Andy Warhol ( August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987 ) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

* 1909 – Hermann Lang, German race car driver ( d. 1987 )

* 1916 – Vincent Ellis McKelvey, American geologist ( d. 1987 )

* 1987 – Levi Porter, English footballer

* 1987 – Hilary Rhoda, American model

* 1987 – Shawn Gore, Canadian football player

* 1987 – Brendon Urie, American singer-songwriter and musician ( Panic at the Disco )

* 1987 – Alipate Carlile, Australian rules footballer

* 1987 – Rohit Sharma, Indian cricketer

* 1987 – Nikki Webster, Australian singer

* 1987 – Darren McFadden, American football player

* 1928 – Andy Warhol, American artist ( d. 1987 )

* 1933 – A. G. Kripal Singh, Indian cricketer ( d. 1987 )

* 1987 – Charley Chase, American porn actress

* 1987 – Aditya Narayan, Indian actor, singer, and composer

* 1987 – Joran van der Sloot, Dutch murderer

* 1919 – Joop den Uyl, Dutch politician ( d. 1987 )

* 1987 – Marco Carmona, Mexican illustrator and animator

* 1987 – Pepe Diokno, Filipino director, screenwriter, and producer

* 1924 – James Baldwin, American writer ( d. 1987 )

* 1987 – Rumi Hiiragi, Japanese actress

* 1987 – Sébastien Pocognoli, Belgian footballer

* 1987 – Lee Wallace, Scottish footballer

* 1987 – Kim Hyung-jun, Korean singer, dancer, and actor ( SS501 )

Many Brooklyn high school students attend Woodstock Academy ; Woodstock was designated as one of Brooklyn's high schools since 1987.

Rivera was born at Beth Israel Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Lillian ( née Friedman ), a waitress, and the late Cruz " Allen " Rivera ( October 1, 1915 – November 1987 ), a restaurant worker and cab driver.

* Francis E. Dorn ( 1911 – 1987 ), US Naval Commander, attorney and 12th District New York congressman for Brooklyn, Kings County.

1987: BAM produces its first Martin Luther King Jr. tribute with the Brooklyn borough president ’ s office

His work was included in numerous group exhibitions including Involving Technical Materials and Processes, organized by Experiments in Art and Technology, in collaboration with the Brooklyn Museum, Brookly, NY and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY ( 1968 ); New Learning Spaces & Places, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN ( 1974 ); Whitney Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY ( 1975, 1977, 1981, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1991 ); Documenta 6, Kassel, Germany, ( 1977 ); Venice Biennale, US Pavilion, Venice, Italy, ( 1980 ); Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia, ( 1982 ); II Bienal de La Habana, Havana, Cuba, ( 1986 ); The Thinking Eye, International Center for Photography, New York, NY, ( 1987 ); Passages de l ’ image, Musée national d ' Art moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, ( 1990 ); Video Art: The First 25 Years, The Museum of Modern Art, and The American Federation of Arts, New York, NY, ( 1995 ); Info Art ’ 95, Kwangu Biennial, Gwangju, Korea, ( 1995 ); Electronic Highways, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, ( 1997 ); and Rational / Irrational, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, ( 2008-2009 ).

His works for large orchestras, such as " Run Silent, Run Deep, Run Loud, Run High " ( conducted by Hale Smith ), and " Mix for Orchestra " ( conducted by Dennis Russell Davies ) were both premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1987 and 1993 respectively.

Reynolds wrote A Searcher's Path ( 1987 ) while serving as visiting professor at Brooklyn College of the CUNY, and Form and Method: Composing Music while serving as Randolph Rothschild Guest Composer at the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University.

Brooklyn Rivera, one of the Miskito guerrilla leaders, became the director of the INDERA ( Nicaraguan Institute of Development of Autonomous Regions ), an illegal structure regarding the 1987 law on autonomy still in force in Nicaragua.

In 1987, he married actress and acting coach Rocky Parker ( born 26 February 1940 in Brooklyn, New York ).

Other films and TV shows featuring greasers include: Crime in the Streets ( 1956 ), The Delinquents ( 1957 ), 77 Sunset Strip ( 1958 ), The Young Savages ( 1961 ), Two-Lane Blacktop ( 1971 ), American Graffiti ( 1973 ), Badlands ( 1973 ), Happy Days ( 1974 – 1984 ), The Lords of Flatbush ( 1974 ), Grease ( 1978 ), The Wanderers ( 1979 ), Grease 2 ( 1982 ), The Loveless ( 1982 ), The Outsiders ( 1983 ) Eddie and the Cruisers ( 1983 ), Rumble Fish ( 1983 ), Streets of Fire ( 1984 ), Tuff Turf ( 1985 ), Stand By Me ( 1986 ), La Bamba ( 1987 ), Full House ( 1987 – 1995 ), Last Exit to Brooklyn ( 1989 ), Cry-Baby ( 1990 ), This Boy's Life ( 1993 ), Roadracers ( 1994 ), Deuces Wild ( 2002 ), Secondhand Lions ( 2003 ), the children's cartoon Johnny Bravo, the video game Bully ( 2006 ), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ( 2008 ), Fallout 3 ( 2008 ), Mafia II ( 2010 ) and Fallout: New Vegas ( 2010 ), The Violent Kind ( 2010 ),

Frank James Burke was found shot to death on a Brooklyn street on May 18, 1987, over a drug deal gone bad.

In 1987, the short line service was essentially recreated when the rush-hour M extension to Brooklyn was moved from the BMT Brighton Line to the West End Line terminating at Bay Parkway.

Brooklyn College publicly apologised to Phillips in 1987.

In October 1987, BQ Cable Company ( now part of Time Warner Cable ) began offering WLIG to subscribers in Brooklyn and Queens.

A Lag BaOmer parade in front of Chabad headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York, in 1987.

Since 1987, he has been an adjunct professor at Brooklyn Law School.

* Edinburgh USA Golf Club, Brooklyn Park, Minnesota ( 1987 )

Brooklyn Brewery was started in 1987 by Steve Hindy and Tom Potter.

Kelvin Darnell Martin ( July 24, 1964 – October 24, 1987 ), known to the underworld as 50 Cent, was an American criminal who grew up in the Bronx, New York, but later moved to Brooklyn, New York and was known as a stick-up kid in a Public Housing Project in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

* Gene Mauch — Brooklyn Dodgers 1944 and 1948 ; Angels manager 1981 – 1982, 1985 – 1987

from Harvard Law School in 1987 and began his law career as a prosecutor, serving as an Assistant District Attorney in Brooklyn, New York.