List of Famous people who died at 88

Lieutenant Colonel Sir John Reginald Noble Graham, 3rd Baronet was a British businessman, army officer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He received the award "for most conspicuous bravery, coolness and resource when in command of a Machine Gun Section" during the Samarrah Offensive in 1917, during the First World War.

Alla Alexandrovna Kazanskaya was a Russian stage and film actress. She began her career at the age of 18 at the Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow. It was to Kazanskaya that the composer Aram Khachaturian dedicated the Waltz from his incidental music to Lermontov's Masquerade. By the time of her death at age 88, she was the theatre's oldest working actress. She had received the Crystal Turandot, Russia's foremost theatre award, in 2007.

Shivajirao Patil Nilangekar was a leader of Indian National Congress party who served as chief minister of Maharashtra.

Jean-Claude Gardin was a French archaeologist who is recognized as being one of the founders of archaeological computing.

Eva de Maizière was a German artist, sculptor and cellist. She was married to Ulrich de Maizière until her death in 2003. Her sons are Andreas and Thomas de Maizière, both politicians.

Percy Newbold "Peter" Coe was a British athletics coach, author, translator and coach of his son Sebastian Coe.

René Rémond was a French historian, political scientist and political economist.