Deaths in April 1998
The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.
April 1998[]
1[]
- Gene Evans, 75, American actor, heart failure.[1]
- Lucille Norman, 76, American actress, mezzo-soprano and radio personality.
- Robert Ogle, 69, Canadian Roman Catholic priest and politician.
- Rozz Williams, 34, American singer, poet and artist, suicide by hanging.[2]
2[]
- Joan Austin, 95, British tennis player.
- Benjy F. Brooks, 79, American pediatric surgeon.
- Sir Dai Davies, 88, Welsh trade unionist.
- Eberhard Rees, 89, German-American rocketry pioneer and NASA executive.[3]
3[]
- Mary Cartwright, 97, British mathematician.[4]
- Elmer Iseler, 70, Canadian choir conductor and choral editor.
- Charles Lang, 96, American cinematographer, pneumonia.
- Harkisan Mehta, 69, Indian author and journalist, heart attack.
- Rob Pilatus, 32, German model, dancer and singer (Milli Vanilli), accidental overdose.[5]
- Herbert B. Powell, 94, United States Army general and diplomat.[6]
- John W. Sweeterman, 91, American newspaperman.[7]
- Alvin Tyler, 72, American R&B and jazz musician.[8]
- Wolf Vostell, 65, German painter and sculptor.
4[]
- Harry W. Bass Jr., 71, American businessman, coin collector and philanthropist.[9]
- George Berry, 84, Australian politician.[10]
- Käthe Bosse-Griffiths, 87, German-born Egyptologist.
- Kay Hughes, 84, American actress.
- Mahendra Kasippillai, 70, Sri Lankan first-class cricketer.
- Ganesh Prasad Rijal, 77, Nepali politician, cardiac arrest.
5[]
- Frederick Charles Frank, 87, British theoretical physicist.
- Mick Miller, 61, Australian Aboriginal activist and politician, heart seizure.[11]
- Elizabeth Mitchell, 79, New Zealand fencer.
- Maurice O'Doherty, 65, Irish broadcaster.
- Cozy Powell, 50, English rock drummer (Rainbow, Whitesnake, Emerson, Lake & Powell, Black Sabbath), car crash.[12]
6[]
- Reuben Berry, 63, American gridiron football coach.
- Rudy Dhaenens, 36, Belgian road bicycle racer, car accident.[13]
- Heinz Neuhaus, 71, German boxer and heavyweight champion.
- Stanley Radwan, 89, Polish-American strongman and professional wrestler.
- Wendy O. Williams, 48, American singer, songwriter, and actress, suicide by gunshot.[14]
- John Wyatt, 63, American baseball player, heart attack.
- Tammy Wynette, 55, American country music singer-songwriter, heart arrhythmia.[15]
7[]
- Muhammad Karam Shah Al-Azhari, 79, Pakistani Islamic scholar.
- John Larking, 76, English cricketer.
- James McIntosh Patrick, 91, Scottish painter.[16]
- Alex Schomburg, 92, Puerto Rican comic-book artist and painter.
- S. V. Venkatraman, 86, Indian actor, singer and music director.
8[]
- Charlie Drinkwater, 83, English football player and manager.
- Lee Elias, 77, British-American comics artist.
- Florence Virginia Foose Wilson Mayberry, 91, American writer and Baháʼí Faith convert.[17]
- Marcel Jacobo Laniado de Wind, 70, Ecuadorian businessman and politician.
9[]
- Tom Cora, 44, American cellist and composer, malignant melanoma.[18]
- Mihai Grecu, 81, Moldovan painter.
- Vishnu Bhikaji Kolte, 89, Indian writer.
- John Tate, 43, American heavyweight boxer, car accident.[19]
- Frank Treasure, 73, Australian rules footballer, mesothelioma.
- David Vigor, 58, Australian politician, heart attack.
10[]
- A. Durai Arasan, 75, Indian politician.
- Alan Burgess, 83, English RAF pilot and author.[20]
- Dieter Erler, 58, German footballer.[21]
- Basil James, 77, American jockey.
- Zezé Moreira, 90, Brazilian footballer and coach.
