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Year 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). In the Chinese zodiac, it is the year of the rabbit until February 16 and the dragon for the rest of the year.
Events of 1988
January
February
March
- March 6 - Students at Gallaudet University go on strike for the selection of a non-deaf university president.
- March 7 - Operation Flavius: The Special Air Services fatally shoot three unarmed 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 16 - The Halabja poison gas attack is carried out by Iraqi government forces.
- 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
- March 19 - British Army Corporals Woods and Howes are killed by the IRA in the so-called "Corporals killings".
- 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 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 (FFG-58) 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 - 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 one.
- April 30 - World Expo '88 opens in Brisbane Queensland, Australia.
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's 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 eight 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 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 the leader of Pakistani Shia muslims was killed in Peshawar.
- August 5 - The 1988 Malaysian constitutional crisis culminates in the ouster of the Lord President of Malaysia, Salleh Abas.
- August 6 – August 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 took 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 9 - The Chicago Cubs play their first ever night game at home in Wrigley Field, defeating the New York Mets, 6–4.
- August 17 - The 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 James "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.
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 party 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 party 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 tremendously positive audience response to Sen. Bentsen's remark solidified the reputation of Sen. Quayle as a political lightweight.
- 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 One of the World Series for the Los Angeles Dodgers, over the Oakland Athletics, by a score of five runs to four.
- 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 US 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 would resume distribution of the drug, bowing to pressure from the government of France.
- 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 second 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-November 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 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 to 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 were 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 30 - Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. buys RJR Nabisco for US$25.07 billion in the biggest leveraged buyout deal of all time.
December
The wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103
Undated
Ongoing
Fictional
The following are references to year 1988 in fiction:
Births
January–March
- January 4 - Nabila Jamshed, Indian Fantasy Novelist
- January 7 - Alan Lowing, Scottish footballer
- January 8 - Michael Mancienne, English footballer
- January 9 - Glyn Wise, Welsh television/radio personality - runner-up, Big Brother 2006
- January 10 - Michael Mcilorum, English rugby union player
- January 12 - Chris Casement, Northern Irish footballer
- January 12 - Andrew Lawrence, American actor
- January 13 - Tatev Abrahamyan, American chess player
- January 15 - Sonny Moore, American musician
- January 16 - Nicklas Bendtner, Danish footballer
- January 16 - Mikalah Gordon, American television personality
- January 22 - Greg Oden, American basketball player
- January 25 - Tatiana Golovin, French tennis player
- January 25 - Daniel Haynes, English footballer
- January 27 - Kerlon, Brazilian footballer
- January 29 - Owen Garvan, Irish footballer
- January 29 - Aydın Yılmaz, Turkish soccer player
- February 1 - Andie Valentino, American nude model
- February 4 - Carly Patterson, American gymnast
- February 7 - Ai Kago, Japanese singer
- February 8 - Ryan Pinkston, American actor
- February 11 - Li Chun, Chinese singer
- February 12 - Nicoleta Daniela Şofronie, Romanian gymnast
- February 14 - Eliska Amor, Spanish American actress
- February 18 - Mark Davies, British footballer
- February 18 - Shane Lyons, American actor
- February 18 - Maiara Walsh, Brazilian actress
- February 19 - Miyu Irino, Japanese voice actor
- February 20 - Rihanna, Barbadian R&B singer
- February 25 - Rúrik Gíslason, Icelandic footballer
- February 26 - David Williams, Australian footballer
- February 29 - Lena Gercke, German model
- 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 6 - Elaine and Melanie Silver, American actresses
- 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, American actress
- March 28 - Lacey Turner, English actress
- March 31 - Hogan Ephraim, English football player
April–June
- April 3 - Tim Krul, Dutch soccer player
- 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 soccer player
- April 10 - Travis Varcoe, Australian 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 25 - Sara Paxton, American actress
- April 26 - Anna Svidersky, American murder victim (d. 2006)
- April 29 - Jeff Batchelor, Canadian snowboarder
- April 29 - Younha, Korean born singer
- May 1 -Kristopher Tate, Founder, Chief Technologist of Zooomr
- May 1 - Darryl Knights, English footballer
- 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 13 - Casey Donovan, Australian Idol 2004 singer
- May 17 - Nikki Reed, American actress
- May 18 - Ryan Cooley, Canadian actor
- May 19 - Lily Cole, Iconic English supermodel
- May 23 - Christian Lorentzen, British heir
- May 23 - Morgan Pressel, American golfer
- May 24 - Iyama Yuta, Japanese Go player
- May 25 - Adrián González, Spanish footballer
- May 27 - Heather Marks, Canadian model
- May 27 - Scott McGregor, English musician
- May 28 - Cheng Fei, Chinese gymnast
- May 28 - Meisa Kuroki, Japanese actress
- June 1 - Nami Tamaki, Japanese singer
- June 2 - Sergio Agüero, Argentine football (soccer) player
- June 2 - Ayaka Saito, Japanese voice actor
- 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 13 - Li Ya, Chinese gymnast
- June 17 - Andrew Ogilvy, Australian basketball player
- 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 24 - Micah Richards, English footballer
- 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 30 - Sean Marquette, American actor
July–September
