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'''1988''' ('''
Roman numerals MCMLXXXVIII''') was a
leap year starting on Friday of the
Gregorian calendar.
Events
January
*
January 1 - The
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is established, creating the largest
Lutheran Religious denomination denomination in the
United States.
*
January 2 -
Georgia (U.S. state) Georgia celebrates its
1788 bicentennial statehood.
*
January 9 -
Connecticut celebrates its
1788 bicentennial statehood.
*
January 26 -
Australia celebrates its
1788 bicentennial.
February
*
February 3 - The
United States House of Representatives controlled by the
Democratic Party (United States) Democratic Party rejects
Republican Party (United States) Republican President of the United States President Ronald Reagan's request for $36.25 million to support Nicaraguan
Contras.
*
February 6 -
Massachusetts celebrates its
1788 bicentennial of its statehood.
*
February 11 -
Anthony M. Kennedy is appointed to the
Supreme Court of the United States.
*
February 13 - The
1988 Winter Olympics open in
Calgary,
Alberta,
Canada.
*
February 17 - U.S. Lieutenant Colonel
William R. Higgins, serving with a
United Nations group monitoring a
truce in southern
Lebanon, is kidnapped. (He is later killed by his captors.)
*
February 21 - In the taping of his own television program,
televangelism televanglist Jimmy Swaggart confesses that he is guilty of an unspecified sin and will be temporarily leaving the pulpit. The "unspecified sin" was an affair with a prostitute.
*
February 24 - The
Supreme Court of the United States sides with ''
Hustler'' magazine by overturning a lower court decision to award
Jerry Falwell $200,000 for
defamation. (''Main article:
Hustler Magazine v. Falwell'')
*
February 28 - The
1988 Winter Olympics close.
*
February 29 - Nazi document implicates
Kurt Waldheim in WWII deportations.
March
*
March 1 -
Anthony M. Frank is appointed
United States Postmaster General.
*
March 6 - Students at
Gallaudet University go on strike for the selection of a
deaf university president.
*
March 7 -
Operation Flavius: The
Special Air Service SAS fatally shoot three unarmed
Irish Republican Army members in
Gibraltar.
*
March 8 - Two
U.S. Army helicopters collide in
Fort Campbell,
Kentucky, killing 17 servicemen.
*
March 16 - The
Halabja poison gas attack was carried out by
Iraqi government forces.
*
March 16 -
Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel
Oliver North and Vice Admiral
John Poindexter are indicted on charges of
Conspiracy (crime) conspiracy to defraud the
United States.
*
March 17 - A
Colombian
Boeing 727 jetliner,
Avianca Flight 410, crashes into the side of the mountains near the
Venezuelan border killing 143.
*
March 19 - British army Corporals Woods and Howes are killed by the IRA in the so-called "
Corporals killings".
*
March 24 - An
Israeli court sentences
Mordechai Vanunu to 18 years in prison for disclosing Israel's
nuclear program to ''
The Sunday Times''.
*
March 25 - The
Candle Demonstration in
Bratislava (
Slovakia) was the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in
Czechoslovakia.
*
March 29 -
Dulcie September is assassinated in
Paris.
April
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*
April 4 -
List of Governors of Arizona Governor Evan Mecham of
Arizona is convicted in his
impeachment trial and removed from office.
*
April 10 - The
Great Seto Bridge opened to traffic in
Japan.
*
April 11 - ''
The Last Emperor''
film director directed by
Bernardo Bertolucci wins 9
Academy Awards Oscars
*
April 12 - Former pop singer
Sonny Bono is elected mayor of
Palm Springs, California.
*
April 14 - In the
Geneva Agreement,
Soviet Union commits itself to withdrawal of its forces from
Afghanistan.
*
April 14 -
USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58) strikes a
naval mine mine in the
Persian Gulf while deployed on
Operation Earnest Will during the
Tanker War phase of the
Iran-Iraq War.
*
April 16 -
Israeli commandos kill the
PLO's
Abu Jihad Khalil Wazir (Abu Jihad) in
Tunisia.
