Deaths in January 1998
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The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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.
January 1998
1
- John F. Bateman, 83, American football player and coach.[1]
- Muhamet Dibra, 74, Albanian footballer.[2]
- Piero Filippone, 86, Italian art director.
- Jack Forsey, 84, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs).[3]
- Dennis Hatsell, 67, English football player.
- Alfred Lagarde, 49, Dutch radio personality, stroke.[4]
- Haxhi Lleshi, 84, Albanian military leader and communist politician.
- Xanthe Ryder, 71, British alpine skier and Olympian (1948).[5]
- Åke Seyffarth, 78, Swedish speed skater, road cyclist and Olympian (1948).[6]
- Helen Wills, 92, American tennis player and Olympian (1924).[7]
2
- Max Colpet, 92, American writer, scriptwriter and lyricist.[8]
- Sergei Frolov, 73, Soviet/Russian realist painter and graphic artist.
- Virginia Galante Garrone, 91, Italian writer.[9]
- Donald McCormick, 86, British journalist and popular historian.
- Frank Muir, 77, English comedy writer and radio and television personality.[10]
- Fred Naumetz, 75, American gridiron football player (Los Angeles Rams).[11]
- Rell Sunn, 47, American World surfing champion, cancer.[12]
- Nick Venet, 61, American record producer, Burkitt's lymphoma.[13]
3
- Wayne Ambler, 82, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).[14]
- Essie Coffey, 56, Australian Aboriginal community leader.
- Howard Gilman, 73, American philanthropist and art collector, heart attack.[15]
- William Russell Kelly, 92, American businessman, cancer.[16]
- Margot Lumb, 85, English squash and tennis player.
- George Shaw, 64, American gridiron football player.[17]
- Eugenio Soto, 88, Chilean footballer.[18]
- Geoffrey Watson, 76, Australian statistician.[19]
4
- Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, 103, Italian film director, complications from a fall.[20]
- Raymond Léopold Bruckberger, 90, French Dominican priest, writer, and screenwriter.[21]
- Thomas F. Frist, Sr., 87, American physician and businessman.[22]
- John Gary, 65, American singer, recording artist, and television host.[23]
- Dini Haryati, 19, Indonesian student.
- Roland Kaiser, 54, German actor and voice actor.
- Ahmed Mohiuddin, 74, Pakistani scientist and scholar.
- Giuseppe Primavera, 80, Italian chess player.
- Sally Purcell, 53, British poet and translator, lymphoma of brain cells.[24]
- Mae Questel, 89, American actress (Betty Boop), Alzheimer's disease.[25]
- Francisco Soc Rodrigo, 83, Filipino playwright, broadcaster, lawyer and politician.[26]
- Han Soo-ann, 71, South Korean Olympic boxer (1948, 1952).[27]
- Rudy Sikich, 76, American gridiron football player (Cleveland Rams).[28]
- Yusif Yusifov, 68, Soviet and Azerbaijani linguist and historian.
5
- Hugo Avendaño, 70, Mexican singer and actor, pancreatic cancer.
- David Bairstow, 46, English cricketer, suicide by hanging.[29]
- Sonny Bono, 62, American singer-songwriter, actor and politician, skiing accident.[30]
- Alik Cavaliere, 71, Italian sculptor.
- Ana Cortés, 102, Chilean painter.
- Ken Forssi, 54, American musician, brain tumor, brain cancer.[31]
- Roy Mayne, 62, American stock car racing driver.[32]
6
- Walt Barnes, 79, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles), and actor, diabetes.[33]
- Richard Clutterbuck, 80, British army general and military historian.
- Otello Colangeli, 85, Italian film editor.
- Jack T. Conway, 80, American labor unionist.[34]
- Alice Frost, 87, American actress.
- Victorine du Pont Homsey, 97, American architect.[35]
- Märta Johansson, 90, Swedish Olympic diver (1924).[36]
- Ronny Miller, 79, American baseball player (Washington Senators).[37]
- Murray Salem, 47, American television actor and screenwriter, AIDS-related complications.
- Otto Schmitt, 84, American inventor, engineer and biophysicist.[38]
- Georgy Sviridov, 82, Soviet and Russian composer, heart attack.[39]
7
- Owen Bradley, 82, American musician and record producer.[40]
- Roger Dean, 84, Australian politician.
