Xavier Saint-Macary (June 7, 1948 – March 13, 1988) was a French actor, brother of Hubert Saint-Macary.Saint-Macary played in La Nuit américaine (1973) directed by François Truffaut and Le Château perdu (1973). American audiences will remember him as the enthusiastic but bumbling Detective Fontenoy in the Disney movie Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977).
Saint-Macary died of a sudden heart attack in 1988, a few months short of his 40th birthday.
Pauline Lafont (6 April 1963 – 11 August 1988) was a French actress. She was the daughter of film star Bernadette Lafont and Diourka Medveczky, a Hungarian sculptor.Born Pauline Aïda Simone Medveczky in Nîmes, France, she died in a hiking accident in Barre-des-Cévennes, Lozère, France. Three months and ten days after she had set out, her body was found by a passing farmer at the foot of a cliff, four kilometres from her home. Investigators determined she had fallen more than ten metres and died instantly. Prior to the discovery of her body, her disappearance had triggered several rumours regarding her whereabouts.
Albert Decaris (6 May 1901 – 1 January 1988) was a French artist, engraver, painter and Olympic Gold Medallist.
Françoise Dolto (French: [dɔlto]; November 6, 1908 – August 25, 1988) was a French pediatrician and psychoanalyst.
Jean-Paul Aron (27 May 1925 – 20 August 1988) was a French writer, philosopher and journalist. His most notable work is Les Modernes, which was published in 1984.
Ross Rocklynne (February 21, 1913 – October 29, 1988) was the pen name used by Ross Louis Rocklin, an American science fiction author active in the Golden Age of Science Fiction. He also wrote under the pen names Paul Cahendon, R. L. Rocklin and R. Rocklinne.
Robert Francis "Red" Daughters (August 5, 1914 – August 22, 1988) was an American professional baseball player. He played in one game in Major League Baseball with the Boston Red Sox in 1937. Listed at 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m), 185 lb., Daughters batted and threw right-handed.
Charles William Butterfield (January 14, 1917 – March 18, 1988) was an American jazz bandleader, trumpeter, flugelhornist, and cornetist.
Naphthali ben Levi (Henri) van Praag (September 12, 1916 in Amsterdam – November 3, 1988 in Hilversum) was a Jewish-Dutch writer, teacher, and religious historian, and became known also for his publications in the field of parapsychology.
Mario Renosto (15 June 1929 in Venice – 14 November 1988) was an Italian professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
He played for 9 seasons (121 games, 30 goals) in the Serie A for S.S.C. Venezia, A.C. Milan, A.S. Roma, Novara Calcio and U.S. Triestina Calcio.
His older brother Giacinto Renosto also played football professionally. To distinguish them, Giacinto was referred to as Renosto I and Mario as Renosto II.