1988 (
MCMLXXXVIII) was a
leap year starting on Friday
(link displays 1988
Gregorian
calendar).
In the
20th century, the year 1988 has
the most
Roman numeral digits
(11).
Events of 1988
January
February
March
- March 7 – Operation
Flavius
: The Special Air Service
fatally shoots 3 unarmed Provisional Irish Republican
Army members in Gibraltar
.
- March 8 – Two U.S. Army helicopters
collide in Fort
Campbell
, Kentucky
, killing 17 servicemen.
- March 8 – U.S. presidential candidate
George Herbert Walker
Bush defeats Robert Dole in numerous
Republican primaries and caucuses on "Super Tuesday". The
bipartisan primary/caucus calendar, designed by Democrats to help
solidify their own nominee early, backfires when none of the 6
competing candidates are able to break out of the pack in the day's
Democratic contests. Jesse Jackson,
however, wins several Southern state primaries.
- March 13 – Gallaudet University, a Deaf
university in Washington D.C. elects Dr. I King Jordan as the first
Deaf president in its history. This event is a turning point in the
Deaf civil rights movement.
- March 16 – The
Halabja
poison gas attack
is carried out by Iraqi
government
forces.
- March 16 – First RepublicBank of Texas
fails and enters FDIC receivership, the largest FDIC assisted bank
failure in history.
- March 16 – Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel
Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of
conspiracy to defraud the United States
.
- March 17 – A
Colombian
Boeing 727 jetliner,
Avianca Flight 410, crashes into
the side of the mountains near the Venezuelan
border, killing 143.
- March 17 – Eritrean War of Independence –
Battle of Afabet: The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian
army corps in Eritrea
, is attacked on 3 sides by military units of the
Eritrean People's
Liberation Front (EPLF).
- March 19 – Corporals killings: British Army
Corporals Woods and Howes are killed by the IRA.
- March 20 – Eritrean War of Independence:
Having defeated the Nadew Command, the EPLF enters the town of
Afabet
,
victoriously concluding the Battle of Afabet.
- March 24 – An
Israeli
court sentences Mordechai Vanunu to 18 years in prison for
disclosing Israel's nuclear program to The Sunday Times.
- March 25 – The
Candle Demonstration in
Bratislava
, Slovakia
is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s
against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia
.
- March 26 – U.S.
presidential candidate Jesse Jackson
defeats Michael Dukakis in the
Michigan
Democratic caucuses, becoming the temporary
front-runner for the party's nomination. Richard Gephardt withdraws his candidacy
after his campaign speeches against imported automobiles fail to
earn him much support in Detroit
.
- March 29 – African National Congress
representative Dulcie September is
assassinated in Paris
.
April

- April 4 – Governor Evan Mecham of
Arizona
is convicted in his impeachment trial and removed from
office.
- April 5 – Massachusetts
Governor Michael
Dukakis wins the Wisconsin
Democratic presidential primary.
- April 10 – The comic strip FoxTrot débuts.
- April 10 – The
Ojhri Camp Disaster occurs in Islamabad
and Rawalpindi
.
- April 10 – The
Great Seto
Bridge
opens to traffic in Japan
.
- April 11 – The Last Emperor (directed by Bernardo Bertolucci) wins nine Oscars.
- April 12 – Former
pop singer Sonny Bono is elected mayor of
Palm
Springs, California
.
- April 14 – In the
Geneva Accords, the Soviet Union
commits itself to withdrawal of its forces from
Afghanistan
.
- The USS Samuel
B. Roberts strikes a
naval mine in the Persian Gulf
, while deployed on Operation Earnest Will, during the
Tanker War phase of the Iran–Iraq War.
- April 16 – Israeli
commandos kill the PLO's
Abu Jihad in Tunisia
.
- April 16 – In
Forlì
, Italy
, the
brigate rosse kill Senator Roberto
Ruffilli, an advisor of Prime
Minister Ciriaco de
Mita.
- April 18 – The
United States Navy retaliates for
the Roberts
mining with Operation Praying
Mantis, in a day of strikes against Iranian
oil platforms and naval vessels.
- April 25 – In
Israel
, Ivan Demjanjuk is sentenced to death for
war crimes committed in World War II. He was accused by
survivors of being the notorious guard at the Treblinka
extermination camp
known as "Ivan the Terrible". The conviction is
later overturned by the Israeli Supreme Court
.
- April 28 – Aloha Flight
243
loses several yards of its upper fuselage while in
flight, killing 1 person.
- April 30 – World
Expo '88 opens in Brisbane
Queensland
, Australia.
- April 30 – Celine Dion wins the Eurovision Song Contest for
Switzerland with the song Ne
partez pas sans moi.
May
- May 4 – PEPCON
disaster
in
Henderson,
Nevada
: A major explosion at an industrial solid-fuel
rocket plant causes damage extending up to 10 miles away, including
Las
Vegas
' McCarran International
Airport
.
