Deaths in June 1998
The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.
June 1998
1
- Rex Bumgardner, 74, American gridiron football player.
- Brojen Das, 70, Bengali swimmer, cancer.
- Darwin Joston, 60, American actor, leukemia.[1]
- Junkyard Dog, 45, American professional wrestler, traffic collision.[2]
- Hernando Tejada, 74, Colombian painter and sculptor.
2
- Helen Carter, 70, American country music singer, heart problems.[3]
- P. Andrew Cooray, 96, Sri Lankan politician.
- Oran Henderson, 77, United States Army brigade commander of the units involved in the Mỹ Lai massacre massacre.[4]
- Gonzalo Martínez Ortega, 64, Mexican actor, screenwriter and producer, traffic collision.
- Dorothy Stickney, 101, American actress.[5]
3
- Pat Abbruzzi, 65, American gridiron football player.
- Poul Bundgaard, 75, Danish actor and singer.
- Joseph C. Harsch, 93, American journalist.[6]
- William L. Snyder, 80, American film producer, Alzheimer's disease.[7]
4
- Aarudhra, 72, Indian author, poet, publisher, and playwright.
- Clancy Carlile, 68, American novelist and screenwriter, cancer.[8]
- Josephine Hutchinson, 94, American actress.[9]
- Ray Montgomery, 76, American actor.
- Miguel Montuori, 65, Italian Argentine football player.
- Shirley Povich, 92, American journalist.[10]
- David Walsh, 52, Canadian businessman, aneurysm.[11]
5
- Alfred Kazin, 83, American writer and literary critic.[12]
- Jeanette Nolan, 86, American actress.[13]
- Claudia Parsons, 97, British engineer, writer and traveller.
- Dieter Roth, 68, Swiss artist, heart attack.[14]
- B. M. Shah, Indian theatre director and playwright.
- Prentiss Walker, 80, American politician.
- Sam Yorty, 88, American politician.[15]
6
- Marshall Green, 82, American diplomat.[16]
- Jatoe Kaleo, Ghanaian traditional ruler and politician.
- Peter Wong, 66, Canadian politician, heart attack.
7
- Tom Buskey, 51, American baseball player, complications from a heart attack.
- James Byrd Jr., 49, African American murder victim, murdered.[17]
- Jerry Capehart, 69, American songwriter and music manager.[18]
- Mildred Horn, 97, American film critic and screenwriter.
- Hans Ramberg, 81, Norwegian-Swedish geologist.
8
- Sani Abacha, 54, Nigerian Army officer and dictator, poisoned.[19]
- George Longridge, 66, Scottish footballer.
- Jackie McGlew, 69, South African cricketer.
- Maria Reiche, 95, German-Peruvian mathematician and archaeologist.[20]
9
- Agostino Casaroli, 83, Italian Catholic priest and diplomat for the Holy See.
- Lois Mailou Jones, 92, American artist and teacher.[21]
- Barton Holland Warnock, 86, American botanist, heart attack.
10
- Paudge Brennan, 76, Irish politician.
- Bobby Bryant, 64, American jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist, heart attack.
- David English, 67, British journalist and newspaper editor.[22]
- Steve Griffiths, 84, English footballer.
- Jim Hearn, 77, American baseball player.[23]
- Hammond Innes, 84, English author.
- Nivedita Jain, 19, Indian beauty contestant and an actress, fall.[24]
- Pat Masulli, 67, American comic book creator.
- Steve Sanders, 45, American musician, singer and songwriter, suicide.
- John G. Smith, 73, American baseball coach, pneumonia.[25]
11
- Thomas Abernethy, 95, American politician.
- Harry Anderson, 66, American baseball player.
- Don Beauvais, 77, Australian rules footballer.
- Dame Catherine Cookson, 91, British author.[26]
- Alexei Eriomin, 79, Russian Soviet realist painter.
- Leopoldo Salcedo, 86, Filipino film actor.
