Deaths in May 1998
The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.
May 1998
1
- Patrick Bayly, 83, British Royal Navy officer.
- Eldridge Cleaver, 62, American writer and political activist.[1]
- Heinie Heltzel, 84, American baseball player.
2
- Clyde Connell, 96, American abstract expressionist sculptor.
- Justin Fashanu, 37, English footballer, suicide.[2]
- Johnny Grodzicki, 81, American baseball player.
- Hide, 33, Japanese musician, suicide by hanging.[3]
- Kevin Lloyd, 49, English actor, alcoholism.[4]
- Maidie Norman, 85, American actress and literature and theater teacher, lung cancer.
3
- Jesse Alto, 71, American poker player.
- Louis Berry, 83, African American civil rights attorney.
- Erika Cheetham, 58, English writer.[5]
- Tom Elliot, 72, Scottish rugby player.
- Jean-Baptiste Hachème, 68, Beninese military officer and politician.
- Raimund Harmstorf, 58, German actor, suicide by hanging.
- Venkatesh Kulkarni, Indian-American novelist and academic, leukemia.
- Gene Raymond, 89, American actor, pneumonia.[6]
- Les Samuels, 69, English footballer.
- Gojko Šušak, 53, Croatian politician, lung cancer.[7]
- Xue Yue, 101, Chinese Nationalist military general.
4
- Gordon Beningfield, 61, English wildlife artist, broadcaster and naturalist.[8]
- Alfred Carrothers, 73, Canadian lawyer and academic, complications following a stroke.
- Alan Glyn, 79, British politician.
- Rafael Picó Santiago, 85, Puerto Rican politician.
5
- George Bird Evans, 91, American author, artist and dog breeder.
- Ashenafi Kebede, Ethiopian musician, novelist, and poet.
- Tommy McCook, 71, Jamaican saxophonist, pneumonia and heart failure.
- Lily McNicholas, 88, Irish nurse during World War II.
- Eleanor Ragsdale, 72, American civil rights activist.[9]
- Frithjof Schuon, 90, Swiss author, poet and painter.[10]
- Paul Seymour, 70, American basketball player and coach.
6
- Bai Baoshan, Chinese serial killer, execution by firing squad.
- Chatichai Choonhavan, 78, Thai army officer, diplomat and politician, liver cancer.[11]
- Sybil Connolly, 77, Irish fashion designer.[12]
- John Joseph, 65, Pakistani Roman Catholic bishop, suicide.
- Bob Kershaw, South African fighter pilot and businessman.
- Erich Mende, 81, German politician, Vice-Chancellor of West Germany.
- John Robert Mills, 81, British physicist.
- David Woodhouse, 4th Baron Terrington, 82, British peer.
7
- Blue Lu Barker, 84, American jazz and blues singer.
- Allan MacLeod Cormack, 74, South African American physicist, cancer.[13]
- István Hasznos, 73, Hungarian water polo player, Olympic champion (1952).
- Jack Heslop-Harrison, 78, British soldier and botanist.[14]
- Junie Hovious, 78, American football player.
- John Meyers, 58, American football player, heart problems.
- Jack Perkins, 76, American film actor.
- Eddie Rabbitt, 56, American singer and songwriter, lung cancer.[15]
8
- Patricia Kabbah, 65, Sierra Leonean lawyer.
- Johannes Kotkas, 83, Estonian heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler and Olympic champion (1952).[16]
- Raymond Premru, 63, American trombonist, composer and music teacher, esophageal cancer.
- Jennings Randolph, 96, American politician from West Virginia.[17]
9
- Lester Butler, 38, American blues harmonica player and singer, drug overdose.
- Donald Conroy, 77, United States Marine Corps colonel.[18]
- Bernard Dwork, 74, American mathematician.
- Alice Faye, 83, American actress and singer, stomach cancer.[19]
- Bob Mellish, 85, British politician.
- R. J. G. Savage, 70, British palaeontologist.[20]
- Calo Scott, 78, Cuban-American jazz cellist.
