List of Famous people who died in 1988

Rafael García Serrano was a Spanish writer and journalist. As a teenager he joined the Spanish Falange and participated as a combatant on the Nationalist side in the Spanish Civil War. His first novel, the lyrical "Eugenio o proclamación de la primavera" was written in 1938 when he was recovering from tuberculosis contracted during the Battle of the Ebro. That novel was dedicated to the late Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, the founder of the Falange. He worked as a screenwriter on a number of films. He also directed the 1967 film Lost Eyes. In 1943 he was awarded the National Novel Prize for one of his well-regarded war novels, "La fiel infanteria." The book was immediately banned for 15 years by the religious censors.

Aleksei Fedorovich Losev was a Russian philosopher, philologist and culturologist, one of the most prominent figures in Russian philosophical and religious thought of the 20th century.

René Char was a French poet and member of the French Resistance.

Carlos Rangel (1929–1988) was a Venezuelan writer, a liberal, journalist and diplomat.

Ian Ernest Gilmore Evans was a Canadian-American jazz pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader. He is widely recognized as one of the greatest orchestrators in jazz, playing an important role in the development of cool jazz, modal jazz, free jazz, and jazz fusion. He is best known for his acclaimed collaborations with Miles Davis.

Seyyed Mohammad Hossein Behjat Tabrizi, mainly known by his pen name, Shahriar, was a notable Iranian Azerbaijani poet who wrote in both Azerbaijani and Persian. His most important work, Heydar Babaya Salam is considered to be the pinnacle in Azerbaijani literature which gained great popularity in the Turkic world and was translated to more than 30 languages.

René Vietto was a French road racing cyclist.

Baroness Kathleen Annie Pannonica de Koenigswarter was a British-born jazz patron and writer. A leading patron of bebop music, she was a scion of the Rothschild family.

Edgar Faure was a French politician, essayist, historian, and memoirist.

Kamel Hana Gegeo was an Iraqi bodyguard.