*
April 16 - In
Forlì (
Italy),
Red Brigades kill Italian senator
Roberto Ruffilli, an advisor of
Prime Minister of Italy Prime Minister Ciriaco de Mita.
*
April 18 -
United States Navy U.S. Navy forces retaliate for the
USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58) Roberts mining with
Operation Praying Mantis, in a day of strikes against
Iranian oil platforms and naval vessels.
*
April 25 - In
Israel,
John Demjanuk is sentenced to death for
war crimes committed in
World War II. He was accused by survivors of being a notorious guard at the
Treblinka extermination camp known as "Ivan the Terrible". The conviction was later overturned by the
Israeli Supreme Court.
*
April 28 -
Maryland celebrates its the
1788 bicentennial of its statehood.
*
April 28 -
Aloha Flight 243 loses several yards of its upper fuselage while in flight. Extraordinarily, the craft lands with only one fatality.
*
April 30 - World
Expo '88 opens in
Brisbane Queensland,
Australia. The exhibition runs for 6 months, hosting pavilions from over 70 countries and thrusting the city of Brisbane into the international spotlight.
May
*
May 15 -
Soviet war in Afghanistan: After more than eight years of fighting, the
Red Army begins its withdraw from
Afghanistan.
*
May 16 - A report by
Surgeon General C. Everett Koop states that the
addiction addictive properties of
nicotine are similar to those of
heroin and
cocaine.
*
May 16 -
California v. Greenwood: In a 6-2 decision, the
Supreme Court of the United States rules that police officers do not need a
search warrant to search through discarded
waste garbage.
*
May 23 -
South Carolina celebrates its
1788 bicentennial statehood.
*
May 24 -
Section 28 (outlawing promotion of homosexuality in schools) is passed as law by
Parliament in the
United Kingdom.
June
*
June 6 -
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom Queen Elizabeth strips
jockey Lester Piggott of his
Order of the British Empire OBE
*
June 11 - The name of the General Public License (
GPL) is mentioned first time.
*
June 21 -
New Hampshire celebrates its
1788 bicentennial statehood.
*
June 25 -
Virginia celebrates its
1788 bicentennial statehood.
*
June 25 - The
Netherlands national football team Netherlands defeat the
USSR national football team Soviet Union 2-0 to win
1988 European Football Championship Euro 88.
*
June 28 - Four workers asphyxiated at a metal-plating plant in
Auburn, Indiana, in the worst confined-space industrial accident in US history. A fifth victim dies two days later.
*
June 29 -
United States Supreme Court upholds the law allowing
special prosecutor to investigate suspected crimes by executive branch officials.
*
June 30 - Roman
Catholic Marcel Lefebvre Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre consecrated four
bishops at
Ecône for his
Society of Saint Pius X apostolate along with
Antonio de Castro Mayer Bishop Antonio de Castro Mayer without a
Pope Papal mandate.
July
*
July 1 -
Bologna,
Italy:
Quartetto Cetra's last concert after over forty years' musical career.
*
July 3 -
Iran Air Flight 655 shot down by missiles launched from the ''
USS Vincennes'' ship
*
July 6 - The
Piper Alpha drilling platform in the
North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires killing 165 oil workers and 2 rescue mariners.
*
July 26 -
New York celebrates its
1788 bicentennial statehood.
*
July 31 - 32 people were killed and 1,674 injured when a
Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal bridge collapse bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapsed in
Butterworth, Penang Butterworth,
Malaysia.
August
*
August 6–
August 7 - "
Police riot" in
New York City's
Tompkins Square Park.
*
August 8 - Thousands of protestors in
Burma (now Myanmar) are killed during demonstrations against the government.
*
August 9 -
Wayne Gretzky is traded from the
Edmonton Oilers to the
Los Angeles Kings in one of the most controversial transactions in
ice hockey hockey history.
*
August 17 -
Pakistan President
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and US Ambassador
Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash.
*
August 19 -
Ceasefire begins in the
Iran-Iraq war
*
August 20 -
Iran-Iraq war ends, with an estimated 1 million lives lost.
