Deaths in January 1998 explained
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]
- Piero Filippone, 86, Italian art director.
- Jack Forsey, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.[2]
- Dennis Hatsell, 67, English football player.
- Alfred Lagarde, 49, Dutch radio personality, stroke.[3]
- Haxhi Lleshi, 84, Albanian military leader and communist politician.
- Xanthe Ryder, 71, British alpine skier and Olympian.[4]
- Åke Seyffarth, 78, Swedish speed skater and road cyclist.[5]
- Helen Wills Moody, 92, American tennis player.[6]
2
- Max Colpet, 92, American writer, scriptwriter and lyricist.[7]
- Sergei Frolov, 73, Soviet/Russian realist painter and graphic artist.
- Virginia Galante Garrone, 91, Italian writer.[8]
- Donald McCormick, 86, British journalist and popular historian.
- Frank Muir, 77, English comedy writer and radio and television personality.[9]
- Fred Naumetz, 75, American gridiron football player.[10]
- Rell Sunn, 47, American World surfing champion, cancer.[11]
- Nick Venet, 61, American record producer, Burkitt's lymphoma.[12]
3
- Wayne Ambler, 82, American baseball player.[13]
- Essie Coffey, 56, Australian Aboriginal community leader.
- Howard Gilman, 73, American philanthropist and art collector, heart attack.[14]
- William Russell Kelly, 92, American businessman, cancer.[15]
- Margot Lumb, 85, English squash and tennis player.
- George Shaw, 64, American gridiron football player.[16]
- Geoffrey Watson, 76, Australian statistician.[17]
4
- Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, 103, Italian film director, complications from a fall.[18]
- Raymond Léopold Bruckberger, 90, French Dominican priest, writer, and screenwriter.[19]
- Thomas F. Frist, Sr., 87, American physician and businessman.[20]
- John Gary, 65, American singer, recording artist, and television host.[21]
- 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.[22]
- Mae Questel, 89, American actress (Betty Boop), Alzheimer's disease.[23]
- Francisco Soc Rodrigo, 83, Filipino playwright, broadcaster, lawyer and politician.[24]
- Rudy Sikich, 76, American gridiron football player.[25]
- 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.
- Sonny Bono, 62, American singer-songwriter, actor and politician, skiing accident.[26]
- Alik Cavaliere, 71, Italian sculptor.
- Ana Cortés, 102, Chilean painter.
- Ken Forssi, 54, American musician, brain tumor, brain cancer.[27]
- Roy Mayne, 62, American stock car racing driver.
6
- Walt Barnes, 79, American football player and actor, diabetes.[28]
- Richard Clutterbuck, 80, British army general and military historian.
- Otello Colangeli, 85, Italian film editor.
- Jack T. Conway, 80, American labor unionist.[29]
- Alice Frost, 87, American actress.
- Victorine du Pont Homsey, 97, American architect.[30]
- Murray Salem, 47, American television actor and screenwriter, AIDS-related complications.
- Otto Schmitt, 84, American inventor, engineer and biophysicist.[31]
- Georgy Sviridov, 82, Soviet and Russian composer, heart attack.[32]
7
- Owen Bradley, 82, American musician and record producer.[33]
- Roger Dean, 84, Australian politician.
- Jacqueline deWit, 85, American actress.[34]
- Richard Hamming, 82, American mathematician, heart attack.[35]
- Dorothy Leavey, 101, American philanthropist.[36]
- Alva Liles, 41, American gridiron football player.[37]
- Slava Metreveli, 61, Soviet and Georgian football player and manager.
- Hiker Moran, 86, American baseball player
- Valerio Perentin, 88, Italian rower and Olympian.[38]
- Vladimir Prelog, 91, Croatian-Swiss organic chemist.[39]
- Frank Roberts, 90, British diplomat.
