List of Famous people who died in 1988

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Isaak Yaglom

First Name Isaak

Last Name Yaglom

Born on March 6, 1921

Died on April 17, 1988 (aged 67)

Born in Ukraine, Kharkiv Oblast

Isaak Moiseevich Yaglom was a Soviet mathematician and author of popular mathematics books, some with his twin Akiva Yaglom.

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Willem Drees

First Name Willem

Last Name Drees

Born on July 5, 1886

Died on May 14, 1988 (aged 101)

Born in Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands, North Holland

Height 172 cm | 5'8

Willem Drees Sr. was a Dutch politician of the defunct Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) and later co-founder of the Labour Party (PvdA) and historian who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 7 August 1948 to 22 December 1958.

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Edmund Forschbach

First Name Edmund

Last Name Forschbach

Born on December 11, 1903

Died on March 23, 1988 (aged 84)

Born in Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia

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Lauris Norstad

First Name Lauris

Born on March 24, 1907

Died on September 12, 1988 (aged 81)

Born in United States of America, Minnesota

Lauris Norstad was an American General in the United States Army Air Forces and United States Air Force.

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William Cagney

First Name William

Last Name Cagney

Born on March 26, 1905

Died on January 3, 1988 (aged 82)

Born in United States of America, New York

William Jerome Cagney was an American film producer and actor, remembered for roles in the Monogram Pictures films Lost in the Stratosphere and Flirting with Danger, both filmed in 1934.

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Jerry Hopper

First Name Jerry

Born on July 29, 1907

Died on December 17, 1988 (aged 81)

Born in United States of America, Oklahoma

Filmmaker

Harold Hankins "Jerry" Hopper was an American film and television director, active from the mid-1940s through the early 1970s.

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Hugh Charles Lyttleton Lindsay

First Name Hugh

Born on May 30, 1953

Died on March 10, 1988 (aged 34)

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Sir Patrick Ferguson-Davie, 5th Baronet

First Name Sir

Died on January 1, 1988 (aged 18)

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Hugh A. Robertson

First Name Hugh

Born on May 28, 1932

Died on January 10, 1988 (aged 55)

Born in United States of America, New York, New York City

Filmmaker

Hugh A. Robertson was an American film director and editor, born in Brooklyn, of Jamaican parents. While Robertson was credited as an editor for only three films, Midnight Cowboy earned him the BAFTA Award for Best Editing and a nomination for the Academy Award for Film Editing, making him the first African American person to be nominated for an Oscar in the editing category.

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Christopher George Chetwynd-Stapylton

First Name Christopher

Last Name Chetwynd-Stapylton

Born on January 31, 1913

Died on November 13, 1988 (aged 75)

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