The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.

February 1998

1

• Robert Creighton Buck, 77, American mathematician.
• Jack T. Collis, 75, American art director.
• Marga Faulstich, 82, German glass chemist.^[1]
• Gérard Séty, 75, a French actor.^[2]
• Sheila Watson, 88, Canadian novelist and literary critic.^[3]

2

• Raymond Cattell, 92, British and American psychologist.^[4]
• Duilio Del Prete, 59, Italian actor, dubber and singer-songwriter, cancer.^[5]
• Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber, 86, German-American nuclear physicist.^[6]
• Ferdinand A. Hermens, 91, German-American political scientist and economist.^[7]
• Viljo Kajava, 88, Finnish poet and writer.^[8]
• Robert McIntyre, 84, Scottish politician.
• Baldev Singh, 93, Indian neurologist.^[9]
• Roger L. Stevens, 87, American theatrical producer, arts administrator, and real estate executive.^[10]
• Haroun Tazieff, 83, French volcanologist and geologist.^[11]
• Manuel Delgado Villegas, 55, Spanish serial killer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.^[12]
• Zahari Zhandov, 86, Bulgarian film director, script writer and cinematographer.

3

• Joey Archibald, 83, American boxer.^[13]
• Clark Goff, 80, American gridiron football player.^[14]
• Bertram Heyn, 85, Sri Lankan general and cricketer.
• Davy Kaye, 81, British actor and entertainer.^[15]
• Gabriel Laub, 69, Czechoslovak journalist and writer.
• Fat Pat, 27, American rapper, murdered.
• Karla Faye Tucker, 38, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.^[16]

4

• Eranuhi Aslamazyan, 88, Armenian and Soviet graphic artist.
• Jean Blackwell Hutson, 83, African-American librarian, writer and curator.^[17]
• Zoran Kosanović, 42, Serbian Canadian table tennis player, heart attack.
• Aruna Lama, 52, Nepali singer.^[18]
• Menachem Shmuel David Raichik, 79, American Orthodox rabbi.
• Michel Roux, 73, French baritone.^[19]
• Rees Stephens, 75, Welsh rugby player.
• Cristóbal Martínez-Bordiú, 10th Marquis of Villaverde, 75, Spanish aristocrat and son in law of dictator Francisco Franco.^[20]

5

• Wilbur Coen, 86, American tennis player.
• Douglas Gamley, 73, Australian composer.^[21]
• Margaret Hillis, 76, American conductor.^[22]
• Tim Kelly, 35, American guitarist of the band Slaughter, car accident.^[23]
• Kim Ki-young, 78, South Korean film director, domestic accident.^[24]
• Eduardo Francisco Pironio, 77, Argentine Roman Catholic cardinal, bone cancer.^[25]
• Joe Stubbs, American R&B/Soul singer, heart failure.
• Chikuzan Takahashi, 87, Japanese Tsugaru-jamisen performer and composer.^[26]
• Hans Wallach, 93, German-American experimental psychologist.^[27]
• Nick Webb, 43, English acoustic guitarist and composer, pancreatic cancer.

6

• Nazim al-Kudsi, 91, former President and Prime Minister of Syria.
• Falco, 40, Austrian singer and songwriter ("Rock Me Amadeus"), traffic accident.^[28]
• Tony LeVier, 84, American air racer and test pilot, cancer.
• Ferenc Sidó, 74, Czechoslovak table tennis player.
• Toshiaki Tanaka, 62, Japanese table tennis player.
• Carl Wilson, 51, American musician, singer, and songwriter (The Beach Boys), lung cancer.^[29]
• Claude Érignac, 60, French prefect of Corsica, murdered.^[30]

7

• Gunther Baumann, 77, German football player and manager.^[31]
• Ascanio Cortés, 83, Chilean football player.
• Bobby Kemp, 38, American football player, suicide.^[32]
• Norman J. Levy, 67, American lawyer and politician.^[33]
• Lawrence Sanders, 77, American novelist and short story writer.^[34]

8

• Elizabeth Bauer Mock, American professor, curator, author and journalist.
• Tulsiram Sharma Kashyap, 58, Indian writer and politician.
• Halldór Laxness, 95, Icelandic writer and Nobel Prize laureate, Alzheimer's disease.^[35]
• Enoch Powell, 85, British politician, classical scholar, author and philologist, Parkinson's disease.^[36]
• Rocke Robertson, 85, American physician.
• J. B. Salsberg, 95, Canadian politician.
• Julian Simon, 65, American economist and author, heart attack.^[37]

