The following is a list of notable deaths in November 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.
November 1998
1 César Castellanos, 51, Honduran politician, mayor of Tegucigalpa (since 1998), helicopter crash. Augusto Magli, 75, Italian football player. Kunitaka Sueoka, 81, Japanese football player. Norbert Wollheim, 85, German-American Holocaust survivor. Stanislav Zhuk, 63, Russian Olympic skater (1960), and coach, heart attack.
2 Janet Arnold, 66, British clothing historian, costume designer and author, lymphoma. Sverre Brodahl, 89, Norwegian Nordic skier and Olympic medalist (1936). Claude Bramall Burgess, 88, Hong Kong Colonial Secretary. Fred Freer, 82, Australian cricket player. Henry Horton, 75, English sportsman. Rolf Husberg, 90, Swedish film director, screenwriter and actor. Jovelina Pérola Negra, 54, Brazilian samba singer and songwriter, heart attack. Elmo Plaskett, 60, United States Virgin Islands baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).Rory Costello, Elmo Plaskett. SABR Biography Project Vincent Winter, 50, Scottish child film actor, heart attack.
3 Ray Bremser, 64, American poet. Helmuth Johannsen, 78, German football player and manager. Bob Kane, 83, American comic book writer (Batman). John Campbell Merrett, 89, Canadian architect. P. L. Narayana, 63, Indian film actor and playwright. Martha O'Driscoll, 76, American film actress. Oriano Quilici, 68, Italian prelate of the Catholic Church. Miguel Sevillano, 70, Argentine Olympic cyclist (1948). Gerhard Strutz, 55, Austrian Olympic speed skater (1964). Nina Youshkevitch, 77, Franco-Russian ballet dancer and teacher.
4 Jean de Heinzelin de Braucourt, 78, Belgian geologist. Marion Donovan, 81, American inventor and entrepreneur. Lars Ernster, 78, Swedish biochemist and Nobel Foundation board member. Sabino Islas, 80, Mexican Olympic boxer (1936). Joyce Lussu, 86, Italian writer and partisan during World War II. Maedagawa Katsu, 59, Japanese sumo wrestler. Jimmy McGee, 75, Irish Olympic basketball player (1948), and musician. William Watson, 80, British Olympic weightlifter (1948). 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. Momoko Kōchi, 66, Japanese actress (Godzilla), cancer. Nagarjun, 87, Indian poet. Jack Stewart, 86, Australian farmer and politician.
6 Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim, President of the Comoros. Hélmer Herrera Buitrago, 47, Colombian narco and member of the Cali Cartel, shot. Jack Hartman, 73, American gridiron football player and basketball coach. Bobo Lewis, 72, American comedic actress, cancer. Sky Low Low, 70, Canadian midget wrestler, heart attack. Niklas Luhmann, 70, German sociologist and philosopher of social science. Paavo Sepponen, 75, Finnish Olympic wrestler (1948, 1952). Wolfgang Stresemann, 94, German jurist, orchestra leader, conductor and composer. István Szőts, 86, Hungarian screenwriter and film director. Stan Wright, 77, American track and field coach.
7 Jitendra Abhisheki, 69, Indian vocalist, composer and music scholar. Leonard De Paur, 83, American composer and choral director. Agenore Fabbri, 87, Italian sculptor and painter. Margaret Gowing, 77, English historian, Alzheimer's disease. John Hunt, Baron Hunt, 88, British Army officer. Vladimir Matskevich, 88, Soviet apparatchik and ambassador. Börje Mellvig, 86, Swedish actor, screenwriter, director and lyricist. Ted Slevin, 71, English rugby player. Jiwan Singh Umranangal, 84, Indian politician. O. Meredith Wilson, 89, American historian and academic, brain cancer.
8 Rumer Godden, 90, English author (Black Narcissus), complications from a series of strokes. 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. Lonnie Pitchford, 43, American blues musician and instrument maker. Erol Taş, 70, Turkish film actor, diabetes.
