Deaths in August 1998
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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.
August 1998
1
- Joel Barr, 82, American spy for the Soviet Union.[1]
- Eva Bartok, 71, Hungarian-British actress.[2]
- Len Duncan, 87, American race car driver.
- Norman Kretzmann, 69, American academic, multiple myeloma.[3]
- Josef Ludl, 82, Czech football player.[4]
- France Mihelič, 91, Slovene painter.[5]
- Ray Rigby, 49, Australian shot putter, weightlifter and Olympian (1968).[6]
2
- Otto Bumbel, 84, Brazilian football player and coach.[7]
- Mapy Cortés, 88, Puerto Rican actress, heart attack.[8]
- Tommy Faile, 69, American songwriter and singer, heart attack.[9]
- Jim Hadnot, 58, American basketball player (Oakland Oaks).[10]
- Shari Lewis, 65, American ventriloquist and puppeteer, viral pneumonia.[11]
3
- Ronnie Boon, 89, Welsh rugby player.[12]
- Francesc Xavier Bultó, 86, Spanish businessman.
- Reizo Koike, 82, Japanese swimmer and Olympic medalist (1932, 1936), lung cancer.[13]
- Alfred Schnittke, 63, German-Russian composer, complications from strokes.[14]
- Alan Walsh, 81, British-Australian physicist, originator of atomic absorption spectroscopy.
- Joseph Putnam Willson, 96, American district judge (United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania).[15]
4
- Yury Artyukhin, 68, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz 14), and engineer, cancer.
- Carmen Delia Dipiní, 70, Puerto Rican singer.
- Richard Dunn, 54, British television executive.[16]
- Thomas Joseph McDonough, 86, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.[17]
- Al-Qarshi Abd ur-Raheem Salaam, 62, Yemeni poet and playwright.
5
- Arthur Ceuleers, 82, Belgian footballer.[18]
- Kesab Chandra Gogoi, 72, Indian politician.
- Albert Johnson, 80, English rugby player.
- Otto Kretschmer, 86, German U-boat commander during World War II, boating accident.
- Britt Lindeborg, 70, Swedish lyricist, singer, composer and writer.
- Yevgeny Shabayev, 25, Russian artistic gymnast, heart attack.
- Eldon Shamblin, 82, American guitarist and arranger.[19]
- Eugene L. Stewart, 78, American lawyer and law professor.[20]
- Todor Zhivkov, 86, Bulgarian politician, president of Bulgaria, pneumonia.[21]
6
- Henk Bosveld, 57, Dutch footballer, heart attack.[22]
- Jack Brickhouse, 82, American sportscaster, heart attack.[23]
- Francesco Capocasale, 81, Italian football player and coach.[24]
- Jonas Gaines, 84, American baseball player.[25]
- Nat Gonella, 90, English jazz trumpeter, bandleader and vocalist.
- André Weil, 92, French mathematician.[26]
- Deng Zhaoxiang, 95, Chinese naval officer.
7
- Richard W. Fellows, 83, American Air Force officer.
- William Hiesey, 94, American botanist.[27]
- Dick Offenhamer, 85, American football and baseball player and coach.
- Peggy Phango, 69, South African actress and singer.
- Harry Tuzo, 80, British army general.[28]
8
- Sam Balter, 88, American basketball player, sportscaster, and Olympian (1936).[29]
- Giulio Bresci, 76, Italian road racing cyclist.[30]
- Raymond E. Brown, 70, American Catholic priest.[31]
- Barbara Burke, 81, British and South African sprint runner and Olympic medalist (1936).[32]
- Idella Jones Childs, 95, American historian and civil rights activist.
- Mossie Guttormsen, 82, Australian cricketer.[33]
- Anna J. Harrison, 85, American organic chemist and professor of chemistry.[34]
- Satoshi Murayama, 29, Japanese shogi player, bladder cancer.
- Walter Merlo, 33, Italian long-distance runner, mountaineering accident.
- Dagfinn Nilsen, 78, Norwegian football player and Olympian (1952).[35]
- Germana Paolieri, 91, Italian actress.
- Jess Present, 77, American politician.
- László Szabó, 81, Hungarian chess grandmaster.
- Aang Witarsa, 67, Indonesian football player and Olympian (1956).[36]
9
- Tony Baker, 53, American football player, traffic collision.[37]
- Bjarne Bø, 91, Norwegian actor.
- Petro Denysenko, 77, Soviet Ukrainian Olympic pole vaulter (1952).[38]
- Brynhild Haugland, 93, American politician.[39]
- George Child Villiers, 9th Earl of Jersey, 88, English nobleman and politician, heart attack.