- Jacqueline deWit, 85, American actress.[41]
- Richard Hamming, 82, American mathematician, heart attack.[42]
- Dorothy Leavey, 101, American philanthropist.[43]
- Alva Liles, 41, American gridiron football player (Oakland Raiders, Detroit Lions).[44]
- Slava Metreveli, 61, Soviet and Georgian football player and manager.
- Hiker Moran, 86, American baseball player (Boston Bees).[45]
- Valerio Perentin, 88, Italian rower and Olympian (1928, 1936).[46]
- Vladimir Prelog, 91, Croatian-born Swiss organic chemist.[47]
- Frank Roberts, 90, British diplomat.
- Lawrence Treat, 94, American mystery writer.[48]
- Tere Velázquez, 55, Mexican actress, colorectal cancer.[49]
- Dorothy Wilson, 88, American film actress.[50]
8
- Doug Anderson, 70, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens).[51]
- Rui Araújo, 87, Portuguese footballer.[52]
- Erwin Blasl, 86, Austrian Olympic water polo player (1936).[53]
- Bill Corbus, 86, American gridiron football player.[54]
- Walter Diemer, 94, American inventor of bubble gum, congestive heart failure.[55]
- Marie-Madeleine Dienesch, 83, French politician.[56]
- Tony Lavelli, 71, American basketball player (Boston Celtics, New York Knicks), and musician, heart attack.[57]
- Denys Lombard, 59, French historian and sinologist.[58]
- Akihiko Mori, 32, Japanese video game music composer, cancer.
- Max Morris, 72, American basketball and gridiron football player.[59]
- Sam Perrin, 96, American screenwriter.[60]
- Shamima Shaikh, 37, South African journalist and Muslim women's rights activist, breast cancer.
- Raziuddin Siddiqui, 90, Pakistan-born American physicist.[61]
- Sir Michael Tippett, 90, English composer, pneumonia.[62]
9
- Hugo Zepeda Barrios, 90, Chilean politician and lawyer.
- Paul H. Dunn, 73, American Mormon leader.
- Kenichi Fukui, 79, Japanese chemist and Nobel Prize laureate, cancer.[63]
- Richard Graff, 60, American winemaker, plane crash.[64]
- Alberto Isaac, 74, Mexican Olympic swimmer (1948, 1952), film director and screenwriter.[65]
- Imi Lichtenfeld, 87, Israeli martial artist.
- Lia Manoliu, 65, Romanian discus thrower and Olympian (1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972), heart attack.[66]
- Kathleen Shannon, 62, Canadian film director and producer, lung cancer.[67]
- Charito Solis, 62, Filipino film actress, cardiac arrest.
10
- Elaine Bray, 57, Australian cricketer.[68]
- Mark Goodspeed, 41, American football player (St. Louis Cardinals).[69]
- Deng Guangming, 90, Chinese historian, cancer.[70]
- Wolfgang Hahn, 86, German mathematician.
- Mona May Karff, 83, American chess player.[71]
- Victor Papanek, 74, Austrian-American designer.
- Mario Santiago Papasquiaro, 44, Mexican poet, traffic collision.[72]
- Emilio Torres, 91, Colombian Olympic middle-distance runner (1936).[73]
- Lars Zebroski, 56, American Olympic cyclist (1960).[74]
11
- Joe Becker, 89, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians), and coach.[75]
- Erik Jarvik, 90, Swedish paleontologist.
- Win Mortimer, 78, Canadian comic book and comic strip artist, cancer.[76]
- Ellis Rabb, 67, American actor and director, heart failure.[77]
- Ronald Rylance, 73, English rugby player.
- Aydan Siyavuş, 50, Turkish basketball player and coach, heart attack.[78]
- Bedri Spahiu, 89, Albanian politician and general.
- Klaus Tennstedt, 71, German conductor, cancer.[79]
- Georgi Vins, 69, Soviet dissident and Baptist pastor.[80]
- John Wells, 61, English actor, writer and satirist.[81]
12
- Florence Riefle Bahr, 88, American artist and activist, house fire.
- Bruce Beer, 87, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1962-1972).[82]
- Ramón Sampedro Cameán, 55, Spanish writer and euthanasia activist, assisted suicide.[83]
- Roger Clark, 58, British rally driver, stroke.
- Kyle Dinkheller, 22, American deputy sheriff, multiple gunshot wounds.[84]
- Chandrasekhar Gadkari, 69, Indian cricketer.[85]
- Rajesh Joshi, 29, Indian film and theater actor.