- 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 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 - Anthony Stokes, Irish footballer
- July 28 - Ayla Brown, American singer and basketball player
- July 31 - Brackin Karauria-Henry, Australian rugby league player
- August 4 - Monette Russo, Australian gymnast
- August 5 - Fleur Maxwell, Luxembourg figure skater
- August 5 - Federica Pellegrini, Italian swimmer
- August 7 - Chris "Beanie" Wells, American football running back
- 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, Minor League Baseball player
- August 12 - Leah Pipes, American actress
- August 16 - Ismaïl Aissati, Morrocan football (soccer) player
- August 16 - Rumer Willis, American actress
- August 17 - Belal Mansoor Ali, Kenyan runner
- August 17 - Brady Corbet, American actor
- 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 - Raymond Quinn, English singer and actor
- August 26 - Princess Maria Laura, Archduchess of Austria-Este
- August 27 - Alexa Vega, American actress
- August 28 - Ray Jones, English football player (d. 2007)
- September 5 - Nuri Şahin, Turkish football (soccer) player
- September 9 - Sana Saeed, Indian actress
- September 10 - Jordan Staal, Canadian hockey player
- September 11 - Angie Diaz, Australian actress
- 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
- September 24 - Kyle Sullivan, American actor
- September 29 - Kevin Durant, American basketball player
October–December
- October 3 - Tadhg Kelly, American actor
- October 5 - Bobby Edner, American actor
- October 6 - Maki Horikita, Japanese actress
- October 7 - Stacy DuPree, American musician
- October 7 - Geneva Locke, Canadian actress
- October 10 - Cariba Heine, Australian Actress and performer
- October 13 - Scott Jamieson, Australian footballer
- October 14 - Max Thieriot, American actor
- October 15 - Carrie Finklea, American actress
- 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 1 - Ai Fukuhara, Japanese table tennis player
- November 2 - Lindze Letherman, American actress
- November 6 - Emma Stone, American actress
- November 8 - Tajima Honami, Japanese actress
- November 11 - Alexandra Kyle, American actress
- November 13 - Stephen Pollard, American musician
- November 15 - Zena Grey, American actress
- November 15 - Nikolas Besagno, American soccer player
- 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 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 Anne Hudgens, American actress and singer
- December 15 - Ilona Senderek, Polish figure skater
- December 16 - Anna Popplewell, English actress
- December 16 - Jacob Lensky, Canadian soccer player
- 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–March
- January 2 - Edmund Brisco Ford, British geneticist (b. 1901)
- January 5 - Pete Maravich, American basketball player (b. 1947)
- January 7 - Trevor Howard, British actor (b. 1913)
- January 11 - Pappy Boyington, American pilot (b. 1912)
- 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)
- February 1 - Heather O'Rourke, American actress (b. 1975)
- February 3 - Robert Duncan, American poet (b. 1919)
- February 15 - Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
- February 19 - René Char, French poet (b. 1907)
- February 25 - Kurt Mahler, German born Australian mathematician (b. 1903)
- March 1 - Joe Besser, American actor and comedian (b. 1907)
- March 5 - Alberto Olmedo, Argentine comedian and actor (b. 1933)
- March 7
- March 8 - Werner Hartmann, German physicist (b. 1912)
- March 9 - Kurt Georg Kiesinger, third Chancellor of Germany (b. 1904)
- March 10 - Andy Gibb, British singer (b. 1958)
- March 20 - Ralph Wright, Writer and American actor (b. 1908)
- March 31 - Sir William McMahon, twentieth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908)
April–June
- April 1 - Jim Jordan, radio show, classic old time radio (b. 1896)
- April 3 - Milt Caniff, American cartoonist (b. 1907)
- 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 18 - Pierre Desproges, French humorist (b. 1939)
- 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)
- May 3 - Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Russian mathematician (b. 1908)
- 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 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 25 - Ernst Ruska, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
- May 27 - Florida Friebus, American actor (b. 1909)
- 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–September
- July 4 - Adrian Adonis, American wrestler (b. 1954)
- July 8 - Ray Barbuti, American athlete (b. 1905)
- 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 2 - Raymond Carver, American short-story writer & poet (b. 1938)
- 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 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 27 - William Sargant, British psychiatrist (b. 1907)
- August 27 - Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (b. 1928)
- September 1 - Luis Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
- September 5 - Gert Fröbe, German actor (b. 1913)
- 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 21 - Glenn Robert Davis, member of United States Congress (b. 1914)
- September 28 - Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912)
October–December
- October 1 - Sacheverell Sitwell, English writer (b. 1897)
- October 9 - Jackie Milburn, English footballer (b. 1924)
- October 12 - Ruth Manning-Sanders, British children's author (b. 1895)
- October 15 - Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English composer and pianist (b. 1892)
- October 19 - Son House, American musician (b. 1902)
- October 22 - Henry Armstrong, American boxer (b. 1912)
- October 27 - Charles Hawtrey, English Comic Actor (b. 1914)
- October 31 - John Houseman, Romanian-born actor and producer (b. 1902)
- 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 13 - Antal Dorati, Hungarian conductor (b. 1906)
- November 19 - Christina Onassis, American shipping magnate (b. 1950)
- November 27 - John Carradine, American actor (b. 1906)
- December 2 - Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra) (b. 1922)
- December 6 - Roy Orbison, American singer (b. 1936)
- December 16 - Sylvester James, American R&B singer, disco performer (b. 1948)
- December 21 - Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch ornithologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1907)
- December 26 - Glenn McCarthy, American oil tycoon and businessman (b. 1907)
Nobel prizes
Templeton Prize
Right Livelihood Award
- International Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims / Dr. Inge Kemp Genefke
- José Lutzenberger
- John F. Charlewood Turner
- Sahabat Alam Malaysia / Mohamed Idris, Harrison Ngau, the Penan people.
See also
Notes
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