Deaths in May 1998 explained
The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.
May 1998
1
- Eldridge Cleaver, 62, American writer and political activist, prostate cancer.[1]
- Heinie Heltzel, 84, American baseball player.[2]
- Brian Kendall, 51, New Zealand boxer, cancer.
- J. S. Roskell, 84, English historian of the Middle Ages.[3]
2
- Clyde Connell, 96, American abstract expressionist sculptor.
- Justin Fashanu, 37, English footballer, suicide.[4]
- Johnny Grodzicki, 81, American baseball player.[5]
- Hide, 33, Japanese musician, suicide by hanging.[6]
- Kevin Lloyd, 49, English actor (The Bill), alcoholism.[7]
- Maidie Norman, 85, American actress and literature and theater teacher, lung cancer.[8]
- Carey Wilber, 81, American journalist and television writer.
3
- Jesse Alto, 71, American poker player.
- Erich Bergel, 67, German flutist and conductor.[9]
- Louis Berry, 83, African American civil rights attorney.
- Erika Cheetham, 58, English writer.[10]
- Johannes Driessler, 77, German composer, organist, and lecturer.[11]
- Tom Elliot, 72, Scottish rugby player.
- Jean-Baptiste Hachème, 68, Beninese military officer and politician.
- Raimund Harmstorf, 58, German actor, suicide by hanging.[12]
- David Vincent Hooper, 82, British chess player and writer.
- Venkatesh Kulkarni, Indian-American novelist and academic, leukemia.
- Loren MacIver, 89, American painter.[13]
- René Mugica, 88, Argentine actor, film director and screenwriter.
- Gene Raymond, 89, American actor, pneumonia.[14]
- Les Samuels, 69, English footballer.[15]
- Xue Yue, 101, Chinese Nationalist military general.[16]
- Gojko Šušak, 53, Croatian politician, lung cancer.[17]
4
- Gordon Beningfield, 61, English wildlife artist, broadcaster and naturalist.[18]
- Alois Estermann, 43, Swiss officer of the Pontifical Swiss Guard, murdered.
- Albert Glasser, 82, American composer, conductor and arranger of B-movie music.[19]
- Theodor Oberländer, 93, German Ostforschung scientist and politician.
- Nicolò Rode, 86, Italian sailor and Olympic champion.[20]
5
- Juan Gimeno, 84, Spanish road cyclist.[21]
- Alan Glyn, 79, British politician.[22]
- Tommy McCook, 71, Jamaican saxophonist, pneumonia and heart failure.
- Eleanor Ragsdale, 72, American civil rights activist.[23]
- Frithjof Schuon, 90, Swiss author, poet and painter.[24]
- Paul Seymour, 70, American basketball player and coach.[25]
6
- Chatchai Chunhawan, 78, Thai army officer, diplomat and politician, liver cancer.
- Sybil Connolly, 77, Irish fashion designer.[26]
- Juan Antonio García Díez, 57, American politician, liver cancer.[27]
- Aleksei Gritsai, 84, Soviet and Russian artist.
- John Joseph, 65, Pakistani Roman Catholic bishop, suicide.
- Arvid Laurin, 96, Swedish sailor and Olympic medalist.[28]
- Erich Mende, 81, German politician, Vice-Chancellor of West Germany.[29]
7
- Blue Lu Barker, 84, American jazz and blues singer.[30]
- Allan McLeod Cormack, 74, South African American physicist, cancer.[31]
- István Hasznos, 73, Hungarian water polo player and Olympic champion (1952).[32]
- Jack Heslop-Harrison, 78, British soldier and botanist, heart attack.[33]
- John Meyers, 58, American football player, heart problems.[34]
- Eddie Rabbitt, 56, American singer and songwriter, lung cancer.[35]
- Allen Wikgren, 91, American theologian and New Testament scholar.
8
- Donald Stephen Lowell Cardwell, 78, British historian of science and technology.
- Jacques Dumesnil, 94, French film and television actor.[36]
- Johannes Kotkas, 83, Estonian Greco-Roman wrestler and Olympic champion (1952).[37]
- Raymond Premru, 63, American trombonist and compose, esophageal cancer.[38]
- Jennings Randolph, 96, American politician.[39]
- Charles Rebozo, 85, American banker and businessman.[40]
9
- Lester Butler, 38, American blues harmonica player and singer, drug overdose.
