| Antti Koskinen | 1929-04-21 | 1988-08-31 | 59 | male | | | Finland |
| Bud MacPherson | 1927-03-31 | 1988-08-31 | 61 | male | | | Canada |
| Edgar Elbakyan | 1927-03-07 | 1988-08-31 | 61 | male | | Armenia | Soviet Union |
| Enrique Linés Escardó | 1914-11-08 | 1988-08-31 | 73 | male | | Spain | Spain |
| Fanny Rowe | 1913-06-26 | 1988-08-31 | 75 | female | | | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Friedrich Schäfer | 1915-04-06 | 1988-08-31 | 73 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Georg Rückert | 1914-08-16 | 1988-08-31 | 74 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Grace Eldering | 1900-09-05 | 1988-08-31 | 87 | female | | | United States of America |
| Héctor Iglesias Villoud | 1913-01-31 | 1988-08-31 | 75 | male | | Argentina | Argentina |
| Ignacio M. Beteta | 1898-10-23 | 1988-08-31 | 89 | male | | | Mexico |
| Jan Nowak | 1957-01-01 | 1988-08-31 | 31 | male | | | Poland |
| Jason Rother | 1969-07-16 | 1988-08-31 | 19 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| John Daley | 1887-05-25 | 1988-08-31 | 101 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Joseph Leonard Van Hecken | 1905-09-18 | 1988-08-31 | 82 | male | | | Belgium |
| Karl-Hans Lagershausen | 1924-04-19 | 1988-08-31 | 64 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Lancelle Eleanor Anne Archer | 1934-01-01 | 1988-08-31 | 54 | female | | | |
| Leonidas Proaño | 1910-01-29 | 1988-08-31 | 78 | male | | Ecuador | Ecuador |
| Lind Andrew William | 1901-10-27 | 1988-08-31 | 86 | male | | | |
| Lin Jaldati | 1912-12-13 | 1988-08-31 | 75 | female | | German Democratic Republic | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| Míla Svoboda | 1902-09-25 | 1988-08-31 | 85 | male | | Czech Republic | Czechoslovakia |
| Peter Geoffrey Woodchurch Clarke | 1913-12-13 | 1988-08-31 | 74 | male | | | |
| Pierre Tanant | 1909-07-07 | 1988-08-31 | 79 | male | | France | France |
| Shirō Kiuchi | 1896-07-03 | 1988-08-31 | 92 | male | | | Japan |
| Sverre Eklund | 1924-04-21 | 1988-08-31 | 64 | male | | | Sweden |
| Vasil Mzhavanadze | 1902-09-20 | 1988-08-31 | 85 | male | | Russia | Russian Empire |
| Walt Wollermann | 1908-06-21 | 1988-08-31 | 80 | male | | | |
| Yosif Krivchev | 1899-01-30 | 1988-08-31 | 89 | male | | | |
| Баранник Пётр Иванович | 1895-01-31 | 1988-08-31 | 93 | male | | | |
| Уладзімір Міхайлавіч Говар-Бандарэнка | 1914-06-21 | 1988-08-31 | 74 | male | | | |
| هیبتالله معینی چاغروند | 1950-01-01 | 1988-08-31 | 38 | male | | | Iran |
| Albert Frey-Wyssling | 1900-11-08 | 1988-08-30 | 87 | male | | Switzerland | Switzerland |
| Batsheva Katznelson | 1897-01-01 | 1988-08-30 | 91 | female | | Israel | Israel |
| Bengt Gate | 1909-12-30 | 1988-08-30 | 78 | male | | Sweden | Sweden |
| Charles Stephen Booth | 1897-01-27 | 1988-08-30 | 91 | male | | Canada | Canada |
| Danica Kozlová | 1947-07-29 | 1988-08-30 | 41 | female | | | |
| Elio Libero Quintili | 1906-05-06 | 1988-08-30 | 82 | male | | Italy | Kingdom of Italy |
| Eren Eyüboğlu | 1907-02-05 | 1988-08-30 | 81 | male | | | |
| Heinz Heckhausen | 1926-03-24 | 1988-08-30 | 62 | male | | | Germany |
| Henry Manière | 1920-09-11 | 1988-08-30 | 67 | male | | | |
| Howard Rusk Long | 1906-07-30 | 1988-08-30 | 82 | male | | | United States of America |