9 Baya, 66, Algerian artist. Henry Dorman, 82, American lawyer and politician. Phillip Paske, 45, American child pornographer, AIDS. Anura Ranasinghe, 42, Sri Lankan cricketer, heart attack. Ursula Reit, 84, German actress. Francis Scully, 73, American sailor and Olympic medalist (1964).
10 Svetlana Beriosova, 66, Lithuanian-British prima ballerina, cancer. Peter Cotes, 86, English actor, writer, and director. Mahmoud Hassan, 78, Egyptian Greco-Roman bantamweight wrestler and Olympic medalist (1948, 1952). Henry James, 78, British civil servant (born 1919). Jean Leray, 92, French mathematician. Georg Liebsch, 87, German featherweight weightlifter and Olympian (1936). Mary Millar, 62, British actress (Keeping Up Appearances) and singer, ovarian cancer. Luis Miloc, 69, Uruguayan footballer and manager. Hal Newhouser, 77, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame, respiratory disease. Ellis Robinson, 87, English cricketer. Øistein Saksvik, 73, Norwegian long-distance runner and Olympian (1952). Kunitaka Sueoka, 81, Japanese footballer.
11 Frank Brimsek, 83, American ice hockey player (Boston Bruins, Chicago Black Hawks). Patrick Clancy, 76, Irish folk singer, lung cancer. Gérard Grisey, 52, French composer of contemporary classical music, ruptured aneurysm. Maurice Gueissaz, 75, Swiss Olympic rower (1948). Bronisław Karwecki, 86, Polish Olympic rower (1936). Ferdinand Kulmer, 73, Croatian abstract painter. Allan Kwartler, 81, American sabre, foil fencer and Olympian (1952, 1956, 1960). Sam Melberg, 86, Norwegian sports diver and Olympian (1936). Elvis Jacob Stahr, Jr., 82, American government official and college president. Anicet Utset, 66, Spanish cyclist.
12 Janet Alcoriza, 80, American screenwriter and actress. Alejandro Arteche, 75, Spanish Olympic boxer (1948). Bernie Crowl, 90, American football player (Brooklyn Dodgers). Jack Gelineau, 74, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins, Chicago Black Hawks), cancer. James H. Gray, 92, Canadian journalist, historian and author. Randall S. Herman, 84, British Indian-born Guamanian politician. Paul Hoffman, 73, American basketball player (Baltimore Bullets, New York Knicks, Philadelphia Warriors), brain tumor. Roy Hollis, 72, English football player. Asher Joel, 86, Australian politician and public servant. Kenny Kirkland, 43, American pianist and keyboardist, congestive heart failure. Lu Ann Meredith, 85, American film actress. Sally Shlaer, 59, American mathematician, software engineer and methodologist.M. Page-Jones (1999) "Sally Shlaer Obituary" in The C++ report. Vol 11. p. 82
13 Don Bishop, 64, American gridiron football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, Chicago Bears, Dallas Cowboys). Joseph C. Brun, 91, French-American cinematographer. Edwige Feuillère, 91, French actress. Valerie Hobson, 81, Irish-born actress, heart attack. Red Holzman, 78, American basketball player, (Rochester Royals), and coach (Milwaukee/St. Louis Hawks, New York Knicks), leukemia. Hendrik Timmer, 94, Dutch sportsman and Olympic medalist (1924). Michel Trudeau, 23, Canadian outdoorsman, and son of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and brother of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, avalanche. Ilie Văduva, 64, Romanian communist politician. Al Wright, 86, American baseball player (Boston Braves). Doug Wright, 84, English cricket player.
14 Eli Cashdan, 93, British rabbi. Quentin Crewe, 72, English journalist, author, restaurateur and adventurer. Albert Frey, 95, Swiss-American architect. Rachel Holzer, 99, Australian theatre actress and director. Mary Lawler, 52, American Olympic speed skater (1964). Waltraut Peck-Repa, 58, Austrian Olympic fencer (1960, 1972).
