| Adam Boryczka | 1913-01-01 | 1988-04-30 | 75 | male | | Poland | Poland |
| Albert Trillat | 1910-02-20 | 1988-04-30 | 78 | male | | France | France |
| Alex Sanders | 1926-06-06 | 1988-04-30 | 61 | male | natural causes | United Kingdom | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| André Quénard | 1909-01-07 | 1988-04-30 | 79 | male | | France | France |
| Barinkai Oszkár | 1915-01-20 | 1988-04-30 | 73 | male | | Hungary | Hungary |
| Blanca Aveleira de Maffei | | 1988-04-30 | | female | | | Uruguay |
| Carroll Righter | 1900-02-02 | 1988-04-30 | 88 | male | | | United States of America |
| Dylan Harris | 1926-10-22 | 1988-04-30 | 61 | male | | | |
| Franz Hartmann | 1898-11-10 | 1988-04-30 | 89 | male | | | Sweden |
| Georg Rotach | 1894-11-16 | 1988-04-30 | 93 | male | | | Switzerland |
| Hellmut Riegraf | 1909-02-04 | 1988-04-30 | 79 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Hiroshi Muneta | 1909-11-05 | 1988-04-30 | 78 | male | | | Japan |
| Horace Moulden | 1898-07-14 | 1988-04-30 | 89 | male | | | |
| Iwakaze Kakutaro | 1934-01-22 | 1988-04-30 | 54 | male | | | Japan |
| Jonas Virakas | 1905-09-05 | 1988-04-30 | 82 | male | | | |
| Ladislav Kazda | 1928-05-13 | 1988-04-30 | 59 | male | | Czech Republic | |
| Lola Hoffmann | 1904-03-19 | 1988-04-30 | 84 | female | | Chile | Chile |
| Man Mountain Mike | 1940-09-15 | 1988-04-30 | 47 | male | accident | United States of America | United States of America |
| Max Lobato | 1901-04-22 | 1988-04-30 | 87 | male | | | Suriname |
| Morris Schreiber | 1927-01-01 | 1988-04-30 | 61 | male | | | |
| Roberto Azevêdo | 1951-03-29 | 1988-04-30 | 37 | male | | Brazil | Brazil |
| Stepan Andrіïovitch Kiritchenko | 1911-04-09 | 1988-04-30 | 77 | male | | | |
| Tiger Joe Tomasso | 1922-01-01 | 1988-04-30 | 66 | male | | | Canada |
| Túlia Saldanha | 1930-08-26 | 1988-04-30 | 57 | female | | | Portugal |
| Václav Cepek | 1907-08-21 | 1988-04-30 | 80 | male | | | |
| Vasilēs Mesolongitēs | 1906-01-01 | 1988-04-30 | 82 | male | | | Greece |
| Yehiel Duvdevani | 1896-01-01 | 1988-04-30 | 92 | male | | Israel | Israel |
| Коломбет, Алексей Яковлевич | 1930-03-30 | 1988-04-30 | 58 | male | | Russia | |
| André Bollack | 1899-08-12 | 1988-04-29 | 88 | male | | France | |
| Andrew Cruickshank | 1907-12-25 | 1988-04-29 | 80 | male | | United Kingdom | United Kingdom |
| Bill Zock | 1918-01-26 | 1988-04-29 | 70 | male | | Canada | Canada |
| Brish Bhan | 1906-09-09 | 1988-04-29 | 81 | male | | | |
| Dom Dallessandro | 1913-10-03 | 1988-04-29 | 74 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Douglas Rutherford | 1915-10-14 | 1988-04-29 | 72 | male | | | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Fenner Brockway, Baron Brockway | 1888-11-01 | 1988-04-29 | 99 | male | | United Kingdom | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| George H. Hepting | 1907-09-01 | 1988-04-29 | 80 | male | | | United States of America |
| Gordon H. Cole | | 1988-04-29 | | male | | | |
| Hans Bierschenk | 1923-01-28 | 1988-04-29 | 65 | male | | | German Democratic Republic |
| Harold Dickinson | 1908-08-08 | 1988-04-29 | 79 | male | | | |
| Irène Giron | 1910-09-22 | 1988-04-29 | 77 | female | | France | |
| Irving Kolodin | 1908-02-21 | 1988-04-29 | 80 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Isidore Charles Nollet | 1898-11-18 | 1988-04-29 | 89 | male | | | Canada |
