List of Famous people who died in 1988

Thomas Daniel Knox, 6th Earl of Ranfurly, known as Dan Ranfurly, was a British Army officer and farmer, who served as Governor of the Bahamas. His exploits in the Second World War, along with those of his wife, Hermione, and his valet, Whitaker, were chronicled in his wife's memoirs from the time, To War With Whitaker: The Wartime Diaries of the Countess of Ranfurly, 1939–1945.

Sir Mark Baring, KCVO (1916–1988) was a British hospital administrator, financial services executive and public servant.

Enzo Tortora was an Italian TV host on national RAI television, who was unjustly convicted of being a member of the Camorra and drug trafficking in 1985, and sentenced to 10 years in jail. He was acquitted of all charges by the Cassation Court in 1987.

Antal Doráti was a Hungarian-born conductor and composer who became a naturalized American citizen in 1943.