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The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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.

September 1998Edit

1Edit

  • Francisco Coching, 78, Filipino comic books illustrator and writer.
  • Cary Middlecoff, 77, American golfer, heart disease.[1]
  • Nick Murphy, 31, English footballer, car crash.[2]
  • Vere Harmsworth, 3rd Viscount Rothermere, 73, British newspaper magnate.
  • Ernest Edward Williams, 84, American herpetologist.

2Edit

  • Jackie Blanchflower, 65, Northern Irish footballer.
  • Roy Bradford, 77, Northern Irish politician.
  • Mary Lou Clements-Mann, 51, AIDS researcher, plane crash of Swissair Flight 111.[3]
  • Allen Drury, 80, American novelist and Pullizer Prize winner, cardiac arrest.[4]
  • Alastair Dunnett, 89, Scottish journalist and newspaper editor.
  • Jonathan Mann, 51, American physician and former head of the WHO's AIDS program, plane crash of Swissair Flight 111.[3]
  • Fwanyanga Mulikita, 69, Zambian politician.
  • Tommy J. Smith, 81, Australian racehorse trainer.
  • Sir Arthur Vick, 87, British physicist and university administrator.

3Edit

  • Vince Alascia, 84, American comic book artist.
  • Harry Jannotti, 74, Democratic politician, cancer.
  • Ellis R. Kerley, 74, American forensic anthropologist.[5]
  • John F. Thornell Jr, 77, World War II USAF Flying ace.
  • Friedrich Körner, 77, World War II Luftwaffe Flying ace.
  • Albert Nemethy, 78, Hungarian-born American artist.[6]

4Edit

  • Henri Bource, 64, Dutch-Australian scuba diver and underwater filmmaker.
  • Hernando Durán Dussán, Colombian lawyer and politician, respiratory infection.
  • Elizabeth Kata, 85, Australian writer under the pseudonym "Elizabeth Kata".
  • Tania Long, 85, American journalist and war correspondent during World War II.[7]
  • Masato Nakae, 80, Japanese American US Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient.
  • Allen C. Skorepa, 57, American lichenologist.
  • Lal Waterson, 55, English folksinger and songwriter, cancer.[8]

5Edit

  • Willem Drees Jr., 75, Dutch politician and son of politician Willem Drees.[9]
  • Michael Fleischer, 90, American chemist and mineralogist.
  • Sonny Knight, 64, American singer, songwriter and author, complications following a stroke.
  • Margaret Lefranc, 91, American visual artist.[10]
  • Minoru Niizuma, 67, Japanese abstract sculptor, stroke.[11]
  • Verner Panton, 72, Danish interior designer.[12]
  • Leo Penn, 77, American actor and director, lung cancer.[13]

6Edit

  • Akira Kurosawa, 88, Japanese film director and screenwriter.[14]
  • Joe McCarthy, 79, American aviator.
  • Ric Segreto, 45, American-Filipino recording artist, singer-songwriter and actor, motorcycle accident.
  • Elaine Shepard, 85, American Broadway and film actress.

7Edit

  • Håvard Alstadheim, 62, Norwegian economist and politician.
  • Mario Bardi, 77, Italian Realist painter, stroke.
  • Sir John Hayes, 85, British Royal Navy officer.[15]

8Edit

  • Walter Adams, 76, American economist and college professor, pancreatic cancer.
  • Leonid Kinskey, 95, Russian-born actor, complications of a stroke.[16]
  • Marco Rizo, 77, Cuban-American pianist, composer, and arranger, heart attack.[17]
  • Bill Shankland, 91, Australian sportsman, heart failure.

9Edit

  • Lucio Battisti, 55, Italian singer-songwriter and composer, cancer.[18]
  • Bill Cratty, 47, American modern dancer and choreographer, liver cancer.[19]
  • Eleanor Garatti, 89, American swimmer and Olympic gold medalist.
  • Chadayan Govindan, 69, Indian politician.
  • Mariano Martín, 78, Spanish footballer.
  • Catherine Turney, 91, American writer and screenwriter.[20]
  • Jerry Zimmerman, 63, American baseball player and coach.

