Deaths in August 1998

The following is a list of notable deaths in August 1998.

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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.

August 1998

1

• Eva Bartok, 71, Hungarian-British actress.[1]
• Len Duncan, 87, American race car driver.
• France Mihelič, 91, Slovene painter.

2

• Mapy Cortés, 88, Puerto Rican actress, heart attack.[2]
• Tommy Faile, 69, American songwriter and singer, heart attack.
• Shari Lewis, 65, American ventriloquist and puppeteer, viral pneumonia.[3]
• Taufiq Rafat, 71, Pakistani author and poet.

3

• Francesc Xavier Bultó, 86, Spanish businessman.
• Ahmet Kayhan Dede, Turkish Sufi master.
• Alfred Schnittke, 63, German-born Russian composer, complications from strokes.[4]
• Alan Walsh, 81, British-Australian physicist, originator of atomic absorption spectroscopy.

4

• Yuri Artyukhin, 68, Soviet Russian cosmonaut and engineer, cancer.
• Carmen Delia Dipini, 70, Puerto Rican singer.
• Thomas J. McDonough, 86, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.[5]

5

• Alexander Artemiev, 73, Chuvash poet, writer and critic.
• Arthur Ceuleers, 82, Belgian footballer.
• Albert Johnson, 80, English rugby player.
• Otto Kretschmer, 86, German U-boat commander during World War II, boating accident.
• Yevgeny Shabayev, 25, Russian artistic gymnast, heart attack.
• Eldon Shamblin, 82, American guitarist and arranger.[6]
• Eugene L. Stewart, 78, American lawyer and law professor.[7]
• Todor Zhivkov, 86, Bulgarian politician and former president of Bulgaria.[8]

6

• Henk Bosveld, 57, Dutch footballer, heart attack.
• Jack Brickhouse, 82, American sportscaster.[9]
• Nat Gonella, 90, English jazz trumpeter, bandleader and vocalist.
• Walter Merlo, 33, Italian long-distance runner, mountaineering accident.
• André Weil, 92, French mathematician.[10]

7

• Hamden Khalif Allah Awad, 27, Egyptian terrorist, suicide attack.
• Richard W. Fellows, 83, United States Air Force officer.
• Dick Offenhamer, 85, American football and baseball player and coach.
• Harry Tuzo, 80, British army general.[11]

8

• Raymond E. Brown, 70, American Catholic priest.[12]
• Idella Jones Childs, 95, American historian and civil rights activist.
• Anna J. Harrison, 85, American organic chemist and professor of chemistry.[13]
• Jess J. Present, 77, American politician.
• László Szabó, 81, Hungarian chess grandmaster.

9

• Tony Baker, 53, American football player, car accident.[14]
• Brynhild Haugland, 93, American politician,
• George Child Villiers, 9th Earl of Jersey, 88, English nobleman and politician, heart attack.
• Alvin Luedecke, 87, United States Army Air Forces general during World War II.
• Satoshi Murayama, 29, Japanese shogi player, bladder cancer.
• Frankie Ruiz, 40, Puerto Rican singer and songwriter, liver cirrhosis.[15]

10

• Bekim Berisha, 32, Kosovar Albanian soldier, killed in action.
• Chuck Fenenbock, 80, American football player.
• Sidney W. Fox, 86, American biochemist.[16]
• Tsugio Hattori, 46, Japanese-born American abstract painter.
• Premji, 89, Indian actor and social reformer.

11

• Richard Bilby, 67, United States District Judge.
• Heinz Döpfl, 59, Austrian pair skater.
• Derek Newark, 65, English actor, heart attack following liver failure.[17]
• Nicky Verstappen, 11, Dutch homicide victim[18]

12

• C. Dickerman Williams, American lawyer and free-speech advocate.[19]
• Jesús Loroño, 72, Spanish road racing cyclist.[20]
• Gazi Shamsur Rahman, Bangladeshi lawyer, writer and television personality.

13

• Nino Ferrer, 63, French singer, songwriter and author, suicide.[21]
• Edward Ginzton, 82, Ukrainian-American engineer.
• Julien Green, 97, American writer.[22]
• Waneta Hoyt, 52, American serial killer, pancreatic cancer.
• Karl Hubenthal, 81, American cartoonist, cancer.
• Saturday Rosenberg, 46, Australian comedian, writer and actress, traffic accident.[23]

14

• Eve Boswell, 76, British pop singer.[24]
• Gary Evans, 43, American thief and serial killer.[25]
• Xavier Miserachs, 61, Spanish photographer, lung cancer.
• Chalmers Wylie, 77, American politician[26]

15

• Jason Altom, 26, American Ph.D. student, suicide.
• Marc Akerstream, 44, Canadian actor and stuntman, head injuries from special effects explosion.[27]
• G. B. Greene Jr., 84, American Air Force major general.
• Bill Shill, 75, Canadian ice hockey player.

16

• Abdallah al-Hubal, Yemeni serial killer, suicide.
• Lu Hsiu-yi, 57, Taiwanese politician.
• Phil Leeds, 82, American actor, pneumonia.[28]
• Dorothy West, 91, American novelist and short-story writer.[29]

17

• Robert B. Evans, 92, American automobile industry executive.[30]
• Terry Garvin, 61, Canadian professional wrestler, cancer.[31]
• Władysław Komar, 58, Polish shot putter and actor, car crash.
• Johnny Lipon, 75, American baseball player.
• Rita Roland, 83, German-born American film editor.

