Deaths in October 1998
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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.
October 1998
1
- Pauline Julien, 70, Quebec singer, songwriter, actress and feminist activist, suicide.[1]
- Steve Knowlton, 76, American Olympic alpine skier (1948).[2]
- Sjur Lindebrække, 89, Norwegian banker and politician.[3]
- Vladimir Ossipoff, 90, Russian-American architect.
- Gabriel Sandu, 45, Romanian football player.[4]
2
- Gene Autry, 91, American Hall of Fame singer ("Back in the Saddle Again", "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer") and actor (The Gene Autry Show), lymphoma.[5]
- Armando Barrientos, 92, Cuban Olympic fencer (1948).[6]
- Jerzy Bińczycki, 61, Polish stage and film actor, heart attack.[7]
- Jimmy Caesar, 63, American comedian and impressionist.[8]
- DONDI, 37, American graffiti artist, AIDS.[9]
- William J. Eccles, 81, Canadian historian and academic.[10]
- Olin J. Eggen, 79, American astronomer.
- Olivier Gendebien, 74, Belgian racing driver.[11]
- Enrico Pagani, 69, Italian Olympic basketball player (1952).[12]
- Korla Pandit, 77, American composer, pianist, and organist, heart attack.
- Raúl Pini, 75, Uruguayan footballer.[13]
- Raymond Raikes, 88, British theatre producer, director and broadcaster.
- D. French Slaughter Jr., 73, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1985–1991).[14]
- Adrian Spies, 78, American screenwriter.[15]
- Roger Vivier, 90, French women's shoe designer.[16]
- Richard Way, 84, British civil servant and academic administrator.
- Sanjaasürengiin Zorig, 36, Mongolian politician and revolutionary, assassinated.
3
- Hugo Batalla, 72, Uruguayan politician, vice president (1995–1998), lung cancer.
- Arthur Clues, 74, Australian rugby player.[17]
- George Davis, 84, American art director (The Robe, The Diary of Anne Frank, Funny Face), Oscar winner (1954, 1960).
- David C. Evans, 74, American computer scientist.[18]
- Bernard Fox, 81, American figure skater.
- Colin Greenwood, 62, South African rugby player.[19]
- Roddy McDowall, 70, British-American actor (Planet of the Apes, Cleopatra, Fright Night), lung cancer.[20]
- G. S. Venkataraman, 68, Indian botanist.
- Anne-Marie Walters, 75, Swiss-British Special Operations Executive during World War II.
- George Yates, 90, Australian businessman and politician.[21]
4
- S. Arasaratnam, 68, Sri Lankan academic, historian and author.[22]
- Jean-Pascal Delamuraz, 62, Swiss politician.
- Lee Grissom, 90, American baseball player.[23]
- Enea Pavani, 77, Italian curler.
- Tony Shelly, 61, New Zealand racing driver.[24]
5
- João Capucho, 81, Portuguese Olympic sailor (1948).[25]
- Megs Jenkins, 81, English actress.[26]
- Krzysztof Jung, 47, Polish painter, graphic artist and performer, asthma.
- Georges Margot, 96, French Olympic equestrian (1936).[27]
- Pierre Martory, 77, French poet.[28]
- Federico Zeri, 77, Italian art historian.[29]
- Arne Øien, 69, Norwegian economist and politician.
6
- Mark Belanger, 54, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, Los Angeles Dodgers), lung cancer.[30]
- Ambrose Burke, 102, English professor and Catholic priest.
- Rolan Bykov, 68, Soviet and Russian actor, theatre and film director and screenwriter, lung cancer.[31]
- Bob Gude, 80, American football player (Chicago Bears, Philadelphia Eagles).[32]
- Jean-François Jenny-Clark, 54, French double bass player, cancer.[33]
- James Larkin, 66, Irish Gaelic football player and politician.
- Samuel Messick, 67, American psychologist.[34]
- Stéphane Morin, 29, Canadian ice hockey player (Quebec Nordiques, Vancouver Canucks), heart problems.[35]
- Joseph J. Sandler, 71, British psychoanalyst.[36]
- Guillaume Tell, 96, French Olympic long-distance runner (1924, 1928).[37]
- Chuck Walton, 57, American gridiron football player (Detroit Lions).[38]
- Jerome Weidman, 85, American playwright and novelist.[39]
7
- Evelyn Daniel Anderson, 72, American educator and disability rights advocate.
