Famous people died in 1988

Chet Baker was an American singer and jazz trumpeter

Joshua Lockwood Logan III was an American film and stage director

Henry Koster was a German-born American screenwriter, cartoonist and painter who started as a film critic and ended up being a director

Isidor Isaac Rabi was a Poland-born American physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1944

Nikolaas Tinbergen was a Dutch biologist known for his discoveries concerning social behavior patterns in animals

Trevor Howard was an English actor best known for his role of a sensitive doctor in the romantic drama film, ‘Brief Encounter’.

Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American graffiti artist who was one of the leading lights of the neo expressionist era in the 1980s

Ernst Ruska was a German physicist who invented the electron microscope

Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs was a German theoretical physicist and an atomic spy who provided valuable information to the Soviet Union

Luis Alvarez was a famous American physicist who proposed the theory that dinosaurs faced extinction owing to an asteroid impact