1988

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Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar).

In the 20th century, the year 1988 has the most Roman numeral digits (11). In the Chinese zodiac, it is the year of the rabbit until February 16 and the dragon for the rest of the year.

Events of 1988

January

• January 1 - The Soviet Union begins its program of economic restructuring ( perestroika) with legislation initiated by Premier Mikhail Gorbachev (though Gorbachev had begun minor restructuring in 1985).
• January 1 - The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is established, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States.

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• January 8 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 140.58 points, or 6.85%, to close at 1,911.31 in a mini-crash.
• January 13 - Taiwan President Chiang Ching-kuo dies in Taipei; Vice-President Lee Teng-hui becomes president.
• January 15 - In Jerusalem, Israeli police and Palestinian protestors clash at the Dome of the Rock; several police and at least 70 Palestinians are injured.
• January 25 - U.S. Vice President George H.W. Bush and CBS News anchor Dan Rather clash over Bush's role in the Iran-Contra scandal, during a contentious television interview.
• January 29 - The Midwest Classic Conference, a U.S. college athletic conference, is formed.

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• February 3 - The Democratic-controlled United States House of Representatives rejects President Ronald Reagan's request for $36.25 million to support the Nicaraguan Contras.
• February 12 - Anthony M. Kennedy is appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States.
• February 13 – February 28 - The 1988 Winter Olympics are held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

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• March 7 - Operation Flavius: The Special Air Services fatally shoot three unarmed Irish Republican Army members in Gibraltar.
• March 8 - Two U.S. Army helicopters collide in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, killing 17 servicemen.
• March 8 - U.S. presidential candidate George Herbert Walker Bush defeats Robert Dole in numerous Republican primaries and caucuses on "Super Tuesday". The bipartisan primary/caucus calendar, designed by Democrats to help solidify their own nominee early, backfires when none of the 6 competing candidates are able to break out of the pack in the day's Democratic contests. Jesse Jackson, however, wins several Southern state primaries.
• March 16 - The Halabja poison gas attack is carried out by Iraqi government forces.
• March 16 - Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
• March 17
  • A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into the side of the mountains near the Venezuelan border killing 143.
  • Eritrean War of Independence: The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian army corps in Eritrea, is attacked on three sides by military units of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) in the opening action of the Battle of Afabet.
• March 19 - British Army Corporals Woods and Howes are killed by the IRA in the so-called " Corporals killings".
• March 20 - Eritrean War of Independence: Having defeated the Nadew Command, the EPLF enters the town of Afabet, victoriously concluding the Battle of Afabet.
• March 24 - An Israeli court sentences Mordechai Vanunu to 18 years in prison for disclosing Israel's nuclear program to The Sunday Times.
• March 25 - The Candle Demonstration in Bratislava, Slovakia is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
• March 26 - U.S. presidential candidate Jesse Jackson defeats Michael Dukakis in the Michigan Democratic caucuses, becoming the temporary front-runner for the party's nomination. Richard Gephardt withdraws his candidacy after his campaign speeches against imported automobiles fail to earn him much support in Detroit.
• March 29 - African National Congress representative Dulcie September is assassinated in Paris.

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• April 4 - Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona is convicted in his impeachment trial and removed from office.
• April 5 - Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis wins the Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary.
• April 10 - The Ojhri Camp Disaster occurs in Islamabad and Rawalpindi.
• April 10 - The Great Seto Bridge opens to traffic in Japan.
• April 11 - The Last Emperor (directed by Bernardo Bertolucci) wins nine Oscars.
• April 12 - Former pop singer Sonny Bono is elected mayor of Palm Springs, California.
• April 14 - In the Geneva Accords, the Soviet Union commits itself to withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan.
• The USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58) strikes a naval mine in the Persian Gulf, while deployed on Operation Earnest Will during the Tanker War phase of the Iran-Iraq War.
• April 16 - Israeli commandos kill the PLO's Abu Jihad in Tunisia.
• April 16 - In Forlì, Italy, the brigate rosse kill Senator Roberto Ruffilli, an advisor of Prime Minister Ciriaco de Mita.
• April 18 - United States Navy retaliates for the Roberts mining with Operation Praying Mantis, in a day of strikes against Iranian oil platforms and naval vessels.
• April 25 - In Israel, Ivan Demjanjuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II. He was accused by survivors of being the notorious guard at the Treblinka extermination camp known as "Ivan the Terrible". The conviction is later overturned by the Israeli Supreme Court.
• April 28 - Aloha Flight 243 loses several yards of its upper fuselage while in flight, killing one.
• April 30 - World Expo '88 opens in Brisbane Queensland, Australia.