- C. K. Nagaraja Rao, 82, Indian writer, director, journalist and social activist.
11[]
- Lillian Briggs, 65, American rock 'n roll performer and musician, lung cancer.
- Francis Durbridge, 85, English playwright and author.[22]
- Tex Geddes, 78, Scottish author and adventurer.[23]
- Rodney Harvey, 30, American actor, model and dancer, drug overdose.[24]
- Victoria Hernández, 101, Puerto Rican music entrepreneur.
- Stanisław Zarakowski, 90, Polish military prosecutor.
12[]
- Kenneth O. Emery, 83, Canadian-American marine geologist.
- Xin Fengxia, Chinese pingju opera performer, cerebral hemorrhage.
- Robert Ford, 83, Canadian poet and diplomat.
- Dorothea Jameson, 77, American cognitive psychologist, lung cancer.
- Felicitas Mendez, Puerto Rican-American civil right activist, heart failure.[25]
- Charles Sibley, 80, American ornithologist and molecular biologist.
- Marvin Wolfgang, 73, American sociologist and criminologist.[26]
13[]
- Alec Albiston, 80, Australian rules footballer.
- George A. Eddy, 90, American economist.
- Patrick de Gayardon, 38, French skydiver and skysurfing pioneer, skydiving accident.
- Bahi Ladgham, 85, Tunisian politician and Prime minister.[27]
- Pat Rainey, 72, American singer and actress.[28]
14[]
- Weldon Humble, 76, American gridiron football player.[29]
- Harry Lee, 90, British tennis player.
- Dorothy Squires, 83, Welsh singer, lung cancer.[30]
- Maurice Stans, 90, American civil servant and politician, congestive heart failure.[31]
15[]
- William Congdon, 86, American painter.[32]
- Kenny Duckett, 38, American football player (New Orleans Saints, Dallas Cowboys), renal failure.[33]
- William K. Jones, 81, United States Marine Corps lieutenant general.
- Rose Maddox, 72, American country singer-songwriter.[34]
- Pol Pot, 72, Cambodian politician.[35]
16[]
- Kazimieras Antanavičius, 60, Lithuanian economist and politician.
- Alberto Calderón, 77, Argentinian mathematician.[36]
- Fred Davis, 84, English snooker and billiards player.[37]
- Marie-Louise Meilleur, 117, Canadian supercentenarian, oldest living person at the time of her death.[38]
- Rose Naftalin, 101, American chef and cookbook author.
- Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit, 71, Ukrainian Hutsul artist, folk writer and -scientist, ethnographer and dialectologist.
17[]
- Michael Ashikodi Agbamuche, 77, Nigerian Attorney General and politician.
- Geraldo de Barros, 75, Brazilian painter and photographer.[39]
- Frances Clark, 93, American pianist, pedagogue, and academic.[40]
- Ayyub Huseynov, 81, Azerbaijani artist.
- Linda McCartney, 56, American musician, photographer and animal rights activist, breast cancer.[41]
- Eddie Sweat, 58, American groom in Thoroughbred horse racing, leukemia.
18[]
- Jake Colhouer, 76, American gridiron football player.
- William Edmondson, 91, American sound engineer.
- Johan Richter, 73, Danish architect and engineer.
- Terry Sanford, 80, American university administrator and politician.[42]
- Linda Schele, 55, American Mesoamerican archaeologist, pancreatic cancer.[43]
19[]
- Gardner Dickinson, 70, American golfer.[44]
- J. C. Harrington, 96, American archaeologist.
- Denis Howell, Baron Howell, 74, British politician.
- Octavio Paz, 84, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate, cancer.[45]
- Vladimir Sokolov, 70, Russian scientist.
- Liam Sullivan, 74, American actor and singer, heart attack.[46]
20[]
- Trevor Huddleston, 84, English Anglican bishop.[47]
- Yoshio Inaba, 77, Japanese actor.
- Alfredo Palacio Moreno, 85, Ecuadorian sculptor and painter.