15 Stokely Carmichael, 57, Trinidadian-American political activist, prostate cancer. Henryk Chmielewski, 84, Polish boxer and Olympian (1936). Lawrence Krader, 78, American socialist anthropologist and ethnologist. Federico Krutwig, 77, Spanish Basque writer, philosopher, and politician. William T. Miller, 87, American professor of organic chemistry. Doris Niles, 93, American dancer.Myrna Oliver, "Doris Niles; American Concert and Ballet Dancer" Los Angeles Times (November 26, 1998). Leo Aloysius Pursley, 96, American clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church.
16 Ludvík Daněk, 61, Czechoslovak discus thrower and Olympic champion (1964, 1968, 1972, 1976), heart attack. Bob Davis, 77, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers). Tyrone Delano Gilliam, Jr., 32, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection. Mohammad-Taqi Ja'fari, 73, Iranian scholar, philosopher and Islamic theologist. Queenie McKenzie, 68, Aboriginal Australian artist. Christel Rupke, 79, German Olympic swimmer (1936). Alexander Smorchkov, 78, Soviet fighter pilot during World War II and the Korean War. J. D. Sumner, 73, American gospel singer and songwriter."John Daniel "J.D." Sumner" , Hall of Fame Inductees, Southern Gospel Music Association, retrieved May 30, 2019
17 Kea Bouman, 94, Dutch tennis player and Olympian (1924). Weeb Ewbank, 91, American football coach (Baltimore Colts, New York Jets) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, heart problems. Efim Geller, 73, Soviet chess player and grandmaster. Jean Herly, 78, Monegasque diplomat and ambassador. Casey Jones, 80, American baseball player. Reinette L'Oranaise, 80, Algerian singer. 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. Dick O'Neill, 70, American actor (The Jerk, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Cagney & Lacey). Esther Rolle, 78, American actress (Good Times, Maude, Driving Miss Daisy), Emmy winner (1979), diabetes. Bill Ward, 79, American cartoonist (Torchy).
18 Telemaco Arcangeli, 75, Italian Olympian racewalker (1952). Norma Connolly, 71, American actress. Hal Davis, 65, American songwriter and record producer. Robin Hall, 62, Scottish folksinger. Jeanine Moulin, 86, Belgian poet and literary scholar. Aurélio de Lira Tavares, 93, Brazilian Army general.
19 Louis Dumont, 87, French anthropologist. Ted Fujita, 78, Japanese-American meteorologist. Alfred 'Ken' Gatward, 84, British Royal Air Force pilot during World War II. Earl Kim, 78, American composer, and music pedagogue, lung cancer. William J. McCarthy, 79, American labor leader. Alan J. Pakula, 70, American film director and producer (All the President's Men, The Parallax View, To Kill a Mockingbird), traffic collision.
20 Roland Alphonso, 67, Jamaican tenor saxophonist. Marian Brandys, 86, Polish writer and screenwriter. George Brophy, 72, American baseball executive. Howard Wilson Emmons, 86, American professor in Mechanical Engineering.Howard W. Emmons, Authority on Fire Safety, Dies at 86, Harvard University Gazette (Dec 3 1998), Retrieved May 30, 2019 Meredith Gourdine, 69, American physicist, athlete and Olympic medalist (1952). John Grimek, 88, American bodybuilder, weightlifter and Olympian (1936). Cec Luining, 67, Canadian football player. Mario Orozco Rivera, 68, Mexican muralist and painter. Dick Sisler, 78, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies, Cincinnati Reds), coach and manager. Galina Starovoytova, 52, Soviet dissident, shot.Anna Politkovskaya (2007) A Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption, and Death in Putin's Russia, Random House, , p. 38.
21 Thomas V. Bermingham, American Jesuit priest and Classical scholar. Dariush Forouhar, 69–70, Iranian pan-Iranist politician, stabbed. Otto Frankel, 98, Austrian-Australian geneticist. Dave Huffman, 41, American football player (Minnesota Vikings), traffic collision.