page_title: 1987
section_title: August
hierarchical_section_title: 1987 / Deaths / August
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Grand Prix van Nederland te Zandvoort; winnaar Pironi me champagne.
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: August 1 – Pola Negri, Polish born actress (b. 1897)
  August 2 – Abu Sayeed Chowdhury, 2nd President of Bangladesh (b. 1921)
  August 5 – Anatoli Papanov, Soviet stage, film and voice actor (b. 1922)
  August 6
  Léon Noël, French diplomat, politician and historian (b. 1888)
  Ira C. Eaker, World War II United States Army Air Forces general (b. 1896)
  August 7
  Camille Chamoun, 7th President of Lebanon (b. 1900)
  Nobusuke Kishi, Japanese politician, 37th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1896)
  August 10 – Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1893)
  August 16 – Andrei Mironov, Soviet theatre and film actor (b. 1941)
  August 17
  Rudolf Hess, German Nazi official (b. 1894)
  Clarence Brown, American film director (b. 1890)
  Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian poet (b. 1902)
  August 19
  Hayden Rorke, American actor (I Dream of Jeannie) (b. 1910)
  Bruno Vogel, German pacifist and writer. (b. 1898)
  Harold Sherman, American author, lecturer and psychical researcher. (b. 1898)
  August 21 – Bombolo, Italian character actor and comedian (b. 1931)
  August 23 – Didier Pironi, French racing driver (b. 1952)
  August 24 – Bayard Rustin, American civil rights activist (b. 1912)
  August 25 – Fernando Ramos da Silva, Brazilian actor, known as Pixote (b. 1967)
  August 26 – Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
  August 27
  Charlie Smalls, American composer and songwriter (b. 1943)
  Scott La Rock, American hip-hop DJ and producer (b. 1962)
  August 28 – John Huston, American film director, screenwriter, and actor (b. 1906)
  August 29
  Lee Marvin, American film and television actor (b. 1924)
  Jean Schlumberger, French jewelry designer (b. 1907)
caption: Didier Pironi
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