The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.
July 1998
1
- Francis Ambrière, 90, French author.[1]
- Margarita Azurdia, 67, Guatemalan sculptor, painter, poet, and performance artist.
- Jane Bell, 88, Canadian track and field athlete and Olympic champion.[2]
- Dumitru Berciu, 91, Romanian historian and archaeologist.[3]
- Ed Connolly, 58, American baseball player.[4]
- Stig Järrel, 88, Swedish actor, film director and revue artist.[5]
- Claire Kelly, 64, American actress and model.[6]
- Dimitris Liantinis, 55, Greek philosopher, writer and university professor, suicide.
- Martin Seymour-Smith, 70, British poet, literary critic, and biographer.[7]
- Rodney Smith, Baron Smith, 84, British surgeon.
- Toyonobori, 67, Japanese sumo wrestler, heart failure.[8]
2
- Shen Chang-huan, 84, Taiwanese politician and diplomat.
- Tony De Vit, 40, English DJ and music producer, bronchial failure.[9]
- Joe Graboski, 68, American basketball player.[10]
- Miklós Gábor, 79, Hungarian actor.[11]
- Valter Külvet, 34, Estonian athlete and Olympian, blunt trauma.[12]
- Juan José Nogués, 89, Spanish football player and manager.
- Errol Parker, 72, French-Algerian jazz pianist, liver cancer.[13]
- Sohrab Shahid-Saless, 54, Iranian film director and screenwriter, liver failure.[14]
- Kay Thompson, 88, American author, actress and singer.[15]
3
- Arun Kumar Ahuja, 81, Indian film actor and producer.
- Danielle Bunten Berry, 49, American game designer and programmer, lung cancer.[16]
- Alf Boyd, 77, Scottish football player.
- Sadeq Chubak, 81, Iranian author of short fiction, drama, and novels.[17]
- Al Couppee, 78, American gridiron football player.[18]
- Louis L. Goldstein, 85, American politician.[19]
- Billie Hughes, 50, American songwriter, musician and record producer, heart attack.[20]
- Bernhard Häring, 85, German Catholic theologian, and priest.[21]
- Carl Koch, 86, American architect.
- George Lloyd, 85, British composer.[22]
- Elizabeth Riddell, 88, Australian poet and journalist.
- Lev Rokhlin, 51, Soviet / Russian army officer, murdered.[23]
- Kazimierz Sokołowski, 90, Polish ice hockey player.[24]
- Duncan White, 80, Sri Lankan track and field athlete and Olympic medalist.[25]
4
- Gladys Ambrose, 67, English actress, cancer.
- Gregg Burge, 40, American tap dancer and choreographer, brain tumor.[26]
- Kurt Franz, 84, German SS officer and commander of the Treblinka extermination camp.[27]
- Denis Ségui Kragbé, 60, Ivorian shot putter and discus thrower.[28]
- Peter Monteverdi, 64, Swiss carmaker, cancer.[29]
- M. N. Sathyaardhi, 85, Indian writer and freedom fighter.
- Jay Taylor, 30, American basketball player, burned.[30]
5
- Frank Creagh, 74, New Zealand boxer.
- Cleeve Horne, 86, Canadian portrait painter and sculptor, respiratory-related illness.
- Sid Luckman, 81, American football player (Chicago Bears) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.[31]
- Maria Mercè Marçal, 45, Catalan poet, professor, writer and translator from Spain, breast cancer.[32]
- Frank Righeimer, 89, American fencer and Olympic medalist.[33]
- Johnny Speight, 78, English television scriptwriter, pancreatic cancer.[34]
- Stevie Hyper D, 30, British drum and bass MC, heart attack.
6
- Semon Knudsen, 85, American automobile executive.[35]
- Georges Maton, 84, French cyclist.[36]
- Alan Revill, 75, English cricketer.