9

• George Cafego, 82, American football player and coach.^[38]
• Cyrille Delannoit, 71, Belgian middleweight boxing champion.
• Bill Froats, 67, American baseball player.^[39]
• Gabriel Gobin, 94, Belgian film actor.
• Dean Griffing, 82, American gridiron football player, coach and executive.
• Alf Jefferies, 76, English footballer.
• Panagiotis Katsouris, 21, Greek footballer, traffic collision.^[40]
• Nick Leluk, 62, Canadian politician.
• William Ronald, 71, Canadian painter.^[41]
• Maurice Schumann, 86, French politician, journalist and writer.^[42]

10

• Ramchandran Jaikumar, 53, Indian-American scientist, heart attack.^[43]
• Richard Kotuk, 54, American journalist, producer and filmmaker, heart attack.
• Alex Kramer, 94, Canadian songwriter.^[44]
• Peter Longbottom, 38, British cyclist, traffic collision.^[45]
• Paul MacKendrick, 83, American classicist, author, and teacher.
• Erich Mückenberger, 87, German socialist politician.^[46]
• Félix Reina, 76, Cuban violinist, arranger and composer, stroke.

11

• Joy Buba, 93, American sculptor and illustrator.^[47]
• Patrick Clark, 42, American chef, amyloidosis.^[48]
• Tanvir Dar, 50, Pakistani field hockey player and Olympian.^[49]
• Thomas Gerard Dunn, 76, American politician.^[50]
• Mike Fornieles, 66, Cuban-American baseball player.^[51]
• Lily Harmon, American visual artist.^[52]
• Jonathan Hole, 93, American actor.^[53]
• Josef Issels, 90, German physician, pneumonia.
• Radhanath Rath, 101, Indian journalist, activist and politician.

12

• Gardner Ackley, 82, American economist and diplomat.^[54]
• Lionel Aldridge, 56, American gridiron football player.^[55]
• Lauri Kivekäs, 94, Finnish businessman and politician.
• George Humphrey Middleton, 88, British diplomat.^[56]
• Ralf Reichenbach, 47, German shot putter and Olympian.^[57]

13

• José Barraquer, 82, Spanish ophthalmologist.^[58]
• Thomas Chapin, 40, American composer and musician, leukemia.^[59]
• Jo Clayton, 58, American fantasy and science fiction author, multiple myeloma.^[60]
• John Cowley, 74, Irish actor.^[61]
• Hans Diergaardt, 70, Namibian politician.
• Bryan MacMahon, 88, Irish writer.
• Alfred Struwe, 70, German actor, pneumonia.
• Ladislav Štípek, 73, Czechoslovak table tennis.

14

• Badrul Haider Chowdhury, 73, Chief Justice of Bangladesh.
• Edgar Granville, Baron Granville of Eye, 100, British politician.
• Thomas McKimson, 90, American animator.
• Hansel Mieth, 88, German-American photojournalist.^[62]
• Denise Paulme, 88, French Africanist and anthropologist.^[63]
• Manuel Pérez, 54, Colombian guerrilla leader, hepatitis.^[64]

15

• Sir Samuel Curran, 85, British physicist and university administrator.^[65]
• Martha Gellhorn, 89, American novelist, travel writer, and journalist, suicide.^[66]
• B. Calvin Jones, 59, American archaeologist.^[67]
• Louie Spicolli, 27, American professional wrestler, overdose.
• George White, 86, American film editor.

16

• Mary Amdur, 76, American toxicologist, heart attack.
• Boris Blumin, 90, Canadian-American chess master.
• Harry Hinsley, 79, British historian and cryptanalyst.^[68]
• Fernando Abril Martorell, 61, former Spanish Deputy Prime Minister, lung cancer.^[69]
• Sheu Yuan-dong, 70, Taiwanese politician and governor of the Central Bank, plane crash.