- Marianne Strengell, 88, Finnish-American Modernist textile designer.
10
- Bernie Barkouskie, 69, American football player.
- José Francisco Peña Gómez, 61, Dominican Republic politician.[21]
- Ken McKenzie, 71, Australian rugby player.
- Cesare Perdisa, 65, Italian racing driver.
- Ronald Ridenhour, 52, American soldier during the Vietnam War, heart attack.[22]
- Clara Rockmore, 87, American classical violin prodigy and theremin performer.[23]
- George Wright (organist), 77, American organist.[24]
11
- Ernst Ising, 98, German physicist.
- John Morrison, 94, Australian novelist and short story writer.[25]
- Hans van Zon, 57, Dutch serial killer, Alcohol poisoning.
12
- Hermann Lenz, 85, German writer, poet, and novelist.[26]
- Graham Shaw, 63, English professional footballer.
- Myoung Hwa Cho, 44, American murder victim, homicide by asphyxiation.[27]
- Rao Muhammad Afzal Khan, Pakistani politician.
13
- Oscar G. Johnson, 77, United States Army soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
- Frank Ragano, 75, American mafia lawyer.[28]
- Arthur Rees, 85, Welsh rugby player.
14
- Mabel Esther Allan, 83, British children's author.
- Tom D'Andrea, 88, American actor.
- Marjory Stoneman Douglas, 108, American journalist, writer and conservationist.[29]
- Geoffrey Kendal, 88, English actor.
- Anthony Loton, 94, Australian politician.
- Floyd Lounsbury, 84, American linguist, anthropologist and epigrapher.[30]
- Shawkat Osman, 81, Bangladeshi novelist and short story writer.
- Frank Sinatra, 82, American entertainer, heart attack.[31]
- Mahmud of Terengganu, 68, Malaysian sultan.
15
- Joe Cibulas, 77, American football player.
- Gunter d'Alquen, 87, German nazi correspondent.
- John Hawkes, 72, American novelist.[32]
- Earl Manigault, 53, American basketball player, congestive heart failure.[33]
- William Reinstein, 59, American politician.
- Packy Rogers, 85, American baseball player, manager and scout.
- Naim Talu, 78, Turkish politician and former Prime Minister of Turkey.[34]
16
- Idov Cohen, 88, Romanian-Israeli politician and journalist.
- Milan Creighton, 90, American football player and coach.
- William Alexander Hewitt, 83, American diplomat and businessman.[35]
- Sevim Tanürek, Turkish classical music artist.
17
- Sir Charles Broughton, 87, British air marshal.
- Genie Chance, 71, American journalist, radio broadcaster and politician.[36]
- Hugh Cudlipp, Baron Cudlipp, 84, British journalist and newspaper editor.[37]
- Grace Mary Stern, 72, American politician.
18
- Obaidullah Aleem, Indian poet, heart failure.
- Odd Engström, 56, Swedish politician, heart attack.
- Enid Marx, 95, English painter and designer.[38]
19
- Edwin Astley, 76, British composer.[39]
- William Harrison Cook, 94, English Canadian food technologist and biochemist.
- Dorothy Donegan, 76, American jazz pianist and vocalist, cancer.[40]
- Edgar J. Lesher, 83, American aircraft designer, pilot and a professor.
- M. P. Narayana Pillai, 58, Indian journalist and writer.[41]
- Teresa Prekerowa, 76, Polish historian and author.
- Sōsuke Uno, 75, Japanese politician and Prime Minister of Japan.
20
- Tom Bolack, 80, American businessman and politician.
- Bill Crommelin, 95, Australian businessman and politician.
- Linwood G. Dunn, 93, American visual special effects pioneer in motion pictures.
- Wolf Mankowitz, 73, English writer, playwright and screenwriter, cancer.[42]
- Walter McKinnon, 87, New Zealand Army officer.
21
- Erik Bladström, 80, Swedish sprint canoeist and Olympic champion.
