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This is a list of events from the year 1988 in the United States.

Incumbents[]

Federal government[]

  • President: Ronald Reagan (R-California)
  • Vice President: George H. W. Bush (R-Texas)
  • Chief Justice: William Rehnquist (Wisconsin)
  • Speaker of the House of Representatives: Jim Wright (D-Texas)
  • Senate Majority Leader: Robert Byrd (D-West Virginia)
  • Congress: 100th

Events[]

January[]

  • January 1 –
    • The Dell Computer Corporation is incorporated.
    • The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is established, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States.
  • January 2 – Michigan State Spartans football team wins the Rose Bowl Game against the USC Trojans.
  • January 4 – Nick Jr. begins as a block of Nickelodeon programming for younger children.
  • January 25 – U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush and CBS News anchor Dan Rather clash over Bush's role in the Iran–Contra scandal during a contentious television interview.
  • January 29 – The Midwest Classic Conference, a U.S. college athletic conference, is formed.

February[]

  • February 3 – The Democratic-controlled United States House of Representatives rejects President Ronald Reagan's request for $36,250,000 to support the Nicaraguan Contras.
  • February 12 – Anthony M. Kennedy is appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States.
  • February 16 – Gunman Richard Farley kills seven people inside his former workplace, ESL Incorporated in Sunnyvale, California. He had been stalking colleague Laura Black who still worked there; however, she survived the shooting. Farley is currently on death row.
  • February 17 – U.S. Lieutenant Colonel William R. Higgins, serving with a United Nations group monitoring a truce in southern Lebanon, is kidnapped (he is later killed by his captors).
  • February 24 – Hustler Magazine v. Falwell: The Supreme Court of the United States sides with Hustler magazine by overturning a lower court decision to award Jerry Falwell $200,000 for defamation.

March[]

  • March 8 –
    • Two U.S. Army helicopters collide in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, killing 17 servicemen.
    • U.S. presidential candidate George Herbert Walker Bush defeats Bob Dole in numerous Republican primaries and caucuses on "Super Tuesday". The bipartisan primary/caucus calendar, designed by Democrats to help solidify their own nominee early, backfires when none of the six competing candidates are able to break out of the pack in the day's Democratic contests. Jesse Jackson, however, wins several Southern state primaries.
  • March 13 – Following the Deaf President Now protests, Gallaudet University selects I. King Jordan as the first deaf president in its history.
  • March 16 –
    • First RepublicBank of Texas fails and enters FDIC receivership, the second-largest FDIC assisted bank failure up to that point.
    • Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
  • March 26 – U.S. presidential candidate Jesse Jackson defeats Michael Dukakis in the Michigan Democratic caucuses, becoming the frontrunner temporarily for the party's nomination. Richard Gephardt withdraws his candidacy after his campaign speeches against imported automobiles fail to earn him much support in Detroit.

April[]

  • Throughout the Month – The unemployment rate drops to 5.4%, the lowest since June 1974.
  • April 1 – In Fort Wayne, Indiana, 8-year-old April Marie Tinsley is kidnapped and murdered.
  • April 4 – Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona is convicted in his impeachment trial and removed from office.
  • April 5 – Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis wins the Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary.
  • April 11 – The 60th Academy Awards, hosted by Chevy Chase, are held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor wins all nine of its nominations (the first film to do so since 1958's Gigi), including Best Picture and Best Director.
  • April 12 – Former pop singer Sonny Bono is elected Mayor of Palm Springs, California.
  • April 14 – The USS Samuel B. Roberts strikes a naval mine in the Persian Gulf, while deployed on Operation Earnest Will, during the Tanker War phase of the Iran–Iraq War.
  • April 18 – The United States Navy retaliates for the Roberts mining with Operation Praying Mantis, in a day of strikes against Iranian oil platforms and naval vessels.

