The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.

June 1998

1

• Emery Barnes, 68, American-Canadian gridiron football player and politician.^[1]
• Rex Bumgardner, 74, American gridiron football player.^[2]
• Gottfried Dienst, 78, Swiss football referee.^[3]
• Junkyard Dog, 45, American professional wrestler (NWA, WWF), traffic collision.^[4]
• Shigeo Fukushima, 55, Japanese swimmer and Olympian.^[5]
• Godfrey Grayson, 84, English film director.
• Darwin Joston, 60, American actor (Assault on Precinct 13, Eraserhead, The Fog), leukemia.^[6]
• Bishambhar Nath Pande, 91, Indian freedom fighter, social worker, and politician.
• José Pedraza, 60, Mexican race walker and Olympic medalist.^[7]
• Jerzy Łoś, 78, Polish mathematician, economist, and philosopher.^[8]

2

• Daniel I. Axelrod, 87, American paleoecologist, heart attack.^[9]
• Helen Carter, 70, American country music singer, heart problems.^[10]
• P. Andrew Cooray, 96, Sri Lankan politician.
• Oran Henderson, 77, United States Army officer associated with the Mỹ Lai massacre, pancreatic cancer.^[11]
• Ricky Hyslop, 83, Canadian violinist, conductor, composer, and arranger.
• Brian Johnston, 64, New Zealand field hockey player and Olympian.^[12]
• Gonzalo Martínez Ortega, 64, Mexican actor, screenwriter and producer, traffic collision.^[13]
• Dorothy Stickney, 101, American actress.^[14]

3

• Pat Abbruzzi, 65, American gridiron football player.
• Poul Bundgaard, 75, Danish actor and singer, kidney failure.^[15]
• Lucien Conein, 78, French-born U.S. Army officer and OSS/CIA operative, heart failure.^[16]
• Douglas Gretzler, 47, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
• Joseph C. Harsch, 93, American journalist.^[17]
• Ernest Henry, 94, Australian freestyle swimmer and Olympic medalist.^[18]
• William L. Snyder, 80, American film producer, Alzheimer's disease.^[19]

4

• Aarudhra, 72, Indian author, poet, publisher, and playwright.
• Fred Burchell, 67, Canadian ice hockey player.^[20]
• Clancy Carlile, 68, American novelist and screenwriter, cancer.^[21]
• Philippe Charbonneaux, 81, French industrial designer.^[22]
• Josephine Hutchinson, 94, American actress.^[23]
• Ray Montgomery, 76, American actor.
• Miguel Montuori, 65, Italian Argentine football player.^[24]
• Shirley Povich, 92, American journalist.^[25]
• David Walsh, 52, Canadian businessman, aneurysm.^[26]

5

• Alfred Kazin, 83, American writer and literary critic.^[27]
• Viola Keats, 87, British actress.
• Jeanette Nolan, 86, American actress, stroke.^[28]
• Dieter Roth, 68, Swiss artist, heart attack.^[29]
• B. M. Shah, Indian theatre director and playwright.
• Prentiss Walker, 80, American politician.^[30]
• Sam Yorty, 88, American politician, stroke.^[31]

6

• Georg Bayerer, 83, German football player and coach.^[32]
• Louie Bickerton, 95, Female tennis player from Australia.
• Marshall Green, 82, American diplomat.^[33]
• Jatoe Kaleo, Ghanaian ruler and politician.
• Svend S. Schultz, 84, Danish composer and conductor.^[34]
• Peter Wong, 66, Canadian politician, heart attack.

7

• Tom Buskey, 51, American baseball player, complications from heart attack.^[35]
• James Byrd Jr., 49, African American racism victim, murdered.^[36]
• Jerry Capehart, 69, American songwriter and music manager.^[37]
• Wally Gold, 70, American musician and music business executive, colitis.^[38]
• Hans Ramberg, 81, Norwegian-Swedish geologist.^[39]

8

• Sani Abacha, 54, Nigerian Army officer and dictator, poisoned.^[40]
• Harry Lookofsky, 84, American jazz violinist.^[41]
• Jackie McGlew, 69, South African cricket player.
• Michael John O'Brian, 70, Pakistan Air Force officer.
• Maria Reich, 95, German-Peruvian mathematician and archaeologist, ovarian cancer.^[42]
• Larisa Yudina, 52, Soviet and Russian journalist and newspaper editor, homicide.