- May 14 – Bus collision near Carrollton,
Kentucky
: A drunk driver going the wrong way on Interstate 71, hits a converted school bus
carrying a church youth group from Radcliff, Kentucky
. The resulting fire kills 27, making it tied
for 1st in the U.S. for most fatalities involving 2 vehicles to the
present day. Coincidentally, the other 2-vehicle accident
involving a bus that also killed 27 occurred in Prestonsburg, KY
30 years prior.
- May 14 – Wimbledon wins the English FA Cup after beating Liverpool 1–0 at Wembley
. The southwest Londoners had pulled off one of the greatest
upsets in the history of English football, as they had been top
division members for just 2 years and had joined the Football League only 11 years
earlier. Liverpool, meanwhile, had won a total of 30 major trophies
including 17 league titles.
- May 15 – Soviet war in Afghanistan: After
more than 8 years of fighting, the Red Army
begins withdrawing from Afghanistan
.
- May 16 – A report by U.S. Surgeon General
C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
- May 16 – California v. Greenwood: The U.S.
Supreme Court
rules that police officers do not need a search warrant to search through discarded
garbage.
- May 24 – Section 28 (outlawing promotion of homosexuality
in schools) is passed as law by Parliament in the United Kingdom
.
- May 27 – Microsoft releases Windows
2.1
- May 31 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan addresses 600 Moscow State
University
students, during his visit to the Soviet Union
.
June
July
August
- Allama Arif Hussain Hussaini,
leader of Pakistani
Shia Muslims, is killed in
Peshawar
.
- August 5 – The
1988 Malaysian
constitutional crisis culminates in the ouster of the Lord President of Malaysia
, Salleh
Abas.
- August 6–7 – Tompkins Square Park
Police Riot in New York
City
: A riot erupts in Tompkins Square Park
when police attempt to enforce a newly passed
curfew for the park. Bystanders, artists, residents,
homeless people and political activists are
caught up in the police action which takes place during the night
of August 6 and into the early morning of
August 7.
- August 8 – 8888 Uprising: Thousands of protesters in
Burma
, now
known as Myanmar, are killed during anti-government
demonstrations.
- August 17 – Pakistani President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and the U.S. ambassador to
Pakistan, Arnold Raphel, are
killed in a plane crash near Bhawalpur.
- August 18 – The
Republican National
Convention in New
Orleans
, Louisiana
nominates George
H.W. Bush for President
and Dan Quayle for Vice President of the United States of
America.
- August 19 – A truce begins in the Iran–Iraq War.
- August 20 – The Iran–Iraq War ends, with an estimated
one million lives lost.
- August 25 – A fire
destroys part of Chiado
quarter,
in Lisbon
's
historical center.
- August 26 –
Mehran Karimi Nasseri, "The
terminal man", is stuck in the De Gaulle
Airport
in Paris
, where he
will continue to reside until August 1,
2006.
- August 28 –
Seventy-five people are killed and 346 injured in one of the worst
airshow
disasters
in history at Germany
's Ramstein Air Base
, when three jet from
the Italian
air demonstration team, Frecce
Tricolori
, collide, sending one of the aircraft crashing
into the crowd of spectators.
September
October
- October 5 –
Thousands riot in Algiers
, Algeria
against the National Liberation Front
government; by October 10 the army has
killed and tortured about 500 people in crushing the
riots.
- October 5 – Chilean president Augusto Pinochet is defeated in a national
plebiscite which sought to renew his
mandate.
- October 5 – In
Omaha,
Nebraska
, in the only vice presidential debate of the
1988 U.S.
presidential election, the Republican vice
presidential nominee, Senator Dan Quayle
of Indiana
, insists he has as much experience in government as
John F. Kennedy did when he sought
the presidency in 1960. His Democratic opponent,
Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas
, replies,
"Senator, I knew Jack Kennedy. I served with Jack Kennedy.
Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack
Kennedy." The audience response to Sen. Bentsen's remark is
overwhelmingly positive.
- October 11 – Women
are allowed to study at Magdalene College, Cambridge
, for the first time. Male students wear
black armbands and the porter flies a black
flag.
- October 12 –
Walsh Street police
shootings: Two Victoria Police
officers are gunned down, execution style, in Australia.
- October 13 – In
the second U.S. presidential debate, held by U.C.L.A.
, the Democratic party nominee,
Michael Dukakis, is asked by
journalist Bernard Shaw of
CNN if he would support the death penalty if his wife, "Kitty", were to be raped and murdered. Gov.
Dukakis'
reply, voicing his opposition to capital punishment in any and all
circumstances, is later said to have been a major reason for the
eventual failure of his campaign for the White House
.
- October 15 – Kirk Gibson hits a dramatic home run to win Game 1 of the World Series for the Los Angeles Dodgers, over the Oakland Athletics, by a score of 5–4.
- October 19 – The
United
Kingdom
bans broadcast interviews with IRA members. The BBC gets around this stricture through the use of
professional actors.