- Donald Conroy, 77, United States Marine Corps colonel.[41]
- Bernard Dwork, 74, American mathematician.
- Alice Faye, 83, American actress and singer, stomach cancer.[42]
- Rudolf Ismayr, 89, German weightlifter and Olympic champion.[43]
- Rommie Loudd, 64, American gridiron football player, coach, and executive, diabetes.[44]
- Talat Mahmood, 74, Indian playback singer, heart attack.
- Bob Mellish, Baron Mellish, 85, British politician.
- Earl R. Parker, 85, American engineer and professor.
- Nat Perrin, 93, American comedy screenwriter, producer and director.[45]
- R. J. G. Savage, 70, British palaeontologist, pancreatic cancer.[46]
- Gerhard Siedl, 69, German football player.
- Marianne Strengell, 88, Finnish-American modernist textile designer.
10
- Lajos Czinege, 74, Hungarian military officer and politician.
- José Francisco Antonio Peña Gómez, 61, Dominican Republic politician, pulmonary edema.[47]
- Robert Jewell, 78, Australian actor (Doctor Who).
- Oreste Kirkop, 74, Maltese singer.
- Cesare Perdisa, 65, Italian racing driver.
- Ronald Ridenhour, 52, American soldier during the Vietnam War, heart attack.[48]
- Clara Rockmore, 87, American classical violin prodigy and theremin performer.[49]
- Sumitro, 71, Indonesian general.
- Alberto Valdés, 80, Mexican American painter
- George Wright, 77, American organist.[50]
11
- Willy Corsari, 100, Dutch actor, author and composer.[51]
- Gene Fowler Jr., 80, American film editor (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Hang 'Em High).[52]
- Ernst Ising, 98, German physicist.
- John Morrison, 94, Australian novelist and short story writer.[53]
- Hans van Zon, 57, Dutch serial killer, alcohol poisoning.[54]
12
- Myoung Hwa Cho, 44, American murder victim, homicide by asphyxiation.[55]
- Hermann Lenz, 85, German writer, poet, and novelist.[56]
- John McCarthy, 81, American gridiron football player.
- Graham Shaw, 63, English football player.[57]
13
14
- Mabel Esther Allan, 83, British children's author.
- Bill Bishop, 67, American gridiron football player.[61]
- Garth Boesch, 77, American ice hockey player.[62]
- Tom D'Andrea, 88, American actor.[63]
- Marjory Stoneman Douglas, 108, American journalist, writer and conservationist.[64]
- Charlie Hall, 50, American gridiron football player.[65]
- Geoffrey Kendal, 88, English actor.
- Floyd Lounsbury, 84, American linguist, anthropologist and epigrapher.[66]
- Yitzhak Moda'i, 72, Israeli politician.
- Shawkat Osman, 81, Bangladeshi novelist and short story writer.
- Karl Schmid, 87, Swiss rower and Olympic medalist.[67]
- Frank Sinatra, 82, American singer ("My Way", "That's Life") and actor (From Here to Eternity), Oscar winner (1954), heart attack.[68]
- Mahmud of Terengganu, 68, Malaysian sultan.
- Jade Wilson, 21, New Zealand squash player, suicide.
15
- Joe Cibulas, 77, American football player.[69]
- Gunter d'Alquen, 87, German nazi correspondent.
- John Hawkes, 72, American novelist.[70]
- Richard Jaeger, 85, German politician.
- Earl Manigault, 53, American basketball player, congestive heart failure.[71]
- Packy Rogers, 85, American baseball player, manager and scout.[72]
- Naim Talu, 78, Turkish politician and former Prime Minister of Turkey.[73]
- Patrick Wall, 81, British commando during World War II and later a politician.
16
- Pierre Cardinal, 73, French screenwriter and director.[74]
- Idov Cohen, 88, Romanian-Israeli politician and journalist.
- Milan Creighton, 90, American football player and coach.[75]
- William Alexander Hewitt, 83, American diplomat and businessman.[76]
- Rufino Linares, 47, American baseball player, traffic collision.[77]
17
- Genie Chance, 71, American journalist, radio broadcaster and politician.[78]
- Hugh Cudlipp, 84, British journalist and newspaper editor.[79]
- Nina Dorliak, 89, Russian soprano and a voice teacher.
- Gasper Urban, 75, American gridiron football player.[80]
- Sarojini Yogeswaran, 97, Sri Lankan politician.
