1988
Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar).
In the 20th century, the year 1988 has the most Roman numeral digits (11). In the Chinese zodiac, it is the year of the rabbit until February 16 and the dragon for the rest of the year.
January
 January 1 - The Soviet Union begins its program of economic restructuring (perestroika) with legislation initiated by Premier Mikhail Gorbachev (though Gorbachev had begun minor restructuring in 1985).
January 1 - The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is established, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States.
January 8 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 140.58 points, or 6.85%, to close at 1,911.31 in a mini-crash.
January 13 - Taiwan President Chiang Ching-kuo dies in Taipei; Vice-President Lee Teng-hui becomes president.
January 15 - In Jerusalem, Israeli police and Palestinian protestors clash at the Dome of the Rock; several police and at least 70 Palestinians are injured.
January 25 - U.S. Vice President George H.W. Bush and CBS News anchor Dan Rather clash over Bush's role in the Iran-Contra scandal, during a contentious television interview.
January 29 - The Midwest Classic Conference, a U.S. college athletic conference, is formed.
February
February 3 - The Democratic-controlled United States House of Representatives rejects President Ronald Reagan's request for $36.25 million to support the Nicaraguan Contras.
February 12 - Anthony M. Kennedy is appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States.
February 13 – February 28 - The 1988 Winter Olympics are held 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 24 - Hustler Magazine v. Falwell: 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.
February 29 - A Nazi document implicates Kurt Waldheim in WWII deportations.
March
March 6 - Students at Gallaudet University go on strike for the selection of a non-deaf university president.
March 7 - Operation Flavius: The Special Air Services 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 8 - U.S. presidential candidate George Herbert Walker Bush defeats Robert Dole in numerous Republican primaries and caucuses on "Super Tuesday". The bipartisan primary/caucus calendar, designed by Democrats to help solidify their own nominee early, backfires when none of the 6 competing candidates are able to break out of the pack in the day's Democratic contests. Jesse Jackson, however, wins several Southern state primaries.
March 16 - The Halabja poison gas attack is 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 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.
*Eritrean War of Independence: The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian army corps in Eritrea, is attacked on three sides by military units of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) in the opening action of the Battle of Afabet.
March 19 - British Army Corporals Woods and Howes are killed by the IRA in the so-called "Corporals killings".
March 20 - Eritrean War of Independence: Having defeated the Nadew Command, the EPLF enters the town of Afabet, victoriously concluding the Battle of Afabet.
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 is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
March 26 - U.S. presidential candidate Jesse Jackson defeats Michael Dukakis in the Michigan Democratic caucuses, becoming the temporary front-runner for the party's nomination. Richard Gephardt withdraws his candidacy after his campaign speeches against imported automobiles fail to earn him much support in Detroit.
March 29 - African National Congress representative Dulcie September is assassinated in Paris.
April
April 4 - Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona is convicted in his impeachment trial and removed from office.
April 5 - Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis wins the Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary.
April 10 - The Ojhri Camp Disaster occurs in Islamabad and Rawalpindi.
April 10 - The Great Seto Bridge opens to traffic in Japan.
April 11 - The Last Emperor (directed by Bernardo Bertolucci) wins nine Oscars.
April 12 - Former pop singer Sonny Bono is elected mayor of Palm Springs, California.
April 14 - In the Geneva Accords, the Soviet Union commits itself to withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan.
The USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58) strikes a naval 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 in Tunisia.
April 16 - In Forlì, Italy, the brigate rosse kill Senator Roberto Ruffilli, an advisor of Prime Minister Ciriaco de Mita.
April 18 - United States Navy retaliates for the Roberts mining with Operation Praying Mantis, in a day of strikes against Iranian oil platforms and naval vessels.
April 25 - In Israel, Ivan Demjanjuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II. He was accused by survivors of being the notorious guard at the Treblinka extermination camp known as "Ivan the Terrible". The conviction is later overturned by the Israeli Supreme Court.
April 28 - Aloha Flight 243 loses several yards of its upper fuselage while in flight, killing one.
April 30 - World Expo '88 opens in Brisbane Queensland, Australia.