May[]

  • May 4 – PEPCON disaster in Henderson, Nevada: A major explosion at an industrial solid-fuel rocket plant causes damage extending up to ten miles away, including Las Vegas's McCarran International Airport.
  • May 14 – Bus collision near Carrollton, Kentucky: A drunk driver traveling in the wrong direction on Interstate 71 hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group from Radcliff, Kentucky. The resulting fire kills 27 people, making it tied for first in the U.S. for most fatalities involving 2 vehicles to the present day. Coincidentally, the other 2-vehicle accident involving a bus that also killed 27 occurred in Prestonsburg, Kentucky thirty years prior.
  • May 16 –
    • A report by U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
    • California v. Greenwood: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that police officers do not need a search warrant to search through discarded garbage.
  • May 27 – Microsoft releases Windows 2.1.
  • May 31 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan addresses 600 Moscow State University students during his visit to the Soviet Union.

June[]

  • June 1 – The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, banning intermediate-range missiles in the United States and the Soviet Union, comes into effect.
  • June 14 – The Yellowstone wildfires begin.
  • June 22 – Back to the Future director Robert Zemeckis releases Who Framed Roger Rabbit through Touchstone Pictures to universal acclaim and box office success. It brings a renewed interest in the Golden Age of American animation, spearheading modern American animation and the Disney Renaissance.
  • June 28 – Four workers are asphyxiated at a metal-plating plant in Auburn, Indiana, in the worst confined-space industrial accident in U.S. history (a fifth victim dies two days later).
  • June 29 – Morrison v. Olson: The United States Supreme Court upholds the law allowing special prosecutors to investigate suspected crimes by executive branch officials.

July[]

  • July 3 – Iran Air Flight 655 is shot down by a missile launched from the USS Vincennes.
  • July 4 – In Zurich Switzerland FIFA chose the United States as the venue to organize the 1994 FIFA World Cup, the United States won with 10 votes, surpassed Morocco with 7 votes and Brazil with 3 votes.
  • July 6 – The first reported medical waste on beaches in the Greater New York area (including hypodermic needles and syringes possibly infected with the AIDS virus) washes ashore on Long Island. Subsequent medical waste discoveries on beaches in Coney Island, Brooklyn and in Monmouth County, New Jersey force the closure of numerous New York–area beaches in the middle of one of the hottest summers on record in the American Northeast.
  • July 13 – Miami Arena in Miami, Florida opens.
  • July 14 – Volkswagen closes its Westmoreland Assembly Plant after ten years of operation (the first factory built by a non-American automaker in the U.S.).
  • July 20 – The Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, Georgia nominates Michael Dukakis as their presidential candidate and Lloyd Bentsen as his running mate.
  • July 26 – The death of Tate Rowland leads way to publicized rumors of a Satanic cult in the rural community of Childress, Texas.

August[]

  • August 6-7 – Tompkins Square Park Police Riot in New York City: A riot erupts in Tompkins Square Park when police attempt to enforce a newly passed curfew for the park. Bystanders, artists, residents, homeless people and political activists are caught up in the police action, which takes place during the night of August 6 and into the early morning of August 7.
  • August 9 – Wrigley Field has its first night game of baseball, ending long opposition to lights at the field.
  • August 17 – Pakistani President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Arnold Raphel, are killed in a plane crash near Bhawalpur.
  • August 18 – The Republican National Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana nominates Vice President George H. W. Bush as their presidential candidate and Dan Quayle as his running mate.

September[]

September 29: STS-26, "Return to Flight"
September 29: The TDRS is prepared for deployment.
  • September 5 – With the US's largest thrift institution, American Savings and Loan Association, entering receivership, the Robert M. Bass Group (headed by Robert Bass) agrees to buy its good assets with US$1.7 billion in federal aid (completed December).[1]
  • September 10 – Kids' Court debuts on Nickelodeon.
  • September 15 – Nicholas F. Brady is sworn in as the new Secretary of Treasury, succeeding James Baker.[citation needed]
  • September 17-October 2 – The United States participates in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea and ranks in third place, bringing home 36 gold, 31 silver and 27 bronze medals for a total of 94 medals behind the Soviet Union in first place and East Germany in second.
  • September 29 – STS-26: NASA resumes Space Shuttle flights, grounded after the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, with Space Shuttle Discovery going back into orbit and deploying the TDRS-3 satellite, putting the US back into the Space Race.

