Deaths in October 1998
The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.
October 1998
1
- Pauline Julien, 70, singer, songwriter, actress and feminist activist.[1]
- Jim Kearney, 78, New Zealand rugby player.
- Vere Lorrimer, 78, British television producer and director.
- John M. Steeves, 93, American diplomat.
2
- Gene Autry, 91, American actor, singer and sports team owner, lymphoma.[2]
- DONDI, 37, American graffiti artist, AIDS.
- Olin J. Eggen, 79, American astronomer.
- Elfriede Geiringer, 93, Jewish survivor of the World War II.
- Olivier Gendebien, 74, Belgian racing driver.[3]
- Raymond Raikes, 88, British theatre producer, director and broadcaster.
- Sir Richard Way, 84, British civil servant and academic administrator.
- Hoyt Winslett, 94, American college football player and businessman.
- Sanjaasürengiin Zorig, 36, Mongolian politician and revolutionary, assassinated.
- Roger Vivier, 90, French women's shoe designer.[4]
3
- Arthur Clues, 74, Australian rugby player.
- William Girometti, 74, Italian painter.
- Colin Greenwood, 62, South African rugby player.
- Roddy McDowall, 70, British-American actor, film director and photographer, lung cancer.[5]
- G. S. Venkataraman, 68, Indian botanist.
- Anne-Marie Walters, 75, Swiss-British Special Operations Executive during World War II.
- George Yates, 90, Australian businessman and politician.[6]
4
- S. Arasaratnam, 68, Sri Lankan academic, historian and author.
- Lee Grissom, 90, American baseball player.
- Tony Shelly, 61, New Zealand racing driver.[7]
5
- Joe Baum, 78, American restaurateur.
- Glenn A. Burklund, 74, American inventor and politician.
- Megs Jenkins, 81, English actress.[8]
- Krzysztof Jung, 47, Polish painter, graphic artist and performer, asthma.
- Pierre Martory, 77, French poet.
- Federico Zeri, 77, Italian art historian.[9]
6
- Mark Belanger, 54, American baseball player, lung cancer.[10]
- Ambrose Burke, 102, English professor and Catholic priest.
- Rolan Bykov, 68, Soviet and Russian actor, theatre and film director and screenwriter.[11]
- Bob Gude, 80, American football player.
- Samuel Messick, 67, American psychologist.[12]
- Stéphane Morin, 29, Canadian ice hockey player, undetected heart problems.[13]
- Joe Poovey, 57, American rockabilly and country singer and songwriter, heart condition.[14]
- Jerome Weidman, 85, American playwright and novelist.[15]
7
- Nicholas Raymond Cerio, 62, American martial artist.
- Richard Cyert, 77, American economist and statistician, cancer.[16]
- Ronnie Ford, 84, English cricket player and Royal Air Force officer.
- Arnold Jacobs, 83, American tubist.
- Joseph P. Merlino, 76, American Party politician.[17]
- Lee Nak-hoon, 62, South Korean actor, heart disease and diabetes.
- Ru Zhijuan, 72, Chinese writer.[18]
- Cees de Vreugd, 46, Dutch strongman, heart attack.
8
- Mario Ezcurdia Camacho, 73, Mexican journalist and writer.
- Zhang Chongren, 91, Chinese artist and sculptor.[19]
- Mohanlal Lallubhai Dantwala, 89, Indian agricultural economist, academic and writer.[20]
- Jashim, 48, Bangladeshi film actor, producer and freedom fighter, brain haemorrhage.
- Gigi Reder, 70, Italian character actor.
9
- Robert Allen, 92, American actor, cancer.[21]
- Anthony Alonzo, 50, Filipino actor, singer, and councilor of Quezon City, skin cancer.
- Ian Johnson, 80, Australian cricketer.[22]
- Gustavo Petricioli, 70, Mexican economist, heart attack.
10
- Al Beadle, 71, American architect.
