The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.
February 1998
1
- Robert Creighton Buck, 77, American mathematician.
- Jack T. Collis, 75, American art director.
- Marga Faulstich, 82, German glass chemist.[1]
- Gérard Séty, 75, a French actor.[2]
- Sheila Watson, 88, Canadian novelist and literary critic.[3]
2
- Raymond Cattell, 92, British and American psychologist.[4]
- Duilio Del Prete, 59, Italian actor, dubber and singer-songwriter, cancer.[5]
- Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber, 86, German-American nuclear physicist.[6]
- Ferdinand A. Hermens, 91, German-American political scientist and economist.[7]
- Viljo Kajava, 88, Finnish poet and writer.[8]
- Robert McIntyre, 84, Scottish politician.
- Baldev Singh, 93, Indian neurologist.[9]
- Roger L. Stevens, 87, American theatrical producer, arts administrator, and real estate executive.[10]
- Haroun Tazieff, 83, French volcanologist and geologist.[11]
- Manuel Delgado Villegas, 55, Spanish serial killer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.[12]
- Zahari Zhandov, 86, Bulgarian film director, script writer and cinematographer.
3
- Joey Archibald, 83, American boxer.[13]
- Clark Goff, 80, American gridiron football player.[14]
- Bertram Heyn, 85, Sri Lankan general and cricketer.
- Davy Kaye, 81, British actor and entertainer.[15]
- Gabriel Laub, 69, Czechoslovak journalist and writer.
- Fat Pat, 27, American rapper, murdered.
- Karla Faye Tucker, 38, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.[16]
4
- Eranuhi Aslamazyan, 88, Armenian and Soviet graphic artist.
- Jean Blackwell Hutson, 83, African-American librarian, writer and curator.[17]
- Zoran Kosanović, 42, Serbian Canadian table tennis player, heart attack.
- Aruna Lama, 52, Nepali singer.[18]
- Menachem Shmuel David Raichik, 79, American Orthodox rabbi.
- Michel Roux, 73, French baritone.[19]
- Rees Stephens, 75, Welsh rugby player.
- Cristóbal Martínez-Bordiú, 10th Marquis of Villaverde, 75, Spanish aristocrat and son in law of dictator Francisco Franco.[20]
5
- Wilbur Coen, 86, American tennis player.
- Douglas Gamley, 73, Australian composer.[21]
- Margaret Hillis, 76, American conductor.[22]
- Tim Kelly, 35, American guitarist of the band Slaughter, car accident.[23]
- Kim Ki-young, 78, South Korean film director, domestic accident.[24]
- Eduardo Francisco Pironio, 77, Argentine Roman Catholic cardinal, bone cancer.[25]
- Joe Stubbs, American R&B/Soul singer, heart failure.
- Chikuzan Takahashi, 87, Japanese Tsugaru-jamisen performer and composer.[26]
- Hans Wallach, 93, German-American experimental psychologist.[27]
- Nick Webb, 43, English acoustic guitarist and composer, pancreatic cancer.
6
- Nazim al-Kudsi, 91, former President and Prime Minister of Syria.
- Falco, 40, Austrian singer and songwriter ("Rock Me Amadeus"), traffic accident.[28]
- Tony LeVier, 84, American air racer and test pilot, cancer.
- Ferenc Sidó, 74, Czechoslovak table tennis player.
- Toshiaki Tanaka, 62, Japanese table tennis player.
- Carl Wilson, 51, American musician, singer, and songwriter (The Beach Boys), lung cancer.[29]
- Claude Érignac, 60, French prefect of Corsica, murdered.[30]
7
- Gunther Baumann, 77, German football player and manager.[31]
- Ascanio Cortés, 83, Chilean football player.
- Bobby Kemp, 38, American football player, suicide.[32]
- Norman J. Levy, 67, American lawyer and politician.[33]
- Lawrence Sanders, 77, American novelist and short story writer.[34]
8
- Elizabeth Bauer Mock, American professor, curator, author and journalist.
- Tulsiram Sharma Kashyap, 58, Indian writer and politician.
- Halldór Laxness, 95, Icelandic writer and Nobel Prize laureate, Alzheimer's disease.[35]
- Enoch Powell, 85, British politician, classical scholar, author and philologist, Parkinson's disease.[36]
- Rocke Robertson, 85, American physician.