| Jakob Tuggener | 1904-02-07 | 1988-04-29 | 84 | male | | Switzerland | Switzerland |
| James McCracken | 1926-12-16 | 1988-04-29 | 61 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Jan Kapr | 1914-03-12 | 1988-04-29 | 74 | male | | Czech Republic | Czechoslovakia |
| Jirō Hatano | 1903-02-01 | 1988-04-29 | 85 | male | | | Japan |
| Kōichirō Shimizu | 1935-01-01 | 1988-04-29 | 53 | male | | | Japan |
| Kurt Nehring | 1898-05-29 | 1988-04-29 | 89 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Martin Wyldeck | 1914-01-11 | 1988-04-29 | 74 | male | | United Kingdom | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Miklós Nagy | 1913-05-03 | 1988-04-29 | 74 | male | | Romania | |
| Olavi Honka | 1894-04-07 | 1988-04-29 | 94 | male | | Finland | Finland |
| Paul Castaigne | 1916-01-01 | 1988-04-29 | 72 | | | | |
| Spyridon Synodinos | 1907-12-23 | 1988-04-29 | 80 | male | | Greece | Greece |
| Tadjikhán Èrmátova | 1940-01-01 | 1988-04-29 | 48 | female | | Kyrgyzstan | |
| Viktor Pavlovitsj Loekatsjjov | 1920-04-04 | 1988-04-29 | 68 | male | | Russia | Soviet Union |
| Volodymyr Glukhyy | 1938-08-29 | 1988-04-29 | 49 | male | | | Soviet Union |
| Yoichi Yamato | 1908-12-03 | 1988-04-29 | 79 | male | | | Japan |
| Міхаіл Лявонцьевіч Бельскі | 1921-09-21 | 1988-04-29 | 66 | male | | | |
| Спиридон (Синодинос) | 1907-12-24 | 1988-04-29 | 80 | male | | Greece | |
| 關大成 | 1909-09-06 | 1988-04-29 | 78 | male | | | |
| Aleksandr Grigorevitsj Sjevtsov | 1918-10-17 | 1988-04-28 | 69 | male | | Russia | Soviet Union |
| Antanas Kučinskas | 1900-10-14 | 1988-04-28 | 87 | male | | | |
| Barbara Mielcarzewicz | 1907-03-30 | 1988-04-28 | 81 | female | | Poland | Poland |
| Béla Németh | 1916-01-26 | 1988-04-28 | 72 | male | | | |
| Bob Robson | 1957-06-11 | 1988-04-28 | 30 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Broadus Mitchell | 1892-12-27 | 1988-04-28 | 95 | male | | | United States of America |
| B. W. Stevenson | 1949-10-05 | 1988-04-28 | 38 | male | | | United States of America |
| Christina Bellin | 1937-01-01 | 1988-04-28 | 51 | female | natural causes | | |
| Donald J. Borror | 1907-08-24 | 1988-04-28 | 80 | male | | | United States of America |
| Edward H. Reichard | 1912-02-21 | 1988-04-28 | 76 | male | | | United States of America |
| Enrico de Boccard | 1921-10-31 | 1988-04-28 | 66 | male | | Italy | Kingdom of Italy |
| Era Kuznetsova | 1927-02-07 | 1988-04-28 | 61 | female | | Russia | Soviet Union |
| Frank W. King | 1912-04-24 | 1988-04-28 | 76 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Gadis Rasid | 1923-01-01 | 1988-04-28 | 65 | | | Indonesia | Indonesia |
| Georgi Tomalevski | 1897-09-16 | 1988-04-28 | 90 | male | | Bulgaria | |
| Gerd Martienzen | 1918-03-24 | 1988-04-28 | 70 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Gottlieb Osterwalder | 1908-10-07 | 1988-04-28 | 79 | male | | | |
| Hagop Hagopian | 1951-01-01 | 1988-04-28 | 37 | male | homicide | Greece | Kingdom of Iraq |
| Lars Arborelius | 1910-04-04 | 1988-04-28 | 78 | male | | | Sweden |
| Lars Fredin | 1919-03-27 | 1988-04-28 | 69 | male | | Sweden | Sweden |
| Mahmut Kepolu | 1923-01-01 | 1988-04-28 | 65 | male | | | Turkey |
| Margrit Philippi | 1921-05-25 | 1988-04-28 | 66 | female | | | |
