Deaths in July 1998

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The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.

July 1998[]

1[]

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.[6]
  • Sohrab Shahid-Saless, 54, Iranian film director and screenwriter, liver failure.
  • Kay Thompson, 88, American author, actress and singer.[7]
  • Tony De Vit, 40, English DJ and music producer, bronchial failure.[8]

3[]

  • Arun Kumar Ahuja, 81, Indian film actor and producer.
  • Danielle Bunten Berry, 49, American game designer and programmer, lung cancer.[9]
  • Alfred Caldwell, 95, American architect.[10]
  • Sadeq Chubak, 81, Iranian author of short fiction, drama, and novels.
  • Peter C. Hains III, 97, American Army Major General.
  • Billie Hughes, 50, American songwriter, musician and record producer, heart attack.[11]
  • George Lloyd, 85, British composer.[12]
  • Gene Rockwell, 53, South African singer, cancer.
  • Lev Rokhlin, 51, Soviet / Russian army officer, murdered.[13]
  • Duncan White, 80, Sri Lankan sportsman.

4[]

  • Gladys Ambrose, 67, English actress, cancer.
  • Gregg Burge, 40, American tap dancer and choreographer, brain tumor.[14]
  • Kurt Franz, 84, German SS officer and commander of the Treblinka extermination camp.[15]
  • Peter Monteverdi, 64, Swiss carmaker, cancer.[16]
  • 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.[17]
  • Johnny Speight, 78, English television scriptwriter.

6[]

  • Semon Knudsen, 85, American automobile executive.[18]
  • Anthony Ochaya, 65, Ugandan politician and economist, pneumonia.
  • Alan Revill, 75, English cricketer.
  • Roy Rogers, 86, American singer and actor, congestive heart failure.[19]
  • Ed Sanicki, 74, American baseball player.

7[]

  • Moshood Abiola, 60, Nigerian businessman, politician and aristocrat.[20]
  • Sir Charles Cunningham, 92, Scottish civil servant.
  • F. Tillman Durdin, 91, American foreign correspondent for The New York Times.[21]
  • Maurice Holmes, 89, New Zealand harness racer.
  • Robert Lickley, 86, Scottish aeronautical engineer.
  • Lenore Romney, 89, American actress and political figure, stroke.[22]

8[]

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.[24]
  • David Fulker, 61, British behavioural geneticist.[25]
  • 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.[26]
  • 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.[27]
  • 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.
  • 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.[28]
  • 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.[29]
  • Stanley Bergerman, 94, American producer of horror films, cancer.[30]
  • Jean Parédès, 83, French film actor.
  • Ben Zion Abba Shaul, 73, Israeli Sephardic rabbi.

14[]

  • Rex Applegate, 84, American army officer.[31]
  • John Béchervaise, 88, Australian explorer and writer
  • 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.[32]
  • Herman David Koppel, 89, Danish composer and pianist.
  • Henry J. Leir, 98, American industrialist, financier, and philanthropist.[33]
  • Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, 67, South Vietnamese general, cancer.[34]
  • Richard McDonald, 89, American entrepreneur, co-founder of McDonald's and inventor of the fast food system.[35]
  • Donald Shaw Ramsay, 78, Scottish bagpiper.
  • Karl Schirdewan, 91, German communist activist and East German politician.[36]
  • Angus John Mackintosh Stewart, 61, British writer.
  • Thomas Martin Thompson, 43, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[37]

15[]

16[]

  • John Ball, 73, English footballer.
  • Gisella Caccialanza, 83, American prima ballerina, stroke.[40]
  • John Henrik Clarke, 83, African-American historian and professor, heart attack.[41]
  • Philip J. Corso, 83, American Army officer, heart attack.
  • Jess Dobernic, 80, American baseball player.
  • Mahbub ul Haq, 64, Pakistani economist and politician.[42]
  • Lucien Lamoureux, 77, Canadian politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada.

17[]

  • Lillian Hoban, 73, American illustrator and children's writer.[43]
  • Marc Hunter, 44, New Zealand singer, songwriter and record producer, cancer.[44]
  • Sir James Lighthill, 74, British mathematician.[45]
  • Joseph Maher, 64, Irish-American actor, playwright and director, brain tumor.[46]
  • Hugh Reilly, 82, American actor, emphysema.[47]
  • 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.[48]
  • Julia Boyer Reinstein, 91, American historian.
  • Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Thero, 101, Sri Lankan Buddhist monk.

19[]

  • Giliana Berneri, French communist activist.[49]
  • 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.[50]
  • Tossy Spivakovsky, 91, Russian-American violin virtuoso.[51]
  • 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.[52]
  • Robert Young, 91, American actor, respiratory failure.[53]

22[]

  • Michael Denison, 82, English actor.[54]
  • Corbett Monica, 68, American comedian.[55]
  • Hermann Prey, 69, German bass-baritone.[56]
  • Antonio Saura, 67, Spanish artist and writer.
  • Tjokropranolo, 74, Indonesian politician and military officer.

23[]

24[]

  • Gus Alex, 82, Greek-American mobster.
  • Alta Allen, 93, American silent film actress.
  • Ronnie Grieveson, 88, South African cricketer.

25[]

  • David Durand, 77, American actor.[61]
  • Tal Farlow, 77, American jazz guitarist, esophageal cancer.[62]
  • Tiny Rowland, 80, British businessman and corporate raider.

26[]

  • Manzoor Alam Beg, 67, Bangladeshi photographer.
  • Rainey Bennett, 91, American artist, illustrator and muralist.[63]
  • 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[]

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.[69]
  • David Jones, 84, English cricketer.
  • Lenny McLean, 49, English unlicensed boxer, bouncer, bodyguard and actor.[70]
  • 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.[71]
  • Fabrice Simon, 47, Haitian artist and fashion designer, AIDS.[72]
  • O. Z. Whitehead, 87, American actor, cancer.
  • Bobby Whitt, 10, American murder victim, homicide.[73]

30[]

  • Maurice Bardèche, 90, French art critic and journalist.[74]
  • 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[75]
  • Kenneth A. Walsh, 81, United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel, World War II flying ace and Medal of Honor recipient, heart attack.[76]

31[]

  • Jean de Baroncelli, 84, French writer.
  • Clarrie Earl, 85, Australian politician.
  • Sylvia Field, 97, American actress.[77]
  • Barbara Giuranna, 98, Italian pianist and composer.[78]
  • John E. Powers, 87, American politician.
  • Richie Powers, 67, American basketball referee, stroke.[79]
  • Herbert Widmayer, 84, German football player and manager.

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