- J. B. Salsberg, 95, Canadian politician.
- Julian Simon, 65, American economist and author, heart attack.[37]
9
- George Cafego, 82, American football player and coach.[38]
- Cyrille Delannoit, 71, Belgian middleweight boxing champion.
- Bill Froats, 67, American baseball player.[39]
- Gabriel Gobin, 94, Belgian film actor.
- Dean Griffing, 82, American gridiron football player, coach and executive.
- Alf Jefferies, 76, English footballer.
- Panagiotis Katsouris, 21, Greek footballer, traffic collision.[40]
- Nick Leluk, 62, Canadian politician.
- William Ronald, 71, Canadian painter.[41]
- Maurice Schumann, 86, French politician, journalist and writer.[42]
10
- Ramchandran Jaikumar, 53, Indian-American scientist, heart attack.[43]
- Richard Kotuk, 54, American journalist, producer and filmmaker, heart attack.
- Alex Kramer, 94, Canadian songwriter.[44]
- Peter Longbottom, 38, British cyclist, traffic collision.[45]
- Paul MacKendrick, 83, American classicist, author, and teacher.
- Erich Mückenberger, 87, German socialist politician.[46]
- Félix Reina, 76, Cuban violinist, arranger and composer, stroke.
11
- Joy Buba, 93, American sculptor and illustrator.[47]
- Patrick Clark, 42, American chef, amyloidosis.[48]
- Tanvir Dar, 50, Pakistani field hockey player and Olympian.[49]
- Thomas Gerard Dunn, 76, American politician.[50]
- Mike Fornieles, 66, Cuban-American baseball player.[51]
- Lily Harmon, American visual artist.[52]
- Jonathan Hole, 93, American actor.[53]
- Josef Issels, 90, German physician, pneumonia.
- Radhanath Rath, 101, Indian journalist, activist and politician.
12
- Gardner Ackley, 82, American economist and diplomat.[54]
- Lionel Aldridge, 56, American gridiron football player.[55]
- Lauri Kivekäs, 94, Finnish businessman and politician.
- George Humphrey Middleton, 88, British diplomat.[56]
- Ralf Reichenbach, 47, German shot putter and Olympian.[57]
13
- José Barraquer, 82, Spanish ophthalmologist.[58]
- Thomas Chapin, 40, American composer and musician, leukemia.[59]
- Jo Clayton, 58, American fantasy and science fiction author, multiple myeloma.[60]
- John Cowley, 74, Irish actor.[61]
- Hans Diergaardt, 70, Namibian politician.
- Bryan MacMahon, 88, Irish writer.
- Alfred Struwe, 70, German actor, pneumonia.
- Ladislav Štípek, 73, Czechoslovak table tennis.
14
- Badrul Haider Chowdhury, 73, Chief Justice of Bangladesh.
- Edgar Granville, Baron Granville of Eye, 100, British politician.
- Thomas McKimson, 90, American animator.
- Hansel Mieth, 88, German-American photojournalist.[62]
- Denise Paulme, 88, French Africanist and anthropologist.[63]
- Manuel Pérez, 54, Colombian guerrilla leader, hepatitis.[64]
15
- Sir Samuel Curran, 85, British physicist and university administrator.[65]
- Martha Gellhorn, 89, American novelist, travel writer, and journalist, suicide.[66]
- B. Calvin Jones, 59, American archaeologist.[67]
- Louie Spicolli, 27, American professional wrestler, overdose.
- George White, 86, American film editor.
16
- Mary Amdur, 76, American toxicologist, heart attack.
- Boris Blumin, 90, Canadian-American chess master.
- Harry Hinsley, 79, British historian and cryptanalyst.[68]
- Fernando Abril Martorell, 61, former Spanish Deputy Prime Minister, lung cancer.[69]
- Sheu Yuan-dong, 70, Taiwanese politician and governor of the Central Bank, plane crash.
