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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.

October 1998Edit

1Edit

  • Pauline Julien, 70, singer, songwriter, actress and feminist activist.[1]
  • Jim Kearney, 78, New Zealand rugby player.
  • Vere Lorrimer, 78, British television producer and director.
  • John M. Steeves, 93, American diplomat.

2Edit

  • Gene Autry, 91, American actor, singer and sports team owner, lymphoma.[2]
  • DONDI, 37, American graffiti artist, AIDS.
  • Olin J. Eggen, 79, American astronomer.
  • Elfriede Geiringer, 93, Jewish survivor of the World War II.
  • Olivier Gendebien, 74, Belgian racing driver.[3]
  • Raymond Raikes, 88, British theatre producer, director and broadcaster.
  • Sir Richard Way, 84, British civil servant and academic administrator.
  • Hoyt Winslett, 94, American college football player and businessman.
  • Sanjaasürengiin Zorig, 36, Mongolian politician and revolutionary, assassinated.
  • Roger Vivier, 90, French women's shoe designer.[4]

3Edit

  • Arthur Clues, 74, Australian rugby player.
  • William Girometti, 74, Italian painter.
  • Colin Greenwood, 62, South African rugby player.
  • Roddy McDowall, 70, British-American actor, film director and photographer, lung cancer.[5]
  • G. S. Venkataraman, 68, Indian botanist.
  • Anne-Marie Walters, 75, Swiss-British Special Operations Executive during World War II.
  • George Yates, 90, Australian businessman and politician.[6]

4Edit

  • S. Arasaratnam, 68, Sri Lankan academic, historian and author.
  • Lee Grissom, 90, American baseball player.
  • Tony Shelly, 61, New Zealand racing driver.[7]

5Edit

  • Joe Baum, 78, American restaurateur.
  • Glenn A. Burklund, 74, American inventor and politician.
  • Megs Jenkins, 81, English actress.[8]
  • Krzysztof Jung, 47, Polish painter, graphic artist and performer, asthma.
  • Pierre Martory, 77, French poet.
  • Federico Zeri, 77, Italian art historian.[9]

6Edit

  • Mark Belanger, 54, American baseball player, lung cancer.[10]
  • Ambrose Burke, 102, English professor and Catholic priest.
  • Rolan Bykov, 68, Soviet and Russian actor, theatre and film director and screenwriter.[11]
  • Bob Gude, 80, American football player.
  • Samuel Messick, 67, American psychologist.[12]
  • Stéphane Morin, 29, Canadian ice hockey player, undetected heart problems.[13]
  • Joe Poovey, 57, American rockabilly and country singer and songwriter, heart condition.[14]
  • Jerome Weidman, 85, American playwright and novelist.[15]

7Edit

  • Nicholas Raymond Cerio, 62, American martial artist.
  • Richard Cyert, 77, American economist and statistician, cancer.[16]
  • Ronnie Ford, 84, English cricket player and Royal Air Force officer.
  • Arnold Jacobs, 83, American tubist.
  • Joseph P. Merlino, 76, American Party politician.[17]
  • Lee Nak-hoon, 62, South Korean actor, heart disease and diabetes.
  • Ru Zhijuan, 72, Chinese writer.[18]
  • Cees de Vreugd, 46, Dutch strongman, heart attack.

8Edit

  • Mario Ezcurdia Camacho, 73, Mexican journalist and writer.
  • Zhang Chongren, 91, Chinese artist and sculptor.[19]
  • Mohanlal Lallubhai Dantwala, 89, Indian agricultural economist, academic and writer.[20]
  • Jashim, 48, Bangladeshi film actor, producer and freedom fighter, brain haemorrhage.
  • Gigi Reder, 70, Italian character actor.

9Edit

  • Robert Allen, 92, American actor, cancer.[21]
  • Anthony Alonzo, 50, Filipino actor, singer, and councilor of Quezon City, skin cancer.
  • Ian Johnson, 80, Australian cricketer.[22]
  • Gustavo Petricioli, 70, Mexican economist, heart attack.