- Ray Moss, 96, American baseball player (Brooklyn Robins, Boston Braves).[40]
- Frankie Ruiz, 40, Puerto Rican singer and songwriter, liver cirrhosis.[41]
- Francisco Zúñiga, 85, Costa Rican-Mexican artist.[42]
10
- Bekim Berisha, 32, Kosovar Albanian soldier, killed in action.
- Chuck Fenenbock, 79, American football player.
- Sidney W. Fox, 86, American biochemist.[43]
- John Murphy, 47, Northern Irish loyalist, traffic collision.
- Premji, 89, Indian actor and social reformer.
- Habib Hassan Touma, 63, Palestinian composer and ethnomusicologist.[44]
11
- Richard Bilby, 67, American district judge (United States District Court for the District of Arizona).[45]
- Bud Cooper, 85, American gridiron football player (Cleveland Rams).[46]
- Heinz Döpfl, 59, Austrian pair skater and Olympian (1960).[47]
- Derek Newark, 65, English actor, heart attack following liver failure.[48]
- Nicky Verstappen, 11, Dutch homicide victim[49]
- Sergei Vonsovsky, 87, Soviet physicist.
- Benny Waters, 96, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist.[50]
12
- Dagoberto Borges, 58, Cuban Olympic fencer (1968).[51]
- Jesús Loroño, 72, Spanish road racing cyclist.[52]
- D. R. Nagaraj, 44, Indian writer and cultural critic.[53]
- Gazi Shamsur Rahman, Bangladeshi lawyer, writer and television personality.
- C. Dickerman Williams, American lawyer and free-speech advocate.[54]
13
- Sim Bok-seok, 69, South Korean long-distance runner and Olympian (1948).[55]
- Nino Ferrer, 63, French singer, songwriter and author, suicide by gunshot.[56]
- Edward Ginzton, 82, Ukrainian-American engineer.[57]
- Julien Green, 97, American writer.[58]
- Waneta Hoyt, 52, American serial killer, pancreatic cancer.
- Karl Hubenthal, 81, American cartoonist, cancer.
- Rafael Robles, 50, American baseball player (San Diego Padres).[59]
- Saturday Rosenberg, 46, Australian comedian, writer and actress, traffic collision.[60]
14
- Piet Bakers, 75, Dutch footballer.[61]
- Eve Boswell, 76, British pop singer.[62]
- Gary Evans, 43, American thief and serial killer, suicide by jumping.[63]
- Doug Fleming, 68, Australian rugby league football player.[64]
- Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff, 77, German actor and TV host, pancreatic cancer.[65]
- Rosemary Martin, 61, English actress.
- Xavier Miserachs, 61, Spanish photographer, lung cancer.[66]
- Chalmers Wylie, 77, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1967-1993).[67]
15
- Marc Akerstream, 44, Canadian actor and stuntman, head injuries from special effects explosion, head trauma.[68]
- Marie Meierhofer, 89, Swiss children's psychiatrist and pedagogue.
- Károly Polinszky, 76, Hungarian chemical engineer and politician.[69]
- Bill Shill, 75, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins).[70]
- Paulo Tarrto, 83, Brazilian Olympic swimmer (1936).[71]
16
- Dominique Davray, 79, French actress.[72]
- Wallace Fowlie, 89, American writer and academic.[73]
- Claire Horrent, 88, French Olympic swimmer (1928).[74]
- Phil Leeds, 82, American actor (Rosemary's Baby, Ally McBeal, Ghost), pneumonia.[75]
- Frank Lewis, 85, American wrestler and Olympic champion (1936).[76]
- Alain Marion, 59, French flutist, and, heart attack.
- Jim Murray, 78, American sportswriter and Pulitzer Prize winner.[77]
- Kenneth Stafford Norris, 74, American marine mammal biologist, conservationist, and naturalist.[78]
- Norman Tustin, 79, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers).[79]
- Dorothy West, 91, American novelist and short-story writer.[80]
- Jim Zeravich, 78, American basketball player (Syracuse Nationals).[81]
17
- Robert B. Evans, 92, American automobile industry executive.[82]
- Terry Garvin, 61, Canadian professional wrestler, cancer.[83]
- Tameo Ide, 89, Japanese footballer.[84]
- Władysław Komar, 58, Polish shot putter, actor, and Olympian (1964, 1968, 1972), traffic collision.[85]
- Johnny Lipon, 75, American baseball player.[86]
- Rita Roland, 83, German-born American film editor.
- Tadeusz Ślusarski, 48, Polish pole vaulter and Olympian (1972, 1976, 1980).[87]
- Irwin Suall, 73, American socialist, civil rights activist, and investigator, emphysema.[88]
- Ab de Vries, 85, Dutch footballer.[89]
18
- Protima Bedi, 49, Indian model, landslide.
- Bernice Bing, 62, Chinese-American artist.
