Celebrities who died in July 1987

The list Celebrities who died in July 1987 includes Richard Egan, Sari Maritza, Viola Dana, Barbara Peckinpaugh and Hannelore Schroth. The list consists of 217 members.

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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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Sari Maritza

British actor

Overview: Sari Maritza (17 March 1910 – July 1987) was an actress in British films of the early 1930s.

Date of birth: 17 March 1910

Date of death: 1 July 1987

Age: 77 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)

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Actresses from Tianjin 13T

20th-century English actresses 1,339T

English film actresses 2,039T
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Viola Dana

Actress

Overview: Viola Dana (born Virginia Flugrath; June 26, 1897 – July 3, 1987) was an American film actress who was successful during the era of silent films. She appeared in over 100 films, but was unable to make ...

Date of birth: 26 June 1897

Date of death: 3 July 1987

Age: 90 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' (152 cm)

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Actresses from New York City 1,485T

20th-century American actresses 6,858T

American silent film actresses 1,032T
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Hannelore Schroth

German actress

Overview: Hannelore Emilie Käte Grete Schroth ( 10 January 1922 – 7 July 1987) was a German film, stage, and television actress whose career spanned over five decades.

Date of birth: 10 January 1922

Date of death: 7 July 1987

Age: 65 (age at death)

Nationality: German

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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German child actresses 42T

Actresses from Berlin 285T

20th-century German actresses 676T
5.

Patience Collier

British actor

Overview: Patience Collier (born Irene Marjorie Ritscher; 19 August 1910 – 13 July 1987) was a British actress.

Date of birth: 19 August 1910

Date of death: 13 July 1987

Age: 76 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

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Actresses from London 1,257T

20th-century English actresses 1,339T

English stage actresses 1,664T
6.

Michael Bennett

American choreographer

Overview: Michael Bennett (April 8, 1943 – July 2, 1987) was an American musical theatre director, writer, choreographer, and dancer. He won seven Tony Awards for his choreography and direction of Broadway shows ...

Date of birth: 8 April 1943

Date of death: 2 July 1987

Age: 44 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Choreographer

Gender: Male

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Broadway theatre directors 38T

Artists from Buffalo, New York 80T

20th-century American dancers 553T
7.

Aadhavan Sundaram

Writer

Overview: Aadhavan (Tamil: ஆதவன்) is the pseudonym of K. S. Sundaram (Tamil: கே. எஸ். சுந்தரம், 21 March 1942 – 19 July 1987), a Tamil writer from Tamil Nadu, India.

Date of birth: 21 March 1942

Date of death: 19 July 1987

Age: 45 (age at death)

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Writer

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Novelists from Tamil Nadu 53T

Dramatists and playwrights from Tamil Nadu 18T

20th-century Indian dramatists and playwrights 562T
8.

H. R. Jothipala

Sri Lankan singer

Overview: Hettiarachchige Reginald Jothipala (Sinhala: එච්.අාර්.ජෝතිපාල; 12 February 1936 – 7 July 1987), popularly as H. R. Jothipala, was a Sri Lankan playback singer in the Sinhala cinema as well as an film actor ...

Date of birth: 12 February 1936

Date of death: 7 July 1987

Age: 51 (age at death)

Nationality: Sri Lankan

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Male

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20th-century male singers 5,297T

20th-century Sri Lankan singers 42T

Sri Lankan male singers 75T
9.

DeVeren Bookwalter

American actor

Overview: DeVeren Bookwalter (September 8, 1939 – July 23, 1987) was an American actor and director. He primarily appeared in theater, though he did have several film roles. DeVeren was the first person to win ...

Date of birth: 8 September 1939

Date of death: 23 July 1987

Age: 47 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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20th-century American male actors 8,672T

American male soap opera actors 868T

American male stage actors 3,262T
10.

Harold Goodwin

Actor

Overview: Harold Goodwin (December 1, 1902 – July 12, 1987) was an American actor who performed in over 225 films.

Date of birth: 1 December 1902

Date of death: 12 July 1987

Age: 84 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)

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Actors from Peoria, Illinois 20T

American male silent film actors 1,200T

Male Western (genre) film actors 419T
11.

Alfie Bass

Actor

Overview: Alfie Bass (born Abraham Basalinsky, 10 April 1916 – 15 July 1987) was an English actor. He was born in Bethnal Green, London, the youngest in a Jewish family with ten children; his parents had left Russia ...

