1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1987th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 987th year of the 2nd millennium, the 87th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1980s decade.

From top left, clockwise: the MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, killing everyone except a little girl; the King's Cross fire kills 31 people after a fire under an escalator flashes-over; the MV Doña Paz sinks after colliding with an oil tanker, drowning almost 4,400 passengers and crew; Typhoon Nina strikes the Philippines, killing 1,036; LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055 crashes outside of Warsaw, taking the lives of all aboard; the USS Stark is struck by Iraqi Exocet missiles in the Persian Gulf; U.S. President Ronald Reagan gives a famous speech, demanding that Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev tear down the Berlin Wall.
Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1987 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1987
MCMLXXXVII
Ab urbe condita2740
Armenian calendar1436
ԹՎ ՌՆԼԶ
Assyrian calendar6737
Baháʼí calendar143–144
Balinese saka calendar1908–1909
Bengali calendar1394
Berber calendar2937
British Regnal year35 Eliz. 2 – 36 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2531
Burmese calendar1349
Byzantine calendar7495–7496
Chinese calendar丙寅年 (Fire Tiger)
4684 or 4477
    — to —
丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit)
4685 or 4478
Coptic calendar1703–1704
Discordian calendar3153
Ethiopian calendar1979–1980
Hebrew calendar5747–5748
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2043–2044
 - Shaka Samvat1908–1909
 - Kali Yuga5087–5088
Holocene calendar11987
Igbo calendar987–988
Iranian calendar1365–1366
Islamic calendar1407–1408
Japanese calendarShōwa 62
(昭和62年)
Javanese calendar1919–1920
Juche calendar76
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4320
Minguo calendarROC 76
民國76年
Nanakshahi calendar519
Thai solar calendar2530
Tibetan calendar阳火虎年
(male Fire-Tiger)
2113 or 1732 or 960
    — to —
阴火兔年
(female Fire-Rabbit)
2114 or 1733 or 961
Unix time536457600 – 567993599

Events

January

February

March

 
MS Herald of Free Enterprise before its capsizing on March 6.

April

May

June

July

August

September

 
Performance of the Dow Jones Industrial Index during Black Monday

October

 
October 16: aftermath of the Great Storm of 1987.

November

 
November 18: King's Cross St Pancras tube station catches fire.

December

Births

Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January

 
Loïc Rémy
 
Davide Astori
 
Paolo Nutini
 
Jamie Vardy
 
Luis Suárez
 
Evan Peters

February

 
Heather Morris
 
Gerard Piqué
 
Michael B. Jordan
 
Edinson Cavani
 
Sergio Romero

March

 
Kesha
 
Emeli Sandé
 
Ramires

April

 
Sarah Gadon
 
Sami Khedira
 
Brendon Urie
 
Maria Sharapova
 
Mikel John Obi
 
Arijit Singh
 
Rohit Sharma

May

 
Cesc Fàbregas
 
Jorge Lorenzo
 
Candice King
 
Andy Murray
 
Novak Djokovic

June

 
Cássio
 
Kendrick Lamar
 
Lee Min-ho
 
Lionel Messi

July

 
Sebastian Vettel
 
Ji Chang-wook
 
Veronica Wagner
 
Cristina Vee
 
Pedro
 
Genesis Rodriguez

August

 
Sidney Crosby
 
Liu Yifei

September

 
Evan Rachel Wood
 
Wiz Khalifa
 
Afrojack
 
Hilary Duff

October

 
Zuleyka Rivera
 
Zac Efron
 
Tove Lo

November

 
T.O.P
 
Kevin Jonas
 
Karen Gillan
 
Daniel Noboa

December

 
Gonzalo Higuaín
 
Karim Benzema

Deaths

Nobel Prizes

 

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