October[]

  • October 3 – STS-26 lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California after four days of its successful maiden flight and satellite deployment.
  • October 5 – In Omaha, Nebraska, in the only vice presidential debate of the 1988 U.S. presidential election, the Republican vice presidential nominee, Senator Dan Quayle of Indiana, insists he has as much experience in government as John F. Kennedy did when he sought the presidency in 1960. His Democratic opponent, Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas, replies, "Senator, I knew Jack Kennedy. I served with Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy." The audience response to Senator Bentsen's remark is overwhelmingly positive.
  • October 13 – In the second U.S. presidential debate, held by U.C.L.A., the Democratic Party nominee, Michael Dukakis, is asked by journalist Bernard Shaw of CNN if he would support the death penalty if his wife, "Kitty", were to be raped and murdered. Gov. Dukakis' reply, voicing his opposition to capital punishment in any and all circumstances, is later said to have been a major reason for the eventual failure of his campaign for the White House.
  • October 15 – Kirk Gibson hits a dramatic home run to win Game 1 of the World Series for the Los Angeles Dodgers, over the Oakland Athletics, by a score of 5–4.
  • October 20 – The Los Angeles Dodgers defeat the Oakland Athletics, 4 games to 1, to win their 6th World Series Title.
  • October 27 – Ronald Reagan decides to tear down the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow because of Soviet listening devices in the building structure.
  • October 30 – Philip Morris buys Kraft Foods for US$13,100,000,000.[2]
  • October 31 – National Park of American Samoa is established.

November[]

November 8: George H. W. Bush elected President
  • Throughout the Month – The unemployment rate drops to 5.3%, the lowest level since May 1974.
  • November 2 – The Morris worm, the first computer worm distributed via the Internet, written by Robert Tappan Morris, is launched from MIT.
  • November 8 – 1988 United States presidential election: George H. W. Bush is elected as 41st President of the United States over Democratic opponent, Michael Dukakis.
  • November 11 – In Sacramento, California, police find a body buried in the lawn of sixty-year-old landlady Dorothea Puente. Seven bodies are eventually found and Puente is convicted of three murders and sentenced to life in prison.
  • November 13 – Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian law student in Portland, Oregon is beaten to death by members of the Neo-Nazi group East Side White Pride.
  • November 18
    • War on Drugs: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill providing the death penalty for murderous drug traffickers.
    • Walt Disney Feature Animation's 27th feature film, Oliver & Company, is released to financial success but a mixed critical reception. The same day, former Disney animator and director Don Bluth released The Land Before Time to more positive reception.
  • November 21 – Ted Turner officially buys Jim Crockett Promotions, known as NWA Crockett, and turns it into World Championship Wrestling (WCW).
  • November 22 – In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed.
  • November 30 – Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. buys RJR Nabisco for US$25,000,700,000 in the biggest leveraged buyout deal of all time.

December[]

  • December 1 – The first World AIDS Day is observed.
  • December 9 – The last Dodge Aries and Plymouth Reliant roll off the assembly line in a Chrysler factory.
  • December 12 – Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev begins an official visit to the United States.[3]
  • December 14 – After Yasir Arafat renounces violence, the U.S. says it will open dialogue with the PLO.
  • December 16 – Perennial U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche is convicted of mail fraud.
  • December 19 – Gorbachev cuts short his visit to the United States and returns home to the Soviet Union, as thousands of people have died in an earthquake in Armenia.[4]
  • December 21 – Pan Am Flight 103 is destroyed by a bomb over Lockerbie, Scotland, United Kingdom; killing 270 people, including 178 U.S. citizens.

Undated[]

  • BlackRock founded as a global asset management company in New York City by Larry Fink and others; it will become the world's largest.