18
19
- Edwin Astley, 76, British composer.[82]
- Hank Earl Carr, 30, American murderer and spree killer, suicide by gunshot.
- Leela Devi, 66, Indian writer, translator, and teacher.
- Dorothy Donegan, 76, American jazz pianist and vocalist, cancer.[83]
- Teresa Prekerowa, 76, Polish historian and author.
- Sōsuke Uno, 75, Japanese politician and Prime Minister of Japan, lung cancer.[84]
20
- Chuck Bloedorn, 85, American basketball player.[85]
- Tom Bolack, 80, American businessman and politician.
- Linwood G. Dunn, 93, American visual effects artist (West Side Story, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Mighty Joe Young).
- Ricardo Franco, 48, Spanish screenwriter and film director, heart attack.
- Jacob Katz, 93, Israeli historian and educator.[86]
- Wolf Mankowitz, 73, English writer, playwright and screenwriter, cancer.[87]
- Walter McKinnon, 87, New Zealand Army officer.
- Robert Normann, 81, Norwegian jazz guitarist.[88]
- Alfredo Yabrán, 53, Argentine businessman and associate of Carlos Menem, suicide.
- Santiago Álvarez, 79, Cuban filmmaker, Parkinson's disease.[89]
21
- Erik Bladström, 80, Swedish sprint canoeist and Olympic champion.[90]
- Li Bo, 69, Chinese ecologist, traffic collision.[91]
- Pedro Escartín, 95, Spanish football player, referee, coach, and author.[92]
- Douglas Fowley, 86, American actor (Singin' in the Rain, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Mighty Joe Young).[93]
- Robert Gist, 80, American actor and film director.[94]
- Jan Gullberg, 62, Swedish surgeon and science writer, stroke.[95]
- Jim Power, 102, Irish hurler.
- Rajanala Kaleswara Rao, 73, Indian film actor.
- Torgny Säve-Söderbergh, 83, Swedish writer and professor of Egyptology.
22
- Domenico Cantatore, 82, Italian painter.
- John Derek, 71, American actor and film director, heart failure.[96]
- Arthur R. Gralla, 85, United States Navy Vice Admiral, pneumonia.[97]
- Fred Hatfield, 73, American baseball player.[98]
- Eddie MacCabe, 71, Canadian sports journalist and writer.
- Robert W. Morgan, 60, American radio personality, lung cancer.[99]
- José Enrique Moyal, 87, Australian mathematical physicist.
- Francisco Lucas Pires, 53, Portuguese lawyer, and politician.[100]
23
- Tony Halik, 77, Polish documentary film maker, author of travel books, and explorer.
- Grace Hartman, Canadian social activist and politician.
- Vic Kulbitski, 76, American gridiron football player.[101]
- Andreas Liebenberg, 60, South African military commander.
- Ebbe Rode, 88, Danish stage and film actor, pneumonia.[102]
- Monroe K. Spears, American university professor and literary critic.[103]
- Telford Taylor, 90, American lawyer.[104]
24
- Francys Arsentiev, 40, American mountaineer, hypothermia and/or cerebral edema.
- George Kelly, 82, American jazz tenor saxophonist.[105]
- Tommy Moore, 35, American golfer, primary amyloidosis.[106]
- Premnath Moraes, 75, Sri Lankan actor, film director and scriptwriter.
- Lucio Muñoz, 68, Spanish painter and engraver.[107]
- Charles Rycroft, 83, British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.[108]
25
- Steve Michael, 42, American HIV/AIDS activist, complications from AIDS.
- Gary Thomas Row, 64, American informant for the FBI, heart attack.[109]
- Claude Stubbs, 93, Australian politician.
- Todd Witsken, 34, American tennis player, brain cancer.[110]
26
- Emil Braginsky, 76, Soviet and Russian screenwriter.[111]
- Linda Hayes, 74, American rhythm and blues singer.
- Edgar A. Silinsh, 71, Soviet and Latvian scientist.[112]
- Charlie White, 70, American baseball player.[113]
- Sergey Yablonsky, 73, Soviet and Russian mathematician.[114]
27
28
- Chung-Yao Chao, 95, Chinese theoretical physicist.
- Ragnar Fjørtoft, 84, Norwegian meteorologist.
- Bill Giles, 66, American football player and coach.