- Mark MacGuigan, 66, Canadian academic and politician, liver cancer.[86]
- Libuše Moníková, 52, Czech writer.[87]
- Ian Moores, 43, English footballer, cancer.[88]
- Phyllis Nelson, 47, American singer, breast cancer.
- Robert Townsend, 77, American businessman and author, heart attack.[89]
13
- Martin Flämig, 84, German church musician.[90]
- Jaap Helder, 90, Dutch Olympic sailor (1960).[91]
- Mihovil Logar, 95, Yugoslav composer and music writer.[92]
- Muslim Mulliqi, Albanian painter.
- Andrew Rutherford, 68, British educationalist.[93]
14
- Safiye Ayla, 90, Turkish classical singer.[94]
- Tony De Vita, 65, Italian composer, conductor, arranger and pianist.
- Arturo Enrile, 57, Filipino general, septic shock.
- Mohammad Ghazi, 84, Iranian writer and translator and writer, laryngeal cancer.[95]
- René Sence, 77, French Olympic sailor (1972).[96]
- Harry Simmons, 90, American baseball executive, writer and historian.
15
- John A. Anderson, 65, American football coach, heart attack.[97]
- Hal Baylor, 79, American actor.
- Marcelline Jayakody, 95, Sri Lankan Catholic priest, musician, author, journalist.
- Gennady Kolbin, 70, Soviet politician.
- Marguerite Kuczynski, 93, German economist and literary scholar.[98]
- Duncan McNaughton, 87, Canadian athlete and Olympian (1932).[99]
- Gulzarilal Nanda, 99, Indian politician and economist.[100]
- E. Jack Neuman, 76, American writer and producer.
- Ahmed Oudjani, 60, Algerian football player.[101]
- George Pottinger, 81, British convicted fraudster.[102]
- Boris Tatushin, 64, Soviet football player, manager, and Olympian (1956).[103]
- Harriet Van Horne, 77, American newspaper columnist and radio/television critic, breast cancer.[104]
- Junior Wells, 63, American blues vocalist and harmonica player, lymphoma.[105]
16
- Lionel Birkett, 92, Barbadian cricketer.[106]
- Gayane C'ebotaryan, 79, Armenian composer and musicologist.
- Hans Grünberg, 80, German Luftwaffe fighter ace during World War II.
- Dimitris Horn, 76, Greek-Austrian actor, cancer.
- Matti Kuusi, 83, Finnish folklorist, paremiographer and paremiologist.[107]
- Greta Magnusson, 68, Swedish athlete and Olympian (1952).[108]
- Lorenzo Mongiardino, 81, Italian architect and interior designer, pneumonia.[109]
- Tommy Pederson, 77, American jazz trombonist and composer.[110]
- Emil Sitka, 83, American actor, stroke.[111]
- Luggi Waldleitner, 84, German film producer.
17
- Alan E. Cober, 62, American illustrator.[112]
- Zygmunt Czyżewski, 87, Polish ice hockey and football player and manager.
- Helvi Hämäläinen, 90, Finnish writer.[113]
- Junior Kimbrough, 67, American blues musician, heart attack.[114]
- Luizinho, 67, Brazilian footballer.[115]
- Joseph S. Murphy, 64, American political scientist and university administrator, traffic collision.[116]
- Cliffie Stone, 80, American musician and radio and TV personality.[117]
- Frank Gordon Theis, 86, American district judge (United States District Court for the District of Kansas).[118]
18
- Byron Bailey, 67, American gridiron and Canadian football player (Detroit Lions, Green Bay Packers, BC Lions).[119]
- Joan Banks, 79, American actress, lung cancer.
- Jose Calugas, 90, Filipino-American Philippine Scout and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
- Guy Charbonneau, 75, Canadian politician.
- Maria Judite de Carvalho, 76, Portuguese author.[120]
- Monica Edwards, 85, English children's writer.[121]
- Dan Georgiadis, 75, Greek football player and manager.
- Antoine "T.C.D." Lundy, 34, American singer, ALS.
- Gerry Ottenheimer, 63, Canadian politician.
- Benjamin Hoskins Paddock, 71, American bank robber and con man, FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive, heart attack.
- Skeet Quinlan, 69, American gridiron football player (Los Angeles Rams, Cleveland Browns).[122]
- Wilhelm Törsleff, 91, Swedish Olympic sailor (1928).[123]
- Josip Uhač, 73, Yugoslav-Croatian Apostolic nuncio.
