Deaths in March 1998
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The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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.
March 1998
1
- Jean Marie Balland, 63, French Roman Catholic cardinal, lung cancer.[1]
- Miltiades Caridis, 74, German-Greek conductor, stroke.
- Isidro Figueras, 85, Spanish racing cyclist.[2]
- Archie Goodwin, 60, American comic book writer and artist (Luke Cage, Spider-Man, Star Wars), cancer.[3]
- Manolis Hatzidakis, 89, Greek art historian and Byzantinist.
- Aat van Noort, 89, Dutch Olympic middle-distance runner (1928).[4]
- Alexander Puzanov, 91, Soviet and Russian ambassador and statesman.
- Sabina Sesselmann, 61, German film actress.
- Garner E. Shriver, 85, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1961-1977).[5]
- Robert Symonette, 73, Bahamian yachtsman, politician, and Olympian (1960, 1964, 1972).[6]
2
- Leif Blomberg, 57, Swedish politician.
- Lucien Bodard, 84, French writer and journalist.[7]
- Slick Castleman, 84, American Major League Baseball player (New York Giants).[8]
- Henry Steele Commager, 95, American historian, pneumonia.[9]
- Robert A. Grant, 92, American judge and politician.[10]
- Maamun al-Kuzbari, 83/84, Syrian politician and literary personality.
- Darcy O'Brien, 58, American author and literary critic, heart attack.[11]
- Ilias Papageorgiou, 72-73, Greek footballer and Olympian (1952).[12]
- Herbie Seneviratne, 72, Sri Lankan actor and filmmaker.
- Marzette Watts, 59, American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist.
3
- Janet Burston, 63, American child actress, cancer.
- Giuseppe Caron, 94, Italian politician.[13]
- Marcel Dionne, 66, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1979-1984).[14]
- Fred W. Friendly, 82, American television journalist and executive, stroke.[15]
- Edward Luckhoo, 85, Guyanese Governor General.
- Hedley Mattingly, 82, British actor, cancer.
- Charles Franklin Phillips, 87, American economist.[16]
- Marc Sautet, 51, French writer, translator, and philosopher, brain cancer.
4
- Antonio Alsúa Alonso, 78, Spanish football player.
- Betty Bird, 96, Austrian actress.[17]
- Jim Cullom, 72, American gridiron football player (New York Yanks).[18]
- Ivan Dougherty, 90, Australian Army officer.[19]
- Van Edmondson, 98, American football player.[20]
- Alfred Evans, 77, South African Olympic sailor (1956).[21]
- Arsène Lucchini, 75, French Olympic ski jumper (1948).[22]
- Aulis Reinikka, 82, Finnish Olympic athlete (1936).[23]
- Jules Fontaine Sambwa, 57, Zairean and Congolese politician and economist.
5
- Egon Bazini, 86, Hungarian Olympic rower (1936).[24]
- Bob Beveridge, 88, English cricketer.[25]
- Donald James Cannon, 78, American politician.[26]
- Carleton Putnam, 96, American businessman, writer and segregationist, pneumonia.[27]
- Jerome Walters, 67, American Olympic middle distance runner (1956).[28]
- Donald Woods, 91, Canadian-born American actor.[29]
6
- John Allin, 76, American Anglican bishop.[30]
- Rue Barclay, 76, American Country & Western musician.[31]
- Frank Barrett, 84, American baseball player[32]
- Benjamin Bowden, 91, British industrial designer.[33]
- Ben Chase, 74, American football player (Detroit Lions).[34]
- Joe Shear, 54, American stock car racing driver, cancer.
- Vanna Vanni, 83, Italian film actress.
7
- Ziad Rafiq Beydoun, Lebanese petroleum geologist.[35]
- Bill Cable, 51, American actor, model and stunt performer, traffic collision.
- Josep Escolà, 83, Spanish footballer.
- Karen Holtsmark, 90, Norwegian painter.