- Phil Hartman, 49, Canadian-American comedian and actor (Saturday Night Live, NewsRadio, The Simpsons), Emmy winner (1989), shot.[117]
- Anatoliy Kabayda, 85, Ukrainian community and political activist.
- Bill Meek, 77, American football player and coach.
- Lana Morris, 68, British actress, heart attack.[118]
- George T. Oubre, 80, American politician.
- Dieter Renner, 48, German football player and coach.[119]
- Giovanni Valetti, 84, Italian road racing cyclist.
- Bill Williams, 37, American game designer, programmer and author, cystic fibrosis.[120]
29
- Orlando Anderson, 23, American gangster and suspected murderer of rapper Tupac Shakur, gunshot wound.[121]
- Eric Atkinson, 70, Barbados cricket player..
- Ted Dunbar, 61, American jazz guitarist and composer, stroke.[122]
- Barry Goldwater, 89, American politician and author, complications from a stroke.[123]
- Hazel P. Heath, 88, American politician and entrepreneur.
- Marion Milner, 98, British author and psychoanalyst.[124]
- Philip O'Connor, 81, British writer and surrealist poet.[125]
30
- Sam Aaronovitch, 78, British economist, academic and communist.
- Jozef Baláži, 78, Slovak football player and manager.[126]
- Leon Bender, 22, American football player, epilepsy.[127]
- Walter Carr, 73, Scottish actor and comedian.
- William Moreton Condry, 80, English naturalist, kidney failure.[128]
- Robin Jackson, 49, Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary, lung cancer.[129]
- Jan Pickard, 70, South African rugby player.
- Max Prieto, 79, Mexican football player.
- Wolfram Röhrig, 81, German pianist, composer and conductor.
31
- Sammy Collins, 75, English football player.
- Lotti Huber, 85, German actress.[130]
- Valeriy Hubulov, 31, South Ossetian politician, murdered.[131]
- Michio Suzuki, 71, Japanese mathematician.[132]
- Charles Van Acker, 86, Belgian-American racecar driver.[133]
- Stanisław Wisłocki, 76, Polish conductor of classical music.
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- https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-justin-fashanu-1161484.html Obituary: Justin Fashanu
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- Web site: Seno. Alexandra A.. Murakami, Mutsuko. Isolated in Their Grief. Asiaweek. 2019-10-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20060214190414/http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/98/0522/feat1.html. 2006-02-14.
- News: Obituary: Kevin Lloyd. 1998-05-04. The Independent. 2019-10-05. en-GB.
- Web site: Maidie Norman - Social Networks and Archival Context . snaccooperative.org . 30 May 2022 .
- Web site: Erich Bergel . catalogue.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 30 May 2022 . French .
- News: Holcomb B. Noble . Erika Cheetham Dies at 58; An Expert on Nostradamus . subscription . 5 October 2019 . . 8 June 1998 . B 11.
- Web site: Johannes Driessler . data.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 30 May 2022 . French .
- Web site: Raimund Harmstorf . data.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 30 May 2022 . French .
- News: Loren MacIver, 90, a Painter Known for Her Eclectic Style. Cotter. Holland. 1998-05-24. 0362-4331. 21 October 2019 . subscription . The New York Times.
- News: Vallance . Tom . Obituary: Gene Raymond . 5 October 2019 . . 28 May 1998.
- Web site: Les Samuels . worldfootball.net . 30 May 2022 .
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- News: Umro je ministar obrane Republike Hrvatske Gojko Šušak . Minister of Defence of the Republic of Croatia Gojko Šušak died . Croatian Radio Television . 4 May 1998 . 2019-10-05 . hr . . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20161014063230/http://www.hrt.hr/arhiv/98/05/04/h2_hrv.html . 14 October 2016.
- Web site: Obituary: Gordon Beningfield . Dennis . Furnell . 29 May 1998 . 2019-10-05.
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- Web site: Juan Gimeno . procyclingstats.com . 30 May 2022 .
- News: Dalyell . Tam . Obituary: Sir Alan Glyn . 30 May 2022 . . 8 May 1998.
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- Web site: Frithjof Schuon's life and work . worldwisdom.com . 5 October 2019.
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- News: Enid Nemy . Enid Nemy . Sybil Connolly, 77, Irish Designer Who Dressed Jacqueline Kennedy . subscription . 1 August 2021 . . 8 May 1998 . D 19.
