Deaths in December 1998
The following is a list of notable deaths in December 1998.
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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.
December 1998
1
- Delila (Richards) Abbott, 90, American politician, feminist and writer.[1]
- Aisha Abd al-Rahman, 85, Egyptian author and professor of literature, heart attack.[2]
- Bertil Nordahl, 81, Swedish football player and manager.
- Freddie Young, 96, British cinematographer.
2
- Theodora Mead Abel, 99, American clinical psychologist.[3]
- Ben Guintini, 79, American baseball player.
- Bob Haggart, 84, American dixieland jazz musician.[4]
- Mikio Oda, 93, Japanese athlete and the first Japanese Olympic gold medalist.
- Brian Stonehouse, 80, British painter and SEO agent during World War II.[5]
3
- Wayland Drew, 66, Canadian writer.
- Mohammad Mokhtari, 56, Iranian writer, poet and activist, murdered.
- George Murcell, 73, British actor.
- Bernice Shackleton, 97, New Zealand journalist and writer.
- Graham Townsend, 56, Canadian musician, cancer.
- Ed Widseth, 88, American football player.[6]
4
- Percy Ames, 66, English footballer.
- Druie Bowett, English artist.
- Egil Johansen, 64, Norwegian-Swedish jazz musician.
- Suzanne Jovin, 21, German-born American student, murdered.[7]
5
- Hazel Bishop, 92, American chemist.[8]
- Jack Connor, 78, English footballer.
- Jean Fenwick, 91, Trinidad-born American actress.
- Albert Gore Sr., 90, American politician and father of Al Gore.[9]
- Boris Kabishev, 76, Soviet Air Defence Forces officer and World War II veteran.
- Cheung Tze-keung, 43, Chinese criminal, execution by firing squad.[10]
6
- César Baldaccini, 77, French sculptor.
- Peg Leg Bates, 91, American entertainer.[11]
- Hoshiar Singh Dahiya, 61, Indian Army officer.
- Robert Marasco, 62, American horror novelist and playwright, lung cancer.[12]
- Michael Zaslow, 56, American actor, cancer.[13]
7
- John Addison, 78, British composer.[14]
- Daniel Lee Corwin, 40, American serial killer, Execution by lethal injection.[15]
- Martin Rodbell, 73, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, multiple organ failure.[16]
8
- Michael Craze, 56, British actor, heart attack.
- Aaron Hopa, 27, New Zealand rugby union player, diving accident.
- Hamilton H. Howze, 89, American general and commander of the 82nd Airborne Division.[17]
- Aeneas Mackintosh, 71, Scottish Anglican priest.
- Odo Josef Struger, 67, Austrian automation pioneer.[18]
- George Roden, 60, American leader of the Branch Davidian sect, heart attack.[19]
9
- Paul Lewis Hancock, 61, British geologist, bone cancer.
- Bill Looby, 67, American soccer player.
- Phillip Abbott Luce, 63, American author, lecturer and communist.
- Archie Moore, 81, American boxer and World Light Heavyweight Champion, heart failure.[20]
- Mohammad-Ja'far Pouyandeh, 44, Iranian writer and activist, murdered.
10
- Wim Hora Adema, 84, Dutch children's author and feminist.[21]
- Buddy Feyne, 86, American lyricist.
- Wang Ganchang, 91, Chinese nuclear physicist.
- Ray Goossens, 74, Belgian artist, animator, writer and film director.
- Kamel Messaoudi, 37, Algerian Chaabi musician.
- Charles D. Mize, 77, United States Marine Corps officer, complications following pneumonia and leukemia.[22]
- Swami Satyabhakta, 99, Indian scholar, philosopher and reformer.
- Vida Tomšič, 85, Slovenian communist and World War II partisan fighter.
11
- Jack Coleman, 74, American basketball player.
- André Lichnerowicz, 83, French differential geometer and mathematical physicist.
- Kavi Pradeep, 83, Indian poet and songwriter.[23]
- Lynn Strait, 30, American singer and vocalist of band Snot, car accident.
- Max Streibl, 66, German politician.
12
- Lawton Chiles, 68, American Senator from Florida and Governor of Florida.[24]
- Tito Díaz, 28, Salvadoran footballer, murdered.
- Jimmy "Orion" Ellis, 53, American singer, murdered during robbery.
