Famous People Who Died in 1988

• Baker, Chet

  The druggie white jazz trumpeter who also crooned

• Boyington, Gregory 'Pappy'

  The World War II pilot made famous on TV's Baa Baa Black Sheep

• Caniff, Milton

  The creator of "Terry and the Pirates"

• Carver, Raymond

  American short-story writer

• Feynman, Richard

  The Nobel-winning author of Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman

• Fuchs, Klaus

  The physicist who gave secrets to the Soviets in WWII

• Heinlein, Robert A.

  The author of Stranger in a Strange Land

• L'Amour, Louis

  Author of many westerns, including Hondo

• Mitchell, John

  President Nixon's Attorney General convicted over Watergate

• Nico

  Spooky vocalist who was with the Velvet Underground

• Orbison, Roy

  Singer of "Only the Lonely"

• Philby, Harold "Kim"

  British "Master Spy" and Soviet double-agent

• Solanas, Valerie

  The woman who shot Andy Warhol

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