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The following is a list of notable deaths in February 1987.
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Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
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February 1987
1
- Alessandro Blasetti, 86, Italian film director and screenwriter, complications from fall.[1]
- Christian Broda, 70, Austrian lawyer and politician, Minister of Justice, heart attack.[2]
- Sala Burton, 61, Polish-born American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives (1983–1987), colon cancer.[3]
- Salvadora Debayle, 91, First Lady of Nicaragua.
- Gustav Knuth, 85, German film actor.[4]
- Jack Monohan Jr., 84, Australian rules footballer.[5]
- Lee Aubrey "Speed" Riggs, 79, American tobacco auctioneer, voice of Lucky Strike cigarettes, heart failure.[6]
2
- Merle Alexander, 79, American basketball player.[7]
- Carlos José Castilho, 59, Brazilian international footballer (Fluminense, Brazil), suicide.[8]
- Walter Clutterbuck, 92, English general in the British Army.
- Yakov Estrin, 63, Soviet chess player, ICCF World Champion.
- Spike Hughes, 78, British musician and composer.[9]
- Néstor Lambertus, 80, Dominican baseball player.[10]
- Alfred Lion, 78, German-born American record executive, co-founded Blue Note Records, heart failure.[11]
- Olive Little, 69, American baseball player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.[12]
- Alistair MacLean, 64, Scottish novelist of thrillers and adventure stories (The Guns of Navarone), heart failure.[13]
- David du Plessis, 81, South African-born American Pentecostal minister.[14]
- Ken Reid, 67, British comic artist and writer, co-creator of Roger the Dodger, stroke.[15]
3
- Donald Aronow, 59, American speedboat designer, builder and racer, murdered.[16]
- Mustafa Bouyali, 46–47, leader of the Algerian Islamic Armed Movement, killed in an ambush.[17]
- Theodore Cogswell, 68, American science fiction author.[18]
- Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu, 82, younger brother of Japanese Emperor Hirohito, lung cancer.
- George Derwent Thomson, 83–84, British classical scholar and Marxist philosopher.[19]
4
- Georges Bauer, 82, Luxembourgish Olympic water polo player (1928).[20]
- Gunnar Böös, 92, Swedish Olympic fencer (1912).[21]
- Paul Dresse, 85, Belgian writer.[22]
- Bruce Jacobi, 51, American race car driver, racing accident.[23]
- Meena Keshwar Kamal, 30, Afghani revolutionary political and women's rights activist, assassinated.[24]
- Liberace, 67, American pianist, singer and actor, pneumonia.[25]
- Fyfe Robertson, 84, Scottish television journalist and broadcaster.[26]
- Carl Rogers, 85, American psychologist, heart attack after fall.[27]
- Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, 78, Welsh newspaper journalist, radio and television broadcaster.[28]
- Patrick Waddington, 85, English actor.
- George W. Woodruff, 91, American engineer and businessman, pneumonia.[29]
5
- E. Michael Burke, 70, American navy officer, circus manager and Major League Baseball executive, cancer.[30]
- William Collier Jr., 84, American stage performer, producer and film actor.[31]
- Klāvs Elsbergs, 28, Latvian poet and translator, fall from building.[32]
- David Ensor, 80, British actor and politician, Member of Parliament.[33]
- Armando Fosco, 64, American leader of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.[34]
- Gustav Lechner, 73, Austro-Hungarian–born Yugoslavian international footballer (Beograd, Yugoslavia).
- Otto Wöhler, 92, Nazi German general, convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity.[35]
6
- Lalithambika Antharjanam, 77, Indian author.[36]
- Julien Chouinard, 58, Canadian lawyer and Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, brain cancer.[37]
- Ira Hall, 95, American racing driver.[38]
- Donald MacCrimmon MacKay, 64, British physicist and professor.
- K. C. Nag, 93, Indian Bengali mathematician and author of mathematics textbooks.[39]
7
- Charles R. Barber, 85, American politician.
- Vara Martin Daniel, 69, American educator and First Lady of Guam (1961–1963).
- George Fritts, 67, American NFL player (Philadelphia Eagles).[40]
- Cyril Horn, 82, English Olympic speed skater (1924, 1928).[41]
- Tom Lavery, 75, South African Olympic athlete (1936).[42]
- John Leypoldt, 40, American NFL footballer (Buffalo Bills), dysentery.[43]
- Bennetto Payne, 77, Mexican professional boxer.