- Nellie Carrington, 82, British athlete and Olympian (1936).[40]
- Richard Cyert, 77, American economist and statistician, cancer.[41]
- Cees de Vreugd, 46, Dutch strongman, heart attack.
- W. B. Gallie, 86, Scottish social theorist and philosopher.[42]
- Niilo Hartikka, 89, Finnish Olympic middle-distance runner (1936).[43]
- Arnold Jacobs, 83, American tubist.
- Kjell Sverre Johansen, 54, Norwegian Olympic rower (1972, 1976).[44]
- Renato Malavasi, 94, Italian film actor.
- Joseph P. Merlino, 76, American Party politician.[45]
- Lee Nak-hoon, 62, South Korean actor, heart disease and diabetes.
- Ru Zhijuan, 72, Chinese writer.[46]
8
- Laurențiu Bozeșan, 38, Romanian footballer.[47]
- Curtis Cassell, 85, German-British rabbi.
- Zhang Chongren, 91, Chinese artist and sculptor.[48]
- Mohanlal Lallubhai Dantwala, 89, Indian agricultural economist, academic and writer.[49]
- Jashim, 48, Bangladeshi film actor, producer and freedom fighter, brain haemorrhage.
- Rolf Kestener, 68, Brazilian swimmer and Olympian (1948).[50]
- West Nkosi, 58, South African music producer, saxophonist and songwriter, traffic collision.[51]
- Gigi Reder, 70, Italian character actor.
- Glenn Spearman, 51, American jazz tenor saxophonist, cancer.[52]
- Valerio Vallania, 92, Argentine Olympic athlete (1928).[53]
- Anatol Vieru, 72, Romanian music theoretician, pedagogue, and composer.[54]
9
- Robert Allen, 92, American actor, cancer.[55]
- Anthony Alonzo, 50, Filipino actor, singer, and councilor of Quezon City, skin cancer.
- Beth Bonner, 46, American long-distance runner, traffic collision.
- George Rankin Irwin, 91, American scientist in the field of fracture mechanics and strength of materials.[56]
- Rosario Joanette, 82, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens).[57]
- Ian Johnson, 80, Australian cricketer.[58]
- John Geddes MacGregor, 88, British-American author, scholar, and priest.
- Nagbhushan Patnaik, 63, Indian communist revolutionary and politician.
- Gustavo Petricioli, 70, Mexican economist, heart attack.
- Xiao Yang, 69, Chinese politician.
10
- Clark Clifford, 91, American lawyer and politician.[59]
- Jackie Forster, 71, English news reporter, actress and lesbian rights activist.[60]
- Marvin Gay Sr., 84, American minister and father of Marvin Gaye, pneumonia.[61]
- Pierce Lyden, 90, American actor.
- William Markowitz, 91, American astronomer.[62]
- Tony Marvin, 86, American radio and television announcer.[63]
- Rod Morrison, 73, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings).[64]
- Rachel Cosgrove Payes, 75, American novelist and author.
- Konstantin Petrzhak, 91, Russian nuclear physicist.[65]
- Tommy Quaid, 41, Irish hurler, injuries sustained from a fall.
- Berta Rahm, 88, Swiss architect, writer and feminist activist.[66]
- Strick Shofner, 79, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox).[67]
- Rocco Spinola, 67, Italian Olympic weightlifter (1960).[68]
- El Tappe, 71, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs), and coach, cancer.[69]
11
- George Bain, 68–69, Australian rugby league footballer.[70]
- Richard Denning, 84, American actor, heart attack.[71]
- Fred Harris, 86, English footballer.[72]
- Lars Theodor Jonsson, 94, Swedish cross-country skier and Olympian (1928).[73]
- Michael Wynn, 7th Baron Newborough, 81, British peer and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve officer.[74]
- Spottswood William Robinson III, 82, American civil rights attorney and US Circuit Judge.[75]
- Gaius Shaver, 88, American football player and Olympian (1932).[76]
12
- Jürgen Aschoff, 85, German physician, biologist and behavioral physiologist.[77]
- Mario Beaulieu, 68, Canadian politician, member of the Senate of Canada (1990–1994).[78]
- Valdemar Kendzior, 72, Danish footballer.[79]
- Bernhard Minetti, 93, German actor.[80]
- Julio Saraceni, 86, Argentine film director.
