The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.

August 1998

1

• Joel Barr, 82, American spy for the Soviet Union.^[1]
• Eva Bartok, 71, Hungarian-British actress.^[2]
• Len Duncan, 87, American race car driver.
• Norman Kretzmann, 69, American academic, multiple myeloma.^[3]
• Josef Ludl, 82, Czech football player.^[4]
• France Mihelič, 91, Slovene painter.^[5]
• Ray Rigby, 49, Australian shot putter, weightlifter and Olympian.^[6]

2

• Otto Bumbel, 84, Brazilian football player and coach.^[7]
• Mapy Cortés, 88, Puerto Rican actress, heart attack.^[8]
• Tommy Faile, 69, American songwriter and singer, heart attack.^[9]
• Jim Hadnot, 58, American basketball player.^[10]
• Shari Lewis, 65, American ventriloquist and puppeteer, viral pneumonia.^[11]

3

• Ronnie Boon, 89, Welsh rugby player.^[12]
• Francesc Xavier Bultó, 86, Spanish businessman.
• Reizo Koike, 82, Japanese swimmer and Olympic medalist, lung cancer.^[13]
• Alfred Schnittke, 63, German-Russian composer, complications from strokes.^[14]
• Alan Walsh, 81, British-Australian physicist, originator of atomic absorption spectroscopy.

4

• Yury Artyukhin, 68, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut and engineer, cancer.
• Carmen Delia Dipini, 70, Puerto Rican singer.
• Richard Dunn, 54, British television executive.^[15]
• Thomas Joseph McDonough, 86, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.^[16]
• Al-Qarshi Abd ur-Raheem Salaam, 62, Yemeni poet and playwright.

5

• Arthur Ceuleers, 82, Belgian footballer.^[17]
• Kesab Chandra Gogoi, 73, Indian politician.
• Albert Johnson, 80, English rugby player.
• Otto Kretschmer, 86, German U-boat commander during World War II, boating accident.
• Britt Lindeborg, 70, Swedish lyricist, singer, composer and writer.
• Yevgeny Shabayev, 25, Russian artistic gymnast, heart attack.
• Eldon Shamblin, 82, American guitarist and arranger.^[18]
• Eugene L. Stewart, 78, American lawyer and law professor.^[19]
• Todor Zhivkov, 86, Bulgarian politician and former president of Bulgaria, pneumonia.^[20]

6

• Henk Bosveld, 57, Dutch footballer, heart attack.^[21]
• Jack Brickhouse, 82, American sportscaster, heart attack.^[22]
• Francesco Capocasale, 81, Italian football player and coach.^[23]
• Nat Gonella, 90, English jazz trumpeter, bandleader and vocalist.
• André Weil, 92, French mathematician.^[24]
• Deng Zhaoxiang, 95, Chinese naval officer.

7

• Richard W. Fellows, 83, American Air Force officer.
• William Hiesey, 94, American botanist.^[25]
• Dick Offenhamer, 85, American football and baseball player and coach.
• Peggy Phango, 69, South African actress and singer.
• Harry Tuzo, 80, British army general.^[26]

8

• Sam Balter, 88, American basketball player and sportscaster.^[27]
• Giulio Bresci, 76, Italian road racing cyclist.^[28]
• Raymond E. Brown, 70, American Catholic priest.^[29]
• Barbara Burke, 81, British and South African sprint runner and Olympic medalist.^[30]
• Idella Jones Childs, 95, American historian and civil rights activist.
• Anna J. Harrison, 85, American organic chemist and professor of chemistry.^[31]
• Satoshi Murayama, 29, Japanese shogi player, bladder cancer.
• Walter Merlo, 33, Italian long-distance runner, mountaineering accident.
• Dagfinn Nilsen, 78, Norwegian football player.
• Germana Paolieri, 91, Italian actress.
• Jess Present, 77, American politician.
• László Szabó, 81, Hungarian chess grandmaster.
• Aang Witarsa, 67, Indonesian football player.^[32]

