Deaths in December 1998 explained
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 and manager.[3]
- Vincenzo Pappalettera, 79, Italian writer and historian.
- Donald Smith, 76, 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.[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.[10]
- Brian Stonehouse, 80, British painter and SEO agent during World War II.[11]
3
- Pierre Hétu, 62, Canadian conductor, pianist and politician, cancer.[12]
- Albert Leman, 83, Soviet composer of classical music.
- Mohammad Mokhtari, 56, Iranian writer, poet and activist, homicide.[13]
- George Murcell, 73, British actor.
- Robert Rothschild, 86, Belgian diplomat.[14]
- Ed Widseth, 88, American football player.[15]
4
- Percy Ames, 66, English footballer.
- Egil Johansen, 64, Norwegian-Swedish jazz musician.[16]
- Suzanne Jovin, 21, German-born American student, stabbed.[17]
- Milton Marks, 78, American politician.[18]
- Yury Vengerovsky, 60, Ukrainian volleyball player and Olympic champion.[19]
5
- Hazel Bishop, 92, American chemist.[20]
- Jack Connor, 78, English footballer.
- Jean Fenwick, 91, Trinidad-American actress.
- Albert Arnold Gore, 90, American politician and father of Al Gore.[21]
- John Lions, 61, Australian computer scientist.
- Cheung Tze-keung, 43, Chinese criminal, execution by firing squad.[22]
6
- César Baldaccini, 77, French sculptor.[23]
- Georges Borgeaud, 84, Swiss writer and publisher.[24]
- Robert Marasco, 62, American horror novelist and playwright, lung cancer.[25]
- Pierre Mousel, 83, Luxembourgian football player.[26]
- Peg Leg Bates, 91, American entertainer.[27]
- Radomir Šaper, 72, Yugoslav/Serbian basketball player and executive.
- Hoshiar Singh, 61, Indian Army officer.
- Michael Zaslow, 56, American actor, cancer.[28]
7
- John Addison, 78, British composer.[29]
- Carlos Oviedo Cavada, 71, Chilean cardinal of the Catholic Church.
- Daniel Lee Corwin, 40, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.[30]
- Voitto Hellstén, 66, Finnish sprinter and Olympic medalist.[31]
- Tim Kelly, 61, American playwright.
- Martin Rodbell, 73, American scientist and Nobel prize recipient, multiple organ failure.[32]
8
- Michael Craze, 56, British actor (Doctor Who), heart attack.
- Hamilton H. Howze, 89, American general and commander of the 82nd Airborne Division.[33]
- George Roden, 60, American leader of the Branch Davidian sect, heart attack.[34]
- Odo Josef Struger, 67, Austrian automation pioneer, cancer.[35]
9
- Christine Fulwylie-Bankston, 82, American poet, publisher, and civil rights activist.
- Bill Looby, 67, American soccer player.[36]
- Archie Moore, 81, American boxing champion, heart failure.[37]
- Mohammad-Ja'far Pouyandeh, 44, Iranian writer and activist, strangled.
10
- Wim Hora Adema, 84, Dutch children's author and feminist.[38]
- Bob Brown, 59, American gridiron football player.
- Bob Dille, 81, American basketball player.[39]
- Buddy Feyne, 86, American lyricist.[40]
- Wang Ganchang, 91, Chinese nuclear physicist.
- Ray Goossens, 74, Belgian artist, animator, writer and film director (Hergé's Adventures of Tintin).[41]
- Trygve Haugeland, 84, Norwegian politician .
- Kamel Messaoudi, 37, Algerian Chaabi musician, traffic collision.[42]
- Charles D. Mize, 77, United States Marine Corps officer, leukemia.[43]
- 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.
- Irma Hünerfauth, 90, German painter and sculptor.
- Gunnar Johansson, 79, Swedish sprint canoeist and Olympian.[44]
- André Lichnerowicz, 83, French differential geometer and mathematical physicist.[45]
- Jimmy Mackay, 54, Scottish-Australian football player.[46]
- Kavi Pradeep, 83, Indian poet and songwriter.[47]
- Chen Puru, 80, Chinese politician.
- Anton Stankowski, 92, German graphic designer, photographer and painter.[48]
- Lynn Strait, 30, American singer and vocalist of band Snot, traffic collision.
- Max Streibl, 66, German politician.[49]
12
- Max Boydston, 66, American gridiron football player.[50]
- Lawton Chiles, 68, American politician, heart attack.[51]
- Marco Denevi, 76, Argentine novelist, lawyer and journalist.