10Edit

  • Al Beadle, 71, American architect.
  • Clark Clifford, 91, American lawyer and politician.[23]
  • Jackie Forster, 71, English news reporter, actress and lesbian rights activist.[24]
  • Marvin Gay Sr., 84, American minister and father/murderer of Marvin Gaye, pneumonia.[25]
  • Tony Marvin, 86, American radio and television announcer.[26]
  • Konstantin Petrzhak, 91, Russian nuclear physicist.[27]
  • Tommy Quaid, 41, Irish hurler, injuries sustained from a fall.
  • Berta Rahm, 88, Swiss architect, writer and feminist activist.
  • El Tappe, 71, American baseball player and coach, cancer.

11Edit

  • Richard Denning, 84, American actor, heart attack.[28]
  • Fred Harris, 86, English footballer.
  • Michael Wynn, 7th Baron Newborough, 81, British peer and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve officer.[29]
  • Spottswood William Robinson III, 82, American civil rights attorney and US Circuit Judge.
  • Gaius Shaver, 88, American football player.

12Edit

  • Jürgen Aschoff, 85, German physician, biologist and behavioral physiologist.
  • Denny Galehouse, 87, American baseball player.
  • Harold G. Long, 68, American martial artist and Isshinryu karate pioneer, cancer.
  • Ineko Sata, 94, Japanese author and communist.
  • Matthew Shepard, 21, American murder victim, injuries sustained from blunt force trauma.[30]
  • W. Allen Wallis, 85, American economist and statistician.[31]

13Edit

  • Bojan Pečar, 38, Serbian/Yugoslav musician, heart attack.
  • Dmitry Nikolayevich Filippov, 54, Soviet/Russian politician and industrialist, assassinated.
  • P. T. Narasimhachar, 93, Indian playwright and poet.
  • Gérard Charles Édouard Thériault, 66, Canadian pilot and Chief of the Defence Staff.
  • Khánh Trắng, Vietnamese labor leader and mobster, execution by firing squad.
  • Jeremy Vargas Sagastegui, 27, American criminal, execution by lethal injection.[32]

14Edit

  • Cleveland Amory, 81, American author, reporter and animal rights activist, abdominal aortic aneurysm.[33]
  • Betty Gillies, 90, American aviation pioneer.
  • Giorgio Oberweger, 84, Italian discus thrower.
  • Om Prakash Sharma, 73, Indian writer.
  • Frankie Yankovic, 93, American polka musician, heart failure.

15Edit

  • Perry Bullard, American politician.
  • Colette Darfeuil, 92, French actress.
  • Claire Madden, 93, Irish librarian, feminist and political activist.
  • Ike Owens, 79, Welsh rugby player.[34]

16Edit

  • Frank Carswell, 78, American baseball player and manager.
  • Douglas C. Gordon, American whitewater kayaker.
  • Jon Postel, 55, American computer scientist, complications from heart surgery.[35]
  • Joseph Stamler, 86, American lawyer and judge.[36]

17Edit

  • Antonio Agri, 66, Argentine musician.
  • Brian Dickson, 82, Canadian military officer and judge.
  • Muhammad Abdullah Ghazi, 63, Pakistani religious leader, assassinated.
  • Joan Hickson, 92, English actress.[37]
  • Hakim Said, 78, Pakistani scholar and philanthropist, murdered.

18Edit

  • Ilse von Randow, 97, New Zealand weaver.
  • Dick Sheppard, 53, English footballer.
  • George Shaw Wheeler, 90, American advisor to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and defector.[38]

19Edit

  • Tommy Burks, 58, American farmer and politician, murdered.
  • Edward Flannery, 86, American Roman Catholic priest and author, pancreatic cancer.[39]
  • Fritz Honka, 63, German serial killer.
  • Charlton Ogburn, 87, American journalist and author, suicide.[40]
  • Compton I. White Jr., 77, American politician.

20Edit

  • John Didcott, 67, South African lawyer and judge, cancer.[41]
  • Frank Gillard, 89, British BBC reporter and radio innovator.[42]
  • Gerhard Jahn, 71, German politician.
  • Nitza Villapol, 74, Cuban chef, cookbook writer and television host.

21Edit

  • Josef Bremm, 84, Nazi Germany Wehrmacht officer.
  • Scott Brower, 34, American ice hockey goaltender, traffic accident.[43]
  • Nicholas Kemmer, 86, Russian-British nuclear physicist.[44]
  • Vivienne McAuliffe, 50, English singer and songwriter (Affinity).
  • Hans Alfred Nieper, 70, German alternative medicine practitioner.
  • Alan Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury, 96, British businessman and member of the supermarket Sainsbury family.
  • Tatyana Tolmachova, 91, Soviet figure skater and figure skating coach.