| Ivana Tomljenović-Meller | 1906-09-02 | 1988-08-30 | 81 | female | | Croatia | Croatia |
| Jack Marshall | 1912-03-05 | 1988-08-30 | 76 | male | | United Kingdom | New Zealand |
| James Black | 1940-02-01 | 1988-08-30 | 48 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Jānis Žīgurs | 1915-03-01 | 1988-08-30 | 73 | male | | Latvia | Latvia |
| Ján Mičovský | 1920-08-09 | 1988-08-30 | 68 | male | | Slovakia | Czechoslovakia |
| Jirō Ozu | 1920-03-22 | 1988-08-30 | 68 | male | | | Japan |
| Juliusz Foss | 1938-02-05 | 1988-08-30 | 50 | male | | | Poland |
| Margit Beke | 1890-07-11 | 1988-08-30 | 98 | female | | Hungary | Hungary |
| Marian Małowist | 1909-12-19 | 1988-08-30 | 78 | male | | Poland | Poland |
| Nikolai Fefilov | 1946-01-01 | 1988-08-30 | 42 | male | | Russia | Soviet Union |
| Nikolay Semjonovitsj Severilov | 1923-01-05 | 1988-08-30 | 65 | male | | Russia | Soviet Union |
| Otto Bengtson | 2000-01-01 | 1988-08-30 | -12 | male | | | German Democratic Republic |
| Peder Bjerve | 1896-05-23 | 1988-08-30 | 92 | male | | Norway | Norway |
| Richard Hamblin | 1906-12-16 | 1988-08-30 | 81 | male | | United Kingdom | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Wanda Wermińska | 1900-11-18 | 1988-08-30 | 87 | female | | Poland | Poland |
| Yan Kelun | 1913-05-01 | 1988-08-30 | 75 | male | | | People's Republic of China |
| Ахмед Махмуд оглы Ахмедов | 1910-02-08 | 1988-08-30 | 78 | male | | Azerbaijan | Russian Empire |
| Белов, Юрий Николаевич | 1925-04-03 | 1988-08-30 | 63 | male | | Russia | |
| Петрухин, Валентин Иванович | 1933-09-26 | 1988-08-30 | 54 | male | | | |
| Сухоцкая, Нина Станиславовна | 1906-02-07 | 1988-08-30 | 82 | female | | Russia | |
| Adolphe Waymel | 1913-09-09 | 1988-08-29 | 74 | male | | France | France |
| Algirdas Klimaitis | 1923-01-01 | 1988-08-29 | 65 | male | | Germany | Lithuania |
| Alice D. Weeks | 1909-08-26 | 1988-08-29 | 79 | female | | | |
| Arthur Vaag | 1896-06-24 | 1988-08-29 | 92 | male | | Denmark | Denmark |
| Charles Johnston | 1896-02-11 | 1988-08-29 | 92 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| David A. Hargrave | 1946-05-25 | 1988-08-29 | 42 | male | | | United States of America |
| Erling Brinchmann | 1897-03-21 | 1988-08-29 | 91 | male | | | Norway |
| Gaston Leroux | 1913-01-09 | 1988-08-29 | 75 | male | | | Canada |
| Hayashi Tadayoshi | 1902-01-01 | 1988-08-29 | 86 | male | | | |
| Heribert Schauf | 1910-08-08 | 1988-08-29 | 78 | male | | | |
| Horace Henderson | 1904-11-22 | 1988-08-29 | 83 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Jaroslav Pilz | 1901-01-30 | 1988-08-29 | 87 | male | | | |
| Jean Weidt | 1904-10-07 | 1988-08-29 | 83 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Kurt Johannsen | 1910-03-14 | 1988-08-29 | 78 | male | | | Germany |
| Lưu Quang Vũ | 1948-04-17 | 1988-08-29 | 40 | male | | Vietnam | Vietnam |
| Mykola Lukash | 1919-12-19 | 1988-08-29 | 68 | male | | Ukraine | Soviet Union |
| Pavel Efimovich Beilin | 1910-03-10 | 1988-08-29 | 78 | male | | Ukraine | Russian Empire |
| Pierre Mathias | 1957-04-09 | 1988-08-29 | 31 | male | | France | France |
| Ray Baxter | 1904-03-09 | 1988-08-29 | 84 | male | | Australia | |
| Salvatore Fitto | 1941-01-02 | 1988-08-29 | 47 | male | | Italy | Kingdom of Italy |
| Sergio Eugenio Abellá Pitaluga | | 1988-08-29 | | male | | | Uruguay |