*
August 26 -
Merhan Karimi Nasseri ("The terminal man") is stuck in the
Charles de Gaulle International Airport De Gaulle Airport in
Paris, where he continues to reside as of October 2005.
*
August 28 - A fire destroys part of
Chiado quarter, in
Lisbon's historical center.
*
August 29 - The first
WWE (WWF at the time)
SummerSlam main event — featuring
Hulk Hogan Hulk "Hulkamania" Hogan and
Randy Savage "Macho Man" Randy Savage versus
André the Giant and
Ted DiBiase "Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase — is held in
Madison Square Gardens in
New York City.
September
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*
September 1- Acacia pycnantha proclaimed Australia's national floral emblem
*
September 3- Federal referendums on 4-year terms, recognition of local Government and other issues is defeated in Australia
*
September 5 - With US$2 billion in federal aid, the
Robert M. Bass Group agrees to buy the
United States's largest thrift,
American Savings and Loan Association
*
September 12 -
Hurricane Gilbert devastated
Jamaica, it turns towards
Mexico's
Yucatan Peninsula September 14 two days later causing an estimated $5 billion in damage.
*
September 17 -
Summer Olympic Games in
Seoul,
South Korea open
*
September 22 -
Ocean Odyssey drilling rig suffers a blowout and fire in the North Sea. (See also
July 6)
*
September 24-26 - Large, militant protests against the
1988 World Bank and IMF meetings in
West Berlin
*
September 29 -
NASA resumes
space shuttle flights, grounded after the
Space Shuttle Challenger Challenger disaster
October
*
October 5 - Thousands riot in
Algiers,
Algeria against the government of
National Liberation Front - by
October 10 army has killed and tortured about 500 people in crushing the riots
*
October 5 - Chilean dictator
Augusto Pinochet is defeated in a national plebiscite that sought to renew his mandate.
*
October 11 - Women are allowed to study at
Magdalene College, Cambridge Magdalene College,
Cambridge, for the first time. Male students wear black armbands and the porter flies a black flag
*
October 12 - two officers of the
Victoria Police are gunned down executional style in the
Walsh Street police shootings in
Australia
*
October 19 -
United Kingdom bans broadcast interviews with
Irish Republican Army IRA members.
BBC gets around this by using actors' voices.
*
October 28 -
Abortion: 48 hours after announcing it was abandoning
RU-486,
France French manufacturer
Roussel Uclaf states that it would resume distribution of the drug, bowing to pressure from the government of
France
*
October 30 -
Philip Morris buys
Kraft Foods for US$13.1 billion.
*
October 30 -
Expo '88 in
Brisbane Australia draws to a close after a 6 month spectacular.
*
October 30 -
Formula One:
Ayrton Senna clinches his first
World Championship with a phenomenal drive in the
Japanese Grand Prix, recovering from 16th place on the first lap to win the race and beat rival
Alain Prost into second place.
November
*
November 8 -
U.S. presidential election, 1988:
George H. W. Bush George Herbert Walker Bush is elected over
Michael Dukakis.
*
November 11 - In
Sacramento, California, police find a body buried in the lawn of 60-year-old boardinghouse landlady
Dorothea Puente (seven bodies were eventually found and Puente was convicted of three murders and sentenced to life in prison)
*
November 15 - In the
Soviet Union, the uncrewed
Shuttle Buran Shuttle ''Buran'' is launched by an
Energia rocket on her maiden
orbital spaceflight (this was the first and last space flight for the shuttle)
*
November 15 -
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An independent
State of Palestine is proclaimed by the
Palestinian National Council meeting in
Algiers, by a vote of 253 to 46
*
November 16 - The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR declares that
Estonia is "sovereign" but stops short of declaring independence
*
November 16 - In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in
Pakistan choose populist candidate
Benazir Bhutto to be
Prime Minister
*
November 17 -
The Netherlands becomes the second country to get connected to the
Internet
*
November 18 -
War on Drugs:
President of the United States US President Ronald Reagan signs a bill into law providing the
death penalty for murderous
drug trafficking drug traffickers
*
November 21 -
Canadian Federal Election:
Brian Mulroney and the
Progressive Conservative Party win a second
majority government
*
November 22 - In
Palmdale, California, the first prototype
B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed
*
November 30 -
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. buys
RJR Nabisco for US$25.07 billion.