- Web site: Juan Antonio García Díez - DB~e . dbe.rah.es . Real Academia de la Historia . 31 May 2022 . Spanish .
- Web site: Olympedia – Arvid Laurin . olympedia.org . . 31 May 2022 .
- Web site: Erich Mende - filmportal.de . filmportal.de . 31 May 2022 . German .
- Web site: Blue Lu Barker - Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB . ibdb.com . 31 May 2022 .
- News: Robert McG. Thomas Jr. . Robert McG. Thomas Jr. . Allan Cormack, 74, Nobelist Who Helped Invent CAT Scan . subscription . 17 November 2020 . . 9 May 1998 . A 12.
- Web site: Olympedia – István Hasznos . olympedia.org . . 31 May 2022 .
- Web site: Jack Heslop-Harrison biography pt. 4. October 5, 2019. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20121021235447/http://homepage.ntlworld.com/genomes/jhhpdfs/21brgts.pdf. 21 October 2012. dmy-all.
- Web site: John Meyers Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com . pro-football-reference.com . 31 May 2022 .
- News: Eddie Rabbitt, 56, Whose Songs Zigzagged From Pop to Country . subscription . 1 November 2020 . . 9 May 1998 . A 12.
- Web site: Jacques Dumesnil . data.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 31 May 2022 . French .
- Web site: Olympedia – Johannes Kotkas . olympedia.org . . 31 May 2022 .
- Web site: Raymond Premru . catalogue.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 31 May 2022 . French .
- News: David Stout . David Stout . Senator Jennings Randolph of West Virginia Dies at 96 . subscription . 17 November 2020 . . 9 May 1998 . A 12.
- Web site: Charles Rebozo - Social Networks and Archival Context . snaccooperative.org . 31 May 2022 .
- News: Robert McG. Thomas Jr. . Robert McG. Thomas Jr. . Donald Conroy, 77, Model For 'The Great Santini,' Dies . subscription . 17 November 2020 . . 14 May 1998 . B 10.
- News: Aljean Harmetz . Aljean Harmetz . Alice Faye, Hollywood Star Who Sang for Her Man, Dies . subscription . 5 October 2019 . . 11 May 1998 . A 15.
- Web site: Olympedia – Rudolf Ismayr . olympedia.org . . 31 May 2022 .
- Web site: Rommie Loudd Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com . pro-football-reference.com . 31 May 2022 .
- Web site: Nat Perrin . catalogue.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 31 May 2022 . French .
- Web site: Leakey. Richard E.. Richard Leakey. Obituary: Professor R. J. G. Savage. The Independent. 29 May 1998. 5 October 2019.
- News: Larry Rohter . Larry Rohter . Jose Pena Gomez, 61, Rare Black Dominican Figure, Dies . subscription . 17 November 2020 . . 12 May 1998 . B 8.
- News: John H. Cushman Jr. . Ronald Ridenhour, 52, Veteran Who Reported My Lai Massacre . subscription . 5 October 2019 . . 11 May 1998 . A 15.
- News: Allan Kozinn . Allan Kozinn . Clara Rockmore, 88, Virtuosa Of an Unusual Instrument . subscription . 1 June 2022 . . 12 May 1998 . B 7.
- News: Robert McG. Thomas Jr. . Robert McG. Thomas Jr. . George Wright, 77, Theater Organist With a Cult Following . subscription . 17 November 2020 . . 30 May 1998 . A 11.
- Web site: Willy Corsari . biografischportaal.nl . 31 May 2022 . Dutch .
- Web site: Gene Fowler Jr. - Social Networks and Archival Context . snaccooperative.org . 31 May 2022 .
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- News: Holcomb B. Noble . Frank Ragano, 75, Lawyer for Mob and Hoffa . subscription . 12 October 2019 . . 18 May 1998 . B 8.
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- Web site: Tom D'Andrea - Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB . ibdb.com . 1 June 2022 .
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- Web site: Charlie Hall Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com . pro-football-reference.com . 1 June 2022.
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- Web site: Olympedia – Karl Schmid . olympedia.org . . 1 June 2022 .
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- Web site: Joe Cibulas Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com . pro-football-reference.com . 1 June 2022 .
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- Web site: Packy Rogers Stats - Baseball-Reference.com . baseball-reference.com . 1 June 2022 .
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- Web site: Pierre Cardinal . data.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 1 June 2022 . French .
