Deaths in July 1998
The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.
July 1998
1
- Francis Ambrière, 90, French author.
- Emery Barnes, 68, Canadian football player and politician.
- Dumitru Berciu, 91, Romanian historian and archaeologist.
- Ed Connolly, 58, American baseball player.
- Charlotte Fawcett, 87, American politician.[1]
- Claire Kelly, 64, American actress and model.[2]
- David Montagu, 4th Baron Swaythling, 69, British peer, leukaemia.
- Toyonobori, 67, Japanese sumo wrestler, heart failure.[3]
2
- Alam Channa, 45, tall man, kidney failure.
- Miklós Gábor, 79, Hungarian actor.
- Joe Graboski, 68, American basketball player.[4]
- Vernon Edgar Howard, 61, American politician, member of the Texas House of Representatives and Senate (1969-1975;1979-1986), throat cancer.[5]
- Juan José Nogués, 89, Spanish footbal player and manager.
- Errol Parker, 72, French-Algerian jazz pianist, liver cancer.
- Sohrab Shahid-Saless, 54, Iranian film director and screenwriter, liver failure.
- Kay Thompson, 88, American author, actress and singer.[6]
- Tony De Vit, 40, English DJ and music producer, bronchial failure.[7]
3
- Arun Kumar Ahuja, 81, Indian film actor and producer.
- Danielle Bunten Berry, 49, American game designer and programmer, lung cancer.[8]
- Alfred Caldwell, 95, American architect.[9]
- Sadeq Chubak, 81, Iranian author of short fiction, drama, and novels.
- Peter C. Hains III, 97, American Army Major General.[10]
- Billie Hughes, 50, American songwriter, musician and record producer, heart attack.[11]
- George Lloyd, 85, British composer.
- Gene Rockwell, 53, South African singer, cancer.
- Lev Rokhlin, 51, Soviet / Russian army officer, murdered.
- Duncan White, 80, Sri Lankan sportsman.
4
- Gladys Ambrose, 67, English actress, cancer.
- Gregg Burge, 40, American tap dancer and choreographer, brain tumor.
- Kurt Franz, 84, German SS officer and commander of the Treblinka extermination camp.[12]
- Peter Monteverdi, 64, Swiss carmaker, cancer.[13]
- Strike Out, 29, Standardbred harness racing stallion.
- M. N. Sathyaardhi, 85, Indian writer and freedom fighter.
5
- Stevie Hyper D, 30, British drum and bass MC, heart attack.
- Jose Encarnacion Jr., 69, Filipino professor of Economics.
- Cleeve Horne, 86, Canadian portrait painter and sculptor, respiratory-related illness.
- Sid Luckman, 81, American football player (Chicago Bears) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.[14]
- Johnny Speight, 78, English television scriptwriter.
6
- Anthony Ochaya, 65, Ugandan politician and economist, pneumonia.
- Alan Revill, 75, English cricketer.
- Roy Rogers, 86, American singer and actor, congestive heart failure.[15]
- Ed Sanicki, 74, American baseball player.
7
- Moshood Abiola, 60, Nigerian businessman, politician and aristocrat.
- Sir Charles Cunningham, 92, Scottish civil servant.
- F. Tillman Durdin, 91, American foreign correspondent for The New York Times.[16]
- Maurice Holmes, 89, New Zealand harness racer.
- Robert Lickley, 86, Scottish aeronautical engineer.
- Lenore Romney, 89, American actress and political figure, stroke.[17]
8
- Constance Cox, 85, British script writer and playwright.[18]
- Dušan Vukotić, 71, Yugoslav and Croatian cartoonist and author.
- Philip Charles Wilkins, 85, United States District Judge.
9
- John Baker-Carr, 92, British Royal Air Force officer.
- Jose V. Cruz, 72, Filipino diplomat and writer.
- Jim Flora, 84, American artist, stomach cancer.[19]
- David Fulker, 61, British behavioural geneticist.[20]
- Maurice Heath, 88, British Royal Air Force officer.
- Halvor J. Sandsdalen, 87, Norwegian farmer, journalist, poet, playwright and children's writer.
- Aldo Stellita, 50, Italian bassist and songwriter, lung cancer.
10
- Willie Fry, 43, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), heart attack.