- Clark Clifford, 91, American lawyer and politician.[23]
- Jackie Forster, 71, English news reporter, actress and lesbian rights activist.[24]
- Marvin Gay Sr., 84, American minister and father/murderer of Marvin Gaye, pneumonia.[25]
- Tony Marvin, 86, American radio and television announcer.[26]
- Konstantin Petrzhak, 91, Russian nuclear physicist.[27]
- Tommy Quaid, 41, Irish hurler, injuries sustained from a fall.
- Berta Rahm, 88, Swiss architect, writer and feminist activist.
- El Tappe, 71, American baseball player and coach, cancer.
11
- Richard Denning, 84, American actor, heart attack.[28]
- Fred Harris, 86, English footballer.
- Michael Wynn, 7th Baron Newborough, 81, British peer and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve officer.[29]
- Spottswood William Robinson III, 82, American civil rights attorney and US Circuit Judge.
- Gaius Shaver, 88, American football player.
12
- Jürgen Aschoff, 85, German physician, biologist and behavioral physiologist.
- Denny Galehouse, 87, American baseball player.
- Harold G. Long, 68, American martial artist and Isshinryu karate pioneer, cancer.
- Ineko Sata, 94, Japanese author and communist.
- Matthew Shepard, 21, American murder victim, injuries sustained from blunt force trauma.[30]
- W. Allen Wallis, 85, American economist and statistician.[31]
13
- Dmitry Nikolayevich Filippov, 54, Soviet/Russian politician and industrialist, assassinated.
- P. T. Narasimhachar, 93, Indian playwright and poet.
- Gérard Charles Édouard Thériault, 66, Canadian pilot and Chief of the Defence Staff.
- Khánh Trắng, Vietnamese labor leader and mobster, execution by firing squad.
- Jeremy Vargas Sagastegui, 27, American criminal, execution by lethal injection.[32]
14
- Cleveland Amory, 81, American author, reporter and animal rights activist, abdominal aortic aneurysm.[33]
- Betty Gillies, 90, American aviation pioneer.
- Giorgio Oberweger, 84, Italian discus thrower.
- Om Prakash Sharma, 73, Indian writer.
- Frankie Yankovic, 93, American polka musician, heart failure.
15
- Perry Bullard, American politician.
- Colette Darfeuil, 92, French actress.
- Claire Madden, 93, Irish librarian, feminist and political activist.
- Ike Owens, 79, Welsh rugby player.[34]
16
- Frank Carswell, 78, American baseball player and manager.
- Douglas C. Gordon, American whitewater kayaker.
- Jon Postel, 55, American computer scientist, complications from heart surgery.[35]
- Joseph Stamler, 86, American lawyer and judge.[36]
17
- Antonio Agri, 66, Argentine musician.
- Brian Dickson, 82, Canadian military officer and judge.
- Muhammad Abdullah Ghazi, 63, Pakistani religious leader, assassinated.
- Joan Hickson, 92, English actress.[37]
- Hakim Said, 78, Pakistani scholar and philanthropist, murdered.
18
- Ilse von Randow, 97, New Zealand weaver.
- Dick Sheppard, 53, English footballer.
- George Shaw Wheeler, 90, American advisor to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and defector.[38]
19
- Tommy Burks, 58, American farmer and politician, murdered.
- Edward Flannery, 86, American Roman Catholic priest and author, pancreatic cancer.[39]
- Fritz Honka, 63, German serial killer.
- Charlton Ogburn, 87, American journalist and author, suicide.[40]
- Compton I. White Jr., 77, American politician.
20
- John Didcott, 67, South African lawyer and judge, cancer.[41]
- Frank Gillard, 89, British BBC reporter and radio innovator.[42]
- Gerhard Jahn, 71, German politician.
- Nitza Villapol, 74, Cuban chef, cookbook writer and television host.
21
- Josef Bremm, 84, Nazi Germany Wehrmacht officer.
- Scott Brower, 34, American ice hockey goaltender, traffic accident.[43]
- Nicholas Kemmer, 86, Russian-British nuclear physicist.[44]
- Vivienne McAuliffe, 50, English singer and songwriter (Affinity).
- Hans Alfred Nieper, 70, German alternative medicine practitioner.