- Adem Jashari, 42, Kosovo Albanian militant separatist, mortar strike.
- Hamëz Jashari, 48, Kosovar Albanian nationalist and guerilla, killed in action.
- Eleanor Ileen Johnson, 87, American survivor of the sinking of RMS Titanic.[36]
- Don Kirkham, 90, American physicists and soil scientist.[37]
- Janko Mežik, 76, Slovenian Olympic ski jumper (1948).[38]
- Jack Perkins, 76, American film actor.
- Leonie Rysanek, 71, Austrian dramatic soprano, bone cancer.[39]
- Winifred Silverthorne, 73, British figure skater and Olympian (1948).[40]
- Wanda Tettoni, 87, Italian actress and voice actress.
8
- Laurie Beechman, 44, American actress and singer, cancer.[41]
- Alexandre Gemignani, 72, Brazilian basketball player and Olympian (1948).[42]
- James Haggarty, 83, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens), and Olympian (1936).[43]
- Jack Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Kingsbridge, 90, British politician and public servant.[44]
- Jack McQuillan, 77, Irish politician, trade unionist and army officer.
- Peter Nilson, 60, Swedish astronomer and novelist.
- Ray Nitschke, 61, American football player (Green Bay Packers) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, heart attack.[45]
- Susanne Ussing, 57, Danish artist, architect and ceramicist.
- Jorge Wilson, 83, Argentine Olympic field hockey player (1948).[46]
9
- David MacAdam, 87, American physicist and color scientist.[47]
- Anna Maria Ortese, 83, Italian novelist, poet, and travel writer.[48]
- Colin Patterson, 64, British palaeontologist, heart attack.
- Ulrich Schamoni, 58, German film director, screenwriter, actor and media proprietor, cancer.[49]
10
- C. E. Beeby, 95, New Zealand educationalist and psychologist.[50]
- Ilse Bing, 98, German photographer.[51]
- Lloyd Bridges, 85, American actor (Airplane!, Sea Hunt, Hot Shots!).[52]
- Karekin II Kazanjian, 70, Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople, liver cancer.
- Hayim David HaLevi, 74, Israeli rabbi.
- Alonzo Hicks, 76, American baseball player.[53]
- Milton Mallawarachchi, 52, Sri Lankan singer and musician.
- Alberto Morrocco, 80, Scottish artist.
- Richard Plant, 87, German-American historian, Holocaust scholar and writer.[54]
- Kenkō Satoshi, 30, Japanese Sumo wrestler, pulmonary embolism.[55]
- Ed Walczak, 82, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).[56]
11
- Van E. Chandler, 73, American Air Force pilot and flying ace, cancer.[57]
- Basil Coetzee, 54, South African musician, cancer.
- Buddy Jeannette, 80, American basketball player and coach, stroke.[58]
- José Laurel, Jr., 85, Filipino politician, pneumonia.
- Manuel Piñeiro Losada, 64, Cuban revolutionary, politician and spymaster, traffic collision.[59]
- Sachio Sakai, 72, Japanese actor.
- Nino Konis Santana, 41, East Timorese freedom fighter, killed in action.
- Jean Shiley, 86, American high jumper and Olympian (1928, 1932).[60]
- Koos Verdam, 83, Dutch politician.[61]
12
- Thomas Christiansen, 78, Danish Olympic diver (1948, 1952).[62]
- Ovid Demaris, 78, American writer and journalist.
- Karrell Fox, 70, American magician and television performer.
- Jozef Kroner, 73, Slovak actor (The Shop on Main Street).[63]
- Red Richards, 85, American jazz pianist.[64]
- Kate Ross, 41, American mystery author, breast cancer.
- Beatrice Wood, 105, American artist and ceramicist.[65]
13
- Judge Dread, 52, English musician, heart attack.[66]
- Peter Feller, 78, American theatrical set builder.[67]
- Philip Gale, 19, American Internet software pioneer and computer prodigy, suicide by jumping.[68]
- Claudio Gora, 84, Italian actor and film director.[69]
- Shiro Kashiwa, 85, American lawyer and judge.[70]
- Dave Lewis, 59, American rock and R&B musician, cancer.