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• May 4 - PEPCON disaster in Henderson, Nevada: A major explosion at an industrial solid-fuel rocket plant causes damage extending up to 10 miles away, including Las Vegas's McCarran International Airport.
• May 14 - Bus collision near Carrollton, Kentucky: A drunk driver going the wrong way on Interstate 71, hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group from Radcliff, Kentucky. The resulting fire kills 27, making it tied for 1st in the U.S. for most fatalities involving 2 vehicles to the present day. Coincidentally, the other 2-vehicle accident involving a bus that also killed 27 occurred in Prestonsburg, KY 30 years prior.
• May 14 - Wimbledon wins the English FA Cup after beating Liverpool 1–0 at Wembley. The southwest Londoners had pulled off one of the greatest upsets in the history of English football, as they had been top division members for just 2 years and had joined the Football League only 11 years earlier. Liverpool, meanwhile, had won a total of 30 major trophies including 17 league titles.
• May 15 - Soviet war in Afghanistan: After more than eight years of fighting, the Red Army begins withdrawing from Afghanistan.
• May 16 - A report by U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
• May 16 - California v. Greenwood: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that police officers do not need a search warrant to search through discarded garbage.
• May 24 - Section 28 (outlawing promotion of homosexuality in schools) is passed as law by Parliament in the United Kingdom.
• May 31 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan addresses 600 Moscow State University students, during his visit to the Soviet Union.

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• June 6 - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom strips jockey Lester Piggott of his Order of the British Empire following his jailing for tax irregularities.
• June 11 - The name of the General Public License ( GPL) is mentioned for the first time.
• June 11 - Wembley Stadium hosts a concert featuring stars from the fields of music, comedy and film, in celebration of the 70th birthday of imprisoned ANC leader Nelson Mandela.
• June 25 - The Netherlands defeats the Soviet Union 2–0 to win Euro 88.
• June 28 - Four workers are asphyxiated at a metal-plating plant in Auburn, Indiana, in the worst confined-space industrial accident in U.S. history (a fifth victim dies 2 days later).
• June 29 - Morrison v. Olson: The United States Supreme Court upholds the law allowing special prosecutors to investigate suspected crimes by executive branch officials.
• June 30 - Roman Catholic Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre consecrates four bishops at Ecône, Switzerland for his apostolate, along with Bishop Antonio de Castro Mayer, without a papal mandate.

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• July 3 - The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, providing the second connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus.
• July 3 - Iran Air Flight 655 is shot down by missiles launched from the USS Vincennes.
• July 6 - The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires, killing 165 oil workers and two rescue mariners.
• July 14 - Volkswagen closes its Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania plant after 10 years of operation (the first factory built by a non-American automaker in the U.S.).
• July 20 - The Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, Georgia nominates Michael Dukakis for U.S. President and Lloyd Bentsen for Vice President.
• July 31 - Thirty-two people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim Ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Malaysia.

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• Allama Arif Hussain Hussaini the leader of Pakistani Shia muslims was killed in Peshawar.
• August 5 - The 1988 Malaysian constitutional crisis culminates in the ouster of the Lord President of Malaysia, Salleh Abas.
• August 6 – August 7 - Tompkins Square Park Police Riot in New York City: A riot erupts in Tompkins Square Park when police attempt to enforce a newly-passed curfew for the park. Bystanders, artists, residents, homeless people and political activists are caught up in the police action which took place during the night of August 6 and into the early morning of August 7.
• August 8 - 8888 Uprising: Thousands of protesters in Burma, now known as Myanmar, are killed during anti-government demonstrations.
• August 9 - The Chicago Cubs play their first ever night game at home in Wrigley Field, defeating the New York Mets, 6–4.
• August 17 - The Pakistani president, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, and the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Arnold Raphel, are killed in a plane crash near Bhawalpur.
• August 18 - The Republican National Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana nominates George H.W. Bush for President and James "Dan" Quayle for Vice President of the United States of America.
• August 19 - A truce begins in the Iran-Iraq war.
• August 20 - The Iran-Iraq war ends, with an estimated one million lives lost.
• August 25 - A fire destroys part of Chiado quarter, in Lisbon's historical centre.
• August 26 - Mehran Karimi Nasseri, "The terminal man", is stuck in the De Gaulle Airport in Paris, where he will continue to reside until August 1, 2006.