17

• Arnold Aronson, 86, American civil rights leader.^[70]
• Nicolas Bouvier, 68,Swiss writer, artist, and photographer.^[71]
• Maurice Bucaille, 77, French physician and author.^[72]
• Hilaire Couvreur, 73, Belgian cyclist.^[73]
• Ernst Jünger, 102, German World War I hero, author and entomologist.^[74]
• Ernst Käsemann, 91, German Lutheran theologian, murdered around 24 May 1977.^[75]
• Bob Merrill, 76, American songwriter, theatrical composer and screenwriter, suicide.^[76]
• Sheila Raynor, 91, British actress.
• Ruth Robertson, 92, American photojournalist.
• Marie-Louise von Franz, 83, Swiss Jungian psychologist and scholar.^[77]
• Albert Wass, 90, Hungarian nobleman, novelist and poet, suicide.^[78]

18

• Lidia Bongiovanni, 83, Italian versatile athlete.
• James E. Boyd, 91, American physicist and mathematician.
• Harry Caray, 83, American television and radio broadcaster, heart attack.^[79]
• David Crouch, 78, British politician.
• Antonio Escuriet, 88, Spanish road cyclist.^[80]
• Robbie James, 40, Welsh footballer, heart attack.^[81]
• Scott O'Hara, 36, American pornographic performer, author, poet and publisher, AIDS.^[82]
• Messias Timula, 50, Portuguese footballer.^[83]
• Mya Than Tint, 68, Myanmar writer, brain hemorrhage.^[84]
• Richard Crawford White, 74, American politician, heart attack.

19

• Wolfgang Händler, 77, German mathematician and pioneering computer scientist.
• Grandpa Jones, 84, American "old time" country and gospel music singer, stroke.^[85]
• George Male, 87, English footballer.^[86]
• Charlie Martin, 84, Welsh racing driver.
• Mancur Olson, 66, American economist and social scientist.^[87]
• Leo Righetti, 72, American baseball player.^[88]
• Thomas F. Riley, 85, United States Marine Corps brigadier general, cardiac arrest.
• Talish, Pakistani actor.

20

• Francis Coulson, 78, British chef and hotelier.^[89]
• John Fulton, 65, American bullfighter, heart attack.^[90]
• Henry Livings, 68, English playwright and screenwriter.^[91]
• David McClure, 72, Scottish artist and lecturer.^[92]
• Ivor Mairants, 90, Polish jazz and classical guitarist, teacher and composer.
• Bob McBride, 51, Canadian rock singer-songwriter, heart failure.^[93]
• Virgilio Tommasi, 92, Italian long jumper and Olympian.^[94]

21

• Archie Aikman, 72, Scottish football player.^[95]
• Ramón Bravo, 72, Mexican diver, photographer and underwater filmmaker, heart attack.^[96]
• Santos Colon, 75, Puerto Rican bolero and mambo singer.
• Ellis Credle, 95, American children's author and illustrator.^[97]
• James M. Edie, 70, American philosopher, cancer.
• George Fant, 81, Swedish actor, director and theater manager, pneumonia.^[98]
• Karl Geyer, 98, Austrian football player and coach.^[99]
• Yoshio Miyajima, 89, Japanese cinematographer.
• John Nicolella, 52, American film, television director and producer.^[100]
• Baboo Nimal, 89, Indian field hockey player and Olympian.^[101]
• Om Prakash, 78, Indian actor.
• William Wheeler, 87, English Roman Catholic prelate and bishop.^[102]

22

• Carlo Dionisotti, 89, Italian literary critic, philologist and essayist.^[103]
• Alfred Hales, 88, Canadian businessman and politician.
• Sandy Hume, 28, American journalist, suicide.^[104]
• José María de Areilza, Count of Motrico, 88, former Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs.^[105]
• Emmy Lou Packard, 83, Californian artist.^[106]
• Russell Reeder, 95, United States Army officer and author.^[107]
• Abraham A. Ribicoff, 87, American Democratic Party Party politician.^[108]
• Athol Rowan, 77, South African international cricket player.
• Donald S. Russell, 92, American judge and politician.^[109]
• Warren B. Woodson, 94, American football, basketball, and baseball coach, colon cancer.^[110]
• Han Youwen, 85, Chinese general in the National Revolutionary Army.

