Deaths in April 1998 explained
The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.
April 1998
1
- Theodore Bloomfield, 74, American conductor, heart attack.
- Gene Evans, 75, American actor, heart failure.[1]
- Anne Gullestad, 72, Norwegian actress and theatre director.
- Janusz Nasfeter, 77, Polish film director, screenwriter and writer.
- Lucille Norman, 76, American actress, mezzo-soprano and radio personality.[2]
- Robert Ogle, 69, Canadian Roman Catholic priest and politician.[3]
- Mary Wynne Warner, 65, Welsh mathematician.[4]
- Rozz Williams, 34, American singer, poet and artist, suicide by hanging.[5]
2
- Joan Austin, 95, British tennis player.[6]
- Dai Davies, 88, Welsh trade unionist.
- Ronnie Dix, 85, English football player.[7]
- Hans Eberle, 72, German football player.[8]
- Jock Gaynor, 68, American television actor and producer.
- Eberhard Rees, 89, German-American rocketry pioneer and NASA executive.[9]
- Jackie Sardou, 78, French actress.[10]
3
- Mary Cartwright, 97, British mathematician.[11]
- Elmer Iseler, 70, Canadian choir conductor and choral editor.[12]
- Givi Kartozia, 69, Georgian middleweight Greco-Roman wrestler and Olympic champion.[13]
- Charles Lang, 96, American cinematographer (Some Like It Hot, A Farewell to Arms, Sabrina), Oscar winner (1934), pneumonia.[14]
- Harkisan Mehta, 69, Indian author and journalist, heart attack.
- Rolf Olsen, 78, Austrian actor, screenwriter and film director, cancer.[15]
- Roby Pilatus, 32, German model, dancer and singer (Milli Vanilli), accidental overdose.[16]
- Herbert B. Powell, 94, United States Army general and diplomat.[17]
- John W. Sweeterman, 91, American newspaperman.[18]
- Alvin Tyler, 72, American R&B and jazz musician.[19]
- Wolf Vostell, 65, German painter and sculptor.[20]
4
- Harry Wesley Bass Jr., 71, American businessman, coin collector and philanthropist.[21]
- George Berry, 84, Australian politician.[22]
- Kate Bosse-Griffiths, 87, German-British egyptologist.
- Marshall Fredericks, 90, American sculptor.[23]
- Kay Hughes, 84, American actress.
- Pierre Lantier, 87, French composer and pianist.[24]
- Predrag Milinković, 64, Serbian actor.[25]
- Ian Percival, 76, British politician.
- Ganesh Prasad Rijal, 77, Nepali politician, heart attack.
5
- Frederick Charles Frank, 87, British theoretical physicist.[26]
- Mick Miller, 61, Australian Aboriginal activist and politician, heart seizure.[27]
- Elizabeth Mitchell, 79, New Zealand fencer.
- Cozy Powell, 50, English rock drummer (Rainbow, Whitesnake, Emerson, Lake & Powell, Black Sabbath), car crash.[28]
6
- Edgar Ablowich, 84, American athlete and Olympian.[29]
- Reuben Berry, 63, American gridiron football coach.
- Rudy Dhaenens, 36, Belgian road bicycle racer, car accident.[30]
- Helen Craig McCullough, 80, American academic, translator and japanologist.[31]
- Heinz Neuhaus, 71, German boxer and heavyweight champion.
- Dewey Soriano, 78, American baseball executive.[32]
- Wendy O. Williams, 48, American singer, songwriter, and actress, suicide by gunshot.[33]
- John Wyatt, 63, American baseball player, heart attack.[34]
- Tammy Wynette, 55, American country music singer-songwriter, heart arrhythmia, heart attack.[35]
7
- Muhammad Karam Shah al-Azhari, 79, Pakistani Islamic scholar.
- Modesta Bor, 71, Venezuelan composer.
- Luis Díez del Corral, 86, Spanish jurist, writer and political scientist.[36]
- Vitaly Galkov, 58, Soviet and Russian sprint canoer and Olympian.[37]
- Sirous Ghayeghran, 36, Iranian football player and, traffic collision.
