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1988
1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar.
Events
Environmental change
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Unknown dates
Year in topic
Births
Deaths
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January 2 - Edmund Brisco Ford, geneticist
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January 5 - Pete Maravich, Basketball Hall of Famer
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January 7 - Trevor Howard, actor
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January 11 - Pappy Boyington, aviator
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January 14 - Georgi Malenkov, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party
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January 15 - Seán MacBride, former Chief of Staff of the IRA and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1974
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January 20 - Philippe de Rothschild, vineyard operator
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January 22 - Parker Fennelly, comedian, actor
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February 1 - Heather O'Rourke, child actress (b. 1975)
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February 15 - Richard Feynman, physicist
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February 19 - René Char, French poet
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March 1 - Joe Besser, member of the Three Stooges (b. 1907)
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March 5 - Alberto Olmedo, comedian, actor
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March 7 - Divine, actor
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March 8 - Henryk Szeryng, violinist
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March 9 - Kurt Georg Kiesinger, third Chancellor of Germany
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March 10 - Andy Gibb, singer
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March 31 - William McMahon, twentieth Prime Minister of Australia
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April 3 - Milt Caniff, cartoonist
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April 15 - Kenneth Williams, actor and raconteur
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April 26 - James McCracken, American tenor (b. 1926)
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April 22 - Irene Rich , actress
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May 3 - Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Soviet mathematician
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May 8 - Robert A. Heinlein, science fiction author
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May 11 - Kim Philby, spy
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May 12 - Chet Baker, jazz trumpeter
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May 16 - Charles Keeping, illustrator
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May 18 - Daws Butler, voice actor
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May 21 - Sammy Davis, Sr., US dancer
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May 25 - Ernst Ruska, Nobel Prize Physicist
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June 25 - Hillel Slovak, Red Hot Chili Peppers, guitarist
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July 8 - Ray Barbuti, American athlete
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July 27 - Frank Zamboni, inventor most famous for the Zamboni machine for resurfacing ice rinks
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August 17 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., American lawyer and politician
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August 17 - Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Leader of Pakistan
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September 28 - Charles Addams, American cartoonist
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October 19 - Son House, blues musician
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October 22 - Henry Armstrong, American boxing champion
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October 31 - John Houseman, actor, producer
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November 9 - John N. Mitchell, U.S. Attorney General and convicted Watergate criminal
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November 13 - Antal Dorati, Hungarian conductor (b. 1906)
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November 19 - Christina Onassis, Greek shipping magnate
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December 2 - Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra)
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December 6, Roy Orbison, American Rock and Roll singer
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Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1904)
- International Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims / Dr. Inge Kemp Genefke , José Lutzenberger , John F. Charlewood Turner and Sahabat Alam Malaysia / Mohamed Idris , Harrison Ngau , the Penan people.
Fictional references
Last updated: 10-13-2005 07:58:57
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