Deaths in August 1998

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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.

August 1998[]

1[]

2[]

  • Mapy Cortés, 88, Puerto Rican actress, heart attack.[2]
  • Tommy Faile, 69, American songwriter and singer, heart attack.
  • Shari Lewis, 65, American ventriloquist and puppeteer, viral pneumonia.[3]
  • Taufiq Rafat, 71, Pakistani author and poet.

3[]

  • Francesc Xavier Bultó, 86, Spanish businessman.
  • Ahmet Kayhan Dede, Turkish Sufi master.
  • Alfred Schnittke, 63, German-born Russian composer, complications from strokes.[4]
  • Alan Walsh, 81, British-Australian physicist, originator of atomic absorption spectroscopy.

4[]

  • Yuri Artyukhin, 68, Soviet Russian cosmonaut and engineer, cancer.
  • Carmen Delia Dipini, 70, Puerto Rican singer.
  • Thomas J. McDonough, 86, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.[5]

5[]

6[]

  • Henk Bosveld, 57, Dutch footballer, heart attack.
  • Jack Brickhouse, 82, American sportscaster.[9]
  • Nat Gonella, 90, English jazz trumpeter, bandleader and vocalist.
  • Walter Merlo, 33, Italian long-distance runner, mountaineering accident.
  • André Weil, 92, French mathematician.[10]

7[]

8[]

  • Raymond E. Brown, 70, American Catholic priest.[12]
  • Idella Jones Childs, 95, American historian and civil rights activist.
  • Anna J. Harrison, 85, American organic chemist and professor of chemistry.[13]
  • Jess J. Present, 77, American politician.
  • László Szabó, 81, Hungarian chess grandmaster.

9[]

  • Tony Baker, 53, American football player, car accident.[14]
  • Brynhild Haugland, 93, American politician,
  • George Child Villiers, 9th Earl of Jersey, 88, English nobleman and politician, heart attack.
  • Alvin Luedecke, 87, United States Army Air Forces general during World War II.
  • Satoshi Murayama, 29, Japanese shogi player, bladder cancer.
  • Frankie Ruiz, 40, Puerto Rican singer and songwriter, liver cirrhosis.[15]

10[]

  • Bekim Berisha, 32, Kosovar Albanian soldier, killed in action.
  • Chuck Fenenbock, 80, American football player.
  • Sidney W. Fox, 86, American biochemist.[16]
  • Tsugio Hattori, 46, Japanese-born American abstract painter.
  • Premji, 89, Indian actor and social reformer.

11[]

12[]

13[]

  • Nino Ferrer, 63, French singer, songwriter and author, suicide.[21]
  • Edward Ginzton, 82, Ukrainian-American engineer.
  • Julien Green, 97, American writer.[22]
  • Waneta Hoyt, 52, American serial killer, pancreatic cancer.
  • Karl Hubenthal, 81, American cartoonist, cancer.
  • Saturday Rosenberg, 46, Australian comedian, writer and actress, traffic accident.[23]

14[]

  • Eve Boswell, 76, British pop singer.[24]
  • Gary Evans, 43, American thief and serial killer.[25]
  • Xavier Miserachs, 61, Spanish photographer, lung cancer.
  • Chalmers Wylie, 77, American politician.[26]

15[]

  • Jason Altom, 26, American Ph.D. student, suicide.
  • Marc Akerstream, 44, Canadian actor and stuntman, head injuries from special effects explosion.[27]
  • G. B. Greene Jr., 84, American Air Force major general.
  • Bill Shill, 75, Canadian ice hockey player.

16[]

  • Abdallah al-Hubal, Yemeni serial killer, suicide.
  • Lu Hsiu-yi, 57, Taiwanese politician.
  • Phil Leeds, 82, American actor, pneumonia.[28]
  • Dorothy West, 91, American novelist and short-story writer.[29]

17[]

  • Robert B. Evans, 92, American automobile industry executive.[30]
  • Terry Garvin, 61, Canadian professional wrestler, cancer.[31]
  • Władysław Komar, 58, Polish shot putter and actor, car crash.
  • Johnny Lipon, 75, American baseball player.
  • Rita Roland, 83, German-born American film editor.
  • Irwin Suall, 73, American socialist, civil rights activist, and investigator, emphysema.[32]

18[]

  • Ward "Pally" Austin, 63, Australian radio DJ.
  • Protima Bedi, 49, Indian model, landslide.
  • Harry J. Cargas, 66, American scholar and author.
  • Persis Khambatta, 49, Indian model and actress, heart attack.[33]
  • Shane Shamrock, 23, American professional wrestler, altercation with police.[34]
  • Piyadassi Maha Thera, 84, Sri Lankan buddhist monk.
  • Otto Wichterle, 84, Czech chemist.[35]

19[]

  • Vasily Arkhipov, 72, Soviet Navy officer during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
  • Anne Asquith, 81, British code breaker.[36]
  • Lawrence J. Fuller, 83, American Army major general, heart attack.[37]
  • Andrew Massey, 55, British Army officer, drowning accident.
  • Ramswaroop Verma, 74, Indian humanist.
  • Yuri Yappa, 70, Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist.

