List of Famous people who died at 88
Abassi Madani
Abbassi Madani was an Algerian politician who was the President of the Islamic Salvation Front. As its leader, he became the voice of a large part of the dispossessed Algerian youth.
Alexandre Minkowski
Alexandre Minkowski was a French paediatrician, and arguably the French physician who most influenced neonatology in the 20th century. He was born and died in Paris.
Tawfiq al-Hakim
Tawfiq al-Hakim or Tawfik el-Hakim was a prominent Egyptian writer and visionary. He is one of the pioneers of the Arabic novel and drama. The triumphs and failures that are represented by the reception of his enormous output of plays are emblematic of the issues that have confronted the Egyptian drama genre as it has endeavored to adapt its complex modes of communication to Egyptian society.
Georges Wilson
Georges Wilson was a French film and television actor. He is the father of French actor Lambert Wilson.
Chiang Fang-liang
Faina Chiang Fang-liang was the First Lady of the Republic of China on Taiwan from 1978 to 1988 and the wife of President Chiang Ching-kuo.
Enrique Múgica
Enrique Múgica Herzog was a Spanish lawyer and politician.
John Baldessari
John Anthony Baldessari was an American conceptual artist known for his work featuring found photography and appropriated images. He lived and worked in Santa Monica and Venice, California.
Françoise Christophe
Françoise Christophe (1923–2012) was a French film and television actress.
Richard E. Taylor
Richard Edward Taylor,, was a Canadian physicist and Stanford University professor. He shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics with Jerome Friedman and Henry Kendall "for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics."
Miguel Arraes
Miguel Arraes de Alencar was a Brazilian lawyer and politician. He was mayor of Recife, State Deputy, Federal Deputy and three times Governor of Pernambuco.