Ongoing[]

  • Cold War (1947–1991)

Births[]

Ashleigh Murray
  • January 2 – Mandy Harvey, jazz and pop singer
  • January 3 – J. R. Hildebrand, race car driver
  • January 8
    • Allison Harvard, model
    • Lily Nicksay, actress
  • January 12 – Andrew Lawrence, actor, singer and director
  • January 14 – Hakeem Nicks, American football player
  • January 15
    • Skrillex, musician and DJ
    • Jessica Poland, singer-songwriter
  • January 18 – Ashleigh Murray, actress and singer
  • January 19 – JaVale McGee, basketball player
  • January 21 – Vanessa Hessler, American-Italian model and actress
  • January 22 – Nick Palatas, actor
  • January 28 – Alexandra Krosney, actress
  • January 29 – Cyntoia Brown, murderer of Johnny Mitchell Allen and convicted robber[5]
  • January 30 – Rob Pinkston, actor
  • February 2 – Zosia Mamet, actress
  • February 4 – Charlie Barnett, actor
  • February 6
    • Anna Diop, actress
    • Bailey Hanks, singer, actress and dancer
  • February 7 – Matthew Stafford, American football player
  • February 12
    • DeMarco Murray, American football player
    • Greta Morgan, singer-songwriter, pianist
    • Mike Posner, singer, songwriter, and producer
  • February 18
    • Maiara Walsh, Brazilian-American actress[6]
    • Sarah Sutherland, actress
  • February 19 – Stacie Chan, actress and voice actress
  • February 20 – Kealoha Pilares, American football player
  • February 23 – Byron Maxwell, American football player
  • February 24 – Alexander Koch, actor
  • February 25 – Gerald McCoy, American football player
  • March 1
    • Katija Pevec, actress
    • Trevor Cahill, baseball player
  • March 3 – Josh Duggar, television personality
  • March 8 – Benny Blanco, musician, songwriter and record producer
  • March 14
    • Stephen Curry, basketball player
    • Sasha Grey, porn actress and model
  • March 15 – Lil Dicky, rapper and comedian
  • March 19
    • Freddie Smith, actor
    • Clayton Kershaw, baseball player
  • March 21 – Erik Johnson, ice hockey player
  • March 22 – Tania Raymonde, actress
  • March 24 – Nick Lashaway, actor (d. 2016)
  • March 25
    • Big Sean, rapper
    • Ryan Lewis, musician
  • March 27 – Brenda Song, actress
  • March 28
    • Geno Atkins, American football player
    • Ryan Kalish, baseball player
  • March 29 – Kelly Sweet, singer
  • March 30 – Richard Sherman, American football player[7]
  • March 31 – DeAndre Liggins, basketball player
  • April 1 – Brook Lopez, basketball player
  • April 3
    • Kam Chancellor, American football player
    • Brandon Graham, American football player
  • April 10 – Haley Joel Osment, actor[8]
  • April 11 – Pete Kozma, baseball player
  • April 12 – Jessie James Decker, country pop singer and songwriter
  • April 13 – Allison Williams, actress
  • April 14 – Chris Wood, actor[9]
  • April 15 – Chris Stuckmann, film critic, filmmaker, author and YouTuber
  • April 18 – Kayleigh McEnany,political commentator White House Press Secretary
  • April 21
    • Jencarlos Canela, singer-songwriter and actor
    • Christoph Sanders, actor
  • April 25 – Sara Paxton, actress, singer and model[10]
  • April 27
    • Austin Amelio, screen actor
    • Lizzo, born Melissa Jefferson, African American singer-songwriter and rapper
  • May 1 – Nicholas Braun, actor
  • May 5
    • Jessica Dubroff, trainee aviator (d. 1996)
    • Brooke Hogan, reality star and singer
  • May 6 – Ryan Anderson, basketball player
  • May 7 – Brandon Jones, actor, musician and producer
  • May 10 – Mat Franco, magician
