Deaths in February 1998

The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.

February 1998

1

• Robert Creighton Buck, 77, American mathematician.
• Jack T. Collis, 75, American art director.
• Marga Faulstich, 82, German glass chemist.
• Sheila Watson, 88, Canadian novelist and literary critic.[1]

2

• Raymond Cattell, 92, British and American psychologist.[2]
• Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber, 86, German-American nuclear physicist.[3]
• Ferdinand A. Hermens, 91, German-American political scientist and economist.
• Duilio Del Prete, 59, Italian actor, dubber and singer-songwriter, cancer.
• Baldev Singh, 93, Indian neurologist.[4]
• Haroun Tazieff, 83, French volcanologist and geologist.
• Manuel Delgado Villegas, 55, Spanish serial killer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

3

• Joey Archibald, 83, American boxer.[5]
• Clark Goff, 80, American gridiron football player.
• Bertram Heyn, 85, Sri Lankan general and a cricketer.
• Davy Kaye, British actor and entertainer.[6]
• Fat Pat, 27, American rapper, shot.
• Karla Faye Tucker, 38, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[7]

4

• Jacques Guillermaz, 87, French diplomat, military officer and Chinese history scholar.
• Margaret Hillis, 76, American conductor.[8]
• Jean Blackwell Hutson, 83, African-American librarian, writer and curator.[9]
• Dragan Joksović, 41, Swedish-Serbian mobster, murdered.
• Zoran Kosanović, 42, Serbian Canadian table tennis player, heart attack.
• Aruna Lama, 52, Nepali singer.[10]
• Menachem Shmuel David Raichik, 79, American Orthodox rabbi.
• Michel Roux, 73, French baritone.
• Rees Stephens, 75, Welsh rugby player.
• Cristóbal Martínez-Bordiú, 75, Spanish aristocrat and son in law of dictator Francisco Franco.

5

• Takahashi Chikuzan, 87, Japanese Tsugaru-jamisen performer and composer.
• Wilbur Coen, 86, American tennis player.
• Tim Kelly, 35, American guitarist for the band Slaughter, car accident.[11]
• Kim Ki-young, 78, South Korean film director, domestic accident.
• Lanier Meaders, 80, American potter.
• Denis Oswald, 87, English cricketer and codebreaker during World War II.
• Eduardo Francisco Pironio, 77, Argentine Roman Catholic cardinal, bone cancer.
• Joe Stubbs, American R&B/Soul singer, heart failure.
• Hans Wallach, 93, German-American experimental psychologist.[12]

6

• Nazim al-Kudsi, 91, former President and Prime Minister of Syria.
• Claude Érignac, 60, French prefect of Corsica, murdered.
• Falco, 40, Austrian singer and songwriter, traffic accident.[13]
• Tony LeVier, 84, American air racer and test pilot.
• Toshiaki Tanaka, 62, Japanese table tennis player.
• Carl Wilson, 51, American musician, singer, and songwriter, lung cancer.[14]

7

• Renée Slotopolsky de Epelbaum, 77, Argentine human rights activist.
• Bobby Kemp, 38, American football player, suicide.
• Lawrence Sanders, 77, American novelist and short story writer.[15]

8

• Betty Foss, 68, American baseball player (AAGPBL).[16]
• Tulsiram Sharma Kashyap, 58, Indian writer and politician.
• Halldór Laxness, 95, Icelandic writer and Nobel Prize laureate.
• Elizabeth Bauer Mock, American professor, curator, author and journalist.
• Enoch Powell, 85, British politician, classical scholar, author and philologist.[17]
• Rocke Robertson, 85, American physician.
• J. B. Salsberg, 95, Canadian politician.
• Julian Simon, 65, American economist and author.[18]
• Fred Smollan, 89, South Africa rugby player.

9

• George Cafego, 82, American football player and coach.
• Bill Froats, 67, American baseball player.
• Dean Griffing, 82, American gridiron football player, coach and executive.
• Alf Jefferies, 76, English footballer.
• Nick Leluk, 62, Canadian politician.
• William Ronald, 71, Canadian painter.
• Maurice Schumann, 86, French politician, journalist and writer.[19]

10

• Air Buddy, 9, American Golden Retriever dog actor, cancer.
• Ramchandran Jaikumar, 53, Indian-American scientist, heart attack.[20]
• Richard Kotuk, 54, American journalist, producer and filmmaker, heart attack.
• Peter Longbottom, 38, British cyclist.[21]
• Félix Reina, 76, Cuban violinist, arranger and composer, stroke.
• Yorgos Vrasivanopoulos, 74, Greek actor.