- Ineko Sata, 94, Japanese author and communist.[81]
- Matthew Shepard, 21, American murder victim, beaten to death.[82]
- Wilson Allen Wallis, 85, American economist and statistician.[83]
13
- Thomas Byberg, 82, Norwegian speed skater and Olympic medalist (1948).[84]
- Dmitry Filippov, 54, Soviet and Russian politician and industrialist, assassinated.
- P. T. Narasimhachar, 93, Indian Kannada playwright and poet.[85]
- Bojan Pečar, 38, Serbian/Yugoslav musician, heart attack.
- Jeremy Vargas Sagastegui, 27, American criminal, execution by lethal injection.[86]
- Gérard Charles Édouard Thériault, 66, Canadian pilot and Chief of the Defence Staff.
14
- Cleveland Amory, 81, American author, reporter and animal rights activist, abdominal aortic aneurysm.[87]
- Leopoldina Bălănuță, 63, Romanian actress.[88]
- Dasarath Deb, 82, Indian communist politician.
- Hipólito Gil, 94, Argentine Olympic sailor (1936).[89]
- Betty Gillies, 90, American aviation pioneer.
- Giorgio Oberweger, 84, Italian discus thrower and Olympic medalist (1936, 1948).[90]
- Frankie Yankovic, 83, American polka musician, heart failure.[91]
15
- Rolf Agop, 90, German conductor and academic.
- Colette Darfeuil, 92, French actress.[92]
- Mãe Cleusa Millet, 75, Brazilian physician and spiritual leader.
- Molly O'Day, 88, American actress,[93] she became one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1928,[94] she received a star in the Motion Pictures category on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960[95]
- Ike Owens, 79, Welsh rugby player.[96]
- Iain Crichton Smith, 70, Scottish poet and novelist.[97]
16
- Carlos Aldabe, 79, Argentine football player and coach.
- Frank Carswell, 78, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers), and manager.[98]
- Jon Postel, 55, American computer scientist, complications from heart surgery.[99]
- Collins J. Seitz, 84, American lawyer and judge.[100]
- Joseph Stamler, 86, American lawyer and judge.[101]
- Léontine Stevens, 91, Belgian Olympic athlete (1928).[102]
- M. Vasalis, 89, Dutch poet and psychiatrist.[103]
17
- Antonio Agri, 66, Argentine musician, cancer.
- Germán List Arzubide, 100, Mexican poet and revolutionary.[104]
- Brian Dickson, 82, Canadian military officer and judge.
- Muhammad Abdullah Ghazi, 63, Pakistani religious leader, shot.
- Joan Hickson, 92, English actress (Miss Marple).[105]
- Carmen Molina, 78, Mexican actress, singer, and dancer.
- Hakim Said, 78, Pakistani scholar and philanthropist, murdered.[106]
- Tron, 26, German hacker and phreaker, suicide by hanging.
- Karel Vohralík, 53, Czech Olympic ice hockey player (1972).[107]
18
- Frédéric Fitting, 96, Swiss Olympic fencer (1920, 1924, 1928, 1936).[108]
- Peter A. Griffin, 61, American mathematician, author, and blackjack expert.
- Alfred Praks, 96, Estonian Olympic wrestler (1924, 1928).[109]
- Dick Sheppard, 53, English footballer.[110]
- George Shaw Wheeler, 90, American advisor to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and defector.[111]
19
- Arnold M. Auerbach, 86, American comedy writer.[112]
- Frank J. Brasco, 66, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives, (1967–1975).[113]
- Tommy Burks, 58, American farmer and politician, murdered.
- Chaduranga, 82, Indian Kannada writer.
- Edward Flannery, 86, American Roman Catholic priest and author, pancreatic cancer.[114]
- Fritz Honka, 63, German serial killer.