- Bill Reid, 78, Canadian artist, Parkinson's disease.[71]
- Risen Star, 12, American thoroughbred racehorse.
- Anne Sayre, 74, American writer.[72]
- Peter Sillett, 65, England footballer, cancer.[73]
- Kōshō Uchiyama, 86, Japanese buddhist monk and origami master.
- Frano Vodopivec, 73, Croatian cinematographer.
- Hans von Ohain, 86, German physicist and jet engine designer, thyroiditis.[74]
- Ma Yueliang, 96, Chinese martial artist.
14
- Abdul Rahman al-Iryani, 87, President of the Yemen Arab Republic.[75]
- Ed Boell, 81, American football player, coach, and official.
- Hugh Coveney, 62, Irish politician, fall.
- Dinorah Enríquez, 51, Puerto Rican fencer and Olympian (1976).[76]
- Dada Kondke, 65, Indian actor and film producer.
- Dave Minor, 76, American basketball player (Baltimore Bullets, Milwaukee Hawks).[77]
- Leo Sotorník, 71, Czech gymnast and Olympian (1948, 1952).[78]
15
- Malati Choudhury, 93, Indian civil rights and freedom activist.
- Marty Comer, 80, American football player (Buffalo Bills).[79]
- Tim Maia, 55, Brazilian musician and songwriter, cardiovascular disease.[80]
- Maud Mannoni, 74, Belgian-French psychoanalyst.[81]
- Jack McIntyre, 67, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins, Chicago Black Hawks, Detroit Red Wings).[82]
- Dušan Pašek, 37, Slovak ice hockey player (Minnesota North Stars), and Olympian (1984, 1988), suicide by gunshot.[83]
- Felto Prewitt, 73, American football player (Buffalo Bisons/Bills, Baltimore Colts).[84]
- Jheri Redding, 91, American hairdresser and businessman.[85]
- Carolyn Schnurer, 90, American fashion designer and sportswear pioneer.
- Benjamin Spock, 94, American pediatrician, author, and Olympic rower (1924).[86]
- Gennady Yevryuzhikhin, 54, Russian football player and Olympian (1972).[87]
16
- Derek Barton, 79, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.[88]
- Pertev Naili Boratav, 90, Turkish folklorist.[89]
- Esther Bubley, 77, American photographer, cancer.[90]
- Lydia Délrctorsckaya, 87, Russian-French refugee and model.[91]
- Bob Hess, 87, American wrestler and Olympian (1932).[92]
- Noel Stephen Paynter, 99, British chief intelligence officer of Bomber Command during World War II.
17
- Cliff Barker, 77, American college basketball player (Kentucky Wildcats), and Olympian (1948).[93]
- Alain Bosquet, 78, French poet.[94]
- Milo Candini, 80, American baseball player (Washington Senators, Philadelphia Phillies).[95]
- Douglas Harold Copp, 83, Canadian scientist.
- Ed Finney, 73, American baseball player.[96]
- Bernarr Rainbow, 83, British historian of music education, and choir master.[97]
- Helen Westcott, 70, American actor and former child actor, cancer.[98]
- Dorothy Weston, 98, Australian tennis player.
18
- László Bakos, 78, Hungarian Olympic wrestler (1948).[99]
- Siegfried Franz, 84, German composer of film and television scores.
- Joan Freeman, 80, Australian physicist.
- Irving Hill, 83, American district judge (United States District Court for the Central District of California).[100]
- Ted Jolliffe, 89, Canadian politician.[101]
- Klaus Mollenhauer, 69, German pedagogical theorist.[102]
- Hideo Shima, 96, Japanese engineer and bullet train pioneer.[103]
- Dwight Sloan, 83, American gridiron football player (Chicago Cardinals, Detroit Lions).[104]
- Robert E. Woodside, 93, American politician and judge.
