1988 Deaths
- Boyington, Pappy (11 January)
- Caniff, Milton (3 April)
- Carver, Raymond (2 August)
- Feynman, Richard (15 February)
- Heinlein, Robert A. (8 May)
- L'Amour, Louis (10 June)
- Nico (18 July)
- Orbison, Roy (6 December)
- Philby, Harold "Kim"
- Solanas, Valerie (26 April)