- October 23 – Super Mario Bros. 3 is released in Japan
.
- October 27 – Ronald Reagan decides to tear down the new
U.S. Embassy in Moscow because of Soviet listening devices in the
building structure.
- October 28 – Abortion: 48 hours after announcing it was
abandoning RU-486, French manufacturer Roussel Uclaf states that it will resume
distribution of the drug.
- October 29 –
Pakistan
's General
Rahimuddin Khan resigns from his post as the governor of Sindh
, following
attempts by the President of
Pakistan, Ghulam Ishaq Khan,
to limit the vast powers Gen. Rahimuddin had
accumulated.
- October 30 – Philip Morris buys Kraft
Foods for US$13.1 billion.
- October 30 – Expo
'88 in Brisbane, Australia draws to a close after a six month
spectacular.
- October 30 – Formula One: Ayrton
Senna clinches his first World
Championship with a phenomenal drive in the Japanese Grand Prix, recovering from
16th place on the first lap to win the race and beat rival Alain Prost into 2nd place.
November
- November 1 – In the Israeli election,
Likud wins 47 seats, Labour wins 49, but Likud Prime
Minister Yitzhak Shamir remains in
office.
- November 3–5: Thousands of South Korean students demonstrate
against former president Chun Doo
Hwan.
- November 8 – United States
presidential election, 1988: George H. W. Bush
is elected over Michael
Dukakis.
- November 11 – In
Sacramento, California
, police find a body buried in the lawn of
60-year-old boardinghouse landlady Dorothea Puente (7 bodies are eventually
found and Puente is convicted of 3 murders and sentenced to life in
prison).
- November 13 –
Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian
law student in Portland, Oregon
is beaten to death by members of the Neo-Nazi group East Side White Pride.
- November 15 – In
the Soviet
Union
, the unmanned Shuttle Buran is launched by an Energia rocket on its maiden orbital spaceflight (the first and last space flight
for the shuttle).
- November 15 –
Israeli-Palestinian
Conflict: An independent State of
Palestine is proclaimed at the Palestinian National Council
meeting in Algiers
, by a vote of 253–46.
- November 15 – The
very first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched by Nico Roozen, Frans
van der Hoff and ecumenical development agency Solidaridad in the Netherlands
.
- November 16 – The
Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR declares that Estonia
is "sovereign" but stops short of declaring
independence.
- November 16 – In
the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan
choose populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister. Elections are held as
planned despite head of state
Zia-ul-Haq's death earlier in August.
- November 18 – War on Drugs: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill providing the
death penalty for murderous drug
traffickers.
- November 21 – Canadian federal election,
1988: Brian Mulroney and the
Progressive
Conservative Party of Canada win a second majority government.
- November 21 – Ted Turner officially buys Jim Crockett Promotions, known as NWA Crockett, and turns it into
World Championship
Wrestling (WCW).
- November 22 – In
Palmdale,
California
, the first prototype B-2
Spirit stealth bomber is revealed.
- November 23 – Former Korean
president Chun Doo Hwan publicly
apologizes for corruption during his presidency, announcing he will
go into exile.
- November 24 – The
popular American cult television comedy Mystery Science Theater 3000
makes its debut on KTMA
.
- November 30 – Kohlberg Kravis Roberts &
Co. buys RJR Nabisco for US$25.07
billion in the biggest leveraged
buyout deal of all time.
December
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January
- January 4 – Nabila Jamshed, Indian author
- January 5 – Pauline, French singer
- January 7 – Alan Lowing, Scottish footballer
- January 7 – Haley Bennett, American Actress and
Singer
- January 7 – Robert Sheehan, Irish actor
- January 8 – Michael Mancienne, English footballer
- January 9 – Lee Yeon-hee, South Korean actress
- January 9 –
Glyn Wise, Welsh television/radio
personality – runner-up, Big Brother 2006

- January 10 – Michael Mcilorum, English rugby league
player
- January 10 – Wu
Si Xuan, Taiwanese singer
- January 12 – Chris Casement, Northern Irish
footballer
- January 12 – Andrew Lawrence, American actor
- January 13 – Tatev Abrahamyan, American chess
player
- January 14 – Mikalah Gordon, American television
personality
- January 16 – Nicklas Bendtner, Danish footballer
- January 19 – Danny Haynes, English footballer
- January 22 – Greg Oden, American basketball player
- January 24 – Jade Ewen, English singer
- January 25 – Tatiana Golovin, French tennis player