- Alan Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury, 96, British businessman and member of the supermarket Sainsbury family.
- Tatyana Tolmachova, 91, Soviet figure skater and figure skating coach.
22
- Eric Ambler, 89, English author of thrillers.[45]
- Nathalia Crane, 85, American poet and novelist.
- Ajit Khan, 76, Indian actor.[46]
- Violet Owen, 96, British tennis and hockey player.[47]
- Francis Sargent, 83, American politician.[48]
23
- Noel Carroll, 56, Irish middle distance runner, heart attack.
- Christopher Gable, 58, English ballet dancer, choreographer and actor, cancer.[49]
- Adrian Gonzales, Filipino comics artist.
- Winnie Ruth Judd, 93, American convicted murderer.[50]
- Zangeres Zonder Naam, 79, Dutch levenslied singer, cardiac arrest.
24
- Dennis Ayling, 81, British cinematographer.
- Charles Barnes, 96, Australian politician.
- Mary Calderone, 94, American physician and sexual education advocate.[51]
- Pino Dordoni, 72, Italian athlete.
- Geoffrey John Kirkby, 80, British Royal Navy officer during World War II.
25
- Sir Robin Brook, 90 British businessman, banker and Olympic fencer.[52]
- Dick Higgins, 60, American artist, composer, poet, and publisher, heart attack.[53]
- John Hyland, 86, United States Navy admiral.
- Gavriil Malish, 91, Soviet/Russian painter, watercolorist and graphic artist.
- Susan Strange, 75, British scholar of international relations.
- Warren Wiebe, 45, American vocalist and session artist, suicide.
26
- Ofélia Ramos Anunciato, 73, Brazilian chef.
- Nicholas Budgen, 60, British politician, liver cancer.[54]
- Kenkichi Iwasawa, 81, Japanese mathematician.
- Margaret Keay, 87, British phytopathologist.[55]
- George Kelly, 65, Scottish footballer.
- José Cardoso Pires, 73, Portuguese author.
- David Stevenson, 80, Royal Australian Navy officer.
27
- Stirling Dickinson, 89, American artist, car accident.[56]
- Rosamund John, 85, English film and stage actress.[57]
- Reidar Kvammen, 84, Norwegian footballer.
- Klári Tolnay, 84, Hungarian actress.
28
- Ghulam Ahmed, 76, Indian former cricket captain.
- Cuthbert Alport, 86, British politician, minister and life peer.
- James L. Day, 73, United States Marine Corps major general.[58]
- Tommy Flowers, 92, English engineer and electronic computing pioneer.[59]
- James Goldman, 71, American screenwriter, playwright and brother of William Goldman, heart attack.[60]
- Ted Hughes, 68, English poet and children's writer, heart attack.[61]
- Bessie Loo, 95, American actress and casting director.
- Margaret Modlin, 71, American painter, sculptor and photographer.
- Wang Shuming, 92, Republic of China Air Force colonel general.
29
- Anthony J. Celebrezze, 88, American politician.[62]
- Sjoerdtsje Faber, 83, Dutch speed skater.[63]
- Alvin M. Johnston, 84, American jet-age test pilot.[64]
- Paul Misraki, 90, French composer of music and film scores.[65]
- Harry Weese, 83, American architect, stroke.[66]
30
- Vishram Bedekar, 92, Indian writer and movie director.
- Apo Lazaridès, 73, French cyclist.
- Spike Nelson, 92, American football player and coach.
- Lâm Văn Phát, Army of the Republic of Vietnam officer.
- Bulldog Turner, 79, American football player and coach.[67][68]
31
- Noel Beadle, 83, Australian botanist and plant ecologist.
- Helmut Brandt, (East) German politician and political prisoner.
- William F. Carr, 88, American politician.
- Sir Kenneth Darling, 89, British Army general.[69]
- Bernard J. Dwyer, 77, American Democratic Party politician.[70]
- María de la Purísima Salvat Romero, 72, Spanish Roman Catholic nun.
- Lou Rymkus, 78, American football player and coach, stroke.[71]
- Rosemary Stjernstedt, 86, English architect and town planner.
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