page_title: 1987
section_title: May
hierarchical_section_title: 1987 / Deaths / May
caption_attribution_description: Svenska: "Långtidsplanerande USA kan bli ett idealland" - Sal X i Universitetshuset var fullsatt när professor Gunnar Myrdal svarade på frågor om sin Amerikabok, Uppsala 1964.
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: May 3 – Dalida, French rock musician (b. 1933)
  May 4
  Paul Butterfield, American musician (b. 1942)
  Cathryn Damon, American actress (b. 1930)
  May 6 – William J. Casey, American Central Intelligence Agency director (b. 1913)
  May 7 – Colin Blakely, Northern Irish actor (b. 1930)
  May 8
  Sir James Plimsoll, Australian public servant (b. 1917)
  Carl Tchilinghiryan, German businessman (b. 1910)
  May 9 – Thodoros Kefalopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1894)
  May 13
  Ismael Rivera, Puerto Rican composer and salsa singer (b. 1931)
  Signe Amundsen, Norwegian operatic soprano (b. 1899)
  May 14 – Rita Hayworth, American actress and dancer (b. 1918)
  May 17 – Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
  May 19 – James Tiptree, Jr., American author (b. 1915)
  May 21 – Alejandro Rey, Argentine actor (b. 1930)
  May 24 – Hermione Gingold, English actress (b. 1897)
  May 26 – Emiliana de Zubeldia, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1888)
  May 27
  Colin McCahon, New Zealand artist (b. 1919)
  John Howard Northrop, American biochemist (b. 1891)
  May 29
  Charan Singh, 5th Prime Minister of India (b. 1902)
  Jozef Langenus, Belgian middle-distance runner (b. 1898)
  May 31 – John Abraham, Indian film director (b. 1937)
caption: Gunnar Myrdal
exif: {}