- Web site: Milan Creighton Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com . pro-football-reference.com . 1 June 2022 .
- Web site: William A. Hewitt Obituary | Caltech. caltech.edu. 2019-10-12.
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- Web site: Alaska Obituary and Death Notice Archive . genlookups.com . 12 October 2019.
- News: Sarah Lyall . Sarah Lyall . Lord Cudlipp, Tabloid Creator Who Lived to Rue It, Is Dead . subscription . 17 November 2020 . . 22 May 1998 . A 23.
- Web site: Gasper Urban Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com . pro-football-reference.com . 1 June 2022 .
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- News: Obituary: Edwin Astley . The Independent . London . 1998-06-04 . 12 October 2019.
- News: Ben Ratliff . Ben Ratliff . Dorothy Donegan, 76, Flamboyant Jazz Pianist . subscription . 17 November 2020 . . 22 May 1998 . A 23.
- Web site: Sōsuke Uno . britannica.com . Encyclopædia Britannica Online . 1 June 2022 .
- Web site: Charles Bloedorn NBL stats. basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC . 1 June 2022.
- News: Eric Pace . List of The New York Times employees . Jacob Katz, 93, Social Historian of the Jews . subscription . 1 June 2022 . . 28 June 1998 . 1 29.
- News: Sarah Lyall . Sarah Lyall . Wolf Mankowitz, Novelist And Screenwriter, Dies at 73 . subscription . 1 August 2021 . . 28 May 1998 . B 9.
- Web site: Robert Normann . catalogue.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 1 June 2022 . French .
- Web site: Santiago Álvarez - filmportal.de . filmportal.de . 1 June 2022 . German .
- Web site: Olympedia – Erik Bladström . olympedia.org . . 1 June 2022 .
- https://web.archive.org/web/20081222151820/http://www.imu.edu.cn/departments/biology/xyls/libo.htm Biography of Li Bo
- Web site: Pedro Escartín - DB~e . dbe.rah.es . Real Academia de la Historia . 1 June 2022 . Spanish .
- Web site: Douglas V. Fowley, 86, Versatile Character Actor. Associated Press. 29 May 1998. 12 October 2019 . subscription . The New York Times.
- Web site: Robert Gist - Social Networks and Archival Context . snaccooperative.org . 1 June 2022 .
- News: Jan Gullberg, 62, Swedish Science Writer . subscription . 1 June 2022 . . 18 June 1998 . B 11.
- News: Obituary:John Derek . The Independent . Tom . Vallance . May 25, 1998. 12 October 2019 .
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- Web site: Fred Hatfield Stats - Baseball-Reference.com . baseball-reference.com . 1 June 2022 .
- News: DJ Robert W. Morgan Dies . Patrick J. McDonnel . . May 24, 1998 . 12 October 2019.
- Web site: Francisco Lucas Pires . catalogue.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 1 June 2022 . French .
- Web site: Vic Kulbitski Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com . pro-football-reference.com . 1 June 2022 .
- Web site: Ebbe Rode - Social Networks and Archival Context . snaccooperative.org . 1 June 2022 .
- News: Monroe K. Spears, Literary Critic, 82 . subscription . 17 November 2020 . . 1 June 1998 . B 11.
- News: Richard Severo . Telford Taylor, Who Prosecuted Top Nazis At the Nuremberg War Trials, Is Dead at 90 . subscription . 12 October 2019 . . 24 May 1998 . 1 37.
- Web site: George Kelly . data.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 1 June 2022 . French .
- News: Former PGA player Tommy Moore dead at 35 . . Associated Press . May 27, 1998 . July 10, 2012.
- Web site: Lucio Muñoz - DB~e . dbe.rah.es . Real Academia de la Historia . 1 June 2022 . Spanish .
- News: Ford Burkhart . Dr. Charles Rycroft, 83, Post-Freudian Reinterpreter of Dreams . subscription . 17 November 2020 . . 30 June 1998 . B 9.
- News: Gary T. Rowe Jr., 64, Who Informed on Klan In Civil Rights Killing, Is Dead. Kaufman. Michael T.. 1998-10-04. The New York Times. 12 October 2019 . subscription. en-US. 0362-4331.
- News: Todd Witsken, 34, Champion in Tennis Doubles . May 27, 1998. 12 October 2019 . subscription . The New York Times.
- Web site: Emil Braginsky . catalogue.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 1 June 2022 . French .
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