List of Famous people who died at 88

Libero Tresoldi was an Italian prelate, who was the bishop of Crema.

Henry DeWolf "Harry" Smyth was an American physicist, diplomat, and bureaucrat. He played a number of key roles in the early development of nuclear energy, as a participant in the Manhattan Project, a member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), and U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

Ali Uras was a Turkish basketball player. He competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was also the president of Galatasaray S.K.

Alexander Alekseyevich Shalimov was a Soviet and Ukrainian surgeon and one of the founders of the Shalimov National Institute of Surgery and Transplantation, which is named after him.

Eugene Martin Zuckert was the seventh United States Secretary of the Air Force from January 23, 1961 to September 30, 1965. During his service as secretary, he witnessed the shifting of decision-making powers from the military departments to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, a process that continued throughout the 1960s. He observed that the Air Force ought to investigate technologies that would have some bearing on future aerospace military operations, leading to "Project Forecast," a study initiated in March 1963.

Widad Sakakini was a writer and critic from Lebanon.

James Lee Rankin was the 31st United States Solicitor General.

Erna Diez was an Austrian classical archaeologist who undertook significant work on Roman art and the archaeology of the provinces of Noricum and Pannonia.