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LEAD: Three days shy of his 100th birthday, Alf Landon looked a bit frail but happy and alert today as President Reagan stood beside him on his front porch and said, ''You don't know what a joy it is to come to a birthday party of someone who in all honesty can call me a kid.''
LEAD: Amid the noise and bustle of this frenetic capital, Alejandro Canoj Morales spends most of his time sitting on a sidewalk selling trinkets and asking for handouts.
LEAD: In a 22-hour surgical marathon that ended at 5:15 A.M. today, a 70-member medical team at Johns Hopkins Hospital here successfully separated 7-month-old twin boys who were born joined at the head, using a unique combination of techniques designed to prevent neurological damage.
LEAD: A wide range of senior United States officials say the recent coup attempt in the Philippines came very close to succeeding.
LEAD: The Soviet Union allowed Western experts to inspect its top-secret giant radar here today, known as the Krasnoyarsk site after a large city south of here.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 2, 1987, covering September 7, 1987.
Whitney Houston
Whitesnake
Soundtrack
Def Leppard
Heart
1987Tommy Elphick, English footballer[†]
Tommy Elphick is an English former professional footballer who played as a centre-back and currently an assistant manager at Premier League club AFC Bournemouth.
1987Sammy Moore, English footballer[†]
Samuel Leslie Moore is an English former professional footballer who was most recently manager of Southern Counties East League Premier Division club Hythe Town.
1987Danny North, English footballer[†]
Daniel Jamie North is an English football coach and former professional footballer who is the assistant manager of Brigg Town
1987Patrick Robinson, American football player[†]
Patrick Robinson is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Florida State Seminoles, and was selected by the Saints in the first round of the 2010 NFL draft. Robinson has also played for the San Diego Chargers, Indianapolis Colts and Philadelphia Eagles.
1987Evan Rachel Wood, American actress and singer[†]
Evan Rachel Wood is an American actress. She is the recipient of a Critics' Choice Television Award as well as nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards.
1987Aleksandra Wozniak, Canadian tennis player[†]
Aleksandra Wozniak is a Canadian former tennis player. She turned professional in November 2005, and achieved a career-best ranking of No. 21 in June 2009, making her the fifth highest-ranked Canadian singles player of all time. She won one WTA and eleven ITF tournaments. At the Bank of the West Classic in Stanford in 2008, she became the first Canadian in 20 years to capture a WTA singles title and the first Quebecer in history to have accomplished such a feat. She reached a career-high ITF junior ranking of No. 3 on January 31, 2005. Wozniak was named Female Player of the Year by Tennis Canada five times.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]