- James Villiers, 64, English actor, cancer.[124]
- Jan Vrolijk, 80, Dutch Olympic canoeist (1936).[125]
19
- Hansruedi Bruder, 60, Swiss sprinter and Olympian (1960).[126]
- Bengt Eklund, 73, Swedish actor.[127]
- Tomáš Jungwirth, 55, Czech Olympic middle-distance runner (1968).[128]
- Cornelis Kalkman, 69, Dutch botanist.
- Al Negratti, 76, American basketball player (Washington Capitols), and coach, cancer.[129]
- David Orlikow, 79, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1962-1988).[130]
- Carl Perkins, 65, American singer-songwriter, esophageal cancer.[131]
- Abraham Sinkov, 90, American cryptanalyst.[132]
- DeWitt Weaver, 85, American football player and coach.
- Larisa Tarkovskaya, 64, Soviet film director and actress, lung cancer.
20
- Harry Ashmore, 81, American journalist.[133]
- Bobo Brazil, 73, American professional wrestler, known as "Bobo Brazil", stroke.[134]
- Jacob Cohen, 74, American psychologist and statistician.
- Zevulun Hammer, 61, Israeli politician, cancer.[135]
- Maurice Kraus, 91, French cyclist.[136]
- Emilie Schwindt, 94, Belgian Olympic fencer (1948).[137]
21
- Mary Bunting, 87, American academic and college president.[138]
- Edward Carrick, 93, English art designer, author and illustrator.[139]
- Larry Gilbert, 55, American golfer, lung cancer.[140]
- Pakoda Kadhar, 58, Indian actor.
- Friedrich Kessler, 96, American law professor.[141]
- Yoshifumi Kondō, 47, Japanese animator (Kiki's Delivery Service, Princess Mononoke) and film director (Whisper of the Heart), aortic dissection.[142]
- Donald H. LeBrun, 85, American politician.
- Jack Lord, 77, American actor (Hawaii Five-O, Dr. No, Stoney Burke), congestive heart failure.[143]
- Ralph C. Smith, 104, United States Army officer, lung ailment.
- Louis Thiétard, 87, French cyclist.[144]
22
- C. Elmer Anderson, 85, American politician.[145]
- Edward F. Arn, 91, American lawyer and politician.[146]
- Chilla Christ, 86, Australian cricketer.[147]
- Hendrick Joseph Cornelius Maria de Cocq, 91, Dutch Roman Catholic bishop.[148]
- Harold Lindsell, 84, American evangelical author and scholar.
- George Marks, 82, English football player.
- Nino Pirrotta, 89, Italian musicologist.[149]
- Bill Sortet, 85, American gridiron football player (Pittsburgh Pirates/Steelers).[150]
23
- Donald Davis, 69, Canadian actor.[151]
- John Forbes, 47, Australian poet.[152]
- Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, 79, German nobleman.
- Ralf Kirsten, 67, German film director and screenwriter.[153]
- Hilla Limann, 63, President of Ghana, diabetes.
- Roy McKasson, 58, American football player, kidney transplant complications.[154]
- Alfredo Ormando, 39, Italian writer and gay rights activist, burns from self-immolation.
- Victor Pasmore, 89, British artist and architect.[155]
- Ernest Peirce, 88, South African boxer and Olympian (1932).[156]
- Manny Ramjohn, 82, Trinidadian athlete and Olympian (1948).[157]
- Sajjad Hussain Qureshi, 101, Indian politician.
- Romuald Thomas, 75, Polish Olympic rower (1952).[158]
- Lionel Wilson, 82, American politician, cancer.[159]
- Mohammad Yusuf, 81, Prime Minister of Afghanistan.
24
- Nodar Akhalkatsi, 60, Georgian football manager, heart attack.
- Walter Bishop Jr., 70, American jazz pianist, heart attack.[160]
- Walter D. Edmonds, 94, American writer.[161]
- Mirosław Justek, 49, Polish football player.
- Bob Russell, 90, American entertainer.[162]
- Elizabeth Sneyers, 84, Belgian lawyer and feminist.
- Stanisław Szlendak, 77, Polish ice hockey player and Olympian (1952).[163]
- Justin Tubb, 62, American country music singer and songwriter.[164]
25
- Hamid Algadri, 85, Indonesian independence pioneer.[165]
- Olive Brasno, 80, American dwarf dancer and actress.[166]
- Sidney Cole, 89, British film and television producer.
- Dilawar Figar, 68, Pakistani writer, poet, and humorist.
