# 1988

1988 in other calendars| Gregorian calendar | 1988 *MCMLXXXVIII* |
| Ab urbe condita | 2741 |
| Armenian calendar | 1437 ԹՎ ՌՆԼԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6738 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 144–145 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1909–1910 |
| Bengali calendar | 1395 |
| Berber calendar | 2938 |
| British Regnal year | 36 Eliz. 2 – 37 Eliz. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2532 |
| Burmese calendar | 1350 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7496–7497 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 4684 or 4624     *— to —* 戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 4685 or 4625 |
| Coptic calendar | 1704–1705 |
| Discordian calendar | 3154 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1980–1981 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5748–5749 |
| Hindu calendars |  |
|  - *Vikram Samvat* | 2044–2045 |
|  - *Shaka Samvat* | 1909–1910 |
|  - *Kali Yuga* | 5088–5089 |
| Holocene calendar | 11988 |
| Igbo calendar | 988–989 |
| Iranian calendar | 1366–1367 |
| Islamic calendar | 1408–1409 |
| Japanese calendar | Shōwa 63 (昭和６３年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1920–1921 |
| Juche calendar | 77 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4321 |
| Minguo calendar | ROC 77 民國77年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 520 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2531 |
| Tibetan calendar | མེ་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Fire-Hare) 2114 or 1733 or 961     *— to —* ས་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Earth-Dragon) 2115 or 1734 or 962 |
| Unix time | 567993600 – 599615999 |

**1988** (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday in the Gregorian calendar.

## Events

Yellowstone fires of 1988 near Old Faithful
* February 13 – Michael Jackson purchases a ranch in Santa Ynez, California. He calls his new home "Neverland".
* March 12 – Record producer Jimmy Iovine presents the Special Olympics with a donation of $5 million, which was raised with the release of the A Very Special Christmas album.
* April 19 – Former rock and roll singer Sonny Bono becomes the mayor of Palm Springs, California.
* May 1 – Citing the 1st Amendment, a judge drops all charges filed against singer Billy Joel. Joel was being sued by Jack Powers for defamation following an interview with Playboy in which he called Powers a "creep".
* June 14 – A small wildfire starts in Montana near Yellowstone National Park. It joins other fires. Eventually, over 750,000 acres (3,000 km2) of Yellowstone burns before firefighters gain control in late September.
* July 1 – Quartetto Cetra's last concert
* August 20 – The Iran–Iraq War ends
* September 16 – rapper Eazy-E releases his first album *Eazy-Duz-It*
* November 1 – Bad Religion releases *Suffer*
* Hurricane Gilbert strikes the Caribbean, Mexico and south Texas
* November 24 – Mystery Science Theater 3000 premieres
* December 7 – A powerful earthquake kills nearly 25,000 people in Soviet Armenia
* December 21 – A Pan-Am airplane explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing more than 270 people
* Ankst music label founded
* Peter Ruzicka becomes director of the Hamburg State Opera and State Philharmonic Orchestra
* "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" experiences a surge in popularity sparked by television commercials featuring claymation raisin figures dancing to the song. The California Raisins version of the song peaks at No. 84 on Billboard's Hot 100.

## Births

Adele in 2016
Virat Kohli in 2017
### January

* January 12 – Chris Casement, Northern Irish footballer

### February

* February 17 - Adil Rashid, English cricketer
* February 20 – Rihanna, Barbadian singer
* February 29 – Lena Gercke, German model

### March

* March 27 – Brenda Song, American actress and singer

### April

* April 27 – Lizzo, American musician
* April 29 – Jonathan Toews, Canadian Professional ice hockey player for the Chicago Blackhawks

### May

* May 5 – Adele, British singer-songwriter

### June

* June 6 – Ajinkya Rahane, Indian cricketer
* June 7 – Michael Cera, Canadian actor

### July

* July 3 - Adrián Puentes, Cuban archer
* July 14 – Conor McGregor, Irish boxer
* July 16 – Sergio Busquets, Spanish footballer

### August

* August 10 – Kateryna Pavlenko, Ukrainian singer, composer and folklorist
* August 21 – Kacey Musgraves, American singer-songwriter and musician
* August 25 – Alexandra Burke, British singer

