Deaths in December 1998
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The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.
December 1998
1
- Aisha Abd al-Rahman, 85, Egyptian author and professor of literature, heart attack.[1]
- Janet Lewis, 99, American novelist, poet, and librettist.[2]
- Bertil Nordahl, 81, Swedish football player, manager, and Olympian (1948).[3]
- Vincenzo Pappalettera, 79, Italian writer and historian.
- Donald Smith, 78, Australian operatic tenor.[4]
- Freddie Young, 96, British cinematographer (Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter), Oscar winner (1963, 1966, 1971).[5]
2
- Theodora Mead Abel, 99, American clinical psychologist.[6]
- Ben Guintini, 79, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Philadelphia Athletics).[7]
- Bob Haggart, 84, American dixieland jazz musician.[8]
- Cleopa Ilie, 86, Romanian abbot.[9]
- Mikio Oda, 93, Japanese athlete and the first Japanese Olympic gold medalist (1924, 1928, 1932).[10]
- Red Roberts, 80, American baseball player (Washington Senators).[11]
- Brian Stonehouse, 80, British painter and SEO agent during World War II.[12]
3
- Pierre Hétu, 62, Canadian conductor, pianist and politician, cancer.[13]
- Albert Leman, 83, Soviet composer of classical music.
- Mohammad Mokhtari, 56, Iranian writer, poet and activist, homicide.[14]
- George Murcell, 73, British actor.
- Robert Rothschild, 86, Belgian diplomat.[15]
- Ed Widseth, 88, American football player (New York Giants).[16]
4
- Percy Ames, 66, English footballer.
- Egil Johansen, 64, Norwegian-Swedish jazz musician.[17]
- Suzanne Jovin, 21, German-born American student, stabbed.[18]
- Milton Marks, 78, American politician.[19]
- Yury Vengerovsky, 60, Ukrainian volleyball player and Olympic champion (1964).[20]
5
- Hazel Bishop, 92, American chemist.[21]
- Jack Connor, 78, English footballer.
- Jean Fenwick, 91, Trinidad-American actress.
- Albert Arnold Gore, 90, American politician and father of Al Gore.[22]
- John Lions, 61, Australian computer scientist.
- Henry McCall, 91, American baseball player.[23]
- Joseph Roude, 71, French Olympic boxer (1948).[24]
- Cheung Tze-keung, 43, Chinese criminal, execution by firing squad.[25]
6
- César Baldaccini, 77, French sculptor.[26]
- Georges Borgeaud, 84, Swiss writer and publisher.[27]
- Robert Marasco, 62, American horror novelist and playwright, lung cancer.[28]
- Pierre Mousel, 83, Luxembourgish Olympic football player (1936).[29]
- Peg Leg Bates, 91, American entertainer.[30]
- Radomir Šaper, 72, Yugoslav/Serbian basketball player and executive.
- Hoshiar Singh, 62, Indian Army officer.
- Michael Zaslow, 56, American actor, cancer.[31]
7
- John Addison, 78, British composer.[32]
- Carlos Oviedo Cavada, 71, Chilean cardinal of the Catholic Church.
- Daniel Lee Corwin, 40, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.[33]
- Bill Coven, 78, American basketball player (Rochester Royals).[34]
- Voitto Hellstén, 66, Finnish sprinter and Olympic medalist (1952, 1956, 1960).[35]
- Tim Kelly, 61, American playwright.
- Vic Markov, 82, American football player (Washington Huskies, Cleveland Rams).[36]
- Martin Rodbell, 73, American scientist and Nobel prize recipient, multiple organ failure.[37]
- Jean Rouget, 82, French Olympic field hockey player (1936, 1948).[38]
- George Wilson, 77, American comic book artist.[39]
8
- Peg Leg Bates, 91, American entertainer.[40]
- Michael Craze, 56, British actor (Doctor Who), heart attack.
- Hamilton Howze, 89, American general and commander of the 82nd Airborne Division.[41]
- Jimmy Ingram, 70, American racing driver.[42]
- George Roden, 60, American leader of the Branch Davidian sect, heart attack.[43]
9
- Ralph Barkman, 91, American football player (Orange Tornadoes).[44]
- Eric Bennett, 83, Australian rugby league footballer.[45]
- Shaughnessy Cohen, 50, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1993- ).[46]
- Christine Fulwylie-Bankston, 82, American poet, publisher, and civil rights activist.
