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 Francis Ambrière, 90, French author. Margarita Azurdia, 67, Guatemalan sculptor, painter, poet, and performance artist. Jane Bell, 88, Canadian track and field athlete and Olympic champion (1928). Dumitru Berciu, 91, Romanian historian and archaeologist. Ed Connolly, 58, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Indians). Stig Järrel, 88, Swedish actor, film director and revue artist. Claire Kelly, 64, American actress and model. Dimitris Liantinis, 55, Greek philosopher, writer and university professor, suicide. Martin Seymour-Smith, 70, British poet, literary critic, and biographer. Rodney Smith, Baron Smith, 84, British surgeon. Toyonobori, 67, Japanese sumo wrestler, heart failure.
2 Leon Brinkopf, 71, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs). Shen Chang-huan, 84, Taiwanese politician and diplomat. Tony De Vit, 40, English DJ and music producer, bronchial failure. Carl M. Freeman, 87, American real estate developer and manager, traffic collision.Developer, Real Estate Manager Carl M. Freeman Dies at Age 87 Joe Graboski, 68, American basketball player. Miklós Gábor, 79, Hungarian actor. Brian Johnston, 64, New Zealand Olympic field hockey player (1956). Valter Külvet, 34, Estonian athlete and Olympian (1988), beaten. Juan José Nogués, 89, Spanish football player and manager. Errol Parker, 72, French-Algerian jazz pianist, liver cancer. Reg Potter, 83, British Olympic water polo player (1948). Sohrab Shahid-Saless, 54, Iranian film director and screenwriter, liver failure. Kay Thompson, 88, American author, actress and singer.
3 Arun Kumar Ahuja, 81, Indian film actor and producer. Enzo Bartolini, 84, Italian rower and Olympian (1936). Danielle Bunten Berry, 49, American game designer and programmer, lung cancer. Alf Boyd, 77, Scottish football player. Sadeq Chubak, 81, Iranian author of short fiction, drama, and novels. Al Couppee, 78, American gridiron football player (Washington Redskins). Louis L. Goldstein, 85, American politician. Peter C. Hains III, 97, American army officer and Olympic modern pentathlete (1928). Billie Hughes, 50, American songwriter, musician and record producer, heart attack.Pesselnick, Jill (1998). "Billy Hughes." Variety Magazine, August 21, 1998. Retrieved September 8, 2019. Bernhard Häring, 85, German Catholic theologian, and priest. Carl Koch, 86, American architect. George Lloyd, 85, British composer. Rhoda Martin, 78, Canadian Olympic fencer (1948). Elizabeth Riddell, 88, Australian poet and journalist. Lev Rokhlin, 51, Soviet / Russian army officer, shot. Kazimierz Sokołowski, 90, Polish ice hockey player and Olympian (1932, 1936). Duncan White, 80, Sri Lankan track and field athlete and Olympic medalist (1948).
4 Gladys Ambrose, 67, English actress, cancer. Gregg Burge, 40, American tap dancer and choreographer, brain tumor. Kurt Franz, 84, German SS officer and commander of the Treblinka extermination camp. Denis Ségui Kragbé, 60, Ivorian Olympic shot putter and discus thrower (1964, 1968). Peter Monteverdi, 64, Swiss carmaker, cancer. Lee Moody, 81, American baseball player. Lin Newborn, 24, American anti-racist skinhead. M. N. Sathyaardhi, 85, Indian writer and freedom fighter. Jay Taylor, 30, American basketball player (New Jersey Nets), burned. Aurelio Chu Yi, 69, Panamanian Olympic judoka (1964).
5 Frank Creagh, 74, New Zealand boxer. 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. Maria Mercè Marçal, 45, Catalan poet, professor, writer and translator from Spain, breast cancer. Frank Righeimer, 89, American fencer and Olympic medalist (1932, 1936). Johnny Speight, 78, English television scriptwriter, pancreatic cancer. Stevie Hyper D, 31, British drum and bass MC, heart attack.
6 Semon Knudsen, 85, American automobile executive. Georges Maton, 84, French Olympic cyclist (1936). Alan Revill, 75, English cricketer. Roy Rogers, 86, American singer and actor (The Roy Rogers Show), congestive heart failure. Ed Sanicki, 74, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
7 Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, 60, Nigerian businessman, politician and aristocrat, homicide. M. Athar Ali, 73, Indian historian, liver cancer. F. Tillman Durdin, 91, American foreign correspondent for The New York Times. Lenore Romney, 89, American actress and political figure, stroke.
8 Lilí Álvarez, 93, Spanish sportswoman, author, journalist, and Olympian (1924). Constance Cox, 85, British script writer and playwright. Kohei Murakoso, 92, Japanese runner and Olympian (1936), respiratory disease. Dušan Vukotić, 71, Yugoslav and Croatian cartoonist and author, heart attack. Philip Charles Wilkins, 85, American district judge (United States District Court for the Eastern District of California).
9 Knut Bergsland, 84, Norwegian linguist. Jim Flora, 84, American artist, stomach cancer. David Fulker, 61, British behavioural geneticist. Lester King, 59, Jamaican cricket player. Jadwiga Klimaj, 66, Polish Olympic shot putter (1960). Katherine Russell, 89, English social worker and university teacher. Halvor J. Sandsdalen, 87, Norwegian farmer, journalist, poet, playwright and children's writer. Aldo Stellita, 50, Italian bassist and songwriter, lung cancer.
