Deaths in March 1998
The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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.
March 1998
1
- Jean Marie Balland, 63, French Roman Catholic Cardinal.
- Archie Goodwin, 60, American comic book writer and artist, cancer.[1]
- Garner E. Shriver, 85, American politician.
- Robert Symonette, 73, Bahamian yachtsman and politician.
2
- Maamun al-Kuzbari, Syrian politician and literary personality.
- Henry Steele Commager, 95, American historian, pneumonia.
- Robert A. Grant, 92, American politician and District Judge.
- Darcy O'Brien, 58, American author literary critic, heart attack.[2]
3
- Fred W. Friendly, 82, American television journalist and executive, stroke.[3]
- Edward Luckhoo, 85, Guyanese Governor General.
- Loren MacIver, 89, American painter.[4]
- Hedley Mattingly, 82, British actor, cancer.
- Charles Franklin Phillips, 87, American economist.
- Marc Sautet, 51, French writer, translator and philosopher, brain tumor.
4
- Jim Cullom, 72, American gridiron football player (New York Yanks).
- Ivan Dougherty, 90, Australian Army officer.[5]
- Velmer A. Fassel, 78, American chemist.
- Syed Akbar Jaipuri, 69, Indian poet.
- Alberto Carlos Taquini, 92, Argentine cardiologist and academic.
5
- Jim McGuigan, 74, Canadian politician.
- Carleton Putnam, 96, American businessman, writer and segregationist, pneumonia.[6]
- Donald Woods, 91, Canadian-American actor.
6
- Rue Barclay, 76, Country & Western musician.[7]
- Ted Blake, 76, British trampoline pioneer.
- Benjamin Bowden, 91, British industrial designer.[8]
- Joe Shear, 54, American stock car racing driver, cancer.
- Vanna Vanni, 83, Italian film actress.
7
- Ziad Rafiq Beydoun, Lebanese petroleum geologist.[9]
- Bill Cable, 51, American actor, model and stunt performer, motorcycle accident.
- Josep Escolà, 83, Spanish footballer.
- Adem Jashari, 42, Kosovo Albanian militant separatist, murdered.
- Eleanor Ileen Johnson, 87, American survivor of the sinking of RMS Titanic.[10]
- Bernarr Rainbow, 83, British historian of music education, and choir master.[11]
- Leonie Rysanek, 71, Austrian dramatic soprano.
- Eric Smith, 74, British Army officer and military historian.
8
- Laurie Beechman, 44, American actress and singer, cancer.[12]
- Jack Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Kingsbridge, 90, British politician and public servant.
- Jack McQuillan, 77, Irish politician, trade unionist and army officer.
- Beryl Newman, 86, United States Army officer and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
- Ray Nitschke, 61, American football player (Green Bay Packers) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, heart attack.[13]
9
- Sir John Lewis Jones, 75, British Director General of MI5.
- David MacAdam, 87, American physicist and color scientist.[14]
- Klaus Matthes, 62, German mathematician.
- Alfred Pugsley, 94, British structural engineer.
- Ulrich Schamoni, 58, German film director, screenwriter, actor and media proprietor, cancer.
10
- C. E. Beeby, 95, New Zealand educationalist and psychologist.
- Ilse Bing, 98, German photographer.
- Lloyd Bridges, 85, American actor.[15]
- George Davis, 83, American motion picture art director.
- Alberto Morrocco, 80, Scottish artist.
- Anna Maria Ortese, 83, Italian author and poet.
- Edwin Raub, 76, American television personality.[16]
- Kenkō Satoshi, 30, Japanese Sumo wrestler, pulmonary embolism.
11
- Ilona Banga, 92, Hungarian biochemist.
- Basil Coetzee, 54, South African musician, cancer.
- Buddy Jeannette, 80, American basketball player and coach.[17]
- José Laurel Jr., 85, Filipino politician, pneumonia.
12
- Karrell Fox, 70, American magician and television performer.
- Jozef Kroner, 73, Slovak actor (The Shop on Main Street).
- Peter Nelson, 84, English cricket player and British Army officer.
- Beatrice Wood, 105, American artist and ceramicist.[18]
- David Zeidler, 79, Australian chemist and industrialist.
13
- Pere Alberch, 43, Spanish naturalist, biologist and embryologist.
- Philip Gale, 19, American Internet software pioneer and computer prodigy, suicide.[19]
- Tim Flock, American racecar driver and member of the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
- Claudio Gora, 84, Italian actor and film director.
- Andrew Gronholdt, 82, American Aleut artist.
- Judge Dread, 52, English musician, heart attack.[20]
- Dave Lewis, 59, American rock and R&B musician, cancer.
- Hans von Ohain, 86, German physicist and the designer of the first operational jet engine.[21]
- Bill Reid, 78, Canadian artist.
- Risen Star, 12, American thoroughbred racehorse.
- Anne Sayre, 74, American writer.[22]
- Peter Sillett, 65, England footballer, cancer.[23]
- Frano Vodopivec, 73, Croatian cinematographer.
14
- Abdul Rahman al-Eryani, 87, President of the Yemen Arab Republic.[24]
- Hugh Coveney, 62, Irish politician, fall.
- Dorothy Geddes, 61, British dental surgeon.
- Dada Kondke, 65, Indian actor and film producer.
- Dave Minor, 76, American basketball player.[25]
- Len Smith, 91, New Zealand swimmer.
15
- Malati Choudhury, 93, Indian civil rights and freedom activist.
- Tim Maia, 55, Brazilian musician and songwriter.