9

• Agostino Casaroli, 83, Italian Catholic priest and diplomat for the Holy See.^[43]
• Loïs Mailou Jones, 92, American artist and teacher.^[44]
• Edmund Koller, 67, West German bobsledder and Olympian.^[45]
• Barton Holland Warnock, 86, American botanist, heart attack.

10

• Paudge Brennan, 76, Irish politician.
• Bobby Bryant, 64, American jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist, heart attack.^[46]
• Leroy Chollet, 74, American basketball player.^[47]
• David English, 67, British journalist and newspaper editor.^[48]
• Fernando Germani, 92, Italian organist of the St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
• Steve Griffiths, 84, English footballer.
• Jim Hearn, 77, American baseball player.^[49]
• Hammond Innes, 84, English author.^[50]
• Nivedita Jain, 19, Indian beauty contestant and actress, complications after fall.^[51]
• Steve Sanders, 45, American musician, singer and songwriter, suicide.^[52]
• John G. Smith, 73, American baseball coach, pneumonia.^[53]

11

• Thomas Abernethy, 95, American politician.^[54]
• Harry Anderson, 66, American baseball player.^[55]
• Catherine Cookson, 91, British author.^[56]
• Gevorg Emin, 78, Armenian poet, essayist, and translator.^[57]
• Jacques Emmanuel, 78, French actor, screenwriter and librettist.^[58]
• Alexei Eriomin, 79, Soviet and Russian realist painter.
• Jože Privšek, 61, Slovene jazz and pop musician.
• Leopoldo Salcedo, 86, Filipino film actor.
• Lucia Valentini Terrani, 51, Italian coloratura mezzo-soprano, leukemia.^[59]

12

• Leo Buscaglia, 74, American author and motivational speaker, heart attack.^[60]
• John Gutmann, 93, German-American photographer and painter.^[61]
• Charles "Teenie" Harris, 90, American photographer.
• Jon Leirfall, 98, Norwegian politician.
• Theresa Merritt, 75, American actress (That's My Mama, The Wiz, Billy Madison) and singer, skin cancer.^[62]
• Paul Michael Stephani, 53, American serial killer, skin cancer.
• Richard Thompson, 83, American animator.
• Lucienne Velu, 96, French athlete, basketball player and Olympian.^[63]

13

• Nisim Aloni, 71, Israeli playwright and translator.^[64]
• Lucio Costa, 96, Brazilian architect and urban planner.^[65]
• Gil Duthie, 86, Australian politician.^[66]
• Buddy Elrod, 79, American football player.
• Alfred Horace Gerrard, 99, English modernist sculptor.^[67]
• Birger Ruud, 86, Norwegian ski jumper.^[68]
• Fernand Sastre, 74, French football official, cancer.
• Kadamba Simmons, 24, British actress and model, murdered.
• Reg Smythe, 80, British cartoonist (Andy Capp), lung cancer.^[69]
• Yoshio Sugino, 93, Japanese martial artist and film choreographer.
• Éric Tabarly, 86, French naval officer and yachtsman, drowned.
• Henry Tatana, 53, New Zealand rugby player.

14

• Camillo Achilli, 76, Italian footballer.^[70]
• Hans W. Brimi, 80, Norwegian farmer and traditional folk musician.^[71]
• Ginette Mathiot, 91, French food writer.^[72]
• Oliver Treyz, 80, American network television executive.^[73]

15

• Hartmut Boockmann, 63, German historian.^[74]
• Suzanne Eisendieck, 91, German painter.
• Jason Holliday, 74, American hustler and nightclub performer.^[75]
• Morris Kestelman, 92, British artist.^[76]
• Thierry Salmon, 41, Belgian actor and theatre director, traffic accident.
• Anton van Wilderode, 79, Belgian priest, writer and poet.^[77]

16

• Roberto Cañedo, 80, Mexican actor.^[78]
• Lewis Leonard Forman, 68, British botanist.
• Jorge Toriello Garrido, 90, Guatemalan politician and President of Guatemala.
• Frank Kristufek, 82, American football player.^[79]
• Keith Newton, 56, English footballer, laryngeal cancer.^[80]
• Ricardo Núñez, 93, Spanish actor, screenwriter, producer and film director.
• Jafar Sharif-Emami, 85, Iranian politician.^[81]
• Fred Wacker, 79, American businessman and racecar driver.