  • May 11 – Jeremy Maclin, American football player
  • May 13
    • Tim Maypray, American football player (d. 2019)
    • Matt McLean, Olympic swimmer
  • May 17 – Nikki Reed, actress, singer-songwriter and screenwriter
  • May 22 – Doug DeMuro, automotive columnist and Internet personality
  • May 23
  • May 24
    • Billy Gilman, singer
    • Monica Lin Brown, U.S. Army medic, Silver Star recipient
  • May 27 – Alicia Sixtos, actress
  • May 28 – NaVorro Bowman, American football player
  • June 2 – Joe Young, American football player
  • June 3 – Dave East, rapper and actor
  • June 6 – Gideon Glick, actor and singer
  • June 9
    • Mae Whitman, actress
    • Lauren Landa, voice actress
  • June 12
    • Dave Melillo, singer-songwriter and guitarist
    • Cody Horn, actress and model
  • June 14
    • Kara Killmer, actress
    • Kevin McHale, actor, dancer and singer
  • June 16
    • Banks, singer and songwriter
    • Jermaine Gresham, American football player
  • June 24
    • Nichkhun Horvejkul, American-born Thai singer
    • Candice Patton, actress
  • June 25 – Rose Schlossberg, actress, daughter of Caroline Kennedy
  • June 26 – Chris Mazdzer, luger
  • June 27 – Alanna Masterson, actress
  • June 30
    • Jack Douglass, Internet/YouTube personality, musician, and comedian
    • James Preston, actor
    • Sean Marquette, actor and voice actor
  • July 6 – Brittany Underwood, actress and singer
  • July 7 – Chase Williamson, actor and film producer
  • July 9 – Belal Muhammad, mixed martial artist
  • July 10
    • Antonio Brown, American football player
    • Heather Hemmens, actress
  • July 12
    • Patrick Beverley, basketball player
    • LeSean McCoy, American football player
    • Christine Marie Cabanos, voice actress
  • July 13
    • Colton Haynes, actor and model[11]
    • Chris Sheffield, actor
    • Steven R. McQueen, actor and model[12]
  • July 14 – Chase Williamson, actor and film producer
  • July 15 – Aimee Carrero, actress
  • July 17
    • Summer Bishil, actress
    • Anderson East, musician
    • Luke Stocker, American football player
  • July 18 – Ambyr Childers, actress
  • July 19
    • Shane Dawson, Internet personality, actor, comedian, director and author
    • Cherami Leigh, actress
    • Trent Williams, American football player
  • July 20
    • Phillip Adams, American football player and killer (d. 2021)
    • Julianne Hough, ballroom dancer, country music singer and actress
    • Stephen Strasburg, baseball player
  • July 23 – Kevin Tway, golfer
  • July 25 – Linsey Godfrey, actress
  • July 26
    • Francia Raisa, actress[13]
    • Caitlin Gerard, actress
  • July 28
    • Ayla Brown, basketball player and singer
    • Greg Hardy, American football player
  • July 30 – Nico Tortorella, actor and model
  • July 31
    • A. J. Green, American football player
    • Charlie Carver, actor
    • Krystal Meyers, singer-songwriter/musician
  • August 2 – Golden Tate, American football player
  • August 3
    • DRAM, rapper, singer, and songwriter
    • Weyes Blood, DJ, producer, singer, and songwriter
  • August 8 – Laura Slade Wiggins, actress, singer and musician
  • August 12
    • Justin Gaston, singer-songwriter, model and actor
    • Leah Pipes, actress[14]
  • August 16
    • Rumer Willis, actress and singer
    • Ryan Kerrigan, American football player
  • August 19
    • Hoodie Allen, hip-hop artist
    • Kirk Cousins, American football player
    • Veronica Roth, American author[15]
    • Romeo Miller, American basketball player, rapper, actor[16]