17
- Arnold Aronson, 86, American civil rights leader.[70]
- Nicolas Bouvier, 68,Swiss writer, artist, and photographer.[71]
- Maurice Bucaille, 77, French physician and author.[72]
- Hilaire Couvreur, 73, Belgian cyclist.[73]
- Ernst Jünger, 102, German World War I hero, author and entomologist.[74]
- Ernst Käsemann, 91, German Lutheran theologian, murdered around 24 May 1977.[75]
- Bob Merrill, 76, American songwriter, theatrical composer and screenwriter, suicide.[76]
- Sheila Raynor, 91, British actress.
- Ruth Robertson, 92, American photojournalist.
- Marie-Louise von Franz, 83, Swiss Jungian psychologist and scholar.[77]
- Albert Wass, 90, Hungarian nobleman, novelist and poet, suicide.[78]
18
- Lidia Bongiovanni, 83, Italian versatile athlete.
- James E. Boyd, 91, American physicist and mathematician.
- Harry Caray, 83, American television and radio broadcaster, heart attack.[79]
- David Crouch, 78, British politician.
- Antonio Escuriet, 88, Spanish road cyclist.[80]
- Robbie James, 40, Welsh footballer, heart attack.[81]
- Scott O'Hara, 36, American pornographic performer, author, poet and publisher, AIDS.[82]
- Messias Timula, 50, Portuguese footballer.[83]
- Mya Than Tint, 68, Myanmar writer, brain hemorrhage.[84]
- Richard Crawford White, 74, American politician, heart attack.
19
- Wolfgang Händler, 77, German mathematician and pioneering computer scientist.
- Grandpa Jones, 84, American "old time" country and gospel music singer, stroke.[85]
- George Male, 87, English footballer.[86]
- Charlie Martin, 84, Welsh racing driver.
- Mancur Olson, 66, American economist and social scientist.[87]
- Leo Righetti, 72, American baseball player.[88]
- Thomas F. Riley, 85, United States Marine Corps brigadier general, cardiac arrest.
- Talish, Pakistani actor.
20
- Francis Coulson, 78, British chef and hotelier.[89]
- John Fulton, 65, American bullfighter, heart attack.[90]
- Henry Livings, 68, English playwright and screenwriter.[91]
- David McClure, 72, Scottish artist and lecturer.[92]
- Ivor Mairants, 90, Polish jazz and classical guitarist, teacher and composer.
- Bob McBride, 51, Canadian rock singer-songwriter, heart failure.[93]
- Virgilio Tommasi, 92, Italian long jumper and Olympian.[94]
21
- Archie Aikman, 72, Scottish football player.[95]
- Ramón Bravo, 72, Mexican diver, photographer and underwater filmmaker, heart attack.[96]
- Santos Colon, 75, Puerto Rican bolero and mambo singer.
- Ellis Credle, 95, American children's author and illustrator.[97]
- James M. Edie, 70, American philosopher, cancer.
- George Fant, 81, Swedish actor, director and theater manager, pneumonia.[98]
- Karl Geyer, 98, Austrian football player and coach.[99]
- Yoshio Miyajima, 89, Japanese cinematographer.
- John Nicolella, 52, American film, television director and producer.[100]
- Baboo Nimal, 89, Indian field hockey player and Olympian.[101]
- Om Prakash, 78, Indian actor.
- William Wheeler, 87, English Roman Catholic prelate and bishop.[102]
22
- Carlo Dionisotti, 89, Italian literary critic, philologist and essayist.[103]
- Alfred Hales, 88, Canadian businessman and politician.
- Sandy Hume, 28, American journalist, suicide.[104]
- José María de Areilza, Count of Motrico, 88, former Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs.[105]
- Emmy Lou Packard, 83, Californian artist.[106]
- Russell Reeder, 95, United States Army officer and author.[107]
- Abraham A. Ribicoff, 87, American Democratic Party Party politician.[108]
- Athol Rowan, 77, South African international cricket player.
- Donald S. Russell, 92, American judge and politician.[109]
- Warren B. Woodson, 94, American football, basketball, and baseball coach, colon cancer.[110]
- Han Youwen, 85, Chinese general in the National Revolutionary Army.
23
- Philip Abbott, 73, American actor, cancer.[111]
- Marie Adams, 72, American gospel and R&B singer.
- Augusta Braxton Baker, 86, African-American librarian and storyteller.[112]
- Keith Christopher, 40, American actor, singer/songwriter and AIDS activist, AIDS.