10Edit

  • Carl Forgione, 54, British actor.
  • Freddie Green, 82, English professional footballer.
  • Adolfe de Hoernle, 96, German-born American philanthropist.[21]
  • Frederick Rosier, 82, British Royal Air Force commander.

11Edit

  • Sofía Bassi, 85, Mexican painter and writer, heart failure.
  • Dane Clark, 86, American actor.[22]
  • Carlos Guimard, 85, Argentine chess Grandmaster.
  • Rolando Morán, 68, Guatemalan revolutionary leader.
  • P. S. Veerappa, 87, Indian actor and film producer.

12Edit

  • George E. Danielson, 83, American politician and judge, heart failure.[23]
  • Azem Hajdari, 35, Albanian student leader, murdered.[24]
  • Awang Hassan, 87, Malaysian politician.
  • Henry Spira, 71, Belgian-American animal rights activist.[25]

13Edit

  • Talimeren Ao, 80, Indian footballer and physician.
  • Denys Buckley, 92, English barrister and judge.[26]
  • Necdet Calp, 76, Turkish civil servant and politician, heart attack.
  • Aloys Grillmeier, 88, German Jesuit priest and theologian.
  • Owen Horwood, 81, South African economist and politician, heart attack.
  • Harry Lumley, 71, Canadian ice hockey goaltender in the National Hockey League.[27]
  • Dave Ridley, 81, Welsh footballer.
  • José María Rivarola Matto, 80, Paraguayan writer.
  • George Wallace, 79, American politician and populist.[28]

14Edit

  • Johnny Adams, 66, American blues, jazz and gospel singer, prostate cancer.[29]
  • Lance Duldig, 76, Australian cricketer.
  • Sue Geh, 39, Australian women's basketball player, heart failure.
  • Fred Korth, 89, United States Secretary of the Navy.
  • George Scott, 69, English snooker player.
  • Yang Shangkun, 91, President of the People's Republic of China.[30]

15Edit

  • Charles George Drake, 78, Canadian neurosurgeon.
  • Amy Merania Harper, 98, New Zealand photographer.
  • Reynold B. Johnson, 92, American inventor and computer pioneer, melanoma.[31]
  • Don Perkins, 80, American football player.

16Edit

  • Jane Marsh Beveridge, 82, Canadian artist.[32]
  • John Eakins, 75, Canadian politician.
  • Mazhar Khan, Indian actor and producer, renal failure.
  • Herman Kull, 68, American basketball coach.
  • Pak Tu-jin, 82, Korean poet.
  • Harold Vokes, 90, American malacologist and paleontologist.[33]

17Edit

  • Geoffrey Dutton, 76, Australian author and historian.[34]
  • Win Elliot, 83, American television and radio sportscaster and game show host.[35]
  • Celia Fiennes, 96, English printmaker and book illustrator.[36]
  • April FitzLyon, 78, English translator, biographer, and historian.[37]
  • Gerold Frank, 91, American author and ghostwriter.[38]

18Edit

  • Bryan Nicholson Brooke, 83, British surgeon and ulcerative colitis surgery pioneer.
  • Francelia Butler, 85, American scholar and writer of children's literature.[39]
  • Kurt Hager, 86, East German politician.
  • Sam Locke, 81, American writer and director.[40]
  • Carl-Olof Wrang, 81, Swedish Army officer.

19Edit

  • Susan Barrantes, 61, British film producer and mother of Sarah, Duchess of York, traffic accident.
  • Patricia Hayes, 88, English actress.[41]
  • Ran Laurie, 83, British physician, Olympic gold medallist and father of Hugh Laurie, Parkinson's disease.[42]
  • George Adam Nixon, 75, Canadian politician, stroke.
  • George H. Steuart, 90, American diplomat.

20Edit

  • Audrey Alexandra Brown, 93, Canadian poet.
  • Muriel Humphrey Brown, 86, American politician and wife of Vice President Hubert Humphrey.[43]
  • Helen Dyer, 103, American biochemist and cancer researcher.
  • Lila Katzen, 72, American abstract sculptor, liver cancer.[44]
  • Alan Prescott, 71, English rugby league footballer.
  • Cecil Williams, 72, Barbadian cricketer, cancer.