- Bill Looby, 67, American soccer player and Olympian (1956).[47]
- Pertti Mattila, 89, Finnish Olympic skier (1936).[48]
- Archie Moore, 81, American boxing champion, heart failure.[49]
- Assis Naban, 92, Brazilian Olympic hammer thrower (1936).[50]
- Mohammad-Ja'far Pouyandeh, 44, Iranian writer and activist, strangled.
- Ferdinand Preindl, 86, Austrian Olympic speed skater (1936, 1948).[51]
- Eddie Testa, 88, American Olympic cyclist (1932).[52]
10
- Wim Hora Adema, 84, Dutch children's author and feminist.[53]
- Peter Bosa, 71, Canadian politician, member of the Senate of Canada (1977-).[54]
- Bob Brown, 59, American gridiron football player (Green Bay Packers, San Diego Chargers, Cincinnati Bengals).[55]
- Bob Dille, 81, American basketball player.[56]
- Buddy Feyne, 86, American lyricist.[57]
- Wang Ganchang, 91, Chinese nuclear physicist.
- Ray Goossens, 74, Belgian artist, animator, writer and film director (Hergé's Adventures of Tintin).[58]
- Trygve Haugeland, 84, Norwegian politician .
- Kamel Messaoudi, 37, Algerian Chaabi musician, traffic collision.[59]
- Charles D. Mize, 77, United States Marine Corps officer, leukemia.[60]
- Joe Pasqua, 80, American football player (Cleveland Rams, Washington Redskins, Los Angeles Rams).[61]
- Berta Singerman, 97, Belarusian-Argentine singer and actress, cardiovascular disease.
- Vida Tomšič, 85, Slovenian communist and World War II partisan fighter.
11
- Jack Coleman, 74, American basketball player (Rochester Royals, St. Louis Hawks).[62]
- George Glennie, 96, American football player (Racine Tornadoes).[63]
- Irma Hünerfauth, 90, German painter and sculptor.
- Gunnar Johansson, 79, Swedish sprint canoeist and Olympian (1948).[64]
- André Lichnerowicz, 83, French differential geometer and mathematical physicist.[65]
- Jimmy Mackay, 54, Scottish-Australian football player.[66]
- Kavi Pradeep, 83, Indian poet and songwriter.[67]
- Chen Puru, 80, Chinese politician.
- Anton Stankowski, 92, German graphic designer, photographer and painter.[68]
- Lynn Strait, 30, American singer and vocalist of band Snot, traffic collision.
- Max Streibl, 66, German politician.[69]
12
- Max Boydston, 66, American gridiron football player (Chicago Cardinals, Dallas Texans, Oakland Raiders).[70]
- Lawton Chiles, 68, American politician, heart attack.[71]
- Marco Denevi, 76, Argentine novelist, lawyer and journalist.
- Jimmy "Orion" Ellis, 53, American singer, shot.[72]
- Denny Galehouse, 87, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox, St. Louis Browns).[73]
- Willis J. Gertsch, 92, American arachnologist.
- Vadim Gulyaev, 57, Russian water polo player and Olympic champion (1968, 1972).[74]
- William A. Marra, 70, American politician.
- Eugenio Montessoro, 86, Italian Olympic equestrian (1948).[75]
- Don Patterson, 88, American producer, animator, and director.
- Mo Udall, 76, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1961-1991), Parkinson's disease.[76]
13
- Helen Adolf, 102, Austrian–American linguist and literature scholar.[77]
- Willem den Toom, 87, Dutch politician.[78]
- Dean Fausett, 85, American painter.[79]
- Lew Grade, 91, British impresario.[80]
- Harvey Jones, 77, American gridiron football player (Cleveland Rams, Washington Redskins).[81]
- James W. Kehoe, 73, American district judge (United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida).[82]
- Douglas de Souza, 26, Brazilian long jumper and Olympian (1996).[83]
- Richard Thomas, 66, British admiral and Black Rod.
- Ariadna Welter, 68, Mexican movie actress.[84]
- Liang Xiang, 79, Chinese politician.
