Narayanan – AIR India Reporter 1988 Court Page No. 1381 ; 1988 Volume No. 3 SCC Court Cases Page No. 366 ; 1988 PLJR 78 – Although an affidavit may be taken as proof of the facts stated therein, the Courts have no jurisdiction to admit evidence by way of affidavit.

This would make it a language family about as old as Indo-European ( 4000 to 7, 000 BC according to several hypotheses cited in Mallory 1997: 106 ) but considerably younger than Afroasiatic ( c. 10, 000 BC according to Diakonoff 1988: 33n, 11, 000 to 16, 000 BC according to Ehret 2002: 35 – 36 ).

* 1904 – Kurt Kiesinger, German politician ( d. 1988 )

* 1988 – Leigh Adams, Australian footballer

* 1988 – Mike Bailey, English actor and singer

* 1988 – Melisa Cantiveros, Filipina actress, comedienne, and television personality

* 1988 – Daniele Gasparetto, Italian footballer

* 1988 – Carlton Mitchell, American football player

* 1988 – Fabrice Muamba, Congolese-English footballer

* 1988 – Ivonne Orsini, Puerto Rician actress and model

* 1988 – Jucilei da Silva, Brazilian footballer

* 1912 – Hamengkubuwono IX, Indonesian politician 2nd Vice President of Indonesia ( d. 1988 )

* 1988 – Ricardo Gabriel Álvarez, Argentine footballer

* 1988 – Stephen Brogan, English footballer

* 1988 – Amedeo Calliari, Italian footballer

* 1988 – Jessie James, American singer-songwriter

* 1988 – Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II officially opens World Expo ' 88 in Brisbane, Australia.

* 1988 – Alexa Vega, American actress and singer

* 1988 – The Tompkins Square Park Riot in New York City spurs a reform of the NYPD, held responsible for the event.

* 1920 – Ella Raines, American actress ( d. 1988 )

* 1922 – Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer ( Quartetto Cetra ) ( d. 1988 )

* June 24 – Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist ( d. 1988 )

Giovanni " Tata " Giacobetti ( 24 June 1922-2 December 1988 ) was one of the singers of Quartetto Cetra, a very famous Italian vocal quartet.

Before his death in 1988, at 57 years old, he was the only one to have received both the Homi Bhabha Fellowship 1967-69 ( he spent his time at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts doing research in Groundwater modeling ) and the Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship 1975-77, two of the country's top research awards.

* June 24-Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist ( Quartetto Cetra ) ( d. 1988 )

* 1988 – Denny Cardin, Italian footballer

* 1988 – Danilo Gallinari, Italian basketball player

* 1988 – Francesco Acerbi, Italian footballer

* 1988 – Antonio Piccolo, Italian footballer

* 1988 – Andrés Bottiglieri Italian – Argentine footballer

* 1988: Venetian Series, improvisations based on Italian Art Deco

** Italian Championship: 6-1979, 1988, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996.

* 1988 – Matteo Ciofani, Italian footballer

* 1988 – Maikol Negro, Italian footballer

** Italian Military Mission of Technical Assistance, from 1988 ( Malta ) – 36 soldiers

The film The Big Blue, directed by Luc Besson in 1988, was inspired by his life story ( and the life story of the Italian diver Enzo Maiorca ); Mayol was one of the screenwriters.

* 1932 – Franca Raimondi, Italian singer ( d. 1988 )

* 1905 – Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer ( d. 1988 )

* 1988 – Andrea Catellani, Italian footballer

* 1988 – Lorenzo De Silvestri, Italian footballer

* 1988 – Giorgio Almirante, Italian politician ( b. 1914 )

* 1988 – Renato Salvatori, Italian actor ( b. 1934 )

* 1988 – Simone Favaro, Italian rugby player

* 1988 – Mario Titone, Italian footballer

* 1900 – Primo Conti, Italian painter ( d. 1988 )

On April 16, 1988, in Forlì, Red Brigades-PCC killed Italian senator Roberto Ruffilli, an advisor of Italian Prime Minister Ciriaco de Mita.