Deaths in February 1998

The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.

February 1998

1 Robert Creighton Buck, 77, American mathematician. Jack T. Collis, 75, American art director. Marga Faulstich, 82, German glass chemist. Edvard Hočevar, 71, Yugoslavian footballer. Gérard Séty, 75, French actor. Sheila Watson, 88, Canadian novelist and literary critic.

2 Raymond Cattell, 92, British and American psychologist. Duilio Del Prete, 59, Italian actor, dubber and singer-songwriter, cancer. Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber, 86, German-American nuclear physicist. Ferdinand A. Hermens, 91, German-American political scientist and economist. Viljo Kajava, 88, Finnish poet and writer. Pietro Masala, 53, Italian-born German Olympic weightlifter (1972). Robert McIntyre, 84, Scottish politician. Baldev Singh, 93, Indian neurologist. Roger L. Stevens, 87, American theatrical producer, arts administrator, and real estate executive. Haroun Tazieff, 83, French volcanologist and geologist. Manuel Delgado Villegas, 55, Spanish serial killer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Zahari Zhandov, 86, Bulgarian film director, script writer and cinematographer.

3 Joey Archibald, 83, American boxer. Wally Clune, 67, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens). Elt Drenth, 48, Dutch Olympic swimmer (1968). Clark Goff, 80, American gridiron football player (Pittsburgh Pirates). Bertram Heyn, 85, Sri Lankan general and cricketer. Davy Kaye, 81, British actor and entertainer.Patrick Newley Davy Kaye Obituary - The Independent 6 February 1998, Retrieved 28 October 2019 Gabriel Laub, 69, Czechoslovak journalist and writer. Fat Pat, 27, American rapper, shot. Karla Faye Tucker, 38, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection. Roy Welmaker, 84, American baseball player.

4 Eranuhi Aslamazyan, 88, Armenian and Soviet graphic artist. Lulof Heetjans, 81, Dutch footballer. Jean Blackwell Hutson, 83, African-American librarian, writer and curator. Zoran Kosanović, 42, Serbian Canadian table tennis player, heart attack. Aruna Lama, 52, Nepali singer. Menachem Shmuel David Raichik, 79, American Orthodox rabbi. Michel Roux, 73, French baritone. Rees Stephens, 75, Welsh rugby player. Cristóbal Martínez-Bordiú, 10th Marquis of Villaverde, 75, Spanish aristocrat and son in law of dictator Francisco Franco.

5 Wilbur Coen, 86, American tennis player. Douglas Gamley, 73, Australian composer. Margaret Hillis, 76, American conductor. Tim Kelly, 35, American guitarist of the band Slaughter, traffic collision. Kim Ki-young, 78, South Korean film director, injuries from a fire. Marv Olson, 90, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox). Eduardo Francisco Pironio, 77, Argentine Roman Catholic cardinal, bone cancer. Argemiro Roque, 74, Brazilian Olympic sprinter (1952). Joe Stubbs, American R&B/Soul singer, heart failure. Chikuzan Takahashi, 87, Japanese Tsugaru-jamisen performer and composer. Hans Wallach, 93, German-American experimental psychologist. Nick Webb, 43, English acoustic guitarist and composer, pancreatic cancer.

6 Nazim al-Kudsi, 91, president and prime minister of Syria. Falco, 40, Austrian singer and songwriter ("Rock Me Amadeus"), traffic collision. Adolphus Grimes, 84, American baseball player. Tony LeVier, 84, American air racer and test pilot, cancer. Ferenc Sidó, 74, Czechoslovak table tennis player. Toshiaki Tanaka, 62, Japanese table tennis player. Carl Wilson, 51, American musician, singer, and songwriter (The Beach Boys), lung cancer. Claude Érignac, 60, French prefect of Corsica, shot.

7 Gunther Baumann, 77, German football player and manager. Ascanio Cortés, 83, Chilean football player. Bobby Kemp, 38, American football player (Cincinnati Bengals, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), suicide. Norman J. Levy, 67, American lawyer and politician. Hugo Lundkvist, 84, Swedish Olympic sports shooter (1952). Everardo Múzquiz, 86, Mexican Olympic sprinter (1932). Lawrence Sanders, 77, American novelist and short story writer.

