Deaths in July 1998

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.

July 1998

1

• Francis Ambrière, 90, French author.
• Emery Barnes, 68, Canadian football player and politician.
• Dumitru Berciu, 91, Romanian historian and archaeologist.
• Ed Connolly, 58, American baseball player.
• Charlotte Fawcett, 87, American politician.[1]
• Claire Kelly, 64, American actress and model.[2]
• David Montagu, 4th Baron Swaythling, 69, British peer, leukaemia.
• Toyonobori, 67, Japanese sumo wrestler, heart failure.[3]

2

• Alam Channa, 45, tall man, kidney failure.
• Miklós Gábor, 79, Hungarian actor.
• Joe Graboski, 68, American basketball player.[4]
• Vernon Edgar Howard, 61, American politician, member of the Texas House of Representatives and Senate (1969-1975;1979-1986), throat cancer.[5]
• Juan José Nogués, 89, Spanish footbal player and manager.
• Errol Parker, 72, French-Algerian jazz pianist, liver cancer.
• Sohrab Shahid-Saless, 54, Iranian film director and screenwriter, liver failure.
• Kay Thompson, 88, American author, actress and singer.[6]
• Tony De Vit, 40, English DJ and music producer, bronchial failure.[7]

3

• Arun Kumar Ahuja, 81, Indian film actor and producer.
• Danielle Bunten Berry, 49, American game designer and programmer, lung cancer.[8]
• Alfred Caldwell, 95, American architect.[9]
• Sadeq Chubak, 81, Iranian author of short fiction, drama, and novels.
• Peter C. Hains III, 97, American Army Major General.[10]
• Billie Hughes, 50, American songwriter, musician and record producer, heart attack.[11]
• George Lloyd, 85, British composer.
• Gene Rockwell, 53, South African singer, cancer.
• Lev Rokhlin, 51, Soviet / Russian army officer, murdered.
• Duncan White, 80, Sri Lankan sportsman.

4

• Gladys Ambrose, 67, English actress, cancer.
• Gregg Burge, 40, American tap dancer and choreographer, brain tumor.
• Kurt Franz, 84, German SS officer and commander of the Treblinka extermination camp.[12]
• Peter Monteverdi, 64, Swiss carmaker, cancer.[13]
• Strike Out, 29, Standardbred harness racing stallion.
• M. N. Sathyaardhi, 85, Indian writer and freedom fighter.

5

• Stevie Hyper D, 30, British drum and bass MC, heart attack.
• Jose Encarnacion Jr., 69, Filipino professor of Economics.
• 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.[14]
• Johnny Speight, 78, English television scriptwriter.

6

• Anthony Ochaya, 65, Ugandan politician and economist, pneumonia.
• Alan Revill, 75, English cricketer.
• Roy Rogers, 86, American singer and actor, congestive heart failure.[15]
• Ed Sanicki, 74, American baseball player.

7

• Moshood Abiola, 60, Nigerian businessman, politician and aristocrat.
• Sir Charles Cunningham, 92, Scottish civil servant.
• F. Tillman Durdin, 91, American foreign correspondent for The New York Times.[16]
• Maurice Holmes, 89, New Zealand harness racer.
• Robert Lickley, 86, Scottish aeronautical engineer.
• Lenore Romney, 89, American actress and political figure, stroke.[17]

8

• Constance Cox, 85, British script writer and playwright.[18]
• Dušan Vukotić, 71, Yugoslav and Croatian cartoonist and author.
• Philip Charles Wilkins, 85, United States District Judge.

9

• John Baker-Carr, 92, British Royal Air Force officer.
• Jose V. Cruz, 72, Filipino diplomat and writer.
• Jim Flora, 84, American artist, stomach cancer.[19]
• David Fulker, 61, British behavioural geneticist.[20]
• Maurice Heath, 88, British Royal Air Force officer.
• 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.[21]
• Victor Smith, 85, Royal Australian Navy officer.

