The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.

July 1998

1

• Francis Ambrière, 90, French author.^[1]
• Margarita Azurdia, 67, Guatemalan sculptor, painter, poet, and performance artist.
• Jane Bell, 88, Canadian track and field athlete and Olympic champion.^[2]
• Dumitru Berciu, 91, Romanian historian and archaeologist.^[3]
• Ed Connolly, 58, American baseball player.^[4]
• Stig Järrel, 88, Swedish actor, film director and revue artist.^[5]
• Claire Kelly, 64, American actress and model.^[6]
• Dimitris Liantinis, 55, Greek philosopher, writer and university professor, suicide.
• Martin Seymour-Smith, 70, British poet, literary critic, and biographer.^[7]
• Rodney Smith, Baron Smith, 84, British surgeon.
• Toyonobori, 67, Japanese sumo wrestler, heart failure.^[8]

2

• Shen Chang-huan, 84, Taiwanese politician and diplomat.
• Tony De Vit, 40, English DJ and music producer, bronchial failure.^[9]
• Joe Graboski, 68, American basketball player.^[10]
• Miklós Gábor, 79, Hungarian actor.^[11]
• Valter Külvet, 34, Estonian athlete and Olympian, blunt trauma.^[12]
• Juan José Nogués, 89, Spanish football player and manager.
• Errol Parker, 72, French-Algerian jazz pianist, liver cancer.^[13]
• Sohrab Shahid-Saless, 54, Iranian film director and screenwriter, liver failure.^[14]
• Kay Thompson, 88, American author, actress and singer.^[15]

3

• Arun Kumar Ahuja, 81, Indian film actor and producer.
• Danielle Bunten Berry, 49, American game designer and programmer, lung cancer.^[16]
• Alf Boyd, 77, Scottish football player.
• Sadeq Chubak, 81, Iranian author of short fiction, drama, and novels.^[17]
• Al Couppee, 78, American gridiron football player.^[18]
• Louis L. Goldstein, 85, American politician.^[19]
• Billie Hughes, 50, American songwriter, musician and record producer, heart attack.^[20]
• Bernhard Häring, 85, German Catholic theologian, and priest.^[21]
• Carl Koch, 86, American architect.
• George Lloyd, 85, British composer.^[22]
• Elizabeth Riddell, 88, Australian poet and journalist.
• Lev Rokhlin, 51, Soviet / Russian army officer, murdered.^[23]
• Kazimierz Sokołowski, 90, Polish ice hockey player.^[24]
• Duncan White, 80, Sri Lankan track and field athlete and Olympic medalist.^[25]

4

• Gladys Ambrose, 67, English actress, cancer.
• Gregg Burge, 40, American tap dancer and choreographer, brain tumor.^[26]
• Kurt Franz, 84, German SS officer and commander of the Treblinka extermination camp.^[27]
• Denis Ségui Kragbé, 60, Ivorian shot putter and discus thrower.^[28]
• Peter Monteverdi, 64, Swiss carmaker, cancer.^[29]
• M. N. Sathyaardhi, 85, Indian writer and freedom fighter.
• Jay Taylor, 30, American basketball player, burned.^[30]

5

• Frank Creagh, 74, New Zealand boxer.
• Cleeve Horne, 86, Canadian portrait painter and sculptor, respiratory-related illness.
• Sid Luckman, 81, American football player (Chicago Bears) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.^[31]
• Maria Mercè Marçal, 45, Catalan poet, professor, writer and translator from Spain, breast cancer.^[32]
• Frank Righeimer, 89, American fencer and Olympic medalist.^[33]
• Johnny Speight, 78, English television scriptwriter, pancreatic cancer.^[34]
• Stevie Hyper D, 30, British drum and bass MC, heart attack.