- John Kasper, 69, American Ku Klux Klan member and segregationist.
- Ronald William John Keay, 77, British botanist, cancer.[38]
- Pancho Magalona, 77, Filipino actor, emphysema.
- Nick Auf der Maur, 55, Canadian journalist and politician, esophageal cancer.
- James McIntosh Patrick, 91, Scottish painter.[39]
- Paul Sarringhaus, 77, American gridiron football player.[40]
- Alex Schomburg, 92, Puerto Rican comic-book artist and painter.[41]
- Carlos Vega, 41, Cuban-American session drummer, suicide.[42]
- S. V. Venkatraman, 86, Indian actor, singer and music director.
8
- Anatole Dauman, 73, French film producer.[43]
- Charlie Drinkwater, 83, English football player and manager.[44]
- Lee Elias, 77, British-American comics artist.
- Florence Virginia Foose Wilson Mayberry, 91, American writer and Baháʼí Faith convert.[45]
- René Pellos, 98, French artist, cartoonist and writer.
- Kurt Weinreich, 89, German football manager.[46]
9
- Tom Cora, 44, American cellist and composer, malignant melanoma.[47]
- Mihai Grecu, 81, Moldovan painter.
- Vishnu Bhikaji Kolte, 89, Indian writer.
- Lü Shuxiang, 93, Chinese linguist, lexicographer and educator.
- Ronald Vernon Southcott, 79, Australian medical zoologist.
- Aleksey Spiridonov, 46, Soviet athlete and Olympic medalist.[48]
- John Tate, 43, American heavyweight boxer, car accident.[49]
- David Vigor, 58, Australian politician, heart attack.
10
- Archbishop Serafim of Athens, 84, Greek archbishop.
- Alan Burgess, 83, English RAF pilot and author.[50]
- Jean Chapot, 67, French screenwriter and film director.[51]
- Campos de Carvalho, 81, Brazilian writer.
- Dieter Erler, 58, German footballer.[52]
- Basil James, 77, American jockey.
- Zezé Moreira, 90, Brazilian footballer and coach.
- Nguyen Co Thach, 76, Vietnamese revolutionary, diplomat, and politician.[53]
11
- Lillian Briggs, 65, American rock 'n roll musician, lung cancer.
- Francis Durbridge, 85, English playwright and author.[54]
- Tex Geddes, 78, Scottish author and adventurer.[55]
- Rodney Harvey, 30, American actor, model and dancer, drug overdose.[56]
- Kristaq Rama, 66, Albanian sculptor, art educator and politician.
- Ivan Tcherepnin, 55, French-American composer.[57]
- Rover Thomas, 72, Aboriginal Australian artist.
12
- Xin Fengxia, Chinese pingju opera performer, cerebral hemorrhage.
- Robert Ford, 83, Canadian poet and diplomat.[58]
- Dorothea Jameson, 77, American cognitive psychologist, lung cancer.[59]
- Frederick Lenz, 48, American businessman and spiritual teacher, suicide by drowning.
- Felicitas Mendez, Puerto Rican-American civil right activist, heart failure.[60]
- Bruno Rodzik, 62, French football player.[61]
- Charles Sibley, 80, American ornithologist and molecular biologist.[62]
- Marvin Wolfgang, 73, American sociologist and criminologist.[63]
13
- Alec Albiston, 80, Australian rules footballer and coach.
- Patrick de Gayardon, 38, French skydiver and skysurfing pioneer, skydiving accident.
- Nyta Dover, 70, Swiss actress.
- Bahi Ladgham, 85, Tunisian politician and Prime minister.[64]
- Ian MacGregor, 85, Scottish-American metallurgist and industrialist.[65]
- Pat Rainey, 72, American singer and actress.[66]
14
- Jake Colhouer, 76, American gridiron football player.[67]
- Weldon Humble, 76, American gridiron football player.[68]
- Harry Lee, 90, British tennis player.
