Famous People Who Died at Age 88

From the Who2 database of 4,809 musicians, actors, historical figures, and other celebrities:

• Felix, Maria (at 88 years exactly on April 8, 2002)

• Robertson, Cliff (natural causes at 88 years and a day on September 10, 2011)

• Russell, Harold (died of a heart attack at 88 years 15 days on January 29, 2002)

• Gilberto, João (at 88 years 26 days on July 6, 2019)

• Davis, Ann B. (at 88 years 27 days on June 1, 2014)

• Shriver, Eunice Kennedy (natural causes at 88 years 32 days on August 11, 2009)

• Astaire, Fred (died of pneumonia at 88 years 43 days on June 22, 1987)

• Crick, Francis (died of colon cancer at 88 years 50 days on July 28, 2004)

• Bradley, Omar (at 88 years 55 days on April 8, 1981)

• Fletcher, Louise (at 88 years 63 days on September 23, 2022)

• Redenbacher, Orville (died of drowning at 88 years 66 days on September 20, 1995)

• Kamen, Jack (died of complications from cancer at 88 years 68 days on August 5, 2008)

• Le Guin, Ursula K. (at 88 years 93 days on January 22, 2018)

• Evans, Dale (died of heart failure at 88 years 99 days on February 7, 2001)

• Hearst, William Randolph (at 88 years 107 days on August 14, 1951)

• Montgomery, Bernard Law (at 88 years 129 days on March 25, 1976)

• Bunsen, Robert (at 88 years 138 days on August 16, 1899)

• Breslin, Jimmy (died of pneumonia at 88 years 153 days on March 19, 2017)

• Carpenter, Scott (at 88 years 162 days on October 10, 2013)

• Miller, Henry (at 88 years 164 days on June 7, 1980)

• Kurosawa, Akira (at 88 years 167 days on September 6, 1998)

• Morrison, Toni (at 88 years 168 days on August 5, 2019)

• Russell, Bill (at 88 years 169 days on July 31, 2022)

• Hillary, Sir Edmund (died of heart failure at 88 years 175 days on January 11, 2008)

• Henson, Matthew (died of cerebral hemorrhage at 88 years 213 days on March 9, 1955)

• Harrison, Anna (at 88 years 215 days on February 25, 1864)

• Freud, Lucian (at 88 years 224 days on July 20, 2011)

• Pirsig, Robert (at 88 years 230 days on April 24, 2017)

• Truman, Harry S. (died of heart failure at 88 years 232 days on December 26, 1972)

• Chaplin, Charlie (at 88 years 253 days on December 25, 1977)

• Woodhull, Victoria Claflin (at 88 years 260 days on June 10, 1927)

• West, Adam (died of leukemia at 88 years 263 days on June 9, 2017)

• Holm, Ian (at 88 years 281 days on June 19, 2020)

• Frost, Robert (at 88 years 309 days on January 29, 1963)

• Bhumibol Adulyadej, King (at 88 years 313 days on October 13, 2016)

• Corrigan, Douglas (at 88 years 321 days on December 9, 1995)

• Bowles, Paul (at 88 years 323 days on November 18, 1999)

• Philbin, Regis (died of a heart attack at 88 years 334 days on July 24, 2020)

• Sutherland, Donald (at 88 years 339 days on June 20, 2024)

• Bannister, Roger (Parkinson's Disease at 88 years 345 days on March 3, 2018)

• Michelangelo (at 88 years 349 days on February 18, 1564)

• Rumsfeld, Donald (died of multiple myeloma at 88 years 355 days on June 29, 2021)

• Como, Perry (at 88 years 359 days on May 12, 2001)

• Walsh, M. Emmet (at 88 years 363 days on March 19, 2024)

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