- January 27 – Kerlon, Brazilian footballer
- January 29 – Owen Garvan, Irish footballer
- January 29 – Aydın Yılmaz, Turkish footballer
February
- February 3 – Cho Kyuhyun, Korean singer (Super Junior)
- February 4 – Carly Patterson, American gymnast
- February 4 – Eoin McDowell, Irish rugby player
- February 6 – Bailey Hanks, American actress
- February 7 – Ai
Kago, Japanese singer
- February 7 – Matthew Stafford, American football
player
- February 8 – Ryan Pinkston, American actor
- February 11 – Li
Chun, Chinese singer
- February 12 – Nicoleta Daniela Şofronie,
Romanian gymnast
- February 13 – Aston Merrygold, English singer, member of
boy band JLS
- February 14 – Quentin Mosimann, Swiss singer, winner of
Star Academy France 7
- February 18 – Andie Valentino, American nude model
- February 18 – Mark Davies, English
footballer
- February 18 – Shane Lyons, American actor
- February 18 – Maiara Walsh, Brazilian-American actress
- February 18 – Max, Korean singer (TVXQ)
- February 19 – Miyu Irino, Japanese voice actor
- February 20 – Rihanna, Barbadian pop singer
- February 25 – Rúrik Gíslason, Icelandic
footballer
- February 26 – David Williams, Australian soccer player
- February 27 – Dustin Jeffrey, Canadian ice hockey
player
- February 29 – Lena Gercke, German model
March
- March 1 – Melissandre Fuentes, Andorra figure
skater
- March 1 – Katija
Pevec, American actress
- March 2 – Kathryn Blair, daughter of former British
Prime Minister Tony Blair
- March 2 – Vito Mannone, Italian
footballer
- March 2 – Kate
Alexa, Australian singer
- March 3 – Timur
Gareev, Asian chess player
- March 3 – Rafael Munoz Perez, Spanish swimmer
- March 4 – Mikuru Uchino, Japanese gravure idol
- March 6 – Elaine and Melanie Silver,
American
actresses
- March 10 – Ivan
Rakitic, Croatian and Swiss footballer
- March 15 – Rebecca Moore, Miss Alabama USA
- March 21 – Lee Cattermole, English footballer
- March 21 – Pat McCabe, Australian rugby union
player
- March 25 – Erik
Knudsen, Canadian actor
- March 27 – Brenda Song, Korean American actress
- March 28 – Lacey Turner, English actress
- March 31 – Hogan Ephraim, English football player
April
- April 3 – Tim
Krul, Dutch footballer
- April 5 – Daniela Luján, Mexican actress
- April 5 – Asumi
Nakata, Japanese voice actress (seiyū)
- April 6 – Fabrice Muamba, English footballer
- April 6 – Mike Bailey, British actor
- April 8 – Philip Dowling, British actor
- April 10 – Haley Joel Osment, American actor
- April 10 – Özgürcan Özcan, Turkish
footballer
- April 13 – Anderson Luís de Abreu
Oliveira, Brazilian footballer
- April 13 – Kallie Flynn Childress, American
actress
- April 15 – Emily
Parr, 2007 UK Big Brother contestant
- April 21 – Mia
Permanto, Finnish pop singer and radio host (d. 2008)
- April 23 – Erica
Mer, American actress
- April 24 – Petter Jacobsen Drugli, Norwegian
Chess Master
- April 25 – Sara
Paxton, American actress
- April 26 – Anna Svidersky, American murder victim (d.
2006)
- April 28 – Ji-Yai Shin, South Korean golfer
- April 29 – Jonathan Toews, Canadian hockey player
- April 29 – Jeff Batchelor, Canadian snowboarder
- April 29 – Younha, Korean born singer
May
- May 1 – Kristopher Tate, American businessman
- May 1 – Darryl
Knights, English footballer
- May 5 – Adele, English singer
- May 5 – Jessica
Dubroff, American student pilot (d. 1996)
- May 5 – Brooke
Hogan, American reality star and singer
- May 5 – Skye
Sweetnam, Canadian singer
- May 12 – Marky
Cielo, Philippine actor (d. 2008)
- May 13 – Casey Donovan, Australian Idol 2004
singer
- May 17 – Nikki
Reed, American actress
- May 18 – Ryan
Cooley, Canadian actor, TaeYang South
Korean singer forBigBang
- May 19 – Lily
Cole, English supermodel
- May 23 – Christian Lorentzen, British heir
- May 23 – Morgan
Pressel, American golfer
- May 24 – Billy
Gilman, American singer
- May 24 – Iyama
Yuta, Japanese Go player
- May 25 – Adrián González,
Spanish footballer
- May 25 – Cameron van der Burgh, South African
swimmer
- May 27 – Joel
Selwood, Australian rules footballer
- May 27 – Scott
McGregor, English musician
- May 28 – Cheng
Fei, Chinese gymnast
- May 28 – Meisa
Kuroki, Japanese actress
- May 29 – Steve Mason , Canadian hockey
player
June
- June 1 – Nami
Tamaki, Japanese singer
- June 2 – Sergio Agüero, Argentine footballer
- June 2 – Ayaka
Saito, Japanese voice actor
- June 7 – Milan Lučić, Canadian ice Hockey
Player
- June 7 – Michael
Cera, Canadian actor
- June 7 – Godwin
Antwi, Ghana footballer
- June 9 – Mae
Whitman, American actress
- June 11 – Gakky,
Japanese model/actress
- June 17 – Andrew Ogilvy, Australian basketball
player
- June 17 – Stephanie Rice, Australian swimmer
- June 20 – Shefali Chowdhury, British actress
