Deaths in August 1998

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 Joel Barr, 82, American spy for the Soviet Union. Eva Bartok, 71, Hungarian-British actress. Len Duncan, 87, American race car driver. Norman Kretzmann, 69, American academic, multiple myeloma. Josef Ludl, 82, Czech football player. France Mihelič, 91, Slovene painter. Ray Rigby, 49, Australian shot putter, weightlifter and Olympian (1968).

2 Otto Bumbel, 84, Brazilian football player and coach. Mapy Cortés, 88, Puerto Rican actress, heart attack. Tommy Faile, 69, American songwriter and singer, heart attack. Jim Hadnot, 58, American basketball player (Oakland Oaks). Shari Lewis, 65, American ventriloquist and puppeteer, viral pneumonia.

3 Ronnie Boon, 89, Welsh rugby player. Francesc Xavier Bultó, 86, Spanish businessman. Reizo Koike, 82, Japanese swimmer and Olympic medalist (1932, 1936), lung cancer. Alfred Schnittke, 63, German-Russian composer, complications from strokes. Alan Walsh, 81, British-Australian physicist, originator of atomic absorption spectroscopy. Joseph Putnam Willson, 96, American district judge (United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania).

4 Yury Artyukhin, 68, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz 14), and engineer, cancer. Carmen Delia Dipiní, 70, Puerto Rican singer. Richard Dunn, 54, British television executive. Thomas Joseph McDonough, 86, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Al-Qarshi Abd ur-Raheem Salaam, 62, Yemeni poet and playwright.

5 Arthur Ceuleers, 82, Belgian footballer. Keshab Chandra Gogoi, 72, Indian politician. Albert Johnson, 80, English rugby player. Otto Kretschmer, 86, German U-boat commander during World War II, boating accident. Britt Lindeborg, 70, Swedish lyricist, singer, composer and writer. Yevgeny Shabayev, 25, Russian artistic gymnast, heart attack. Eldon Shamblin, 82, American guitarist and arranger. Eugene L. Stewart, 78, American lawyer and law professor. Todor Zhivkov, 86, Bulgarian politician, president of Bulgaria, pneumonia.

6 Henk Bosveld, 57, Dutch footballer, heart attack. Jack Brickhouse, 82, American sportscaster, heart attack. Francesco Capocasale, 81, Italian football player and coach. Jonas Gaines, 84, American baseball player. Nat Gonella, 90, English jazz trumpeter, bandleader and vocalist. André Weil, 92, French mathematician. Deng Zhaoxiang, 95, Chinese naval officer.

7 Hamden Khalif Allah Awad, 27, Egyptian al-Qaeda terrorist, suicide bombing. Richard W. Fellows, 83, American Air Force officer. William Hiesey, 94, American botanist. Dick Offenhamer, 85, American football and baseball player and coach. Peggy Phango, 69, South African actress and singer. Harry Tuzo, 80, British army general.

8 Sam Balter, 88, American basketball player, sportscaster, and Olympian (1936). Giulio Bresci, 76, Italian road racing cyclist. Raymond E. Brown, 70, American Catholic priest. Barbara Burke, 81, British and South African sprint runner and Olympic medalist (1936). Idella Jones Childs, 95, American historian and civil rights activist. Mossie Guttormsen, 82, Australian cricketer. Anna J. Harrison, 85, American organic chemist and professor of chemistry. Satoshi Murayama, 29, Japanese shogi player, bladder cancer. Walter Merlo, 33, Italian long-distance runner, mountaineering accident. Dagfinn Nilsen, 78, Norwegian football player and Olympian (1952). Germana Paolieri, 91, Italian actress. Jess Present, 77, American politician. László Szabó, 81, Hungarian chess grandmaster. Aang Witarsa, 67, Indonesian football player and Olympian (1956).

9 Tony Baker, 53, American football player, traffic collision. Bjarne Bø, 91, Norwegian actor. Petro Denysenko, 77, Soviet Ukrainian Olympic pole vaulter (1952). Brynhild Haugland, 93, American politician. George Child Villiers, 9th Earl of Jersey, 88, English nobleman and politician, heart attack. Ray Moss, 96, American baseball player (Brooklyn Robins, Boston Braves). Frankie Ruiz, 40, Puerto Rican singer and songwriter, liver cirrhosis. Francisco Zúñiga, 85, Costa Rican-Mexican artist.

