List of Famous people who died in 1988

John William Corrington was an American film and television writer, novelist, poet, and lawyer.

Maurice Baudoux was a Canadian priest and the Archbishop of Saint Boniface, Manitoba, Canada.

László Somogyi was a Hungarian conductor.

Jean Marchand, was a French Canadian public figure, trade unionist and politician in Quebec, Canada.

Jean Degottex was a French abstract painter, known in particular for his initial proximity with the lyrical abstraction movement of the 1950s and 1960s. He is considered an important artist of the abstraction movement in the second half of the twentieth century and a significant inspiration for contemporary art. Degottex was particularly inspired by East Asian calligraphy and Zen philosophy in achieving the erasure of the creative subject.

Major-General William Augustus Fitzgerald Lane Fox-Pitt was a British Army officer who served in both the First World War and Second World War.