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Events on Monday 17 August 1987 1
1894 – 1987Rudolf Hess (1894-1987)Died 17 August 1987, aged 93Hess was Adolf Hitler's deputy in the Nazi Party until his solo flight to Scotland in 1941 in an attempt to negotiate peace with Britain. He was convicted at the Nuremberg trials and served as the last prisoner at Spandau Prison in Berlin. He died there, apparently by suicide.