* 1886 – Ruth Manning-Sanders, British author ( d. 1988 )

* Alexandra Burke ( born 1988 ), British singer

* Edwina Currie resigns as a junior Health minister for incorrectly claiming that millions of British eggs were infected with salmonella, stating that " most of egg production " was infected ( 1988 )

This was converted to a public limited company, British Steel PLC, and privatised in 1988.

British Steel was privatised in 1988 by the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher.

" The European Steel Unions and the Steel Crisis, 1974-84: A Study in the Demise of Traditional Unionism ," British Journal of Political Science, Apr 1988, Vol.

* British Steel Corporation, 1988 Competition Commission report

An eastbound CPR freight at Stoney Creek Bridge in Rogers Pass ( British Columbia ) | Rogers Pass as seen in a 1988 photo by David R. Spencer.

* 1988 – Alfred Enoch, British actor

* Sir Mark Evelyn Heath-Diplomat, British Ambassador to Chad ( 1975 – 1978 ), the first British Ambassador to Holy See ( 1982 – 1985 ) and Head of Protocol for the Hong Kong Government ( 1985 – 1988 ).

The National Tremor Foundation ( NTF ), founded in 1992, is a British friendly organisation based in Essex, England, an affiliate of the International Tremor Foundation, which was founded in 1988.

* 1920 – George Rose, British music hall entertainer ( d. 1988 )

The 1988 British made-for-TV movie More Bad News was another mocumentary about a rock band, in this case an incompetent heavy metal band.

On 1 January 1988, British Telecom ( BT ) and the Government of Gibraltar formed a joint venture company called Gibraltar Telecommunications International Ltd ( known by its commercial brand Gibtel ) to operate Gibraltar's international telecommunications services.

1988 saw the setting up of the monument Gure Aitaren Etxea, by Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida, and in 1990 Large Figure in a Shelter, by British sculptor Henry Moore, was erected beside it.

The British press also changed its coverage at the end of 1988, following a speech by Margaret Thatcher to the Royal Society advocating action against human-induced climate change.

In Sickness and in Health: The British Experience, 1650-1850 ( 1988 ).

* 1913 – Percy Thrower, British Television Gardener ( d. 1988 )

Harold Adrian Russell " Kim " Philby ( 1 January 1912 – 11 May 1988 ) was a high-ranking member of British intelligence who worked as a double agent before defecting to the Soviet Union.

Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs ( 29 December 1911 – 28 January 1988 ) was a German-British theoretical physicist and atomic spy who in 1950 was convicted of supplying information from the American, British and Canadian atomic bomb research ( the Manhattan Project ) to the USSR during and shortly after World War II.

The ongoing commercial success of the original Land Rover series models, and latterly the Range Rover in the 1970s in the midst of BL ’ s well documented business troubles prompted the establishment of a separate Land Rover company but still under the BL umbrella, remaining part of the subsequent Rover Group in 1988 under the ownership of British Aerospace after the remains of British Leyland were broken up and privatised.

* 1988: Rover Group is privatised and becomes part of British Aerospace, and is now known simply as Rover

* 1960 – Jean-Michel Basquiat, American artist ( d. 1988 )

Jean-Michel Basquiat ( December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988 ) was an American artist.

* 1988 – Allison Harvard, American artist and fashion model

Romare Bearden ( September 2, 1911 – March 12, 1988 ) was an African-American artist and writer.

* Jessie J ( born 1988 ) ( real name Jessica Cornish ), English R & B and Soul recording artist

Valerie Jean Solanas ( April 9, 1936 – April 25, 1988 ) was an American radical feminist writer who is best known for her assassination attempt on artist Andy Warhol.

* Patrick Jumpen ( 1988 ), Jumpstyle artist

His son, Charles Berninghaus ( 1905 – 1988 ), was also a Taos artist.

In 1964, Jack Warner spoke of the " magic quality that transformed this sometimes bland and not beautiful little girl into a great artist ", and in a 1988 interview, Davis remarked that, unlike many of her contemporaries, she had forged a career without the benefit of beauty.

Primo Conti ( October 16, 1900 — November 12, 1988 ) was an Italian Futurist artist.

In 1988, the Australian artist Susan Dorothea White painted The First Supper, replacing Da Vinci's 13 similar-featured men with women from around the world, with an aboriginal woman in the position of Christ.

The character Arizona Goof was created by writer Bruno Sarda and artist Massimo De Vita in 1988, as a spoof of the film character Indiana Jones.

Wilson launched a career as a solo artist in 1988 to critical acclaim.

William Van Horn ( born February 15, 1939 ) has been a Disney comics artist and writer since 1988.

Also, on 15 May 1988 Plant appeared with Page as a member of Led Zeppelin ( and in his own right as a solo artist ) at the Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary concert.

* Stefan Struve ( born 1988 ), mixed martial artist

The post office's most interesting feature is a mural installed in 1938 by the noted artist Jared Blanford French ( 1905 – 1988 ) entitled " Mealtime, The Early Coal Miners ," one of more than 1, 200 works of art commissioned by the U. S. Treasury between the years 1934 and 1943 through a program intended to embellish Federal buildings and encourage the arts during the Great Depression.

In 1988 she was pronounced the youngest artist to write, produce, and perform a # 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100, with her song " Foolish Beat " and she remains the youngest female to write, record, and perform a # 1 single.

* Jean-Michel Basquiat ( 1960 – 1988 ), artist

Ness was married to Edna Staley ( 1900 – 1988 ) from 1929 to 1938, illustrator Evaline Ness ( 1911 – 1986 ) from 1939 to 1945, and artist Elisabeth Andersen Seaver ( 1906 – 1977 ) from 1946 until his death.

In 1988, Andre was tried and acquitted in the death of his wife, artist Ana Mendieta.

Lynn's 1988 album Who Was That Stranger would be her last solo album for a major record company as a solo artist.

Her 1988 song " Let the River Run " was the first to win a Grammy Award, an Academy Award, and a Golden Globe Award for a song written and performed by a single artist.

* Daws Butler ( 1916 – 1988 ), actor and voice-over artist