| Wilfred Johnson | 1935-09-29 | 1988-08-29 | 52 | male | homicide | United States of America | United States of America |
| William Robert (Bill) Bennett | 1921-07-11 | 1988-08-29 | 67 | male | | | |
| Xuân Quỳnh | 1942-10-06 | 1988-08-29 | 45 | female | | Vietnam | Vietnam |
| Ad Bestman | 1944-02-02 | 1988-08-28 | 44 | male | | Netherlands | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| Anna Machiz | 1910-12-18 | 1988-08-28 | 77 | female | | Belarus | Russian Empire |
| Anna Semenovna Mačiz | 1910-12-18 | 1988-08-28 | 77 | female | | Belarus | |
| Arnold Kivimäe | 1908-12-19 | 1988-08-28 | 79 | male | | | |
| Charles Riegert | 1913-03-13 | 1988-08-28 | 75 | male | | France | France |
| Charles Robert Cecil Weld-Forester | 1919-01-08 | 1988-08-28 | 69 | male | | | |
| Franca Raimondi | 1932-07-08 | 1988-08-28 | 56 | female | natural causes | Italy | Kingdom of Italy |
| François Spahnagel | 1914-04-18 | 1988-08-28 | 74 | male | | France | France |
| Gerrard Giles Clarke | 1933-10-10 | 1988-08-28 | 54 | male | | | |
| Giuseppe Zaffonato | 1899-08-29 | 1988-08-28 | 88 | male | | Italy | Kingdom of Italy |
| Gregor Geller | 1903-07-08 | 1988-08-28 | 85 | male | | | Germany |
| Guy Hocquenghem | 1946-12-10 | 1988-08-28 | 41 | male | natural causes | France | France |
| Herbert Lundh | 1901-02-05 | 1988-08-28 | 87 | male | | | Sweden |
| Ivanna Synenka-Ivanytska | 1897-07-24 | 1988-08-28 | 91 | female | | Germany | |
| Ivo Nutarelli | 1950-03-23 | 1988-08-28 | 38 | male | | Germany | Italy |
| Jahja Daniel Dharma | 1911-03-11 | 1988-08-28 | 77 | male | | Indonesia | Indonesia |
| Jean Marchand | 1918-12-20 | 1988-08-28 | 69 | male | | Canada | Canada |
| John Bernd | 1953-05-08 | 1988-08-28 | 35 | male | | United States of America | |
| Marat Moesaevitsj Gaziev | 1924-11-21 | 1988-08-28 | 63 | male | | Moldova | Soviet Union |
| Marcel Audic | 1906-07-27 | 1988-08-28 | 82 | male | | France | France |
| Margaret Wheat | 1908-09-09 | 1988-08-28 | 79 | female | | | United States of America |
| Mario Naldini | 1947-05-12 | 1988-08-28 | 41 | male | | Germany | Italy |
| Marty Weiser | 1912-01-01 | 1988-08-28 | 76 | male | | | |
| Max Shulman | 1919-01-01 | 1988-08-28 | 69 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Osvaldo Moreno | 1912-06-04 | 1988-08-28 | 76 | male | | | Argentina |
| Paul Grice | 1913-03-13 | 1988-08-28 | 75 | male | | United States of America | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Paul Whitelaw | 1910-02-10 | 1988-08-28 | 78 | male | | | New Zealand |
| Ricardo Massana | 1898-07-31 | 1988-08-28 | 90 | male | | Spain | Spain |
| Victoria O'Hearn | 1891-11-11 | 1988-08-28 | 96 | female | | | |
| Yoshihiko Kiuchi | 1942-10-25 | 1988-08-28 | 45 | male | | | Japan |
| Разин, Филипп Дмитриевич | 1923-05-15 | 1988-08-28 | 65 | male | | Russia | |
| Ariyavangsagatayana, 18th Supreme Patriarch of Thailand | 1897-01-01 | 1988-08-27 | 91 | male | | Thailand | Thailand |
| Beatrice Elizabeth Inez Macgowan | 1894-07-31 | 1988-08-27 | 94 | female | | | |
| Charles Farrell | 1900-08-06 | 1988-08-27 | 88 | male | | United Kingdom | Ireland |
| Cornelis Moerman | 1893-01-06 | 1988-08-27 | 95 | male | | | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| Cvijo Mazalica | 1917-06-01 | 1988-08-27 | 71 | male | | Serbia | |
