Dead at age 88

1,445 Notable deaths

Mary Colter

American architect and designer.

Born April 4th, 1869 in Pittsburgh.

Died January 8th, 1958 at 88 years old in Santa Fe.

Craig Hill

American actor (1926-2014).

Born March 5th, 1926 in Los Angeles.

Died April 21st, 2014 at 88 years old in Barcelona (disease).

Christopher Cockerell

English engineer.

Born June 4th, 1910 in Cambridge.

Died June 1st, 1999 at 88 years old in Sutton Scotney.

Robert Ryman

American artist (1930-2019).

Born May 30th, 1930 in Nashville. [ref]

Died February 8th, 2019 at 88 years old in Greenwich Village. [ref]

Jonathan Penrose

English chess player (1933–2021).

Born October 7th, 1933 in Colchester.

Died November 30th, 2021 at 88 years old [ref]

Victoria Ocampo

Argentine writer and translator (1890-1979).

Born April 7th, 1890 in Buenos Aires.

Died January 27th, 1979 at 88 years old in Buenos Aires (laryngeal cancer).

Albert Brewer

47th governor of alabama (1928-2017).

Born October 26th, 1928 in Bethel Springs.

Died January 2nd, 2017 at 88 years old in Birmingham.

Tanzan Ishibashi

Prime minister of japan from 1956 to 1957.

Born September 25th, 1884 in Shiba-ku.

Died April 25th, 1973 at 88 years old in Osaka (cerebral infarction).

Richard E. Taylor

Canadian physicist (1929-2018).

Born November 2nd, 1929 in Medicine Hat.

Died February 22nd, 2018 at 88 years old in Stanford.

Reinhard Mohn

German businessman and philanthropist (1921-2009).

Born June 29th, 1921 in Gütersloh.

Died October 3rd, 2009 at 88 years old in Steinhagen.

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying. Bob Dylan