- Charlton Ogburn, 87, American journalist and author, suicide.[115]
- Compton I. White Jr., 77, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1963–1967).[116]
20
- Anni Bruk, 74, Austrian Olympic shot putter (1948).[117]
- John Mowbray Didcott, 67, South African lawyer and judge, cancer.[118]
- Frank Gillard, 89, British BBC reporter and radio pioneer.[119]
- Gerhard Jahn, 71, German politician, cancer.[120]
- Spike Nelson, 92, American football player and coach.
- René Pleimelding, 73, French football player and manager.[121]
21
- Marcel Bellefeuille, 57, Canadian Olympic boxer (1960).[122]
- Josef Bremm, 84, Nazi Germany Wehrmacht officer.
- Scott Brower, 34, American ice hockey player, traffic collision.[123]
- Alexander Cairncross, 87, British economist.[124]
- Cheng Lianzhen, 77, Chinese politician and bandit leader.[125]
- Phil Haugstad, 74, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Cincinnati Reds).[126]
- John Hazen, 71, American basketball player (Boston Celtics).[127]
- John David Kelly, 64, American circuit judge (United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit).[128]
- Nicholas Kemmer, 86, Russian-British nuclear physicist.[129]
- David Sutherland Nelson, 64, American district judge (United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts).[130]
- Hans Alfred Nieper, 70, German alternative medicine practitioner.
- Alan Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury, 96, British businessman.
- Tatiana Tolmacheva, 91, Soviet figure skater and figure skating coach.
22
- Nathalia Crane, 85, American poet and novelist.[131]
- Burton M. Cross, 95, American businessman, politician and governor.
- Ajit Khan, 76, Indian actor.[132]
- Adolf Odermatt, 74, Swiss Olympic alpine skier (1948).[133]
- Violet Owen, 96, British tennis and hockey player.[134]
- Ángel Picazo, 81, Spanish film actor, cancer.
- Francis W. Sargent, 83, American politician and governor.[135]
- Paul Vittet, 65, Swiss Olympic sports shooter (1968, 1972).[136]
23
- Eric Ambler, 89, English thriller author.[137]
- Noel Carroll, 56, Irish middle-distance runner and Olympian (1964, 1968), heart attack.[138]
- Christopher Gable, 58, English ballet dancer, choreographer and actor, cancer.[139]
- Adrian Gonzales, 60–61, Filipino comic artist (All-Star Squadron, Arak, Son of Thunder, Super Powers).[140]
- Winnie Ruth Judd, 93, American convicted murderer.[141]
- Eero Laine, 72, Finnish Olympic biathlete (1960).[142]
- Zangeres Zonder Naam, 79, Dutch levenslied singer, heart attack.[143]
- Barnett Slepian, 52, American physician, homicide.[144]
- Silviu Stănculescu, 66, Romanian actor, leukemia.[145]
24
- Rafael Alonso, 78, Spanish actor.[146]
- Dennis Ayling, 81, British cinematographer.
- Charles Barnes, 96, Australian politician.[147]
- Mary Calderone, 94, American physician and sexual education advocate.[148]
- Pino Dordoni, 72, Italian race walker and Olympic champion (1948, 1952, 1956, 1960).[149]
- Peter Fazer, 64, Finnish Olympic sailor (1964).[150]
- Ardalion Ignatyev, 67, Soviet track and field athlete and Olympic medalist (1952, 1956).[151]
25
- Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth, 93, British mycologist and scientific historian.[152]
- Robin Brook, 90, British banker and Olympic fencer (1936, 1948).[153]
- Geoff Crain, 67, Canadian football player.
- Dick Higgins, 60, American artist, composer, poet, and publisher, heart attack.[154]
- John Hyland, 86, United States Navy admiral.[155]
- Gavriil Malysh, 91, Soviet and Russian painter, watercolorist and graphic artist.
- Jesús Olmos, 88, Mexican Olympic basketball player (1936).[156]
- Susan Strange, 75, British scholar and political scientist.[157]
- Warren Wiebe, 45, American vocalist and session musician, suicide.
