List of Famous people who died at 88
Doina Cornea
Doina Cornea was a Romanian human rights activist and French language professor. She was a dissident during the communist rule of Nicolae Ceaușescu.
Geraldyn M. Cobb
Geraldyn M. Cobb was an American aviator. She was also part of the "Mercury 13", a group of women who underwent physiological screening tests at the same time as the original Mercury Seven astronauts. She was the first to complete each of the tests.
Nati Mistral
Natividad Macho Álvarez, known by the stage name Nati Mistral, was a Spanish actress and singer. She won the National Theater Prize in 1997.
Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde
Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde was a German legal scholar and a judge on Germany's Federal Constitutional Court. He was a professor at the University of Freiburg and the author of more than 20 books and 80 articles dealing with legal and constitutional theory, as well as political theory, political philosophy and Catholic political thought. Böckenförde was considered a member of the Ritter School.
Ralph Goings
Ralph Goings was an American painter closely associated with the Photorealism movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was best known for his highly detailed paintings of hamburger stands, pick-up trucks, and California banks, portrayed in a deliberately objective manner.
Jakob Oetama
Jakob Oetama was an Indonesian senior journalist and businessman who was one of the co-founders and owners of Kompas Gramedia Group, the largest media group in Indonesia. Together with P.K. Ojong in 1965 he established the Kompas daily, the leading national broadsheet newspaper in Indonesia, where he was editor-in-chief until 2000.
Magda al-Sabahi
Magda al-Sabahi, or Magda, was an Egyptian film actress notable for her roles from 1949 to 1994.
Maurice Chevit
Maurice Chevit was a French actor.
Joker Arroyo
Ceferino "Joker" Paz Arroyo Jr. was a Filipino statesman and key figure in the 1986 EDSA People Power Revolution which ousted dictator Ferdinand Marcos. He was Congressman for Makati from 1992 to 2001 and a Senator from 2001 to 2013. Arroyo received various awards and commendations for his significant contributions to the law profession and public service. Among these are the Philippine Bar Association’s Most Distinguished Award for Justice as a “man beholden to no one except to his country” and a Senate Resolution No. 100 enacted in the 8th Congress commending him for his invaluable services to the Filipino people.
Diana Sowle
Diana Mae Sowle was an American actress.