May
May 4 - PEPCON disaster in Henderson, Nevada: A major explosion at an industrial solid-fuel rocket plant causes damage extending up to 10 miles away, including Las Vegas's McCarran International Airport.
May 14 - Bus collision near Carrollton, Kentucky: A drunk driver going the wrong way on Interstate 71, hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group from Radcliff, Kentucky. The resulting fire kills 27, making it tied for 1st in the U.S. for most fatalities involving 2 vehicles to the present day. Coincidentally, the other 2-vehicle accident involving a bus that also killed 27 occurred in Prestonsburg, KY 30 years prior.
May 14 - Wimbledon wins the English FA Cup after beating Liverpool 1–0 at Wembley. The southwest Londoners had pulled off one of the greatest upsets in the history of English football, as they had been top division members for just 2 years and had joined the Football League only 11 years earlier. Liverpool, meanwhile, had won a total of 30 major trophies including 17 league titles.
May 15 - Soviet war in Afghanistan: After more than eight years of fighting, the Red Army begins withdrawing from Afghanistan.
May 16 - A report by U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
May 16 - California v. Greenwood: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that police officers do not need a search warrant to search through discarded garbage.
May 24 - Section 28 (outlawing promotion of homosexuality in schools) is passed as law by Parliament in the United Kingdom.
May 31 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan addresses 600 Moscow State University students, during his visit to the Soviet Union.
June
June 5 - The first National Cancer Survivors Day is held.
June 6 - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom strips jockey Lester Piggott of his Order of the British Empire following his jailing for tax irregularities.
June 11 - The name of the General Public License (GPL) is mentioned for the first time.
June 11 - Wembley Stadium hosts a concert featuring stars from the fields of music, comedy and film, in celebration of the 70th birthday of imprisoned ANC leader Nelson Mandela.
June 25 - The Netherlands defeats the Soviet Union 2–0 to win Euro 88.
June 28 - Four workers are asphyxiated at a metal-plating plant in Auburn, Indiana, in the worst confined-space industrial accident in U.S. history (a fifth victim dies 2 days later).
June 29 - Morrison v. Olson: The United States Supreme Court upholds the law allowing special prosecutors to investigate suspected crimes by executive branch officials.
June 30 - Roman Catholic Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre consecrates four bishops at Ecône, Switzerland for his apostolate, along with Bishop Antonio de Castro Mayer, without a papal mandate.
July
July 3 - The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, providing the second connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus.
July 3 - Iran Air Flight 655 is shot down by missiles launched from the USS Vincennes.
July 6 - The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires, killing 165 oil workers and two rescue mariners.
July 6 - The first reported medical waste on beaches in the Greater New York area (including hypodermic needles and syringes possibly infected with the AIDS virus) washes ashore on Long Island. Subsequent medical waste discoveries on beaches in Coney Island and in Monmouth County, New Jersey force the closure of numerous New York-area beaches in the middle of one of the hottest summers in the American Northeast on record.
July 14 - Volkswagen closes its Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania plant after 10 years of operation (the first factory built by a non-American automaker in the U.S.).
July 20 - The Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, Georgia nominates Michael Dukakis for U.S. President and Lloyd Bentsen for Vice President.
July 31 - Thirty-two people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim Ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Malaysia.
August
Allama Arif Hussain Hussaini the leader of Pakistani Shia muslims was killed in Peshawar.
August 5 - The 1988 Malaysian constitutional crisis culminates in the ouster of the Lord President of Malaysia, Salleh Abas.
August 6 – August 7 - Tompkins Square Park Police Riot in New York City: A riot erupts in Tompkins Square Park when police attempt to enforce a newly-passed curfew for the park. Bystanders, artists, residents, homeless people and political activists are caught up in the police action which took place during the night of August 6 and into the early morning of August 7.
August 8 - 8888 Uprising: Thousands of protesters in Burma, now known as Myanmar, are killed during anti-government demonstrations.
August 17 - The Pakistani president, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, and the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Arnold Raphel, are killed in a plane crash near Bhawalpur.
August 18 - The Republican National Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana nominates George H.W. Bush for President and James "Dan" Quayle for Vice President of the United States of America.
August 19 - A truce begins in the Iran–Iraq War.
