Deaths in November 1998

The following is a list of notable deaths in November 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.

November 1998

1

• John Stephenson, 88, English judge and Lord Justice of Appeal.[1]
• Norbert Wollheim, 85, German-born American Holocaust survivor and Central Council of Jews in Germany board member.
• Stanislav Zhuk, 63, Russian Olympic skater and coach, heart attack.

2

• Janet Arnold, 66, British clothing historian, costume designer and author, lymphoma.[2]
• Rolf Husberg, 90, Swedish film director, cinematographer, screenwriter and actor.
• Elmo Plaskett, 60, United States Virgin Islands baseball player.[3]
• Mareta West, 83, American astrogeologist.

3

• Helmuth Johannsen, 78, German football player and manager.
• Bob Kane, 83, American comic book creator.[4]
• John Campbell Merrett, 89, Canadian architect.
• P. L. Narayana, 63, Indian film actor and playwright,.
• Martha O'Driscoll, 76, American film actress.[5]

4

• Marion Donovan, 81, American inventor and entrepreneur.
• Hélmer Herrera, 47, Colombian narco and member of the Cali Cartel, shot.[6]
• Maedagawa Katsu, 59, Japanese sumo wrestler.
• Joyce Lussu, 86, Italian writer and partisan during World War II.
• Sonny Boy Nelson, 89, American blues musician.
• Jorge Wehbe, 78, Argentine lawyer and economist, Minister of Economy.

5

• Garlin Murl Conner, 79, United States Army officer during World War II and Medal of Honor recipient.[7]
• Momoko Kōchi, 66, Japanese actress, cancer.
• Nagarjun, 87, Indian poet.
• Jack Stewart, 86, Australian farmer and politician.

6

• Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim, President of the Comoros.
• Jack Hartman, 73, American gridiron football player and basketball coach.
• Sky Low Low, 70, Canadian midget wrestler, heart attack.[8]
• Niklas Luhmann, 70, German sociologist and philosopher of social science.
• Magruder Tuttle, 90, American rear admiral.

7

• Margaret Gowing, 77, English historian.[9]
• John Hunt, Baron Hunt, 88, British Army officer.[10]
• Leonard De Paur, 83, African-American composer and choral director.
• Ted Slevin, English rugby player.
• Jiwan Singh Umranangal, 84, Indian politician.

8

• Rumer Godden, 90, English writer, series of strokes.[11]
• Jemal Karchkhadze, Georgian writer.
• Thomas Henry Manning, 86, British-Canadian Arctic explorer, geographer, zoologist, and author.
• Jean Marais, 84, French actor, writer and sculptor, cardiovascular disease.[12]

9

• Baya, 66, Algerian artist.
• Henry Dorman, 82, American lawyer and politician.[13]
• Roland Hewgill, 69, Canadian actor.
• Anura Ranasinghe, 42, Sri Lankan cricketer, heart attack.

10

• Jean Leray, 92, French mathematician.
• Mary Millar, 62, British actress and singer, ovarian cancer.[14]
• Hal Newhouser, 77, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame.
• Ellis Robinson, 87, English cricketer.
• Gelena Velikanova, 75, Soviet traditional pop performer.

11

• Frank Brimsek, 83, American ice hockey player.[15]
• Paddy Clancy, 76, Irish folk singer, lung cancer.[16]
• Joseph Costa, 89, Portuguese American aviator.
• Ferdinand Kulmer, 73, Croatian abstract painter.
• Allan Kwartler, 81, American sabre and foil fencer.
• Sam Melberg, 86, Norwegian sports diver.

12

• Janet Alcoriza, 80, American screenwriter and actress.
• Stefan of Austria, 66, Austrian nobleman and member of the House of Habsburg.
• Paul Hoffman, 73, American basketball player, brain tumor.
• Sir Asher Joel, 86, Australian public servant.
• Ronald Gustave Kellett, 89, English stockbroker and World War II flying ace.
• Kenny Kirkland, 43, American musician, congestive heart failure.[17]
• Sally Shlaer, 59, American mathematician, software engineer and methodologist.[18]

13

• Edwige Feuillère, 91, French actress.
• Valerie Hobson, 81, Irish-born actress.
• Red Holzman, 78, American basketball player and coach.
• Eric Orr, 58, sculptor and installation artist.
• Hendrik Timmer, 94, Dutch sportsman.[19]
• Michel Trudeau, 23, Canadian outdoorsman, son of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and brother of current PM Justin Trudeau, avalanche.[20]
• Ilie Văduva, 64, Romanian communist politician.
• Doug Wright, 84, English cricketer.