23

• Philip Abbott, 73, American actor, cancer.^[111]
• Marie Adams, 72, American gospel and R&B singer.
• Augusta Braxton Baker, 86, African-American librarian and storyteller.^[112]
• Keith Christopher, 40, American actor, singer/songwriter and AIDS activist, AIDS.
• Chuck Hayward, 78, American motion picture stuntman and actor, Hodgkin's Disease.
• Raman Lamba, 38, Indian cricketer, cricket accident.
• Sean A. Moore, 33, American fantasy and science fiction writer, car crash.^[113]
• Potti Prasad, 69, Indian actor.
• Ray Stoviak, 82, American baseball player.^[114]
• Billy Sullivan, 82, American businessman, prostate cancer.

24

• Geoffrey Bush, 77, British composer and music scholar, prostate cancer.^[115]
• Daniel J. Crowley, 76, American art historian and cultural anthropologist, congestive heart failure.^[116]
• Leonard Daniels, 88, British artist and teacher.
• Elinor Field, 96, American film actress.
• Clara Fraser, 74, American marxist, feminist and activist, emphysema.^[117]
• Ernst Gutstein, 73, Austrian operatic baritone.^[118]
• Harold Keith, 95, American author.^[119]
• Terry Langford, 31, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.^[120]
• Milicent Patrick, 82, American actress, makeup artist and animator.
• Lalita Pawar, 81, Indian actress.^[121]
• Antonio Prohías, 77, Cuban cartoonist (Spy vs. Spy), lung cancer.^[122]
• Abraham Shneior, 69, Israeli basketball player.^[123]
• Henny Youngman, 91, English-American comedian.^[124]

25

• Frans Bonduel, 90, Belgian road bicycle racer.^[125]
• Francesca Braggiotti, 95, Italian dancer and actress.
• Joe Gallagher, 83, American baseball player.^[126]
• Harlan Hatcher, 99, American novelist and university president.^[127]
• Wanda Jakubowska, 90, Polish film director.^[128]
• Umberto Mastroianni, 87, Italian abstract sculptor.^[129]
• W. O. Mitchell, 83, Canadian writer and broadcaster, prostate cancer.^[130]
• Pruden, 81, Spanish football player.
• B. A. Santamaria, 82, Australian anti-communist political activist and journalist, brain cancer.^[131]
• Rockin' Sidney, 59, American R&B, zydeco and soul musician, throat cancer.
• Vico Torriani, 77, Swiss actor and Schlager singer, cancer.^[132]
• Luigi Veronesi, 89, Italian photographer, painter, and film director.^[133]

26

• James Algar, 85, American film director, screenwriter and producer.^[134]
• Jaap ter Haar, 75, Dutch children's author.^[135]
• Jimmy Hagan, 80, English football player and manager.
• Otto Haxel, 88, German nuclear physicist.^[136]
• Robert Jones, 67, American lawyer, politician and civil rights litigator.
• Josef Knottenbelt, 87, Dutch tennis player.
• Shirley Ardell Mason, 75, American psychiatric patient and art teacher, breast cancer.^[137]
• Stepan Neustroev, 75, Soviet officer and World War II hero.
• Theodore Schultz, 95, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate.^[138]

27

• Larry Friend, 62, American basketball player, prostate cancer.^[139]
• John Harman, 65, Australian politician.
• George H. Hitchings, 92, American scientist and Nobel Prize laureate.^[140]
• Martin Hollis, 59, British philosopher.^[141]
• Elsy Jacobs, 64, Luxembourgish road bicycle racer.^[142]
• Gerald David Lascelles, 73, British nobleman.^[143]
• Jack Micheline, 68, American painter and poet.^[144]
• Henry Munyaradzi, 66/67, Zimbabwean sculptor.^[145]
• Alice Rivaz, 96, Swiss author and feminist.^[146]
• J. T. Walsh, 54, American actor (A Few Good Men, Sling Blade, Backdraft), heart attack.^[147]

28

• Ivan Arkhipov, 90, Soviet and Russian statesman.
• Todd Duncan, 95, American opera singer and actor, heart ailment.^[148]
• Hildegarde Howard, 96, American paleontologist.^[149]
• Daniel Katz, 94, American psychologist.^[150]
• Marie Kettnerová, 86, Czech table tennis player.
• Dermot Morgan, 45, Irish comedian and actor (Father Ted), heart attack.^[151]
• Antonio Quarracino, 74, Argentine Roman Catholic cardinal and archbishop, heart attack.
• Arkady Shevchenko, 67, Russian/Soviet diplomat and defector, liver cirrhosis.^[152]
• Injac Zamputi, 88, Albanian scholar, writer, and historian.^[153]