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The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.

June 1998Edit

1Edit

  • Rex Bumgardner, 74, American gridiron football player.
  • Brojen Das, 70, Bengali swimmer, cancer.
  • Darwin Joston, 60, American actor, leukemia.[1]
  • Junkyard Dog, 45, American professional wrestler, traffic collision.[2]
  • Hernando Tejada, 74, Colombian painter and sculptor.

2Edit

  • Helen Carter, 70, American country music singer, heart problems.[3]
  • P. Andrew Cooray, 96, Sri Lankan politician.
  • Oran Henderson, 77, United States Army brigade commander of the units involved in the Mỹ Lai massacre.[4]
  • Gonzalo Martínez Ortega, 64, Mexican actor, screenwriter and producer, traffic collision.
  • Dorothy Stickney, 101, American actress.[5]

3Edit

  • Pat Abbruzzi, 65, American gridiron football player.
  • Poul Bundgaard, 75, Danish actor and singer.
  • Douglas Gretzler, 47, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
  • Joseph C. Harsch, 93, American journalist.[6]
  • William L. Snyder, 80, American film producer, Alzheimer's disease.[7]

4Edit

  • Aarudhra, 72, Indian author, poet, publisher, and playwright.
  • Clancy Carlile, 68, American novelist and screenwriter, cancer.[8]
  • Josephine Hutchinson, 94, American actress.[9]
  • Ray Montgomery, 76, American actor.
  • Miguel Montuori, 65, Italian Argentine football player.
  • Shirley Povich, 92, American journalist.[10]
  • David Walsh, 52, Canadian businessman, aneurysm.[11]

5Edit

  • Alfred Kazin, 83, American writer and literary critic.[12]
  • Jeanette Nolan, 86, American actress.[13]
  • Claudia Parsons, 97, British engineer, writer and traveller.
  • Dieter Roth, 68, Swiss artist, heart attack.[14]
  • B. M. Shah, Indian theatre director and playwright.
  • Prentiss Walker, 80, American politician.
  • Sam Yorty, 88, American politician.[15]

6Edit

  • Marshall Green, 82, American diplomat.[16]
  • Jatoe Kaleo, Ghanaian traditional ruler and politician.
  • Peter Wong, 66, Canadian politician, heart attack.

7Edit

  • Tom Buskey, 51, American baseball player, complications from a heart attack.
  • James Byrd Jr., 49, African American murder victim, murdered.[17]
  • Jerry Capehart, 69, American songwriter and music manager.[18]
  • Mildred Horn, 97, American film critic and screenwriter.
  • Hans Ramberg, 81, Norwegian-Swedish geologist.

8Edit

  • Sani Abacha, 54, Nigerian Army officer and dictator, poisoned.[19]
  • George Longridge, 66, Scottish footballer.
  • Jackie McGlew, 69, South African cricketer.
  • Maria Reiche, 95, German-Peruvian mathematician and archaeologist.[20]

9Edit

  • Agostino Casaroli, 83, Italian Catholic priest and diplomat for the Holy See.
  • Lois Mailou Jones, 92, American artist and teacher.[21]
  • Barton Holland Warnock, 86, American botanist, heart attack.

10Edit

  • Paudge Brennan, 76, Irish politician.
  • Bobby Bryant, 64, American jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist, heart attack.
  • David English, 67, British journalist and newspaper editor.[22]
  • Steve Griffiths, 84, English footballer.
  • Jim Hearn, 77, American baseball player.[23]
  • Hammond Innes, 84, English author.
  • Nivedita Jain, 19, Indian beauty contestant and an actress, fall.[24]
  • Pat Masulli, 67, American comic book creator.
  • Steve Sanders, 45, American musician, singer and songwriter, suicide.
  • John G. Smith, 73, American baseball coach, pneumonia.[25]

11Edit

  • Thomas Abernethy, 95, American politician.
  • Harry Anderson, 66, American baseball player.
  • Don Beauvais, 77, Australian rules footballer.
  • Dame Catherine Cookson, 91, British author.[26]
  • Alexei Eriomin, 79, Russian Soviet realist painter.
  • Leopoldo Salcedo, 86, Filipino film actor.
  • John Jairo Moreno Torres, 19, Colombian criminal and serial killer, murdered.

