List of Famous people who died at 88

Anatole Fistoulari was a Ukrainian conductor, who became a British citizen. A child prodigy, he later conducted around Europe and America, and left a significant discography

Sérgio Britto was a Brazilian actor and film director. He appeared in more than forty films from 1951 to 2008.

Jerzy Wójcik was a Polish cinematographer, author of screenplays and film and television director, professor of University of Silesia in Katowice and Leon Schiller National Higher School of Film, Theatre and Television in Łódź.

Veronica Carstens was the wife of the German President Karl Carstens.

Francis Birch was an American geophysicist. He is considered one of the founders of solid Earth geophysics. He is also known for his part in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Alfred DuPont Chandler Jr. was a professor of business history at Harvard Business School and Johns Hopkins University, who wrote extensively about the scale and the management structures of modern corporations. His works redefined business and economic history of industrialization. He received the Pulitzer Prize for History for his work, The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (1977). He has been called "the doyen of American business historians".