- Norbert Zongo, 49, Burkinabé investigative journalist, shot.[85] (body discovered on this date)
14
- Vittorio Cottafavi, 84, Italian film director and screenwriter.[86]
- Norman Fell, 74, American actor (Three's Company, The Graduate, Bullitt), bone marrow cancer.[87]
- A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., 70, African-American civil rights advocate, author and judge, stroke.[88]
- Yuriy Hromak, 50, Ukrainian backstroke swimmer and Olympic medalist (1968).[89]
- James A. Jensen, 80, American paleontologist.[90]
- Brian Lewis, 55, English footballer.[91]
- Annette Strauss, 74, American philanthropist and mayor of Dallas, cancer.[92]
- Will Tremper, 70, German journalist and filmmaker, heart attack.[93]
15
- Daniel Langrand, 77, French football player and coach.[94]
- Jan Meyerowitz, 85, Jewish composer, conductor, pianist and writer.[95]
- Rowena Moore, 88, American civil rights activist.
- Robert Paul, 88, French sprinter and Olympian (1936).[96]
- Dean Peters, 40, American professional wrestler and referee, traffic collision.
- Ján Podhradský, 82, Slovak football player.[97]
- Johnny Riddle, 93, American baseball player and coach.[98]
- Paul Rivière, 86, French Resistance fighter during World War II and politician.[99]
16
- Clay Blair, 73, American journalist and author, heart attack.[100]
- Jocelyn Crane, 89, American carcinologist.
- Jean de Montrémy, 85, French industrialist, racing driver, and race car designer.[101]
- William Gaddis, 75, American novelist, prostate cancer.[102]
- Johnny Gorsica, 83, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).[103]
- Lee Tai-young, 84, Korean lawyer and judge.
- Maneklal Sankalchand Thacker, 94, Indian engineer and academic.
- Philip True, 50, American foreign correspondent, homicide.[104] (body discovered on this date)
- Marcelo Visentín, 84, Argentine Olympic water polo player (1948, 1952).[105]
17
- Kevin Brennan, 78, Australian-born British-based film and television actor.
- John Burns Brooksby, 83, Scottish veterinarian.[106]
- Allan D'Arcangelo, 68, American artist and printmaker.[107]
- Joseph Esherick, 86, American architect, heart failure.[108]
- Billy Gooden, 75, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers).[109]
- Antonina Khudyakova, 81, Soviet Air Force officer during World War II.
- Dorothy Nyembe, 66, South African activist and politician.
- Harry Osman, 87, English football player.
18
- Agustín Barboza, 85, Paraguayan singer and composer.
- C. S. Chellappa, 86, Indian writer, journalist and political activist.
- Lev Dyomin, 72, Soviet cosmonaut, (Soyuz 15), cancer.[110]
- Mohammad Taghi Falsafi, 90, Iranian ayatollah and preacher.
- Harry Haddock, 73, Scottish footballer.[111]
- Abdurajak Abubakar Janjalani, 38–39, Filipino militant, founder of Abu Sayyaf, shot.[112]
- Åke Jönsson, 73, Swedish footballer and Olympian (1952).[113]
- John Michaluk, 70, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks).[114]
- Vinod Mishra, 51, Indian communist politician, heart attack.
- Edwin E. Moise, 79, American mathematician.[115]
- Gilberto Muñoz, 75, Chilean football player.[116]
- Ingar Nordlund, 76, Norwegian Olympic speed skater (1952).[117]
- Tadeusz Rybczynski, 75, Polish-English economist.
- Joseph Edward Stevens Jr., 70, American district judge.[118]
- Sam Tamburo, 72, American football player (New York Bulldogs).[119]
- Max Wehrli, 89, Swiss literary scholar and germanist.[120]
19
- Garry Blaine, 65, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens).[121]
- Cully Dahlstrom, 86, American ice hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks).[122]
- Mel Fisher, 76, American treasure hunter.[123]
- Gordon Gunter, 89, American marine biologist and fisheries scientist.
- Joe Mack, 86, American baseball player (Boston Braves).[124]
- Hec Oakley, 89, Australian cricketer.[125]
- Antonio Ordóñez, 66, Spanish bullfighter, liver cancer.[126]
- Bernhard Tessmann, 86, German rocket scientist during and after World War II.
- Doug Tomalin, 84, British diver and Olympian (1936).[127]
- Ron Turner, 76, British illustrator and comic book artist, stroke and heart attack.[128]
- Qian Zhongshu, 88, Chinese literary scholar and writer, cancer.[129]
20
- John Anderson, 69, American baseball player.[130]
- Federico Bisson, 62, Italian Olympic triple jumper (1960).[131]
- Jacques Butin, 73, French Olympic field hockey player (1948).[132]
- André Dewavrin, 87, French officer and resistance member during World War II.[133]
- E. W. Etchells, 87, American sailor and sailboat designer.[134]
- Angelo Grizzetti, 82, French-Italian football player and coach.