- Ralph Ricker, 79, American football coach.
- Stuart T. Saunders, 77, American railroad executive, heart failure.[44]
- Claudio Villa, 61, Italian singer and actor, heart attack.[45]
- Adriaan van Wijngaarden, 70, Dutch mathematician and computer scientist.[46]
8
- Tony Destra, 32, American drummer, traffic collision.
- Larnie Jordan, 72, American baseball player.[47]
- Hendrik Koekoek, 74, Dutch farmer, politician and founder of the defunct Farmers' Party.[48]
- Elsie Lee, 75, American author of fiction and non-fiction.
- Harriet MacGibbon, 81, American actress (The Beverly Hillbillies).[49]
- Bob Masters, 74, American NFL player.[50]
- Max Seydewitz, 94, German politician, Minister-President of Saxony.[51]
- Bronisława Wajs, 78, Polish-Romani classic poet and singer.
9
- Elio Bavutti, 72, Italian Olympic cyclist (1936).[52]
- Larry French, 79, American Major League baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates), kidney and heart disease.[53]
- Louis Plack Hammett, 92, American physical chemist (Hammett equation).[54]
- Edna Manley, 86, Jamaican artist.[55]
- Leo Turksma, 81, Dutch Olympic boxer (1924).[56]
10
- Angela Giussani, 64, Italian co-writer of comic book anti-hero series, Diabolik.
- Winifred Kastner, 83, British-born Australian radio broadcaster, community leader and welfare worker.
- Robert O'Brien, 78, American racing driver.
- William Rose, 68, American screenwriter (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner).[57]
- Hans Rosenthal, 61, German director and radio & television host.[58]
- Sadequain, 56, Pakistani artist and poet.[59]
- John Raymond Ylitalo, 70, American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay, cancer.[60]
11
- Mark Ashton, 26, British gay rights activist, pneumonia.[61]
- Francesco Gabriotti, 72, Italian Olympic footballer (1936).[62]
- Edith Gyömrői Ludowyk, 90, Hungarian-born psychotherapist, poet and communist militant.[63]
- Andy Linden, 64, American race car driver.[64]
- John Malachi, 67, American jazz pianist.
- Bill McGee, 77, American Major League baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals).[65]
- John Moore, 53–54, American college basketball player (UCLA Bruins).[66]
12
- Jules Bergman, 57, American broadcast writer and journalist, science editor for ABC News.[67]
- Lang Jeffries, 56, Canadian-American television and film actor, cancer.
- Shozo Makino, 71, Japanese Olympic swimmer (1932, 1936).[68]
- Brian Maunsell, 51, New Zealand Olympic field hockey player (1964).[69]
- Valentin Olenik, 47, Soviet Russian Olympic wrestler (1964, 1968).[70]
- Dennis Poore, 70, British entrepreneur, financier and racing driver.[71]
- Howard Steel, 75, Australian rules footballer.[72]
13
- Heidi Becker-Ramlow, 32, German Olympic diver (1972, 1976).[73]
- M. Bhaktavatsalam, 89, Indian independence activist and politician, Chief Minister of Madras State.
- Clifford Bias, 76, American alleged psychic.[74]
- Dorothy Dean, 54, American writer and actress, cancer.[75]
- Dhumal, 72, Indian actor in Bollywood films, heart attack.
- Arne Grunander, 69, Swedish ice hockey executive.
- Curly Page, 84, New Zealand Test cricketer and international rugby union player.[76]
14
- Rolf Dahlgren, 54, Swedish-Danish botanist and professor, traffic collision.[77]
- Kulada Charan Das Gupta, 87, Indian judge of the Supreme Court of India.[78]
- Stanley Ellis, 91, English cricketer.
- Wendy Holcombe, 23, American banjo player and singer, congenital heart defect.[79]
- Dmitry Kabalevsky, 82, Soviet composer, conductor and pianist.[80]
- Karolos Koun, 78, Greek theatre director, heart attack.[81]
- Tsai Lan-chin, 22, Taiwanese singer and songwriter, heart attack.
- Mansfield Rangi, 51, New Zealand cricket umpire.
- Bola Sete, 63, Brazilian jazz guitarist, pneumonia and lung cancer.[82]
- Einar Wøhni, 66, Norwegian politician.
