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LEAD: The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund wound up their joint annual meeting today on an optimistic note, invigorated with new approaches for coping with global debt.
LEAD: With humor and resignation, members of the Century Association, one of Manhattan's oldest and most exclusive male clubs, voted overwhelmingly last night to admit women, if a city law barring discrimination in public accommodations was held constitutional.
LEAD: Stock prices rose sharply yesterday as the new quarter began with a surge of investor interest in blue-chip and technology issues and growing expectations that forthcoming earnings reports would be strong.
LEAD: If a war of ideas is developing in the Soviet Union, the front line Wednesday evening was at the Oktyabr Theater in Moscow.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 30, 1987, covering October 2, 1987.
Michael Jackson
Whitesnake
Whitney Houston
Soundtrack
Def Leppard
1987Bojana Bobusic, Australian tennis player[†]
Bojana Bobusic is a former professional Australian tennis player. On 20 February 2012, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 222. In her career, she won one singles title and three doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. She was coached by Rohan Fisher.
1987Joe Ingles, Australian basketball player[†]
Joseph Howarth Ingles is an Australian professional basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He also represents the Australian national team. He primarily plays at the small forward position. He is the Utah Jazz all-time leader in three-pointers made.
1987Phil Kessel, American ice hockey player[†]
Philip Joseph Kessel Jr. is an American professional ice hockey winger who is an unrestricted free agent. Nicknamed "Phil the Thrill", he has previously played for the Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Pittsburgh Penguins, Arizona Coyotes, and the Vegas Golden Knights of the National Hockey League (NHL). Kessel is a three-time Stanley Cup champion, winning back-to-back championships with the Penguins in 2016 and 2017 and with the Golden Knights in 2023.
1987Christopher Larkin, South Korean-American actor[†]
Christopher Larkin is an American actor. He is best known for playing the role of Monty Green on the CW series The 100.
1987Joel Reinders, American football player[†]
Joel Reinders is a Canadian former professional football offensive tackle. He played university football at the University of Waterloo.
1987Ricky Stenhouse Jr., American race car driver[†]
Richard Lynn Stenhouse Jr. is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 47 Chevrolet ZL1 for Hyak Motorsports. Stenhouse was the 2010 NASCAR Nationwide Series Rookie of the Year, and won back-to-back Nationwide Series championships in 2011 and 2012. Stenhouse was the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Rookie of the Year. He is the 2023 Daytona 500 winner.
1987Madeleine Carroll, English actress (born 1906)[†]
Marie-Madeleine Bernadette O'Carroll was an English actress, popular both in Britain and in America in the 1930s and 1940s. At the peak of her success in 1938, she was the world's highest-paid actress.
1987Peter Medawar, Brazilian-English biologist and zoologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1915)[†]
Sir Peter Brian Medawar was a British biologist and writer, whose works on graft rejection and the discovery of acquired immune tolerance have been fundamental to the medical practice of tissue and organ transplants. For his scientific works, he is regarded as the "father of transplantation". He is remembered for his wit both in person and in popular writings. Richard Dawkins referred to him as "the wittiest of all scientific writers"; Stephen Jay Gould as "the cleverest man I have ever known".
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]