Deaths in August 1998
The following is a list of notable deaths in August 1998.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
August 1998
1
- Eva Bartok, 71, Hungarian-British actress.[1]
- Len Duncan, 87, American race car driver.
- France Mihelič, 91, Slovene painter.
2
- Mapy Cortés, 88, Puerto Rican actress, heart attack.[2]
- Tommy Faile, 69, American songwriter and singer, heart attack.
- Shari Lewis, 65, American ventriloquist and puppeteer, viral pneumonia.[3]
- Taufiq Rafat, 71, Pakistani author and poet.
3
- Francesc Xavier Bultó, 86, Spanish businessman.
- Ahmet Kayhan Dede, Turkish Sufi master.
- Alfred Schnittke, 63, German-born Russian composer, complications from strokes.[4]
- Alan Walsh, 81, British-Australian physicist, originator of atomic absorption spectroscopy.
4
- Yuri Artyukhin, 68, Soviet Russian cosmonaut and engineer, cancer.
- Carmen Delia Dipini, 70, Puerto Rican singer.
- Thomas J. McDonough, 86, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.[5]
5
- Alexander Artemiev, 73, Chuvash poet, writer and critic.
- Arthur Ceuleers, 82, Belgian footballer.
- Albert Johnson, 80, English rugby player.
- Otto Kretschmer, 86, German U-boat commander during World War II, boating accident.
- Yevgeny Shabayev, 25, Russian artistic gymnast, heart attack.
- Eldon Shamblin, 82, American guitarist and arranger.[6]
- Eugene L. Stewart, 78, American lawyer and law professor.[7]
- Todor Zhivkov, 86, Bulgarian politician and former president of Bulgaria.[8]
6
- Henk Bosveld, 57, Dutch footballer, heart attack.
- Jack Brickhouse, 82, American sportscaster.[9]
- Nat Gonella, 90, English jazz trumpeter, bandleader and vocalist.
- Walter Merlo, 33, Italian long-distance runner, mountaineering accident.
- André Weil, 92, French mathematician.[10]
7
- Hamden Khalif Allah Awad, 27, Egyptian terrorist, suicide attack.
- Richard W. Fellows, 83, United States Air Force officer.
- Dick Offenhamer, 85, American football and baseball player and coach.
- Harry Tuzo, 80, British army general.[11]
8
- Raymond E. Brown, 70, American Catholic priest.[12]
- Idella Jones Childs, 95, American historian and civil rights activist.
- Anna J. Harrison, 85, American organic chemist and professor of chemistry.[13]
- Jess J. Present, 77, American politician.
- László Szabó, 81, Hungarian chess grandmaster.
9
- Tony Baker, 53, American football player, car accident.[14]
- Brynhild Haugland, 93, American politician,
- George Child Villiers, 9th Earl of Jersey, 88, English nobleman and politician, heart attack.
- Alvin Luedecke, 87, United States Army Air Forces general during World War II.
- Satoshi Murayama, 29, Japanese shogi player, bladder cancer.
- Frankie Ruiz, 40, Puerto Rican singer and songwriter, liver cirrhosis.[15]
10
- Bekim Berisha, 32, Kosovar Albanian soldier, killed in action.
- Chuck Fenenbock, 80, American football player.
- Sidney W. Fox, 86, American biochemist.[16]
- Tsugio Hattori, 46, Japanese-born American abstract painter.
- Premji, 89, Indian actor and social reformer.
11
- Richard Bilby, 67, United States District Judge.
- Heinz Döpfl, 59, Austrian pair skater.
- Derek Newark, 65, English actor, heart attack following liver failure.[17]
- Nicky Verstappen, 11, Dutch homicide victim[18]
12
- C. Dickerman Williams, American lawyer and free-speech advocate.[19]
- Jesús Loroño, 72, Spanish road racing cyclist.[20]
- Gazi Shamsur Rahman, Bangladeshi lawyer, writer and television personality.
13
- Nino Ferrer, 63, French singer, songwriter and author, suicide.[21]
- Edward Ginzton, 82, Ukrainian-American engineer.
- Julien Green, 97, American writer.[22]
- Waneta Hoyt, 52, American serial killer, pancreatic cancer.
- Karl Hubenthal, 81, American cartoonist, cancer.
- Saturday Rosenberg, 46, Australian comedian, writer and actress, traffic accident.[23]
14
- Eve Boswell, 76, British pop singer.[24]
- Gary Evans, 43, American thief and serial killer.[25]
- Xavier Miserachs, 61, Spanish photographer, lung cancer.
- Chalmers Wylie, 77, American politician[26]
15
- Jason Altom, 26, American Ph.D. student, suicide.
- Marc Akerstream, 44, Canadian actor and stuntman, head injuries from special effects explosion.[27]
- G. B. Greene Jr., 84, American Air Force major general.
- Bill Shill, 75, Canadian ice hockey player.
16
- Abdallah al-Hubal, Yemeni serial killer, suicide.
- Lu Hsiu-yi, 57, Taiwanese politician.
- Phil Leeds, 82, American actor, pneumonia.[28]
- Dorothy West, 91, American novelist and short-story writer.[29]
17
- Robert B. Evans, 92, American automobile industry executive.[30]
- Terry Garvin, 61, Canadian professional wrestler, cancer.[31]
- Władysław Komar, 58, Polish shot putter and actor, car crash.
- Johnny Lipon, 75, American baseball player.
- Rita Roland, 83, German-born American film editor.
18
- Ward "Pally" Austin, 63, Australian radio DJ.
- Protima Bedi, 49, Indian model, landslide.
- Harry J. Cargas, 66, American scholar and author.