• August 28 - Seventy-five people are killed and three-hundred and forty-six injured in one of the worst airshow disasters in history at Germany's Ramstein Air Base, when three jets from the Italian air demonstration team, Frecce Tricolori, collide, sending one of the aircraft crashing into the crowd of spectators.

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• September 5 - With US$2 billion in federal aid, the Robert M. Bass Group agrees to buy the United States's largest thrift, American Savings and Loan Association.
• September 11 - In Estonia, 300 000 demonstrate for independence.
• September 12 - Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica; it turns towards Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula 2 days later, causing an estimated $5 billion in damage.
• September 17 – October 2 - The 1988 Summer Olympics are held in Seoul, South Korea.
• September 22 - The Ocean Odyssey drilling rig suffers a blowout and fire in the North Sea. (See also July 6)
• September 24 – September 26 - Large, militant protests against the 1988 World Bank and IMF meetings take place in West Berlin.
• September 29 - STS-26: NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster, with Space Shuttle Discovery.

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• October 5 - Thousands riot in Algiers, Algeria against the National Liberation Front government; by October 10 the army has killed and tortured about 500 people in crushing the riots.
• October 5 - Chilean president Augusto Pinochet is defeated in a national plebiscite which sought to renew his mandate.
• October 5 - In Omaha, Nebraska, in the only vice presidential debate of the 1988 U.S. presidential election, the Republican party vice presidential nominee, Senator "Dan" Quayle of Indiana, insists he has as much experience in government as John F. Kennedy did when he sought the presidency in 1960. His Democratic party opponent, Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas, replies, "Senator, I knew Jack Kennedy. I served with Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy." The tremendously positive audience response to Sen. Bentsen's remark solidified the reputation of Sen. Quayle as a political lightweight.
• October 11 - Women are allowed to study at Magdalene College, Cambridge, for the first time. Male students wear black armbands and the porter flies a black flag.
• October 12 - Walsh Street police shootings: Two Victoria Police officers are gunned down, execution style, in Australia.
• October 13 - In the second U.S. presidential debate, held by U.C.L.A., the Democratic party nominee, Michael Dukakis, is asked by journalist Bernard Shaw of CNN if he would support the death penalty if his wife, " Kitty", were to be raped and murdered. Gov. Dukakis' reply, voicing his opposition to capital punishment in any and all circumstances, is later said to have been a major reason for the eventual failure of his campaign for the White House.
• October 15 - Kirk Gibson hits a dramatic home run to win Game One of the World Series for the Los Angeles Dodgers, over the Oakland Athletics, by a score of five runs to four.
• October 19 - The United Kingdom bans broadcast interviews with IRA members. The BBC gets around this stricture through the use of professional actors.
• October 23 - Super Mario Bros. 3 is released in Japan
• October 27 - Ronald Reagan decides to tear down the new US embassy in Moscow because of Soviet listening devices in the building structure
• October 28 - Abortion: 48 hours after announcing it was abandoning RU-486, French manufacturer Roussel Uclaf states that it would resume distribution of the drug, bowing to pressure from the government of France.
• October 29 - Pakistan's General Rahimuddin Khan resigns from his post as the governor of Sindh, following attempts by the President of Pakistan, Ghulam Ishaq Khan, to limit the vast powers Gen. Rahimuddin had accumulated.
• October 30 - Philip Morris buys Kraft Foods for US$13.1 billion.
• October 30 - Expo '88 in Brisbane Australia draws to a close after a six month spectacular.
• October 30 - Formula One: Ayrton Senna clinches his first World Championship with a phenomenal drive in the Japanese Grand Prix, recovering from 16th place on the first lap to win the race and beat rival Alain Prost into second place.

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• November 1 - In the Israeli election, Likud wins 47 seats, Labour wins 49, but Likud Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir remains in office.
• November 3- November 5: Thousands of South Korean students demonstrate against former president Chun Doo Hwan.
• November 8 - United States presidential election, 1988: George H. W. Bush is elected over Michael Dukakis.
• November 15 - In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran is launched by an Energia rocket on its maiden orbital spaceflight (the first and last space flight for the shuttle).
• November 15 - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed at the Palestinian National Council meeting in Algiers, by a vote of 253 to 46.
• November 15 - The very first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched by Nico Roozen, Frans van der Hoff and ecumenical development agency Solidaridad in the Netherlands.
• November 16 - The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR declares that Estonia is "sovereign" but stops short of declaring independence.
• November 16 - In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan choose populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister. Elections were held as planned despite head of state Zia-ul-Haq's death earlier in August.
• November 21 - Canadian federal election, 1988: Brian Mulroney and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada win a second majority government.
• November 21 - Ted Turner Officially Buys Jim Crockett Promotions, known as NWA Crockett, and turns it into World Championship Wrestling (WCW).
• November 22 - In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed.
• November 23 - Former Korean president Chun Doo Hwan publicly apologizes for corruption during his presidency, announcing he will go into exile.
• November 30 - Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. buys RJR Nabisco for US$25.07 billion in the biggest leveraged buyout deal of all time.