- Jimmy "Orion" Ellis, 53, American singer, shot.[52]
- Denny Galehouse, 87, American baseball player.[53]
- Willis J. Gertsch, 92, American arachnologist.
- Vadim Gulyaev, 57, Russian water polo player and Olympic champion.[54]
- William A. Marra, 70, American politician.
- Don Patterson, 88, American producer, animator, and director.
- Mo Udall, 76, American politician, Parkinson's disease.[55]
13
- Helen Adolf, 102, Austrian–American linguist and literature scholar.[56]
- Willem den Toom, 87, Dutch politician.[57]
- Dean Fausett, 85, American painter.[58]
- Lew Grade, 91, British impresario.[59]
- Harvey Jones, 77, American gridiron football player.[60]
- Richard Thomas, 66, British admiral and Black Rod.
- Ariadna Welter, 68, Mexican movie actress.[61]
- Liang Xiang, 79, Chinese politician.
- Norbert Zongo, 49, Burkinabé investigative journalist, shot.[62] (body discovered on this date)
14
- Vittorio Cottafavi, 84, Italian film director and screenwriter.[63]
- Norman Fell, 74, American actor (Three's Company, The Graduate, Bullitt), bone marrow cancer.[64]
- A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., 70, African-American civil rights advocate, author and judge, stroke.[65]
- Yuriy Hromak, 50, Ukrainian backstroke swimmer and Olympic medalist.[66]
- James A. Jensen, 80, American paleontologist.[67]
- Brian Lewis, 55, English footballer.[68]
- Annette Strauss, 74, American philanthropist and mayor of Dallas, cancer.[69]
- Will Tremper, 70, German journalist and filmmaker, heart attack.[70]
15
- Daniel Langrand, 77, French football player and coach.[71]
- Jan Meyerowitz, 85, American composer, conductor, pianist and writer.[72]
- Rowena Moore, 88, American civil rights activist.
- Robert Paul, 88, French sprinter and Olympian.[73]
- Dean Peters, 40, American professional wrestler and referee, traffic collision.
- Ján Podhradský, 82, Slovak football player.
- Johnny Riddle, 93, American baseball player and coach.[74]
- Paul Rivière, 86, French Resistance fighter during World War II and politician.[75]
16
- Clay Blair, 73, American journalist and author, heart attack.[76]
- Jocelyn Crane, 89, American carcinologist.
- Jean de Montrémy, 85, French industrialist, racing driver, and race car designer.[77]
- William Gaddis, 75, American novelist, prostate cancer.[78]
- Johnny Gorsica, 83, American baseball player.[79]
- Lee Tai-young, 84, Korean lawyer and judge.
- Maneklal Sankalchand Thacker, 94, Indian engineer and academic.
- Philip True, 50, American foreign correspondent, homicide.[80] (body discovered on this date)
17
- Kevin Brennan, 78, Australian-born British-based film and television actor.
- John Burns Brooksby, 83, Scottish veterinarian.[81]
- Allan D'Arcangelo, 68, American artist and printmaker.[82]
- Joseph Esherick, 86, American architect, heart failure.[83]
- 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, cancer.[84]
- Mohammad Taghi Falsafi, 90, Iranian ayatollah and preacher.
- Harry Haddock, 73, Scottish footballer.[85]
- Abdurajak Abubakar Janjalani, 38–39, Filipino militant, founder of Abu Sayyaf, shot.[86]
- Vinod Mishra, 51, Indian communist politician, heart attack.
- Edwin E. Moise, 79, American mathematician.[87]
- Gilberto Muñoz, 75, Chilean football player.
- Tadeusz Rybczynski, 75, Polish-English economist.
- Max Wehrli, 89, Swiss literary scholar and germanist.[88]
19
- Garry Blaine, 65, Canadian ice hockey player.[89]
- Cully Dahlstrom, 86, American ice hockey player.[90]
- Mel Fisher, 76, American treasure hunter.[91]
- Gordon Gunter, 89, American marine biologist and fisheries scientist.
- Antonio Ordóñez, 66, Spanish bullfighter, liver cancer.[92]
- Bernhard Tessmann, 86, German rocket scientist during and after World War II.
- Ron Turner, 76, British illustrator and comic book artist, stroke and heart attack.[93]
- Qian Zhongshu, 88, Chinese literary scholar and writer, cancer.[94]
20
- André Dewavrin, 87, French officer and resistance member during World War II.[95]
- E. W. Etchells, 87, American sailor and sailboat designer.[96]
- Angelo Grizzetti, 82, French-Italian football player and coach.