6

• Semon Knudsen, 85, American automobile executive.^[35]
• Georges Maton, 84, French cyclist.^[36]
• Alan Revill, 75, English cricketer.
• Roy Rogers, 86, American singer and actor (The Roy Rogers Show), congestive heart failure.^[37]
• Ed Sanicki, 74, American baseball player.^[38]

7

• Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, 60, Nigerian businessman, politician and aristocrat, homicide.^[39]
• M. Athar Ali, 73, Indian historian, liver cancer.^[40]
• F. Tillman Durdin, 91, American foreign correspondent for The New York Times.^[41]
• Lenore Romney, 89, American actress and political figure, stroke.^[42]

8

• Constance Cox, 85, British script writer and playwright.^[43]
• Kohei Murakoso, 92, Japanese runner and Olympian, respiratory disease.^[44]
• Dušan Vukotić, 71, Yugoslav and Croatian cartoonist and author, heart attack.^[45]
• Lilí Álvarez, 93, Spanish sportswoman, author, feminist and journalist.^[46]

9

• Knut Bergsland, 84, Norwegian linguist.^[47]
• Jim Flora, 84, American artist, stomach cancer.^[48]
• David Fulker, 61, British behavioural geneticist.^[49]
• Lester King, 59, Jamaican cricket player.
• Katherine Russell, 89, English social worker and university teacher.^[50]
• Halvor J. Sandsdalen, 87, Norwegian farmer, journalist, poet, playwright and children's writer.
• Aldo Stellita, 50, Italian bassist and songwriter, lung cancer.

10

• Willie Fry, 43, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), heart attack.
• Billy Patterson, 79, American football player (Chicago Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers).
• Elijah Pitts, 60, American football player (Green Bay Packers), stomach cancer.^[51]
• William Preston, 76, American actor.^[52]
• Victor Smith, 85, Royal Australian Navy officer.^[53]

11

• Octav Botnar, 84, Romanian-British businessman and founder of Datsun, stomach cancer.^[54]
• John Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter, 90, British politician.
• Komla Agbeli Gbedemah, 85, Ghanaian politician.
• Emma Humphreys, 30, British convict, accidental overdose.^[55]
• Panagiotis Kondylis, 54, Greek philosopher, intellectual and historian.^[56]
• Guy Lafitte, 71, French jazz saxophonist.^[57]
• John J. Tominac, 76, United States Army officer and recipient of the Medal of Honor.

12

• M. M. S. Ahuja, 69, Indian endocrinologist.
• Wilson Francisco Alves, 70, Brazilian football player and manager.
• Jimmy Driftwood, 91, American folk music songwriter and musician, heart attack.^[58]
• Bo Giertz, 92, Swedish theologian, novelist and bishop.^[59]
• Arkady Ostashev, 72, Russian mechanical engineer.
• Maithripala Senanayake, 82, Sri Lankan politician.

13

• Watkins Moorman Abbitt, 90, American politician and lawyer, leukemia.^[60]
• Gauri Ayyub, 67, Indian social worker, activist and writer, acute arthritis.
• Red Badgro, 95, American football player, football coach and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, fall.^[61]
• Stanley Bergerman, 94, American producer of horror films, cancer.^[62]
• John Béchervaise, 88, Australian writer, photographer, artist, historian and explorer.^[63]
• Konstantinos Kollias, 97, Prime Minister of Greece during the military junta.
• Jean René Célestin Parédès, 83, French film actor, heart attack.^[64]
• Ben Zion Abba Shaul, 73, Israeli Sephardic rabbi.
• Sigismund von Braun, 87, German diplomat and politician.

14

• Rex Applegate, 84, American army officer.^[65]
• Beryl Bryden, 78, English jazz singer.^[66]
• Glenn E. Duncan, 80, United States Air Force officer and World War II flying ace.
• Miroslav Holub, 74, Czech poet and immunologist.^[67]
• Herman David Koppel, 89, Danish composer and pianist.^[68]
• Richard McDonald, 89, American entrepreneur, co-founder of McDonald's and inventor of the fast food system.^[69]
• Nguyen Ngoc Loan, 67, South Vietnamese general, cancer.^[70]
• Robert Augustine Ward Lowndes, 81, American science fiction author and editor.^[71]
• Karl Schirdewan, 91, German communist activist and East German politician.^[72]
• Angus John Mackintosh Stewart, 61, British writer.^[73]
• Thomas Martin Thompson, 43, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.^[74]

15

• Malcolm Booker, 83, Australian diplomat, author and journalist.^[75]
• Henry J. Leir, 98, American industrialist, financier, and philanthropist.^[76]
• Kazimierz Lis, 88, Polish football player.
• Joseph Desmond O'Connor, 78, British linguist, pneumonia.
• S. Shanmuganathan, 38, Sri Lankan Tamil militant and politician, assassinated.^[77]