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• December 2 - Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.
• December 2 - A cyclone in Bangladesh leaves 5 million homeless and thousands dead.
• December 7 - In Armenia an earthquake 6.9 on the Richter scale kills nearly 25,000, injures 15,000 and leaves 400,000 homeless.
• December 7 - Estonian becomes the official language of Estonia.
• December 9 - The last Dodge Aries and Plymouth Reliant roll off the assembly line in a Chrysler factory.
• December 12 - The Clapham Junction rail crash kills 35 and injures 132.
• December 20 - The United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
• December 21 - Pan Am Flight 103 is blown up by Libyan terrorists over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing a total of 270 people. Those responsible are believed to be of either Iranian or Libyan origin.
• December 22 - Brazilian union and environmental activist Chico Mendes is assassinated.

1988 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1988 MCMLXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2741
Armenian calendar	1437 ԹՎ ՌՆԼԷ
Bahá'í calendar	144 – 145
Berber calendar	2938
Buddhist calendar	2532
Burmese calendar	1350
Chinese calendar	4624/4684-11-12 ( 丁卯年十一月十二日) — to — 4625/4685-11-23 ( 戊辰年十一月廿三日)
Coptic calendar	1704 – 1705
Ethiopian calendar	1980 – 1981
Hebrew calendar	5748 – 5749
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2043 – 2044
- Shaka Samvat	1910 – 1911
- Kali Yuga	5089 – 5090
Holocene calendar	11988
Iranian calendar	1366 – 1367
Islamic calendar	1408 – 1409
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 63 (昭和63年)
Korean calendar	4321
Thai solar calendar	2531
Unix time	567993600 – 599615999

Deaths

January–March

• January 2 - Edmund Brisco Ford, British geneticist (b. 1901)
• January 5 - Pete Maravich, American basketball player (b. 1947)
• January 7 - Trevor Howard, British actor (b. 1913)
• January 11 - Pappy Boyington, American pilot (b. 1912)
• January 13 - Chiang Ching-kuo, President of the Republic of China (b. 1910)
• January 14 - Georgi Malenkov, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party (b. 1902)
• January 15 - Seán MacBride, Irish Republican Army leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1904)
• January 16 - Ballard Berkeley, British actor (b. 1904)
• January 20 - Philippe de Rothschild, French vineyard owner (b. 1902)
• January 22 - Parker Fennelly, American comedian and actor (b. 1891)
• February 1 - Heather O'Rourke, American actress (b. 1975)
• February 3 - Robert Duncan, American poet (b. 1919)
• February 15 - Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
• February 19 - René Char, French poet (b. 1907)
  • André Frédéric Cournand, French-born physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1895)
• February 25 - Kurt Mahler, German born Australian mathematician (b. 1903)
• March 1 - Joe Besser, American actor and comedian (b. 1907)
• March 5 - Alberto Olmedo, Argentine comedian and actor (b. 1933)
• March 7
  • Divine, American actor (b. 1945)
  • Edmund Berkeley, American scientist (b. 1909)
• March 8 - Werner Hartmann, German physicist (b. 1912)
  • Henryk Szeryng, Polish-born violinist (b. 1918)
• March 9 - Kurt Georg Kiesinger, third Chancellor of Germany (b. 1904)
• March 10 - Andy Gibb, British singer (b. 1958)
• March 20 - Ralph Wright, Writer and American actor (b. 1908)
• March 31 - Sir William McMahon, twentieth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908)

