Famous People Who Died at Age 87

From the Who2 database of 4,809 musicians, actors, historical figures, and other celebrities:

• Pound, Ezra (at 87 years 2 days on November 1, 1972)

• Mother Teresa (at 87 years 9 days on September 5, 1997)

• Cousteau, Jacques-Yves (at 87 years 14 days on June 25, 1997)

• Didion, Joan (at 87 years 18 days on December 23, 2021)

• Irving, Clifford (at 87 years 44 days on December 19, 2017)

• Ben-Gurion, David (at 87 years 46 days on December 1, 1973)

• Davis, Ossie (at 87 years 48 days on February 4, 2005)

• Pickford, Mary (at 87 years 51 days on May 29, 1979)

• Roosevelt, Edith (at 87 years 55 days on September 30, 1948)

• King, Larry (sepsis at 87 years 65 days on January 23, 2021)

• Peck, Gregory (natural causes at 87 years 68 days on June 12, 2003)

• Wolfe, Tom (at 87 years 73 days on May 14, 2018)

• Goldman, William (died of complications from colon cancer at 87 years 96 days on November 16, 2018)

• West, Mae (at 87 years 97 days on November 22, 1980)

• Young, John (died of complications from pneumonia at 87 years 104 days on January 5, 2018)

• Matheson, Richard (at 87 years 123 days on June 23, 2013)

• Chanel, Coco (at 87 years 144 days on January 10, 1971)

• Winters, Jonathan (at 87 years 151 days on April 11, 2013)

• Little Richard (at 87 years 155 days on May 8, 2020)

• Chiang Kai-shek (at 87 years 156 days on April 5, 1975)

• Adelson, Sheldon (died of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma at 87 years 160 days on January 11, 2021)

• Nabors, Jim (at 87 years 171 days on November 30, 2017)

• Thatcher, Margaret (died of a stroke at 87 years 177 days on April 8, 2013)

• Ginsburg, Ruth Bader (died of pancreatic cancer at 87 years 187 days on September 18, 2020)

• Heyerdahl, Thor (died of cancer at 87 years 194 days on April 18, 2002)

• Seuss, Dr. (natural causes at 87 years 206 days on September 24, 1991)

• Young, Loretta (died of ovarian cancer at 87 years 219 days on August 12, 2000)

• Hardy, Thomas (at 87 years 223 days on January 11, 1928)

• White, Ellen G. (at 87 years 232 days on July 16, 1915)

• Hirohito (at 87 years 253 days on January 7, 1989)

• Palance, Jack (natural causes at 87 years 265 days on November 10, 2006)

• Barris, Chuck (natural causes at 87 years 291 days on March 21, 2017)

• Mitchell, Joseph (died of cancer at 87 years 302 days on May 24, 1996)

• Eisner, Will (at 87 years 303 days on January 3, 2005)

• Pershing, John J. (at 87 years 306 days on July 15, 1948)

• Leonard, Elmore (died of complications from stroke at 87 years 313 days on August 20, 2013)

• Post, Emily (at 87 years 334 days on September 25, 1960)

• Peterson, Roger Tory (at 87 years 335 days on July 28, 1996)

• Keller, Helen (natural causes at 87 years 340 days on June 1, 1968)

• Friedkin, William (at 87 years 343 days on August 7, 2023)

• Polk, Sarah Childress (at 87 years 344 days on August 14, 1891)

• Fuller, Buckminster (at 87 years 354 days on July 1, 1983)

• Tito, Josip Broz (died of gangrene at 87 years 363 days on May 4, 1980)

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