page_title: 1987
section_title: February
hierarchical_section_title: 1987 / Deaths / February
caption_attribution_description: Photo of James Coco from his television program Calucci's Department.
context_page_description: 1987 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1987th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 987th year of the 2nd millennium, the 87th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1980s decade.
context_section_description: February 1
  Gustav Knuth, German film actor (b. 1901)
  Alessandro Blasetti, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1900)
  February 2
  Alistair MacLean, British writer (b. 1922)
  Carlos José Castilho, Brazilian football goalkeeper (b. 1927)
  February 3 – Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu, younger brother of Japanese Emperor Hirohito (b. 1905)
  February 4 – Liberace, American pianist, singer and actor (b. 1919)
  February 5
  Otto Wöhler, serving during World War I and World War II (b. 1894)
  William Collier Jr., American actor (b. 1902)
  February 7
  Cyril Horn, English speed skater (b. 1904)
  Claudio Villa, Italian singer (b. 1926)
  February 10 – Robert O'Brien, American racing driver (b. 1908)
  February 11 – Mark Ashton, Irish gay rights activist (b. 1960)
  February 12
  Dennis Poore, British entrepreneur, financier and sometime racing driver (b. 1916)
  Raymond Vouel, Luxembourg politician (b. 1923)
  February 14 – Dmitry Kabalevsky, Russian composer (b. 1904)
  February 19 – Hugh Greene, British television executive (b. 1910)
  February 20 – Lev Russov, Russian painter (b. 1926)
  February 22
  David Susskind, American producer and host (b. 1920)
  Andy Warhol, American artist, director, writer (b. 1928)
  Glenway Wescott, American novelist (b. 1901)
  February 23 – Esmond Knight, English actor (b. 1906)
  February 25
  James Coco, American actor, the unemployed actor in Only When I Laugh, and Sancho Panza in Man of La Mancha (b. 1930)
  Elisabeth Coit, American architect (b. 1897)
  Dame Florence Cayford, Labour politician in London (b. 1897)
  John Collin, English actor, Detective Sergeant Haggar in Z-Cars (b. 1928)
  E. D. Nixon, African-American civil rights leader (b. 1899)
  February 26 – Domingo Arechiga, American educator (b. 1926)
  February 27 – Joan Greenwood, English actress (b. 1921)
  February 28 – Stephen Tennant, British aristocrat and playboy (b. 1906)
caption: James Coco
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