12Edit

  • Leo Buscaglia, 74, American author and motivational speaker, heart attack.[27]
  • Retta Davidson, 76, American animator.
  • John Gutmann, 93, German-American photographer and painter.[28]
  • Theresa Merritt, 75, American actress and singer, skin cancer.[29]
  • Christina Marie Williams, 13, American murder victim, homicide.[30]

13Edit

  • Nisim Aloni, 71, Israeli playwright and translator.
  • Lúcio Costa, 96, Brazilian architect and urban planner.[31]
  • Gil Duthie, 86, Australian politician.
  • Buddy Elrod, 79, American football player.
  • Alfred Horace Gerrard, 99, English modernist sculptor.[32]
  • Birger Ruud, 86, Norwegian ski jumper.
  • Reg Smythe, 80, British cartoonist.[33]
  • Yoshio Sugino, 93, Japanese martial artist and film choreographer.
  • Éric Tabarly, 86, French naval officer and yachtsman, drowning.
  • Henry Tatana, 53, New Zealand rugby league player.
  • Walter H. Williams, 77, America artist, painter, printmaker, and sculptor.

14Edit

  • Camillo Achilli, 76, Italian footballer.
  • Hans W. Brimi, 80, Norwegian farmer and traditional folk musician.[34]
  • Ginette Mathiot, 91, French food writer.[35]
  • Ajit Sarkar, 50/51, Indian politician.
  • Kadamba Simmons, 24, British actress and model, murdered.
  • Oliver Treyz, 80, American network television executive.[36]

15Edit

  • Suzanne Eisendieck, 91, German painter.
  • Morris Kestelman, 92, British artist.[37]
  • Thierry Salmon, 41, Belgian actor and theatre director, traffic accident.
  • Anton van Wilderode, 79, Belgian priest, writer and poet.

16Edit

  • Roberto Cañedo, 80, Mexican actor.
  • Frank Kristufek, 82, American football player.[38]
  • Keith Newton, 56, English footballer.[39]
  • Jafar Sharif-Emami, 85, Iranian politician.
  • Fitzroy Talbot, 88, British Royal Navy officer.
  • Teresa Martínez de Varela, 84, Colombian writer.

17Edit

  • John Carberry, 93, American Roman Catholic prelate.[40]
  • Eric G. Hall, 75, Pakistan Air Force bomber and fighter pilot.
  • Gianni Lunadei, 60, Italian Argentine actor.
  • Dina de Marco, 60, Mexican actress and television director, cancer.
  • Muhammad Metwally Al Shaarawy, 87, Egyptian Muslim jurist.
  • Mohammad Sabir, 54, Pakistani cricketer.

18Edit

  • Otto Baum, 86, German commander of the Waffen-SS during World War II.
  • Paul van Buren, 74, American theologian and author, cancer.[41]
  • Archie Edwards, 79, American blues guitarist.
  • Edward Eliscu, 96, American lyricist, playwright, producer and actor.[42]
  • Ernesto Grillo, 68, Argentine footballer.
  • Svein Heglund, 79, Norwegian engineer, RAF officer and flying ace.
  • Kim Jin-kyu, 76, South Korean actor, film director and producer.
  • Felix Knight, 89, American tenor, actor, and vocal teacher.[43]
  • Charles Korvin, 90, Hungarian-born American actor, photographer and master chef.[44]
  • Nigel Maynard, 76, British Royal Air Force commander.
  • Nazim Panipati, Pakistani film song lyricist and film script writer.
  • Herbert J. Sweet, 78, United States Marine Sergeant Major, respiratory failure.[45]

19Edit

  • John Camkin, 75, English journalist and sports commentator, cancer.
  • Anatoly Kasheida, 69, Ukrainian-Soviet writer, poet and journalist.
  • John Krushenick, 71, American painter and gallery owner.
  • Elio Ragni, 87, Italian athlete.
  • Howard J. Whitmore Jr., 93, American politician.[46]

20Edit

  • Bruno Barnabe, 93, English film and stage actor.
  • Bobby Gimby, 79, Canadian orchestra leader, trumpeter, and singer-songwriter.
  • Kali, 79, Polish-born American painter.
  • Morris Muskat, 92, American petroleum engineer.
  • George Van Peursem, American politician.
  • Conrad Schumann, 56, East German border guard, suicide by hanging.[47]