August 20 - The Iran–Iraq War ends, with an estimated one million lives lost.
August 25 - A fire destroys part of Chiado quarter, in Lisbon's historical center.
August 26 - Mehran Karimi Nasseri, "The terminal man", is stuck in the De Gaulle Airport in Paris, where he will continue to reside until August 1, 2006.
August 28 - Seventy-five people are killed and three-hundred and forty-six injured in one of the worst airshow disasters in history at Germany's Ramstein Air Base, when three jets from the Italian air demonstration team, Frecce Tricolori, collide, sending one of the aircraft crashing into the crowd of spectators.
September
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 11 - In Estonia, 300 000 demonstrate for independence.
September 12 - Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica; it turns towards Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula 2 days later, causing an estimated $5 billion in damage.
September 17 – October 2 - The 1988 Summer Olympics are held in Seoul, South Korea.
September 22 - The Ocean Odyssey drilling rig suffers a blowout and fire in the North Sea. (See also July 6)
September 24 – September 26 - Large, militant protests against the 1988 World Bank and IMF meetings take place in West Berlin.
September 29 - STS-26: NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster, with Space Shuttle Discovery.
October
October 5 - Thousands riot in Algiers, Algeria against the National Liberation Front government; by October 10 the army has killed and tortured about 500 people in crushing the riots.
October 5 - Chilean president Augusto Pinochet is defeated in a national plebiscite which sought to renew his mandate.
October 5 - In Omaha, Nebraska, in the only vice presidential debate of the 1988 U.S. presidential election, the Republican party vice presidential nominee, Senator "Dan" Quayle of Indiana, insists he has as much experience in government as John F. Kennedy did when he sought the presidency in 1960. His Democratic party opponent, Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas, replies, "Senator, I knew Jack Kennedy. I served with Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy." The tremendously positive audience response to Sen. Bentsen's remark solidified the reputation of Sen. Quayle as a political lightweight.
October 11 - Women are allowed to study at Magdalene College, Cambridge, for the first time. Male students wear black armbands and the porter flies a black flag.
October 12 - Walsh Street police shootings: Two Victoria Police officers are gunned down, execution style, in Australia.
October 13 - In the second U.S. presidential debate, held by U.C.L.A., the Democratic party nominee, Michael Dukakis, is asked by journalist Bernard Shaw of CNN if he would support the death penalty if his wife, "Kitty", were to be raped and murdered. Gov. Dukakis' reply, voicing his opposition to capital punishment in any and all circumstances, is later said to have been a major reason for the eventual failure of his campaign for the White House.
October 15 - Kirk Gibson hits a dramatic home run to win Game One of the World Series for the Los Angeles Dodgers, over the Oakland Athletics, by a score of five runs to four.
October 19 - The United Kingdom bans broadcast interviews with IRA members. The BBC gets around this stricture through the use of professional actors.
October 23 - Super Mario Bros. 3 is released in Japan
October 27 - Ronald Reagan decides to tear down the new US embassy in Moscow because of Soviet listening devices in the building structure
October 28 - Abortion: 48 hours after announcing it was abandoning RU-486, French manufacturer Roussel Uclaf states that it would resume distribution of the drug, bowing to pressure from the government of France.
October 29 - Pakistan's General Rahimuddin Khan resigns from his post as the governor of Sindh, following attempts by the President of Pakistan, Ghulam Ishaq Khan, to limit the vast powers Gen. Rahimuddin had accumulated.
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 six 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 1 - In the Israeli election, Likud wins 47 seats, Labour wins 49, but Likud Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir remains in office.
November 3-November 5: Thousands of South Korean students demonstrate against former president Chun Doo Hwan.
November 8 - United States presidential election, 1988: George H. W. 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 (7 bodies are eventually found and Puente is convicted of 3 murders and sentenced to life in prison).
November 15 - In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran is launched by an Energia rocket on its maiden orbital spaceflight (the first and last space flight for the shuttle).
November 15 - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed at the Palestinian National Council meeting in Algiers, by a vote of 253 to 46.
November 15 - The very first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched by Nico Roozen, Frans van der Hoff and ecumenical development agency Solidaridad in the Netherlands.