18

• Ward "Pally" Austin, 63, Australian radio DJ.
• Protima Bedi, 49, Indian model, landslide.
• Harry J. Cargas, 66, American scholar and author.
• Persis Khambatta, 49, Indian model and actress, heart attack.[32]
• Shane Shamrock, 23, American professional wrestler, altercation with police.[33]
• Piyadassi Maha Thera, 84, Sri Lankan buddhist monk.
• Otto Wichterle, 84, Czech chemist.[34]

19

• Vasily Arkhipov, 72, Soviet Navy officer during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
• Anne Asquith, 81, British code breaker.[35]
• Lawrence J. Fuller, 83, American Army major general, heart attack.[36]
• Andrew Massey, 55, British Army officer, drowning accident.
• Ramswaroop Verma, 74, Indian humanist.
• Yuri Yappa, 70, Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist.

20

• Ivan Godlevsky, 90, Soviet Russian painter.
• Vũ Văn Mẫu, 84, last Prime Minister of South Vietnam.[37]
• Nicola Riezzo, 93, Italian Roman Catholic prelate.
• Fred Sington, 88, American football and baseball player.
• Irwin Suall , 73, American socialist, civil rights activist, and investigator, emphysema .

21

• Hans van Abeelen, 61, Dutch behaviour geneticist.
• Eddie Baxter, 75, American organist.
• Franz Eisenach, 80, German flying ace during World War II and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
• Francis Ingall, 89, British Indian Army officer.
• John Stopford, 61, English rugby player.[38]

22

• Jack Briggs, 78, American actor.
• Evelyn Denington, Baroness Denington, 91, British politician, heart failure.[39]
• Minoru Murayama, 61, Japanese baseball player.
• Woody Stephens, 84, Americanthoroughbred horse racing trainer, emphysema.[40]

23

• Nikolai Kolesov, 42, Russian footballer.[41]
• Asadollah Lajevardi, Iranian conservative politician and warden, assassinated.
• Rolf Søder, 80, Norwegian film actor.
• John Woodcock, 44, American football player, heart attack.

24

• Manuel Azcárate, 81, Spanish journalist and communist politician, cancer.[42]
• Charles Diggs, 75, African-American politician, stroke.[43]
• Ralph Freeman, 87, English civil engineer, traffic accident.
• E. G. Marshall, 84, American actor, lung cancer.[44]
• Gene Page, 58, American composer, arranger and record producer.
• Georges Senfftleben, 75, French track cyclist.
• Jack Williams, 88, American radio announcer and politician, cancer.[45]

25

• Mildred L. Batchelder, 96, American librarian.
• Floyd Haskell, 82, American lawyer and politician, pneumonia.[46]
• Allan Macartney, 57, Scottish politician.
• Barbara Mandell, 78, British journalist, broadcaster, newsreader and travel writer.
• Bob Montgomery, 79, American boxer, complications from a stroke.[47]
• Jerry Wayne Parrish, 54, United States Army corporal and defector, kidney failure.
• Lewis F. Powell Jr., 90, American lawyer and jurist.[48]
• Hilda Ranscombe, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Vitaly Tulenev, 61, Soviet Russian painter, watercolorist and graphic artist.

26

• Genaro Ruiz Camacho, 43, American criminal, execution by lethal injection.
• Wade Dominguez, 32, American actor, model, singer and dancer, respiratory failure.
• Penny Edwards, 70, American actress, lung cancer.[49]
• Robert Huebner, 84, American physician and virologist, pneumonia.[50]
• Jaanus Kuum, 33, Estonian-Norwegian racing cyclist, suicide.
• Nicolas Bayona Ba Meya, 59, Congolese jurist.
• Dmitry Mishin, 79, Soviet and Russian physicist.
• Margaret Potter, 72, British writer.
• Frederick Reines, 80, American physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.[51]
• Ryūichi Tamura, 75, Japanese poet, essayist and translator.

27

• Babalu, 56, Filipino comedian and actor, liver cancer.
• Kelly Chan, 41, Singaporean windsurfer, crash.[52]
• Syd Owen, 76, English football player and coach.
• Essie Summers, 86, New Zealand author.
• Margaret Dauler Wilson, 59, American philosopher and professor of philosophy.[53]

28

• Lu Dadong, 83, Chinese politician, Governor of Sichuan province.
• Hirokazu Kobayashi, 69, Japanese aikido teacher.
• Rajarethinam Arokiasamy Sundaram, 93, Roman Catholic bishop.[54]
• Yvon Tassé, 87, Canadian politician.
• Nikolai Vladimirovich Zateyev, 72, Russian submariner and Soviet Navy officer.

29

• Antoinette Becker, 78, French-German children's author.
• Richard Beebe, 68, American radio personality, lung cancer[55]
• Minerva Bernardino, Dominican Republic diplomat and feminist.[56]
• Charlie Feathers, 66, American country music and rockabilly musician, stroke.[57]
• John Langston Gwaltney, 69, African-American writer and anthropologist.[58]
• Jim Murray, 78, American sportswriter and Pulitzer Prize winner.[59]
• Frances Hamerstrom, 90, American author, naturalist and ornithologist.[60]

30

• Dan Kubiak, 60, American politician and businessman, cardiovascular disease.
• Francis Pellerin, 83, French sculptor.
• Denniz Pop, 35, Swedish DJ, music producer and songwriter, stomach cancer.
• Irving Segal, 79, American mathematician.[61]
• Toss Woollaston, 88, New Zealand painter.[62]

31

• Sabiha Gökçül Erbay, Turkish school teacher and politician.
• Gordon Newton, 90, English journalist and editor of the Financial Times.
• Keith Oxlee, 63, South African rugby player, complications following a hip operation.[63]
• Shigezō Sasaoka, 50, Japanese voice actor.

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