- June 21 – Allyssa DeHaan, American basketball
player
- June 21 – Alejandro Ramirez, Costa Rica chess
player
- June 21 – Thaddeus Young, American basketball
player
- June 22 – Kieran
Lee, English footballer
- June 23 – Isabella Leong, Hong Kong singer, actress and
model
- June 23 – Chellsie Memmel, American gymnast
- June 24 – Micah Richards, English footballere
- June 24 – Nichkhun Horvejkul, Thai-Chinese singer
active in Korea (2PM)
- June 25 – Amanda Dowler, British murder victim
- June 26 – Amanda and Sam
Marchant, 2007 UK Big Brother contestants
- June 27 – Kate
Ziegler, American swimmer
- June 28 – Lacey Schwimmer, American ballroom
dancer
- June 30 – Sean
Marquette, American actor
July
- July 1 – Evan
Ellingson, American actor
- July 1 – Joseph
Groarke, British taekwondo expert
- July 4 – Angelique Boyer, Mexican actress
- July 6 – Sarah Barrable-Tishauer, Canadian
actress
- July 8 – Miguel Roque Farrero, Spanish
footballer
- July 12 – Melissa O'Neil, Canadian Idol winner, season 3
- July 12 – Inbee
Park, South Korean golfer
- July 17 – Summer Bishil, American actress
- July 20 – Julianne Hough, American ballroom dancer;
actress; singer
- July 22 – Constantin, Prince of
Nassau
- July 23 – Paul Anderson, English
footballer
- July 25 – Heather Marks, Canadian model
- July 25 – Anthony Stokes, Irish
footballer
- July 28 – Ayla
Brown, American singer and basketball player
- July 30 – Lara Jean Marshall, actress and recording
artist
August
- August 4 – Monette Russo, Australian gymnast
- August 5 – Fleur Maxwell, Luxembourg figure skater
- August 5 – Federica Pellegrini, Italian
swimmer
- August 6 – Andrew Lane, American Politician
- August 7 – Chris "Beanie" Wells, American
football player
- August 8 – Princess Beatrice of York
- August 8 – Flavia Bujor, French writer
- August 8 – Jake Goldsbie, Canadian actor
- August 8 – Jeff
Weise, American murderer (d. 2005)
- August 11 – Patrick Mills, Australian basketball
player
- August 12 – Jose Tabata, Venezuelan baseball player
- August 12 – Leah
Pipes, American actress
- August 13 – Ryan Villopoto, American Motocross Racer
- August 16 – Ismaïl Aissati, Morrocan footballer
- August 16 – Rumer Willis, American actress
- August 17 – Belal Mansoor Ali, Kenyan runner
- August 17 – Brady Corbet, American actor
- August 17 – Erika Toda, Japanese actress
- August 18 – G-Dragon, Leader of Korean band, Big Bang
- August 18 – Jack Hobbs, English footballer
- August 19 – Travis Tedford, American actor
- August 24 – Rupert Grint, English actor
- August 25 – Angela Park, Brazilian golfer
- August 25 – Alexandra Burke, English singer
- August 25 – Raymond Quinn, English singer and actor
- August 26 – Princess Maria
Laura, Archduchess of Austria-Este
- August 26 – Evan
Ross, American actor
- August 27 – Alexa Vega, American actress
- August 28 – Ray
Jones, English football player (d. 2007)
- August 30 – Laura Põldvere, Estonian singer
September
- September 5 – Nuri Şahin, Turkish footballer
- September 9 – Sana Saeed, Indian actress
- September 10 – Jordan Staal, Canadian hockey player
- September 11 – Angie Diaz, Australian actress
- September 15 – Chelsea Staub, American actress and
singer
- September 16 – Teddy Geiger, American singer
- September 16 – Tempest Smith, American religious
discrimination victim (d. 2001)
- September 17 – Candice Swanepoel, South African
model
- September 18 – Annette Obrestad, Norwegian poker
player
- September 19 – Katie Bowden, American actress
- September 20 – Aura Andreea Munteanu, Romanian
gymnast
- September 22 – Bethany Dillon, Christian contemporary music
singer/songwriter & Qwanell
Mosley, American R&B singer (member of the group Day26)
- September 23 – Bryan Hearne, American actor and rapper
- September 23 – Juan Martin del Potro, Argentine
tennis player
- September 24 – Kyle Sullivan, American actor
- September 29 – Kevin Durant, American basketball player
October
- October 1 – Luca Caputi, Canadian ice hockey player
- October 1 – Cariba Heine, Australian actress and
performer
- October 3 – Tadhg Kelly, American actor
- October 4 – Derrick Rose, American Basketball Player
- October 5 – Bobby Edner, American actor
- October 5 – Meagen Nay, Australian Olympic Swimmer
- October 6 – Maki Horikita, Japanese actress
- October 7 – Stacy DuPree, American musician
- October 7 – Geneva Locke, Canadian actress
- October 12 – Jack O'Donnell, Irish comic
- October 13 – Scott Jamieson, Australian footballer
- October 14 – Max Thieriot, American actor
- October 15 – Aleksandra Szutenberg, Polish
gymnast
- October 19 – Carly Janiga, American gymnast
- October 20 – Adam Butcher, Canadian actor
- October 20 – Risa Niigaki, Japanese singer
- October 25 – Mandi Lampi, Finnish singer and actress (d.