- Irene Hervey, 89, American actress, heart failure.[135]
- Bindy Johal, 27, Indo-Canadian gangster.
- Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, 84, British scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.[136]
- William Matthew Kidd, 80, American district judge.[137]
- Kazimierz Kropidłowski, 67, Polish long jumper and Olympian (1956, 1960).[138]
- Bangalore Venkata Raman, 86, Indian astrologer.[139]
- Miklós Sárkány, 90, Hungarian water polo player and Olympic champion (1932, 1936).[140]
21
- Roger Avon, 84, British actor.
- Ray Bellingham, 82, American basketball player.[141]
- Gilbert Charles-Picard, 85, French historian and archaeologist.[142]
- Avril Coleridge-Taylor, 95, English pianist, conductor, and composer.[143]
- Adelaide Hawley Cumming, 93, American vaudeville performer, radio host, and television personality.
- Karl Denver, 67, Scottish singer, brain tumor.[144]
- Anne Ferguson, 57, Scottish physician and clinical researcher, pancreatic cancer.[145]
- Clifford Inniss, 88, Barbadian cricketer.[146]
- Sándor Ivády, 95, Hungarian water polo player and Olympic champion (1928, 1932).[147]
- Ernst Günther Schenck, 94, German doctor and member of the SS.[148]
- Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy, 85, Hungarian mathematician.[149]
- Jerzy Topolski, 70, Polish historian.
- Sir Richard Turnbull, 89, British colonial governor.
22
- Pedro Araya, 73, Chilean Olympic basketball player (1952, 1956).[150]
- Leif Erickson, 92, American attorney and politician.[151]
- Virginia Graham, 86, American talk show host, heart attack.[152]
- Robert Haynes, 67, Canadian geneticist and biophysicist.[153]
- Jean Malaquais, 90, French novelist.[154]
- Jorge Martí, 68, Spanish Olympic sailor (1960).[155]
- Subhashis Nag, 43, Indian mathematician.
- Donald Soper, 95, British methodist minister and pacifist.
- Jeannot Welter, 70, Luxembourgian Olympic boxer (1948, 1952).[156]
23
- Mark Chatfield, 45, American breaststroke swimmer and Olympian (1972), lymphoma.[157]
- Jack Hilton, 77, English rugby player.
- Peggy Kelman, 89, Australian aviation pioneer.
- Matthías Kristjánsson, 74, Icelandic Olympic cross-country skier (1952).[158]
- Ratnappa Kumbhar, 89, Indian independence activist.
- David Manners, 98, Canadian-American actor (Dracula, The Mummy, A Bill of Divorcement).[159]
- Joe Orlando, 71, Italian American illustrator, writer and cartoonist.[160]
- Anatoly Rybakov, 87, Soviet and Russian writer.[161]
- Richard Sligh, 54, American football player (Oakland Raiders).[162]
- Michelle Thomas, 30, American actress (Family Matters, The Young and the Restless, The Cosby Show) and comedian, cancer.[163]
- Pierre Vallières, 60, Québécois journalist and writer, heart failure.[164]
24
- Syl Apps, 83, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs), and Olympic pole vaulter (1936), heart attack.[165]
- Viola Farber, 67, American choreographer and dancer.[166]
- Matt Gillies, 77, Scottish football player and manager.[167]
- Peter Janssens, 64, German musician and composer.
- Daan Kagchelland, 84, Dutch sailor and Olympic champion (1936).[168]
- William R. Perl, 92, American lawyer and psychologist.[169]
- Raemer Schreiber, 88, American physicist.[170]
- Estelle Witherspoon, 82, American artist, civil rights activist and quilter.
25
- Katharina Brauren, 88, German actress.[171]
- Alfredo Covelli, 84, Italian politician.
- Damita Jo DeBlanc, 68, American actress, comedian, and singer, respiratory disease.[172]
- Denny Elliot, 84, American basketball player.[173]
- Dennis Raymond Knapp, 86, American district judge (United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia).[174]
- Bryan MacLean, 52, American singer, guitarist and songwriter, heart attack.[175]
- Mike McAlary, 41, American journalist and columnist, colorectal cancer.[176]
- John McGrath, 60, English football player and manager.
