List of Famous people who died at 88

Christian Marie Ferdinand de la Croix de Castries was the French commander at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954.

Dorothy Trimble Tiffany Burlingham was an American child psychoanalyst and educator. A lifelong friend and partner of Anna Freud, Burlingham is known for her joint work with Freud on the analysis of children. During the 1960s and 70s, Burlingham directed the Research Group on the Study of Blind Children at the Hampstead Clinic in London. Her 1979 article on blind infants, "To Be Blind in a Sighted World," published in The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, is considered to be a landmark of empathic scientific observation.

Pierre Mac Orlan, sometimes written MacOrlan, was a French novelist and songwriter.

Rosihan Anwar was a renowned Indonesian journalist and author.

Lieutenant-Colonel Dudley Gladstone Gordon, 3rd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair DSO, styled Lord Dudley Gordon from 1916 to 1965, was a British peer, soldier, and industrialist.

General Sir James Michael Gow, was a senior British Army officer who served in the Second World War and reached high office in the 1980s, commanding the British Army of the Rhine.

Manuel Olivencia Ruiz was a Spanish lawyer with a career as a professor, economist, and diplomat. He worked at the University of Seville and organized Seville Expo '92.

Lt-Colonel Henry van Straubenzee DSO OBE was a British army officer who was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for leadership whilst commanding 12 Royal Tank Regiment, in Northern Italy, in 1944, during the Second World War. He later commanded the 2nd Battalion, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He was also an English cricketer, playing for Sandhurst and the Army up to the outbreak of war. He played for Essex between 1938 and 1939.