Deaths in April 1998
The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.
April 1998
1
- Gene Evans, 75, American actor, heart failure.[1]
- Lucille Norman, 76, American actress, mezzo-soprano and radio personality.
- Robert Ogle, 69, Canadian Roman Catholic priest and politician.
- Rozz Williams, 34, American singer, poet and artist, suicide by hanging.[2]
2
- Joan Austin, 95, British tennis player.
- Benjy F. Brooks, 79, American pediatric surgeon.
- Sir Dai Davies, 88, Welsh trade unionist.
- Eberhard Rees, 89, German-American rocketry pioneer and NASA executive.[3]
3
- Mary Cartwright, 97, British mathematician.[4]
- Elmer Iseler, 70, Canadian choir conductor and choral editor.
- Charles Lang, 96, American cinematographer, pneumonia.
- Harkisan Mehta, 69, Indian author and journalist, heart attack.
- Rob Pilatus, 32, German model, dancer and singer (Milli Vanilli), accidental overdose.[5]
- Herbert B. Powell, 94, United States Army general and diplomat.
- John W. Sweeterman, 91, American newspaperman.
- Alvin Tyler, 72, American R&B and jazz musician.[6]
- Wolf Vostell, 65, German painter and sculptor.
4
- Harry W. Bass Jr., 71, American businessman, coin collector and philanthropist.[7]
- George Berry, 84, Australian politician.[8]
- Käthe Bosse-Griffiths, 87, German-born Egyptologist.
- Kay Hughes, 84, American actress.
- Mahendra Kasippillai, 70, Sri Lankan first-class cricketer.
- Ganesh Prasad Rijal, 77, Nepali politician, cardiac arrest.
5
- Frederick Charles Frank, 87, British theoretical physicist.
- Mick Miller, 61, Australian Aboriginal activist and politician, heart seizure.[9]
- Elizabeth Mitchell, 79, New Zealand fencer.
- Maurice O'Doherty, 65, Irish broadcaster.
- Cozy Powell, 50, English rock drummer (Rainbow, Whitesnake, Emerson, Lake & Powell, Black Sabbath), car crash.[10]
6
- Reuben Berry, 63, American gridiron football coach.
- Rudy Dhaenens, 36, Belgian road bicycle racer, car accident.[11]
- Heinz Neuhaus, 71, German boxer and heavyweight champion.
- Stanley Radwan, 89, Polish-American strongman and professional wrestler.
- Wendy O. Williams, 48, American singer, songwriter, and actress, suicide by gunshot.[12]
- John Wyatt, 63, American baseball player, heart attack.
- Tammy Wynette, 55, American country music singer-songwriter, heart arrhythmia.[13]
7
- Muhammad Karam Shah Al-Azhari, 79, Pakistani Islamic scholar.
- John Larking, 76, English cricketer.
- James McIntosh Patrick, 91 Scottish painter.[14]
- Alex Schomburg, 92, Puerto Rican comic-book artist and painter.
- S. V. Venkatraman, 86, Indian actor, singer and music director.
8
- Charlie Drinkwater, 83, English football player and manager.
- Lee Elias, 77, British-American comics artist.
- Florence Virginia Foose Wilson Mayberry, 91, American writer and Bahá'í Faith convert.[15]
- Marcel Jacobo Laniado de Wind, 70, Ecuadorian businessman and politician.
9
- Tom Cora, 44, American cellist and composer, malignant melanoma.[16]
- Mihai Grecu, 81, Moldovan painter.
- Vishnu Bhikaji Kolte, 89, Indian writer.
- John Tate, 43, American heavyweight boxer, car accident.[17]
- Frank Treasure, 73, Australian rules footballer, mesothelioma.
- David Vigor, 58, Australian politician, heart attack.
10
- A. Durai Arasan, 75, Indian politician.
- Alan Burgess, 83, English RAF pilot and author.[18]
- Dieter Erler, 58, German footballer.[19]
- Basil James, 77, American jockey.