- Willis J. Gertsch, 92, American arachnologist.
- Colin Minton, 53, English darts player.
- Mo Udall, 76, American politician.[25]
13
- Helen Adolf, 102, Austrian–American linguist and literature scholar.
- Dean Fausett, 85, American painter.[26]
- Lew Grade, 91, British impresario.[27][28]
- Sir Richard Thomas, 66, British admiral and Black Rod.
- Wade Watts, 79, African-American gospel preacher and civil rights activist.
- Ariadna Welter, 68, Mexican movie actress.
- Norbert Zongo, 49, Burkinabé investigative journalist, murdered.
14
- Norman Fell, 74, American actor, bone marrow cancer.
- A. Leon Higginbotham Jr., 70, African-American civil rights advocate, author and judge, stroke.[29]
- Brian Lewis, 55, English footballer.[30]
- Annette Strauss, 74, American philanthropist and mayor of Dallas.
15
- Brady Boone, 40, American professional wrestler and referee, car accident.
- Dame Unity Lister, 85, British politician.
- Jan Meyerowitz, 85, American composer, conductor, pianist and writer.[31]
- Rowena Moore, 88, African-American union and civic activist.
- Ján Podhradský, 82, Slovak footballer.
- Johnny Riddle, 93, American baseball player and coach.
16
- Clay Blair, 73, American journalist and author, heart attack.[32]
- Jocelyn Crane, 89, American carcinologist.
- William Gaddis, 75, American novelist.[33]
- Jack Gallagher, 82, Canadian oilman.
- Johnny Gorsica, 83, American baseball player.
- Jean de Montrémy, 85, French industrialist, racing driver, and race car designer.
- Paul Rivière, 86, French Resistance fighter and politician.
- Maneklal Sankalchand Thacker, 94, Indian engineer and academic.
- Philip True, 50, American foreign correspondent, murdered.[34]
17
- Allan D'Arcangelo, 68, American artist and printmaker.[35]
- John Burns Brooksby, 83, Scottish veterinarian.
- Antonina Khudyakova, 81, Soviet Air Force officer and squadron commander during World War II.
- Harry Osman, 87, English footballer.
- Alberto Jover Piamonte, 64, Filipino Roman Catholic archbishop.
18
- Agustín Barboza, 85, Paraguayan singer and composer.
- C. S. Chellappa, 86, Indian writer, journalist and political activist.
- Sohel Chowdhury, 35, Bangladeshi film actor, murdered.[36]
- Lev Demin, 72, Soviet cosmonaut.[37]
- Harry Haddock, 73, Scottish footballer.[38]
- Abdurajak Abubakar Janjalani, 38-39, Filipino militant, founder of Abu Sayyaf, shot.
- Vinod Mishra, 51, Indian communist politician, heart attack.
- Edwin E. Moise, 79, American mathematician.[39]
- Dorothy Nyswander, 104, American health educator.
- Basil Travers, 79, Australian sportsman and educator.
19
- Garry Blaine, 65, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Cully Dahlstrom, 86, American ice hockey player.[40]
- Mohammad Taghi Falsafi, 90, Iranian Ayatollah and preacher.
- Mel Fisher, 76, American treasure hunter.[41]
- Gordon Gunter, 89, American marine biologist and fisheries scientist.
- Antonio Ordóñez, 66, Spanish bullfighter, liver cancer.[42]
- Ron Turner, 76, British illustrator and comic book artist, stroke and heart attack.[43]
- Qian Zhongshu, 88, Chinese literary scholar and writer, cancer.
20
- Irene Hervey, 89, American actress, heart failure.[44]
- Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, 84, British scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.[45]
- Bindy Johal, 27, Canadian gangster, shot.
- C. P. Lyons, Canadian outdoorsman and natural historian.
- B. V. Raman, 86, Indian astrologer.[46]
21
- Roger Avon, 84, British actor.
- Karl Denver, 67, Scottish singer, brain tumor.[47]
- André Dewavrin, 87, French officer during World War II.
- Anne Ferguson, 57, Scottish physician and clinical researcher, pancreatic cancer.[48]
- Clifford Inniss, 88, Barbadian cricketer and lawyer.
- Ernst-Günther Schenck, 94, German doctor and member of the SS.
- Richard Turnbull, 89, British colonial governor.
