1987 deaths

The list 1987 deaths includes Rita Hayworth, Joyce Jameson, Liberace, Peter Tosh and Andy Warhol. The list consists of 5,985 members and 3 sublists.

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1987

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People murdered in 1987
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1987 suicides
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Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1987
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Rita Hayworth

American, Actress

Overview: Rita Hayworth (born Margarita Carmen Cansino; October 17, 1918 – May 14, 1987) was an American actress and dancer. She achieved fame during the 1940s as one of the era's top stars, appearing in 61 ...

Date of birth: 17 October 1918

Date of death: 14 May 1987

Age: 68 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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Film producers from New York City 105T

Deaths from Alzheimer's disease in New York (state) 55T

American pin-up models 106T
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Joyce Jameson

Actress

Overview: Joyce Jameson (September 26, 1932 – January 16, 1987) was an American actress, known for many television roles, including recurring guest appearances as Skippy, one of the "fun girls" in the 1960s tel ...

Date of birth: 26 September 1932

Date of death: 16 January 1987

Age: 54 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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1987 suicides 40T

American actresses who committed suicide 77T

Actresses who committed suicide 180T
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Liberace

American musician and entertainer

Overview: Władziu Valentino Liberace (May 16, 1919 – February 4, 1987) was an American pianist, singer and actor. A child prodigy born in Wisconsin to parents of Italian and Polish origin, Liberace enjoyed a career ...

Date of birth: 16 May 1919

Date of death: 4 February 1987

Age: 67 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Pianist

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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American musicians of Italian descent 37T

American male jazz musicians 3,118T

20th-century American male musicians 6,873T
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Peter Tosh

Jamaican reggae musician (1944–1987)

Overview: Peter Tosh, OM (born Winston Hubert McIntosh; 19 October 1944 – 11 September 1987) was a Jamaican reggae musician. Along with Bob Marley and Bunny Wailer, he was one of the core members of the band ...

Date of birth: 9 October 1944

Date of death: 11 September 1987

Age: 42 (age at death)

Nationality: Jamaican

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 4" (193 cm)

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20th-century Jamaican male singers 51T

20th-century male singers 6,335T

20th-century Jamaican singers 44T
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Andy Warhol

American artist, film director, and producer (1928–1987)

Overview: Andy Warhol (born Andrew Warhola; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works ...

Date of birth: 6 August 1928

Date of death: 22 February 1987

Age: 58 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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LGBT photographers from the United States 85T

WFUNA Lithograph Program 8T

20th-century American screenwriters 1,962T
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Mary Astor

American actress (1906–1987)

Overview: Mary Astor (born Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke; May 3, 1906 – September 25, 1987) was an American actress. She may be best remembered for her performance as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon ...

Date of birth: 3 May 1906

Date of death: 25 September 1987

Age: 81 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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Respiratory disease deaths in California 44T

20th-century American memoirists 469T

20th-century memoirists 862T
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Fred Astaire

American dancer, actor, and singer (1899–1987)

Overview: Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz; May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) was an American actor, dancer, singer, choreographer, and television presenter. He is widely considered the most influential dancer ...

Date of birth: 10 May 1899

Date of death: 22 June 1987

Age: 88 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

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United Service Organizations entertainers 148T

Members of The Lambs Club 87T

20th-century American male singers 1,989T
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Danny Kaye

American, Actor

Overview: Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsky; Yiddish: דאַװיד דאַניעל קאַמינסקי‎; January 18, 1911 – March 3, 1987) was an American actor, singer, dancer, comedian, musician, and philanthropist. His p ...

Date of birth: 18 January 1911

Date of death: 3 March 1987

Age: 76 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)

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American vaudeville performers 1,289T

Jewish American sports executives and administrators 174T

Comedians from Brooklyn 160T
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Dalida

French singer and actress (1933–1987)

Overview: Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti (17 January 1933 – 3 May 1987), professionally known as Dalida, was a French singer and actress, born in Egypt to Italian parents. Singing in 10 languages, she is the most i ...

Date of birth: 17 January 1933

Date of death: 2 May 1987

Age: 54 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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20th-century Egyptian women singers 21T

1987 suicides 40T

Rock musicians who committed suicide 104T
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Jackie Gleason

American stand-up comedian

Overview: John Herbert Gleason (February 26, 1916 – June 24, 1987) was an American actor, comedian, writer, composer, and conductor known affectionately as "The Great One." Developing a style and characters ...