- John Jairo Moreno Torres, 19, Colombian criminal and serial killer, murdered.
12
- Leo Buscaglia, 74, American author and motivational speaker, heart attack.[27]
- Retta Davidson, 76, American animator.
- John Gutmann, 93, German-American photographer and painter.[28]
- Theresa Merritt, 75, American actress and singer, skin cancer.[29]
- Christina Marie Williams, 13, American murder victim, homicide.[30]
13
- Nisim Aloni, 71, Israeli playwright and translator.
- Lúcio Costa, 96, Brazilian architect and urban planner.[31]
- Gil Duthie, 86, Australian politician.
- Buddy Elrod, 79, American football player.
- Alfred Horace Gerrard, 99, English modernist sculptor.[32]
- Birger Ruud, 86, Norwegian ski jumper.
- Reg Smythe, 80, British cartoonist.[33]
- Yoshio Sugino, 93, Japanese martial artist and film choreographer.
- Éric Tabarly, 86, French naval officer and yachtsman, drowning.
- Henry Tatana, 53, New Zealand rugby league player.
- Walter H. Williams, 77, America artist, painter, printmaker, and sculptor.
14
- Camillo Achilli, 76, Italian footballer.
- Hans W. Brimi, 80, Norwegian farmer and traditional folk musician.[34]
- Ginette Mathiot, 91, French food writer.[35]
- Ajit Sarkar, 50/51, Indian politician.
- Kadamba Simmons, 24, British actress and model, murdered.
- Oliver Treyz, 80, American network television executive.[36]
15
- Suzanne Eisendieck, 91, German painter.
- Morris Kestelman, 92, British artist.[37]
- Thierry Salmon, 41, Belgian actor and theatre director, traffic accident.
- Anton van Wilderode, 79, Belgian priest, writer and poet.
16
- Roberto Cañedo, 80, Mexican actor.
- Keith Newton, 56, English footballer.[38]
- Jafar Sharif-Emami, 85, Iranian politician.
- Fitzroy Talbot, 88, British Royal Navy officer.
- Teresa Martínez de Varela, 84, Colombian writer.
17
- John Carberry, 93, American Roman Catholic prelate.[39]
- Eric G. Hall, 75, Pakistan Air Force bomber and fighter pilot.
- Gianni Lunadei, 60, Italian Argentine actor.
- Dina de Marco, 60, Mexican actress and television director, cancer.
- Muhammad Metwally Al Shaarawy, 87, Egyptian Muslim jurist.
- Mohammad Sabir, 54, Pakistani cricketer.
18
- Otto Baum, 86, German commander of the Waffen-SS during World War II.
- Paul van Buren, 74, American theologian and author, cancer.[40]
- Archie Edwards, 79, American blues guitarist.
- Edward Eliscu, 96, American lyricist, playwright, producer and actor.[41]
- Ernesto Grillo, 68, Argentine footballer.
- Svein Heglund, 79, Norwegian engineer, RAF officer and flying ace.
- Kim Jin-kyu, 76, South Korean actor, film director and producer.
- Felix Knight, 89, American tenor, actor, and vocal teacher.[42]
- Charles Korvin, 90, Hungarian-born American actor, photographer and master chef.[43]
- Nigel Maynard, 76, British Royal Air Force commander.
- Nazim Panipati, Pakistani film song lyricist and film script writer.
- Herbert J. Sweet, 78, United States Marine Sergeant Major, respiratory failure.[44]
19
- John Camkin, 75, English journalist and sports commentator, cancer.
- Anatoly Kasheida, 69, Ukrainian-Soviet writer, poet and journalist.
- John Krushenick, 71, American painter and gallery owner.
- Elio Ragni, 87, Italian athlete.
- Howard J. Whitmore Jr., 93, American politician.[45]
20
- Bruno Barnabe, 93, English film and stage actor.
- Bobby Gimby, 79, Canadian orchestra leader, trumpeter, and singer-songwriter.