14

• Eli Cashdan, 93, British rabbi.
• Quentin Crewe, 72, English journalist, author, restaurateur and adventurer.[21]
• Albert Frey, 95, Swiss-born American architect.
• Dennis Stokes, 87, English cricketer.

15

• Ruth Arion, 86, German-Israeli visual artist.
• Stokely Carmichael, 57, Trinidadian-American political activist, prostate cancer.[22]
• Ludvík Daněk, 61, Czechoslovak discus thrower, Olympic champion (1972).
• Miranda Fenner, 18, American teenager and murder victim, stabbed.
• Laurence Gandar, 83, South African journalist and newspaper editor.
• William T. Miller, 87, American professor of organic chemistry.
• Doris Niles, 93, American dancer.[23]

16

• Mohammad-Taqi Ja'fari, 73, Iranian scholar, philosopher and islamic theologist.
• Raymond J. Reeves, 89, United States Air Force general.
• J. D. Sumner, 73, American gospel bass singer and songwriter.[24]

17

• Kea Bouman, 94, Dutch tennis player.[25]
• Claude A. Buss, 94, American diplomat and professor emeritus of history.
• Isaac M. "Ike" Carpenter, 78, American jazz bandleader and pianist.
• Weeb Ewbank, 91, American football coach (Baltimore Colts, New York Jets) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, heart problems.[26]
• Efim Geller, 73, Soviet chess player and grandmaster.
• Kenneth McDuff, 52, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
• Jacques Médecin, 70, French politician, cardiac arrest.
• Miguel A. García Méndez, 96, Puerto Rican lawyer and politician.
• Ronald Richardson, 71, English cricketer.
• Esther Rolle, 78, American actress.[27]
• Bill Ward, 79, American cartoonist.

18

• Norma Connolly, 71, American actress.[28]
• Hal Davis, 65, American songwriter and record producer.
• Tara Singh Hayer, 62, Indo-Canadian newspaper publisher.
• Jeanine Moulin, 86, Belgian poet and literary scholar.
• V. C. Samuel, 86, Indian Christian scholar, theologian and ecumenical leader.

19

• Elijah Carrington, 84, English cricketer.
• Louis Dumont, French anthropologist.
• Ken Gatward, 84, British Royal Air Force pilot during World War II.[29]
• Sir Brendan Jackson, 63, British air chief marshal.
• William J. McCarthy, 79, American labor leader.
• Alan J. Pakula, 70, American film director, writer and producer, traffic collision.[30]
• Majid Sharif, Iranian translator and journalist, murdered.

20

• Roland Alphonso, 67, Jamaican tenor saxophonist.
• Howard Wilson Emmons, 86, American professor in Mechanical Engineering.[31]
• John Grimek, 88, American bodybuilder and weightlifter.
• Fred Morris, 69, British football player.
• Dick Sisler, 78, American baseball player, coach and manager.
• Galina Starovoytova, 52, Soviet dissident, assassinated.[32]
• Rosa Turich, 95, American actress, stroke.

21

• Thomas Bermingham, American Jesuit priest and Classical scholar.[33]
• Dave Huffman, 41, American football player, traffic collision.
• Alvin P. Shapiro, 77, American physician and professor, complications of kidney failure.
• Ormond R. Simpson, 83, United States Marine Corps officer.[34]
• Fabian Ver, 78, Filipino military officer, pulmonary complications.
• Nosson Meir Wachtfogel, 88, Russian-born American Orthodox rabbi.