11

• Komla Agbeli Gbedemah, 85, Ghanaian politician.
• James William Govett, 88, Australian impressionist.
• Emma Humphreys, 30, British convict, accidental overdose.[22]
• Panagiotis Kondylis, 54, Greek philosopher, intellectual and historian.
• John J. Tominac, 76, United States Army officer and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
• Gaston Tremblay, 74, Canadian politician.

12

• Wilson Francisco Alves, 70, Brazilian football player and manager.
• John Henrik Clarke, 83, African-American historian and professor, heart attack.[23]
• Jimmy Driftwood, 91, American folk music songwriter and musician, heart attack.
• Bo Giertz, 92, Swedish theologian, novelist and bishop.
• Maithripala Senanayake, 82, Sri Lankan politician.

13

• Watkins Moorman Abbitt, 90, American politician and lawyer.
• Gauri Ayyub, 67, Indian social worke, activist and writer, acute arthritis.
• Red Badgro, 95, American football player, football coach and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, complications from a fall.[24]
• Stanley Bergerman, 94, American producer of horror films, cancer.[25]
• Jean Parédès, 83, French film actor.
• Ben Zion Abba Shaul, 73, Israeli Sephardic rabbi.

14

• Rex Applegate, 84, American army officer.
• Glenn E. Duncan, 80, United States Air Force officer and World War II flying ace.
• Björn Hjörtur Guðmundsson, 87, Icelandic craftsman and environmental pioneer.
• Miroslav Holub, 74, Czech poet and immunologist.
• Herman David Koppel, 89, Danish composer and pianist.
• Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, 67, South Vietnamese general, cancer.[26]
• Richard McDonald, 89, American entrepreneur, co-founder of McDonald's and inventor of the fast food system.[27]
• Donald Shaw Ramsay, 78, Scottish bagpiper.
• Karl Schirdewan, 91, German communist activist and East German politician.[28]
• Angus John Mackintosh Stewart, 61, British writer.
• Thomas Martin Thompson, 43, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[29]

15

• Malcolm Booker, 83, Australian diplomat, author and journalist.[30]
• Joseph Desmond O'Connor, 78, British linguist.
• S. Shanmuganathan, 38, Sri Lankan Tamil militant and politician, assassinated.[31]

16

• John Ball, 73, English footballer.
• Philip J. Corso, 83, American Army officer, heart attack.
• Jess Dobernic, 80, American baseball player.
• Mahbub ul Haq, 64, Pakistani economist and politician.[32]
• Lucien Lamoureux, 77, Canadian politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada.

17

• Lillian Hoban, 73, American illustrator and children's writer.[33]
• Marc Hunter, 44, New Zealand singer, songwriter and record producer, cancer.[34]
• James Lighthill, 74, British mathematician.
• Joseph Maher, 64, Irish-American actor, playwright and director, brain tumor.
• Hugh Reilly, 82, American actor, emphysema.[35]
• Claudia Testoni, 82, Italian hurdler, sprinter and long jumper.

18

• Florence Bird, 90, Canadian broadcaster, journalist, and senator.
• Mykola Lebed, 89, Ukrainian political activist, nationalist and guerrilla fighter.
• Betty Marsden, 79, English comedy actress.[36]
• Julia Boyer Reinstein, 91, American historian.
• Kunwar Mohinder Singh Bedi Sahar, 89, Indian Urdu poet.
• Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Thero, 101, Sri Lankan Buddhist monk.

19

• Giliana Berneri, French communist activist.[37]
• Ralph Toohy, 71, Canadian Football League player.
• Elmer Valo, 77, Slovak American baseball player and coach.

20

• Norah Borges, 97, Argentine artist.
• June Byers, 76, American women's professional wrestler, pneumonia.
• Alberto Cavallari, 70, Italian journalist and writer.[38]
• Tossy Spivakovsky, 91, Russian-American violin virtuoso.[39]
• Golden "Big" Wheeler, 68, American blues singer, harmonicist and songwriter, heart failure.

21

• O'Landa Draper, 34, American gospel music artist, renal failure.
• Alan Shepard, 74, American astronaut, naval aviator and test pilot, complications from leukemia.[40]
• Robert Young, 91, American actor, respiratory failure.[41]

22

• Michael Denison, 82, English actor.[42]
• Corbett Monica, 68, American comedian.[43]
• Hermann Prey, 69, German bass-baritone.
• Antonio Saura, 67, Spanish artist and writer.
• Tjokropranolo, 74, Indonesian politician and military officer.