- Lawrence Treat, 94, American mystery writer.[40]
- Tere Velázquez, 55, Mexican actress, colorectal cancer.[41]
- Dorothy Wilson, 88, American film actress.[42]
8
- Doug Anderson, 70, Canadian ice hockey player.[43]
- Bill Corbus, 86, American gridiron football player.
- Walter Diemer, 94, American inventor of bubble gum, congestive heart failure.[44]
- Marie-Madeleine Dienesch, 83, French politician.[45]
- Tony Lavelli, 71, American basketball player and musician, heart attack.[46]
- Denys Lombard, 59, French historian and sinologist.[47]
- Akihiko Mori, 32, Japanese video game music composer, cancer.
- Max Morris, 72, American basketball and gridiron football player.[48]
- Sam Perrin, 96, American screenwriter.[49]
- Shamima Shaikh, 37, South African journalist and Muslim women's rights activist, breast cancer.
- Raziuddin Siddiqui, 90, Pakistan-born American physicist.[50]
- Michael Tippett, 90, English composer, pneumonia.[51]
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.[52]
- Alberto Isaac, 74, Mexican swimmer, film director and screenwriter.[53]
- Imi Lichtenfeld, 87, Israeli martial artist.
- Lia Manoliu, 65, Romanian discus thrower and Olympian, heart attack.[54]
- Kathleen Shannon, 62, Canadian film director and producer, lung cancer.[55]
- Charito Solis, 62, Filipino film actress, cardiac arrest.
10
- Deng Guangming, 90, Chinese historian, cancer.[56]
- Wolfgang Hahn, 86, German mathematician.
- Mona May Karff, 83, American chess player.[57]
- Victor Papanek, 74, Austrian-American designer.
- Mario Santiago Papasquiaro, 44, Mexican poet, traffic accident.[58]
11
- Joe Becker, 89, American baseball player.[59]
- Erik Jarvik, 90, Swedish paleontologist.
- Win Mortimer, 78, Canadian comic book and comic strip artist, cancer.[60]
- Ellis Rabb, 67, American actor and director, heart failure.[61]
- Ronald Rylance, 73, English rugby player.
- Aydan Siyavuş, 50, Turkish basketball player and coach, heart attack.[62]
- Bedri Spahiu, 89, Albanian politician and general.
- Klaus Tennstedt, 71, German conductor, cancer.[63]
- Georgi Vins, 69, Soviet dissident and Baptist pastor.[64]
- John Wells, 61, English actor, writer and satirist.[65]
12
- Florence Riefle Bahr, 88, American artist and activist, domestic accident.
- Ramón Sampedro Cameán, 55, Spanish writer and euthanasia activist, suicide.
- Roger Clark, 58, British rally driver, stroke.
- Mark MacGuigan, 66, Canadian academic and politician, liver cancer.[66]
- Libuše Moníková, 52, Czech writer.[67]
- Ian Moores, 43, English footballer, cancer.[68]
- Phyllis Nelson, 47, American singer, breast cancer.
- Robert Townsend, 77, American businessman and author, heart attack.[69]
13
14
- Safiye Ayla, 90, Turkish classical singer.[73]
- 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.[74]
- Harry Simmons, 90, American baseball executive, writer and historian.
15
- John A. Anderson, 65, American football coach, heart attack.[75]
- Hal Baylor, 79, American actor.
- Marcelline Jayakody, 95, Sri Lankan Catholic priest, musician, author, journalist.
- Gennady Kolbin, 70, Soviet politician.
- Marguerite Kuczynski, 93, European economist and literary scholar.[76]
- Duncan McNaughton, 87, Canadian athlete and Olympian.[77]
- Gulzarilal Nanda, 99, Indian politician and economist.[78]
- E. Jack Neuman, 76, American writer and producer.