| František Markalous | 1931-03-23 | 1988-08-27 | 57 | male | | | |
| Friedrich Piefke | 1907-02-09 | 1988-08-27 | 81 | male | | | |
| Giuseppe Di Salvo | 1902-04-19 | 1988-08-27 | 86 | male | | | |
| Gunther von Fritsch | 1906-07-15 | 1988-08-27 | 82 | male | | United States of America | Austria-Hungary |
| Irene Higginbotham | 1918-06-11 | 1988-08-27 | 70 | female | | United States of America | United States of America |
| John H. Disher | 1921-12-23 | 1988-08-27 | 66 | male | | | |
| Kerry Lloyd | 1941-09-29 | 1988-08-27 | 46 | male | | | United States of America |
| Lalá Argami | 1923-03-11 | 1988-08-27 | 65 | male | | | |
| Mario Montenegro | 1928-07-25 | 1988-08-27 | 60 | male | | Philippines | Philippines |
| Max Black | 1909-02-24 | 1988-08-27 | 79 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Milivoj Nikolajević | 1912-04-06 | 1988-08-27 | 76 | male | | | |
| Miloslav Hart | 1909-01-17 | 1988-08-27 | 79 | male | | | |
| Olavi Veistäjä | 1908-04-27 | 1988-08-27 | 80 | male | | | Finland |
| Patricia Brox | 1904-06-14 | 1988-08-27 | 84 | female | | | United States of America |
| Remberto Gandarilla Suárez | 1925-10-08 | 1988-08-27 | 62 | male | | Bolivia | Bolivia |
| René Dejean | 1915-02-04 | 1988-08-27 | 73 | male | | France | France |
| Sigurd Lidström | 1896-09-10 | 1988-08-27 | 91 | male | | | |
| Stan Ashby | 1907-07-31 | 1988-08-27 | 81 | male | | | United Kingdom |
| Tae-hyŏn Kim | 1962-06-16 | 1988-08-27 | 26 | male | | | South Korea |
| Tita Galatro | 1914-03-31 | 1988-08-27 | 74 | female | | | Argentina |
| William Sargant | 1907-04-24 | 1988-08-27 | 81 | male | | | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Ооти, Сабуро | 1903-04-18 | 1988-08-27 | 85 | male | | | Japan |
| Серов, Владимир Вячеславович | 1922-07-12 | 1988-08-27 | 66 | male | | Russia | |
| 宋庆友 | 1938-10-01 | 1988-08-27 | 49 | | | | |
| Alois Aggermann | 1899-12-20 | 1988-08-26 | 88 | male | | | |
| Benno Schaeppi | 1911-11-24 | 1988-08-26 | 76 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Carl Frederick Tandberg | 1910-03-22 | 1988-08-26 | 78 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Carlos Paião | 1957-11-01 | 1988-08-26 | 30 | male | | Portugal | Portugal |
| Chen Hanbo | 1914-03-14 | 1988-08-26 | 74 | male | | | People's Republic of China |
| Del Bjork | 1914-06-27 | 1988-08-26 | 74 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Denis Chassaigne | 1899-08-28 | 1988-08-26 | 88 | male | | | |
| Donald De Lue | 1897-10-05 | 1988-08-26 | 90 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Enrico Fulchignoni | 1913-09-18 | 1988-08-26 | 74 | male | | France | Kingdom of Italy |
| Fred Peart, Baron Peart | 1914-04-30 | 1988-08-26 | 74 | male | | | United Kingdom |
| Gustaw Heczko | 1920-05-19 | 1988-08-26 | 68 | male | | Poland | Poland |
| Jack Dempsey | 1912-03-12 | 1988-08-26 | 76 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| John Riordan | 1903-04-22 | 1988-08-26 | 85 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Kiichirō Ōtsuka | 1910-02-05 | 1988-08-26 | 78 | male | | | Japan |
| Kitty Doner | 1895-09-06 | 1988-08-26 | 92 | female | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Kunio Takahashi | 1910-07-25 | 1988-08-26 | 78 | male | | | Japan |
| Lizzie Corfixen | 1944-01-11 | 1988-08-26 | 44 | female | | | Denmark |