22Edit

  • Eric Ambler, 89, English author of thrillers.[45]
  • Nathalia Crane, 85, American poet and novelist.
  • Ajit Khan, 76, Indian actor.[46]
  • Violet Owen, 96, British tennis and hockey player.[47]
  • Francis Sargent, 83, American politician.[48]

23Edit

  • Noel Carroll, 56, Irish middle distance runner, heart attack.
  • Christopher Gable, 58, English ballet dancer, choreographer and actor, cancer.[49]
  • Adrian Gonzales, Filipino comics artist.
  • Winnie Ruth Judd, 93, American convicted murderer.[50]
  • Zangeres Zonder Naam, 79, Dutch levenslied singer, cardiac arrest.

24Edit

  • Dennis Ayling, 81, British cinematographer.
  • Charles Barnes, 96, Australian politician.
  • Mary Calderone, 94, American physician and sexual education advocate.[51]
  • Pino Dordoni, 72, Italian athlete.
  • Geoffrey John Kirkby, 80, British Royal Navy officer during World War II.

25Edit

  • Sir Robin Brook, 90 British businessman, banker and Olympic fencer.[52]
  • Dick Higgins, 60, American artist, composer, poet, and publisher, heart attack.[53]
  • John Hyland, 86, United States Navy admiral.
  • Gavriil Malish, 91, Soviet/Russian painter, watercolorist and graphic artist.
  • Susan Strange, 75, British scholar of international relations.
  • Warren Wiebe, 45, American vocalist and session artist, suicide.

26Edit

  • Ofélia Ramos Anunciato, 73, Brazilian chef.
  • Nicholas Budgen, 60, British politician, liver cancer.[54]
  • Kenkichi Iwasawa, 81, Japanese mathematician.
  • Margaret Keay, 87, British phytopathologist.[55]
  • George Kelly, 65, Scottish footballer.
  • José Cardoso Pires, 73, Portuguese author.
  • David Stevenson, 80, Royal Australian Navy officer.

27Edit

  • Stirling Dickinson, 89, American artist, car accident.[56]
  • Rosamund John, 85, English film and stage actress.[57]
  • Reidar Kvammen, 84, Norwegian footballer.
  • Klári Tolnay, 84, Hungarian actress.

28Edit

  • Ghulam Ahmed, 76, Indian former cricket captain.
  • Cuthbert Alport, 86, British politician, minister and life peer.
  • James L. Day, 73, United States Marine Corps major general.[58]
  • Tommy Flowers, 92, English engineer and electronic computing pioneer.[59]
  • James Goldman, 71, American screenwriter, playwright and brother of William Goldman, heart attack.[60]
  • Ted Hughes, 68, English poet and children's writer, heart attack.[61]
  • Bessie Loo, 95, American actress and casting director.
  • Margaret Modlin, 71, American painter, sculptor and photographer.
  • Wang Shuming, 92, Republic of China Air Force colonel general.

29Edit

  • Anthony J. Celebrezze, 88, American politician.[62]
  • Sjoerdtsje Faber, 83, Dutch speed skater.[63]
  • Alvin M. Johnston, 84, American jet-age test pilot.[64]
  • Paul Misraki, 90, French composer of music and film scores.[65]
  • Harry Weese, 83, American architect, stroke.[66]

30Edit

  • Vishram Bedekar, 92, Indian writer and movie director.
  • Apo Lazaridès, 73, French cyclist.
  • Spike Nelson, 92, American football player and coach.
  • Lâm Văn Phát, Army of the Republic of Vietnam officer.
  • Bulldog Turner, 79, American football player and coach.[67]

31Edit

  • Noel Beadle, 83, Australian botanist and plant ecologist.
  • Helmut Brandt, (East) German politician and political prisoner.
  • William F. Carr, 88, American politician.
  • Sir Kenneth Darling, 89, British Army general.[68]
  • Bernard J. Dwyer, 77, American Democratic Party politician.[69]
  • María de la Purísima Salvat Romero, 72, Spanish Roman Catholic nun.
  • Lou Rymkus, 78, American football player and coach, stroke.[70]
  • Rosemary Stjernstedt, 86, English architect and town planner.

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