2008)
- October 25 – Kaz Patafta, Australian footballer
- October 28 – Devon Murray, Irish actor
- October 30 – Scott Dyleski, American murderer
November
- November 1 – Ai Fukuhara, Japanese table tennis player
- November 1 – Masahiro Tanaka, Japanese baseball
player
- November 2 – Lindze Letherman, American actress
- November 5 – Enchong Dee, Filipino actor
- November 6 – Emma Stone, American actress
- November 7 – Georg Margreitter, Austrian
footballer
- November 8 – Tajima Honami, Japanese actress
- November 9 – Nikki Blonsky, American actress and
singer
- November 11 – Alexandra Kyle, American actress
- November 13 – Stephen Pollard, American musician
- November 15 – Zena Grey, American actress
- November 15 – Nikolas Besagno, American footballer
- November 19 – Patrick Kane, American professional hockey
player
- November 23 – Esmée Denters, Dutch
singer-songwriter
- November 26 – Yumi Kobayashi, Japanese model
- November 28 – Scarlett Pomers, American actress
December
- December 1 – Ashley Monique Clark, actress
- December 2 – Alfred Enoch, British actor
- December 2 – Edward Windsor, Lord
Downpatrick
- December 3 – Kevin Alexander Clark, American actor
and drummer
- December 4 – Lisa Ingildeeva, Russian gymnast
- December 5 – Ross Bagley, American actor
- December 7 – Emily Browning, Australian actress
- December 14 – Nicolas Batum, French basketball player
- December 14 – Vanessa Hudgens, American actress and
singer
- December 14 – Hayato Sakamoto, Japanese baseball
player
- December 15 – Ilona Senderek, Polish figure skater
- December 15 – Emily Head, English actress
- December 16 – Anna Popplewell, English actress
- December 16 – Jacob Lensky, Canadian footballer
- December 19 – Victoria Ribeiro, British heir
- December 22 – Eddy Vilard, Mexican actor
- December 23 – Eri Kamei, Japanese singer
- December 24 – Piyush Chawla, Indian cricketer
- December 27 – Hayley Williams, American singer (Paramore)
- December 29 – Ágnes Szávay, Hungarian tennis
player
Unknown dates
- For musicians born in 1988, see 1988 in music.
Deaths
January–February

- January 1 – Margot Bryant, British actress (b. 1897)
- January 2 – Edmund Brisco Ford, British geneticist
(b. 1901)
- January 5 – Pete Maravich, American basketball player (b.
1947)
- January 6 – L. P. Davies, English novelist (b. 1914)
- January 7 – Trevor Howard, British actor (b. 1913)
- January 11 – Pappy Boyington, American pilot (b. 1912)
- January 12 – Hiram Bingham IV, American diplomat (b.
1903)
- January 13 – Chiang Ching-kuo, President of the Republic of
China (b. 1910)
- January 14 – Georgi Malenkov, First Secretary of the
Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party (b. 1902)
- January 15 – Seán MacBride, Irish Republican Army
leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace
Prize (b. 1904)
- January 16 – Ballard Berkeley, British actor (b.
1904)
- January 20 – Philippe de Rothschild, French
vineyard owner (b. 1902)
- January 22 – Parker Fennelly, American comedian and actor
(b. 1891)
- January 25 – Colleen Moore, American actress (b. 1900)
- January 28 – Klaus Fuchs, German-born physicist and spy (b.
1911)
- February 1 – Heather O'Rourke, American actress (b.
1975)
- February 3 – Robert Duncan, American poet (b.
1919)
- February 5 – Emeric Pressburger, Hungarian-British
film producer (b. 1902)
- February 11 – Marion Crawford, English nanny for Princess Elizabeth (b.
1909)
- February 13 – Ron Embleton, British comics artist and
illustrator (b. 1930)
- February 13 – Léon Goossens. British oboist (b.
1897)
- February 14 – Frederick Loewe, Austrian-American composer
(b. 1901)
- February 15 – Richard Feynman, American physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1918)
- February 19 – René Char, French poet (b. 1907)
- February 19 – André Frédéric
Cournand, French-born physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology
or Medicine (b. 1895)
- February 25 – Kurt Mahler, German born Australian
mathematician (b. 1903)
March–April


- March 1 – Joe
Besser, American actor and comedian (b. 1907)
- March 3 – Lois Wilson, American actress (b.