- Gerry Brown, 81, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings).[90]
- Harry J. Cargas, 66, American scholar and author.[91]
- Hoyt C. Hottel, 95, American chemical engineer and academic.
- Persis Khambatta, 49, Indian model and actress (Star Trek: The Motion Picture), heart attack.[92]
- Joe Patanelli, 78, American basketball player (Minneapolis Lakers).[93]
- Johann Rezac, 87, Austrian architect.[94]
- Kurt Schütte, 88, German mathematician.
- Shane Shamrock, 23, American professional wrestler, altercation with police.[95]
- Otto Wichterle, 84, Czech chemist.[96]
19
- Vasili Arkhipov, 72, Soviet Navy officer during the Cuban Missile Crisis, kidney cancer.
- Anne Asquith, 81, British code breaker.[97]
- Lawrence J. Fuller, 83, American Army major general, heart attack.[98]
- Max Holste, 84, French aeronautical engineer.[99]
- Boris Borisovich Kadomtsev, 69, Russian plasma physicist.
- Ilva Ligabue, 66, Italian operatic soprano.[100]
- Terry Perdue, 57, British weightlifter and Olympian (1968, 1972).[101]
- Sylvia Stahlman, 69, American soprano.[102]
- Yuri Yappa, 70, Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist.
20
- Jimmy Brewster, 96, American gridiron football player.
- Vivian Brown, 56, American sprinter and Olympian (1964).[103]
- Ivan Godlevsky, 90, Soviet and Russian painter.
- Gene Host, 65, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Kansas City Athletics).[104]
- Oleg Prokofiev, 69, Soviet and Russian artist, sculptor and poet.[105]
- Fred Sington, 88, American football and baseball player (Washington Senators, Brooklyn Dodgers).[106]
- Haydée Tamzali, 91, Tunisian actress, writer, and filmmaker.
- Vu Van Mau, 84, last Prime Minister of South Vietnam.[107]
- Robert W. Warren, 73, American district judge (United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin).[108]
21
- Hans van Abeelen, 61, Dutch behaviour geneticist.
- Luis Dávila, 71, Argentine actor, heart attack.[109]
- Franz Eisenach, 80, German flying ace during World War II and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
- John Stopford, 61, English rugby player.[110]
- Juanita Kidd Stout, 79, American attorney and jurist.[111]
- Wanda Toscanini, 90, Italian wife of pianist Vladimir Horowitz.[112]
- Michiel Victor, 88, South African Olympic sports shooter (1960).[113]
22
- Jack Briggs, 78, American actor.
- Sam Cooper, 89, American gridiron football player (Pittsburgh Pirates).[114]
- Evelyn Denington, Baroness Denington, 91, British politician, heart failure.[115]
- Sergio Fiorentino, 70, Italian classical pianist, heart attack.[116]
- Elena Garro, 81, Mexican screenwriter, journalist, and novelist, heart attack.[117]
- Minoru Murayama, 61, Japanese baseball player.[118]
- Miloslav Příhoda, 75, Czech Olympic boxer (1948).[119]
- Jimmy Skidmore, 82, English jazz tenor saxophonist.
- Woody Stephens, 84, American thoroughbred horse racing trainer, emphysema.[120]
23
- Ahmet Hamdi Boyacıoğlu, 78, Turkish judge.
- Gail Bruce, 74, American football player (San Francisco 49ers).[121]
- Nikolay Kolesov, 42, Russian footballer.[122]
- Asadollah Lajevardi, Iranian conservative politician and warden, shot.
- Rolf Søder, 80, Norwegian film actor.[123]
- John Woodcock, 44, American football player, heart attack.
24
- Alexey Anselm, 64, Russian theoretical physicist.
- Manuel Azcárate, 81, Spanish journalist and communist politician, cancer.[124]
- Jerry Clower, 71, American stand-up comedian.
- Charles Diggs, 75, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1955-1980), stroke.[125]
- Manuel Álvarez Jiménez, 70, Chilean football player.
- E. G. Marshall, 84, American actor (12 Angry Men, Tora! Tora! Tora!, The Defenders), Emmy winner (1962, 1963), lung cancer.[126]
- Gene Page, 58, American composer, arranger and record producer.[127]
- Levan Sanadze, 70, Georgian athlete and Olympic medalist (1952).[128]
- Georges Senfftleben, 75, French track cyclist.[129]
- Jack Richard Williams, 88, American radio announcer and politician, cancer.[130]
25
- Mildred L. Batchelder, 96, American librarian.[131]
- Lamar Crowson, 72, American concert pianist and a chamber musician.[132]
- Lee Gunther, 63, American film editor and co-founder of Marvel Productions, stroke.