December
Image:PA103cockpit4.png thumb|200px|The wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103
*
December 2 -
Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of
Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an
Islam-dominated state.
*
December 2 -
Cyclone in
Bangladesh leaves 5 million homeless - thousands dead
*
December 3 - Date of a claimed
Marian apparition apparition of the
Blessed Virgin Mary to
Estela Ruiz in South
Phoenix, Arizona
*
December 7 - In
Armenia an
earthquake 6.9 on the
Richter scale killed nearly 25,000, injured 15,000 and left 400,000 persons homeless.
*
December 9 - The last
Dodge Aries and
Plymouth Reliant roll off the assembly line in a Chrysler factory.
*
December 12 - The
Clapham Junction rail crash kills 35 and injures 132.
*
December 19 - The
Consumer Product Safety Commission bans the sale of
lawn darts following the deaths of three children.
*
December 20 - The
United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances is signed at
Vienna.
*
December 21 -
Pan Am flight 103 is blown up by
Libyan terrorists over
Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 259 on board and 11 on the ground.
*
December 22 - Assassination of
Brazilian union and environmental activist
Chico Mendes.
Environmental change
*
Zebra mussels found in the
Great lakes
Unknown dates
*
Dave Barry wins the Pulitzer Prize for commentary.
*Singer
Fish (singer) Fish leaves the band
Marillion to pursue a solo career.
*
Mickey Sadoff is elected president of
Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
Births
January
*
January 1 -
Katie Volding, American actress
*
January 7 -
Alan Lowing, Scottish footballer
*
January 10 -
Michael Mcilorum, English rugby player
*
January 12 -
Chris Casement, Northern Irish footballer
*January 12 -
Andrew Lawrence (actor) Andrew Lawrence, American actor
*
January 13 -
Tatev Abrahamyan, American chess player
*
January 16 -
Nicklas Bendtner, Danish footballer
*
January 17 -
Nikki Reed, American actress
*
January 22 -
Greg Oden, American basketball player
*
January 25 -
Tatiana Golovin, French tennis player
*January 25 -
Daniel Haynes, English footballer
*January 27 -
Kerlon, Brazilian footballer
*
January 29 -
Owen Garvan, Irish footballer
*January 29 -
Aydın Yılmaz, Turkish soccer player
February
*
February 4 -
Carly Patterson, American gymnast
*
February 8 -
Ryan Pinkston, American actor
*
February 12 -
Nicoleta Daniela Åžofronie, Romanian gymnast
*
February 15 -
Daniela Luján, British actress
*
February 19 -
Miyu Irino, Japanese voice actor
*
February 21 -
Danny Rose, English footballer
*
February 25 -
Kelly Davidson (d.
2000)
*February 25 -
Rúrik GÃslason, Icelandic footballer
*
February 26 -
David Williams (footballer) David Williams, Australian footballer
March
*
March 1 -
Melissandre Fuentes, Andorra figure skater
*
March 2 -
Kathryn Blair, Daughter of British Prime Minister
Tony Blair
*March 2 -
Vito Mannone, Italian footballer
*
March 3 -
Timur Gareev, Asian chess player
*March 3 -
Michael Morrison (footballer) Michael Morrison, English footballer
*
March 6 -
Elaine and Melanie Silver, American actresses
*
March 21 -
Lee Cattermole, English footballer
*
March 25 -
Erik Knudsen, Canadian actor
*
March 27 -
Brenda Song, American actress
*
March 28 -
Lacey Turner, English actress
*
March 31 -
Hogan Ephraim, English football player
April
*
April 3 -
Tim Krul, Dutch soccer player
*
April 5 -
Daniela Luján, Mexican actress
*
April 6 -
Fabrice Muamba, English footballer
*
April 8 -
Philip Dowling, British actor
*
April 10 -
Haley Joel Osment, American actor
*April 10 -
Özgürcan Özcan, Turkish soccer player
*April 10 -
Travis Varcoe, Australian footballer
*
April 13 -
Kallie Flynn Childress, American actress
*
April 20 -
Mark Bluvshtein, Canadian chess player
*April 20 -
Wade Oostendorp, Australian soccer player
*
April 23 -
Erica Mer, American actress
*
April 29 -
Jeff Batchelor, Canadian snowboarder
*
April 29 -
Younha, Korean born singer
May
*
May 1 -
Darryl Knights, English footballer
*
May 5 -
Jessica Dubroff, American student pilot (d.