15
- Jimmy Holiday, 52, American R&B singer and songwriter, heart failure.
- Osmo Lindeman, 57, Finnish composer.
- John Myhill, 63, British mathematician (Myhill–Nerode theorem).[83]
- Gus J. Solomon, 80, American district judge.[84]
16
- Norman Crowther Hunt, 66, British scholar and politician, Minister of State, heart attack.[85]
17
- Leo Anchóriz, 54, Spanish actor and writer, cardiac disease.
- T. M. Chummar, 87, Indian academic and writer of Malayalam literature.
- Hal K. Dawson, 90, American actor.[86]
- Jaakko Friman, 83, Finnish Olympic speed skater (1928).[87]
- Alejandro Hannig, 89, Chilean Olympic sprinter (1928).[88]
- Ray Hayes, 51, American NFL player (Minnesota Vikings).[89]
- Hubert Howard, 79, English intelligence officer.
- Frank Kurtis, 79, American racing car designer, heart attack.[90]
- Diederick Charles Mathew, 58, Aruban politician and teacher, deputy commissioner for Aruba.
- Colin McVicar, 70, New Zealand cricketer.
- Husayn Muruwwa, appr. 77, Lebanese Marxist philosopher, journalist and author, assassinated.[91]
- Milivoj Radović, 71, Yugoslavian Olympic fencer (1936).[92]
- Romola Remus, 86, American actress (The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays).[93]
- Verree Teasdale, 83, American actress.[94]
- Hans Tetzner, 88, Dutch Olympic footballer (1924).[95]
- Jacques Toupin, 76, Canadian NHL player (Chicago Blackhawks).[96]
18
- William Coldstream, 78, English realist painter and art teacher.[97]
- Bryce Harlow, 70, American army officer and advisor to U.S. presidents, lung disease.[98]
- Boris Kowerda, 79, Soviet monarchist, diplomat and convicted murderer.
- Silvio Pietroboni, 82, Italian footballer and Olympian (1928).[99]
- Vladimir Vyshpolsky, 71, Soviet Olympic fencer (1952).[100]
19
- John Blackburn, 62, English cricketer.
- Monk Gafford, 66, American football player.[101]
- Hugh Greene, 76, British television executive and journalist, director-general of the BBC, cancer.[102]
- Cecil Hadgraft, 82, Australian academic and literacy critic.
- Henry-Russell Hitchcock, 83, American architectural historian and professor, cancer.[103]
- Robert E. Kuttner, 59, American biologist and white supremacist.
- Kirsten Walther, 53, Danish actress, heart failure.
20
- Wayne Boring, 81, American comic book artist, known for his work on Superman, heart attack.[104]
- Donald Burns, 65, New Zealand cricket umpire.
- Caesar Gatimu, 65, Kenyan Roman Catholic Bishop of Nyeri.[105]
- Edgar P. Jacobs, 82, Belgian comic book creator (Blake and Mortimer).
- Henry Krause, 73, American NFL player.[106]
- Harry Lawrence, 78, American football coach.[107]
- Joseph Parecattil, 74, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Ernakulam.[108]
- Lev Russov, 61, Soviet painter, graphic artist and sculptor, heart disease.
- AKM Samsuzzoha, appr. 62, Bangladeshi politician, member of parliament.
- C. C. Wei, 72, Chinese-born American contract bridge player, complications from diabetes.
- Willi Welscher, 80, German hurdler and Olympian (1932, 1936).[109]
21
- William T. Fairbourn, 72, American general in the U.S. Marine Corps.[110]
- Petro Grigorenko, 79, Ukrainian-born general in the Soviet Army, founder of human rights movement in the Soviet Union.[111]
- Helen Taft Manning, 95, American professor of history, daughter of President William Taft, pneumonia.[112]
- Noel Odell, 96, English geologist and mountaineer.[113]
- George Tibbles, 73, American composer and screenwriter.[114]
- Meir Ya'ari, 89, Israeli politician, educator and social activist.[115]
22
- Marius Berthet, 83, French Olympic rower (1928).[116]
- Naomi Drake, 80, American Registrar of the Bureau of Vital Statistics for New Orleans.
- Habib Painter, 72, Indian Qawwal and folk singer.
