List of Famous people who died at 88

Francisco Morales Nieva was a Spanish playwright.

Pope Shenouda III was the 117th Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark. His episcopate lasted 40 years, 4 months, and 4 days from 14 November 1971 until his death on 17 March 2012.

Napoleón Nelson Pinedo Fedullo was a singer from Barranquilla, Colombia. In 1954, Pinedo began a five-year career with the Sonora Matancera, a Cuban ensemble which at the time had widespread fame in Latin America. He incorporated various Colombian songs into the band's repertoire—many being adapted to Cuban rhythms such as the Bolero.

Maria Antoinette "Mies" Bouwman was a Dutch television presenter.

Klaus Traube was a German engineer and former manager in the German nuclear power industry and one of its leading opponents. He was the victim of an illegal eavesdropping operation by the BfV, because he was falsely suspected of passing on secret information to people sympathizing with terrorism, notably the Red Army Faction.

Angelo Carlo Chendi was an Italian cartoonist.

Marie-Jacques Renée "Jacotte" Perrier was a French singer, fashion journalist, voice actress, socialite, author and art collector. She was best known for her musical collaborations with the Quintette du Hot Club de France and her fashion reporting for Fairchild Publications. She was the daughter of musical composer and haute couture textile supplier Robert Perrier, from whom she inherited direction of the R-26 artistic salon.

Heinz "Heiner" Kördell was a German footballer.

María Amparo Rivelles Ladrón de Guevara MML, better known as Amparo Rivelles, was a Spanish actress.

Thomas "Toivi" Blatt was a Jewish-American Holocaust survivor, writer of mémoires, and public speaker, who at the age of 16 escaped from the Sobibór extermination camp during the uprising staged by the Jewish prisoners in October 1943. The escape was attempted by about 300 inmates, many of whom were recaptured and killed by the German search squads. Following World War II Blatt lived in the Soviet-controlled Poland until the Polish October revolution. In 1957, he emigrated to Israel, and in 1958 settled in the United States.