  • August 21 – Kacey Musgraves, country singer[17]
  • August 23
    • Jeremy Lin, basketball player
    • Kim Matula, actress
  • August 26
    • Tori Black, pornographic actress
    • Evan Ross, actor and musician
    • Danielle Savre, actress and singer
  • August 27 – Alexa Vega, actress and singer
  • August 28 – Shalita Grant, actress
  • August 31 – Tanaya Henry, model and actress
  • September 1 – Chanel West Coast, rapper, singer, actress, model and television personality
  • September 4 – Anna Li, artistic gymnast
  • September 7
    • Kevin Love, basketball player
    • Paul Iacono, actor
  • September 9 – McKey Sullivan, fashion model
  • September 10 – Jared Lee Loughner, spree killer (2011 Tucson shooting)
  • September 13 – John Park, singer
  • September 15
    • Chelsea Kane, actress and singer
    • Chloe Dykstra, actress
  • September 16 – Teddy Geiger, singer-songwriter
  • September 18 – Arizona Muse, model
  • September 21 – Doug Baldwin, American football player
  • September 19 – Katrina Bowden, actress
  • September 20 – Clark James Gable, actor, model, and television presenter (died 2019)
  • September 22 – Bethany Dillon, contemporary Christian music artist
  • September 24 – Kyle Sullivan, actor
  • September 29
    • Kevin Durant, basketball player
    • Justin Nozuka, American-Canadian singer-songwriter
  • October 1 – Nick Whitaker, American actor
  • October 2
    • Brittany Howard, musician
    • Corrin Campbell, vocalist, bassist, songwriter and pianist
  • October 4 – Melissa Benoist, actress and singer
  • October 5 – Kevin Olusola, musician, beatboxer, singer-songwriter, rapper, and record producer
  • October 10 – Linval Joseph, American football player
  • October 11 – Ricochet, professional wrestler
  • October 14
    • Max Thieriot, actor
    • MacKenzie Mauzy, actress
    • Pia Toscano, singer and American Idol contestant
  • October 17 – Dee Jay Daniels, actor
  • October 21
    • Hope Hicks, public relations consultant, White House Communications Director
    • Glen Powell, actor
  • October 22 – Corey Hawkins, actor ***
  • October 27 – Evan Turner, basketball player
  • October 30 – Janel Parrish, actress and singer
  • November 2 – Lindze Letherman, actress
  • November 4 – Dez Bryant, American football player
  • November 6
    • Robert Ellis, singer-songwriter and guitarist
    • Emma Stone, actress
  • November 7 – Reid Ewing, actor[18]
  • November 8 – Jared Kusnitz, screen actor
  • November 9
    • Nikki Blonsky, actress and singer[19]
    • Lio Tipton, credited as Analeigh Tipton through to 2021, actress and fashion model
  • November 11 – Alexandra Kyle, actress
  • November 14 – Michael Cox, American football running back
  • November 18 – Jeffrey Jordan, basketball player
  • November 20
    • Max Pacioretty, ice hockey player
    • Demetrius Shipp Jr., actor
  • November 22 – Matt Bruenig, lawyer, blogger, policy analyst and commentator
  • November 28 – Scarlett Pomers, actress
  • November 29 – Russell Wilson, American football player[20]
  • December 1
    • Ashley Monique Clark, actress
    • Tyler Joseph, singer
    • Zoë Kravitz, actress, singer and model
  • December 14
    • Nate Ebner, American football player
    • Vanessa Hudgens, actress and singer
  • December 18 – Erica Rivera, actress, singer, rapper, dancer and artist
  • December 21 – Danny Duffy, baseball player
  • December 23 – Mallory Hagan, beauty pageant titleholder
  • December 25 – Eric Gordon, basketball player
  • December 29 – Eric Berry, American football player