16

• John Ball, 73, English footballer.
• Gisella Caccialanza, 83, American prima ballerina, stroke.^[78]
• John Henrik Clarke, 83, African-American historian and professor, heart attack.^[79]
• Philip J. Corso, 83, American Army officer, heart attack.^[80]
• Jess Dobernic, 80, American baseball player.^[81]
• Mahbub ul Haq, 64, Pakistani economist and politician.^[82]
• Lucien Lamoureux, 77, Canadian politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada.^[83]

17

• Lamberto Gardelli, 82, Italian-Swedish conductor.^[84]
• Gladstone Guest, 81, English football player.
• Lillian Hoban, 73, American illustrator and children's writer.^[85]
• Marc Hunter, 44, New Zealand singer, songwriter and record producer, cancer.^[86]
• Karl-Heinz Höcker, 82, German theoretical nuclear physicist.
• Paul H. Kocher, 91, American academic and writer.
• James Lighthill, 74, British mathematician.^[87]
• Joseph Maher, 64, Irish-American actor, playwright and director, brain tumor, brain cancer.^[88]
• Hervé Mirouze, 73, French football player and coach.
• Hugh Reilly, 82, American actor, emphysema.^[89]
• Claudia Testoni, 82, Italian hurdler, sprinter and long jumper.^[90]

18

• Emilio Alfaro, 65, Argentine actor, and theatre and film director.
• Florence Bird, 90, Canadian broadcaster, journalist, and senator.
• Hans Feibusch, 99, German painter and sculptor.^[91]
• Mykola Lebed, 89, Ukrainian political activist, nationalist and guerrilla fighter.
• Betty Marsden, 79, English comedy actress.^[92]
• Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Thero, 101, Sri Lankan Buddhist monk.

19

• Giliana Berneri, French communist activist.^[93]
• Antoine Tisné, 65, French composer.^[94]
• Ralph Toohy, 71, Canadian Football League player.
• Elmer Valo, 77, Slovak American baseball player and coach.^[95]

20

• Norah Borges, 97, Argentine artist.^[96]
• June Byers, 76, American women's professional wrestler, pneumonia.
• Alberto Cavallari, 70, Italian journalist and writer.^[97]
• Tossy Spivakovsky, 91, Russian-American violin virtuoso.^[98]

21

• Doug Miller, 28, American gridiron football player, lightning strike.^[99]
• Alan Shepard, 74, American astronaut, naval aviator and test pilot, complications from leukemia.^[100]
• Kenneth Watson, 66, British television actor, pancreatic cancer.
• Robert Young, 91, American actor (Marcus Welby, M.D., Father Knows Best, Window on Main Street), Emmy winner (1957, 1958, 1970), respiratory failure.^[101]

22

• Eugene Aserinsky, 77, American sleep researcher, traffic collision.^[102]
• Fritz Buchloh, 88, German football manager and football player.^[103]
• Michael Denison, 82, English actor.^[104]
• Don Dunphy, 90, American television and radio sports announcer.^[105]
• Judy Malcolm, 87, American film actress.
• Corbett Monica, 68, American comedian, cancer.^[106]
• Hermann Prey, 69, German bass-baritone, heart attack.^[107]
• Antonio Saura, 67, Spanish artist and writer.^[108]
• Tjokropranolo, 74, Indonesian politician and military officer.

23

• Harvie Branscomb, 103, American theologian and academic.^[109]
• Vladimir Dudintsev, 79, Russian writer.^[110]
• André Gertler, 90, Hungarian classical violinist.^[111]
• Mark Hampton, 58, American designer.^[112]
• John Hopkins, 67, English film, stage and television writer, domestic accident.^[113]
• R. Tudur Jones, 77, Welsh nationalist theologian.^[114]
• Northrup Rand Knox, 69, American banker and community leader.^[115]
• Djibril Diop Mambéty, 53, Senegalese actor, film director and poet, lung cancer.^[116]
• Matteo Manuguerra, 73, Tunisian-French baritone.^[117]
• Med Park, 65, American basketball player.^[118]
• Muzz Patrick, 83, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.^[119]
• Wilbur Schwandt, 94, American musician, songwriter.
• Manuel Mejía Vallejo, 75 Colombian writer.^[120]