- Kali, 79, Polish-born American painter.
- Morris Muskat, 92, American petroleum engineer.
- George Van Peursem, American politician.
- Conrad Schumann, 56, East German border guard, suicide by hanging.[46]
21
- Harry Cranbrook Allen, 81, British historian of the United States.
- Emma Danieli, 61, Italian actress and television personality.
- Gerhard Gundermann, 43, German singer-songwriter and rock musician, stroke.[47]
- François Lehideux, 94, French industrialist and member of the Vichy government.
- Peter Mander, 69, New Zealand yachtsman and Olympic gold medal winner.*Sir Foley Newns, 79, British colonial administrator.[48]
22
- Narciso Abeyta, Navajo painter and silversmith, cerebral hemorrhage.
- Phil Campbell, 81, American farmer and politician.[49]
- Juliusz Bogdan Deczkowski, 74, Polish soldier during World War II, and later inventor and writer.
- Benny Green, 70, British writer, radio broadcaster and saxophonist, cancer.[50]
- Norberto Doroteo Méndez, 75, Argentine football player.
- Elisabeth Schooling, British ballet dancer.
23
- Leonard Jones, 74, Canadian lawyer and politician.
- Walter M. D. Kern, 61, American politician.
- Maureen O'Sullivan, 87, American actress.[51]
- Johnny Walsh, 88, Irish Gaelic footballer.
24
- Francine Agazarian, 85, French spy during World War II.
- Canito, 67, Spanish footballer.
- Beatrice Mandelman, 85, American abstract artist, cancer.[52]
- B. G. Prasada Rao, 81, Indian bishop in Medak.
- Vittorio Trancanelli, 54, Italian physician and Roman Catholic Venerable.
25
- David Ayalon, 84, Israeli historian of Islam and the Middle East.[53]
- Claudia Cockburn, 65, American-British disability activist.
- Peter Kamnitzer, 77, German-born American architect, heart attack.
- Lounès Matoub, 42, Algerian Berber singer, poet and political activist, assassinated.[54]
26
- Frank Arkell, 62, Australian politician, murdered.[55]
- Bobby Cairns, 69, Scottish football player.
- Eugene F. Clark, 86, U.S. Navy officer.
- Sero Khanzadyan, 82, Armenian writer.
- Vladimir Petukhov, 48, Russian mayor and murder victim, killed.
- Derek Rayner, Baron Rayner, 72, English businessman and life peer.[56]
- William R. Sears, 70, American politician.
27
- Pierre Boutang, 81, French philosopher, poet and translator.
- Sir Desmond Heap, 90, British lawyer and town planner.
- David Laitt, 67, English cricketer.
- Gilles Rocheleau, 62, Canadian politician.
- Joyce Wieland, 67, Canadian experimental visual artist.[57]
- Peter H. Wyden, 74, American journalist and writer.[58]
28
- Jonathan Benair, 47, American actor, cerebral hemorrhage and heart attack.[59]
- Marion Eugene Carl, 82, American flying ace during World War II and record-setting test pilot, shot during robbery.[60]
- Bill Elias, 75, American football coach.
- Božidar Ferjančić, 69, Serbian historian.
- Jack Rowley, 79, English footballer.
- Kamala Sohonie, 85, Indian biochemist.
- Denis Williams, 75, Guyanese painter, author and archaeologist.
29
- Slavko Dokmanović, 48, Croatian Serbian war criminal, suicide by hanging.
- Joseph G. Galway, 75, American meteorologist.[61]
- Küllo Kõiv, 25, Estonian wrestler, car accident.[62]
- Roy Milne, 77, Scottish-American football player.
- Kamalakara Kameswara Rao, 86, Indian film director, cardiac arrest.
30
- Galina Brezhneva, 69, Russian/Soviet socialite and daughter of General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev.
- George Parsons, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.
- John Peter, 61, Indian field hockey player.[63]
- Edward L. Varney, 83, American Modernist architect.
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