- Irene Hervey, 89, American actress, heart failure.[97]
- Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, 84, British scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.[98]
- Kazimierz Kropidłowski, 67, Polish long jumper and Olympian.[99]
- Bangalore Venkata Raman, 86, Indian astrologer.[100]
- Miklós Sárkány, 90, Hungarian water polo player and Olympic champion.[101]
21
- Roger Avon, 84, British actor.
- Gilbert Charles-Picard, 85, French historian and archaeologist.[102]
- Avril Coleridge-Taylor, 95, English pianist, conductor, and composer.[103]
- Adelaide Hawley Cumming, 93, American vaudeville performer, radio host, and television personality.
- Karl Denver, 67, Scottish singer, brain tumor.[104]
- Anne Ferguson, 57, Scottish physician and clinical researcher, pancreatic cancer.[105]
- Sándor Ivády, 95, Hungarian water polo player and Olympic champion.[106]
- Ernst Günther Schenck, 94, German doctor and member of the SS.[107]
- Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy, 85, Hungarian mathematician.[108]
- Jerzy Topolski, 70, Polish historian.
- Richard Turnbull, 89, British colonial governor.
22
- Pedro Araya, 73, Chilean basketball player.[109]
- Leif Erickson, 92, American attorney and politician.[110]
- Virginia Graham, 86, American talk show host, heart attack.[111]
- Robert Haynes, 67, Canadian geneticist and biophysicist.[112]
- Jean Malaquais, 90, French novelist.[113]
- Subhashis Nag, 43, Indian mathematician.
- Donald Soper, 95, British methodist minister and pacifist.
23
- Mark Chatfield, 45, American breaststroke swimmer, lymphoma.[114]
- Jack Hilton, 77, English rugby player.
- Peggy Kelman, 89, Australian aviation pioneer.
- Ratnappa Kumbhar, 89, Indian independence activist.
- David Manners, 98, Canadian-American actor (Dracula, The Mummy, A Bill of Divorcement).[115]
- Joe Orlando, 71, Italian American illustrator, writer and cartoonist.[116]
- Anatoly Rybakov, 87, Soviet and Russian writer.[117]
- Michelle Thomas, 30, American actress (Family Matters, The Young and the Restless, The Cosby Show) and comedian, cancer.[118]
- Pierre Vallières, 60, Québécois journalist and writer, heart failure.[119]
24
- Syl Apps, 83, Canadian ice hockey player, heart attack.[120]
- Viola Farber, 67, American choreographer and dancer.[121]
- Matt Gillies, 77, Scottish football player and manager.[122]
- Peter Janssens, 64, German musician and composer.
- Daan Kagchelland, 84, Dutch sailor and Olympic champion.[123]
- William R. Perl, 92, American lawyer and psychologist.[124]
- Raemer Schreiber, 88, American physicist.[125]
- Estelle Witherspoon, 82, American artist, civil rights activist and quilter.
25
- Katharina Brauren, 88, German actress.[126]
- Alfredo Covelli, 84, Italian politician.
- Damita Jo DeBlanc, 68, American actress, comedian, and singer, respiratory disease.[127]
- Bryan MacLean, 52, American singer, guitarist and songwriter, heart attack.[128]
- Mike McAlary, 41, American journalist and columnist, colorectal cancer.[129]
- John McGrath, 60, English football player and manager.
- Hans Oeschger, 71, Swiss climatologist.[130]
- Richard Paul, 58, American actor, cancer.[131]
- John Pulman, 75, English snooker player, fall.[132]
26
- Cathal Goulding, 75, Northern Irish Republican and IRA member, cancer.
- Dick Grove, 71, American musician, composer, and arranger.[133]
- Hurd Hatfield, 81, American actor, heart attack.[134]
- Helmut Mahlke, 85, German Oberstleutnant in the Luftwaffe during World War II.
- Michael Sherard, 88, British fashion designer.[135]
- Ram Swarup, 78, Indian author.
27
- Kevork Ajemian, 66, Lebanese-Armenian writer, journalist, novelist and activist.[136]
- Dany Bustros, 39, Lebanese belly dancer, socialite and stage actress, suicide by gunshot.[137]
- Anita Hoffman, 56, American writer and activist, breast cancer.
