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 Edit

 
Yellowstone fires of 1988 near Old Faithful

Births Edit

 
Adele in 2016

Deaths Edit

January Edit

 
Chiang Ching-kuo
 
Georgy Malenkov

February Edit

 
Richard Feynman

March Edit

 
Kurt Georg Kiesinger
 
Andy Gibb
 
William McMahon

April Edit

 
Alan Paton

May Edit

 
Robert A. Heinlein

June Edit

 
Giuseppe Saragat

July Edit

 
Judith Barsi

August Edit

 
Enzo Ferrari
 
Lazarus Salii
 
Jack Marshall

September Edit

 
Luis Walter Alvarez

October Edit

 
Franz Josef Strauß

November Edit

 
Takeo Miki

December Edit

 
Roy Orbison

Nobel Prizes Edit