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. Elections were held as planned despite head of state Zia-ul-Haq's death earlier in August.
November 18 - War on Drugs: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill providing the death penalty for murderous drug traffickers.
November 21 - Canadian federal election, 1988: Brian Mulroney and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada win a second majority government.
November 21 - Ted Turner Officially Buys Jim Crockett Promotions, known as NWA Crockett, and turns it into World Championship Wrestling (WCW).
November 22 - In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed.
November 23 - Former Korean president Chun Doo Hwan publicly apologizes for corruption during his presidency, announcing he will go into exile.
November 30 - Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. buys RJR Nabisco for US$25.07 billion in the biggest leveraged buyout deal of all time.
December
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 - A cyclone in Bangladesh leaves 5 million homeless and thousands dead.
December 7 - In Armenia an earthquake 6.9 on the Richter scale kills nearly 25,000, injures 15,000 and leaves 400,000 homeless.
December 7 - Estonian becomes the official language of Estonia.
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 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 a total of 270 people. Those responsible are believed to be of either Iranian or Libyan origin.
December 22 - Brazilian union and environmental activist Chico Mendes is assassinated.
Undated
The Labtec mouse was created in 1988.
TAT-8, the first transatlantic telephone cable to use optical fibers, is completed.
Zebra mussels found in the Great lakes.
The US Drought of 1988 causes big crop damage in many states, impacts many portions of the United States and causes around $60 billion in damage. Multiple regions suffered in the conditions. Heat waves caused 4800 to 17000 deaths while scorching many areas of the United States during 1988.
Ongoing
1988 Junior Olympics
Cold War
Fictional
The following are references to year 1988 in fiction:
In the manga and anime Oh My Goddess, the adventure begins in 1988 when the Nordic Goddess Belldandy moves to Earth—specifically, to Japan—to be the personal guardian deity of young techie Keiichi Morisato.
In the tokusatsu movie , a decisive battle to stop a rogue Kamen Rider from destroying all of time is set to the date of December 26, 1988.
January–March
January 4 - Nabila Jamshed, Indian Fantasy Novelist
January 5 - Pauline, French singer
January 7 - Alan Lowing, Scottish footballer
January 7 - Robert Sheehan, Irish actor
January 8 - Michael Mancienne, English footballer
January 9 - Glyn Wise, Welsh television/radio personality - runner-up, Big Brother 2006
January 10 - Michael Mcilorum, English rugby union player
January 12 - Chris Casement, Northern Irish footballer
January 12 - Andrew Lawrence, American actor
January 13 - Tatev Abrahamyan, American chess player
January 15 - Sonny Moore, American musician
January 16 - Nicklas Bendtner, Danish footballer
January 16 - Mikalah Gordon, American television personality
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 - Aydin Yilmaz, Turkish soccer player
February 1 - Andie Valentino, American nude model
February 4 - Carly Patterson, American gymnast
February 7 - Ai Kago, Japanese singer
February 8 - Ryan Pinkston, American actor
February 11 - Li Chun, Chinese singer
February 12 - Nicoleta Daniela Sofronie, Romanian gymnast
February 14 - Eliska Amor, Spanish American actress
February 18 - Mark Davies, British footballer
February 18 - Shane Lyons, American actor
February 18 - Maiara Walsh, Brazilian actress
February 19 - Miyu Irino, Japanese voice actor
February 20 - Rihanna, Barbadian R&B singer
February 25 - Rúrik Gíslason, Icelandic footballer