Date of birth: 26 February 1916

Date of death: 24 June 1987

Age: 71 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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20th-century American male singers 1,944T

Male actors of Irish descent 682T

20th-century American male musicians 7,862T
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Randolph Scott

Actor

Overview: George Randolph Scott (January 23, 1898 – March 2, 1987) was an American film actor whose career spanned the years from 1928 to 1962. As a leading man for all but the first three years of his cinematic ...

Date of birth: 23 January 1898

Date of death: 2 March 1987

Age: 89 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 4" (193 cm)

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United States Army Field Artillery Branch personnel 140T

Male actors of Scottish descent 224T

Episcopalians from Virginia 43T
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Richard Egan

American actor

Overview: Richard Egan (July 29, 1921 – July 20, 1987) was an American actor. After beginning his career in 1949, he subsequently won a Golden Globe Award for his performances in the films The Glory Brigade (1953) ...

Date of birth: 29 July 1921

Date of death: 20 July 1987

Age: 65 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)

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United States Army personnel of World War II 4,472T

Male actors from San Francisco, California 218T

Male Western (genre) film actors 419T
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Raquel Torres

American actor

Overview: Raquel Torres (born Paula Marie Osterman or Wilhelmina von Osterman; November 11, 1908 – August 10, 1987) was a Mexican-born American film actress. Her sister was actress Renee Torres.

Date of birth: 11 November 1908

Date of death: 10 August 1987

Age: 78 (age at death)

Nationality: Mexican

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)

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Actresses of German descent 622T

American actresses of Mexican descent 148T

20th-century American actresses 6,858T
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Pola Negri

Polish, Actress

Overview: Pola Negri (born Apolonia Chalupec, 3 January 1897 – 1 August 1987) was a Polish stage and film actress and singer who achieved worldwide fame during the silent and golden eras of Hollywood and European ...

Date of birth: 3 January 1897

Date of death: 1 August 1987

Age: 90 (age at death)

Nationality: Polish

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' (152 cm)

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Actresses from Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship 7T

Actors from Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship 29T

Actors from Bydgoszcz 11T
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Madeleine Carroll

English actress (1906–1987)

Overview: Edith Madeleine Carroll (26 February 1906 – 2 October 1987) was an English actress, popular both in Britain and America in the 1930s and 1940s. At the peak of her success in 1938, she was the world's ...

Date of birth: 26 February 1906

Date of death: 2 October 1987

Age: 81 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

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Actresses of Irish descent 597T

20th-century English actresses 1,339T

20th-century English actors 513T
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Lorne Greene

Canadian actor (1915–1987)

Overview: Lorne Hyman Greene OC (born Lyon Himan Green; 12 February 1915 – 11 September 1987) was a Canadian actor, radio personality, and singer. His notable television roles include Ben Cartwright on the Western ...

Date of birth: 12 February 1915

Date of death: 11 September 1987

Age: 72 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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20th-century Canadian male singers 246T

Deaths from pneumonia in California 453T

Jewish Canadian journalists 96T
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Lee Marvin

American actor (1924–1987)

Overview: Lee Marvin (February 19, 1924 – August 29, 1987) was an American film and television actor.

Date of birth: 19 February 1924

Date of death: 29 August 1987

Age: 63 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)

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Male actors of English descent 380T

People from Woodstock, New York 102T

United States Marine Corps personnel of World War II 1,178T
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John Huston

American filmmaker (1906–1987)

Overview: John Marcellus Huston ( HEW-stən; August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American-born Irish film director, screenwriter and actor. He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed ...

Date of birth: 5 August 1906

Date of death: 28 August 1987

Age: 81 (age at death)

Nationality: Irish

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)

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Male actors of Scottish descent 224T

Male actors of English descent 379T

20th-century American screenwriters 2,411T
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Greg Bautzer

American, Attorney

Overview: Gregson Edward Bautzer (April 3, 1911 – October 26, 1987) was an American attorney who represented such individuals as Ginger Rogers, Ingrid Bergman and Joan Crawford, Kirk Kerkorian, Howard Hughes ...

Date of birth: 3 April 1911

Date of death: 26 October 1987

Age: 76 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Attorney

Gender: Male

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American entertainment lawyers 40T

20th-century American lawyers 8,026T

Lawyers from Los Angeles, California 205T
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Dean Paul Martin

American actor and singer

Overview: Dean Paul Martin Jr. (born Dean Paul Crocetti Jr., November 17, 1951 – March 21, 1987) was an American pop singer and film and television actor. A member of the California Air National Guard, Martin died ...

Date of birth: 17 November 1951

Date of death: 21 March 1987

Age: 35 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1987 3T

Dean Martin 7T

20th-century male singers 5,297T