17

• John Carberry, 93, American Roman Catholic prelate.^[82]
• Dina de Marco, 60, Mexican actress and television director, cancer.
• Aage Eriksen, 81, Norwegian Greco-Roman wrestler and Olympic medalist.^[83]
• Joe Kelly, 91, Australian rules football player and coach.
• Carlos Loredo, 46, Cuban football player and Olympian.^[84]
• Gianni Lunadei, 60, Italian-Argentine actor, suicide.
• Gyula László, 88, Hungarian historian, archaeologist and artist.^[85]
• Muhammad Metwally Al Shaarawy, 87, Egyptian Muslim jurist.^[86]

18

• Otto Baum, 86, German commander of the Waffen-SS during World War II.
• André Chorda, 60, French football player.^[87]
• Archie Edwards, 79, American blues guitarist.
• Edward Eliscu, 96, American lyricist, playwright, producer and actor.^[88]
• Ernesto Grillo, 68, Argentine footballer, pancreatic cancer.^[89]
• Kim Jin-kyu, 76, South Korean actor, film director and producer, cancer.^[90]
• Felix Knight, 89, American tenor, actor, and vocal teacher.^[91]
• Charles Korvin, 90, Hungarian-born American actor, photographer and master chef.^[92]
• Adel Osseiran, 93, Lebanese statesman and founding father of the Lebanese Republic.
• Nazim Panipati, Pakistani film song lyricist and film script writer.
• Karl-Heinz Spikofski, 71, German football player and coach.^[93]
• Herbert J. Sweet, 78, United States Marine Sergeant Major, respiratory failure.^[94]
• Paul van Buren, 74, American theologian and author, cancer.^[95]

19

• John Camkin, 75, English journalist and sports commentator, cancer.^[96]
• Novice Gail Fawcett, 89, American academic administrator.^[97]
• Anatoly Kasheida, 69, Soviet and Ukrainian writer, poet, and journalist.
• Howard J. Whitmore, Jr., 93, American politician.^[98]

20

• Bruno Barnabe, 93, English film and stage actor.^[99]
• Ernst Brugger, 84, Swiss politician .
• Robert James Clayton, 82, English electronics engineer.
• Heinz Ditgens, 83, German football player and manager.^[100]
• Per Anders Fogelström, 80, Swedish writer.^[101]
• Bobby Gimby, 79, Canadian orchestra leader, trumpeter, and singer-songwriter.^[102]
• Kali, 79, Polish-American painter.
• Elio Ragni, 87, Italian athlete.^[103]
• Conrad Schumann, 56, East German border guard, suicide by hanging.^[104]
• George Van Peursem, American politician.

21

• Harry Cranbrook Allen, 81, British historian of the United States.^[105]
• Anastasio Ballestrero, 84, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal.^[106]
• Al Campanis, 81, American baseball executive, coronary artery disease.^[107]
• Emma Danieli, 61, Italian actress and television personality.^[108]
• Gerhard Gundermann, 43, German singer-songwriter and rock musician, stroke.^[109]
• François Lehideux, 94, French industrialist and member of the Vichy government.^[110]
• Peter Mander, 69, New Zealand yachtsman and Olympic gold medal winner.^[111]
• Elio Morille, 70, Italian rower and Olympic champion.^[112]
• Tom Smith, 88, Scottish football player and manager.

22

• Phil Campbell, 81, American farmer and politician.^[113]
• Brian Davis, 63, New Zealand Anglican archbishop.
• Juliusz Bogdan Deczkowski, 74, Polish soldier during World War II, and later inventor and writer.
• Benny Green, 70, British writer, radio broadcaster and saxophonist, cancer.^[114]
• Norberto Doroteo Méndez, 75, Argentine football player.