- Attia Hosain, 85, British-Indian novelist, author, journalist and actor.[167]
- Penn Jones Jr., 83, American journalist and author.[168].
- Fritz Langner, 85, German football player and manager.[169]
- Roy Porter, 74, American jazz drummer.[170]
- Carlos Alvarado Reyes, 43, Costa Rican cyclist and Olympian (1976).[171]
- Herman Stokes, 65, American athlete and Olympian (1960).[172]
- Attila Zoller, 70, Hungary-American jazz guitarist.[173]
26
- Hogan Bassey, 65, Nigerian-British boxer.
- Lord Nicholas Hervey, 36, British aristocrat and political activist, suicide by hanging.[174]
- Olaf Kortner, 77, Norwegian politician.
- Ethelreda Leopold, 83, American film actress, pneumonia.[175]
- Lee Moses, 56, American R&B and soul singer and guitarist, lung cancer.
- Mario Schifano, 63, Italian painter and collagist.[176]
- Vladimir Sevryugin, 72, Soviet Russian Olympic sports shooter (1952, 1956).[177]
- Shin'ichi Suzuki, 99, Japanese musician, philosopher and educator.[178]
27
- Alan Davies, 73, British air marshal.
- Tamio Kageyama, 50, Japanese novelist, house fire.
- Elizabeth Mantell, 56, Scottish midwife and nurse.[179]
- Assia Noris, 85, Russian-Italian film actress.[180]
- Mykola Mykolaĭovych Shcherbak, 70, Soviet-Ukrainian zoologist, ecologist, and herpetologist.
- Geoffrey Trease, 88, British writer.[181]
- Miklos Udvardy, 78, Hungarian biologist and biogeographer.[182]
- Joop van Woerkom, 85, Dutch Olympic water polo player (1936).[183]
28
- Asbjørn Berg-Hansen, 85, Norwegian boxer and Olympian (1936).[184]
- Louis Chaillot, 83, French cyclist and Olympian (1932, 1936).[185]
- Bernard Joseph Flanagan, 89, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Joe Holup, 63, American basketball player (Syracuse Nationals, Detroit Pistons).[186]
- Shōtarō Ishinomori, 60, Japanese manga artist (Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, Cyborg 009), heart failure.[187]
- Ken Jackson, 68, American gridiron football player (Dallas Texans, Baltimore Colts).[188]
- Dagny Tande Lid, 94, Norwegian painter, illustrator and poet.
- Lee Ya-Ching, 85, Chinese film actress, aviator and philanthropist.
- John Morton-Finney, 108, American civil rights activist, lawyer and educator.[189]
- Helmuth Perz, 74, Austrian Olympic long-distance runner (1952).[190]
29
- Joseph Alioto, 81, American politician, Mayor of San Francisco, prostate cancer.[191]
- Ugo Bologna, 80, Italian actor and voice actor, heart attack.
- Anna May Hutchison, 72, American baseball player.[192]
- Karin Jonzen, 83, British figure sculptor.[193]
- Rob Mulders, 30, Dutch road racing cyclist, traffic collision.[194]
- Booker Robinson, 79, American baseball player.[195]
- Ed Smith, 84, American gridiron football player (Boston Redskins, Green Bay Packers).[196]
30
- Jim Barber, 85, American gridiron football player (Boston/Washington Redskins).[197]
- Héctor Campos-Parsi, 75, Puerto Rican composer.[198]
- Richard Cassilly, 70, American operatic tenor, cerebral hemorrhage after fall.[199]
- Lucille Colacito, 76, American baseball player.[200]
- Samuel Eilenberg, 84, Polish-American mathematician.[201]
- Pappanamkodu Lakshmanan, 61, Indian film director, scriptwriter and lyricist.
- Ferdy Mayne, 81, German-British actor, Parkinson's disease.[202]
- Lesslie Newbigin, 88, British theologian, missionary and author.[203]
- Emmette Redford, 93, American political scientist.[204]
- Luise Walker, 87, Austrian classical guitarist and composer.
31
- Greta Arwidsson, 91, Swedish archaeologist.[205]
- Georges Combret, 91, French film director, producer and screenwriter.[206]
- Leho Laurine, 93, Estonian chess master.
- Alice Miel, 91, American educator.[207]
- János Somogyi, 76, Hungarian Olympic racewalker (1956).[208]
- Antonie Straeteman, 90, French Olympic gymnast (1928).[209]
- Karol Stryja, 82, Polish conductor and teacher.