| Mario Actis Perinetti | 1895-08-03 | 1988-04-28 | 92 | male | | | Kingdom of Italy |
| Maxim Mazumdar | 1952-01-27 | 1988-04-28 | 36 | male | | Canada | India |
| Michael Grumley | 1942-07-06 | 1988-04-28 | 45 | male | | | United States of America |
| Scott Walker | 1922-04-06 | 1988-04-28 | 66 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Seikei Okamoto | 1905-07-31 | 1988-04-28 | 82 | | | | Japan |
| Stefania Skwarczyńska | 1902-11-17 | 1988-04-28 | 85 | female | | Poland | Poland |
| Tamara Lebedeva | 1919-03-22 | 1988-04-28 | 69 | female | | Russia | Soviet Union |
| Wacław Bacharz | 1915-01-01 | 1988-04-28 | 73 | male | | | |
| Виноградов, Георгий Владимирович | 1910-02-09 | 1988-04-28 | 78 | male | | | |
| Зискинд, Евгений Моисеевич | 1926-06-06 | 1988-04-28 | 61 | male | | Ukraine | |
| Прищепа, Степан Адамович | 1915-05-09 | 1988-04-28 | 72 | male | | Russia | |
| Разумихин, Борис Сергеевич | 1918-03-19 | 1988-04-28 | 70 | male | | | |
| 雍增·土登唐巴 | 1913-01-01 | 1988-04-28 | 75 | male | | | People's Republic of China |
| Arnie Shockley | 1903-08-31 | 1988-04-27 | 84 | male | | | United States of America |
| Carl Hamnström | 1891-01-15 | 1988-04-27 | 97 | male | | | Sweden |
| David Scarboro | 1968-02-03 | 1988-04-27 | 20 | male | suicide | United Kingdom | United Kingdom |
| Ekaterina Nikolaevna Alekseeva | 1899-11-21 | 1988-04-27 | 88 | female | | Russia | Russian Empire |
| Epineri Vula | | 1988-04-27 | | male | | | |
| Eugène Pépin | 1887-06-27 | 1988-04-27 | 100 | male | | France | France |
| Frans Naerebout | 1915-07-02 | 1988-04-27 | 72 | male | | | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| Fred Bear | 1902-03-05 | 1988-04-27 | 86 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Fred Kupferman | 1934-01-25 | 1988-04-27 | 54 | male | | France | France |
| Harry Sørby | 1905-05-12 | 1988-04-27 | 82 | male | | | Norway |
| Helene Thomas Bennett | 1901-07-05 | 1988-04-27 | 86 | female | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Hjördis Blomqvist | 1910-08-03 | 1988-04-27 | 77 | female | | | Sweden |
| Jack Fleischman | 1901-08-15 | 1988-04-27 | 86 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| James E. Willard | 1903-11-20 | 1988-04-27 | 84 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Jo Nabben | 1911-06-09 | 1988-04-27 | 76 | female | | Netherlands | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| L.C. Rietveld | 1895-11-03 | 1988-04-27 | 92 | male | | | |
| Lim Chum-chu | 1912-03-08 | 1988-04-27 | 76 | male | | | North Korea |
| Olaf Wieghorst | 1899-04-30 | 1988-04-27 | 88 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Perry Jackson | 1903-08-31 | 1988-04-27 | 84 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Reinhold Eidenbenz | 1907-04-22 | 1988-04-27 | 81 | male | | Switzerland | |
| Robert Van Pelt | 1897-09-09 | 1988-04-27 | 90 | male | | | United States of America |
| Tadeusz Cholewicki | 1907-10-23 | 1988-04-27 | 80 | male | | Poland | Poland |
| Tommy Thomas | 1899-12-23 | 1988-04-27 | 88 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Буслаев, Николай Дмитриевич | 1928-11-25 | 1988-04-27 | 59 | | | | |
| Константин Петрович Крючков | 1939-04-21 | 1988-04-27 | 49 | male | | | Soviet Union |
| Николай Иванович Базылев | 1914-02-15 | 1988-04-27 | 74 | male | | Ukraine | |