1894)
- March 5 – Alberto Olmedo, Argentine comedian and actor
(b. 1933)
- March 7 – Divine, American actor (b. 1945)
- March 7 – Edmund Berkeley, American scientist (b.
1909)
- March 7 – Robert Livingston, American actor
(b. 1904)
- March 8 – Werner Hartmann, German
physicist (b. 1912)
- March 8 – Henryk Szeryng, Polish-born violinist (b.
1918)
- March 9 – Kurt Georg Kiesinger, third Chancellor of
Germany (b. 1904)
- March 10 – Glenn Cunningham, American
Olympic athlete (b. 1909)
- March 10 – Andy
Gibb, British singer (b. 1958)
- March 13 – Olive
Carey, American actress (b. 1896)
- March 13 – John Holmes, American pornographic actor
(b. 1944)
- March 20 – Gil
Evans, American jazz pianist (b. 1912)
- March 20 – Ralph Wright, Writer and American actor (b.
1908)
- March 22 – Lester Rawlins, American stage and screen
director (b. 1924)
- March 25 – Robert Joffrey, American dancer and
choreographer (b. 1930)
- March 31 – Sir William McMahon, twentieth Prime Minister of Australia (b.
1908)
- April 1 – Jim
Jordan, radio show, classic old time radio (b. 1896)
- April 3 – Milt
Caniff, American cartoonist (b. 1907)
- April 6 – John
Clements, British actor (b. 1910)
- April 11 – Hermann Graf, German fighter ace (d. 1912)
- April 11 – Jesse L. Lasky, Jr., American screenwriter (b.
1910)
- April 12 – Harry McShane, Scottish socialist (b. 1891)
- April 12 – Alan
Paton, South African author (b. 1903)
- April 15 – Kenneth Williams, British actor and
raconteur (b. 1926)
- April 17 – Louise Nevelson, Ukrainian-born American
sculptor (b. 1900)
- April 17 – Eva
Novak, American actress (b. 1898)
- April 18 – Pierre Desproges, French humorist (b.
1939)
- April 21 – I.A.L. Diamond,
American screenwriter (b. 1920)
- April 22 – Irene
Rich, American actress (b. 1891)
- April 23 – Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury (b.
1904)
- April 26 – James McCracken, American tenor (b. 1926)
- April 26 – Valerie Solanas, American author (b.
1936)
- April 27 – David Scarboro, British actor (b. 1968)
May–June

- May 3 – Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Russian
mathematician (b. 1908)
- May 5 – George Rose, English actor (b. 1920)
- May 8 – Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction author
(b. 1907)
- May 10 – Shen
Congwen, Chinese writer (b. 1902)
- May 10 – Ciaran
Bourke, member of The Dubliners
(b. 1935)
- May 11 – Kim
Philby, British spy (b. 1912)
- May 12 – Chet
Baker, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1929)
- May 14 – Willem
Drees, Dutch Politician, Prime Minister and Centenarian (b.
1886)
- May 15 – Andrew
Duggan, American actor (b. 1923)
- May 15 – Greta
Nissen, Norwegian-born actress (b. 1905)
- May 16 – Charles Keeping, British illustrator (b.
1924)
- May 18 – Daws
Butler, voice actor (b. 1916)
- May 21 – Sammy Davis, Sr., American dancer (b.
1900)
- May 23 – Aya
Kitō, Japanese Writer (b. 1962)
- May 25 – Ernst
Ruska, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
- May 27 – Florida Friebus, American actor (b. 1909)
- May 30 – Ella
Raines, American actress (b. 1920)
- June 8 – Eli
Mintz, American actor (b. 1904)
- June 10 – Louis
L'Amour, American writer (b. 1908)
- June 16 – Kim
Milford, American actor and singer (b. 1951)
- June 18 – Wilford Leach, American theater director (b.
1929)
- June 22 – Dennis
Day, Irish-American singer and radio and television personality
(b. 1916)
- June 25 – Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born guitarist
(Red Hot Chili Peppers) (b.
1962)
July–August

- July 3 – Gabriel
Dell, American actor (b. 1919)
- July 4 – Adrian
Adonis, American wrestler (b. 1954)
- July 8 – Ray
Barbuti, American athlete (b. 1905)
- July 12 – Joshua
Logan, American stage and film director (b. 1908)
- July 17 – Bruiser Brody, American professional wrestler
(b. 1946)
- July 18 – Nico,
singer-songwriter, fashion model, actress and Warhol socialite (b.
1938)
- July 21 – Jack Clark, American television
personality and game show host (b. 1921)
- July 25 – Judith
Barsi, American child actress (b. 1978)
- July 27 – Frank
Zamboni, American inventor (b. 1901)
- July 31 – Trinidad Silva, American actor (b. 1950)
- August 1 – Florence Eldridge, American actress (b.
1901)
- August 2 – Raymond Carver, American short-story writer
& poet (b. 1938)
- August 5 – Colin Higgins, American film director (b.
