List of Famous people who died at 88

Léon Konan Koffi was an Ivorian politician. He served as the Interior Minister of the Ivory Coast under President Félix Houphouët-Boigny. He was a commander of the National Order of Merit and the Legion of Honour.

Willis Harlow Shapley was an American civil servant best known as the third-ranking administrator for NASA during the Apollo program.

Vytautas Einoris was a Lithuanian agronomist, politician, former member of the Seimas and Minister of Agriculture.

Masami Shimojō was a Japanese film and stage actor. He appeared in more than 100 films.

John Lee Thompson was a British film director, active in London and Hollywood, best known for such movies as Ice Cold in Alex, Cape Fear and The Guns of Navarone.

Walter Fiers was a Belgian molecular biologist.

Lydia Korneyevna Chukovskaya was a Soviet writer, poet, editor, publicist, memoirist and dissident. Her deeply personal writings reflect the human cost of Soviet repression, and she devoted much of her career to defending dissidents such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov. The daughter of the celebrated children's writer Korney Chukovsky, she was wife of scientist Matvei Bronstein, and a close associate and chronicler of the poet Anna Akhmatova.

Takeo Kurita was a vice admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.

Roger Nicolet was a Belgian engineer. He oversaw several major building projects, including Place Bonaventure, Le Village Olympique, Place Montreal Trust, Royal Bank Plaza, the CN Tower, King Abdulaziz University, the Louvre Pyramid, and the Tehran International Tower. He was an Officer of the National Order of Quebec.

William Windom was an American actor. He played a wide variety of roles in both film and television during a near 60-year career, but is perhaps best known for his role as cartoonist John Monroe in the short-lived comedy My World and Welcome to It (1969–1970) winning him a Primetime Emmy Award, and his recurring role as Dr. Seth Hazlitt starring alongside Angela Lansbury in Murder, She Wrote (1984-1996).