- Chuck Hayward, 78, American motion picture stuntman and actor, Hodgkin's Disease.
- Raman Lamba, 38, Indian cricketer, cricket accident.
- Sean A. Moore, 33, American fantasy and science fiction writer, car crash.[113]
- Potti Prasad, 69, Indian actor.
- Ray Stoviak, 82, American baseball player.[114]
- Billy Sullivan, 82, American businessman, prostate cancer.
24
- Geoffrey Bush, 77, British composer and music scholar, prostate cancer.[115]
- Daniel J. Crowley, 76, American art historian and cultural anthropologist, congestive heart failure.[116]
- Leonard Daniels, 88, British artist and teacher.
- Elinor Field, 96, American film actress.
- Clara Fraser, 74, American marxist, feminist and activist, emphysema.[117]
- Ernst Gutstein, 73, Austrian operatic baritone.[118]
- Harold Keith, 95, American author.[119]
- Terry Langford, 31, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[120]
- Milicent Patrick, 82, American actress, makeup artist and animator.
- Lalita Pawar, 81, Indian actress.[121]
- Antonio Prohías, 77, Cuban cartoonist (Spy vs. Spy), lung cancer.[122]
- Abraham Shneior, 69, Israeli basketball player.[123]
- Henny Youngman, 91, English-American comedian.[124]
25
- Frans Bonduel, 90, Belgian road bicycle racer.[125]
- Francesca Braggiotti, 95, Italian dancer and actress.
- Joe Gallagher, 83, American baseball player.[126]
- Harlan Hatcher, 99, American novelist and university president.[127]
- Wanda Jakubowska, 90, Polish film director.[128]
- Umberto Mastroianni, 87, Italian abstract sculptor.[129]
- W. O. Mitchell, 83, Canadian writer and broadcaster, prostate cancer.[130]
- Pruden, 81, Spanish football player.
- B. A. Santamaria, 82, Australian anti-communist political activist and journalist, brain cancer.[131]
- Rockin' Sidney, 59, American R&B, zydeco and soul musician, throat cancer.
- Vico Torriani, 77, Swiss actor and Schlager singer, cancer.[132]
- Luigi Veronesi, 89, Italian photographer, painter, and film director.[133]
26
- James Algar, 85, American film director, screenwriter and producer.[134]
- Jaap ter Haar, 75, Dutch children's author.[135]
- Jimmy Hagan, 80, English football player and manager.
- Otto Haxel, 88, German nuclear physicist.[136]
- Robert Jones, 67, American lawyer, politician and civil rights litigator.
- Josef Knottenbelt, 87, Dutch tennis player.
- Shirley Ardell Mason, 75, American psychiatric patient and art teacher, breast cancer.[137]
- Stepan Neustroev, 75, Soviet officer and World War II hero.
- Theodore Schultz, 95, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate.[138]
27
- Larry Friend, 62, American basketball player, prostate cancer.[139]
- John Harman, 65, Australian politician.
- George H. Hitchings, 92, American scientist and Nobel Prize laureate.[140]
- Martin Hollis, 59, British philosopher.[141]
- Elsy Jacobs, 64, Luxembourgish road bicycle racer.[142]
- Gerald David Lascelles, 73, British nobleman.[143]
- Jack Micheline, 68, American painter and poet.[144]
- Henry Munyaradzi, 66/67, Zimbabwean sculptor.[145]
- Alice Rivaz, 96, Swiss author and feminist.[146]
- J. T. Walsh, 54, American actor (A Few Good Men, Sling Blade, Backdraft), heart attack.[147]
28
- Ivan Arkhipov, 90, Soviet and Russian statesman.
- Todd Duncan, 95, American opera singer and actor, heart ailment.[148]
- Hildegarde Howard, 96, American paleontologist.[149]
- Daniel Katz, 94, American psychologist.[150]
- Marie Kettnerová, 86, Czech table tennis player.
- Dermot Morgan, 45, Irish comedian and actor (Father Ted), heart attack.[151]
- Antonio Quarracino, 74, Argentine Roman Catholic cardinal and archbishop, heart attack.
- Arkady Shevchenko, 67, Russian/Soviet diplomat and defector, liver cirrhosis.[152]
- Injac Zamputi, 88, Albanian scholar, writer, and historian.[153]
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