The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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.
March 1998
1 Jean Marie Balland, 63, French Roman Catholic cardinal, lung cancer. Miltiades Caridis, 74, German-Greek conductor, stroke. Isidro Figueras, 85, Spanish racing cyclist. Archie Goodwin, 60, American comic book writer and artist (Luke Cage, Spider-Man, Star Wars), cancer.DC Comics press release "Archie Goodwin dies at 60", March 2, 1998. Retrieved October 21, 1998 Manolis Hatzidakis, 89, Greek art historian and Byzantinist. Aat van Noort, 89, Dutch Olympic middle-distance runner (1928). Alexander Puzanov, 91, Soviet and Russian ambassador and statesman. Sabina Sesselmann, 61, German film actress. Garner E. Shriver, 85, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1961-1977). Robert Symonette, 73, Bahamian yachtsman, politician, and Olympian (1960, 1964, 1972).
2 Leif Blomberg, 57, Swedish politician. Lucien Bodard, 84, French writer and journalist. Slick Castleman, 84, American Major League Baseball player (New York Giants). Henry Steele Commager, 95, American historian, pneumonia. Robert A. Grant, 92, American judge and politician.Grant, Robert Allen Maamun al-Kuzbari, 83/84, Syrian politician and literary personality. Darcy O'Brien, 58, American author and literary critic, heart attack. Ilias Papageorgiou, 72-73, Greek footballer and Olympian (1952). Herbie Seneviratne, 72, Sri Lankan actor and filmmaker. Marzette Watts, 59, American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist.
3 Janet Burston, 63, American child actress, cancer. Giuseppe Caron, 94, Italian politician. Marcel Dionne, 66, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1979-1984). Fred W. Friendly, 82, American television journalist and executive, stroke. Edward Luckhoo, 85, Guyanese Governor General. Hedley Mattingly, 82, British actor, cancer. Charles Franklin Phillips, 87, American economist. Marc Sautet, 51, French writer, translator, and philosopher, brain cancer.
4 Antonio Alsúa Alonso, 78, Spanish football player. Betty Bird, 96, Austrian actress. Jim Cullom, 72, American gridiron football player (New York Yanks). Ivan Dougherty, 90, Australian Army officer. Van Edmondson, 98, American football player. Alfred Evans, 77, South African Olympic sailor (1956). Arsène Lucchini, 75, French Olympic ski jumper (1948). Aulis Reinikka, 82, Finnish Olympic athlete (1936). Jules Fontaine Sambwa, 57, Zairean and Congolese politician and economist.
5 Egon Bazini, 86, Hungarian Olympic rower (1936). Bob Beveridge, 88, English cricketer. Donald James Cannon, 78, American politician. Carleton Putnam, 96, American businessman, writer and segregationist, pneumonia. Jerome Walters, 67, American Olympic middle distance runner (1956). Donald Woods, 91, Canadian-born American actor.
6 John Allin, 76, American Anglican bishop. Rue Barclay, 76, American Country & Western musician. Frank Barrett, 84, American baseball player Benjamin Bowden, 91, British industrial designer. Ben Chase, 74, American football player (Detroit Lions). Joe Shear, 54, American stock car racing driver, cancer. Vanna Vanni, 83, Italian film actress.
7 Ziad Rafiq Beydoun, Lebanese petroleum geologist."A Geologist and a Gentleman", Gareth Smyth, Daily Star, 22 April 1998. Retrieved 21 October 2019 Bill Cable, 51, American actor, model and stunt performer, traffic collision. Josep Escolà, 83, Spanish footballer. Karen Holtsmark, 90, Norwegian painter. Adem Jashari, 42, Kosovo Albanian militant separatist, mortar strike. Hamëz Jashari, 48, Kosovar Albanian nationalist and guerilla, killed in action. Eleanor Ileen Johnson, 87, American survivor of the sinking of . Don Kirkham, 90, American physicists and soil scientist. Janko Mežik, 76, Slovenian Olympic ski jumper (1948). Jack Perkins, 76, American film actor. Leonie Rysanek, 71, Austrian dramatic soprano, bone cancer. Winifred Silverthorne, 73, British figure skater and Olympian (1948). Wanda Tettoni, 87, Italian actress and voice actress.