- Persis Khambatta, 49, Indian model and actress, heart attack.[32]
- Shane Shamrock, 23, American professional wrestler, altercation with police.[33]
- Piyadassi Maha Thera, 84, Sri Lankan buddhist monk.
- Otto Wichterle, 84, Czech chemist.[34]
19
- Vasily Arkhipov, 72, Soviet Navy officer during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- Anne Asquith, 81, British code breaker.[35]
- Lawrence J. Fuller, 83, American Army major general, heart attack.[36]
- Andrew Massey, 55, British Army officer, drowning accident.
- Ramswaroop Verma, 74, Indian humanist.
- Yuri Yappa, 70, Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist.
20
- Ivan Godlevsky, 90, Soviet Russian painter.
- Vũ Văn Mẫu, 84, last Prime Minister of South Vietnam.[37]
- Nicola Riezzo, 93, Italian Roman Catholic prelate.
- Fred Sington, 88, American football and baseball player.
- Irwin Suall , 73, American socialist, civil rights activist, and investigator, emphysema .
21
- Hans van Abeelen, 61, Dutch behaviour geneticist.
- Eddie Baxter, 75, American organist.
- Franz Eisenach, 80, German flying ace during World War II and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
- Francis Ingall, 89, British Indian Army officer.
- John Stopford, 61, English rugby player.[38]
22
- Jack Briggs, 78, American actor.
- Evelyn Denington, Baroness Denington, 91, British politician, heart failure.[39]
- Minoru Murayama, 61, Japanese baseball player.
- Woody Stephens, 84, Americanthoroughbred horse racing trainer, emphysema.[40]
23
- Nikolai Kolesov, 42, Russian footballer.[41]
- Asadollah Lajevardi, Iranian conservative politician and warden, assassinated.
- Rolf Søder, 80, Norwegian film actor.
- John Woodcock, 44, American football player, heart attack.
24
- Manuel Azcárate, 81, Spanish journalist and communist politician, cancer.[42]
- Charles Diggs, 75, African-American politician, stroke.[43]
- Ralph Freeman, 87, English civil engineer, traffic accident.
- E. G. Marshall, 84, American actor, lung cancer.[44]
- Gene Page, 58, American composer, arranger and record producer.
- Georges Senfftleben, 75, French track cyclist.
- Jack Williams, 88, American radio announcer and politician, cancer.[45]
25
- Mildred L. Batchelder, 96, American librarian.
- Floyd Haskell, 82, American lawyer and politician, pneumonia.[46]
- Allan Macartney, 57, Scottish politician.
- Barbara Mandell, 78, British journalist, broadcaster, newsreader and travel writer.
- Bob Montgomery, 79, American boxer, complications from a stroke.[47]
- Jerry Wayne Parrish, 54, United States Army corporal and defector, kidney failure.
- Lewis F. Powell Jr., 90, American lawyer and jurist.[48]
- Hilda Ranscombe, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Vitaly Tulenev, 61, Soviet Russian painter, watercolorist and graphic artist.
26
- Genaro Ruiz Camacho, 43, American criminal, execution by lethal injection.
- Wade Dominguez, 32, American actor, model, singer and dancer, respiratory failure.
- Penny Edwards, 70, American actress, lung cancer.[49]
- Robert Huebner, 84, American physician and virologist, pneumonia.[50]
- Jaanus Kuum, 33, Estonian-Norwegian racing cyclist, suicide.
- Nicolas Bayona Ba Meya, 59, Congolese jurist.
- Dmitry Mishin, 79, Soviet and Russian physicist.
- Margaret Potter, 72, British writer.
- Frederick Reines, 80, American physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.[51]
- Ryūichi Tamura, 75, Japanese poet, essayist and translator.
27
- Babalu, 56, Filipino comedian and actor, liver cancer.
- Kelly Chan, 41, Singaporean windsurfer, crash.[52]
- Syd Owen, 76, English football player and coach.
- Essie Summers, 86, New Zealand author.
- Margaret Dauler Wilson, 59, American philosopher and professor of philosophy.[53]
28
- Lu Dadong, 83, Chinese politician, Governor of Sichuan province.
- Hirokazu Kobayashi, 69, Japanese aikido teacher.
- Rajarethinam Arokiasamy Sundaram, 93, Roman Catholic bishop.[54]
- Yvon Tassé, 87, Canadian politician.
- Nikolai Vladimirovich Zateyev, 72, Russian submariner and Soviet Navy officer.
29
- Antoinette Becker, 78, French-German children's author.
- Richard Beebe, 68, American radio personality, lung cancer[55]
- Minerva Bernardino, Dominican Republic diplomat and feminist.[56]
- Charlie Feathers, 66, American country music and rockabilly musician, stroke.[57]
- John Langston Gwaltney, 69, African-American writer and anthropologist.[58]
- Jim Murray, 78, American sportswriter and Pulitzer Prize winner.[59]
- Frances Hamerstrom, 90, American author, naturalist and ornithologist.[60]
30
- Dan Kubiak, 60, American politician and businessman, cardiovascular disease.
- Francis Pellerin, 83, French sculptor.
- Denniz Pop, 35, Swedish DJ, music producer and songwriter, stomach cancer.
- Irving Segal, 79, American mathematician.[61]
- Toss Woollaston, 88, New Zealand painter.[62]
31
- Sabiha Gökçül Erbay, Turkish school teacher and politician.
- Gordon Newton, 90, English journalist and editor of the Financial Times.
- Keith Oxlee, 63, South African rugby player, complications following a hip operation.[63]
- Shigezō Sasaoka, 50, Japanese voice actor.
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