- Harold Hairston, 76, American baseball player.[133]
- Floyd K. Haskell, 82, American lawyer and politician, pneumonia.[134]
- Vyacheslav Kochemasov, 79, Russian diplomat and politician.
- Allan Macartney, 57, Scottish politician, heart attack.
- Barbara Mandell, 78, British journalist, broadcaster, newsreader and travel writer.
- Bob Montgomery, 79, American boxer, complications from a stroke.[135]
- Lennart Nyman, 81, Swedish football coach and sports administrator.
- Jerry Wayne Parrish, 54, United States Army corporal and defector, kidney failure.
- Lewis F. Powell, Jr., 90, American lawyer and jurist, pneumonia.[136]
- Gabino Rodríguez, 70-71, Mexican Olympic cyclist (1948).[137]
- Gagik Sargsyan, 72, Armenian historian.
26
- Genaro Ruiz Camacho, 43, American criminal, execution by lethal injection.
- Wade Domínguez, 32, American actor, model, singer and dancer, respiratory failure.
- Penny Edwards, 70, American actress, lung cancer.[138]
- Remo Giazotto, 87, Italian musicologist, music critic, and composer.
- Bunty Greenland, 85, British Olympic alpine skier (1948).[139]
- Jack Harlan, 81, American botanist, agronomist, and plant collector.[140]
- Robert Huebner, 84, American physician and virologist, pneumonia.[141]
- Jaanus Kuum, 33, Estonian-Norwegian racing cyclist, suicide.[142]
- Margaret Potter, 72, British writer.[143]
- Frederick Reines, 80, American physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.[144]
- Jackie Ridgle, 50, American basketball player (California Golden Bears, Cleveland Cavaliers).[145]
- Ryūichi Tamura, 75, Japanese poet, essayist and translator, esophageal cancer.
27
- Babalu, 56, Filipino comedian and actor, liver cancer.
- Garry E. Brown, 75, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1967-1979).[146]
- Kelly Chan, 41, Singaporean windsurfer, traffic collision.[147]
- Harry Jensen, 85, Australian politician.
- Hunter Johnson, 92, American composer.[148]
- Gianni Hecht Lucari, 76, Italian film producer, and production manager.[149]
- Syd Owen, 76, English football player and coach.[150]
- Essie Summers, 86, New Zealand author.[151]
- Margaret Dauler Wilson, 59, American philosopher and academic.[152]
28
- George Büchi, 77, Swiss organic chemist and academic.[153]
- Lu Dadong, 83, Chinese politician, governor of Sichuan province.
- Hirokazu Kobayashi, 69, Japanese aikido teacher.
- Henry Nyandoro, 28, Kenyan footballer.[154]
- Rajarethinam Arokiasamy Sundaram, 93, Roman Catholic bishop.[155]
- Jack Wright, 71, Australian politician and Deputy Premier of South Australia (1982-1985).
- Nikolai Vladimirovich Zateyev, 72, Russian submariner and Soviet Navy officer, lung cancer.
29
- Erik Asmussen, 84, Danish architect.
- Antoinette Becker, 78, French-German children's author.
- Richard Beebe, 68, American radio personality, lung cancer.[156]
- Minerva Bernardino, Dominican Republic diplomat and feminist.[157]
- Charlie Feathers, 66, American country music and rockabilly musician, stroke.[158]
- John Langston Gwaltney, 69, American writer and anthropologist.[159]
- Frances Hamerstrom, 90, American author, naturalist and ornithologist, cancer.[160]
- Albert Michiels, 67, Belgian Olympic wrestler (1960, 1964).[161]
- Ralph Pappier, 84, Argentine production designer, set decorator and film director.
30
- Archie Glen, 69, Scottish football player.[162]
- Frits de Graaf, 72, Dutch footballer.[163]
- Dan Kubiak, 60, American politician and businessman, cardiovascular disease.
- Mykhaylo Mykhalyna, 74, Soviet-Ukrainian football manager and coach.
- Denniz Pop, 35, Swedish DJ, music producer and songwriter, stomach cancer.
- Higazi Said, 81-82, Egyptian Olympic swimmer (1936).[164]
- Irving Segal, 79, American mathematician.[165]
- Toss Woollaston, 88, New Zealand painter.[166]
31
- Óscar Carrasco, 70, Chilean footballer.[167]
- Sabiha Gökçül Erbay, Turkish school teacher and politician.
- Jacques Mauchien, 72, French Olympic field hockey player (1960).[168]
- Keith Oxlee, 63, South African rugby player, complications following surgery.[169]
- Aage Poulsen, 79, Danish long-distance runner and Olympian (1948).[170]
- Shigezō Sasaoka, 50, Japanese voice actor, typhoid fever.
- George Seeman, 82, American football player (Green Bay Packers).[171]