- Anne Holm, 76, Danish journalist and children's writer.[138]
- Robert S. Johnson, 78, American fighter pilot during World War II.[139]
- Joe Parker, 75, American gridiron football player.[140]
- Roy Powell, English rugby league player, heart attack.[141]
- Ralegh Radford, 98, English archaeologist and historian.[142]
- 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.[143]
- Shorty Rollins, 69, American racing driver.
- Robert Rosen, 64, American theoretical biologist.[144]
- Harold Schindler, 69, American journalist and historian.[145]
- Ouang Te Tchao, 93, Chinese physicist.[146]
- Mary Ann Unger, 53, American abstract sculptor, breast cancer.[147]
- Bjørn Watt-Boolsen, 75, Danish film actor.
29
- Geoff Crawford, 82, Australian politician.[148]
- George Curran, 80, English rugby league football player.
- Hubert Deschamps, 75, French actor, heart attack.
- Phyllis Kennedy, 84, American film actress.
- Jack D. Moore, 92, American set decorator.
- Don Taylor, 78, American actor and film director, heart failure.[149]
30
- Joan Brossa, 79, Catalan poet, playwright and visual artist.[150]
- Jean-Claude Forest, 68, French writer and illustrator of comics, asthma.[151]
- Jack Graham, 82, American baseball player.[152]
- Walker Hancock, 97, American sculptor and teacher.[153]
- Rune Johansson, 78, Swedish ice hockey player.[154]
- Keisuke Kinoshita, 86, Japanese film director, stroke.[155]
- Johnny Moore, 64, American R&B singer with The Drifters, pneumonia.[156]
- Sam Muchnick, 93, American professional wrestling promoter.
- Ansar Razak, 24, Indonesian football player, traffic collision.
- Karl Heinz Rechinger, 92, Austrian botanist and phytogeographer.
- Otto Wachs, 89, German sailor and Olympic medalist.[157]
- George Webb, 86, British actor.
31
- George Lynn Cross, 93, American botanist and author.[158]
- H. Dunlop Dawbarn, 83, American businessman, philanthropist and politician.[159]
- Ted Glossop, 64, Australian rugby player and coach, cancer.
- 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 and coach, leukemia.[160]
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- Web site: Olympedia – Bertil Nordahl . olympedia.org . . 11 August 2022 .
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- News: Ford Burkhart . Theodora Abel, 99, Psychologist Who Reached Across Cultures . subscription . 18 November 2020 . . 13 December 1998 . 1 67.
- Web site: Ben Guintini Stats - Baseball-Reference.com . baseball-reference.com . 11 August 2022 .
- News: Peter Watrous . Bob Haggart, 84, Jazz Bassist and Arranger . subscription . 18 November 2020 . . 4 December 1998 . A 29.
- Web site: Cleopa Ilie. ro. www.poezie.ro. August 26, 2023.
- Web site: Olympedia – Mikio Oda . olympedia.org . . 11 August 2022 .
- News: The Independent. Obituary: Brian Stonehouse. May 21, 2019. London, UK. 20 January 1999.
- Web site: Pierre Hétu - Social Networks and Archival Context . snaccooperative.org . 11 August 2022 .
- Web site: Mohammad Mokhtari - Library of Congress . id.loc.gov . 11 August 2022 .
- Web site: Robert Rothschild . catalogue.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 11 August 2022 . French .
- News: College football loses member of Hall of Fame . The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) . 1998-12-05.
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- Web site: Beach . Randall . Tips in 1998 slaying of Yale student Suzanne Jovin focus on mentally disturbed grad student . New Haven Register . 23 May 2019 . December 8, 2012.
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- Web site: Olympedia - Yury Gromak . olympedia.org . . 11 August 2022.
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- News: Mel Gussow . Mel Gussow . William Gaddis, 75, Innovative Author Of Complex, Demanding Novels, Is Dead . subscription . 25 May 2019 . . 17 December 1998 . B 15.
- Web site: Johnny Gorsica Stats - Baseball-Reference.com . baseball-reference.com . 11 August 2022 .
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- Web site: Biographies of USSR / Russian Cosmonauts; Lev Dyomin . spacefacts.de . 25 May 2019.
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- Web site: Philippine Terrorist Leader Killed - But is Celebration Premature? . Worldview . 11 August 2022 . 22 December 1998.
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- Web site: Max Wehrli . data.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 11 August 2022 . French .
- Web site: Garry Blaine Stats . hockey-reference.com . 11 August 2022.
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