21Edit

  • Harry Cranbrook Allen, 81, British historian of the United States.
  • Emma Danieli, 61, Italian actress and television personality.
  • Gerhard Gundermann, 43, German singer-songwriter and rock musician, stroke.[48]
  • François Lehideux, 94, French industrialist and member of the Vichy government.
  • Peter Mander, 69, New Zealand yachtsman and Olympic gold medal winner.
  • Sir Foley Newns, 79, British colonial administrator.[49]

22Edit

  • Narciso Abeyta, Navajo painter and silversmith, cerebral hemorrhage.
  • Phil Campbell, 81, American farmer and politician.[50]
  • Juliusz Bogdan Deczkowski, 74, Polish soldier during World War II, and later inventor and writer.
  • Benny Green, 70, British writer, radio broadcaster and saxophonist, cancer.[51]
  • Norberto Doroteo Méndez, 75, Argentine football player.
  • Elisabeth Schooling, British ballet dancer.

23Edit

  • Leonard Jones, 74, Canadian lawyer and politician.
  • Walter M. D. Kern, 61, American politician.
  • Maureen O'Sullivan, 87, American actress.[52]
  • Johnny Walsh, 88, Irish Gaelic footballer.

24Edit

  • Francine Agazarian, 85, French spy during World War II.
  • Canito, 67, Spanish footballer.
  • Beatrice Mandelman, 85, American abstract artist, cancer.[53]
  • B. G. Prasada Rao, 81, Indian bishop in Medak.
  • Vittorio Trancanelli, 54, Italian physician and Roman Catholic Venerable.

25Edit

  • David Ayalon, 84, Israeli historian of Islam and the Middle East.[54]
  • Claudia Cockburn, 65, American-British disability activist.
  • Peter Kamnitzer, 77, German-born American architect, heart attack.
  • Lounès Matoub, 42, Algerian Berber singer, poet and political activist, assassinated.[55]

26Edit

  • Frank Arkell, 62, Australian politician, murdered.[56]
  • Bobby Cairns, 69, Scottish football player.
  • Eugene F. Clark, 86, U.S. Navy officer.
  • Sero Khanzadyan, 82, Armenian writer.
  • Vladimir Petukhov, 48, Russian mayor and murder victim, killed.
  • Derek Rayner, Baron Rayner, 72, English businessman and life peer.[57]
  • William R. Sears, 70, American politician.

27Edit

  • Pierre Boutang, 81, French philosopher, poet and translator.
  • Sir Desmond Heap, 90, British lawyer and town planner.
  • David Laitt, 67, English cricketer.
  • Gilles Rocheleau, 62, Canadian politician.
  • Joyce Wieland, 67, Canadian experimental visual artist.[58]
  • Peter H. Wyden, 74, American journalist and writer.[59]

28Edit

  • Jonathan Benair, 47, American actor, cerebral hemorrhage and heart attack.[60]
  • Marion Eugene Carl, 82, American flying ace during World War II and record-setting test pilot, shot during robbery.[61]
  • Bill Elias, 75, American football coach.
  • Božidar Ferjančić, 69, Serbian historian.
  • Jean-Yves Raimbaud, 40, French animator and cartoonist, lung cancer.
  • Jack Rowley, 79, English footballer.
  • Kamala Sohonie, 85, Indian biochemist.
  • Denis Williams, 75, Guyanese painter, author and archaeologist.

29Edit

  • Slavko Dokmanović, 48, Croatian Serbian war criminal, suicide by hanging.
  • Joseph G. Galway, 75, American meteorologist.[62]
  • Küllo Kõiv, 25, Estonian wrestler, car accident.[63]
  • Roy Milne, 77, Scottish-American football player.
  • Kamalakara Kameswara Rao, 86, Indian film director, cardiac arrest.

30Edit

  • Galina Brezhneva, 69, Russian/Soviet socialite and daughter of General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev.
  • George Parsons, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.
  • John Peter, 61, Indian field hockey player.[64]
  • Edward L. Varney, 83, American Modernist architect.

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