1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1988th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 988th year of the 2nd millennium, the 88th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1980s decade.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 19th century20th century21st century
Decades: 1950s  1960s  1970s  – 1980s –  1990s  2000s  2010s
Years: 1985 1986 198719881989 1990 1991

Events change

 
Yellowstone fires of 1988 near Old Faithful

Births change

 
Adele in 2016
 
Virat Kohli in 2017

Deaths change

January change

 
Chiang Ching-kuo
 
Georgy Malenkov

February change

 
Richard Feynman

March change

 
Kurt Georg Kiesinger
 
Andy Gibb
 
William McMahon

April change

 
Alan Paton

May change

 
Robert A. Heinlein

June change

 
Giuseppe Saragat

July change

 
Judith Barsi

August change

 
Enzo Ferrari
 
Lazarus Salii
 
Jack Marshall

September change

 
Luis Walter Alvarez

October change

 
Franz Josef Strauß

November change

 
Takeo Miki

December change

 
Roy Orbison

Nobel Prizes change