List of Famous people who died at 88

General Sir Thomas Sheridan Riddell-Webster was Quartermaster-General to the Forces during the Second World War.

Norris Henry Cotton was an American politician from the state of New Hampshire. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a U.S. Representative and subsequently as a U.S. Senator.

Kenneth Kendall was a British broadcaster. He worked for many years as a newsreader for the BBC, where he was a contemporary of fellow newsreaders Richard Baker and Robert Dougall. He is also remembered as the host of the Channel 4 game show Treasure Hunt, which ran between 1982 and 1989, as well as the host of "The World Tonight" in the 1968 science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Walter Abel was an American film, stage and radio actor.

Joseph Henabery of Omaha, Nebraska, was a film actor, screenplay writer, and director in the United States. He is best known for his portrayal of Abraham Lincoln in D.W. Griffith's controversial 1915 silent historical epic The Birth of a Nation.

Kurt Sieveking was a German politician (CDU) and First Mayor of Hamburg. On 7 September 1956 he was elected for a one-year-term as President of the German Bundesrat. Because his successor-elect, Governing Mayor of Berlin Otto Suhr, had died on 30 August 1957, Sieveking was re-elected as President of the Bundesrat in order to avoid a vacancy. He resigned on 1 November 1957, when Willy Brandt became the new Governing Mayor of Berlin and President of the Bundesrat subsequently. Because of that, Sieveking is, as yet, the only President of the Bundesrat to be re-elected to a second consecutive term.

Morris "Moe" Scharff was an American physicist and explosive engineer who researched the ablation aspects of the American Project Orion nuclear propulsion spacecraft in the 1950s and 1960s.

Paul Oßwald was a German former football player and manager. As manager of Eintracht Frankfurt he won the German championship in 1959.