List of Famous people who died at 88

Zaki Naguib Mahmoud was an Egyptian intellectual and thinker, and is considered a pioneer in modern Arabic philosophical thought. Best known with "The philosopher of authors and author of philosophers" as Abbas Mahmoud al-Akkad called him. Mahmoud adhered to logical positivism and adopted science interpretation with social motivations to reconcile the Arab tradition with modernism. Mahmoud defines the "Arab tradition" as the configuration of techniques by which our ancestors lived. And he viewed logical positivism as the spirit of "Modernism".

Georges Benedetti was a French politician.

Lucien Schaeffer was a French football Goalkeeper who was a member of the French squad at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Ram Naresh Yadav was an Indian politician who was Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh from 1977 to 1979. He was from Janata Party; later he joined the Congress. He also served as Governor of Madhya Pradesh from 26 August 2011 to 7 September 2016.

Francisca Aguirre Benito was a Spanish poet and author. Her first poetry collection, Ithaca, published in 1972, won her the Leopoldo Panero Poetry Award. In 2011, she won the National Poetry Prize for her poetry piece Historia de una anatomía. Aguirre also won the National Prize for Spanish Literature in November 2018.

Wulf Steinmann was a German physicist and former president of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Bruce Baillie was an American experimental filmmaker. He was born in Aberdeen, South Dakota in 1931 and died on April 10, 2020 in Camano Island, Washington.

Jessie Vihrog was a South African-born German film actress.

Suzana Amaral Rezende was a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. She was best known for the 1985 film A Hora da Estrela.

Misael Eduardo Pastrana Borrero was a Colombian politician and lawyer who served as the 23rd President of Colombia from 1970 to 1974. He was also the father of the 30th President Andrés Pastrana Arango.