- Li Bo, 69, Chinese ecologist.[43]
- Douglas Fowley, 86, American actor.[44]
- Robert Gist, 80, American actor and film director.
- Jim Power, 102, Irish hurler.
- Rajanala Kaleswara Rao, 73, Indian film actor.
- Tripuraribhatla Ramakrishna Sastry, 84, Indian actor.
22
- Domenico Cantatore, 82, Italian painter.
- John Derek, 71, American actor and film director, heart failure.[45]
- Arthur R. Gralla, 85, United States Navy Vice Admiral.[46]
- Thomas Symington Halliday, 96, Scottish artist.
- Fred Hatfield, 73, American baseball player.
- Yitzhak Moda'i, 72, Israeli politician.
- José Enrique Moyal, 87, Australian mathematical physicist.
- Robert W. Morgan, 60, American radio personality, lung cancer.[47]
- Jack Watkins, 74, American basketball player.
23
- Grace Hartman, Canadian social activist and politician.
- Ebbe Rode, 88, Danish stage and film actor.
- Monroe K. Spears, American university professor and literary critic.[48]
- Telford Taylor, 90, American lawyer.[49]
24
- Francys Arsentiev, 40, American mountaineer, hypothermia and/or cerebral edema.
- George Kelly, 82, American jazz tenor saxophonist.
- Tommy Moore, 35, American golfer, primary amyloidosis.[50]
- Lucio Muñoz, 68, Spanish painter and engraver.
- Charles Rycroft, 83, British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.[51]
25
- Steve Michael, 42, American HIV/AIDS activist.
- Gary Thomas Rowe, 64, American informant for the FBI, heart attack.[52]
- Claude Stubbs, 93, Australian politician.
- Todd Witsken, 34, American tennis player, brain cancer.[53]
26
- Emil Braginsky, 76, Soviet/Russian screenwriter.
- Edgar Silinsh, 71, Soviet/Latvian scientist in the field of semiconductor physics.
- Charlie White, 70, American baseball player.
- Sergey Yablonsky, 73, Soviet/Russian mathematician.[54]
27
- Walter De Giusti, Argentine spree killer.
- Minoo Masani, 92, Indian politician.[55]
- Ghazaros Saryan, 77, Armenian composer.
28
- Ragnar Fjørtoft, 84, Norwegian meteorologist.
- Bill Giles, 66, American football player and coach.
- Phil Hartman, 49, Canadian-American artist, writer, actor and comedian, homicide.[56]
- Bill Meek, 77, American football player and coach.
- Giovanni Valetti, 84, Italian road racing cyclist.
- Bill Williams, 37, American game designer, programmer and author, cystic fibrosis.[57]
29
- Orlando Anderson, 23, American gangster and suspected murderer of rapper Tupac Shakur, gunshot wound.[58]
- Ted Dunbar, 61, American jazz guitarist, composer, and educator, stroke.[59]
- Barry Goldwater, 89, American politician and author, complications from a stroke.[60]
- Hazel P. Heath, 88, American politician and entrepreneur.
- Marion Milner, 98, British author and psychoanalyst.
30
- Sam Aaronovitch, 78, British economist, academic and communist.
- Leon Bender, 22, American football player, seizure disorder.[61]
- Walter Carr, 73, Scottish actor and comedian.
- William Moreton Condry, 80, English naturalist, kidney failure.[62]
- Robin Jackson, 49, Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary, lung cancer.[63]
- Dan Leckie, Canadian politician.
- Jan Pickard, 70, South African rugby player.
- Wolfram Röhrig, 81, German pianist, composer and conductor.
- Wenche Selmer, 78, Norwegian architect.
31
- Charles Van Acker, 86, Belgian-American racecar driver.[64]
- Raymond Z. Bourque, 80, Canadian politician.
- Valeriy Hubulov, 31, South Ossetian politician.[65]
- Michio Suzuki, 71, Japanese mathematician.
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