1996)
*
May 9 -
Princess Nejla bint Asem
*
May 18 -
Ryan Cooley, Canadian actor
*
May 23 -
Christian Lorentzen, British heir
*May 23 -
Morgan Pressel, American golfer
*
May 24 -
Iyama Yuta, Japanese Go player
*
May 27 -
Heather Marks, Canadian model
*
May 28 -
Cheng Fei, Chinese gymnast
*May 28 -
Kuroki Meisa, Japanese actress
June
*
June 1 -
Nami Tamaki, Japanese singer
*
June 2 -
Sergio Agüero, Argentine football (soccer) player
*June 2 -
Ayaka Saito, Japanese voice actor
*
June 7 -
Michael Cera, Canadian actor
*June 7 -
Godwin Antwi Ghana footballer
*June 9 -
Mae Whitman, American actress
*
June 11 -
Gakky, Japanese model/actress
*
June 13 -
Li Ya, Chinese gymnast
*
June 23 -
Isabell Herlovsen, Norwegian soccer player
*
June 24 -
Micah Richards, English footballer
*
June 27 -
Kate Ziegler, American swimmer
July
*
Luke Mitchell, Scottish murderer
*
July 1 -
Evan Ellingson, American actor
*July 1 -
Joseph Groarke, British taekwondo expert
*
July 4 -
Angelique Boyer, Mexican actress
*July 4 -
Princess Irina of Prussia
*
July 6 -
Sarah Barrable-Tishauer, Canadian actress
*
July 8 -
Miguel Roque Farrero, American soccer player
*
July 22 -
Constantin, Prince of Nassau
*
July 23 -
Paul Anderson (footballer) Paul Anderson, English footballer
*
July 25 -
Anthony Stokes (footballer) Anthony Stokes, Irish footballer
*
July 27 -
Willence Seymour, Nauruan tennis player
*
July 31 -
Brackin Karauria-Henry, Australian rugby player
August
*
August 5 -
Fleur Maxwell, Luxembourg figure skater
*August 5 -
Federica Pellegrini, Italian swimmer
*
August 8 -
Princess Beatrice of York
*August 8 -
Flavia Bujor, French writer
*August 8 -
Jake Goldsbie, Canadian actor
*August 8 -
Jeff Weise, American murderer (d.
2005)
*
August 12 -
Leah Pipes, American actress
*
August 14 -
Monette Russo, Australian gymnast
*
August 16 -
Ismaïl Aissati, Morrocan football (soccer) player
*
August 17 -
Belal Mansoor Ali, Kenyan runner
*August 17 -
Brady Corbet, American actor
*
August 18 -
Jack Hobbs (footballer) Jack Hobbs, English footballer
*
August 19 -
Travis Tedford, American actor
*
August 24 -
Rupert Grint, English actor
*
August 26 -
Princess Maria Laura, Archduchess of Austria-Este
*August 26 -
Rachelle Waterman, American blogger
*
August 27 -
Alexa Vega, American actress
September
*
September 5 -
Nuri Åžahin, Turkish football (soccer) player
*
September 9 -
Sana Saeed, Indian actress
*
September 10 -
Jordan Staal, Canadian hockey player
*
September 20 -
Aura Andreea Munteanu, Romanian gymnast
*
September 24 -
Kyle Sullivan, American actor
October
*
October 5 -
Bobby Edner, American actor
*
October 7 -
Geneva Locke, Canadian actress
*
October 13 -
Scott Jamieson, Australian footballer
*
October 14 -
Max Thieriot, American actor
*
October 15 -
Aleksandra Szutenberg, Polish gymnast
*
October 19 -
Carly Janiga, American gymnast
*
October 20 -
Adam Butcher, Canadian actor
*
October 25 -
Kaz Patafta, Australian football (soccer) player
*
October 28 -
Devon Murray, Irish actor
*
October 30 -
Scott Dyleski, American convict
November
*
November 1 -
Ai Fukuhara, Japanese tennis player
*
November 2 -
Lindze Letherman, American actor
*
November 6 -
Emily Stone, American actress
*
November 8 -
Tajima Honami, Japanese actress
*
November 11 -
Alexandra Kyle, American actress
*
November 15 -
Zena Grey, American actress
*November 15 -
Nikolas Besagno, American soccer player
*
November 18 -
Miranda Gaddis and Ashley Pond Miranda Gaddis - American murder victim (d.