11

• Joy Buba, 93, American sculptor and illustrator.[22]
• Patrick Clark, 42, American chef, amyloidosis.[23]
• Thomas G. Dunn, 76, American politician.[24]
• Mike Fornieles, 66, Cuban-American baseball player.
• William Franklin, 81, British Anglican bishop.
• Lily Harmon, American visual artist.
• Jonathan Hole, 93, American actor.
• Josef Issels, 90, German physician.
• Radhanath Rath, 101, Indian journalist, activist and politician.

12

• Gardner Ackley, 82, American economist and diplomat.[25]
• Lionel Aldridge, 56, American gridiron football player.
• Tanvir Dar, 50, Pakistani field hockey player.
• Sir George Middleton, 88, British diplomat.
• Les Parish, 42, Australian rules footballer, cancer.

13

• José Barraquer, 82, Spanish ophthalmologist.
• Jo Clayton, 58, American fantasy and science fiction author, multiple myeloma.[26]
• John Cowley, 74, Irish actor.[27]
• Antoine Dresse, 95, Belgian deaf sport activist.
• Bryan MacMahon, 88, Irish writer.
• Douglas Meakin, 68, English cricket player and Royal Air Force officer.
• Brij Mangal Rai, 84, Indian freedom fighter.

14

• Badrul Haider Chowdhury, 73, Chief Justice of Bangladesh.
• Thomas McKimson, 90, American animator.
• Hansel Mieth, 88, German-American photojournalist.
• Denise Paulme, 88, French Africanist and anthropologist.[28]
• Manuel Pérez Martínez, 54, Colombian guerrilla leader.[29]

15

• Martha Gellhorn, 89, American novelist, travel writer, and journalist, suicide.[30]
• B. Calvin Jones, 59, American archaeologist.[31]
• Louie Spicolli, 27, American professional wrestler, overdose.
• George White, 86, American film editor.

16

• Mary Amdur, 76, American toxicologist, heart attack.
• Sir Harry Hinsley, 79, British historian and cryptanalyst.[32]
• Fernando Abril Martorell, 61, former Spanish Deputy Prime Minister, lung cancer.
• Donald MacKeen Smith, 74, Canadian politician.

17

• Marie-Louise von Franz, 83, Swiss Jungian psychologist and scholar.
• Ernst Jünger, 102, German World War I hero, author and entomologist.[33]
• Ernst Käsemann, 91, German Lutheran theologian, murdered around 24 May 1977.
• Lionel Fernández Méndez, 83, Puerto Rican attorney and politician.
• Bob Merrill, American songwriter, theatrical composer and screenwriter, suicide.[34]
• Sheila Raynor, 91, British actress.
• Ruth Robertson, 92, American photojournalist.
• Albert Wass, 90, Hungarian nobleman, novelist and poet.

18

• James E. Boyd, 91, American physicist and mathematician.
• Harry Caray, 83, American television and radio broadcaster.[35]
• Robbie James, 40, Welsh footballer.[36]
• Scott O'Hara, 36, American pornographic performer, author, poet and publisher, AIDS.
• Messias Timula, 50, Portuguese footballer.
• Mya Than Tint, 68, Myanmar writer, brain hemorrhage.
• Richard Crawford White, 74, American politician.

19

• S. S. DeWitt, 83, American politician, pancreatic cancer.
• Wolfgang Händler, 77, German mathematician and pioneering computer scientist.
• Grandpa Jones, 84, American "old time" country and gospel music singer.[37]
• George Male, 87, English footballer.
• Mancur Olson, 66, American economist and social scientist.[38]
• Leo Righetti, 72, American baseball player.
• Thomas F. Riley, 85, United States Marine Corps brigadier general, cardiac arrest.
• Talish, Pakistani actor.
• Lola de la Torre, 95, Spanish musician.
• Lantz Womack, 83, American politician.

20

• Francis Coulson, 78, British chef and hotelier.[39]
• Bob McBride, 51, Canadian rock singer-songwriter, heart failure.[40]
• David McClure, 72, Scottish artist and lecturer.