April–June

• April 1 - Jim Jordan, radio show, classic old time radio (b. 1896)
• April 3 - Milt Caniff, American cartoonist (b. 1907)
• April 12 - Harry McShane, Scottish socialist (b. 1891)
• April 12 - Alan Paton, South African author (b. 1903)
• April 15 - Kenneth Williams, British actor and raconteur (b. 1926)
• April 17 - Louise Nevelson, Ukrainian-born American sculptor (b. 1900)
• April 18 - Pierre Desproges, French humorist (b. 1939)
• April 23 - Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1904)
• April 26 - James McCracken, American tenor (b. 1926)
• April 26 - Valerie Solanas, American author (b. 1936)
• May 3 - Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Russian mathematician (b. 1908)
• May 8 - Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction author (b. 1907)
• May 10 - Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (b. 1902)
• May 10 - Ciaran Bourke, member of The Dubliners died of a brain hemorrhage.
• May 11 - Kim Philby, British spy (b. 1912)
• May 12 - Chet Baker, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1929)
• May 16 - Charles Keeping, British illustrator (b. 1924)
• May 18 - Daws Butler, voice actor (b. 1916)
• May 21 - Sammy Davis, Sr., American dancer (b. 1900)
• May 25 - Ernst Ruska, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• May 27 - Florida Friebus, American actor (b. 1909)
• June 22 - Dennis Day, Irish-American singer and radio and television personality (b. 1916)
• June 25 - Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born guitarist ( Red Hot Chili Peppers) (b. 1962)

July–September

• July 4 - Adrian Adonis, American wrestler (b. 1954)
• July 8 - Ray Barbuti, American athlete (b. 1905)
• July 17 - Bruiser Brody, American professional wrestler (b. 1946)
• July 18 - Nico, singer-songwriter, fashion model, actress and Warhol socialite (b. 1938)
• July 21 - Jack Clark, American television personality and Game Show host (b. 1921)
• July 25 - Judith Barsi, American child actress (b. 1978)
• July 27 - Frank Zamboni, American inventor (b. 1901)
• July 31 - Trinidad Silva, American actor (b. 1950)
• August 2 - Raymond Carver, American short-story writer & poet (b. 1938)
• August 8 - Félix Leclerc, French-Canadian poet & singer (b. 1914)
• August 8 - Alan Napier, American actor (b. 1903)
• August 9 - Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer (b. 1905)
• August 9 - Ramon Valdez, Mexican actor (b. 1923)
• August 11 - Anne Ramsey, American actress (b. 1929)
• August 12 - Jean-Michel Basquiat, American musician/graffiti painter (b. 1960)
• August 14 - Enzo Ferrari, Italian car maker (b. 1898)
• August 17 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1914)
• August 17 - Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, leader of Pakistan (b. 1924)
• August 27 - William Sargant, British psychiatrist (b. 1907)
• August 27 - Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (b. 1928)
• September 1 - Luis Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• September 5 - Gert Fröbe, German actor (b. 1913)
• September 12 - Roger Hargreaves, author of the Mr. Men series (b. 1935)
• September 16 - Dick Pym, English footballer (b. 1893)
• September 18 - Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar, Iranian Azari poet (b. 1906)
• September 21 - Glenn Robert Davis, member of United States Congress (b. 1914)
• September 28 - Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912)

October–December

• October 1 - Sacheverell Sitwell, English writer (b. 1897)
• October 9 - Jackie Milburn, English footballer (b. 1924)
• October 12 - Ruth Manning-Sanders, British children's author (b. 1895)
• October 15 - Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English composer and pianist (b. 1892)
• October 19 - Son House, American musician (b. 1902)
• October 22 - Henry Armstrong, American boxer (b. 1912)
• October 27 - Charles Hawtrey, English Comic Actor (b. 1914)
• October 31 - John Houseman, Romanian-born actor and producer (b. 1902)
• November 9 - John N. Mitchell, U.S. Attorney General and convicted Watergate criminal (b. 1913)
• November 11 - William Ifor Jones, Welsh conductor & organist (b. 1900)
• November 13 - Antal Dorati, Hungarian conductor (b. 1906)
• November 19 - Christina Onassis, American shipping magnate (b. 1950)
• November 27 - John Carradine, American actor (b. 1906)
• December 2 - Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist ( Quartetto Cetra) (b. 1922)
• December 6 - Roy Orbison, American singer (b. 1936)
• December 16 - Sylvester James, American R&B singer, disco performer (b. 1948)
• December 21 - Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch ornithologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1907)
• December 26 - Glenn McCarthy, American oil tycoon and businessman (b. 1907)

Nobel prizes

• Physics - Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz, Jack Steinberger
• Chemistry - Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber, Hartmut Michel
• Medicine - Sir James W. Black, Gertrude B. Elion, George H. Hitchings
• Literature - Naguib Mahfouz
• Peace - The United Nations Peace-Keeping Forces.
• The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel - Maurice Allais

Templeton Prize

• Inamullah Khan

Right Livelihood Award

• International Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims / Dr. Inge Kemp Genefke
• José Lutzenberger
• John F. Charlewood Turner
• Sahabat Alam Malaysia / Mohamed Idris, Harrison Ngau, the Penan people.