22
- Leif Erickson, 92, American attorney and politician.
- Virginia Graham, 86, American talk show host, heart attack.[49]
- Charlie Hill, 80, Welsh footballer.
- Subhashis Nag, 43, Indian mathematician.
- Donald Soper, Baron Soper, 95, British Methodist minister, socialist and pacifist.
- Michelle Thomas, 30, American actress and comedian, cancer.[50]
23
- Tony Bartl, Czech artist.
- Mark Chatfield, 45, American breaststroke swimmer, lymphoma.
- Giulio Cesare Graziani, 83, Italian aviator.
- Jack Hilton, 77, English rugby player.
- Peggy Kelman, 89, Australian aviation pioneer.
- David Manners, 98, Canadian-American actor.[51]
- Joe Orlando, 71, Italian American illustrator, writer and cartoonist.[52]
- Anatoly Rybakov, 87, Soviet and Russian writer.[53]
- Pierre Vallières, 60, Québécois journalist and writer, heart failure.[54]
24
- Syl Apps, 83, Canadian ice hockey player, heart attack.[55]
- Ester Carloni, 101, Italian actress.
- Viola Farber, 67, American choreographer and dancer.[56]
- Matt Gillies, 77, Scottish football player and manager.[57]
- Peter Janssens, 64, German musician and composer.
- Daan Kagchelland, 84, Dutch sailor and Olympic champion.
- William R. Perl, 92, American lawyer and psychologist.[58]
- Raemer Schreiber, 88, American physicist.[59]
25
- Bryan MacLean, 52, American singer, guitarist and songwriter, heart attack.[60]
- Hugh Martell, 86, British Royal Navy officer.
- John McGrath, 60, English footballer and manager in the Football League.
- Richard Paul, 58, American actor, cancer.[61]
- John Pulman, 75, English snooker player, domestic accident.[62]
- Marcella Rabwin, 90, Hollywood figure and civic leader.
26
- Ron Chismar, 64, American football coach.
- Cathal Goulding, 75, Chief of Staff of the IRA and the Official IRA, cancer.
- Hurd Hatfield, 81, American actor, heart attack.[63]
- Helmut Mahlke, 85, German Oberstleutnant in the Luftwaffe during World War II.
- Nell McLarty, 86, Australian cricketer.
- Michael Sherard, 88, British fashion designer.[64]
27
- Kevork Ajemian, 66, Lebanese-Armenian writer, journalist, novelist and activist.
- Dany Bustros, 39, Lebanese belly dancer, socialite and stage actress, suicide.[65]
- Clara Heyn, 74, Israeli botanist and professor, cancer.
- Anne Holm, 76, Danish journalist and children's writer.
- Robert S. Johnson, 78, American fighter pilot during World War II.[66]
- Roy Powell, English rugby league player, heart attack.[67]
- Ralegh Radford, 98, English archaeologist and historian.[68]
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28
- Wang Dezhao, 93, Chinese physicist.
- Tyisha Miller, 19, African-American victim, shot by police.
- Shorty Rollins, 69, American racing driver.
- Robert Rosen, 64, American theoretical biologist.[69]
- Mary Ann Unger, 53, American abstract sculpor, breast cancer.[70]
29
- Geoff Crawford, 82, Australian politician.
- Jean-Claude Forest, 68, French writer and illustrator of comics, asthma.
- Phyllis Kennedy, 84, American film actress.
- Don Taylor, 78, American actor and film director, heart failure.[71]
- Patras Yusaf, 62, Pakistani Roman Catholic bishop.
30
- Joan Brossa, 79, Catalan poet, playwright and visual artist.
- Abbas Guliyev, 82, Azerbaijani Red Army captain and Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Keisuke Kinoshita, 86, Japanese film director, stroke.
- Johnny Moore, 64, American R&B singer with The Drifters, pneumonia.[72]
- George Webb, 86, British actor.
31
- Kirsty Bentley, 15, New Zealand teenage murder victim, blunt force trauma.[73]
- George Lynn Cross, 93, American botanist and author.
- H. Dunlop Dawbarn, 83, American businessman, philanthropist and politician.[74]
- Ted Glossop, Australian rugby player and coach, cancer.
- Gene Harlow, 79, American football player and coach.
- Alan Morris, 44, English footballer, murdered.
- Arnold Stickley, 72, English golfer.
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