9

• Tony Baker, 53, American football player, car accident.^[33]
• Bjarne Bø, 91, Norwegian actor.
• Brynhild Haugland, 93, American politician.^[34]
• George Child Villiers, 9th Earl of Jersey, 88, English nobleman and politician, heart attack.
• Frankie Ruiz, 40, Puerto Rican singer and songwriter, liver cirrhosis.^[35]
• Francisco Zúñiga, 85, Costa Rican-Mexican artist.^[36]

10

• Bekim Berisha, 32, Kosovar Albanian soldier, killed in action.
• Chuck Fenenbock, 80, American football player.
• Sidney W. Fox, 86, American biochemist.^[37]
• John Murphy, 47, Northern Irish loyalist, car accident.
• Premji, 89, Indian actor and social reformer.
• Habib Hassan Touma, 63, Palestinian composer and ethnomusicologist.^[38]

11

• Bud Cooper, 85, American gridiron football player.^[39]
• Heinz Döpfl, 59, Austrian pair skater.^[40]
• Derek Newark, 65, English actor, heart attack following liver failure.^[41]
• Nicky Verstappen, 11, Dutch homicide victim^[42]
• Sergei Vonsovsky, 87, Soviet physicist.
• Benny Waters, 96, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist.^[43]

12

• Jesús Loroño, 72, Spanish road racing cyclist.^[44]
• D. R. Nagaraj, 44, Indian writer and cultural critic.^[45]
• Gazi Shamsur Rahman, Bangladeshi lawyer, writer and television personality.
• C. Dickerman Williams, American lawyer and free-speech advocate.^[46]

13

• Nino Ferrer, 63, French singer, songwriter and author, suicide.^[47]
• Edward Ginzton, 82, Ukrainian-American engineer.^[48]
• Julien Green, 97, American writer.^[49]
• Waneta Hoyt, 52, American serial killer, pancreatic cancer.
• Karl Hubenthal, 81, American cartoonist, cancer.
• Rafael Robles, 50, American baseball player.^[50]
• Saturday Rosenberg, 46, Australian comedian, writer and actress, traffic accident.^[51]

14

• Eve Boswell, 76, British pop singer.^[52]
• Gary Evans, 43, American thief and serial killer, suicide.^[53]
• Doug Fleming, 68, Australian rugby league football player.
• Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff, 77, German actor and TV host, pancreatic cancer.^[54]
• Rosemary Martin, 61, English actress.
• Xavier Miserachs, 61, Spanish photographer, lung cancer.^[55]
• Chalmers Wylie, 77, American politician.^[56]

15

• Marc Akerstream, 44, Canadian actor and stuntman, head injuries from special effects explosion, head trauma.^[57]
• Károly Polinszky, 76, Hungarian chemical engineer and politician.^[58]
• Bill Shill, 75, Canadian ice hockey player.^[59]

16

• Dominique Davray, 79, French actress.^[60]
• Wallace Fowlie, 89, American writer and academic.^[61]
• Phil Leeds, 82, American actor (Rosemary's Baby, Ally McBeal, Ghost), pneumonia.^[62]
• Frank Lewis, 85, American wrestler and Olympic champion.^[63]
• Alain Marion, 59, French flutist, and, heart attack.
• Jim Murray, 78, American sportswriter and Pulitzer Prize winner.^[64]
• Kenneth Stafford Norris, 74, American marine mammal biologist, conservationist, and naturalist.^[65]
• Dorothy West, 91, American novelist and short-story writer.^[66]

17

• Robert B. Evans, 92, American automobile industry executive.^[67]
• Terry Garvin, 61, Canadian professional wrestler, cancer.^[68]
• Władysław Komar, 58, Polish shot putter and actor, car crash.
• Johnny Lipon, 75, American baseball player.
• Rita Roland, 83, German-born American film editor.
• Irwin Suall, 73, American socialist, civil rights activist, and investigator, emphysema.^[69]