- Zezé Moreira, 90, Brazilian footballer and coach.
- C. K. Nagaraja Rao, 82, Indian writer, director, journalist and social activist.
11
- Lillian Briggs, 65, American rock 'n roll performer and musician, lung cancer.
- Francis Durbridge, 85, English playwright and author.[20]
- Tex Geddes, 78, Scottish author and adventurer.[21]
- Rodney Harvey, 30, American actor, model and dancer, drug overdose.[22]
- Victoria Hernández, 101, Puerto Rican music entrepreneur.
- Stanisław Zarakowski, 90, Polish military prosecutor.
12
- Kenneth O. Emery, 83, Canadian-American marine geologist.
- Xin Fengxia, Chinese pingju opera performer, cerebral hemorrhage.
- Robert Ford, 83, Canadian poet and diplomat.
- Dorothea Jameson, 77, American cognitive psychologist, lung cancer.
- Felicitas Mendez, Puerto Rican-American civil right activist, heart failure.[23]
- Charles Sibley, 80, American ornithologist and molecular biologist.
- Marvin Wolfgang, 73, American sociologist and criminologist.[24]
13
- Alec Albiston, 80, Australian rules footballer.
- George A. Eddy, 90, American economist.
- Patrick de Gayardon, 38, French skydiver and skysurfing pioneer, skydiving accident.
- Bahi Ladgham, 85, Tunisian politician and Prime minister.
- Pat Rainey, 72, American singer and actress.[25]
14
- Weldon Humble, 76, American gridiron football player.[26]
- Harry Lee, 90, British tennis player.
- Dorothy Squires, 83, Welsh singer, lung cancer.[27]
- Maurice Stans, 90, American civil servant and politician, congestive heart failure.
15
- Kenny Duckett, 38, American football player (New Orleans Saints, Dallas Cowboys), renal failure.[28]
- William K. Jones, 81, United States Marine Corps lieutenant general.
- Rose Maddox, 72, American country singer-songwriter.[29]
- Pol Pot, 72, Cambodian politician.
16
- Kazimieras Antanavičius, 60, Lithuanian economist and politician.
- Alberto Calderón, 77, Argentinian mathematician.
- Fred Davis, 84, English snooker and billiards player.
- Marie-Louise Meilleur, 117, Canadian supercentenarian, oldest living person at the time of her death.[30]
- Rose Naftalin, 101, American chef and cookbook author.
- Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit, 71, Ukrainian Hutsul artist, folk writer and -scientist, ethnographer and dialectologist.
17
- Michael Ashikodi Agbamuche, 77, Nigerian Attorney General and politician.
- Geraldo de Barros, 75, Brazilian painter and photographer.[31]
- Frances Clark, 93, American pianist, pedagogue, and academic.
- Everett Doerge, 62, American state legislator, heart attack.
- Ayyub Huseynov, 81, Azerbaijani artist.
- Linda McCartney, 56, American musician, photographer and animal rights activist, breast cancer.[32]
- Eddie Sweat, 58, American groom in Thoroughbred horse racing, leukemia.
18
- Jake Colhouer, 76, American gridiron football player.
- William Edmondson, 91, American sound engineer.
- Johan Richter, 73, Danish architect and engineer.
- Terry Sanford, 80, American university administrator and politician.[33]
19
- Gardner Dickinson, 70, American golfer.
- J. C. Harrington, 96, American archaeologist.
- Denis Howell, Baron Howell, 74, British politician.
- Octavio Paz, 84, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate, cancer.[34]
- Vladimir Sokolov, 70, Russian scientist.
- Liam Sullivan, 74, American actor and singer, heart attack.[35]
20
- Trevor Huddleston, 84, English Anglican bishop.[36]
- Yoshio Inaba, 77, Japanese actor.
- Alfredo Palacio Moreno, 85, Ecuadorian sculptor and painter.