10 Bekim Berisha, 32, Kosovar Albanian soldier, killed in action. Chuck Fenenbock, 79, American football player. Sidney W. Fox, 86, American biochemist. John Murphy, 47, Northern Irish loyalist, traffic collision. Premji, 89, Indian actor and social reformer. Habib Hassan Touma, 63, Palestinian composer and ethnomusicologist.

11 Richard Bilby, 67, American district judge (United States District Court for the District of Arizona). Bud Cooper, 85, American gridiron football player (Cleveland Rams). Heinz Döpfl, 59, Austrian pair skater and Olympian (1960). Derek Newark, 65, English actor, heart attack following liver failure. Nicky Verstappen, 11, Dutch homicide victim Sergei Vonsovsky, 87, Soviet physicist. Benny Waters, 96, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist.

12 Dagoberto Borges, 58, Cuban Olympic fencer (1968). Jesús Loroño, 72, Spanish road racing cyclist. D. R. Nagaraj, 44, Indian writer and cultural critic. Gazi Shamsur Rahman, Bangladeshi lawyer, writer and television personality. C. Dickerman Williams, American lawyer and free-speech advocate.

13 Sim Bok-seok, 69, South Korean long-distance runner and Olympian (1948). Nino Ferrer, 63, French singer, songwriter and author, suicide by gunshot.James Kirkup, Obituary: Nino Ferrer The Independent, 17 August 1998. Retrieved September 7, 2019 Edward Ginzton, 82, Ukrainian-American engineer. Julien Green, 97, American writer. Waneta Hoyt, 52, American serial killer, pancreatic cancer. Karl Hubenthal, 81, American cartoonist, cancer. Rafael Robles, 50, American baseball player (San Diego Padres). Saturday Rosenberg, 46, Australian comedian, writer and actress, traffic collision.Sydney Morning Herald, Obituaries, dated 29 August 1998, p.116

14 Piet Bakers, 75, Dutch footballer. Eve Boswell, 76, British pop singer. Gary Evans, 43, American thief and serial killer, suicide by jumping. Doug Fleming, 68, Australian rugby league football player. Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff, 77, German actor and TV host, pancreatic cancer. Rosemary Martin, 61, English actress. Xavier Miserachs, 61, Spanish photographer, lung cancer. Chalmers Wylie, 77, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1967-1993).

15 Marc Akerstream, 44, Canadian actor and stuntman, head injuries from special effects explosion, head trauma. Marie Meierhofer, 89, Swiss children's psychiatrist and pedagogue. Károly Polinszky, 76, Hungarian chemical engineer and politician. Bill Shill, 75, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins). Paulo Tarrto, 83, Brazilian Olympic swimmer (1936).

16 Dominique Davray, 79, French actress. Wallace Fowlie, 89, American writer and academic. Claire Horrent, 88, French Olympic swimmer (1928). Phil Leeds, 82, American actor (Rosemary's Baby, Ally McBeal, Ghost), pneumonia. Frank Lewis, 85, American wrestler and Olympic champion (1936). Alain Marion, 59, French flutist, and, heart attack. Jim Murray, 78, American sportswriter and Pulitzer Prize winner. Kenneth Stafford Norris, 74, American marine mammal biologist, conservationist, and naturalist. Norman Tustin, 79, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers). Dorothy West, 91, American novelist and short-story writer. Jim Zeravich, 78, American basketball player (Syracuse Nationals).

17 Robert B. Evans, 92, American automobile industry executive. Terry Garvin, 61, Canadian professional wrestler, cancer. Tameo Ide, 89, Japanese footballer. Władysław Komar, 58, Polish shot putter, actor, and Olympian (1964, 1968, 1972), traffic collision. Johnny Lipon, 75, American baseball player. Rita Roland, 83, German-born American film editor. Tadeusz Ślusarski, 48, Polish pole vaulter and Olympian (1972, 1976, 1980). Irwin Suall, 73, American socialist, civil rights activist, and investigator, emphysema. Ab de Vries, 85, Dutch footballer.