- Ahmed Oudjani, 60, Algerian football player.[79]
- William George Pottinger, 81, British convicted fraudster.[80]
- Boris Tatushin, 64, Soviet football player and manager.[81]
- Harriet Van Horne, 77, American newspaper columnist and radio/television critic, breast cancer.[82]
- Junior Wells, 63, American blues vocalist and harmonica player, lymphoma.[83]
16
- 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.[84]
- Lorenzo Mongiardino, 81, Italian architect and interior designer, pneumonia.[85]
- Tommy Pederson, 77, American jazz trombonist and composer.[86]
- Emil Sitka, 83, American actor, stroke.[87]
- Luggi Waldleitner, 84, German film producer.
17
- Alan E. Cober, 62, American illustrator.[88]
- Zygmunt Czyżewski, 87, Polish ice hockey and football player and manager.
- Helvi Hämäläinen, 90, Finnish writer.[89]
- Junior Kimbrough, 67, American blues musician, heart attack.[90]
- Joseph S. Murphy, 64, American political scientist and university administrator, car accident.[91]
- Cliffie Stone, 80, American musician and radio and TV personality.[92]
- Luís Trochillo, 67, Brazilian football player.
18
- Byron Bailey, 67, American gridiron and Canadian football player.[93]
- 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.[94]
- Monica Edwards, 85, English children's writer.[95]
- 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.
- Skeets Quinlan, 69, American gridiron football player.[96]
- Wilhelm Törsleff, 91, Swedish sailor and Olympian.[97]
- Josip Uhač, 73, Yugoslav-Croatian Apostolic nuncio.
- James Villiers, 64, English actor, cancer.[98]
19
- Bengt Eklund, 73, Swedish actor.[99]
- Cornelis Kalkman, 69, Dutch botanist.
- Al Negratti, 76, American basketball player and coach, cancer.[100]
- David Orlikow, 79, Canadian politician.
- Carl Perkins, 65, American singer-songwriter, esophageal cancer.[101]
- Abraham Sinkov, 90, American cryptanalyst.[102]
- DeWitt Weaver, 85, American football player and coach.
- Larisa Tarkovskaya, 64, Soviet film director and actress, lung cancer.
20
- Harry Ashmore, 81, American journalist.[103]
- Bobo Brazil, 73, American professional wrestler, known as "Bobo Brazil", stroke.[104]
- Jacob Cohen, 74, American psychologist and statistician.
- Zevulun Hammer, 61, Israeli politician, cancer.[105]
21
- Mary Bunting, 87, American academic and college president;.[106]
- Edward Carrick, 93, English art designer, author and illustrator.[107]
- Larry Gilbert, 55, American golfer, lung cancer.[108]
- Pakoda Kadhar, 58, Indian actor.
- Friedrich Kessler, 96, American law professor.[109]
- Yoshifumi Kondō, 47, Japanese animator (Kiki's Delivery Service, Princess Mononoke) and film director (Whisper of the Heart), aortic dissection.[110]
- Donald H. LeBrun, 85, American politician.
- Jack Lord, 77, American actor (Hawaii Five-O, Dr. No, Stoney Burke), congestive heart failure.[111]
- Ralph C. Smith, 104, United States Army officer, lung ailment.
- Louis Thiétard, 87, French cyclist.[112]
22
- C. Elmer Anderson, 85, American politician.[113]
- Edward F. Arn, 91, American lawyer and politician.[114]
- Hendrick Joseph Cornelius Maria de Cocq, 91, Dutch Roman Catholic bishop.[115]
- Harold Lindsell, 84, American evangelical author and scholar.
- George Marks, 82, English football player.
- Nino Pirrotta, 89, Italian musicologist.[116]
- Bill Sortet, 85, American gridiron football player.[117]
23
- Donald Davis, 69, Canadian actor.[118]
- John Forbes, 47, Australian poet.[119]
- Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, 79, German nobleman.
- Ralf Kirsten, 67, German film director and screenwriter.[120]
- Hilla Limann, 63, President of Ghana, diabetes.
- Roy McKasson, 58, American football player, kidney transplant complications.[121]
- Alfredo Ormando, 39, Italian writer and gay rights activist, burns from self-immolation.