2002)
*
November 19 -
Candace Newmaker, American child abuse victim (d.
1999)
December
*
December 2 -
Alfred Enoch, British actor
*December 2 -
Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick
*
December 4 -
Lisa Ingildeeva, Russian gymnast
*
December 5 -
Ross Bagley, American actor
*
December 7 -
Emily Browning, Australian actress
*
December 14 -
Vanessa Anne Hudgens, American actress
*
December 15 -
Ilona Senderek, Polish figure skater
*
December 16 -
Anna Popplewell, English actress
*December 16 -
Jacob Lensky, Canadian soccer player
*
December 19 -
Kristina Coccia, American gymnast
*December 19 -
Victoria Ribeiro, British heir
*
December 22 -
Eddy Vilard, Mexican actor
*
December 24 -
Piyush Chawla, Indian cricketer
*
December 29 -
�gnes Szávay, Hungarian tennis player
:''For musicians born in 1988, see
1988 in music''.
Deaths
January to March
*
January 2 -
Edmund Brisco Ford, British geneticist (b.
1901)
*
January 5 -
Pete Maravich, American basketball player (b.
1947)
*
January 7 -
Trevor Howard, British actor (b.
1913)
*
January 11 -
Pappy Boyington, American pilot (b.
1912)
*
January 13 -
Chiang Ching-kuo,
President of the Republic of China (b.
1910)
*
January 14 -
Georgi Malenkov, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party (b.
1902)
*
January 15 -
Seán MacBride, Irish Republican Army leader, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1904)
*
January 16 -
Ballard Berkeley, British actor (b.
1904)
*
January 20 -
Philippe de Rothschild, French vineyard owner (b.
1902)
*
January 22 -
Parker Fennelly, American comedian and actor (b.
1891)
*
February 1 -
Heather O'Rourke, American actress (b.
1975)
*
February 15 -
Richard Feynman, American physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1918)
*
February 19 -
René Char, French poet (b.
1907)
*
February 19 -
André Frédéric Cournand, French-born physician, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1895)
*
March 1 -
Joe Besser, American actor and comedian (b.
1907)
*
March 5 -
Alberto Olmedo, Argentine comedian and actor (b.
1933)
*
March 7 -
Divine (Glen Milstead) Divine, American actor (b.
1945)
*
March 8 -
Henryk Szeryng, Polish-born violinist (b.
1918)
*
March 9 -
Kurt Georg Kiesinger, third
Chancellor of Germany (b.
1904)
*
March 10 -
Andy Gibb, Australian singer (
Bee Gees) (b.
1958)
*
March 31 -
William McMahon, twentieth
Prime Minister of Australia (b.
1908)
April to June
*
April 3 -
Milt Caniff, American cartoonist (b.
1907)
*
April 12 -
Harry McShane, Scottish socialist (b.
1891)
*
April 15 -
Kenneth Williams, English actor and raconteur (b.
1926)
*
April 17 -
Louise Nevelson, Ukrainian-born American sculptor (b.
