List of Famous people who died at 88

Polly Ann Young was an American actress.

Sir Charles Seymour Wright, KCB, OBE, MC, nicknamed "Silas" Wright after novelist Silas Hocking, was a Canadian member of Robert Falcon Scott's Antarctic expedition of 1910–1913, the Terra Nova Expedition.

Palmer Edwin Lee, known by his stage name Gregg Palmer, was an American film and television actor.

Thomas James Fitzpatrick was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann from 1982 to 1987, Minister for Fisheries and Forestry from 1981 to 1982, Minister for Transport and Power from 1976 to 1977 and Minister for Lands from 1973 to 1976. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1965 to 1989. He was a Senator for the Labour Panel from 1961 to 1965.

Natalino Sapégno was a literary critic and Italian academician. He came to prominence as a leading scholar of fourteenth century Italian literature.

Karen Simensen married name Klæboe was a Norwegian figure skater. She won a bronze medal at the 1927 World Figure Skating Championships, and competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics where she placed sixteenth.