8 Elizabeth Bauer Mock, 86–87, American professor, curator, author and journalist. Betty Foss, 68, American baseball player. Tulsiram Sharma Kashyap, 58, Indian writer and politician. Halldór Laxness, 95, Icelandic writer and Nobel Prize laureate, Alzheimer's disease. Bob Naber, 68, American basketball player (Indianapolis Olympians). Enoch Powell, 85, British politician, classical scholar, author and philologist, Parkinson's disease. Rocke Robertson, 85, American physician. J. B. Salsberg, 95, Canadian politician. Julian Simon, 65, American economist and author, heart attack. Joseph Van Beeck, 86, Belgian footballer.

9 George Cafego, 82, American football player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Washington Redskins, Boston Yanks), and coach. Gene Collins, 73, American baseball player. Cyrille Delannoit, 71, Belgian middleweight boxing champion. Elbert Eatmon, 83, American baseball player. Bill Froats, 67, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers). Gabriel Gobin, 94, Belgian film actor. Dean Griffing, 82, American gridiron football player, coach and executive. Alf Jefferies, 76, English footballer. Panagiotis Katsouris, 21, Greek footballer, traffic collision. Nick Leluk, 62, Canadian politician. William Ronald, 71, Canadian painter. Bennie Schall, 80, American basketball player. Maurice Schumann, 86, French politician, journalist and writer.

10 Geoffrey Adams, 88, English cricketer. Ramchandran Jaikumar, 53, Indian-American scientist, heart attack. Richard Kotuk, 54, American journalist, producer and filmmaker, heart attack. Alex Kramer, 94, Canadian songwriter. Peter Longbottom, 38, British cyclist and Olympian (1992), traffic collision. Paul MacKendrick, 83, American classicist, author, and teacher. Erich Mückenberger, 87, German socialist politician. Félix Reina, 76, Cuban violinist, arranger and composer, stroke.

11 Tore Børrehaug, 53, Norwegian footballer. Joy Buba, 93, American sculptor and illustrator. Patrick Clark, 42, American chef, amyloidosis. Tanvir Dar, 50, Pakistani field hockey player and Olympian (1968). Thomas Gerard Dunn, 76, American politician. Mike Fornieles, 66, Cuban-American baseball player. Lily Harmon, American visual artist. Jonathan Hole, 93, American actor. Josef Issels, 90, German physician, pneumonia. Radhanath Rath, 101, Indian journalist, activist and politician.

12 Gardner Ackley, 82, American economist and diplomat. Lionel Aldridge, 56, American gridiron football player (Green Bay Packers, San Diego Chargers). Lauri Kivekäs, 94, Finnish businessman and politician. George Humphrey Middleton, 88, British diplomat. Ralf Reichenbach, 47, German shot putter and Olympian (1972, 1976). Notable victims of the 1998 Sudanese Air Force Antonov An-32 crash: Zubair Mohamed Salih, 53-54. Sudanese military officer and politician, vice president (since 1993) Arok Thon Arok, South Sudanese rebel leader

13 José Barraquer, 82, Spanish ophthalmologist. Michael Budrock, 68, American Olympic canoeist (1952). Thomas Chapin, 40, American composer and musician, leukemia. Jo Clayton, 58, American fantasy and science fiction author, multiple myeloma.James W. Fiscus Obituary and fact sheet: Jo Clayton, Science Fiction Writers of America, 17 Februar 1998. Retrieved 1 November 2019 John Cowley, 74, Irish actor.The Irish Times, "John Cowley, 'Riordans' actor and bloodsports opponent, dies", 14 February 1998. Retrieved 1 November 2019 Hans Diergaardt, 70, Namibian politician. Wayne Gift, 82, American football player (Cleveland Rams). Bryan MacMahon, 88, Irish writer. Michael Palmer, 62, British middle-distance runner and Olympian (1960). Alfred Struwe, 70, German actor, pneumonia. Ladislav Štípek, 73, Czechoslovak table tennis player.