- Hans Oeschger, 71, Swiss climatologist.[177]
- Richard Paul, 58, American actor, cancer.[178]
- Bill Phillips, 96, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Maroons).[179]
- John Pulman, 75, English snooker player, fall.[180]
26
- Dewey Adkins, 80, American baseball player (Washington Senators, Chicago Cubs).[181]
- Cathal Goulding, 75, Northern Irish Republican and IRA member, cancer.
- Dick Grove, 71, American musician, composer, and arranger.[182]
- Hurd Hatfield, 81, American actor, heart attack.[183]
- Helmut Mahlke, 85, German Oberstleutnant in the Luftwaffe during World War II.
- Michael Sherard, 88, British fashion designer.[184]
- Ram Swarup, 78, Indian author.
27
- Kevork Ajemian, 66, Lebanese-Armenian writer, journalist, novelist and activist.[185]
- Dany Bustros, 39, Lebanese belly dancer, socialite and stage actress, suicide by gunshot.[186]
- Glyn Charles, 33, British sailor and Olympian (1996).[187]
- Anita Hoffman, 56, American writer and activist, breast cancer.
- Anne Holm, 76, Danish journalist and children's writer.[188]
- Robert S. Johnson, 78, American fighter pilot during World War II.[189]
- Joe Parker, 75, American gridiron football player (Chicago Cardinals).[190]
- Roy Powell, 33, English rugby league player, heart attack.[191]
- Ralegh Radford, 98, English archaeologist and historian.[192]
- Ricardo Tormo, 46, Spanish motorcycle road racer, leukemia.
28
- André Bizette-Lindet, 92, French sculptor.
- Herbert Fechner, 85, East German politician.
- William Frankfather, 54, American actor (Death Becomes Her, Harry and the Hendersons, Mouse Hunt), complications from liver disease.
- Edgar Hovhannisyan, 68, Armenian composer.
- Ron Huntington, 77, Canadian politician.
- Werner Müller, 78, German composer and conductor of classical music.[193]
- Shorty Rollins, 69, American racing driver.[194]
- Robert Rosen, 64, American theoretical biologist.[195]
- Harold Schindler, 69, American journalist and historian.[196]
- Ouang Te Tchao, 93, Chinese physicist.[197]
- Mary Ann Unger, 53, American abstract sculptor, breast cancer.[198]
- Bjørn Watt-Boolsen, 75, Danish film actor.
29
- Geoff Crawford, 82, Australian politician.[199]
- László Cseri, 86, Hungarian Olympic field hockey player (1936).[200]
- George Curran, 80, English rugby league football player.
- Spyros Defteraios, 79, Greek Olympic wrestler (1948, 1956).[201]
- Hubert Deschamps, 75, French actor, heart attack.
- Bill Kennedy, 79, American football player (Detroit Tigers, Boston Yanks).[202]
- Phyllis Kennedy, 84, American film actress.
- Jack D. Moore, 92, American set decorator.
- Don Taylor, 78, American actor and film director, heart failure.[203]
30
- Joan Brossa, 79, Catalan poet, playwright and visual artist.[204]
- Jean-Claude Forest, 68, French writer and illustrator of comics, asthma.[205]
- Jack Graham, 82, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Giants, St. Louis Browns).[206]
- Walker Hancock, 97, American sculptor and teacher.[207]
- Rune Johansson, 78, Swedish ice hockey player and Olympian (1948, 1952).[208]
- Keisuke Kinoshita, 86, Japanese film director, stroke.[209]
- Johnny Moore, 64, American R&B singer with The Drifters, pneumonia.[210]
- Sam Muchnick, 93, American professional wrestling promoter.
- Ansar Razak, 24, Indonesian football player, traffic collision.[211]
- Karl Heinz Rechinger, 92, Austrian botanist and phytogeographer.
- Otto Wachs, 89, German sailor and Olympic medalist (1936).[212]
- George Webb, 86, British actor.
31
- Kirsty Bentley, 15, New Zealand teenager, blunt force trauma.
- George Lynn Cross, 93, American botanist and author.[213]
- H. Dunlop Dawbarn, 83, American businessman, philanthropist and politician.[214]
- Ted Glossop, 64, Australian rugby player and coach, cancer.[215]
- Les Hammond, 90, Canadian politician.
- Gene Harlow, 79, American football player and coach.
- Alan Morris, 44, English football player, homicide.
- Erling Norvik, 70, Norwegian politician.
- Arnold Stickley, 72, English golfer.
- Jerry Williams, 75, American football player (Los Angeles Rams, Philadelphia Eagles), and coach, leukemia.[216]