Date of birth: 8 April 1921

Date of death: 15 July 1987

Age: 66 (age at death)

Nationality: Russian

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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British male comedy actors 243T

British novelty song performers 45T

Jewish English male actors 76T
12.

Yûjirô Ishihara

Japanese actor and singer

Overview: Yūjirō Ishihara (石原裕次郎, Ishihara Yūjirō, December 28, 1934 – July 17, 1987) was a Japanese actor and singer born in Kobe. His elder brother is Shintaro Ishihara, an author, politician, and the Governor ...

Date of birth: 28 December 1934

Date of death: 17 July 1987

Age: 52 (age at death)

Nationality: Japanese

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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20th-century Japanese male singers 149T

People from Zushi, Kanagawa 16T

20th-century male singers 6,335T
13.

Arthur Jarrett

American singer

Overview: Arthur L. Jarrett Jr. (July 20, 1907 – July 23, 1987) born to stage actor and playwright Arthur L. Jarrett Sr. (1884–1960). Art Jr. was an American singer, actor, and bandleader in the 1930s and 1940s ...

Date of birth: 20 July 1907

Date of death: 23 July 1987

Age: 80 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Conductor

Gender: Male

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20th-century male singers 5,297T

Musicians from Brooklyn 800T

20th-century American singers 5,176T
14.

Henry Tayali

Zambian artist, sculptor, printmaker, and lecturer (1943–1987)

Overview: Henry Nkole Tayali (22 November 1943 – 22 July 1987) was a multi-lingual Zambian painter, sculptor, printmaker, raconteur and lecturer. He has been described as Zambia's most famous painter.

Date of birth: 22 November 1943

Date of death: 22 July 1987

Age: 43 (age at death)

Nationality: Zambian

Occupation: Painter

Gender: Male

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Zambian photographers 2T

People from Serenje District 1T

20th-century Zambian people 7T
15.

Hezekiah Ochuka

Kenyan military officer

Overview: Hezekiah Rabala Ochuka, (alias Awour) (July 23, 1953 – July 9, 1987) was Senior Private in the Kenya Air Force, who ruled Kenya for about six hours after planning and executing a coup against president ...

Date of birth: 23 July 1953

Date of death: 9 July 1987

Age: 33 (age at death)

Nationality: Kenyan

Occupation: Military

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People extradited to Kenya 2T

People executed by Kenya by hanging 1T

20th-century executions by Kenya 1T
16.

Tom Waddell

Founder of Gay Gamaes

Overview: Dr. Tom Waddell (November 1, 1937 – July 11, 1987) was a gay American physician, sportsman and competitor at the 1968 Summer Olympics who founded the Gay Olympics in 1982 in San Francisco. The international ...

Date of birth: 1 November 1937

Date of death: 11 July 1987

Age: 49 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Sports Figure

Gender: Male

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American sports physicians 42T

American male decathletes 105T

LGBT people from New Jersey 175T
17.

Jerome Collamore

American, Actor

Date of birth: 25 September 1891

Date of death: 18 July 1987

Age: 95 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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Michael Staniforth

British actor

Overview: Michael Peter Staniforth (15 December 1942 – 31 July 1987), born in Selly Oak, Birmingham, was a British stage actor.

Date of birth: 15 December 1942

Date of death: 31 July 1987

Age: 44 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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20th-century male actors 1,186T

20th-century British male actors 472T

English male stage actors 2,411T
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MacDonald Hobley

British soldier

Overview: McDonald Hobley, born Dennys Jack Valentine McDonald-Hobley, (9 June 1917, Stanley, Falkland Islands – 30 July 1987) was one of the first BBC Television continuity announcers, appearing from 1946 to 1956 ...

Date of birth: 9 June 1917

Date of death: 30 July 1987

Age: 70 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Gender: Male

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People educated at Brighton College 157T

People from Stanley, Falkland Islands 19T

Falkland Islands television people 1T
20.

Joe Liggins

American R&B musician (1916-1987)

Overview: Joseph Christopher Liggins, Jr. (born Theodro Elliott; July 9, 1916 – July 26, 1987) was an American R&B, jazz and blues pianist and vocalist who led Joe Liggins and his Honeydrippers in the 1940s and ...

Date of birth: 9 July 1915

Date of death: 26 July 1987

Age: 72 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Pianist

Gender: Male

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20th-century American male musicians 6,873T

20th-century male musicians 12,801T

American male pianists 2,053T