| Размадзе, Галактион Самсонович | 1913-08-21 | 1988-04-27 | 74 | male | | Russia | |
| Alf Hansen | 1899-08-25 | 1988-04-26 | 88 | male | | | Norway |
| Arbee Stidham | 1917-02-09 | 1988-04-26 | 71 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Artur Tava | 1910-04-03 | 1988-04-26 | 78 | male | | Sweden | Estonia |
| Bennett M. Stewart | 1912-08-06 | 1988-04-26 | 75 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Bertold Suhner (1910) | 1910-08-05 | 1988-04-26 | 77 | male | | Switzerland | Switzerland |
| Desmond Hoare | 1910-06-25 | 1988-04-26 | 77 | male | | | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Egon Berger | 1912-01-01 | 1988-04-26 | 76 | male | | | |
| Erwin Beck | 1911-04-17 | 1988-04-26 | 77 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Eugen Ulmer | 1903-06-26 | 1988-04-26 | 84 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Fedor Chukhrov | 1908-07-15 | 1988-04-26 | 79 | male | | Russia | Russian Empire |
| František Korvas | 1921-12-02 | 1988-04-26 | 66 | male | | | |
| Frederick D. Patterson | 1901-10-10 | 1988-04-26 | 86 | male | | | United States of America |
| Fritz-Karl Bartnig | 1926-04-10 | 1988-04-26 | 62 | male | | | German Democratic Republic |
| Gabrielle Ristori | 1899-07-26 | 1988-04-26 | 88 | female | | France | France |
| Gerald Champion Streatfeild | 1902-08-01 | 1988-04-26 | 85 | male | | | |
| Guillermo Haro | 1913-03-21 | 1988-04-26 | 75 | male | | Mexico | Mexico |
| Guy Boyd | 1923-06-12 | 1988-04-26 | 64 | male | | Australia | Australia |
| Kees Trimbos | 1920-04-21 | 1988-04-26 | 68 | male | | Netherlands | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| Kleopatra Shevchenko | 1909-10-13 | 1988-04-26 | 78 | female | natural causes | Russia | Russian Empire |
| Mihály Czompók | 1929-01-09 | 1988-04-26 | 59 | male | | | |
| M. V. P. Peiris | 1898-07-28 | 1988-04-26 | 89 | male | | | Sri Lanka |
| Nelson Gaetz | 1907-03-01 | 1988-04-26 | 81 | male | | | Canada |
| Nikolay Stepanovitsj Borovskiy | 1930-04-14 | 1988-04-26 | 58 | male | | Ukraine | Soviet Union |
| Paul Buckley | 1913-05-13 | 1988-04-26 | 74 | male | | | |
| Rie Nissen | 1904-02-20 | 1988-04-26 | 84 | female | | Denmark | Denmark |
| Roland Weber | 1932-12-27 | 1988-04-26 | 55 | male | | France | France |
| Valery Legasov | 1936-09-01 | 1988-04-26 | 51 | male | suicide | Russia | Soviet Union |
| William Fox-Pitt | 1896-01-28 | 1988-04-26 | 92 | male | | | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Zalman Lebiush | 1908-01-30 | 1988-04-26 | 80 | male | | | Israel |
| Δημήτριος Θ. Γρίβας | 1916-01-01 | 1988-04-26 | 72 | male | | | Greece |
| Мусийченко, Пётр Яковлевич | 1915-06-23 | 1988-04-26 | 72 | male | | Ukraine | |
| Суббота Микола Іванович | 1968-12-11 | 1988-04-26 | 19 | male | | Afghanistan | Soviet Union |
| 김송 | 1909-07-10 | 1988-04-25 | 78 | | | | |
| Antonín Pilař | 1911-04-18 | 1988-04-25 | 77 | male | | Czech Republic | Czechoslovakia |
| Boris Kremenliev | 1911-05-23 | 1988-04-25 | 76 | male | | United States of America | |
| Burnita Shelton Matthews | 1894-01-01 | 1988-04-25 | 94 | female | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Carolyn Franklin | 1944-05-13 | 1988-04-25 | 43 | female | natural causes | United States of America | United States of America |