February 26 - David Williams, Australian footballer
February 29 - Lena Gercke, German model
March 1 - Melissandre Fuentes, Andorra figure skater
March 1 - Katija Pevec, American actress
March 2 - Kathryn Blair, daughter of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair
March 2 - Vito Mannone, Italian footballer
March 2 - Kate Alexa, Australian singer
March 3 - Timur Gareev, Asian chess player
March 6 - Elaine and Melanie Silver, American actresses
March 15 - Rebecca Moore, Miss Alabama USA
March 21 - Lee Cattermole, English footballer
March 21 - Pat McCabe, Australian rugby union player
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–June
April 3 - Tim Krul, Dutch soccer player
April 5 - Daniela Luján, Mexican actress
April 5 - Asumi Nakata, Japanese voice actress (seiyu)
April 6 - Fabrice Muamba, English footballer
April 6 - Mike Bailey, British actor
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 - Anderson Luís de Abreu Oliveira, Brazilian footballer
April 13 - Kallie Flynn Childress, American actress
April 15 - Emily Parr, 2007 UK Big Brother contestant
April 21 - Mia Permanto, Finnish pop singer and radio host (d. 2008)
April 23 - Erica Mer, American actress
April 25 - Sara Paxton, American actress
April 26 - Anna Svidersky, American murder victim (d. 2006)
April 28 - Ji-Yai Shin, South Korean golfer
April 29 - Jeff Batchelor, Canadian snowboarder
April 29 - Younha, Korean born singer
May 1 -Kristopher Tate, Founder, Chief Technologist of Zooomr
May 1 - Darryl Knights, English footballer
May 5 - Jessica Dubroff, American student pilot (d. 1996)
May 5 - Brooke Hogan, American reality star and singer
May 5 - Skye Sweetnam, Canadian singer
May 13 - Casey Donovan, Australian Idol 2004 singer
May 17 - Nikki Reed, American actress
May 18 - Ryan Cooley, Canadian actor
May 19 - Lily Cole, Iconic English supermodel
May 23 - Christian Lorentzen, British heir
May 23 - Morgan Pressel, American golfer
May 24 - Iyama Yuta, Japanese Go player
May 25 - Adrián González, Spanish footballer
May 27 - Heather Marks, Canadian model
May 27 - Scott McGregor, English musician
May 28 - Cheng Fei, Chinese gymnast
May 28 - Meisa Kuroki, Japanese actress
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 17 - Andrew Ogilvy, Australian basketball player
June 20 - Shefali Chowdhury, British actress
June 21 - Allyssa DeHaan, American basketball player
June 21 - Alejandro Ramirez, Costa Rica chess player
June 21 - Thaddeus Young, American basketball player
June 22 - Kieran Lee, English footballer
June 23 - Isabella Leong, Hong Kong singer, actress and model
June 24 - Micah Richards, English footballer
June 25 - Amanda Dowler, British murder victim
June 26 - Amanda and Sam Marchant, 2007 UK Big Brother contestants
June 27 - Kate Ziegler, American swimmer
June 30 - Sean Marquette, American actor
July–September
July 1 - Evan Ellingson, American actor
July 1 - Joseph Groarke, British taekwondo expert
July 4 - Angelique Boyer, Mexican actress
July 6 - Sarah Barrable-Tishauer, Canadian actress
July 8 - Miguel Roque Farrero, Spanish footballer
July 12 - Melissa O'Neil, Canadian Idol winner, season 3
July 12 - Inbee Park, South Korean golfer
July 17 - Summer Bishil, American actress
July 20 - Julianne Hough, American ballroom dancer; actress; singer
July 22 - Constantin, Prince of Nassau
July 23 - Paul Anderson, English footballer
July 25 - Anthony Stokes, Irish footballer
July 28 - Ayla Brown, American singer and basketball player
July 31 - Brackin Karauria-Henry, Australian rugby league player
August 4 - Monette Russo, Australian gymnast
August 5 - Fleur Maxwell, Luxembourg figure skater
August 5 - Federica Pellegrini, Italian swimmer
August 7 - Chris "Beanie" Wells, American football running back
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 11 - Patrick Mills, Australian basketball player