23

• Leonard Jones, 74, Canadian lawyer and politician.
• Kurt Kren, 68, Austrian avant-garde filmmaker.^[115]
• Ida Krottendorf, 71, Austrian actress, cancer.^[116]
• Bill Lee, 86, American gridiron football player.^[117]
• Paul O'Dwyer, 90, Irish-American politician and lawyer.^[118]
• Maureen O'Sullivan, 87, American actress, heart attack.^[119]

24

• Francine Agazarian, 85, French spy during World War II.
• Canito, 67, Spanish footballer.^[120]
• Beatrice Mandelman, 85, American abstract artist, cancer.^[121]
• Henry G. Saperstein, 80, American film producer and distributor.

25

• David Ayalon, 84, Israeli historian of Islam and the Middle East.^[122]
• Hans Friedrich, 81, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
• Arthur Lewis, 81, British politician.
• Lounès Matoub, 42, Algerian Berber singer, poet and political activist, assassinated.^[123]
• Jirō Takamatsu, 62, Japanese artist.

26

• Pierre Angénieux, 90, French engineer and optician.^[124]
• Frank Arkell, 62, Australian politician, murdered.^[125]
• John Malcolm Brinnin, 81, Canadian-American poet and literary critic.^[126]
• Bobby Cairns, 69, Scottish football player.
• Sero Khanzadyan, 82, Armenian writer.
• Vladimir Petukhov, 48, Russian mayor of Nefteyugansk, killed.
• Luciano Pezzi, 77, Italian road bicycle racer.^[127]
• Derek Rayner, Baron Rayner, 72, English businessman and life peer.^[128]
• Hacı Sabancı, 63, Turkish businessman and philanthropist, lung cancer.
• Dick Schulz, 81, American basketball player.^[129]
• William R. Sears, 70, American politician.

27

• Pierre Boutang, 81, French philosopher, poet and translator.^[130]
• David Laitt, 67, English cricketer.
• Sumati Morarjee, 91, Indian businessman.
• Gilles Rocheleau, 62, Canadian politician.
• Homi J.H. Taleyarkhan, 86, Indian politician and Gandhian.
• Joyce Wieland, 67, Canadian experimental visual artist, Alzheimer's disease.^[131]
• Peter H. Wyden, 74, American journalist and writer.^[132]

28

• Jonathan Benair, 47, American actor (The Brave Little Toaster), cerebral hemorrhage and heart attack.^[133]
• Marion Eugene Carl, 82, American flying ace during World War II and record-setting test pilot, shot during robbery.^[134]
• Bill Elias, 75, American football coach.^[135]
• Božidar Ferjančić, 69, Serbian historian.
• Louis Hostin, 90, French weightlifter and Olympic champion.^[136]
• Glenn Montgomery, 31, American gridiron football player, ALS.^[137]
• Brita Collett Paus, 80, Norwegian humanitarian leader.
• Jean-Yves Raimbaud, 40, French animator and cartoonist, lung cancer.^[138]
• Jack Rowley, 79, English footballer.
• Birger Sandberg, 80, Swedish football player and manager.
• Kamala Sohonie, 85, Indian biochemist.
• Denis Williams, 75, Guyanese painter, author and archaeologist.^[139]

29

• Slavko Dokmanović, 48, Croatian Serbian war criminal, suicide by hanging.
• Joseph G. Galway, 75, American meteorologist.^[140]
• Jess Hahn, 76, American-French actor.^[141]
• Horst Jankowski, 62, German classical pianist, lung cancer.^[142]
• Küllo Kõiv, 25, Estonian wrestler, car accident.^[143]
• Kamalakara Kameshwara Rao, 86, Indian film director, cardiac arrest.
• Frank Rowlett, 90, American cryptologist.^[144]

30

• Galina Brezhneva, 69, Soviet and Russian socialite and daughter of General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, cerebrovascular disease.
• Renato Capecchi, 74, Italian baritone, actor, and opera director.^[145]
• Giorgio Carpi, 89, Italian football player.
• George Parsons, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.^[146]
• John Peter, 61, Indian field hockey player.^[147]
• Bob Pryde, 85, Scottish football player.^[148]