19
- Simon Diedong Dombo, Ghanaian politician and king.
- Samuel Dzhundrin, 77, Bulgarian Roman Catholic prelate and monk.
- Klaus Havenstein, 75, German actor, cabaret artist, and television presenter.[105]
- E. M. S. Namboodiripad, 88, Indian communist politician and theorist.[106]
- Jimmy Scoular, 73, Scottish football player and manager.[107]
- Hanzade Sultan, 74, Ottoman princess and Turkish expatriate.
20
- B. N. Adarkar, 87, Indian economist.
- Yemima Avidar-Tchernovitz, 88, Israeli author.
- Beverley Cross, 66, English playwright, librettist and screenwriter (Clash of the Titans, Jason and the Argonauts).[108]
- Anthony Fell, 83, British politician.
- Agustín Gómez-Arcos, 65, Spanish writer, cancer.[109]
- George Howard, 41, American jazz saxophonist, colon cancer.[110]
- Laddie Lucas, 82, British Air Force officer and politician.
- Beth Mitchell, 25, American shag dancer and elementary school teacher.
- Catherine Sauvage, 68, French singer and actress.[111]
- Ivor Slaney, 76, British musical composer and conductor.
- Maciej Słomczyński, 75, Polish translator and writer.
21
- Ben Bagley, 64, American record producer and musical producer.[112]
- Horst Korsching, 85, German physicist.
- Ramanathapuram C S Murugabhoopathy, 84, Indian Mridanga maestro.
- Maciej Słomczyński, 75, Polish writer and translator.[113]
- Galina Ulanova, 88, Russian ballet dancer.[114]
22
- Bruce Arthur, 76, Australian wrestler and Olympian (1948).[115]
- Simon Wingfield Digby, 88, British politician.
- János Dosztály, 78, Hungarian Olympic sports shooter (1952, 1960).[116]
- Jack R. Howard, 87, American broadcasting executive.[117]
- John Richard Keating, 63, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Shoichi Nishimura, Japanese football player, manager, and Olympian (1936), pneumonia.[118]
- Rube Reiswerg, 85, American basketball player.[119]
23
- Louis Arbessier, 90, French actor.[120]
- Ray Gillam, 88, Australian rugby league footballer.[121]
- Chuck Hunsinger, 72, American gridiron football player (Chicago Bears).[122]
- Tomasz Jasiński, 81, Polish ice hockey player and Olympian (1948).[123]
- Gentry Jessup, 83, American baseball player.[124]
- Thomas MacDonald, 89, Irish cricketer.[125]
- Hilda Morley, 81, American poet.[126]
- Ray Scott, 78, American sportscaster.[127]
- Gerald Stano, 46, American serial killer, execution by electric chair.[128]
- Marie-Laure Tardieu-Blot, 95, French botanist and pteridologist.
24
- Åke Mangård, 81, Swedish Air Force major general.
- António Ribeiro, 69, Portuguese Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, cancer.
- Torben Tryde, 81, Danish writer, Olympian (1948), and resistance fighter during World War II.[129]
- Jill Ann Weatherwax, 27, American model and aspiring singer, stabbed.[130]
25
- Antoni Gościański, 72, Polish Olympic boxer (1952).[131]
- Daniel Massey, 64, English actor and performer, Hodgkin's lymphoma.[132]
- Clive Osborne, 75, Australian politician.
- Asha Posley, 71, Pakistani actress, she acted in Pakistani's first film Teri Yaad [133][134]
- Micheál Prendergast, 77, Irish farmer, businessman and politician.
- Steven Schiff, 51, American politician, squamous-cell carcinoma, skin cancer.[135]
- Chris Trickle, 25, American stock car racing driver, drive-by shooting.[136]
- Wilfred Watson, 86, Canadian professor and author.[137]
- Betsey Cushing Roosevelt Whitney, 88, American philanthropist.[138]
26
- Denis Charles, 64, American jazz drummer, pneumonia.[139]
- Shantinath Desai, 69, Indian author.