23

• Vladimir Dudintsev, 79, Russian writer.
• Mark Hampton, 58, American designer.[44]
• John Hopkins, 67, English film, stage and television writer, domestic accident.[45]
• Fred A. Lennon, 92, American manufacturer and philanthropist.
• Djibril Diop Mambéty, 53, Senegalese actor, film director and poet, lung cancer.
• Manuel Mejía Vallejo, 75 Colombian writer.

24

• Gus Alex, 82, Greek-American mobster.
• Alta Allen, 93, American silent film actress.
• Jacob Chestnut, 58, United States Capitol Police officer, killed during the U.S. Capitol shooting incident.[46]
• John Gibson, 42, U.S. Capitol Police officer, killed during the U.S. Capitol shooting incident.[46]
• Ronnie Grieveson, 88, South African cricketer.

25

• David Durand, 77, American actor.[47]
• Tal Farlow, 77, American jazz guitarist, esophageal cancer.[48]
• Tiny Rowland, 80, British businessman and corporate raider.

26

• Manzoor Alam Beg, 67, Bangladeshi photographer.
• Rainey Bennett, 91, American artist, illustrator and muralist.[49]
• Seán Ó hEinirí, 83, Irish seanchaí and the last known monolingual Irish speaker.
• Zeki Kuneralp, 83, Turkish diplomat.
• David J. McCloud, 53, American Air Force lieutenant general, airplane crash.
• Aymoré Moreira, 86, Brazilian football player and coach.

27

• Binnie Barnes, 95, English actress.
• Zlatko Čajkovski, 74, Croatian football player and coach (1948 silver medal, 1952 silver medal).[50]
• Russell M. Carneal, 80, American politician and judge.[51]
• John Gilliland, 62, American radio broadcaster and documentarian.
• Elizabeth Karlin, 54, American doctor and advocate for women's reproductive rights, complications from a brain tumor.
• Muzz Patrick, 83, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
• Bill Tuttle, 69, American baseball player, cancer.

28

• Mykola Bakay, 67, Ukrainian singer, composer, poet and author.
• Olga de Blanck, 82, Cuban pianist, guitarist and composer.
• Zbigniew Herbert, 73, Polish poet, essayist, drama writer and moralist.
• David Jones, 84, English cricketer.
• Lenny McLean, 49, English unlicensed boxer, bouncer, bodyguard and actor.[52]
• Consalvo Sanesi, 87, Alfa Romeo works' test driver.

29

• Jorge Pacheco Areco, 78, Uruguayan politician.
• Doris Nolan, 82, American actress.
• Jerome Robbins, 79, American choreographer, director and dancer.[53]
• Fabrice Simon, 47, Haitian artist and fashion designer, AIDS.[54]
• O. Z. Whitehead, 87, American actor, cancer.
• Bobby Whitt, 10, American murder victim, homicide.[55]

30

• Maurice Bardèche, 90, French art critic and journalist.[56]
• Bharathan, 51, Indian film director and artist.
• Donald C. Davis, 77, United States Navy admiral, heart attack.
• Oreste Marengo, 91, Italian Roman Catholic prelate.
• Doug McRitchie, 74, Australian rugby player.
• Ryoichi Nakagawa, 85, Japanese aircraft/automotive engineer.
• Buffalo Bob Smith, 80, American children's television host, cancer[57]
• Kenneth A. Walsh, 81, United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel, World War II flying ace and Medal of Honor recipient, heart attack.[58]

31

• Jean de Baroncelli, 84, French writer.
• Clarrie Earl, 85, Australian politician.
• Sylvia Field, 97, American actress.[59]
• Barbara Giuranna, 98, Italian pianist and composer.[60]
• John E. Powers, 87, American politician.
• Richie Powers, 67, American basketball referee, stroke.[61]
• Herbert Widmayer, 84, German football player and manager.

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