- John Paul Scott, 60, American criminal, only escapee from Alcatraz to reach San Francisco shore.[117]
- David Susskind, 66, American producer and TV talk show host, heart attack.[118]
- Andy Warhol, 58, American artist, director and writer, sudden post-operative irregular heartbeat.[119]
- Glenway Wescott, 85, American poet and novelist, stroke.[120]
23
- José Afonso, 57, Portuguese singer-songwriter and activist, heart failure.[121]
- Robert Braet, 75, Belgian footballer.[122]
- Cyril Butcher, 77, English actor and director.
- John Counsell, 81, English actor, director and theatre manager.[123]
- William Droegemueller, 80, American Olympic athlete (1928).[124]
- Jack Heinz, 78, American business executive and CEO of Heinz, cancer.[125]
- Esmond Knight, 80, English actor, heart attack.
- Edward Lansdale, 79, American general in the U.S. Air Force, heart ailment.[126]
- George Musulin, 72, American army officer of the OSS, CIA operative, diabetes.[127]
- Polly Ward, 74, British singer and actress.[128]
24
- Kakai Kilonzo, 32–33, Kenyan musician, malaria.
- Arthur Luck, 71, English cricketer.
- Edwin McArthur, 79, American classical music conductor and pianist.[129]
25
- William G. Barr, 67, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives (1967–1971).[130]
- Hotse Bartlema, 75, Dutch Olympic rower (1936).[131]
- S. H. Bihari, 66, Indian songwriter and poet.
- James Coco, 56, American actor (Man of La Mancha, Murder by Death), heart attack.[132]
- John Collin, 58, British actor (Z-Cars).
- Arthur A. Collins, 77, American radio engineer and entrepreneur.[133]
- Emilio Guruceta, 45, Spanish football referee.[134]
- Jess Larson, 82, American lawyer, first Administrator of General Services.[135]
- E. D. Nixon, 87, American civil rights leader and union organizer, respiratory and heart ailments.[136]
- Krishna Chandra Panigrahi, 77, Indian historian and archaeologist.[137]
26
- Agnes Dobson, 82, Australian actress.[138]
- Harold Earthman, 86, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1945–1947).[139]
- Leif Efskind, 82, Norwegian surgeon.
- Knut Frydenlund, 59, Norwegian diplomat and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs, cerebral hemorrhage.[140]
- Audrey Marie Hilley, 53, American murderer and suspected serial killer, hypothermia and exposure.[141]
- Eddie Jefferson, 64, American baseball player.[142]
- Fredric R. Mann, 83, American industrialist and patron of the arts, U.S. Ambassador to Barbados, cancer.[143]
- Paul Taunton Matthews, 67, British theoretical physicist, cycling accident.[144]
27
- Franciszek Blachnicki, 65, Polish priest, poisoning.[145]
- Jose W. Diokno, 65, Filipino nationalist, lawyer and statesman, Senator of the Philippines, cancer.[146]
- Bill Holman, 83, American cartoonist (Smokey Stover).[147]
- Fumio Kamei, 78, Japanese documentary and fiction film director.[148]
- Salvatore Oppes, 77, Italian Olympic equestrian (1952, 1956).[149]
- Reto Perl, 63, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player (1948).[150]
- Latif-ur Rehman, 58, Indian and Pakistani hockey player and Olympic gold medalist.[151]
- Colvin R. de Silva, 81–82, Sri Lankan politician, Minister of Plantation Industries.[152]
28
- Nasim Amrohvi, 78, Pakistani Urdu poet and philosopher.[153]
- Frederic G. Donner, 84, American chairman and CEO of the General Motors Corporation.[154]
- Roy Foulds, 80, English rugby union player.
- Joan Greenwood, 65, English actress (Kind Hearts and Coronets), bronchitis and asthma.[155]
- Kees Jonker, 77, Dutch Olympic sailor (1936, 1948).[156]
- Nora Kaye, 67, American ballerina, cancer.[157]
- William F. McKee, 80, American general in the U.S. Air Force, administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration.[158]
- Anny Ondra, 83, Czechoslovakian film actress (Blackmail).[159]
- Edmond Pagès, 75, French road bicycle racer.
- Stephen Tennant, 80, British socialite.
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- Raquel Martínez, 78, Chilean sprinter and Olympian.[160]
- Adi Pherozeshah Marzban, 72, Indian Gujarati Parsi playwright, actor and director, lung cancer.
- Clare Rendlesham, 67, British fashion editor and boutique manager.[161] (died by February 4)
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