Discover what happened on 21 March 1988 in history! This day marks a series of notable events, famous births, and significant deaths. Explore the details below to learn more about the historical happenings of this day. On this day, history comes alive!
Deaths
- Sigfrit Steiner (actor (1906-1988))
- Patrick Steptoe (British gynaecologist (1913–1988))
- Hans Fronius (Austrian artist (1903-1988))
- Walter Ernst Fricke (cryptanalyst, mathematician and professor (1915-1988))
- Charley Shipp (American basketball player-coach)
- Edd Roush (American baseball player and coach (1893-1988))
- Gerhard Claas
- Giovanni Korompay (Italian painter (1904-1988))
- Germain Jousse (French resistance member (1895–1988))
- Warfolomej Gondarowski
- Albert Ernst Renold (Swiss physician (1923-1988))
- Bruce Lowery (American writer (1931-1998))
- Eugène Ribère (French rugby union player)
- Alberto Malagugini (Italian politician and lawyer (1915–1988))
- George W. Lehr (American Democratic politician)
- Robert McIntosh (English cricketer (1907-1988))
- Seiichi Iwao (Japanese historian)
- William Clark (American boxer, born 1899 (1899–1988))
- Nicholas Bobrovnikoff (American astronomer (1896–1988))
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- Vladimír Reiser
- Darío Morales (Colombian painter (1944-1988))
- Marie Burke (British actress (1894-1988))
- Vladimir Khorin
- Maximilian Betzler
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- Arthur W. Parrott (entomologist and ichthyologist)
- Shyam Bahadur Saksena (Indian mycologist (1917-1988))
- Roman Łabiński (Polish officer)
- Ernest Arthur Green (Roman Catholic bishop)
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- Gift Siromoney (Ph.D. University of Madras 1964)
- John Ritchie (Senior Master of the Supreme Court of Judicature (Queen’s Bench Division), and Queen’s Remembrancer, 1980–82 (Master, 1960))
- Jean Aubrun (1903-08-16–1988-03-21)
- Giuseppe Finocchiaro (lawyer born 1895)
- Abraham Daniel ((1925-1988))
- Jakob Itten (Swiss architect)
- Jakob Itten (Swiss architect)
- Sigfrit Steiner (actor (1906-1988))