- Billy Patterson, 79, American football player (Chicago Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers).
- Elijah Pitts, 60, American football player (Green Bay Packers), stomach cancer.[21]
- Victor Smith, 85, Royal Australian Navy officer.
11
- Komla Agbeli Gbedemah, 85, Ghanaian politician.
- James William Govett, 88, Australian impressionist.
- Emma Humphreys, 30, British convict, accidental overdose.[22]
- Panagiotis Kondylis, 54, Greek philosopher, intellectual and historian.
- John J. Tominac, 76, United States Army officer and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
- Gaston Tremblay, 74, Canadian politician.
12
- Wilson Francisco Alves, 70, Brazilian football player and manager.
- John Henrik Clarke, 83, African-American historian and professor, heart attack.[23]
- Jimmy Driftwood, 91, American folk music songwriter and musician, heart attack.
- Bo Giertz, 92, Swedish theologian, novelist and bishop.
- Maithripala Senanayake, 82, Sri Lankan politician.
13
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt, 90, American politician and lawyer.
- Gauri Ayyub, 67, Indian social worke, activist and writer, acute arthritis.
- Red Badgro, 95, American football player, football coach and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, complications from a fall.[24]
- Stanley Bergerman, 94, American producer of horror films, cancer.[25]
- Jean Parédès, 83, French film actor.
- Ben Zion Abba Shaul, 73, Israeli Sephardic rabbi.
14
- Rex Applegate, 84, American army officer.
- Glenn E. Duncan, 80, United States Air Force officer and World War II flying ace.
- Björn Hjörtur Guðmundsson, 87, Icelandic craftsman and environmental pioneer.
- Miroslav Holub, 74, Czech poet and immunologist.
- Herman David Koppel, 89, Danish composer and pianist.
- Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, 67, South Vietnamese general, cancer.[26]
- Richard McDonald, 89, American entrepreneur, co-founder of McDonald's and inventor of the fast food system.[27]
- Donald Shaw Ramsay, 78, Scottish bagpiper.
- Karl Schirdewan, 91, German communist activist and East German politician.[28]
- Angus John Mackintosh Stewart, 61, British writer.
- Thomas Martin Thompson, 43, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[29]
15
- Malcolm Booker, 83, Australian diplomat, author and journalist.[30]
- Joseph Desmond O'Connor, 78, British linguist.
- S. Shanmuganathan, 38, Sri Lankan Tamil militant and politician, assassinated.[31]
16
- John Ball, 73, English footballer.
- Philip J. Corso, 83, American Army officer, heart attack.
- Jess Dobernic, 80, American baseball player.
- Mahbub ul Haq, 64, Pakistani economist and politician.[32]
- Lucien Lamoureux, 77, Canadian politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada.
17
- Lillian Hoban, 73, American illustrator and children's writer.[33]
- Marc Hunter, 44, New Zealand singer, songwriter and record producer, cancer.[34]
- James Lighthill, 74, British mathematician.
- Joseph Maher, 64, Irish-American actor, playwright and director, brain tumor.
- Hugh Reilly, 82, American actor, emphysema.[35]
- Claudia Testoni, 82, Italian hurdler, sprinter and long jumper.
18
- Florence Bird, 90, Canadian broadcaster, journalist, and senator.
- Mykola Lebed, 89, Ukrainian political activist, nationalist and guerrilla fighter.
- Betty Marsden, 79, English comedy actress.[36]
- Julia Boyer Reinstein, 91, American historian.
- Kunwar Mohinder Singh Bedi Sahar, 89, Indian Urdu poet.
- Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Thero, 101, Sri Lankan Buddhist monk.
19
- Giliana Berneri, French communist activist.[37]
- Ralph Toohy, 71, Canadian Football League player.
- Elmer Valo, 77, Slovak American baseball player and coach.
20
- Norah Borges, 97, Argentine artist.
- June Byers, 76, American women's professional wrestler, pneumonia.
- Alberto Cavallari, 70, Italian journalist and writer.[38]
- Tossy Spivakovsky, 91, Russian-American violin virtuoso.[39]
- Golden "Big" Wheeler, 68, American blues singer, harmonicist and songwriter, heart failure.
21
- O'Landa Draper, 34, American gospel music artist, renal failure.