- Dušan Pašek, 37, Slovak ice hockey player, suicide by gunshot.
- Jheri Redding, 91, American hairdresser and businessman.
- Benjamin Spock, 94, American pediatrician and author.[26]
16
- Derek Barton, 79, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.[27]
- Esther Bubley, 77, American photographer, cancer.
- Noel Stephen Paynter, 99, British chief intelligence officer of Bomber Command.
17
- Milo Candini, 80, American baseball player.
- Douglas Harold Copp, 83, Canadian scientist.
- Len Toyne, 75, Australian rules footballer.
- Helen Westcott, 70, American actor and former child actor.[28]
18
- Joan Maie Freeman, 80, Australian physicist.
- Ted Jolliffe, 89, Canadian politician.[29]
- Klaus Mollenhauer, 69, German pedagogical theorist.
- Hideo Shima, 96, Japanese engineer and bullet train pioneer.
- Robert E. Woodside, 93, American politician and judge.
19
- Simon Diedong Dombo, Ghanaian politician and king.
- Reuben Kelto, 78, American gridiron football player, complications of Alzheimer's disease.
- E. M. S. Namboodiripad, 88, Indian communist politician and theorist.[30]
- Jimmy Scoular, 73, Scottish football player and manager.
20
- Yemima Avidar-Tchernovitz, 88, Israeli author.
- Beverley Cross, 66, English playwright, librettist and screenwriter.[31]
- Sir Anthony Fell, 83, British politician.
- Agustín Gómez-Arcos, 65, Spanish writer, cancer.
- George Howard, 41, American jazz saxophonist, colon cancer.[32]
- Laddie Lucas, 82, British Air Force officer and politician.
- Catherine Sauvage, 68, French singer and actress.[33]
21
- Harry Arlanson, 88, American football and baseball coach.
- Ben Bagley, 64, American record producer and musical producer.[34]
- Ramanathapuram C. S. Murugabhoopathy, 84, Indian Mridanga maestro.
- Galina Ulanova, 88, Russian ballet dancer.
22
- Jack R. Howard, 87, American broadcasting executive.
- Shoichi Nishimura, Japanese football player and manager, pneumonia.
- Rube Reiswerg, 85, American basketball player.[35]
23
- Louis Arbessier, 90, French actor.
- Chuck Hunsinger, 72, American gridiron football player.
- Thomas MacDonald, 89, Irish cricketer.
- Ray Scott, 78, American sportscaster.[36]
24
- Åke Mangård, 81, Swedish Air Force major general.
- António Ribeiro, 69, Portuguese Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, cancer.
- Torben Tryde, 81, Danish writer, olympian and resistance fighter during World War II.
- Jill Ann Weatherwax, 27, American model and aspiring singer, homicide.[37]
25
- Daniel Massey, 64, English actor and performer, Hodgkin's lymphoma.[38]
- Clive Osborne, 75, Australian politician.
- Steven Schiff, 51, American politician, squamous-cell carcinoma.
- Chris Trickle, 24, American stock car racing driver, drive-by shooting.
- Wilfred Watson, 86, Canadian professor and author.
- Betsey Cushing Roosevelt Whitney, 88, American philanthropist.[39]
26
- Denis Charles, 64, American jazz drummer.
- Kate Cruise O'Brien, 49, Irish writer.[40]
- Shantinath Desai, 69, Indian author.
- Beatrice Laura Goff, 94, American archaeologist and biblical scholar.
- Asha Posley, Pakistani actress.
27
- John William Comber, 92, American Catholic missionary and bishop.
- Chu Hsi-ning, 70, Taiwanese writer.
- Chen Jin, 90, Taiwanese painter.
- Joan Lestor, 66, British politician.
- Joan Maynard, 76, English politician and trade unionist, cancer.[41]
- Steve Nemeth, 75, American gridiron football player.
- Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, 88, Austrian auto designer and businessman.[42]
28
- Else Elster, 88, German actress.
- Takekuni Hirayoshi, 61, Japanese classical composer.
- Larry Stephens, 59, American gridiron football player (Cleveland Browns, Los Angeles Rams, Dallas Cowboys).
29
- Giuliano Biagetti, 72, Italian film director and screenwriter.
- Kvitka Cisyk, 44, American coloratura soprano.
- David Nightingale Hicks, 69, English interior decorator and designer, lung cancer.
- Loreta, Iranian Armenian actress.
- Dick Phillips, 66, American baseball player, manager and coach.
- Carol Schlosberg, 40, American painter, murdered.[43]
- Eugene Walter, 76, American screenwriter, poet, actor, puppeteer and chef, liver cancer.[44]
- Harold E. Wilson, 76, United States Marine and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
- Dudley Wysong, 58, American golfer, aneurysm.
30
- Michèle Arnaud, 79, French singer and director.
- Judy Buenoano, 54, American convicted murderer, executed by electrocution.[45]
- Sir Frank King, 79, British Army officer.[46]
- Mordechai Olmert, 90, Israeli politician.
- Athelstan Spilhaus, 86, South African-American geophysicist and oceanographer.
31
- Bella Abzug, 77, American lawyer, politician and social activist.[47]
- Yolanda Burkhard, 67, Canadian politician.
- John H. Cooke, 86, American lawyer and politician.
- Tim Flock, 73, American stock car racer, liver and throat cancer.[48]
- Henry George Glyde, 91, Canadian painter.
- Joel Ryce-Menuhin, 64, American pianist.
- Pete Tillman, 75, American football player and coach.
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