18

• Protima Bedi, 49, Indian model, landslide.
• Bernice Bing, 62, Chinese-American artist.
• Harry J. Cargas, 66, American scholar and author.^[70]
• Hoyt C. Hottel, 95, American chemical engineer and academic.
• Persis Khambatta, 49, Indian model and actress (Star Trek: The Motion Picture), heart attack.^[71]
• Kurt Schütte, 88, German mathematician.
• Shane Shamrock, 23, American professional wrestler, altercation with police.^[72]
• Otto Wichterle, 84, Czech chemist.^[73]

19

• Vasili Arkhipov, 72, Soviet Navy officer during the Cuban Missile Crisis, kidney cancer.
• Anne Asquith, 81, British code breaker.^[74]
• Lawrence J. Fuller, 83, American Army major general, heart attack.^[75]
• Max Holste, 84, French aeronautical engineer.^[76]
• Boris Borisovich Kadomtsev, 69, Russian plasma physicist.
• Ilva Ligabue, 66, Italian operatic soprano.^[77]
• Sylvia Stahlman, 69, American soprano.^[78]
• Yuri Yappa, 70, Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist.

20

• Jimmy Brewster, 96, American gridiron football player.
• Vivian Brown, 56, American sprinter and Olympian.^[79]
• Ivan Godlevsky, 90, Soviet and Russian painter.
• Oleg Prokofiev, 69, Artist, sculptor and poet.^[80]
• Fred Sington, 88, American football and baseball player.^[81]
• Haydée Tamzali, 91, Tunisian actress, writer, and filmmaker.
• Vu Van Mau, 84, last Prime Minister of South Vietnam.^[82]

21

• Hans van Abeelen, 61, Dutch behaviour geneticist.
• Luis Dávila, 71, Argentine actor, heart attack.^[83]
• Franz Eisenach, 80, German flying ace during World War II and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
• John Stopford, 61, English rugby player.^[84]
• Juanita Kidd Stout, 79, American attorney and jurist.^[85]
• Wanda Toscanini, 90, Italian wife of pianist Vladimir Horowitz.^[86]

22

• Jack Briggs, 78, American actor.
• Sam Cooper, 89, American gridiron football player.^[87]
• Evelyn Denington, Baroness Denington, 91, British politician, heart failure.^[88]
• Sergio Fiorentino, 70, Italian classical pianist, heart attack.^[89]
• Elena Garro, 81, Mexican screenwriter, journalist, and novelist, heart attack.^[90]
• Minoru Murayama, 61, Japanese baseball player.^[91]
• Jimmy Skidmore, 82, English jazz tenor saxophonist.
• Woody Stephens, 84, Americanthoroughbred horse racing trainer, emphysema.^[92]

23

• Ahmet Hamdi Boyacıoğlu, 78, Turkish judge.
• Nikolay Kolesov, 42, Russian footballer.^[93]
• Asadollah Lajevardi, Iranian conservative politician and warden, assassinated, homicide.
• Rolf Søder, 80, Norwegian film actor.^[94]
• John Woodcock, 44, American football player, heart attack.

24

• Alexey Andreevich Anselm, 64, Russian theoretical physicist.
• Manuel Azcárate, 81, Spanish journalist and communist politician, cancer.^[95]
• Jerry Clower, 71, American stand-up comedian.
• Charles Diggs, 75, American politician, stroke.^[96]
• Manuel Álvarez Jiménez, 70, Chilean football player.
• E. G. Marshall, 84, American actor (12 Angry Men, Tora! Tora! Tora!, The Defenders), Emmy winner (1962, 1963), lung cancer.^[97]
• Gene Page, 58, American composer, arranger and record producer.^[98]
• Levan Sanadze, 70, Georgian athlete and Olympic medalist.^[99]
• Georges Senfftleben, 75, French track cyclist.^[100]
• Jack Richard Williams, 88, American radio announcer and politician, cancer.^[101]