1941)
- August 5 – Ralph Meeker, American actor (b. 1920)
- August 8 – Félix Leclerc, French-Canadian poet &
singer (b. 1914)
- August 8 – Alan
Napier, American actor (b. 1903)
- August 9 – Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer (b.
1905)
- August 9 – Ramon Valdez, Mexican actor (b. 1923)
- August 10 – Adela Rogers St. Johns, American
journalist and screenwriter (b. 1893)
- August 11 – Anne Ramsey, American actress (b. 1929)
- August 12 – Jean-Michel Basquiat, American
musician/graffiti painter (b. 1960)
- August 14 – Enzo Ferrari, Italian car maker (b. 1898)
- August 17 – Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
Jr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1914)
- August 17 – Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, leader of Pakistan
(b. 1924)
- August 21 – Ray
Eames, American artist, designer, and filmmaker (b. 1912)
- August 24 – Leonard Frey, American actor (b. 1938)
- August 27 – William Sargant, British psychiatrist (b.
1907)
- August 27 – Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (b.
1928)
- August 28 – Hazel Dawn, American actress (b. 1891)
September–October

- September 1 – Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1911)
- September 5 – Gert Fröbe, German actor (b. 1913)
- September 6 – Harold Rosson, American cinematographer (b.
1895)
- September 12 – Roger Hargreaves, author of the Mr.
Men series (b. 1935)
- September 16 – Dick Pym, English footballer (b. 1893)
- September 18 – Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar, Iranian
Azari poet (b. 1906)
- September 20 – Roy Kinnear, British actor (b. 1934)
- September 21 – Glenn Robert Davis, member of United States Congress (b. 1914)
- September 21 – Henry Koster, German-born film director (b.
1905)
- September 28 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b.
1912)
- September 28 – Ethel Grandin, American actress (b. 1894)
- October 1 – Lucien Ballard, American cinematographer (b.
1908)
- October 1 – Sacheverell Sitwell, English writer (b.
1897)
- October 7 – Billy Daniels, American singer (b. 1915)
- October 9 – Jackie Milburn, English footballer (b.
1924)
- October 11 – Wayland Flowers, American puppeteer (b.
1939)
- October 11 – Bonita Granville, American actress (b.
1923)
- October 12 – Ken Murray, American actor (b. 1903)
- October 12 – Ruth Manning-Sanders, British
children's author (b. 1895)
- October 13 – Melvin Frank, American screenwriter and
director (b. 1913)
- October 15 – Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji,
English composer and pianist (b. 1892)
- October 18 – Frederick Ashton, English dancer and
choreographer (b. 1904)
- October 19 – Son
House, American musician (b. 1902)
- October 22 – Henry Armstrong, American boxer (b. 1912)
- October 27 – Charles Hawtrey, English actor
(b. 1914)
- October 31 – John Houseman, Romanian-born actor and
producer (b. 1902)
November–December


- November 1 – George J. Folsey, American cinematographer (b.
1898)
- November 9 – John N. Mitchell, U.S. Attorney General and
convicted Watergate criminal (b. 1913)
- November 11 – William Ifor Jones, Welsh conductor &
organist (b. 1900)
- November 12 – Vet Boswell, American singer (b. 1911)
- November 12 – Lyman Lemnitzer, American Army General (b.
1899)
- November 13 – Antal Dorati, Hungarian conductor (b. 1906)
- November 15 – Mona Washbourne, British actress (b.
1903)
- November 17 – Sheilah Graham, English-born gossip
columnist (b. 1904)
- November 19 – Christina Onassis, American shipping
magnate (b. 1950)
- November 21 – Carl Hubbell, American baseball player (b.
1903)
- November 22 – Luis Barragán, Mexican architect (b.
1902)
- November 27 – John Carradine, American actor (b. 1906)
- December 2 – Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist
(Quartetto Cetra) (b. 1922)
- December 4 – Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist (b.
1899)
- December 6 – Roy Orbison, American singer (b. 1936)
- December 6 – Timothy Patrick Murphy, American
actor (b. 1959)
- December 10 – Richard S. Castellano, American actor (b.
1933)
- December 16 – Sylvester, American R&B singer, disco
performer (b. 1948)
- December 21 – Bob Steele, American actor (b. 1907)
- December 21 – Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch ornithologist,
recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology
or Medicine (b. 1907)
- December 22 – Francisco Alves Mendes
Filho, aka Chico Mendes, Brazilian
environmental activist, fought the logging of the Amazon,
assassinated (b. 1944)
- December 26 – John Loder, English actor (b. 1898)
- December 26 – Glenn McCarthy, American oil tycoon and
businessman (b. 1907)
- December 27 – Hal Ashby, American film director (b. 1929)
- December 27 – Jess Oppenheimer, American radio and
television producer (b. 1913)
- December 30 – Isamu Noguchi, Japanese-American artist (b.
1904)
Nobel Prizes
Templeton Prize
Right Livelihood Award
See also
Notes
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2009-05-08.