- Roy Rogers, 86, American singer and actor (The Roy Rogers Show), congestive heart failure.[37]
- Ed Sanicki, 74, American baseball player.[38]
7
- Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, 60, Nigerian businessman, politician and aristocrat, homicide.[39]
- M. Athar Ali, 73, Indian historian, liver cancer.[40]
- F. Tillman Durdin, 91, American foreign correspondent for The New York Times.[41]
- Lenore Romney, 89, American actress and political figure, stroke.[42]
8
- Constance Cox, 85, British script writer and playwright.[43]
- Kohei Murakoso, 92, Japanese runner and Olympian, respiratory disease.[44]
- Dušan Vukotić, 71, Yugoslav and Croatian cartoonist and author, heart attack.[45]
- Lilí Álvarez, 93, Spanish sportswoman, author, feminist and journalist.[46]
9
- Knut Bergsland, 84, Norwegian linguist.[47]
- Jim Flora, 84, American artist, stomach cancer.[48]
- David Fulker, 61, British behavioural geneticist.[49]
- Lester King, 59, Jamaican cricket player.
- Katherine Russell, 89, English social worker and university teacher.[50]
- Halvor J. Sandsdalen, 87, Norwegian farmer, journalist, poet, playwright and children's writer.
- Aldo Stellita, 50, Italian bassist and songwriter, lung cancer.
10
- Willie Fry, 43, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), heart attack.
- Billy Patterson, 79, American football player (Chicago Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers).
- Elijah Pitts, 60, American football player (Green Bay Packers), stomach cancer.[51]
- William Preston, 76, American actor.[52]
- Victor Smith, 85, Royal Australian Navy officer.[53]
11
- Octav Botnar, 84, Romanian-British businessman and founder of Datsun, stomach cancer.[54]
- John Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter, 90, British politician.
- Komla Agbeli Gbedemah, 85, Ghanaian politician.
- Emma Humphreys, 30, British convict, accidental overdose.[55]
- Panagiotis Kondylis, 54, Greek philosopher, intellectual and historian.[56]
- Guy Lafitte, 71, French jazz saxophonist.[57]
- John J. Tominac, 76, United States Army officer and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
12
- M. M. S. Ahuja, 69, Indian endocrinologist.
- Wilson Francisco Alves, 70, Brazilian football player and manager.
- Jimmy Driftwood, 91, American folk music songwriter and musician, heart attack.[58]
- Bo Giertz, 92, Swedish theologian, novelist and bishop.[59]
- Arkady Ostashev, 72, Russian mechanical engineer.
- Maithripala Senanayake, 82, Sri Lankan politician.
13
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt, 90, American politician and lawyer, leukemia.[60]
- Gauri Ayyub, 67, Indian social worker, activist and writer, acute arthritis.
- Red Badgro, 95, American football player, football coach and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, fall.[61]
- Stanley Bergerman, 94, American producer of horror films, cancer.[62]
- John Béchervaise, 88, Australian writer, photographer, artist, historian and explorer.[63]
- Konstantinos Kollias, 97, Prime Minister of Greece during the military junta.
- Jean René Célestin Parédès, 83, French film actor, heart attack.[64]
- Ben Zion Abba Shaul, 73, Israeli Sephardic rabbi.
- Sigismund von Braun, 87, German diplomat and politician.
14
- Rex Applegate, 84, American army officer.[65]
- Beryl Bryden, 78, English jazz singer.[66]
- Glenn E. Duncan, 80, United States Air Force officer and World War II flying ace.
- Miroslav Holub, 74, Czech poet and immunologist.[67]
- Herman David Koppel, 89, Danish composer and pianist.[68]
- Richard McDonald, 89, American entrepreneur, co-founder of McDonald's and inventor of the fast food system.[69]
- Nguyen Ngoc Loan, 67, South Vietnamese general, cancer.[70]
- Robert Augustine Ward Lowndes, 81, American science fiction author and editor.[71]
- Karl Schirdewan, 91, German communist activist and East German politician.[72]
- Angus John Mackintosh Stewart, 61, British writer.[73]
- Thomas Martin Thompson, 43, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[74]
15
- Malcolm Booker, 83, Australian diplomat, author and journalist.[75]
- Henry J. Leir, 98, American industrialist, financier, and philanthropist.[76]
- Kazimierz Lis, 88, Polish football player.
- Joseph Desmond O'Connor, 78, British linguist, pneumonia.
- S. Shanmuganathan, 38, Sri Lankan Tamil militant and politician, assassinated.[77]
16
- John Ball, 73, English footballer.
- Gisella Caccialanza, 83, American prima ballerina, stroke.[78]
- John Henrik Clarke, 83, African-American historian and professor, heart attack.[79]
- Philip J. Corso, 83, American Army officer, heart attack.[80]
- Jess Dobernic, 80, American baseball player.[81]
- Mahbub ul Haq, 64, Pakistani economist and politician.[82]
- Lucien Lamoureux, 77, Canadian politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada.[83]
17
- Lamberto Gardelli, 82, Italian-Swedish conductor.[84]
- Gladstone Guest, 81, English football player.
- Lillian Hoban, 73, American illustrator and children's writer.[85]
- Marc Hunter, 44, New Zealand singer, songwriter and record producer, cancer.[86]
- Karl-Heinz Höcker, 82, German theoretical nuclear physicist.
- Paul H. Kocher, 91, American academic and writer.
- James Lighthill, 74, British mathematician.[87]
- Joseph Maher, 64, Irish-American actor, playwright and director, brain tumor, brain cancer.[88]
- Hervé Mirouze, 73, French football player and coach.
- Hugh Reilly, 82, American actor, emphysema.[89]
- Claudia Testoni, 82, Italian hurdler, sprinter and long jumper.[90]
18
- Emilio Alfaro, 65, Argentine actor, and theatre and film director.
- Florence Bird, 90, Canadian broadcaster, journalist, and senator.
- Hans Feibusch, 99, German painter and sculptor.[91]
- Mykola Lebed, 89, Ukrainian political activist, nationalist and guerrilla fighter.
- Betty Marsden, 79, English comedy actress.[92]
- Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Thero, 101, Sri Lankan Buddhist monk.
19
- Giliana Berneri, French communist activist.[93]
- Antoine Tisné, 65, French composer.[94]
- Ralph Toohy, 71, Canadian Football League player.
- Elmer Valo, 77, Slovak American baseball player and coach.[95]
20
- Norah Borges, 97, Argentine artist.[96]
- June Byers, 76, American women's professional wrestler, pneumonia.
- Alberto Cavallari, 70, Italian journalist and writer.[97]
- Tossy Spivakovsky, 91, Russian-American violin virtuoso.[98]
21
- Doug Miller, 28, American gridiron football player, lightning strike.[99]
- Alan Shepard, 74, American astronaut, naval aviator and test pilot, complications from leukemia.[100]
- Kenneth Watson, 66, British television actor, pancreatic cancer.
- Robert Young, 91, American actor (Marcus Welby, M.D., Father Knows Best, Window on Main Street), Emmy winner (1957, 1958, 1970), respiratory failure.[101]
22
- Eugene Aserinsky, 77, American sleep researcher, traffic collision.[102]
- Fritz Buchloh, 88, German football manager and football player.[103]
- Michael Denison, 82, English actor.[104]
- Don Dunphy, 90, American television and radio sports announcer.[105]
- Judy Malcolm, 87, American film actress.
- Corbett Monica, 68, American comedian, cancer.[106]
- Hermann Prey, 69, German bass-baritone, heart attack.[107]
- Antonio Saura, 67, Spanish artist and writer.[108]
- Tjokropranolo, 74, Indonesian politician and military officer.
23
- Harvie Branscomb, 103, American theologian and academic.[109]
- Vladimir Dudintsev, 79, Russian writer.[110]
- André Gertler, 90, Hungarian classical violinist.[111]
- Mark Hampton, 58, American designer.[112]
- John Hopkins, 67, English film, stage and television writer, domestic accident.[113]
- R. Tudur Jones, 77, Welsh nationalist theologian.[114]
- Northrup Rand Knox, 69, American banker and community leader.[115]
- Djibril Diop Mambéty, 53, Senegalese actor, film director and poet, lung cancer.[116]
- Matteo Manuguerra, 73, Tunisian-French baritone.[117]
- Med Park, 65, American basketball player.[118]
- Muzz Patrick, 83, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.[119]
- Wilbur Schwandt, 94, American musician, songwriter.
- Manuel Mejía Vallejo, 75 Colombian writer.[120]
24
- Gus Alex, 82, Greek-American mobster, heart attack.
- Alta Allen, 93, American silent film actress.[121]
- Ronnie Grieveson, 88, South African cricketer.
- Berta Hrubá, 52, Czech field hockey player and Olympic medalist.[122]
- Henri Ziegler, 91, French aerospace engineers, aviation pioneer and first president of Airbus.[123]
25
- Les Dodson, 82, American gridiron football player.[124]
- David Durand, 77, American actor.[125]
- Tal Farlow, 77, American jazz guitarist, esophageal cancer.[126]
- Tiny Rowland, 80, British businessman and corporate raider, cancer.
26
- Sava Antić, 68, Serbian football player and manager.[127]
- Manzoor Alam Beg, 67, Bangladeshi photographer.
- Rainey Bennett, 91, American artist, illustrator and muralist.[128]
- Seán Ó hEinirí, 83, Irish seanchaí and monolingual Irish speaker.
- Zeki Kuneralp, 83, Turkish diplomat, multiple sclerosis.
- Aymoré Moreira, 86, Brazilian football player and coach.
27
- Binnie Barnes, 95, English actress.[129]
- Zlatko Čajkovski, 74, Croatian football player and coach (1948 silver medal, 1952 silver medal).[130]
- Russell M. Carneal, 80, American politician and judge.[131]
- Elio Augusto Di Carlo, 79, Italian ornithologist, historian and physician.
- John Gilliland, 62, American radio broadcaster and documentarian.
- Gísli Halldórsson, 71, Icelandic actor.[132]
- Elizabeth Karlin, 54, American doctor and advocate for women's reproductive rights, brain tumor.[133]
- William McChesney Martin, 91, American businessman and Chair of the Federal Reserve.
- Robin Richmond, 86, English cinema organist and BBC Radio presenter.
- Farid Shawqi, 77, Egyptian actor, screenwriter and film producer.
- Bill Tuttle, 69, American baseball player, cancer.[134]
28
- Mykola Bakay, 67, Ukrainian singer, composer, poet and author.
- Wilson Teixeira Beraldo, 81, Brazilian physician and physiologist.
- Zbigniew Herbert, 73, Polish poet, essayist, drama writer and moralist.[135]
- Adam Hollanek, 75, Polish science fiction writer and journalist.
- Olga de Blanck Martín, 82, Cuban pianist, guitarist and composer.
- Lenny McLean, 49, English boxer, bodyguard and actor, brain cancer, lung cancer.[136]
- Consalvo Sanesi, 87, Italian racecar driver.
29
- Jorge Pacheco Areco, 78, Uruguayan politician.[137]
- Doris Nolan, 82, American actress.[138]
- Jerome Robbins, 79, American choreographer, director and dancer (West Side Story), stroke.[139]
- Fabrice Simon, 47, Haitian artist and fashion designer, AIDS.[140]
- Oothout Zabriskie Whitehead, 87, American actor, cancer.[141]
30
- Maurice Bardèche, 90, French art critic and journalist.[142]
- Bharathan, 51, Indian film director and artist.
- Donald C. Davis, 77, United States Navy admiral, heart attack.
- Orestes Marengo, 91, Italian Roman Catholic prelate.
- Laila Schou Nilsen, 79, Norwegian sportsperson and Olympic medalist.[143]
- Buffalo Bob Smith, 80, American children's television host, cancer.[144]
- Kenneth A. Walsh, 81, United States Marine Corps officer, World War II flying ace and Medal of Honor recipient, heart attack.[145]
31
- Leroy Edgar Burney, 91, American physician and public health official.[146]
- Jean de Baroncelli, 84, French writer.[147]
- Erling Evensen, 84, Norwegian cross-country skier and Olympic medalist.[148]
- Sylvia Field, 97, American actress.[149]
- Arvid Hanssen, 66, Norwegian journalist, newspaper editor, poet, novelist and children's writer.
- Ioan Ploscaru, 86, Romanian bishop of the Greek-Catholic Church.
- John E. Powers, 87, American politician.
- Richie Powers, 67, American basketball referee, stroke.[150]
- Herbert Widmayer, 84, German football player and manager.
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