- Dorothy Squires, 83, Welsh singer, lung cancer.[69]
- Maurice Stans, 90, American civil servant and politician, congestive heart failure.[70]
15
- William Congdon, 86, American painter.[71]
- Pompeo D'Ambrosio, 81, Italian-Venezuelan businessman.
- Kenny Duckett, 38, American football player (New Orleans Saints, Dallas Cowboys), renal failure.[72]
- William K. Jones, 81, United States Marine Corps lieutenant general.[73]
- Rose Maddox, 72, American country singer-songwriter.[74]
- Pol Pot, 72, Cambodian politician. General secretary of the CPK[75]
16
- Kazimieras Antanavičius, 60, Lithuanian economist and politician.
- Djibo Bakary, 76, Nigerian nationalist and politician.[76]
- Alberto Calderón, 77, Argentinian mathematician.[77]
- Fernande Caroen, 77, Belgian freestyle swimmer and Olympian.[78]
- Fred Davis, 84, English snooker and billiards player.[79]
- Marie-Louise Meilleur, 117, Canadian supercentenarian, oldest living person at the time of her death.[80]
- Ronald Millar, 78, English actor, scriptwriter, and dramatist.[81]
17
- Michael Ashikodi Agbamuche, 77, Nigerian Attorney General and politician.
- Alberto Bovone, 75, Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church.
- Frances Clark, 93, American pianist, pedagogue, and academic.[82]
- Geraldo de Barros, 75, Brazilian painter and photographer.[83]
- Linda McCartney, 56, American musician, photographer and animal rights activist, breast cancer.[84]
- William C. Scott, 76, Canadian politician.
18
- Stoffel Botha, 69, South African politician, heart attack.
- Ferenc Deák, 76, Hungarian football player.
- William Edmondson, 91, American sound engineer.
- Nelson Gonçalves, 78, Brazilian singer and songwriter, heart attack.[85]
- Johan Richter, 73, Danish architect and engineer.
- Terry Sanford, 80, American university administrator and politician, esophageal cancer.[86]
- Linda Schele, 55, American Mesoamerican archaeologist, pancreatic cancer.[87]
19
- Gardner Dickinson, 70, American golfer.[88]
- J.C. Harrington, 96, American historical archaeologist.[89]
- Denis Howell, Baron Howell, 74, British politician.[90]
- Octavio Paz, 84, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate, cancer.[91]
- Vladimir Sokolov, 70, Russian scientist.
- Liam Sullivan, 74, American actor and singer, heart attack.[92]
20
- Severo Cominelli, 82, Italian football player.[93]
- Trevor Huddleston, 84, English Anglican bishop.[94]
- Yoshio Inaba, 77, Japanese actor (Seven Samurai), heart attack.
- Alfredo Palacio Moreno, 85, Ecuadorian sculptor and painter.
- Othmar Wessely, 75, Austrian musicologist and university teacher.[95]
21
- Ivan Chtcheglov, 65, French political theorist, activist and poet.[96]
- Peter Lind Hayes, 82, American vaudeville entertainer, songwriter and actor, vascular problems.[97]
- Vernon Holland, 49, American gridiron football player (Cincinnati Bengals, Detroit Lions and New York Giants), heart attack.[98]
- Egill Jacobsen, 87, Danish painter.[99]
- Jean-François Lyotard, 73, French philosopher and sociologist, leukemia.[100]
- Gábor Preisich, 88, Hungarian architect.
- Bruno Roth, 86, German racing cyclist.[101]
- Irene Vernon, 76, American actress, congestive heart failure and coronary artery disease.
- Helen Ward, 84, American jazz singer.[102]
- Frank Wootton, 86, British aviation artist.[103]
22
- Edward Brongersma, 86, Dutch politician and doctor of law, voluntary euthanasia.[104]
- Kitch Christie, 58, South African rugby coach, leukemia.
- Alfredo da Motta, 77, Brazilian basketball player.[105]
- Carlo Donida, 77, Italian composer and pianist.
- Guy Henn, 88, Australian doctor and politician.
- Vadym Hetman, 62, Ukrainian statesman and banker, murdered.
- León Najnudel, 56, Argentine basketball player and basketball coach, leukemia.
