List of Famous people who died in 1988

Francesco Fasola was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Archbishop of Messina from 1963 until his retirement in 1977; he was also a professed member of the Oblati dei Santu Gaudenzio e Carlo. He served as a rector and parish priest after his ordination in Galliante before he was made a bishop in 1954 for the Agrigento diocese where he served as the coadjutor; he later was moved south to Caltagirone and then was made an archbishop. Fasola placed a particular emphasis during his episcopate on the renovation of ecclesial buildings and the ordination of new priests which was a sacrament he liked to bestow upon seminarians.

Kléber Dadjo served as Interim President of Togo in his role as Chairman of the National Reconciliation Committee from 14 January 1967 to 14 April 1967 following the overthrow of President Nicolas Grunitzky's government.

Curt Ackermann (1905–1988) was a German stage and film actor. He also worked regularly as a voice actor, dubbing foreign films for release in Germany.

Rudolf Schottlaender was a German philosopher, classical philologist, translator and political publicist of Jewish descent.

Sir Philip Montefiore Magnus-Allcroft, 2nd Baronet, CBE, was a British biographer. He wrote under the name Philip Magnus.