14 Badrul Haider Chowdhury, 73, Chief Justice of Bangladesh. Edgar Granville, Baron Granville of Eye, 100, British politician. Christopher Grose-Hodge, 73, British Olympic fencer (1952). Gien de Kock, 89, Dutch athlete and Olympian (!936). Thomas McKimson, 90, American animator. Hansel Mieth, 88, German-American photojournalist. Denise Paulme, 88, French Africanist and anthropologist. Manuel Pérez, 54, Colombian guerrilla leader, hepatitis."Colombian rebel leader dies" by Timothy Ross, BBC News, April 6, 1998, Retrieved 1 November 2019

15 Norman Casmir, 67, German Olympic fencer (1952). Sir Samuel Curran, 85, British physicist and university administrator. Martha Gellhorn, 89, American novelist, travel writer, and journalist, suicide by cyanide poisoning. B. Calvin Jones, 59, American archaeologist. Louie Spicolli, 27, American professional wrestler, overdose. George White, 86, American film editor.

16 Mary Amdur, 76, American toxicologist, heart attack. Boris Blumin, 90, Canadian-American chess master. Denis Hegarty, 85, South African Olympic sailor (1956). Harry Hinsley, 79, British historian and cryptanalyst. Fernando Abril Martorell, 61, former Spanish Deputy Prime Minister, lung cancer. Matti Tammelin, 71, Finnish Olympic boxer (1948). Sheu Yuan-dong, 70, Taiwanese politician and governor of the Central Bank, plane crash.

17 Arnold Aronson, 86, American civil rights leader. Nicolas Bouvier, 68, Swiss writer, artist, and photographer. Maurice Bucaille, 77, French physician and author. Giorgio Cattaneo, 74, Italian Olympic speed skater (1948). Bimal Chandra, 70, Indian swimmer and Olympian (1948). Hilaire Couvreur, 73, Belgian cyclist. Anibál Filiberti, 83, Argentine Olympic water polo player (1948). Oscar Hanson, 87, Canadian-born American ice hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks). Ernst Jünger, 102, German World War I hero, author and entomologist. Ernst Käsemann, 91, German Lutheran theologian, murdered around 24 May 1977. Bob Merrill, 76, American songwriter, theatrical composer and screenwriter, suicide. Sheila Raynor, 91, British actress. Ruth Robertson, 92, American photojournalist. Marie-Louise von Franz, 83, Swiss Jungian psychologist and scholar. Albert Wass, 90, Hungarian nobleman, novelist and poet, suicide.

18 Lidia Bongiovanni, 83, Italian versatile athlete and Olympian (1936). James E. Boyd, 91, American physicist and mathematician. Harry Caray, 83, American television and radio broadcaster, heart attack. David Crouch, 78, British politician. Antonio Escuriet, 88, Spanish road cyclist. Robbie James, 40, Welsh footballer, heart attack. Bob Lytle, 81, American basketball player. Jack McCarthy, 80, Australian cricketer. Scott O'Hara, 36, American pornographic performer, author, poet and publisher, AIDS. Messias Timula, 49, Portuguese footballer. Mya Than Tint, 68, Myanmar writer, brain hemorrhage. Richard Crawford White, 74, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1965-1983) heart attack.

19 Frankie Genovese, 82, Canadian Olympic boxer (1932). Wolfgang Händler, 77, German mathematician and pioneering computer scientist. Fernando Jardón, 81, Spanish Olympic field hockey player (1948). Grandpa Jones, 84, American "old time" country and gospel music singer, stroke. Horatio Lamar, 86, American baseball player. George Male, 87, English footballer. Charlie Martin, 84, Welsh racing driver. Mancur Olson, 66, American economist and social scientist. Leo Righetti, 72, American baseball player. Thomas F. Riley, 85, United States Marine Corps brigadier general, cardiac arrest. Talish, Pakistani actor.

20 Francis Coulson, 78, British chef and hotelier. John Fulton, 65, American bullfighter, heart attack. Henry Livings, 68, English playwright and screenwriter. David McClure, 72, Scottish artist and lecturer. Ivor Mairants, 90, Polish jazz and classical guitarist, teacher and composer. Bob McBride, 51, Canadian rock singer-songwriter, heart failure.Nick Talevski. Rock Obituaries: Knocking On Heaven's Door. Omnibus; 7 April 2010. . p. 404–.