Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1988

Alfredo Volpi fue un pintor italo-brasileño considerado por la crítica como uno de los artistas más importantes de la segunda generación del modernismo. Una de las características de sus obras son las bandeiritas y los caseríos.

Charlotte Ida Anna Beese fue una arquitecta y urbanista de origen alemán que se formó en la Bauhaus y que en 1948 fue nombrada Directora de urbanismo de Róterdam donde proyectó, entre otros, el barrio de Pendrecht.

Haruto Kō was a noted Japanese poet and novelist.

Guy Hocquenghem fue un novelista, ensayista y activista LGBT francés.

Mother Bertranda, O.P., later known as Anna Borkowska, was a Polish cloistered Dominican nun who served as the prioress of her monastery in Kolonia Wileńska near Wilno. She was a graduate of the University of Kraków who had entered the monastery after her studies. During World War II, under her leadership, the nuns of the monastery sheltered 17 young Jewish activists from Vilnius Ghetto and helped the Jewish Partisan Organization (FPO) by smuggling weapons. In recognition of this, in 1984 she was awarded the title of Righteous among the Nations by Yad Vashem.

Sam Carr was an organizer for the Communist Party of Canada and, its successor, the Labor-Progressive Party in the 1930s and 1940s. He was born Schmil Kogan in Tomashpil, Ukraine in 1906 and immigrated to Canada in 1924, living in Winnipeg and Regina before settling in Montreal in 1925. Carr became an organizer for the Young Communist League with Fred Rose.

Zhang Youyi was a Chinese educator, banker, and the first wife of the Chinese poet Xu Zhimo. With assistance from her brother Chang Kia-ngau, who was the general manager of Bank of China, she ran her own bank, Shanghai Women's Savings Bank.

Franz Muxeneder was an Austrian actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1948 to 1987.

Ove Nyquist Arup fue un ingeniero de la construcción.

Michel Renard was a politician from Martinique who served in the French National Assembly from 1986-1988.