Deaths[]

See also: Deaths in 1988
  • January 3
    • William Cagney, actor (born 1905)
    • Joie Chitwood, race car driver and stuntman (born 1912)
  • January 5 – Pete Maravich, basketball player (born 1947)[21]
  • January 7 – Zara Cisco Brough, Nipmuc Chief (born 1919)
  • January 11
    • Pappy Boyington, pilot, United States Marine Corps fighter ace (born 1912)[22]
    • Isidor Isaac Rabi, physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944 for invention of the atomic beam magnetic resonance method of measuring magnetic properties of atoms and molecules (born 1898 in Poland)
  • January 12 – Hiram Bingham IV, American diplomat (born 1903)
  • January 22 – Parker Fennelly, comedian and actor (born 1891)
  • January 25 – Colleen Moore, actress (born 1899)[23]
  • February 1 – Heather O'Rourke, actress (born 1975)[24]
  • February 3 – Robert Duncan, poet (born 1919)[25]
  • February 14 – Frederick Loewe, composer (born 1901 in Berlin)[26]
  • February 15 – Richard Feynman, theoretical physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 for work on quantum electrodynamics (born 1918)[27]
  • February 28 – Harvey Kuenn, baseball player and coach (born 1930)[28]
  • March 1 – Joe Besser, actor and comedian (born 1907)
  • March 3 – Lois Wilson, actress (born 1894)[29]
  • March 5 – Margaret Irving, actress (born 1898)
  • March 7
    • Edmund Berkeley, computer scientist (born 1909)
    • Divine, drag singer and character actor (born 1945)[30]
    • Robert Livingston, screen actor (born 1904)[31]
  • March 8 – Deane Janis, singer (born 1904)[32]
  • March 10 – Glenn Cunningham, Olympic athlete (born 1909)[33]
  • March 12 – Karen Steele, actress (born 1931)
  • March 13
    • Olive Carey, actress (born 1896)[34]
    • John Holmes, pornographic actor (born 1944)
  • March 16 – Dorothy Adams, American character actress (born 1900)[35]
  • March 18
    • Joan Field, violinist (born 1915)[36]
    • Frank Wayne, game show producer and host (born 1917)
  • March 20 – Gil Evans, American jazz pianist (born 1912)[37]
  • March 21 – Edd Roush, baseball player (Cincinnati Reds) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame (born 1893)[38]
  • March 22 – Lester Rawlins, stage and screen director (born 1924)
  • March 25 – Robert Joffrey, dancer and choreographer (born 1930)[39][40]
  • April 3 – Milton Caniff, cartoonist (born 1907)[41]
  • April 9 – Dave Prater, rhythm and blues singer (born 1937)[42]
  • April 11 – Jesse L. Lasky Jr., screenwriter (born 1910)[43]
  • April 17 – Eva Novak, actress (born 1898)[44]
  • April 22 – Irene Rich, actress (born 1891)[45]
  • April 25
    • Carolyn Franklin, singer (born 1944)[46]
    • Valerie Solanas, radical feminist, attempted murderer of Andy Warhol (born 1936)
  • April 26
    • James McCracken, tenor (born 1926)[47]
    • Frederick D. Patterson, academic administrator (born 1901)
  • May 8
    • Robert A. Heinlein science fiction author (born 1907)[48]
    • Ruby M. Rouss, WAC and first female President of the Virgin Islands Legislature (born 1921)
  • May 13 – Chet Baker, jazz trumpeter (born 1929)[49]
  • May 15 – Andrew Duggan, actor (born 1923)[50]
  • May 16 – Kay Baxter, bodybuilder (born 1945)[51]
  • May 18 – Daws Butler, voice actor (born 1916)[52]
  • May 20 – Laurie Dann, murderer (born 1957)
  • May 21 – Sammy Davis Sr., American dancer (b. 1900)[53]
  • May 27 – Florida Friebus, actor (born 1909)[54]
  • May 30 – Ella Raines, screen actress (born 1920)[55]
  • June 8 – Eli Mintz, actor (born 1904)[56]
  • June 10 – Louis L'Amour, western novelist (born 1908)[57]
  • June 11 – Nathan Cook, actor (born 1950)[58]
  • June 16 – Kim Milford, actor and singer (born 1951)
  • June 18
    • Wilford Leach, theater director (born 1929)
    • E. Hoffmann Price, writer (born 1898)
  • June 22
    • Dennis Day, singer and radio and television personality (born 1916)[59]