- Fouad Yazgi, 66, Egyptian Olympic sprinter (1952).[158]
26
- Nicholas Budgen, 60, British politician, liver cancer.[159]
- Rick Dior, 51, American sound engineer (Apollo 13, Dirty Dancing, Ransom), Oscar winner (1996), heart attack.[160]
- Kenkichi Iwasawa, 81, Japanese mathematician.[161]
- Margaret Keay, 87, British phytopathologist.[162]
- José Cardoso Pires, 73, Portuguese author.
- Hugh David Stevenson, 80, Royal Australian Navy officer.
- Terry Thomas, 45, American basketball player (Detroit Pistons).[163]
- Selvarajan Yesudian, 82, Swiss yogi and author.
27
- O'Neal Adams, 79, American football player (New York Giants, Brooklyn Dodgers).[164]
- Alfred Gray, 59, American mathematician, heart attack.
- Rosamund John, 85, English film and stage actress.[165]
- Reidar Kvammen, 84, Norwegian footballer and Olympian (1936).[166]
- Daniel Pedoe, 87, English mathematician and geometer.
- Luis Prendes, 85, Spanish actor, cancer.[167]
- Bev Scott, 84, Australian Olympic wrestler (1952).[168]
- Gene Taylor, 70, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1979–1989).[169]
- Klári Tolnay, 84, Hungarian actress.
- Winnie van Weerdenburg, 52, Dutch swimmer and Olympic medalist (1964).[170]
28
- Ghulam Ahmed, 76, Indian cricket player.
- Cuthbert Alport, Baron Alport, 86, British politician, minister and life peer.[171]
- Sherman Block, 74, American politician and sheriff.
- James L. Day, 73, United States Marine Corps major general.[172]
- Tommy Flowers, 92, English engineer and electronic computing pioneer.[173]
- James Goldman, 71, American screenwriter (The Lion in Winter, Nicholas and Alexandria) and playwright (Follies), Oscar winner (1969), heart attack.[174]
- Ted Hughes, 68, English poet and children's writer, heart attack.[175]
- Margaret Marley Modlin, 71, American painter, sculptor and photographer.[176]
- Wang Shuming, 92, Chinese airforce colonel general.
29
- Anthony J. Celebrezze, 88, American politician.[177]
- Alvin M. Johnston, 84, American jet-age test pilot, Alzheimer's disease.[178]
- Gilda Lousek, 60, Argentine actress.
- Paul Misraki, 90, French composer of music and film scores.[179]
- Harry Weese, 83, American architect, stroke.[180]
30
- Vishram Bedekar, 92, Indian writer and movie director.
- Guido De Santi, 75, Italian racing cyclist.[181]
- Frank Deveney, 88, Australian cricketer.[182]
- Lee Parsons Gagliardi, 80, American district judge (United States District Court for the Southern District of New York).[183]
- Apo Lazaridès, 73, French cyclist.[184]
- Verdell Mathis, 83, American baseball player.[185]
- George Schmees, 74, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns, Boston Red Sox).[186]
- Bulldog Turner, 79, American football player (Chicago Bears), and coach.[187]
- Lam Van Phat, Army of the Republic of Vietnam officer.
- Elmer Vasko, 62, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks, Minnesota North Stars).[188]
- Heinz Westphal, 74, German politician.
31
- Régis Charlet, 79, French Olympic ski jumper (1948).[189]
- Kenneth Darling, 89, British Army general.[190]
- María de la Purísima de la Cruz, 72, Spanish Roman Catholic nun.
- Bernard J. Dwyer, 77, American Democratic Party politician, heart attack.[191]
- Vera Ellery, 72, British Olympic swimmer (1948).[192]
- Vassar Miller, 74, American writer and poet.[193]
- Noah Mullins, 80, American gridiron football player (Chicago Bears, New York Giants).[194]
- Bodil Russ, 90, Norwegian Olympic equestrian (1956).[195]
- Lou Rymkus, 78, American football player (Washington Redskins, Cleveland Browns), and coach, stroke.[196]
- Bob Thurman, 81, American baseball player (Cincinnati Redlegs).[197]
- Oiva Timonen, 78, Finnish Olympic wrestler (1952).[198]