List of Famous people who died at 88

Beryl Cyril Sheldon Jr., known professionally as Jack Sheldon, was an American jazz trumpeter, singer, and actor. He performed on the The Merv Griffin Show and participated in episodes of the educational music television series Schoolhouse Rock!

Gordon Percival Septimus Jacob CBE was an English composer and teacher. He was a professor at the Royal College of Music in London from 1924 until his retirement in 1966, and published four books and many articles about music. As a composer he was prolific: the list of his works totals more than 700, mostly compositions of his own, but a substantial minority of orchestrations and arrangements of other composers' works. Those whose music he orchestrated range from William Byrd to Edward Elgar to Noël Coward.

Pellegrino Tomaso Ronchi was an Italian bishop, emeritus of the Diocese of Città di Castello.

Paul Shinichi Itonaga was a Roman Catholic bishop.

Jacques Chailley was a 20th-century French musicologist and composer.

Harry Lampert was an American cartoonist and bridge teacher and writer. Harry was Jewish.