ], Dutch-born Swedish singer-songwriter, poet and actor (b. ])
* ] – ], French road racing cyclist (b. ])
* ] – ], Argentine footballer (b. ])
* ] – ], British politician (b. ])

=== December ===
* ] – ], African-American novelist, essayist, playwright and poet (b. ])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/20/books/james-baldwin-his-voice-remembered.html?ref=james_baldwin|title=James Baldwin: His Voice Remembered|website=The New York Times|date=December 20, 1987}}</ref>
* ]
** ], Honduran military officer (b. ])
** ], American astronaut (b. ])
** ], French-born chemist, ] laureate (b. ])
** ], Russian physicist (b. ])
* ] – ], Armenian-American film director (b. ])
* ]
** ], Peruvian football coach (b. ])
** ], Peruvian footballer (b. ])
* ] – ], Lithuanian-born violinist (b. ])
* ] – ], Dutch cardinal (b. ])
* ] – ], American film and television director, producer, writer, and actor (b. ])
* ] – ], American actress (b. ])
* ]
** ], Dutch politician and journalist, ] (1973–1977) (b. ])
** ], Indian actor and Chief Minister of the ] (1977–1987) (b. ])
* ] – ], American actress (b. ])


== Nobel Prizes == == Nobel Prizes ==

Revision as of 00:08, 6 April 2023

This article is about the year. For the number, see 1987 (number). For other uses, see 1987 (disambiguation).

From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, killing everyone except a little girl; The King's Cross fire kills 31 people after a fire under an escalator flashes-over; The MV Doña Paz sinks after colliding with an oil tanker, drowning almost 4,400 passengers and crew; Typhoon Nina strikes the Philippines; LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055 crashes outside of Warsaw, taking the lives of all aboard; The USS Stark is struck by Iraqi Exocet missiles in the Persian Gulf; U.S. President Ronald Reagan gives a famous speech, demanding that Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev tears down the Berlin Wall.
Calendar year
Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
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1987 by topic
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By country
Lists of leaders
Birth and death categories
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Works category
1987 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1987
MCMLXXXVII
Ab urbe condita2740
Armenian calendar1436
ԹՎ ՌՆԼԶ
Assyrian calendar6737
Baháʼí calendar143–144
Balinese saka calendar1908–1909
Bengali calendar1393–1394
Berber calendar2937
British Regnal year35 Eliz. 2 – 36 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2531
Burmese calendar1349
Byzantine calendar7495–7496
Chinese calendar丙寅年 (Fire Tiger)
4684 or 4477
    — to —
丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit)
4685 or 4478
Coptic calendar1703–1704
Discordian calendar3153
Ethiopian calendar1979–1980
Hebrew calendar5747–5748
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2043–2044
 - Shaka Samvat1908–1909
 - Kali Yuga5087–5088
Holocene calendar11987
Igbo calendar987–988
Iranian calendar1365–1366
Islamic calendar1407–1408
Japanese calendarShōwa 62
(昭和６２年)
Javanese calendar1919–1920
Juche calendar76
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4320
Minguo calendarROC 76
民國76年
Nanakshahi calendar519
Thai solar calendar2530
Tibetan calendar阳火虎年
(male Fire-Tiger)
2113 or 1732 or 960
    — to —
阴火兔年
(female Fire-Rabbit)
2114 or 1733 or 961
Unix time536457600 – 567993599

1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1987th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 987th year of the 2nd millennium, the 87th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1980s decade.

Calendar year

Events

January

February

March

MS Herald of Free Enterprise before its capsizing on March 6.

April

May

June

July

August

September

Performance of the Dow Jones Industrial Index during Black Monday

October

October 16: aftermath of the Great Storm of 1987.

November

November 18: King's Cross St Pancras tube station catches fire.

December

Births and deaths

Main pages: Category:1987 births and Deaths in 1988

Nobel Prizes

References

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