21Edit

  • Margaret Allan, 89, Scottish motor racing driver.[45]
  • Oz Bach, 59, American folk musician, cancer.
  • Martha Bass, 77, American gospel singer.
  • Abdelghani Bousta, 49, Moroccan politician, cancer.
  • Clara Calamai, 89, Italian actress, stroke.
  • Florence "Flo-Jo" Griffith-Joyner, 38, American track and field athlete, epileptic seizure.[46]

22Edit

  • Ymer Dishnica, 86, Albanian politician and physician.
  • Michael Kaye, 82, English cricketer and British Army officer.
  • Otakhon Latifi, 62, Tajikistan journalist and politician, murdered.[47]
  • Doug Smith, 73, Scottish rugby union player.
  • Terry Winter, 57, Brazilian singer and songwriter, pneumonia.

23Edit

  • Trevor Berghan, 84, New Zealand rugby player.
  • Leonid Biberman, 83, Soviet and Russian physicist.
  • Ray Bowden, 89, English footballer.
  • Mary Frann, 55, American actress, heart attack.[48]
  • Brian Masters, 65, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Fulham and Edmonton.
  • Victor Ransom, 81, English cricketer.
  • Robert Wells, 75, American songwriter and television producer.[49]

24Edit

  • Frank Curran, 81, English footballer.
  • Pery Igel, 76, Brazilian businessman.
  • Jeff Moss, 56, composer, playwright and television writer, colon cancer.[50]

25Edit

  • Billy Giles, 41, Northern Irish volunteer of the UVF, suicide by hanging.
  • Shaukat Hayat Khan, 83, Pakistani politician, activist and military officer.
  • Wim Schepers, 55, Dutch road cyclist, cardiac arrest.
  • Cas Walker, 96, American politician and radio and TV personality.
  • Caspar Wrede, 69, Finnish theatre and film director.[51]

26Edit

  • Giovanni Barbini, 97, Italian naval officer during World War II.
  • Betty Carter, 68, American jazz singer, pancreatic cancer.[52]
  • Jack Haskell, 79, American singer and announcer.[53]
  • John Howard Locke, 74, British civil servant.
  • Jerome D. Mack, 77, American banker, fundraiser and philanthropist, cancer.[54]

27Edit

  • Narita Bryan, 7, Japanese racehorse, gastric rupture.
  • Shawn Phelan, 23, American actor, brain injury.
  • Renate Schottelius, 76, German dancer and choreographer.
  • Doak Walker, 71, American football player (Detroit Lions) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, skiing accident.[55]

28Edit

  • Joan Maude, 90, English actress.[56]
  • Eric Malling, 52, Canadian television journalist, brain hemorrhage after fall.
  • Marcel Pourbaix, 94, Belgian chemist.
  • Louis L. Redding, 96, American lawyer and civil rights advocate.[57]
  • Hripsime Simonyan, 82, Armenian artist and sculptor.
  • Shiv Prasaad Singh, 70, Indian writer, university professor and scholar.
  • George Tranter, 83, English football player.

29Edit

  • Tom Bradley, 80, American politician and police officer, heart attack.[58]
  • Valston Hancock, 91, Australian commander in the Royal Australian Air Force.[59]
  • Nechama Hendel, 62, Israeli singer, cardiac arrest.
  • C. David Marsden, 60, British neurologist, congenital coronary anomaly.[60]
  • Pat Raftery, 72, English footballer.
  • Joachim, Count of Schönburg-Glauchau, 69, Geman nobleman.

30Edit

  • D. Bruce Berry, 74, American comic book artist.
  • Laurie Brown, 61, English football player and manager.[61]
  • Marius Goring, 86, English actor.[62]
  • Émile Krieps, 78, Luxembourgish army officer and politician.
  • Bruno Munari, 90, Italian artist and designer.
  • Stephen Pearlman, 63, American actor, cancer.[63]
  • Dan Quisenberry, 45, American baseball player, brain cancer.[64]
  • Pavel Štěpán, 73, Czech pianist.
  • Robert Lewis Taylor, 86, American author and Pullizer Prize winner.[65]

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