List of Famous people who died at 88

Enrico Sala was an Italian racing cyclist. He finished in eighth place in the 1909 Giro d'Italia.

Claude Mérelle was a French stage and film actress who appeared in numerous films during the silent film era of the early 1910s through the late 1920s.

Rachid Solh was a Lebanese politician and former Prime Minister, kin of one of the most eminent Sunni Muslim families in the country that brought several of its members to the office of Prime Ministers, and that was originally from Sidon but later moved its civil-records to Beirut.

Colonel Francis William Bullock-Marsham, sometimes known as Francis Marsham, was a senior officer in the British Army and an English amateur cricketer who played one first-class cricket match for Kent County Cricket Club and one for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), both in 1905. Part of the Marsham family that were involved with Kent County Cricket Club. He was born in Bicester and died in Maidstone.

Herbert Dingle was an English physicist and philosopher of science, who served as president of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1951 to 1953. He is best known for his opposition to Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity and the protracted controversy that this provoked.

Antônio de Almeida Lustosa was a Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate and professed member from the Salesians of Don Bosco. Lustosa served in two dioceses and two archdioceses in his career where he was reputed for his holiness and his learning. He introduced a range of innovations from media to new parishes and seminaries in order to restore his dioceses and archdioceses. He was a constant evangelizer and was also an author who wrote children's literature and music in addition to hagiographical and theological works. Lustosa was still a reluctant bishop but accepted each new position in obedience. But his health forced him to retire in 1963 and he still remained a noted pastor following his resignation.