| Clifford D. Simak | 1904-08-03 | 1988-04-25 | 83 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Edward Chester Plow | 1904-09-28 | 1988-04-25 | 83 | male | natural causes | Canada | Canada |
| Erdődy Kálmán | 1907-02-16 | 1988-04-25 | 81 | male | | Hungary | Hungary |
| Erik Hysén | 1906-05-18 | 1988-04-25 | 81 | male | | | Sweden |
| Ferenc Pataki | 1917-09-18 | 1988-04-25 | 70 | male | | Hungary | Hungary |
| Georges Burdeau | 1905-12-25 | 1988-04-25 | 82 | male | | France | France |
| Ivo Čáslavka | 1922-05-06 | 1988-04-25 | 65 | male | | Czech Republic | Czechoslovakia |
| Ken Jones | 1927-10-02 | 1988-04-25 | 60 | male | | Switzerland | United Kingdom |
| Lanny Ross | 1906-01-19 | 1988-04-25 | 82 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Lemka Elboeskievna Barachoeva | 1918-01-01 | 1988-04-25 | 70 | female | | | Soviet Union |
| Lygia Clark | 1920-10-23 | 1988-04-25 | 67 | female | | Brazil | Brazil |
| Michael Lantz | 1908-04-06 | 1988-04-25 | 80 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Paavo Lukin | 1922-09-23 | 1988-04-25 | 65 | male | | | |
| Pavel Mendelevitsj Sjafarenko | 1908-03-13 | 1988-04-25 | 80 | male | | Ukraine | Soviet Union |
| René Cardona | 1906-10-08 | 1988-04-25 | 81 | male | | Mexico | Cuba |
| Sir Hugh Rankin, 3rd Baronet | 1899-08-08 | 1988-04-25 | 88 | male | | | |
| Valerie Solanas | 1936-04-09 | 1988-04-25 | 52 | female | natural causes | United States of America | United States of America |
| Wayne Schell | 1908-04-12 | 1988-04-25 | 80 | male | | | United States of America |
| Zdzisław Wydrzyński | 1930-03-01 | 1988-04-25 | 58 | male | | Poland | |
| Малышев, Константин Александрович | 1901-11-04 | 1988-04-25 | 86 | male | | Russia | |
| 寺田雅雄 | 1895-01-01 | 1988-04-25 | 93 | male | | | |
| Alfred Mering | 1903-08-26 | 1988-04-24 | 84 | male | | | |
| Anna Klyuchko | 1892-08-09 | 1988-04-24 | 95 | female | | Canada | |
| Bob Newson | 1910-12-02 | 1988-04-24 | 77 | male | | | South Africa |
| Bram Groeneweg | 1905-03-13 | 1988-04-24 | 83 | male | | | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| Cecil Smith | 1927-06-23 | 1988-04-24 | 60 | male | | | Canada |
| Dario Carria | 1967-08-24 | 1988-04-24 | 20 | male | suicide | | Italy |
| Forest Rye | 1910-12-19 | 1988-04-24 | 77 | male | | | United States of America |
| František Krupka | 1920-11-25 | 1988-04-24 | 67 | male | | | |
| Geoffrey J. Cuming | 1917-09-09 | 1988-04-24 | 70 | male | | | |
| Germaine Delbat | 1904-03-16 | 1988-04-24 | 84 | female | | France | France |
| Harris Gaylord Warren | 1906-10-10 | 1988-04-24 | 81 | male | | | United States of America |
| Ireneus Wien Dud | 1912-08-21 | 1988-04-24 | 75 | male | | | |
| Johannes Larink | 1893-07-03 | 1988-04-24 | 94 | male | | | |
| Jonathan Woodner | 1944-04-08 | 1988-04-24 | 44 | male | | | United States of America |
| Kazimierz Gregorkiewicz | 1925-06-30 | 1988-04-24 | 62 | male | | Poland | Poland |
| Kenneth Payne | 1912-09-08 | 1988-04-24 | 75 | male | | United Kingdom | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Leonid Rakhmanov | 1908-02-28 | 1988-04-24 | 80 | male | | Russia | Russian Empire |
| Margareta Gustafsson | 1899-12-14 | 1988-04-24 | 88 | female | | Sweden | Sweden |
| Maurice Lucas | 1896-10-09 | 1988-04-24 | 91 | male | | | France |
| Mauricio Litman | 1915-07-17 | 1988-04-24 | 72 | male | | Uruguay | Argentina |