24

• Gus Alex, 82, Greek-American mobster, heart attack.
• Alta Allen, 93, American silent film actress.^[121]
• Ronnie Grieveson, 88, South African cricketer.
• Berta Hrubá, 52, Czech field hockey player and Olympic medalist.^[122]
• Henri Ziegler, 91, French aerospace engineers, aviation pioneer and first president of Airbus.^[123]

25

• Les Dodson, 82, American gridiron football player.^[124]
• David Durand, 77, American actor.^[125]
• Tal Farlow, 77, American jazz guitarist, esophageal cancer.^[126]
• Tiny Rowland, 80, British businessman and corporate raider, cancer.

26

• Sava Antić, 68, Serbian football player and manager.^[127]
• Manzoor Alam Beg, 67, Bangladeshi photographer.
• Rainey Bennett, 91, American artist, illustrator and muralist.^[128]
• Seán Ó hEinirí, 83, Irish seanchaí and the last known monolingual Irish speaker.
• Zeki Kuneralp, 83, Turkish diplomat, multiple sclerosis.
• Aymoré Moreira, 86, Brazilian football player and coach.

27

• Binnie Barnes, 95, English actress.^[129]
• Zlatko Čajkovski, 74, Croatian football player and coach (1948 silver medal, 1952 silver medal).^[130]
• Russell M. Carneal, 80, American politician and judge.^[131]
• Elio Augusto Di Carlo, 79, Italian ornithologist, historian and physician.
• John Gilliland, 62, American radio broadcaster and documentarian.
• Gísli Halldórsson, 71, Icelandic actor.^[132]
• Elizabeth Karlin, 54, American doctor and advocate for women's reproductive rights, brain tumor.^[133]
• William McChesney Martin, 91, American businessman and Chair of the Federal Reserve.
• Robin Richmond, 86, English cinema organist and BBC Radio presenter.
• Farid Shawqi, 77, Egyptian actor, screenwriter and film producer.
• Bill Tuttle, 69, American baseball player, cancer.^[134]

28

• Mykola Bakay, 67, Ukrainian singer, composer, poet and author.
• Wilson Teixeira Beraldo, 81, Brazilian physician and physiologist.
• Zbigniew Herbert, 73, Polish poet, essayist, drama writer and moralist.^[135]
• Adam Hollanek, 75, Polish science fiction writer and journalist.
• Olga de Blanck Martín, 82, Cuban pianist, guitarist and composer.
• Lenny McLean, 49, English boxer, bodyguard and actor, brain cancer, lung cancer.^[136]
• Consalvo Sanesi, 87, Italian racecar driver.

29

• Jorge Pacheco Areco, 78, Uruguayan politician.^[137]
• Doris Nolan, 82, American actress.^[138]
• Jerome Robbins, 79, American choreographer, director and dancer (West Side Story), stroke.^[139]
• Fabrice Simon, 47, Haitian artist and fashion designer, AIDS.^[140]
• Oothout Zabriskie Whitehead, 87, American actor, cancer.^[141]

30

• Maurice Bardèche, 90, French art critic and journalist.^[142]
• Bharathan, 51, Indian film director and artist.
• Donald C. Davis, 77, United States Navy admiral, heart attack.
• Orestes Marengo, 91, Italian Roman Catholic prelate.
• Laila Schou Nilsen, 79, Norwegian sportsperson and Olympic medalist.^[143]
• Buffalo Bob Smith, 80, American children's television host, cancer.^[144]
• Kenneth A. Walsh, 81, United States Marine Corps officer, World War II flying ace and Medal of Honor recipient, heart attack.^[145]

31

• Leroy Edgar Burney, 91, American physician and public health official.^[146]
• Jean de Baroncelli, 84, French writer.^[147]
• Erling Evensen, 84, Norwegian cross-country skier and Olympic medalist.^[148]
• Sylvia Field, 97, American actress.^[149]
• Arvid Hanssen, 66, Norwegian journalist, newspaper editor, poet, novelist and children's writer.
• Ioan Ploscaru, 86, Romanian bishop of the Greek-Catholic Church.
• John E. Powers, 87, American politician.
• Richie Powers, 67, American basketball referee, stroke.^[150]
• Herbert Widmayer, 84, German football player and manager.