List of Famous people who died in 1988

Evald Schorm was a Czech film and stage director, screenwriter and actor. He directed 26 films between 1959 and 1988. Schorm was a notable exponent of the Czech Film New Wave.

Martin Gregor-Dellin was a German writer noted for his scholarship on the composer Richard Wagner. He was born in 1926 in Naumburg (Saale) and died in 1988 in Grobenzell. His book Richard Wagner: Sein Leben, Sein Werk, Sein Jahrhundert has been translated into multiple languages.

Fulvia Franco was an Italian actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder.

Dorothy Jordan was an American movie actress who had a short but successful career beginning in talking pictures in 1929.

Ratna "Elie" Mohini was a Javanese dancer who was the wife of the French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson from 1937 to 1967.

Hugh Hunt was an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for eleven more in the category Best Art Direction.

Baron Maximilian Louis Hubert Egon Vincent Marie Joseph von Fürstenberg-Stammheim was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and was Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches.

Syarifah Nawawi (1896–1988) was an Indonesian activist and educationist. Nawawi worked to promote educational reform in the Dutch East Indies and later Indonesia, placing special emphasis on women's and children's education.