List of Famous people who died in 1988

Oleg Petrovich Zhakov was a Russian actor. He performed in more than sixty films between 1927 up to 1988. People's Artist of USSR (1969). Winner of USSR State Prize (1971) and the Stalin Prize of the second degree (1946).

Tommy Breen was an Irish footballer who played as a goalkeeper for, among others, Belfast Celtic, Manchester United, Linfield and Shamrock Rovers. Breen was a dual international and played for both Ireland teams: the IFA XI and the FAI XI.

Johannes Hendrikus (Hein) Donner was a Dutch chess grandmaster (GM) and writer. Donner was born in The Hague and won the Dutch Championship in 1954, 1957, and 1958. He took part in the Internacional Chess Tournament (1956), Donner came third, behind Larsen and Darga. FIDE, the World Chess Federation, awarded him the GM title in 1959. He played for the Netherlands in the Chess Olympiads 11 times. He was the uncle of the former Dutch Minister of Social Affairs and Employment, Piet Hein Donner.

Elsa Judith Elisa Gress was a Danish essayist, novelist and dramatist. In Denmark, she is remembered above all for her essays.

Jean Gascon was a Canadian opera director, actor, and administrator.

Axel Eugen Alexander von Oesterreich, better known as Axel von Ambesser, was a German playwriter, actor and film director.

Chaya Mushka (Moussia) Schneerson, referred to by Lubavitchers as The Rebbetzin, was the wife of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh and last Rebbe of the Chabad-Lubavitch branch of Hasidic Judaism. She was the second of three daughters of the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn. She was named after the wife of the third Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn.