The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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.
September 1998
1
- Francisco Coching, 78, Filipino comic books illustrator and writer.
- Albert W. Johnson, 92, American politician.[1]
- Harry Knudsen, 79, Danish rower and Olympic medalist.[2]
- Józef Krupiński, 67, Polish poet.
- Cary Middlecoff, 77, American golfer, heart disease.[3]
- Nick Murphy, 31, English footballer, car crash.[4]
- Vere Harmsworth, 3rd Viscount Rothermere, 73, British newspaper magnate.
- Osman Fahir Seden, 74, Turkish film director, screenwriter and film producer.
- Ernest Edward Williams, 84, American herpetologist.
- Petar Šegedin, 89, Croatian writer.
2
- Jackie Blanchflower, 65, Northern Irish footballer, cancer.[5]
- Roy Bradford, 77, Northern Irish politician.
- Mary Lou Clements-Mann, 51, American AIDS researcher, plane crash.[6]
- Allen Drury, 80, American novelist and Pullizer Prize winner, cardiac arrest, heart attack.[7]
- Charles A. Ferguson, 77, American linguist.[8]
- Willie Kizart, 66, American electric blues guitarist.
- Jonathan Mann, 51, American physician and former head of the WHO's AIDS program, plane crash.[9]
- Danièle Parola, 93, French film actress.[10]
- Tommy J. Smith, 81, Australian racehorse trainer.
3
- Vince Alascia, 84, American comic book artist (Captain America).
- Samuel Findlay Clark, 89, Canadian Army general.
- Ellis R. Kerley, 74, American forensic anthropologist.[11]
- Anup Kumar, 68, Indian actor.
- Friedrich Körner, 77, World War II Luftwaffe Flying ace.
- Albert Nemethy, 78, Hungarian-American artist.[12]
4
- Hans Brenner, 59, Austrian actor.[13]
- Jimmy Constantine, 78, English football player.
- Hernando Durán Dussán, Colombian lawyer and politician, respiratory infection.
- Robert Higgins, 73, American weightlifter.
- Ernst Jaakson, 93, Estonian diplomat.[14]
- Elizabeth Kata, 85, Australian writer under the pseudonym "Elizabeth Kata".
- Charles Kemball, 75, Scottish chemist.
- Tania Long, 85, American journalist and war correspondent during World War II.[15]
- Masato Nakae, 80, Japanese American US Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient.
- Inge Scholl, 81, German activist and resistance member during World War II, cancer.[16]
- Lal Waterson, 55, English folksinger and songwriter, cancer.[17]
5
- Fernando Balzaretti, 52, Mexican actor, cardiovascular disease.
- Leon Dombrowski, 60, American gridiron football player.[18]
- Willem Drees, 75, Dutch politician and son of politician Willem Drees.[19]
- Michael Fleischer, 90, American chemist and mineralogist.
- Sonny Knight, 64, American singer, songwriter and author, complications following a stroke.
- Margaret Lefranc, 91, American visual artist.[20]
- Félix Morisseau-Leroy, 86, Haitian writer.[21]
- Minoru Niizuma, 67, Japanese abstract sculptor, stroke.[22]
- Verner Panton, 72, Danish interior designer.[23]
- Leo Penn, 77, American actor and director, lung cancer.[24]
- Billy Soose, 83, American boxer.
6
- Ernst-Hugo Järegård, 69, Swedish cult actor, multiple myeloma.
- Akira Kurosawa, 88, Japanese film director and screenwriter (Seven Samurai, Rashomon, Throne of Blood), stroke.[25]
- Hava Lazarus-Yafeh, 68, German-Israeli orientalist and academic.
- Ric Segreto, 45, American-Filipino singer-songwriter and actor, motorcycle accident.
- Elaine Shepard, 85, American actress.
- Denise Spencer, 68, Australian freestyle swimmer and Olympian.[26]
7
- Håvard Alstadheim, 62, Norwegian economist and politician.
- Mario Bardi, 77, Italian Realist painter, stroke.
- André Bonin, 89, French fencer and Olympic champion.[27]
- Prof. K.M. Chandy, 77, Indian freedom fighter and politician.
- Valeri Frid, 76, Soviet screenwriter.
- John Osler Chattock Hayes, 85, British Royal Navy officer.[28]
8
- Walter Adams, 76, American economist and college professor, pancreatic cancer.[29]
- Leonid Kinskey, 95, Russian-born actor, complications of a stroke.[30]
- Arsh Muneer, 84, Pakistani actress and singer.
- Marco Rizo, 77, Cuban-American pianist, composer, and arranger, heart attack.[31]
- Bill Shankland, 91, Australian sportsman, heart failure.
- Ewald Tilker, 86, German canoeist and Olympic medalist.[32]
- Tryfon Tzanetis, 80, Greek football player and coach.
9
- Lucio Battisti, 55, Italian singer-songwriter and composer, cancer.[33]
- Bill Cratty, 47, American modern dancer and choreographer, liver cancer.[34]
- Eleanor Garatti, 89, American swimmer and Olympic gold medalist.
- Mariano Martín, 78, Spanish footballer.
- Catherine Turney, 91, American writer and screenwriter.[35]
- Jerry Zimmerman, 63, American baseball player and coach.[36]
10
- Carl Forgione, 54, British actor.
- Freddie Green, 82, English professional footballer.[37]
- Adolfe de Hoernle, 96, German-American philanthropist.[38]
- Noshirvan Nagarwala, 88, Indian cricket umpire.[39]
- Frederick Rosier, 82, British Royal Air Force commander.
- Kedar Man Vyathit, 84, Nepali poet.
11
- Paku Alam VIII, 88, Indonesian royal and Governor of Yogyakarta.
- Sofía Bassi, 85, Mexican painter and writer, heart failure.
- Dane Clark, 86, American actor.[40]
- Stephie D'Souza, 61, Indian athlete and Olympian.[41]
- Carlos Guimard, 85, Argentine chess Grandmaster.
- Rolando Morán, 68, Guatemalan revolutionary leader, heart attack.[42]
- P. S. Veerappa, 87, Indian actor and film producer.
12
- George E. Danielson, 83, American politician and judge, heart failure.[43]
- Hans Grimm, 93, German film director and screenwriter.
- Azem Hajdari, 35, Albanian student leader, murdered.[44]
- Awang Hassan, 87, Malaysian politician.
- John Holliman, 49, American broadcast journalist, traffic accident.
- Henry Spira, 71, Belgian-American animal rights activist, esophageal cancer.[45]
13
- Talimeren Ao, 80, Indian footballer and physician.[46]
- Denys Buckley, 92, English barrister and judge.[47]
- Necdet Calp, 76, Turkish civil servant and politician, heart attack.
- Aloys Grillmeier, 88, German Jesuit priest and theologian.[48]
- Frans Hogenbirk, 80, Dutch football player.
- Owen Horwood, 81, South African economist and politician, heart attack.
- Antonio Núñez Jiménez, 75, Cuban revolutionary and academic.
- Harry Lumley, 71, Canadian ice hockey goaltender in the National Hockey League.[49]
- Phil Ridings, 80, Australian cricket player.
- George Wallace, 79, American politician and populist, Parkinson's disease.[50]
14
- Johnny Adams, 66, American blues, jazz and gospel singer, prostate cancer.[51]
- Hahn William Capps, 95, American entomologist.
- Sue Geh, 39, Australian women's basketball player, heart failure.[52]
- Fred Korth, 89, United States Secretary of the Navy.[53]
- George Scott, 69, English snooker player.
- Yang Shangkun, 91, President of the People's Republic of China.[54]
15
- Fred Alderman, 93, American sprint runner and Olympic champion.[55]
- Barrett Deems, 84, American swing drummer, pneumonia.[56]
- Charles George Drake, 78, Canadian neurosurgeon.
- René Ferrier, 61, French football midfielder.
- Viljo Heino, 84, Finnish long-distance runner and Olympian.[57]
- Reynold B. Johnson, 92, American inventor and computer pioneer, melanoma.[58]
- Carl Larpenter, 62, American gridiron football player.[59]
- Caroline Mikkelsen, 91, Danish-Norwegian explorer.
- Don Perkins, 80, American football player.[60]
- Louis Rasminsky, 90, Canadian banker.[61]
- Eva Gabriele Reichmann, 101, German historian and sociologist.[62]
16
- Egidio Ariosto, 87, Italian politician.
- Jane Marsh Beveridge, 82, Canadian artist.[63]
- John Eakins, 75, Canadian politician.
- Mazhar Khan, Indian actor and producer, renal failure.
- Bjørn Stenersen, 28, Norwegian racing cyclist and Olympian.[64]
- John Systad, 86, Norwegian long-distance runner and Olympian.[65]
- Andrzej Trzaskowski, 65, Polish jazz composer and musicologist.
- Pak Tu-jin, 82, Korean poet.
- Harold Vokes, 90, American malacologist and paleontologist.[66]
- John Woyat, 65, Canadian football player.
17
- William Albright, 53, American composer, pianist and organist.[67]
- Ted Binion, 54, American gambling executive.
- Geoffrey Dutton, 76, Australian author and historian.[68]
- Win Elliot, 83, American television and radio sportscaster and game show host.[69]
- April FitzLyon, 78, English translator, biographer, and historian.[70]
- Gerold Frank, 91, American author and ghostwriter.[71]
- Red Hoff, 107, American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball, fall.[72]
- Gustav Nezval, 90, Czech stage and film actor.
- Ralph Pappier, 84, Argentine production designer and film director.
- Celia Rooke, 96, English printmaker and book illustrator.[73]
18
- Francelia Butler, 85, American scholar and children's author.[74]
- Charlie Foxx, 64, American musician.[75]
- Kurt Hager, 86, East German politician.[76]
- Erik Holmberg, 76, Norwegian football player.[77]
- Sam Locke, 81, American writer and director.[78]
- Harun Nasution, 79, Indonesian scholar.
- Vadim Rogovin, 61, Russian Trotskyist historian and sociologist.
19
- Susan Barrantes, 61, British film producer and mother of Sarah, Duchess of York, traffic accident.
- Patricia Hayes, 88, English actress (The NeverEnding Story, Willow, A Fish Called Wanda).[79]
- Ran Laurie, 83, British physician, Olympic gold medalist and father of Hugh Laurie, Parkinson's disease.[80]
- John Norby, 88, American gridiron football player.[81]
20
- Audrey Alexandra Brown, 93, Canadian poet.[82]
- Muriel Humphrey Brown, 86, American politician and wife of Vice President Hubert Humphrey.[83]
- Robert Malachy Burke, 91, Christian socialist and philanthropist.
- Lila Katzen, 72, American abstract sculptor, liver cancer.[84]
- Alan Prescott, 71, English rugby league footballer.
- Raoul Schránil, 88, Czech film actor.[85]
21
- Margaret Allan, 89, Scottish motor racing driver.[86]
- Oz Bach, 59, American folk musician, cancer.
- Clara Calamai, 89, Italian actress, stroke.[87]
- Florence Griffith Joyner, 38, American track and field athlete, and Olympic champion, epileptic seizure, epilepsy.[88]
- Vladimir Pokhilko, 44, Soviet-Russian entrepreneur, suicide.
- Arto Tiainen, 68, Finnish cross-country skier and politician.[89]
22
- Ymer Dishnica, 86, Albanian politician and physician.
- Michel Dubé, 39, Canadian outlaw biker and gangster, suicide.
- Otakhon Latifi, 62, Tajikistan journalist and politician, murdered.[90]
- Henry Mayer, 72, German composer.
- Doug Smith, 73, Scottish rugby union player.[91]
23
- Søren Andersen, 72, Danish football player.
- Ray Bowden, 89, English footballer.[92]
- Mary Frann, 55, American actress (Newhart, Days of Our Lives, Knots Landing), heart attack.[93]
- Brian Masters, 65, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Fulham and Edmonton.
- Héctor Vilches, 72, Uruguayan football player.
- Robert Wells, 75, American songwriter and television producer.[94]
24
- Genrich Altshuller, 71, Soviet engineer, inventor, and writer, Parkinson's disease.[95]
- Rosendo Balinas Jr., 57, Filipino chess grandmaster.
- Frank Curran, 81, English footballer.
- Jeff Moss, 56, American composer, playwright and television writer, colon cancer.[96]
- Ernie Pannell, 81, American gridiron football player.[97]
25
- Billy Giles, 41, Northern Irish UVF volunteer , suicide by hanging.
- Shaukat Hayat Khan, 83, Pakistani politician, activist and military officer.
- Johnny McGrory, 83, Scottish boxer.
- Wim Schepers, 55, Dutch road cyclist, cardiac arrest.[98]
- Cas Walker, 96, American politician and radio and TV personality.
- Caspar Wrede, 69, Finnish theatre and film director.[99]
26
- Giovanni Barbini, 97, Italian naval officer during World War II.
- Betty Carter, 68, American jazz singer, pancreatic cancer.[100]
- Jack Haskell, 79, American singer and announcer.[101]
- Jerome D. Mack, 77, American banker, fundraiser and philanthropist, cancer.[102]
- Harald Vock, 73, German television producer and director.[103]
27
- Alex Joseph, 62, American outspoken polygamist and founder of the Confederate Nations of Israel, a Mormon fundamentalist sect, liver cancer.
- Karlheinz Kaske, 70, German manager and CEO of the Siemens AG from 1981 to 1992.[104]
- Narita Bryan, 7, Japanese racehorse, gastric rupture.
- Shawn Phelan, 23, American actor (Toy Soldiers), brain injury.
- Doak Walker, 71, American football player (Detroit Lions) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, skiing accident.[105]
28
- Eric Malling, 52, Canadian television journalist, brain hemorrhage after fall.
- Joan Maude, 90, English actress.[106]
- Marcel Pourbaix, 94, Belgian chemist.
- Louis L. Redding, 96, American lawyer and civil rights advocate.[107]
- Shiv Prasaad Singh, 70, Indian writer and academic.
- George Tranter, 83, English football player.
29
- Tom Bradley, 80, American politician and police officer, heart attack.[108]
- Valston Hancock, 91, Australian commander in the Royal Australian Air Force.[109]
- Gordon W. Richards, 68, British racehorse trainer.
- Joachim Count of Schönburg-Glauchau, 69, German nobleman.
30
- D. Bruce Berry, 74, American comic book artist (Captain America).[110]
- Laurie Brown, 61, English football player and manager.[111]
- Frank Forberger, 55, East German rower and Olympic champion, brain cancer.[112]
- Marius Goring, 86, English actor, cancer.[113]
- Nechama Hendel, 62, Israeli singer.
- Émile Krieps, 78, Luxembourgish army officer and politician.
- Bruno Munari, 90, Italian artist and designer.
- Stephen Pearlman, 63, American actor (Die Hard with a Vengeance, Pi, Quiz Show), cancer.[114]
- Dan Quisenberry, 45, American baseball player, brain cancer.[115]
- Robert R. Squires, 45, American chemist.
- Robert Lewis Taylor, 86, American author and Pullizer Prize winner.[116]
- Pavel Štěpán, 73, Czech pianist.
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