List of Famous people who died at 88
Vyacheslav Ivanov
Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov was a prominent Soviet/Russian philologist, semiotician and Indo-Europeanist probably best known for his glottalic theory of Indo-European consonantism and for placing the Indo-European urheimat in the area of the Armenian Highlands and Lake Urmia.
Mahito Tsujimura
Mahito Tsujimura was a Japanese actor and voice actor who was represented by 81 Produce. Tsujimura died on November 27, 2018.
Fikret Otyam
Fikret Otyam was a Turkish painter and journalist.
Martin Grüner
Martin Grüner was a German politician and member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP). Hailing from Schramberg, he was Parliamentary Secretary at the Economics Ministry from 1972 to 1987 and then Parliamentary Secretary at the Environment Ministry until 1991.
Olga Voronets
Olga Borisovna Voronets was a leading Russian mezzo-soprano folk singer of the 1960s and 1970s. She was named a People's Artist of Russia in 1978.
Daniel Tinayre
Daniel Tinayre was a French-born Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer.
İshak Alaton
İshak Alaton was a Turkish businessman and investor. He is a founding partner of the Alarko group of companies.
Pierre Delanoë
Pierre Delanoë, born Pierre Charles Marcel Napoléon Leroyer in Paris, France, was a French lyricist who wrote thousands of songs for dozens of singers, including Dalida, Edith Piaf, Charles Aznavour, Petula Clark, Johnny Hallyday, Joe Dassin, Michel Sardou and Mireille Mathieu. Delanoë was his grandmother's maiden name.
Gustavo Alessandri Valdés
Gustavo Alessandri Valdés was a Chilean politician and lawyer. He was born in Santiago de Chile. He served as Mayor of Central Commune of Santiago de Chile from 1987 through 1989. He served as MP from 1961 through 1965, again from 1969 through 1971, and once more from 1998 to 2002. He was a member of the National Renewal Party from 1987 until his death in 2017.
Jean Guillou
Jean Victor Arthur Guillou was a French composer, organist, pianist, and pedagogue. Titular Organist at Saint Eustache in Paris, from 1963 to 2015, he was widely known as a composer of instrumental and vocal music focused on the organ, as an improviser, and as an adviser to organ builders. For several decades he held regular master classes in Zurich and in Paris.