21
- Peter Lind Hayes, 82, American vaudeville entertainer, songwriter and actor, vascular problems.[37]
- Vernon Holland, 49, American gridiron football player (Cincinnati Bengals, Detroit Lions and New York Giants), heart attack.
- Egill Jacobsen, 87, Danish painter.
- Jean-François Lyotard, 73, French philosopher and sociologist, leukemia.[38]
- Irene Vernon, 76, American actress, congestive heart failure and coronary artery disease.
22
- Kitch Christie, 58, South African rugby coach.
- Guy Henn, 88, Australian doctor and politician.
- Vadym Hetman, 62, Ukrainian statesman and banker, murdered.
- Shalimar Seiuli, 21, American-Samoan transgender dancer, accidental fall.[39]
- Marvin Worth, 72, American film producer, screenwriter and actor, lung cancer.[40]
23
- Konstantinos Karamanlis, 91, Greek politician and former Prime Minister and President.[41]
- James Earl Ray, 70, American convict and assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., liver failure.[42]
- Thanassis Skordalos, 77, Greek musician.
- Red Stacy, 86, American gridiron football player.
24
- Froduald Karamira, 50, Rwandan politician, execution by firing squad.
- Yakov Malkiel, 83, Russian-American etymologist and philologist.
- Mel Powell, 75, American composer and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, liver cancer.[43]
- Christiane Rochefort, 80, French feminist writer.
- Leslie Stevens, 74, American producer, writer and director, angioplasty.
25
- Jorge Dominichi, 51, Argentine football player and manager.
- Wright Morris, 88, American novelist, photographer and essayist, esophageal cancer.[44]
- Christian Mortensen, 115, Danish-American supercentenarian.[45]
- Don Petersen, 70, American playwright and screenwriter.
- Evelyn Raymond, 90, American sculptor.
- Dave Ross, 80, Australian rugby footballer.
26
- Welton Ralph Abell, 75, United States Marine Corps officer.
- Alan Boxer, 81, British Royal Air Force officer.
- Joan Mary Wayne Brown, 92, British author.
- Juan José Gerardi Conedera, 75, Guatemalan Roman Catholic bishop and human rights activiist, assassinated.[46]
- David Fasold, 59, United States Merchant Marine officer and salvage expert, cancer.
- Gabe Paul, 88, American Major League Baseball executive.[47]
27
- John Bassett, 82, Canadian media proprietor and politician.
- Carlos Castaneda, 72, American author, hepatocellular cancer.[48]
- Anne Desclos, 90, French journalist and novelist.
- Edris Eckhardt, 93, American artist.
- Nguyễn Văn Linh, 82, Vietnamese revolutionary and politician, liver cancer.[49]
- Louis S. Peterson, 75, American playwright, actor, screenwriter and professor, lung cancer.
- Ralph Raphael, 77, British organic chemist, ischaemic heart disease.[50]
- Geoffrey Serle, 76, Australian historian.
28
- Ramakant Desai, 58, Indian cricket player, complications following cardiac arrest.
- Sir Stanley Krusin, 89, British lawyer and parliamentary draftsman.
- Dorothy Lovett, 83, American film actress.[51]
- Reed C. Rollins, 86, American botanist and professor.
- Mum Shirl, 76, Australian Wiradjuri humanitarian activist.
29
- Mary Castle, 67, American actress, lung cancer.
- Mário de Castro, 92, Brazilian footballer.
- V. Gopalakrishnan, Indian actor.
- Hal Laycoe, 75, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.[52]
- Eddie Lovette, 55, American reggae musician, lung cancer.
30
- Guy Anderson, 91, American painter.[53]
- Curly Chalker, 66, American pedal steel guitarist, brain tumor.[54]
- Lise Gervais, 64, Canadian abstract painter and sculptor.[55]
- Daniel V. Jones, 40, American maintenance worker, suicide by gunshot.[56]
- Nizar Qabbani, 75, Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher.[57]
- Giovanni Ravalli, Italian officer and war criminal.
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