8 Laurie Beechman, 44, American actress and singer, cancer. Alexandre Gemignani, 72, Brazilian basketball player and Olympian (1948). James Haggarty, 83, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens), and Olympian (1936). Jack Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Kingsbridge, 90, British politician and public servant. Jack McQuillan, 77, Irish politician, trade unionist and army officer. Peter Nilson, 60, Swedish astronomer and novelist. Ray Nitschke, 61, American football player (Green Bay Packers) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, heart attack. Susanne Ussing, 57, Danish artist, architect and ceramicist. Jorge Wilson, 83, Argentine Olympic field hockey player (1948).
9 David MacAdam, 87, American physicist and color scientist.Necrology, David Lewis MacAdam, by Michael H. Brill, Color Research and Application 23, 1998, 200-201. Anna Maria Ortese, 83, Italian novelist, poet, and travel writer. Colin Patterson, 64, British palaeontologist, heart attack. Ulrich Schamoni, 58, German film director, screenwriter, actor and media proprietor, cancer.
10 C. E. Beeby, 95, New Zealand educationalist and psychologist. Ilse Bing, 98, German photographer. Lloyd Bridges, 85, American actor (Airplane!, Sea Hunt, Hot Shots!). Karekin II Kazanjian, 70, Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople, liver cancer. Hayim David HaLevi, 74, Israeli rabbi. Alonzo Hicks, 76, American baseball player. Milton Mallawarachchi, 52, Sri Lankan singer and musician. Alberto Morrocco, 80, Scottish artist. Richard Plant, 87, German-American historian, Holocaust scholar and writer. Kenkō Satoshi, 30, Japanese Sumo wrestler, pulmonary embolism. Ed Walczak, 82, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
11 Van E. Chandler, 73, American Air Force pilot and flying ace, cancer. Basil Coetzee, 54, South African musician, cancer. Buddy Jeannette, 80, American basketball player and coach, stroke. José Laurel, Jr., 85, Filipino politician, pneumonia. Manuel Piñeiro Losada, 64, Cuban revolutionary, politician and spymaster, traffic collision. Sachio Sakai, 72, Japanese actor. Nino Konis Santana, 41, East Timorese freedom fighter, killed in action. Jean Shiley, 86, American high jumper and Olympian (1928, 1932). Koos Verdam, 83, Dutch politician.
12 Thomas Christiansen, 78, Danish Olympic diver (1948, 1952). Ovid Demaris, 78, American writer and journalist. Karrell Fox, 70, American magician and television performer. Jozef Kroner, 73, Slovak actor (The Shop on Main Street). Red Richards, 85, American jazz pianist. Kate Ross, 41, American mystery author, breast cancer. Beatrice Wood, 105, American artist and ceramicist.
13 Judge Dread, 52, English musician, heart attack. Peter Feller, 78, American theatrical set builder. Philip Gale, 19, American Internet software pioneer and computer prodigy, suicide by jumping. Claudio Gora, 84, Italian actor and film director. Shiro Kashiwa, 85, American lawyer and judge. Dave Lewis, 59, American rock and R&B musician, cancer. Bill Reid, 78, Canadian artist, Parkinson's disease. Risen Star, 12, American thoroughbred racehorse. Anne Sayre, 74, American writer. Peter Sillett, 65, England footballer, cancer. Kōshō Uchiyama, 86, Japanese buddhist monk and origami master. Frano Vodopivec, 73, Croatian cinematographer. Hans von Ohain, 86, German physicist and jet engine designer, thyroiditis. Ma Yueliang, 96, Chinese martial artist.
14 Abdul Rahman al-Iryani, 87, President of the Yemen Arab Republic. Ed Boell, 81, American football player, coach, and official. Hugh Coveney, 62, Irish politician, fall. Dinorah Enríquez, 51, Puerto Rican fencer and Olympian (1976). Dada Kondke, 65, Indian actor and film producer. Dave Minor, 76, American basketball player (Baltimore Bullets, Milwaukee Hawks). Leo Sotorník, 71, Czech gymnast and Olympian (1948, 1952).