25

• Mildred L. Batchelder, 96, American librarian.^[102]
• Lamar Crowson, 72, American concert pianist and a chamber musician.^[103]
• Lee Gunther, 63, American film editor and co-founder of Marvel Productions, stroke.
• Floyd K. Haskell, 82, American lawyer and politician, pneumonia.^[104]
• Vyacheslav Kochemasov, 79, Russian diplomat and politician.
• Allan Macartney, 57, Scottish politician, heart attack.
• Barbara Mandell, 78, British journalist, broadcaster, newsreader and travel writer.
• Bob Montgomery, 79, American boxer, complications from a stroke.^[105]
• Lennart Nyman, 81, Swedish football coach and sports administrator.
• Jerry Wayne Parrish, 54, United States Army corporal and defector, kidney failure.
• Lewis F. Powell, Jr., 90, American lawyer and jurist, pneumonia.^[106]
• Gagik Sargsyan, 72, Armenian historian.

26

• Genaro Ruiz Camacho, 43, American criminal, execution by lethal injection.
• Wade Domínguez, 32, American actor, model, singer and dancer, respiratory failure.
• Penny Edwards, 70, American actress, lung cancer.^[107]
• Remo Giazotto, 87, Italian musicologist, music critic, and composer.
• Jack Harlan, 81, American botanist, agronomist, and plant collector.^[108]
• Robert Huebner, 84, American physician and virologist, pneumonia.^[109]
• Jaanus Kuum, 33, Estonian-Norwegian racing cyclist, suicide.^[110]
• Margaret Potter, 72, British writer.^[111]
• Frederick Reines, 80, American physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.^[112]
• Ryūichi Tamura, 75, Japanese poet, essayist and translator, esophageal cancer.

27

• Babalu, 56, Filipino comedian and actor, liver cancer.
• Garry E. Brown, 75, American politician.^[113]
• Kelly Chan, 41, Singaporean windsurfer, traffic accident.^[114]
• Harry Jensen, 85, Australian politician.
• Hunter Johnson, 92, American composer.^[115]
• Gianni Hecht Lucari, 76, Italian film producer, and production manager.^[116]
• Syd Owen, 76, English football player and coach.^[117]
• Essie Summers, 86, New Zealand author.^[118]
• Margaret Dauler Wilson, 59, American philosopher and academic.^[119]

28

• George Büchi, 77, Swiss organic chemist and academic.^[120]
• Lu Dadong, 83, Chinese politician, governor of Sichuan province.
• Hirokazu Kobayashi, 69, Japanese aikido teacher.
• Rajarethinam Arokiasamy Sundaram, 93, Roman Catholic bishop.^[121]
• Jack Wright, 71, Australian politician and Deputy Premier of South Australia (1982-1985).
• Nikolai Vladimirovich Zateyev, 72, Russian submariner and Soviet Navy officer, lung cancer.

29

• Erik Asmussen, 84, Danish architect.
• Antoinette Becker, 78, French-German children's author.
• Richard Beebe, 68, American radio personality, lung cancer.^[122]
• Minerva Bernardino, Dominican Republic diplomat and feminist.^[123]
• Charlie Feathers, 66, American country music and rockabilly musician, stroke.^[124]
• John Langston Gwaltney, 69, American writer and anthropologist.^[125]
• Frances Hamerstrom, 90, American author, naturalist and ornithologist, cancer.^[126]
• Ralph Pappier, 84, Argentine production designer, set decorator and film director.

30

• Archie Glen, 69, Scottish football player.^[127]
• Dan Kubiak, 60, American politician and businessman, cardiovascular disease.
• Mykhaylo Mykhalyna, 74, Soviet-Ukrainian football manager and coach.
• Denniz Pop, 35, Swedish DJ, music producer and songwriter, stomach cancer.
• Irving Segal, 79, American mathematician.^[128]
• Toss Woollaston, 88, New Zealand painter.^[129]

31

• Sabiha Gökçül Erbay, Turkish school teacher and politician.
• Keith Oxlee, 63, South African rugby player, complications following surgery.^[130]
• Aage Poulsen, 79, Danish long-distance runner and Olympian.^[131]
• Shigezō Sasaoka, 50, Japanese voice actor, typhoid fever.