List of Famous people who died in 1988

Sir Sacheverell Reresby Sitwell, 6th Baronet was an English writer, best known as an art critic, music critic, and writer on architecture, particularly the baroque. Dame Edith Sitwell and Sir Osbert Sitwell were his older siblings.

George Lennox Barrow (1921–1989) was a colonial administrator, Irish historian, philosopher, geographer, archaeologist, economist and writer. In the 1970s his name was circulated in the media as academician.

Anne Seymour was an American film and television character actress.

Jean Marie "Jeff" Donnell was an American film and television actress.

María Teresa León Goyri was a Spanish writer, activist and cultural ambassador. Born in Logroño, she was the niece of the Spanish feminist and writer María Goyri. She herself was married to the Spanish poet Rafael Alberti. She contributed numerous articles to the periodical Diario de Burgos and published the children's books Cuentos para soñar and La bella del mal amor.

Dino Grandi, 1st Conte di Mordano, was an Italian Fascist politician, minister of justice, minister of foreign affairs and president of parliament.