20[]

21[]

  • Hans van Abeelen, 61, Dutch behaviour geneticist.
  • Eddie Baxter, 75, American organist.
  • Franz Eisenach, 80, German flying ace during World War II and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
  • Francis Ingall, 89, British Indian Army officer.
  • John Stopford, 61, English rugby player.[39]

22[]

  • Jack Briggs, 78, American actor.
  • Evelyn Denington, Baroness Denington, 91, British politician, heart failure.[40]
  • Minoru Murayama, 61, Japanese baseball player.
  • Woody Stephens, 84, Americanthoroughbred horse racing trainer, emphysema.[41]

23[]

  • Nikolai Kolesov, 42, Russian footballer.[42]
  • Asadollah Lajevardi, Iranian conservative politician and warden, assassinated.
  • Rolf Søder, 80, Norwegian film actor.
  • John Woodcock, 44, American football player, heart attack.

24[]

  • Manuel Azcárate, 81, Spanish journalist and communist politician, cancer.[43]
  • Charles Diggs, 75, African-American politician, stroke.[44]
  • Ralph Freeman, 87, English civil engineer, traffic accident.
  • E. G. Marshall, 84, American actor, lung cancer.[45]
  • Gene Page, 58, American composer, arranger and record producer.
  • Georges Senfftleben, 75, French track cyclist.
  • Jack Williams, 88, American radio announcer and politician, cancer.[46]

25[]

  • Mildred L. Batchelder, 96, American librarian.
  • Floyd Haskell, 82, American lawyer and politician, pneumonia.[47]
  • Allan Macartney, 57, Scottish politician.
  • Barbara Mandell, 78, British journalist, broadcaster, newsreader and travel writer.
  • Bob Montgomery, 79, American boxer, complications from a stroke.[48]
  • Jerry Wayne Parrish, 54, United States Army corporal and defector, kidney failure.
  • Lewis F. Powell Jr., 90, American lawyer and jurist.[49]
  • Hilda Ranscombe, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.
  • Vitaly Tulenev, 61, Soviet Russian painter, watercolorist and graphic artist.

26[]

  • Genaro Ruiz Camacho, 43, American criminal, execution by lethal injection.
  • Wade Dominguez, 32, American actor, model, singer and dancer, respiratory failure.
  • Penny Edwards, 70, American actress, lung cancer.[50]
  • Robert Huebner, 84, American physician and virologist, pneumonia.[51]
  • Jaanus Kuum, 33, Estonian-Norwegian racing cyclist, suicide.
  • Nicolas Bayona Ba Meya, 59, Congolese jurist.
  • Dmitry Mishin, 79, Soviet and Russian physicist.
  • Margaret Potter, 72, British writer.
  • Frederick Reines, 80, American physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.[52]
  • Ryūichi Tamura, 75, Japanese poet, essayist and translator.

27[]

  • Babalu, 56, Filipino comedian and actor, liver cancer.
  • Kelly Chan, 41, Singaporean windsurfer, crash.[53]
  • Syd Owen, 76, English football player and coach.
  • Essie Summers, 86, New Zealand author.
  • Margaret Dauler Wilson, 59, American philosopher and professor of philosophy.[54]

28[]

29[]

  • Antoinette Becker, 78, French-German children's author.
  • Richard Beebe, 68, American radio personality, lung cancer.[56]
  • Minerva Bernardino, Dominican Republic diplomat and feminist.[57]
  • Charlie Feathers, 66, American country music and rockabilly musician, stroke.[58]
  • John Langston Gwaltney, 69, African-American writer and anthropologist.[59]
  • Jim Murray, 78, American sportswriter and Pulitzer Prize winner.[60]
  • Frances Hamerstrom, 90, American author, naturalist and ornithologist.[61]

30[]

  • Dan Kubiak, 60, American politician and businessman, cardiovascular disease.
  • Francis Pellerin, 83, French sculptor.
  • Denniz Pop, 35, Swedish DJ, music producer and songwriter, stomach cancer.
  • Irving Segal, 79, American mathematician.[62]
  • Toss Woollaston, 88, New Zealand painter.[63]

31[]

  • Sabiha Gökçül Erbay, Turkish school teacher and politician.
  • Gordon Newton, 90, English journalist and editor of the Financial Times.
  • Keith Oxlee, 63, South African rugby player, complications following a hip operation.[64]
  • Shigezō Sasaoka, 50, Japanese voice actor.

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