August 12 - Jose Tabata, Minor League Baseball player
August 12 - Leah Pipes, American actress
August 16 - Ismaïl Aissati, Morrocan football (soccer) player
August 16 - Rumer Willis, American actress
August 17 - Belal Mansoor Ali, Kenyan runner
August 17 - Brady Corbet, American actor
August 18 - Jack Hobbs, English footballer
August 19 - Travis Tedford, American actor
August 24 - Rupert Grint, English actor
August 25 - Angela Park, Brazilian golfer
August 25 - Raymond Quinn, English singer and actor
August 26 - Princess Maria Laura, Archduchess of Austria-Este
August 27 - Alexa Vega, American actress
August 28 - Ray Jones, English football player (d. 2007)
September 5 - Nuri Sahin, Turkish football (soccer) player
September 9 - Sana Saeed, Indian actress
September 10 - Jordan Staal, Canadian hockey player
September 11 - Angie Diaz, Australian actress
September 16 - Teddy Geiger, American singer
September 16 - Tempest Smith, American religious discrimination victim (d. 2001
September 17 - Candice Swanepoel, South African model
September 18 - Annette Obrestad, Norwegian poker player
September 19 - Katie Bowden, American actress
September 20 - Aura Andreea Munteanu, Romanian gymnast
September 22 - Bethany Dillon, Christian contemporary music singer/songwriter
September 24 - Kyle Sullivan, American actor
September 29 - Kevin Durant, American basketball player
October–December
October 3 - Tadhg Kelly, American actor
October 5 - Bobby Edner, American actor
October 6 - Maki Horikita, Japanese actress
October 7 - Stacy DuPree, American musician
October 7 - Geneva Locke, Canadian actress
October 10 - Cariba Heine, Australian Actress and performer
October 13 - Scott Jamieson, Australian footballer
October 14 - Max Thieriot, American actor
October 15 - Carrie Finklea, American actress
October 15 - Aleksandra Szutenberg, Polish gymnast
October 19 - Carly Janiga, American gymnast
October 20 - Adam Butcher, Canadian actor
October 20 - Risa Niigaki, Japanese singer
October 25 - Mandi Lampi, Finnish singer and actress (d. 2008)
October 25 - Kaz Patafta, Australian footballer
October 28 - Devon Murray, Irish actor
October 30 - Scott Dyleski, American murderer
November 1 - Ai Fukuhara, Japanese table tennis player
November 2 - Lindze Letherman, American actress
November 6 - Emma Stone, American actress
November 8 - Tajima Honami, Japanese actress
November 9 - Nikki Blonsky, American actress and singer
November 11 - Alexandra Kyle, American actress
November 13 - Stephen Pollard, American musician
November 15 - Zena Grey, American actress
November 15 - Nikolas Besagno, American soccer player
November 19 - Patrick Kane, American professional hockey player
November 23 - Esmée Denters, Dutch singer-songwriter
November 26 - Yumi Kobayashi, Japanese model
November 28 - Scarlett Pomers, American actress
December 2 - Alfred Enoch, British actor
December 2 - Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick
December 3 - Kevin Alexander Clark, American actor and drummer
December 4 - Lisa Ingildeeva, Russian gymnast
December 5 - Ross Bagley, American actor
December 7 - Emily Browning, Australian actress
December 14 - Nicolas Batum, French basketball player
December 14 - Vanessa Hudgens, American actress and singer
December 15 - Ilona Senderek, Polish figure skater
December 16 - Anna Popplewell, English actress
December 16 - Jacob Lensky, Canadian soccer player
December 19 - Victoria Ribeiro, British heir
December 22 - Eddy Vilard, Mexican actor
December 23 - Eri Kamei, Japanese singer
December 24 - Piyush Chawla, Indian cricketer
December 27 - Hayley Williams, American singer (Paramore)
December 29 - Ágnes Szávay, Hungarian tennis player
Unknown dates
Delanie Fitzpatrick, American actress
Ateqeh Rajabi, Iranian teenage offender (executed 2004)
Laura Ross, American chess player
Everlyn Sampi, Australian actor
For musicians born in 1988, see 1988 in music.