- Alan Shepard, 74, American astronaut, naval aviator and test pilot, complications from leukemia.[40]
- Robert Young, 91, American actor, respiratory failure.[41]
22
- Michael Denison, 82, English actor.[42]
- Corbett Monica, 68, American comedian.[43]
- Hermann Prey, 69, German bass-baritone.
- Antonio Saura, 67, Spanish artist and writer.
- Tjokropranolo, 74, Indonesian politician and military officer.
23
- Vladimir Dudintsev, 79, Russian writer.
- Mark Hampton, 58, American designer.[44]
- John Hopkins, 67, English film, stage and television writer, domestic accident.[45]
- Fred A. Lennon, 92, American manufacturer and philanthropist.
- Djibril Diop Mambéty, 53, Senegalese actor, film director and poet, lung cancer.
- Manuel Mejía Vallejo, 75 Colombian writer.
24
- Gus Alex, 82, Greek-American mobster.
- Alta Allen, 93, American silent film actress.
- Jacob Chestnut, 58, United States Capitol Police officer, killed during the U.S. Capitol shooting incident.[46]
- John Gibson, 42, U.S. Capitol Police officer, killed during the U.S. Capitol shooting incident.[46]
- Ronnie Grieveson, 88, South African cricketer.
25
- David Durand, 77, American actor.[47]
- Tal Farlow, 77, American jazz guitarist, esophageal cancer.[48]
- Tiny Rowland, 80, British businessman and corporate raider.
26
- Manzoor Alam Beg, 67, Bangladeshi photographer.
- Rainey Bennett, 91, American artist, illustrator and muralist.[49]
- Seán Ó hEinirí, 83, Irish seanchaí and the last known monolingual Irish speaker.
- Zeki Kuneralp, 83, Turkish diplomat.
- David J. McCloud, 53, American Air Force lieutenant general, airplane crash.
- Aymoré Moreira, 86, Brazilian football player and coach.
27
- Binnie Barnes, 95, English actress.
- Zlatko Čajkovski, 74, Croatian football player and coach (1948 silver medal, 1952 silver medal).[50]
- Russell M. Carneal, 80, American politician and judge.[51]
- John Gilliland, 62, American radio broadcaster and documentarian.
- Elizabeth Karlin, 54, American doctor and advocate for women's reproductive rights, complications from a brain tumor.
- Muzz Patrick, 83, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
- Bill Tuttle, 69, American baseball player, cancer.
28
- Mykola Bakay, 67, Ukrainian singer, composer, poet and author.
- Olga de Blanck, 82, Cuban pianist, guitarist and composer.
- Zbigniew Herbert, 73, Polish poet, essayist, drama writer and moralist.
- David Jones, 84, English cricketer.
- Lenny McLean, 49, English unlicensed boxer, bouncer, bodyguard and actor.[52]
- Consalvo Sanesi, 87, Alfa Romeo works' test driver.
29
- Jorge Pacheco Areco, 78, Uruguayan politician.
- Doris Nolan, 82, American actress.
- Jerome Robbins, 79, American choreographer, director and dancer.[53]
- Fabrice Simon, 47, Haitian artist and fashion designer, AIDS.[54]
- O. Z. Whitehead, 87, American actor, cancer.
- Bobby Whitt, 10, American murder victim, homicide.[55]
30
- Maurice Bardèche, 90, French art critic and journalist.[56]
- Bharathan, 51, Indian film director and artist.
- Donald C. Davis, 77, United States Navy admiral, heart attack.
- Oreste Marengo, 91, Italian Roman Catholic prelate.
- Doug McRitchie, 74, Australian rugby player.
- Ryoichi Nakagawa, 85, Japanese aircraft/automotive engineer.
- Buffalo Bob Smith, 80, American children's television host, cancer[57]
- Kenneth A. Walsh, 81, United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel, World War II flying ace and Medal of Honor recipient, heart attack.[58]
31
- Jean de Baroncelli, 84, French writer.
- Clarrie Earl, 85, Australian politician.
- Sylvia Field, 97, American actress.[59]
- Barbara Giuranna, 98, Italian pianist and composer.[60]
- John E. Powers, 87, American politician.
- Richie Powers, 67, American basketball referee, stroke.[61]
- Herbert Widmayer, 84, German football player and manager.
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