21

• Ramón Bravo, 72, Mexican diver, photographer and underwater filmmaker, heart attack.[41]
• Santos Colón, 75, Puerto Rican bolero and mambo singer.
• Ellis Credle, 95, American children's author and illustrator.
• James M. Edie, 70, American philosopher, cancer.
• Yoshio Miyajima, 89, Japanese cinematographer.
• John Nicolella, 52, American film, television director and producer.
• Om Prakash, 78, Indian actor.
• William Wheeler, 87, English Roman Catholic prelate and bishop.[42]

22

• José María de Areilza, 88, former Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs.
• Prabhas Kumar Choudhary, 57, Indian author, editor and publisher, heart attack.
• Alfred Hales, 88, Canadian businessman and politician.
• Sandy Hume, 28, American journalist, suicide.[43]
• Emmy Lou Packard, 83, Californian artist.[44]
• Russell Reeder, 95, United States Army officer and author.[45]
• Abraham Ribicoff, 87, American Democratic Party Party politician.
• Warren B. Woodson, 94, American football, basketball, and baseball coach, colon cancer.[46]
• Han Youwen, 85, Chinese general in the National Revolutionary Army.

23

• Philip Abbott, 73, American actor, cancer.[47]
• Marie Adams, 72, American gospel and R&B singer.
• Augusta Braxton Baker, 86, African-American librarian and storyteller.[48]
• Richard Bernard, 59, English cricketer.
• Keith Christopher, 40, American actor, singer/songwriter and AIDS activist, AIDS.
• Chuck Hayward, 78, American motion picture stuntman and actor, Hodgkin's Disease.
• Elizabeth Jaranyi, 80, Hungarian-American Holocaust survivor and author.
• Raman Lamba, 38, Indian cricketer, hit by a cricket ball.
• Sean A. Moore, 33, American fantasy and science fiction writer, car crash.[49]
• Ashot Petrosian, 67, Soviet Armenian mathematician.
• Potti Prasad, 69, Indian actor.
• Ray Stoviak, 82, American baseball player.

24

• Geoffrey Bush, 77, British composer and music scholar.[50]
• Leonard Daniels, 88, British artist and teacher.
• Ernst Gutstein, 73, Austrian operatic baritone.
• Milicent Patrick, 82, American actress, makeup artist and animator.
• Lalita Pawar, 81, Indian actress.
• Antonio Prohías, 77, Cuban cartoonist, lung cancer.
• Abraham Shneior, 69, Israeli basketball player.
• Henny Youngman, 91, English-American comedian.[51]

25

• Francesca Braggiotti, 95, Italian dancer and actress.
• Daniel J. Crowley, 76, American art historian and cultural anthropologist, congestive heart failure.[52]
• Sir Samuel Curran, 85, British physicist and university administrator.[53]
• Joe Gallagher, 83, American baseball player.
• Wanda Jakubowska, 90, Polish film director.
• W. O. Mitchell, 83, Canadian writer and broadcaster.[54]
• Arthur Potter, 92, British Indian Army officer, civil servant and diplomat.
• Rockin' Sidney, 59, American R&B, zydeco and soul musician, throat cancer.

26

• James Algar, 85, American film director, screenwriter and producer.[55]
• Jaap ter Haar, 75, Dutch children's author.[56]
• Jimmy Hagan, 80, English football player and manager.
• 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.[57]
• Stepan Neustroev, 75, Soviet officer and World War II hero.
• Theodore Schultz, 95, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate.[58]

27

• Larry Friend, 62, American basketball player, prostate cancer.
• John Harman, 65, Australian politician.
• George H. Hitchings, 92, American scientist, Nobel Prize laureate.[59]
• Martin Hollis, 59, British philosopher.[60]
• Gerald David Lascelles, 73, British nobleman.
• Henry Munyaradzi, 66/67, Zimbabwean sculptor.
• Alice Rivaz, 96, Swiss author and feminist.
• J. T. Walsh, 54, American actor, heart attack.[61]

28

• Emilia Conde, 66/67, Puerto Rican musician.
• Todd Duncan, 95, American opera singer and actor, heart ailment.[62]
• Hildegarde Howard, 96, American paleontologist.
• Dermot Morgan, 45, Irish comedian and actor, heart attack.[63]
• Antonio Quarracino, 74, Argentine Roman Catholic cardinal and archbishop, cardiac arrest.

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