Famous People Who Died At 88
The list of famous people who died at 88 includes Charlie Chaplin, Harry S. Truman, Michelangelo, Edmund Hillary, Aurangzeb. Famous personalities featured on this list, include political leaders, poets, artists and actors and from other domains of life. This list of celebrities who died at 88 includes people from United States, United Kingdom, Germany & France and many more countries.
Toni Morrison18 February 1931, American
Novelist
Charlie Chaplin16 April 1889, British
Harry S. Truman08 May 1884, American
33rd President of the United States
Michelangelo06 March 1475, Italian
Sculptor
William Randolph Hearst29 April 1863, American
Newspaper Baron
Fred Astaire10 May 1899, American
Dancer
Robert Frost26 March 1874, American
Poet
Aurangzeb04 November 1618, Indian
Mughal Emperor
Bhumibol Adulyadej05 December 1927, Thai, American
Former King of Thailand
Milton S. Hershey13 September 1857, American
Confectioner & Philanthropist
Edmund Hillary20 July 1919, New Zealander
First person to climb Mt. Everest
Chanakya0371 BC, Indian
Philosopher
Akira Kurosawa23 March 1910, Japanese
Filmmaker
Omar Bradley12 February 1893, American
Former U. S. Army General
Cliff Robertson09 September 1923, American
Actor
William Ewart Gladstone29 December 1809, British
James Best26 July 1926, American
Actor
Ann B. Davis03 May 1926, American
Actress
Bill Bowerman19 February 1911, American
Co-founder of Nike, Inc.
Cy Young29 March 1867, American
Jackie Cooper15 September 1922, American
Actor
Titian1488 AD, Italian
Painter
Ruth Gordon30 October 1896, American
Actress
M. S. Subbulakshmi16 September 1916, Indian
Carnatic Musician
Francis Crick08 June 1916, British
Co-discoverer of the Structure of the DNA
Tony Benn03 April 1925, British
Former British Politician
Ian Paisley06 April 1926, Irish
Politician
Francis Galton16 February 1822, British
Polymath
George Santayana16 December 1863, Spanish, Italian
Philosopher, Essayist, Poet, & Novelist
Wilhelm Wundt16 August 1832, German
Philosopher
Abdul Sattar Edhi01 January 1928, Pakistani
Philanthropist
George W. Romney08 July 1907, American
43rd Governor of Michigan
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Kurt Waldheim21 December 1918, Austrian
Former President of Austria & UN Secretary General
Henry Moore30 July 1898, British
Sylvia Sidney08 August 1910, American
Actress
Samuel Hahnemann10 April 1755, German
Founder of Homeopathy
Caspar Weinberger18 August 1917, American
Politician
Isaac Bashevis Singer21 November 1902, Polish, American
Writer
James Oglethorpe22 December 1696, British
Founder of the colony of Georgia
Robert M. Pirsig06 September 1928, American
Writer, Philosopher
Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein17 November 1887, British
Allied Commander in World War II
Paul Bowles30 December 1910, American
Writer, Music Composer
Matthew Henson08 August 1866, American
First African-American to explore the North Pole
King Vidor08 February 1894, American
Film Director and Producer
Piri Reis1465 AD, Turkish
Ottoman Admiral, Geographer, Cartographer.
John Venn04 August 1834, British
Mathematician
C. L. R. James04 January 1901, Trinidadian, British
Journalist, Writer, Historian, Theorist, Socialist
Wisława Szymborska02 July 1923, Polish
Nobel Laureate in Literature
Galina Ulanova08 January 1910, Russian
Ballet Dancer, Choreographer
Amos Bronson Alcott29 November 1799, American
Teacher and Educator
Gunnar Myrdal06 December 1898, Swedish
Economist
Robert Bunsen30 March 1811, German
Chemist
Carrie Chapman Catt09 January 1859, American
Women’s Rights Activists
Severo Ochoa14 September 1905, Spanish
Physician and Biochemist
Agnes de Mille18 September 1905, American
American dancer and choreographer
Jacques Vergès05 March 1925, French
Lawyer
William Glasser11 May 1925, American
Developer of reality therapy and choice theory
Anna Harrison25 July 1775, American
Former First Lady of America
René Cassin05 October 1887, French
French Jurist
Leo Rosten11 April 1908, American
American humorist
Gustav Ludwig Hertz22 July 1887, German
Physicists
John Franklin Enders10 February 1897, American
The Father of Modern Vaccines
Elisabeth Bergner22 August 1897, British
Actress
James Meade23 June 1907, British
Economist
Paul Bernays17 October 1888, Swiss
Mathematician
Anna Katharine Green11 November 1846, American
Detective Fiction Writer
Arthur Keith05 February 1866, Welsh
Father of Modern Nationalism
Paul Tournier12 May 1898, Swiss
Physician
Billie Mae Richards21 November 1921, Canadian
Voice Actress
Ernst Otto Fischer10 November 1918, German
Chemist
Konrad Emil Bloch21 January 1912, German, Polish, American
Biochemist
Sune Bergström16 January 1916, Swedish
Biochemist
David Ogilvy23 June 1911, French, British
Businessman
Robert Robinson13 September 1886, British
Scientist
Georges Clémenceau28 September 1841, French
Former French Prime Minister
Alfred Day Hershey04 December 1908, American
Nobel Prize Winner in Medicine
James Arness26 May 1923, American
actor, television actor, film actor
Ricardo Montalbán25 November 1920, Mexican
Television actor, Film actor, Character actor,
Igor Stravinsky17 June 1882, Russian
Composer
Blake Edwards26 July 1922, American
American filmmaker
Dev Anand26 September 1923, Indian, Pakistani
Actor
Marvin Minsky09 August 1927, American
Mathematician, Computer scientist, University
Denis Thatcher10 May 1915, British
Entrepreneur, Engineer
Hokusai31 October 1760, Japanese
Painter
Perry Como18 May 1912, American
Singer
Gordie Howe31 March 1928, Canadian
Ice hockey player
L. S. Lowry01 November 1887, British
Painter
Joseph Cotten15 May 1905, American
Actor
Alfredo Di Stéfano04 July 1926, Argentinian, Colombian, Spanish
Association football player, Association football
Ed Koch12 December 1924, American
Mayor,politician
Władysław Szpilman05 December 1911, Polish
Pianist, Composer, Musician, Writer, Songwriter
June Allyson07 October 1917, American
Actress
Scott Carpenter01 May 1925, American
Test pilot, Aquanaut, Astronaut, Autobiographer,
Shelby Foote17 November 1916, American
Historian, Novelist, Writer, University teacher,
Ian Smith08 April 1919, Zimbabwean
Politician
Ian Smith08 April 1919, Zimbabwean
Politician