- Victor Pasmore, 89, British artist and architect.[122]
- Ernest Peirce, 88, South African boxer.
- Sajjad Hussain Qureshi, 101, Indian politician.
- Lionel Wilson, 82, American politician, cancer.[123]
- 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.[124]
- Walter D. Edmonds, 94, American writer, .[125]
- Mirosław Justek, 49, Polish football player.
- Bob Russell, 90, American entertainer .[126]
- Elizabeth Sneyers, 84, Belgian lawyer and feminist.
- Justin Tubb, 62, American country music singer and songwriter.[127]
25
- Hamid Algadri, 85, Indonesian independence pioneer.[128]
- Olive Brasno, 80, American dwarf dancer and actress.[129]
- 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.[130]
- Fritz Langner, 85, German football player and manager.[131]
- Roy Porter, 74, American jazz drummer.[132]
- Herman Stokes, 65, American athlete and Olympian.[133]
- Attila Zoller, 70, Hungary-American jazz guitarist.[134]
26
- Hogan Bassey, 65, Nigerian-British boxer.
- Lord Nicholas Hervey, 36, British aristocrat and political activist, suicide by hanging.[135]
- Olaf Kortner, 77, Norwegian politician.
- Ethelreda Leopold, 83, American film actress, pneumonia.[136]
- Lee Moses, 56, American R&B and soul singer and guitarist, lung cancer.
- Mario Schifano, 63, Italian painter and collagist.[137]
- Shin'ichi Suzuki, 99, Japanese musician, philosopher and educator.[138]
27
- Alan Davies, 73, British air marshal.
- Tamio Kageyama, 50, Japanese novelist, house fire, accident.
- Elizabeth Mantell, 56, Scottish midwife and nurse.[139]
- Assia Noris, 85, Russian-Italian film actress.[140]
- Mykola Mykolaĭovych Shcherbak, 70, Soviet-Ukrainian zoologist, ecologist, and herpetologist.
- Geoffrey Trease, 88, British writer.[141]
- Miklos Udvardy, 78, Hungarian biologist and biogeographer.[142]
28
- Louis Chaillot, 83, French cyclist and Olympian.[143]
- Bernard Joseph Flanagan, 89, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Joe Holup, 63, American basketball player.[144]
- Shōtarō Ishinomori, 60, Japanese manga artist (Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, Cyborg 009), heart failure.[145]
- Ken Jackson, 68, American gridiron football player.[146]
- 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.[147]
29
- Joseph Alioto, 81, American politician, Mayor of San Francisco, prostate cancer.[148]
- Ugo Bologna, 80, Italian actor and voice actor, heart attack.
- Karin Jonzen, 83, British figure sculptor.[149]
- Rob Mulders, 30, Dutch road racing cyclist, car crash.[150]
- Ed Smith, 84, American gridiron football player (Boston Redskins, Green Bay Packers).[151]
30
- Jim Barber, 85, American gridiron football player (Boston Redskins, Washington Redskins).[152]
- Héctor Campos-Parsi, 75, Puerto Rican composer.[153]
- Richard Cassilly, 70, American operatic tenor, cerebral hemorrhage after fall.[154]
- Samuel Eilenberg, 84, Polish-American mathematician.[155]
- Pappanamkodu Lakshmanan, 61, Indian film director, scriptwriter and lyricist.
- Ferdy Mayne, 81, German-British actor, Parkinson's disease.[156]
- Lesslie Newbigin, 88, British theologian, missionary and author.[157]
- Emmette Redford, 93, American political scientist.[158]
- Luise Walker, 87, Austrian classical guitarist and composer.
31
- Greta Arwidsson, 91, Swedish archaeologist.[159]
- Georges Combret, 91, French film director, producer and screenwriter.[160]
- Leho Laurine, 93, Estonian chess master.
- Alice Miel, 91, American educator.[161]
- Karol Stryja, 82, Polish conductor and teacher.
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