List of Famous people who died at 88
Hans Hofmeyer
Hans Hofmeyer was a German lawyer. He was in charge of the first Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt am Main.
Ernst Fritz Fürbringer
Ernst Fritz Fürbringer was a German film actor. He appeared in 130 films between 1933 and 1983. He was born in Brunswick, Germany and died in Munich, Germany.
Kirō Honjō
Kiro Honjo (1901–1990) was a Japanese aircraft designer who worked for Mitsubishi and designed aircraft used in World War II such as the Mitsubishi G3M (Nell) and the Mitsubishi G4M (Betty).
Walter Moreira Sales
Walter Moreira Salles, also Walther Moreira Salles, was a Brazilian banker, politician and philanthropist, considered as one of the founders of the modern Brazilian banking industry.
Mohamed Tahar Fergani
Mohamed Tahar Fergani was an Algerian singer, violinist and composer, nicknamed the Nightingale of Constantine.
Thérèse Clerc
Thérèse Clerc (1927–2016) was a French militant feminist who was active principally in the city of Montreuil. A member of the Movement for Freedom of Abortion and Birth Control, she performed clandestines abortions for women in difficulty in her small Montreuil apartment until 1975 when abortions were legalized under the Veil Law. In 2000, she founded the Maison des Femmes, a cultural, social and feminist centre for women who had been the victims of violence, later renamed Maison Thérèse Clerc. For many years, Clerc fought for the establishment of a self-managed home for elderly women in Montreuil, finally succeeding with the Maison des Babayagas in 2013.
Refik Erduran
Ahmet Refik Erduran was a Turkish playwright, columnist and writer. He wrote thirty plays and eight books, and was a columnist for twenty years; he was named "The Most Successful Playwright" by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and "The Most Successful Columnist" by the Turkish Journalists' Association. He was married four times and had four children. Erduran served as a military interpreter during the Korean War.
Karl Strecker
Karl Strecker was a German general during World War II who commanded several army corps on the Eastern Front. A career military and police professional, he fought in World War I and then served in the paramilitary Security Police of the Weimar Republic. Strecker welcomed the rise of Hitler and found favor with the regime, earning rapid promotions in the armed forces of Nazi Germany, the Wehrmacht. Strecker commanded the German Army's XI Army Corps in the Battle of Stalingrad and was the last German general to surrender his command in the city. He spent twelve years in Soviet captivity before being released in 1955.
Stanley Tigerman
Stanley Tigerman was an American architect, theorist and designer.
Crawford S. Holling
Crawford Stanley (Buzz) Holling, was a Canadian ecologist, and Emeritus Eminent Scholar and Professor in Ecological Sciences at the University of Florida. Holling was one of the conceptual founders of ecological economics .