| Louis-Claude Vincent | 1906-01-10 | 1988-08-26 | 82 | male | | France | France |
| Marat Roestamovitsj Aktsjoerin | 1964-08-23 | 1988-08-26 | 24 | male | | Afghanistan | Soviet Union |
| Milton Sperling | 1912-07-06 | 1988-08-26 | 76 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Oscar Marzaroli | 1933-01-01 | 1988-08-26 | 55 | male | | | United Kingdom |
| Q61137076 | 1905-01-15 | 1988-08-26 | 83 | | | | |
| Reginaldo Fernandes de Oliveira | 1903-08-24 | 1988-08-26 | 85 | male | | Brazil | Brazil |
| Rudolf Hartmann | 1900-10-11 | 1988-08-26 | 87 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Sylvester Hall | 1910-01-01 | 1988-08-26 | 78 | male | | United States of America | |
| Thomas H. Kerr, Jr. | 1915-01-03 | 1988-08-26 | 73 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Vasiliy Dmitrievitsj Bolsjakov | 1927-03-11 | 1988-08-26 | 61 | male | | Russia | Soviet Union |
| Wylem Bjero | 1902-02-04 | 1988-08-26 | 86 | male | | Germany | |
| Yosef Perlmutter | 1922-06-17 | 1988-08-26 | 66 | male | | Israel | Israel |
| Волков, Михаил Семёнович | 1924-11-15 | 1988-08-26 | 63 | male | | Russia | |
| Исаев, Аллахверди Мухтар оглы | 1908-01-01 | 1988-08-26 | 80 | male | | | |
| Art Rooney | 1901-01-27 | 1988-08-25 | 87 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Bob Montgomery | 1919-02-10 | 1988-08-25 | 69 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Caziel | 1906-01-01 | 1988-08-25 | 82 | male | | United Kingdom | Poland |
| Christian Winkler | 1904-03-18 | 1988-08-25 | 84 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Françoise Dolto | 1908-11-06 | 1988-08-25 | 79 | female | | France | France |
| Friedrich Knödler | 1920-05-02 | 1988-08-25 | 68 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Gilbert Gil | 1913-09-07 | 1988-08-25 | 74 | male | | France | France |
| Giuseppe Mazzullo | 1913-02-15 | 1988-08-25 | 75 | male | | Italy | Kingdom of Italy |
| Harold Salemson | 1910-09-30 | 1988-08-25 | 77 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Henry Joseph Gallagher | 1914-12-31 | 1988-08-25 | 73 | male | | United Kingdom | United Kingdom |
| Irving Mansfield | 1908-07-23 | 1988-08-25 | 80 | male | | United States of America | |
| Joachim Pirsch | 1914-10-26 | 1988-08-25 | 73 | male | | | Germany |
| John Manifold Courtenay | | 1988-08-25 | | male | | | |
| Karl Heinrich Meyer | 1903-11-28 | 1988-08-25 | 84 | male | | Germany | |
| Karlo Toth | 1907-07-15 | 1988-08-25 | 81 | male | | Serbia | |
| Kazama Michitarō | 1901-06-06 | 1988-08-25 | 87 | male | | | |
| Konstantin Alekseyevich Salishchev | 1905-11-20 | 1988-08-25 | 82 | male | | Russia | Russian Empire |
| Kostas Taktsis | 1927-10-08 | 1988-08-25 | 60 | male | homicide | Greece | Greece |
| Leonore Adler-Suschitzky | 1910-08-15 | 1988-08-25 | 78 | female | | | |
| Milan Prelog | 1919-01-01 | 1988-08-25 | 69 | male | | Croatia | |
| Moshe Mishkinsky | 1917-06-12 | 1988-08-25 | 71 | male | | Israel | Israel |
| Otto Hanebuth | 1911-09-11 | 1988-08-25 | 76 | male | | | |
| Percy Foreman | 1902-06-21 | 1988-08-25 | 86 | male | | | |
| Piet van Moock | 1915-03-10 | 1988-08-25 | 73 | male | | | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| Price Daniel | 1910-10-10 | 1988-08-25 | 77 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
