Approximately 145,422 people died worldwide on October 11, 1988.
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People who died on October 11, 1988 (the exact day you were born)

• Bonita Granville, American actress

Natural disasters in 1988

• 1988 Spitak earthquake
• Hurricane Gilbert

People who died on October 11 (various years)

• 2006 - Benito Martínez, Cuban who claimed to be the oldest person (b. ?1880)
• 2006 - Howard Kerzner, Chief Executive Officer of Kerzner International
• 2006 - Cory Lidle, American baseball pitcher
• 2005 - Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee, Linguist, and writer of Pakistan
• 2005 - Edward Szczepanik, Polish economist and Prime Minister in exile
• 2004 - Keith Miller, Australian sportsman
• 2002 - Dina Pathak, Indian Actress
• 2000 - Donald Dewar, First Minister of Scotland
• 1998 - Richard Denning, American actor
• 1996 - Renato Russo, Brazilian rock singer-songwriter
• 1996 - Joe Morris, C.C., LL.D., Canadian trade unionist
• 1996 - Lars Ahlfors, Finnish mathematician
• 1993 - Jess Thomas, American tenor
• 1991 - Redd Foxx, American comedian and actor
• 1991 - Steven Jesse Bernstein, American underground poet (suicide)
• 1989 - M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist
• 1977 - MacKinlay Kantor, American author
• 1976 - Alfredo Bracchi, Italian author
• 1971 - Chesty Puller, the most decorated Marine in history
• 1965 - Walther Stampfli, member of the Swiss Federal Council
• 1965 - Dorothea Lange, American photographer
• 1963 - Édith Piaf, French singer and actress
• 1963 - Jean Cocteau, French writer
• 1961 - Chico Marx, American comedian
• 1940 - Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist
• 1940 - Lluís Companys, President of Generalitat of Catalonia (shot)
• 1935 - Steele Rudd, Australian author
• 1896 - Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1896 - Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer
• 1889 - James Prescott Joule, English physicist
• 1852 - Ferdinand Eisenstein, German mathematician
• 1821 - John Ross Key, American judge and lawyer
• 1811 - Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician and naturalist
• 1809 - Meriwether Lewis, American explorer
• 1779 - Kazimierz Pu³aski, Polish fighter for American independence
• 1725 - Hans Herr, Swiss-born Mennonite bishop
• 1721 - Edward Colston, English merchant and philanthropist
• 1708 - Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician
• 1705 - Guillaume Amontons, French physicist and instrument maker
• 1531 - Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant leader
• 1424 - Jan Zizka, leader of the Hussites
• 1347 - Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor
• 1303 - Pope Boniface VIII
• 1188 - Robert I of Dreux, son of Louis VI of France