18 Protima Bedi, 49, Indian model, landslide. Bernice Bing, 62, Chinese-American artist. Gerry Brown, 81, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings). Harry J. Cargas, 66, American scholar and author. Hoyt C. Hottel, 95, American chemical engineer and academic. Persis Khambatta, 49, Indian model and actress (Star Trek: The Motion Picture), heart attack. Joe Patanelli, 78, American basketball player (Minneapolis Lakers). Johann Rezac, 87, Austrian architect. Kurt Schütte, 88, German mathematician. Shane Shamrock, 23, American professional wrestler, altercation with police. Otto Wichterle, 84, Czech chemist.

19 Vasili Arkhipov, 72, Soviet Navy officer during the Cuban Missile Crisis, kidney cancer. Anne Asquith, 81, British code breaker. Lawrence J. Fuller, 83, American Army major general, heart attack. Max Holste, 84, French aeronautical engineer. Boris Borisovich Kadomtsev, 69, Russian plasma physicist. Ilva Ligabue, 66, Italian operatic soprano. Terry Perdue, 57, British weightlifter and Olympian (1968, 1972). Sylvia Stahlman, 69, American soprano. Yuri Yappa, 70, Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist.

20 Jimmy Brewster, 96, American gridiron football player. Vivian Brown, 56, American sprinter and Olympian (1964). Ivan Godlevsky, 90, Soviet and Russian painter. Gene Host, 65, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Kansas City Athletics). Oleg Prokofiev, 69, Soviet and Russian artist, sculptor and poet. Fred Sington, 88, American football and baseball player (Washington Senators, Brooklyn Dodgers). Haydée Tamzali, 91, Tunisian actress, writer, and filmmaker. Vu Van Mau, 84, last Prime Minister of South Vietnam. Robert W. Warren, 73, American district judge (United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin).

21 Hans van Abeelen, 61, Dutch behaviour geneticist. Luis Dávila, 71, Argentine actor, heart attack. Franz Eisenach, 80, German flying ace during World War II and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. John Stopford, 61, English rugby player. Juanita Kidd Stout, 79, American attorney and jurist. Wanda Toscanini, 90, Italian wife of pianist Vladimir Horowitz. Michiel Victor, 88, South African Olympic sports shooter (1960).

22 Jack Briggs, 78, American actor. Sam Cooper, 89, American gridiron football player (Pittsburgh Pirates). Evelyn Denington, Baroness Denington, 91, British politician, heart failure. Sergio Fiorentino, 70, Italian classical pianist, heart attack. Elena Garro, 81, Mexican screenwriter, journalist, and novelist, heart attack. Minoru Murayama, 61, Japanese baseball player. Miloslav Příhoda, 75, Czech Olympic boxer (1948). Jimmy Skidmore, 82, English jazz tenor saxophonist. Woody Stephens, 84, American thoroughbred horse racing trainer, emphysema.

23 Ahmet Hamdi Boyacıoğlu, 78, Turkish judge. Gail Bruce, 74, American football player (San Francisco 49ers). Nikolay Kolesov, 42, Russian footballer. Asadollah Lajevardi, Iranian conservative politician and warden, shot. Rolf Søder, 80, Norwegian film actor. John Woodcock, 44, American football player, heart attack.

24 Alexey Anselm, 64, Russian theoretical physicist. Manuel Azcárate, 81, Spanish journalist and communist politician, cancer. Jerry Clower, 71, American stand-up comedian. Charles Diggs, 75, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1955-1980), stroke. Manuel Álvarez Jiménez, 70, Chilean football player. E. G. Marshall, 84, American actor (12 Angry Men, Tora! Tora! Tora!, The Defenders), Emmy winner (1962, 1963), lung cancer. Gene Page, 58, American composer, arranger and record producer. Levan Sanadze, 70, Georgian athlete and Olympic medalist (1952). Georges Senfftleben, 75, French track cyclist. Jack Richard Williams, 88, American radio announcer and politician, cancer.

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