21[]
- Peter Lind Hayes, 82, American vaudeville entertainer, songwriter and actor, vascular problems.[48]
- Vernon Holland, 49, American gridiron football player (Cincinnati Bengals, Detroit Lions and New York Giants), heart attack.
- Egill Jacobsen, 87, Danish painter.
- Jean-François Lyotard, 73, French philosopher and sociologist, leukemia.[49]
- Irene Vernon, 76, American actress, congestive heart failure and coronary artery disease.
- Frank Wootton, 86, British aviation artist.[50]
22[]
- Kitch Christie, 58, South African rugby coach.
- Guy Henn, 88, Australian doctor and politician.
- Vadym Hetman, 62, Ukrainian statesman and banker, murdered.
- Shalimar Seiuli, 21, American-Samoan transgender dancer, accidental fall.[51]
- Marvin Worth, 72, American film producer, screenwriter and actor, lung cancer.[52]
23[]
- Konstantinos Karamanlis, 91, Greek politician and former Prime Minister and President.[53]
- James Earl Ray, 70, American convict and assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., liver failure.[54]
- Thanassis Skordalos, 77, Greek musician.
- Red Stacy, 86, American gridiron football player.
24[]
- Froduald Karamira, 50, Rwandan politician, execution by firing squad.
- Yakov Malkiel, 83, Russian-American etymologist and philologist.
- Mel Powell, 75, American composer and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, liver cancer.[55]
- Christiane Rochefort, 80, French feminist writer.
- Leslie Stevens, 74, American producer, writer and director, angioplasty.[56]
25[]
- Jorge Dominichi, 51, Argentine football player and manager.
- Wright Morris, 88, American novelist, photographer and essayist, esophageal cancer.[57]
- Christian Mortensen, 115, Danish-American supercentenarian.[58]
- Don Petersen, 70, American playwright and screenwriter.
- Evelyn Raymond, 90, American sculptor.
- Dave Ross, 80, Australian rugby footballer.
26[]
- Alan Boxer, 81, British Royal Air Force officer.
- Joan Mary Wayne Brown, 92, British author.
- Juan José Gerardi Conedera, 75, Guatemalan Roman Catholic bishop and human rights activist, assassinated.[59]
- David Fasold, 59, United States Merchant Marine officer and salvage expert, cancer.
- Gabe Paul, 88, American Major League Baseball executive.[60]
27[]
- John Bassett, 82, Canadian media proprietor and politician.[61]
- Carlos Castaneda, 72, American author, hepatocellular cancer.[62]
- Anne Desclos, 90, French journalist and novelist.
- Edris Eckhardt, 93, American artist.
- Nguyễn Văn Linh, 82, Vietnamese revolutionary and politician, liver cancer.[63]
- Louis S. Peterson, 75, American playwright, actor, screenwriter and professor, lung cancer.[64]
- Ralph Raphael, 77, British organic chemist, ischaemic heart disease.[65]
- Browning Ross, 74, American long-distance runner and Olympian.[66]
- Geoffrey Serle, 76, Australian historian.
28[]
- Ramakant Desai, 58, Indian cricket player, complications following cardiac arrest.
- Sir Stanley Krusin, 89, British lawyer and parliamentary draftsman.
- Dorothy Lovett, 83, American film actress.[67]
- Reed C. Rollins, 86, American botanist and professor.
- Mum Shirl, 76, Australian Wiradjuri humanitarian activist.
29[]
- Mary Castle, 67, American actress, lung cancer.
- Mário de Castro, 92, Brazilian footballer.
- V. Gopalakrishnan, Indian actor.
- Hal Laycoe, 75, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.[68]
- Eddie Lovette, 55, American reggae musician, lung cancer.
30[]
- Guy Anderson, 91, American painter.[69]
- Curly Chalker, 66, American pedal steel guitarist, brain tumor.[70]
- Lise Gervais, 64, Canadian abstract painter and sculptor.[71]
- Daniel V. Jones, 40, American maintenance worker, suicide by gunshot.[72]
- Nizar Qabbani, 75, Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher.[73]
- Giovanni Ravalli, Italian officer and war criminal.
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