10 Lonnie Eggleston, 80, American basketball player (St. Louis Bombers). Willie Fry, 43, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), heart attack. Ray Neil, 77, American baseball player. Billy Patterson, 79, American football player (Chicago Cardinals, Pittsburgh Steelers). Elijah Pitts, 60, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Los Angeles Rams, New Orleans Saints), stomach cancer. William Preston, 76, American actor. Victor Smith, 85, Royal Australian Navy officer.
11 Octav Botnar, 84, Romanian-British businessman and founder of Datsun, stomach cancer. John Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter, 90, British politician. Komla Agbeli Gbedemah, 85, Ghanaian politician. Emma Humphreys, 30, British convict, accidental overdose."Woman cleared of murder 'overdosed'", BBC News, 14 September 2000. Retrieved 21 September 2019 Panagiotis Kondylis, 54, Greek philosopher, intellectual and historian. Guy Lafitte, 71, French jazz saxophonist. John J. Tominac, 76, United States Army officer and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
12 M. M. S. Ahuja, 69, Indian endocrinologist. 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. Arkady Ostashev, 72, Russian mechanical engineer. Maithripala Senanayake, 82, Sri Lankan politician.
13 Watkins Moorman Abbitt, 90, American politician and lawyer, leukemia. Gauri Ayyub, 67, Indian social worker, activist and writer, acute arthritis. Red Badgro, 95, American football player (New York Yankees, New York Giants, Brooklyn Dodgers), football coach and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, fall. Keith Beebe, 77, American baseball player (New York Giants). Stanley Bergerman, 94, American producer of horror films, cancer. John Béchervaise, 88, Australian writer, photographer, artist, historian and explorer. Konstantinos Kollias, 97, Prime Minister of Greece during the military junta. Jean René Célestin Parédès, 83, French film actor, heart attack. Ben Zion Abba Shaul, 73, Israeli Sephardic rabbi. Sigismund von Braun, 87, German diplomat and politician.
14 Rex Applegate, 84, American army officer. Haim Ben-Asher, 94, Israeli politician. Beryl Bryden, 78, English jazz singer. Glenn E. Duncan, 80, United States Air Force officer and World War II flying ace. Miroslav Holub, 74, Czech poet and immunologist. Herman David Koppel, 89, Danish composer and pianist. Richard McDonald, 89, American entrepreneur, co-founder of McDonald's and inventor of the fast food system. Nguyen Ngoc Loan, 67, South Vietnamese general, cancer. Robert Augustine Ward Lowndes, 81, American science fiction author and editor. Karl Schirdewan, 91, German communist activist and East German politician. Angus John Mackintosh Stewart, 61, British writer. Thomas Martin Thompson, 43, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
15 Malcolm Booker, 82, Australian diplomat, author and journalist. Fred Hergert, 85, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Americans). Henry J. Leir, 98, American industrialist, financier, and philanthropist. Kazimierz Lis, 88, Polish football player. Joseph Desmond O'Connor, 78, British linguist, pneumonia. S. Shanmuganathan, 38, Sri Lankan Tamil militant and politician, assassinated.
16 John Ball, 73, English footballer. Gisella Caccialanza, 83, American prima ballerina, stroke. John Henrik Clarke, 83, African-American historian and professor, heart attack. Léopold Corriveau, 72, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1970-1984). Philip J. Corso, 83, American Army officer, heart attack. Jess Dobernic, 80, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds). Mahbub ul Haq, 64, Pakistani economist and politician. Lucien Lamoureux, 77, Canadian politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada. Robert Ruszkowski, 56, Polish Olympic canoeist (1964). Wilfred Thorpe, 81, American football player (Cleveland Rams).
17 Robert Cornog, 86, American physicist and engineer.Robert A. Cornog Lamberto Gardelli, 82, Italian-born Swedish conductor. Gladstone Guest, 81, English football player. Lillian Hoban, 73, American illustrator and children's writer. Marc Hunter, 44, New Zealand singer, songwriter and record producer, cancer. Karl-Heinz Höcker, 82, German theoretical nuclear physicist. Paul H. Kocher, 91, American academic and writer. James Lighthill, 74, British mathematician. Joseph Maher, 64, Irish-American actor, playwright and director, brain tumor, brain cancer. Hervé Mirouze, 73, French football player and coach. Hugh Reilly, 82, American actor, emphysema. Claudia Testoni, 82, Italian Olympic hurdler, sprinter and long jumper (1936). Adam Wright, 22-23, Australian rugby league footballer.
18 Emilio Alfaro, 65, Argentine actor, and theatre and film director. Solon Barnett, 77, American football player (Green Bay Packers). Florence Bird, 90, Canadian broadcaster, journalist, and senator. Hans Feibusch, 99, German painter and sculptor. Mykola Lebed, 89, Ukrainian political activist, nationalist and guerrilla fighter. Betty Marsden, 79, English comedy actress. Svein Bjørn Olsen, 53, Norwegian footballer. Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Thero, 101, Sri Lankan Buddhist monk.
19 Frank Altimari, 69, American judge. Giliana Berneri, French communist activist. Rune Nilsen, 74, Norwegian triple jumper and Olympian (1952). Antoine Tisné, 65, French composer. 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. Tossy Spivakovsky, 91, Russian-American violin virtuoso.
21 Hans van Kesteren, 90, Dutch footballer. Doug Miller, 28, American gridiron football player (San Diego Chargers), lightning strike. Alan Shepard, 74, American astronaut (Mercury-Redstone 3, Apollo 14), naval aviator and test pilot, complications from leukemia. Kenneth Watson, 66, British television actor, pancreatic cancer. Robert Young, 91, American actor (Marcus Welby, M.D., Father Knows Best, Window on Main Street), Emmy winner (1957, 1958, 1970), respiratory failure.
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