### September

### October

* October 15 – Mesut Özil, German footballer

### November

* November 5 – Virat Kohli, Indian cricketer
* November 6 – Emma Stone, American actress
* November 8 - Chris McNally, Canadian actor
* November 19 – Patrick Kane, American professional ice hockey for the Chicago Blackhawks
* November 25 – Nodar Kumaritashvili, Georgian luger (d. 2010)

### December

* December 14 – Vanessa Hudgens, American actress

* Ming Kipa, youngest person to climb Mount Everest

## Deaths

### January

Chiang Ching-kuo
Georgy Malenkov
* January 3 – Rose Auslander, German poet (b. 1901)
* January 3 – Gaston Eyskens, Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1905)
* January 5 – Pete Maravich, basketball player (b. 1947)
* January 7 – Trevor Howard, English actor (b. 1913)
* January 11 – Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist (b. 1898)
* January 13 – Chiang Ching-kuo, 3rd President of the Republic of China (b. 1910)
* January 14 – Georgy Malenkov, 5th Prime Minister of the Soviet Union (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)

### February

Richard Feynman
* February 1 – Heather O'Rourke, American actress (b. 1975)
* February 13 – John Curulewski, American guitarist (Styx) (b. 1950)
* February 15 – Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)

### March

Kurt Georg Kiesinger
Andy Gibb
William McMahon
* March 7 – Divine, American actor and singer (b. 1945)
* March 9 – Kurt Georg Kiesinger, 3rd Chancellor of Germany (b. 1904)
* March 10 – Andy Gibb, singer (b. 1958)
* March 10 – Phạm Hùng, Vietnamese prime minister (b. 1912)
* March 31 – Sir William McMahon, twentieth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908)

### April

Alan Paton
* April 12 – Alan Paton, South African author (b. 1903)
* April 17 - Louise Nevelson, American sculptor
* April 25 - Valerie Solanas, American author (b. 1936)

### May

Robert A. Heinlein
* May 8 – Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction writer (b. 1907)
* May 11 – Kim Philby, British agent and spy (b. 1912)
* May 14 – Willem Drees, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1886)
* May 25 – Ernst Ruska, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)

### June

Giuseppe Saragat
* June 7 - Vernon Washington, American actor (b. 1927)
* June 11 – Giuseppe Saragat, 5th President of Italy (b. 1898)
* June 25 – Hillel Slovak, American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers) (b. 1962)

### July

Judith Barsi
* July 25 – Judith Barsi, American child actress (b. 1978)

### August

Enzo Ferrari
Lazarus Salii
Jack Marshall
* August 2 – Raymond Carver, American writer (b. 1938)
* August 10 – Arnulfo Arias, President of Panama (b. 1901)
* August 14 – Enzo Ferrari, Italian car maker (b. 1898)
* August 17 – Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, President of Pakistan (b. 1924)
* August 20 – Lazarus Salii, President of Palau (b. 1937)
* August 30 – Jack Marshall, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1912)

### September

Luis Walter Alvarez
* September 1 – Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
* September 5 - Gert Fröbe, German actor (b. 1913)
* September 11 - Roger Hargreaves, English writer (b. 1934)
* September 30 – Trường Chinh, former President of Vietnam (b. 1907)

### October

Franz Josef Strauß
* October 3 – Franz Josef Strauß, German politician (b. 1915)

### November

Takeo Miki
* November 4 – Kleanthis Vikelidis, Greek footballer (b. 1916)
* November 14 – Takeo Miki, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1907)
* November 27 – Angela Aames, American actress (b. 1956)
* November 27 – John Carradine, American actor (b. 1906)

### December

Roy Orbison
* December 3 – Thawan Thamrongnawasawat, Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1901)
* December 4 – Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist (b. 1899)
* December 6 – Roy Orbison, American singer (b. 1936)

## Nobel Prizes

* Nobel Prize in Physics shared by Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz, and Jack Steinberger for their research on neutrinos
* Nobel Prize in Chemistry shared by Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber, and Hartmut Michel
* Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine shared by Sir James W. Black, Gertrude B. Elion, and George H. Hitchings
* Nobel Prize in Literature won by Naguib Mahfouz, an Egyptian writer
* Nobel Peace Prize won by The United Nations Peace-Keeping Forces
* Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences won by Maurice Allais, French economist

## Other websites

 Media related to 1988 at Wikimedia Commons