15 Malati Choudhury, 93, Indian civil rights and freedom activist. Marty Comer, 80, American football player (Buffalo Bills). Tim Maia, 55, Brazilian musician and songwriter, cardiovascular disease. Maud Mannoni, 74, Belgian-French psychoanalyst. Jack McIntyre, 67, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins, Chicago Black Hawks, Detroit Red Wings). Dušan Pašek, 37, Slovak ice hockey player (Minnesota North Stars), and Olympian (1984, 1988), suicide by gunshot. Felto Prewitt, 73, American football player (Buffalo Bisons/Bills, Baltimore Colts). Jheri Redding, 91, American hairdresser and businessman. Carolyn Schnurer, 90, American fashion designer and sportswear pioneer. Benjamin Spock, 94, American pediatrician, author, and Olympic rower (1924). Gennady Yevryuzhikhin, 54, Russian football player and Olympian (1972).
16 Derek Barton, 79, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pertev Naili Boratav, 90, Turkish folklorist. Esther Bubley, 77, American photographer, cancer. Lydia Délrctorsckaya, 87, Russian-French refugee and model. Bob Hess, 87, American wrestler and Olympian (1932). Noel Stephen Paynter, 99, British chief intelligence officer of Bomber Command during World War II.
17 Cliff Barker, 77, American college basketball player (Kentucky Wildcats), and Olympian (1948). Alain Bosquet, 78, French poet. Milo Candini, 80, American baseball player (Washington Senators, Philadelphia Phillies). Douglas Harold Copp, 83, Canadian scientist. Ed Finney, 73, American baseball player. Bernarr Rainbow, 83, British historian of music education, and choir master. Helen Westcott, 70, American actor and former child actor, cancer. Dorothy Weston, 98, Australian tennis player.
18 László Bakos, 78, Hungarian Olympic wrestler (1948). Siegfried Franz, 84, German composer of film and television scores. Joan Freeman, 80, Australian physicist. Irving Hill, 83, American district judge (United States District Court for the Central District of California). Ted Jolliffe, 89, Canadian politician. Klaus Mollenhauer, 69, German pedagogical theorist. Hideo Shima, 96, Japanese engineer and bullet train pioneer. Dwight Sloan, 83, American gridiron football player (Chicago Cardinals, Detroit Lions). Robert E. Woodside, 93, American politician and judge.
19 Simon Diedong Dombo, Ghanaian politician and king. Samuel Dzhundrin, 77, Bulgarian Roman Catholic prelate and monk. Klaus Havenstein, 75, German actor, cabaret artist, and television presenter. E. M. S. Namboodiripad, 88, Indian communist politician and theorist. Jimmy Scoular, 73, Scottish football player and manager. Hanzade Sultan, 74, Ottoman princess and Turkish expatriate.
20 B. N. Adarkar, 87, Indian economist. Yemima Avidar-Tchernovitz, 88, Israeli author. Beverley Cross, 66, English playwright, librettist and screenwriter (Clash of the Titans, Jason and the Argonauts). Anthony Fell, 83, British politician. Agustín Gómez-Arcos, 65, Spanish writer, cancer. George Howard, 41, American jazz saxophonist, colon cancer.George Howard at AllMusic Retrieved 23 October 2019 Laddie Lucas, 82, British Air Force officer and politician. Beth Mitchell, 25, American shag dancer and elementary school teacher. Catherine Sauvage, 68, French singer and actress. Ivor Slaney, 76, British musical composer and conductor. Maciej Słomczyński, 75, Polish translator and writer.
21 Ben Bagley, 64, American record producer and musical producer. Horst Korsching, 85, German physicist. Ramanathapuram C S Murugabhoopathy, 84, Indian Mridanga maestro. Maciej Słomczyński, 75, Polish writer and translator. Galina Ulanova, 88, Russian ballet dancer.
22 Bruce Arthur, 76, Australian wrestler and Olympian (1948). Simon Wingfield Digby, 88, British politician. János Dosztály, 78, Hungarian Olympic sports shooter (1952, 1960). Jack R. Howard, 87, American broadcasting executive.