Approximately 145,302 people died worldwide on August 17, 1988.

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People who died on August 17, 1988 (the exact day you were born)

  • Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, 6th President of Pakistan
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States
  • Victoria Shaw, Australian-born American actress

Natural disasters in 1988

  • 1988 Spitak earthquake
  • Hurricane Gilbert

People who died on August 17 (various years)

  • 2007 - Eddie Griffin, American basketball player
  • 2007 - Bill Deedes, British journalist and politician
  • 2005 - John Bahcall, American astrophysicist
  • 2004 - Gérard Souzay, French baritone
  • 2004 - Thea Astley, Australian writer
  • 1995 - Ted Whitten, Australian rules footballer
  • 1995 - Howard Koch, American screenwriter
  • 1994 - Jack Sharkey, American boxer
  • 1993 - Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician
  • 1992 - Al Parker, American adult film actor
  • 1990 - Pearl Bailey, American singer and actress
  • 1987 - Rudolf Hess, Nazi deputy
  • 1983 - Ira Gershwin, American lyricist
  • 1979 - Vivian Vance, American actress
  • 1973 - Conrad Aiken, American author
  • 1973 - Paul Williams, American singer (The Temptations)
  • 1973 - Jean Barraqué, French composer
  • 1971 - Wilhelm List, German field marshal
  • 1970 - Rattana Pestonji, Thai filmmaker
  • 1969 - Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel laureate
  • 1962 - Peter Fechter trying to cross the Berlin Wall
  • 1954 - Billy Murray, American recording artist
  • 1940 - Billy Fiske, American aviator and Olympic athlete
  • 1925 - Ioan Slavici, Transylvanian writer of Romanian origin
  • 1920 - Ray Chapman, American baseball player
  • 1918 - Moisei Uritsky, Russian revolutionary
  • 1901 - Edmond Audran, French composer
  • 1896 - Bridget Driscoll, world's first automobile fatality
  • 1880 - Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist
  • 1875 - Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist
  • 1850 - Don José de San Martín, Argentine general
  • 1834 - Husein Gradaščević, Bosnian rebel leader
  • 1786 - King Frederick II of Prussia
  • 1785 - Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of the Colony and the state of Connecticut
  • 1768 (N. S.) - Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet
  • 1723 - Joseph Bingham, English scholar
  • 1720 - Anne Lefèvre, French scholar
  • 1676 - Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen, German novelist
  • 1673 - Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist
  • 1657 - Robert Blake, British admiral
  • 1510 - Edmund Dudley, English statesman
  • 1304 - Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan
  • 1153 - Eustace IV of Boulogne, son of Stephen of England

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