    • Stuart Randall, actor (born 1909)[60]
  • June 23 – Henry Murray, psychologist (born 1893)[61]
  • July 3 – Gabriel Dell, actor (born 1919)
  • June 25 – Hillel Slovak, Israeli-American guitarist (Red Hot Chili Peppers) (born 1962)[62]
  • July 4 – Adrian Adonis, professional wrestler (born 1954)
  • July 8 – Ray Barbuti, athlete (born 1905)[63]
  • July 12 – Joshua Logan, stage and film writer (born 1908)[64]
  • July 17 – Bruiser Brody, professional wrestler (born 1946)[65]
  • July 21 – Jack Clark, television personality and game show host (born 1921)[66]
  • July 25 – Judith Barsi, actress and murder victim (born 1978)[67]
  • July 27 – Frank Zamboni, inventor (born 1901)[68]
  • July 31 – Trinidad Silva, actor (born 1950)[69]
  • August 5 – Ralph Meeker, actor (born 1920)[70]
  • August 8
  • August 10 – Adela Rogers St. Johns, journalist and screenwriter (born 1893)[71]
  • August 17 – Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., American lawyer and politician (born 1914)[72]
  • August 21 – Ray Eames, architect and designer, partner of Charles Eames (born 1912)[73]
  • August 24 – Leonard Frey, actor (born 1938)[74]
  • August 27 – Kerry Lloyd, American role-playing game designer (born 1941)[75]
  • August 28
    • Hazel Dawn, actress (born 1890)[54]
    • Max Shulman, novelist, short-story writer and dramatist (born 1919)[76]
  • September 1 – Luis Walter Alvarez, experimental physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968 for bubble chamber research into particle physics (born 1911)
  • September 6 – Harold Rosson, cinematographer (born 1895)[77]
  • September 11 – John Sylvester White, actor (born 1919)[78]
  • September 21
    • Glenn Robert Davis, politician (born 1914)[79]
    • Henry Koster, German-born film director (born 1905)
  • September 25 – Billy Carter, farmer, businessman, brewer, and politician (born 1937)[80]
  • September 28
    • Charles Addams, cartoonist (born 1912)[81]
    • Ethel Grandin, actress (born 1894)[35]
  • September 30 – Joachim Prinz, German-born American rabbi (born 1902)[82]
  • October 7 – Billy Daniels, singer (born 1915)[83]
  • October 10 – Kurt Marshall, model and actor (born 1965)
  • October 11
    • Morgan Farley, actor (born 1898)[84]
    • Wayland Flowers, puppeteer (born 1939)[85]
  • October 12 – Ken Murray, actor (born 1903)[86]
  • October 31 – John Houseman, screen actor-producer (born 1902 in Romania)
  • November 1 – George J. Folsey, cinematographer (born 1898)[87]
  • November 9 – John N. Mitchell, lawyer, 67th United States Attorney General (born 1913)[88]
  • November 12 – Lyman Lemnitzer, Army General (born 1899)[89]
  • November 25 – Alphaeus Philemon Cole, portrait artist, engraver and supercentenarian (born 1876)[90]
  • November 27 – Angela Aames, American actress (born 1956)
  • November 29 – Donald Keyhoe, American ufologist (born 1897)
  • December 6
    • Timothy Patrick Murphy, actor (born 1959)[91]
    • Roy Orbison, singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1936)
  • December 7
    • Christopher Connelly, actor (born 1941)
    • Dorothy Jordan, actress (born 1906)[92]
  • December 14 – Stuart Symington, politician (born 1901)
  • December 17 – Jerry Hopper, film and television director (born 1907)[93]
  • December 20 – Max Robinson, broadcast journalist, and ABC News World News Tonight co-anchor (born 1939)[94]
  • December 21
    • Willie Kamm, baseball player (born 1900)
    • Bob Steele, actor (born 1907)[95]
  • December 26 – Glenn McCarthy, oil tycoon and businessman (born 1907)[96]
  • December 27
    • Hal Ashby, film director (born 1929)[97]
    • Jess Oppenheimer, radio and television producer (born 1913)
  • December 30 – Isamu Noguchi, artist and landscape architect (born 1904)

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