List of Famous people who died at 88
Ray Stark
Raymond Otto Stark was one of the most successful and prolific independent film producers in postwar Hollywood. Stark's background as a literary and theatrical agent prepared him to produce some of the most profitable films of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, such as The World of Suzie Wong (1960), West Side Story (1961), The Misfits (1961), Lolita (1962), The Night of The Iguana (1964), Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967), Funny Girl (1968), The Owl and the Pussycat (1970), The Goodbye Girl (1977), The Toy (1982), Annie (1982), and Steel Magnolias (1989).
Gastone Moschin
Gastone Moschin was an Italian stage, television and film actor.
K. T. S. Padannayil
Kochupadannayil Thai Subramanian, popularly known as K. T. S. Padannayil, was an Indian theatre artist and film actor in Malayalam movies. He began his acting career at the age of 21 as a theatre artist and made his film debut in the 1995 through Rajasenan's comedy film Aniyan Bava Chetan Bava. Padannayil has acted in more than 60 movies in various supporting and comic roles. Known for his impeccable comic timing, he is mostly remembered for his comic roles in movies such as Sreekrishnapurathe Nakshatrathilakkam, Vrudhanmare Sookshikkuka and Vaamanapuram Bus Route. He also acted in several television comedy serials.
Mariano Puga
Mariano Puga Concha was a Chilean Roman Catholic priest and a human rights activist.
Frances E. Allen
Frances Elizabeth Allen was an American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. Allen was the first woman to become an IBM Fellow and in 2006 became the first woman to win the Turing Award. Her achievements include seminal work in compilers, program optimization, and parallelization. She worked for IBM from 1957 to 2002 and subsequently, was a Fellow Emerita.
Frederick D. Reese
Frederick Douglas Reese, also known as F. D. Reese, was an American civil rights activist, educator and minister from Selma, Alabama. Known as a member of Selma's "Courageous Eight", Reese was the president of the Dallas County Voters League (DCVL) when it invited the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King Jr. to Selma to amplify the city's local voting rights campaign. This campaign eventually gave birth to the Selma to Montgomery marches, which later led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act.
Bill Nunn
William Goldwyn Nunn Jr. was a sportswriter, newspaper editor and American football scout for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the National Football League (NFL). Due to the fame of his son, actor William G. Nunn III, he was also known as Bill Nunn Sr.
Maurice Garrel
Maurice Garrel was a French film actor.
Yvonne Brill
Yvonne Madelaine Brill was a Canadian-American rocket and jet propulsion engineer. She is responsible for inventing the fuel-efficient rocket thruster that keeps satellites in orbit today. During her career she was involved in a broad range of national space programs in the United States, including NASA and the International Maritime Satellite Organization.
Gunnar Jamvold
Gunnar Jamvold was a Norwegian sailor who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.