January–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 3 - Robert Duncan, American poet (b. 1919)
February 15 - Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
February 19 - René Char, French poet (b. 1907)
*André Frédéric Cournand, French-born physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1895)
February 25 - Kurt Mahler, German born Australian mathematician (b. 1903)
March 1 - Joe Besser, American actor and comedian (b. 1907)
March 5 - Alberto Olmedo, Argentine comedian and actor (b. 1933)
March 7
*Divine, American actor (b. 1945)
*Edmund Berkeley, American scientist (b. 1909)
March 8 - Werner Hartmann, German physicist (b. 1912)
*Henryk Szeryng, Polish-born violinist (b. 1918)
March 9 - Kurt Georg Kiesinger, third Chancellor of Germany (b. 1904)
March 10 - Andy Gibb, British singer (b. 1958)
March 20 - Ralph Wright, Writer and American actor (b. 1908)
March 31 - Sir William McMahon, twentieth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908)
April–June
April 1 - Jim Jordan, radio show, classic old time radio (b. 1896)
April 3 - Milt Caniff, American cartoonist (b. 1907)
April 12 - Harry McShane, Scottish socialist (b. 1891)
April 12 - Alan Paton, South African author (b. 1903)
April 15 - Kenneth Williams, British actor and raconteur (b. 1926)
April 17 - Louise Nevelson, Ukrainian-born American sculptor (b. 1900)
April 18 - Pierre Desproges, French humorist (b. 1939)
April 23 - Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1904)
April 26 - James McCracken, American tenor (b. 1926)
April 26 - Valerie Solanas, American author (b. 1936)
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 10 - Ciaran Bourke, member of The Dubliners (b. 1935)
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 laureate (b. 1906)
May 27 - Florida Friebus, American actor (b. 1909)
June 22 - Dennis Day, Irish-American singer and radio and television personality (b. 1916)
June 25 - Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born guitarist (Red Hot Chili Peppers) (b. 1962)
July–September
July 4 - Adrian Adonis, American wrestler (b. 1954)
July 8 - Ray Barbuti, American athlete (b. 1905)
July 17 - Bruiser Brody, American professional wrestler (b. 1946)
July 18 - Nico, singer-songwriter, fashion model, actress and Warhol socialite (b. 1938)
July 21 - Jack Clark, American television personality and Game Show host (b. 1921)
July 25 - Judith Barsi, American child actress (b. 1978)
July 27 - Frank Zamboni, American inventor (b. 1901)
July 31 - Trinidad Silva, American actor (b. 1950)
August 2 - Raymond Carver, American short-story writer & poet (b. 1938)
August 8 - Félix Leclerc, French-Canadian poet & singer (b. 1914)
August 8 - Alan Napier, American actor (b. 1903)
August 9 - Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer (b. 1905)
August 9 - Ramon Valdez, Mexican actor (b. 1923)
August 11 - Anne Ramsey, American actress (b. 1929)
August 12 - Jean-Michel Basquiat, American musician/graffiti painter (b. 1960)
August 14 - Enzo Ferrari, Italian car maker (b. 1898)
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)
August 27 - Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (b. 1928)
September 1 - Luis Alvarez, American physicist, 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 16 - Dick Pym, English footballer (b. 1893)
September 18 - Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar, Iranian Azari poet (b. 1906)
September 21 - Glenn Robert Davis, member of United States Congress (b. 1914)
September 28 - Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912)
October–December
October 1 - Sacheverell Sitwell, English writer (b. 1897)
October 9 - Jackie Milburn, English footballer (b. 1924)
October 12 - Ruth Manning-Sanders, British children's author (b. 1895)
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 27 - Charles Hawtrey, English Comic Actor (b. 1914)
October 31 - John Houseman, Romanian-born actor and producer (b. 1902)
November 9 - John N. Mitchell, U.S. Attorney General and convicted Watergate criminal (b. 1913)
November 11 - William Ifor Jones, Welsh conductor & organist (b. 1900)
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 4 - Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist (b. 1899)
December 6 - Roy Orbison, American singer (b. 1936)
December 16 - Sylvester James, American R&B singer, disco performer (b. 1948)
December 21 - Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch ornithologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1907)
December 26 - Glenn McCarthy, American oil tycoon and businessman (b. 1907)
Nobel prizes
Physics - Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz, Jack Steinberger
Chemistry - Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber, Hartmut Michel
Medicine - Sir James W. Black, Gertrude B. Elion, George H. Hitchings
Literature - Naguib Mahfouz
Peace - The United Nations Peace-Keeping Forces.
The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel - Maurice Allais
Templeton Prize
Inamullah Khan
Right Livelihood Award
International Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims / Dr. Inge Kemp Genefke
José Lutzenberger
John F. Charlewood Turner
Sahabat Alam Malaysia / Mohamed Idris, Harrison Ngau, the Penan people.
See also
20th century
Notes
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