22

• Vladimir Demikhov, 82, Soviet scientist and organ transplantation pioneer.[35]
• Dariush Forouhar, 69-70, Iranian pan-Iranist politician, murdered.
• Parvaneh Forouhar, 59, Iranian dissident and activist, murdered.
• Henry Hampton, 58, American filmmaker.
• Charles Hegyalji, 42, Australia criminal, murdered.
• Gustav Anders Hemwall, 90, American physician and pioneer in prolotherapy.
• Celeste Mendoza, 68, Cuban singer.[36]
• Holt Rast, 81, American football player.
• Jack Shadbolt, 89, Canadian painter.
• Stu Ungar, 45, American professional poker, blackjack, and gin rummy player, heart problems.[37]

23

• Lamar McHan, 65, American football player and coach, heart attack.
• Gene Moore, 88, American designer and window dresser.[38]
• Dan Osman, 35, American extreme sport practitioner, Rock climbing accident.
• Ralph S. Phillips, 85, American mathematician and academic.
• Don Ray, 77, American basketball player.

24

• Eprime Eshag, 80, Iranian economist.[39]
• Stanley Hallett, 68, American urban planner.
• Arnold Käch, 84, Swiss military officer, ski official and writer.
• Minnette de Silva, 80, Sri Lankan architect.
• Nikola Tanhofer, 71, Croatian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer.
• Jake Tuli, 67, South African fly/bantam/featherweight boxer.

25

• Robert Eisner, 76, American author and Economics professor, bone marrow disorder.[40]
• Nelson Goodman, 92, American philosopher.
• P. N. Haksar, 85, Indian diplomat.
• Fiatau Penitala Teo, 87, Tuvalu political figure.
• Flip Wilson, 64, American comedian and actor, liver cancer.[41]

26

• Gerald Battrick, 51, Welsh tennis player.[42]
• Charles Bennett, 85, New Zealand broadcaster, military leader and public servant.
• Ox Emerson, 90, American football player.
• Gyo Fujikawa, 90, American illustrator and children's book author.[43]
• Savjibhai Korat, 45, Indian politician.
• Tom Lyon, 83, Scottish footballer.

27

• Barbara Acklin, 55, American soul singer and songwriter, pneumonia.[44]
• William Baxter, 69, American professor of Law.
• Gloria Fuertes, 81, Spanish poet and children's author.[45]
• Martin Gurule, 29, American death row convict, shot during prison escape.
• Douglas LePan, 84, Canadian diplomat, poet, novelist and professor of literature.
• Herman Murray, 89, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Vicki Viidikas, 50, Australian poet.
• Jozef IJsewijn, 65, Flemish Latinist.

28

• Joseph T. Dawson, 84, United States Army officer during World War II.
• Dante Fascell, 81, American politician, colorectal cancer.
• Frederick William Freking, 85, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, emphysema.
• James C. Lucas, 86, American criminal and inmate of Alcatraz Penitentiary.
• Hamid Mosadegh, 58, Iranian poet, author and lawyer, complications following a heart attack.
• Augie Scott, 77, English football player and manager.
• John Stanford, 60, United States Army officer.[46]
• Kerry Wendell Thornley, 60, American counterculture figure and writer, cardiac arrest.[47]

29

• Roy Benavidez, 63, United States Army Special Forces member and Medal of Honor recipient, complications of diabetes.[48]
• George Van Eps, 85, American swing and jazz guitarist, pneumonia.
• Jack Gilbert, 80, Australian WWII veteran and rugby player.
• Pépé Kallé, 46, Congolese musician, heart attack.
• Frank Latimore, 73, American actor.
• Robin Ray, 64, English broadcaster, actor, and musician, lung cancer.[49]
• Martin Ruane, 52, British professional wrestler, lymphoma.

30

• Abdullah-Al-Muti, 68, Bangladeshi educationist and writer.
• Ruth Clifford, 98, American actress.[50]
• Jesse Levan, 72, American baseball player.
• Simon Nkoli, 41, South Africa anti-apartheid and gay rights activist, AIDS.
• Johnny Roventini, 88, American actor.
• James Strauch, 77, American Olympic fencer.
• Margaret Walker, 83, American poet and writer, breast cancer.[51]

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