1900)
*
April 23 -
Michael Ramsey,
Archbishop of Canterbury (b.
1904)
*
April 26 -
James McCracken, American tenor (b.
1926)
*
May 3 -
Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Russian mathematician (b.
1908)
*
May 8 -
Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction author (b.
1907)
*
May 10 -
Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (b.
1902)
*
May 11 -
Kim Philby, British spy (b.
1912)
*
May 12 -
Chet Baker, American jazz trumpeter (b.
1929)
*
May 16 -
Charles Keeping, British illustrator (b.
1924)
*
May 18 -
Daws Butler, voice actor (b.
1916)
*
May 21 -
Sammy Davis, Sr., American dancer (b.
1900)
*
May 25 -
Ernst Ruska, German physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1906)
*
June 25 -
Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born guitarist (
Red Hot Chili Peppers) (b.
1962)
July to September
*
July 8 -
Ray Barbuti, American athlete (b.
1905)
*
July 18 -
Nico, singer-songwriter, fashion model, actress, Warhol socialite (b.
1938)
*
July 25 -
Judith Barsi, American child actress (b.
1978)
*
July 27 -
Frank Zamboni, American inventor (b.
1901)
*
August 9 -
Ramon Valdez, Mexican actor (b.
1923)
*
August 11 -
Anne Ramsey, American actress (b.
1929)
*
August 14 -
Enzo Ferrari, Italian car maker (b.
1898)
*
August 12 -
Bhakti Raksaka Sridhara Deva Gosvami Maharaja, religious Guru from India (b.
1895)
*
August 17 -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., American lawyer and politician (b.
1914)
*
August 17 -
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, leader of Pakistan (b.
1924)
*
August 27 -
William Sargant, British psychiatrist (b.
1907)
*
September 1 -
Luis Alvarez, American physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1911)
*
September 5 -
Gert Fröbe, German actor (b.
1913)
*
September 12 -
Roger Hargreaves, author of the ''Mr. Men'' series (b.1935)
*
September 21 -
Glenn Robert Davis, member of
United States Congress (b.
1914)
*
September 28 -
Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b.
1912)
October to December
*
October 1 -
Sacheverell Sitwell, English writer (b.
1897)
*
October 15 -
Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English composer and pianist (b.
1892)
*
October 19 -
Son House, American musician (b.
1902)
*
October 22 -
Henry Armstrong, American boxer (b.
1912)
*
October 31 -
John Houseman, Romanian-born actor and producer (b.
1902)
*
November 9 -
John N. Mitchell,
United States Attorney General U.S. Attorney General and convicted Watergate criminal (b.
1913)
*
November 13 -
Antal Dorati, Hungarian conductor (b.
1906)
*
November 19 -
Christina Onassis, American shipping magnate (b.
1950)
*
November 27 -
John Carradine, American actor (b. 1906)
*
December 2 -
Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (
Quartetto Cetra) (b.
1922)
*
December 6 -
Roy Orbison, American singer (b.
1936)
*
December 21 -
Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch ornithologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1907)
Nobel prizes
*
Nobel Prize in Physics Physics -
Leon M. Lederman,
Melvin Schwartz,
Jack Steinberger
*
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Chemistry -
Johann Deisenhofer,
Robert Huber,
Hartmut Michel
*
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Medicine - Sir
James W. Black,
Gertrude B. Elion,
George H. Hitchings
*
Nobel Prize in literature Literature -
Naguib Mahfouz
*
Nobel Peace Prize Peace - The
United Nations United Nations Peace-Keeping Forces Peace-Keeping Forces.
*
The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel -
Maurice Allais
Templeton Prize
*
Dr. Inamullah Khan
Right Livelihood Award
*
International Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims / Dr.
Inge Kemp Genefke
*
Jose Lutzenberger José Lutzenberger
*
John F. Charlewood Turner
*
Sahabat Alam Malaysia /
Mohamed Idris,
Harrison Ngau, the Penan people.
Fictional references
* The
2001 in film 2001 movie ''
Donnie Darko'' is set in
1988#October October 1988.
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