- Nikolay Dubinin, 91, Soviet and Russian biologist and academician.[140]
- Arthur S. Link, 77, American historian and educator, lung cancer.[141]
- Rukhsana Naz, 19, British Pakistani murder victim.
- Kate Cruise O'Brien, 49, Irish writer.[142]
27
- Nadija Hordijenko Andrianova, 76, Ukrainian writer and translator of the language Esperanto.
- Julio César Britos, 71, Uruguayan football player.
- John William Comber, 92, American Catholic missionary and bishop.
- Joan Lestor, Baroness Lestor of Eccles, 66, British politician, ALS.[143]
- Chen Jin, 90, Taiwanese painter.
- Aghajani Kashmeri, 89, Indian screenwriter, actor and Urdu poet.
- Joan Maynard, 76, English politician and trade unionist, cancer.[144]
- David McClelland, 80, American psychologist.[145]
- Steve Nemeth, 75, American gridiron football player (Cleveland Rams, Chicago Rockets, Baltimore Colts).[146]
- Ferry Porsche, 88, Austrian auto designer and businessman.[147]
- Carlos Reed, 81, Chilean Olympic swimmer (1936).[148]
- Otto Freiherr von Feury, 91, German politician.
- Karl-Adolf Zenker, 90, German officer in the Kriegsmarine during World War II.
28
- Else Elster, 88, German actress.[149]
- Albert Levan, 93, Swedish botanist and geneticist.
- Tadao Okayama, 84, Japanese Olympic cross-country skier (1936).[150]
- David Powers, 85, Special Assistant and secretary to John F. Kennedy.[151]
- Larry Stephens, 59, American gridiron football player (Cleveland Browns, Los Angeles Rams, Dallas Cowboys).[152]
29
- Giuliano Biagetti, 72, Italian film director and screenwriter.[153]
- Kvitka Cisyk, 44, American coloratura soprano, breast cancer.[154]
- David Nightingale Hicks, 69, English interior decorator and designer, lung cancer.[155]
- Ben Krentzman, 84, American district judge (United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida).[156]
- Loreta, 86-87, Iranian Armenian actress.
- Dick Phillips, 66, American baseball player (San Francisco Giants, Washington Senators), manager and coach.[157]
- Eugene Walter, 76, American screenwriter, poet, actor, puppeteer and chef, liver cancer.[158]
- Harold E. Wilson, 76, United States Marine and recipient of the Medal of Honor.[159]
- Dudley Wysong, 58, American golfer, aneurysm.
30
- Ramsay Ames, 79, 1940s American B movie actress, model, pin-up girl and television host, lung cancer.
- Michèle Arnaud, 79, French singer and director.[160]
- Judy Buenoano, 54, American convicted murderer, execution by electric chair.[161]
- Max Cosyns, 91, Belgian physicist, inventor and explorer.
- Lloyd Finkbeiner, 77, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Americans).[162]
- Massimo Franciosa, 73, Italian screenwriter and film director.[163]
- Frank King, 79, British Army officer.[164]
- Mordechai Olmert, 90, Israeli politician.
- Athelstan Spilhaus, 86, South African-American geophysicist and oceanographer.[165]
31
- Bella Abzug, 77, American lawyer, politician and social activist.[166]
- John H. Cooke, 86, American lawyer and politician.
- Tim Flock, 73, American racecar driver and member of the NASCAR Hall of Fame, liver and throat cancer.[167]
- Henry George Glyde, 91, Canadian painter.[168]
- Blanche Montel, 95, French actress.[169]
- Joel Ryce-Menuhin, 64, American pianist, cancer.
- Pete Tillman, 75, American football player (Baltimore Colts), and coach.[170]