- Georges Paillard, 94, French cyclist.[106]
- Régine Pernoud, 88, French historian and archivist.[107]
- Shalimar Seiuli, 21, American-Samoan transgender dancer, accidental fall.[108]
- Marvin Worth, 72, American film producer, screenwriter and actor, lung cancer.[109]
23
- Konstantinos Karamanlis, 91, Greek politician and former Prime Minister and President.[110]
- James Earl Ray, 70, American convict and assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., liver failure.[111]
- Sartaj Singh, Indian Army general.
- Red Stacy, 86, American gridiron football player.[112]
- Gregor von Rezzori, 83, Austrian-Romanian journalist, actor, writer and art collector.[113]
24
- Froduald Karamira, 50, Rwandan politician, execution by firing squad.
- Yakov Malkiel, 83, Russian-American etymologist and philologist.[114]
- Mel Powell, 75, American composer and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, liver cancer.[115]
- Christiane Rochefort, 80, French feminist writer.[116]
- Leslie Stevens, 74, American producer, writer and director, angioplasty.[117]
25
- Jorge Dominichi, 51, Argentine football player and manager, heart attack.[118]
- Wright Morris, 88, American novelist, photographer and essayist, esophageal cancer.[119]
- Christian Mortensen, 115, Danish-American supercentenarian, Alzheimer's disease.[120]
- Don Petersen, 70, American playwright and screenwriter.[121]
- Stanley Brehaut Ryerson, 87, Canadian historian, educator, political activist.[122]
26
- Alan Boxer, 81, British Royal Air Force officer.
- Juan José Gerardi Conedera, 75, Guatemalan Roman Catholic bishop and human rights activist, assassinated, homicide.[123]
- David Fasold, 59, United States Merchant Marine officer and salvage expert, cancer.
- Gamini Jayasuriya, 73, Sri Lankan politician.
- Sven Olov Lindholm, 95, Swedish anti-communist and Nazi politician.
- Gabe Paul, 88, American Major League Baseball executive.[124]
- Arif Pašalić, 54, Bosnian military officer, traffic collision.
- Ivy May Pearce, 83, Australian aerobatic pilot.
27
- John W. H. Bassett, 82, Canadian media proprietor and politician.[125]
- Carlos Castañeda, 72, American author, hepatocellular cancer.[126]
- Anne Desclos, 90, French journalist and novelist.[127]
- Edris Eckhardt, 93, American artist.[128]
- Louis S. Peterson, 75, American playwright, actor, screenwriter and professor, lung cancer.[129]
- Ralph Raphael, 77, British organic chemist, ischaemic heart disease.[130]
- Browning Ross, 74, American long-distance runner and Olympian.[131]
- Geoffrey Serle, 76, Australian historian.[132]
- Nguyen Van Linh, 82, Vietnamese revolutionary and politician, liver cancer.[133]
28
- Jerome Bixby, 75, American short story writer and scriptwriter.[134]
- Ramakant Desai, 58, Indian cricket player, complications following cardiac arrest.
- Roger Eason, 79, American gridiron football player.[135]
- Dorothy Lovett, 83, American film actress.[136]
- Reed C. Rollins, 86, American botanist and professor.[137]
- Mum Shirl, 76, Australian Wiradjuri humanitarian activist.
29
- Mary Castle, 67, American actress, lung cancer.[138]
- Charley Cowan, 59, American gridiron football player.[139]
- Mário de Castro, 92, Brazilian footballer.
- Harold Devine, 88, American boxer.[140]
- V. Gopalakrishnan, Indian actor.
- Hal Laycoe, 75, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.[141]
30
- Guy Anderson, 91, American painter.[142]
- Curly Chalker, 66, American pedal steel guitarist, brain tumor.[143]
- Lise Gervais, 64, Canadian abstract painter and sculptor.[144]
- Edwin Thompson Jaynes, 75, American physicist and statistician.[145]
- Nizar Qabbani, 75, Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher, heart attack.[146]
- Jopie Selbach, 79, Dutch freestyle swimmer and Olympian.[147]
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