The following is a list of notable deaths in November 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.

November 1998

1

• Augusto Magli, 75, Italian football player.
• Kunitaka Sueoka, 81, Japanese football player.
• Norbert Wollheim, 85, German-American Holocaust survivor.^[1]
• Stanislav Zhuk, 63, Russian Olympic skater and coach, heart attack.^[2]

2

• Janet Arnold, 66, British clothing historian, costume designer and author, lymphoma.^[3]
• Sverre Brodahl, 89, Norwegian Nordic skier and Olympic medalist.^[4]
• Claude Bramall Burgess, 88, Hong Kong Colonial Secretary.
• Fred Freer, 82, Australian cricket player.
• Henry Horton, 75, English sportsman.
• Rolf Husberg, 90, Swedish film director, screenwriter and actor.
• Jovelina Pérola Negra, 54, Brazilian samba singer and songwriter, heart attack.
• Elmo Plaskett, 60, United States Virgin Islands baseball player.^[5]
• Vincent Winter, 50, Scottish child film actor, heart attack.^[6]

3

• Ray Bremser, 64, American poet.^[7]
• Helmuth Johannsen, 78, German football player and manager.^[8]
• Bob Kane, 83, American comic book writer (Batman).^[9]
• John Campbell Merrett, 89, Canadian architect.^[10]
• P. L. Narayana, 63, Indian film actor and playwright.
• Martha O'Driscoll, 76, American film actress.^[11]
• Oriano Quilici, 68, Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.
• Nina Youshkevitch, 77, Franco-Russian ballet dancer and teacher.^[12]

4

• Jean de Heinzelin de Braucourt, 78, Belgian geologist.^[13]
• Marion Donovan, 81, American inventor and entrepreneur.^[14]
• Lars Ernster, 78, Swedish biochemist and Nobel Foundation board member.
• Joyce Lussu, 86, Italian writer and partisan during World War II.^[15]
• Jimmy McGee, 75, Irish basketball player and musician.
• Jorge Wehbe, 78, Argentine lawyer and economist, Minister of Economy.

5

• Garlin Murl Conner, 79, United States Army officer during World War II and Medal of Honor recipient.^[16]
• Momoko Kōchi, 66, Japanese actress (Godzilla), cancer.^[17]
• Nagarjun, 87, Indian poet.
• Jack Stewart, 86, Australian farmer and politician.

6

• Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim, President of the Comoros.
• Hélmer Herrera Buitrago, 47, Colombian narco and member of the Cali Cartel, shot.^[18]
• Jack Hartman, 73, American gridiron football player and basketball coach.^[19]
• Bobo Lewis, 72, American comedic actress, cancer.^[20]
• Sky Low Low, 70, Canadian midget wrestler, heart attack.^[21]
• Niklas Luhmann, 70, German sociologist and philosopher of social science.^[22]
• Wolfgang Stresemann, 94, German jurist, orchestra leader, conductor and composer.^[23]
• István Szőts, 86, Hungarian screenwriter and film director.
• Stan Wright, 77, American track and field coach.^[24]

7

• Jitendra Abhisheki, 69, Indian vocalist, composer and music scholar.
• Leonard De Paur, 83, American composer and choral director.^[25]
• Agenore Fabbri, 87, Italian sculptor and painter.
• Margaret Gowing, 77, English historian, Alzheimer's disease.^[26]
• John Hunt, Baron Hunt, 88, British Army officer.^[27]
• Vladimir Matskevich, 88, Soviet apparatchik and ambassador.
• Börje Mellvig, 86, Swedish actor, screenwriter, director and lyricist.
• Ted Slevin, English rugby player.
• Jiwan Singh Umranangal, 84, Indian politician.
• O. Meredith Wilson, 89, American historian and academic, brain cancer.^[28]

8

• Rumer Godden, 90, English author (Black Narcissus), complications from a series of strokes.^[29]
• Jemal Karchkhadze, Georgian writer.
• Thomas Henry Manning, 86, British-Canadian Arctic explorer, geographer, zoologist, and author.^[30]
• Jean Marais, 84, French actor, writer and sculptor, cardiovascular disease.^[31]
• Lonnie Pitchford, 43, American blues musician and instrument maker.^[32]
• Erol Taş, 70, Turkish film actor, diabetes.

9

• Baya, 66, Algerian artist.
• Henry Dorman, 82, American lawyer and politician.^[33]
• Anura Ranasinghe, 42, Sri Lankan cricketer, heart attack.
• Ursula Reit, 84, German actress.^[34]
• Francis Scully, 73, American sailor and Olympic medalist.^[35]

10

• Svetlana Beriosova, 66, Lithuanian-British prima ballerina, cancer.^[36]
• Peter Cotes, 86, English actor, writer, and director.^[37]
• Mahmoud Hassan, 78, Egyptian Greco-Roman bantamweight wrestler and Olympic medalist.^[38]
• Henry James, 78, British civil servant (born 1919).
• Jean Leray, 92, French mathematician.^[39]
• Georg Liebsch, 87, German featherweight weightlifter and Olympian.^[40]
• Mary Millar, 62, British actress (Keeping Up Appearances) and singer, ovarian cancer.^[41]
• Hal Newhouser, 77, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame, respiratory disease.^[42]
• Ellis Robinson, 87, English cricketer.

11

• Frank Brimsek, 83, American ice hockey player.^[43]
• Patrick Clancy, 76, Irish folk singer, lung cancer.^[44]
• Gérard Grisey, 52, French composer of contemporary classical music, ruptured aneurysm.^[45]
• Ferdinand Kulmer, 73, Croatian abstract painter.^[46]
• Allan Kwartler, 81, American sabre and foil fencer.^[47]
• Sam Melberg, 86, Norwegian sports diver and Olympian.^[48]
• Elvis Jacob Stahr, Jr., 82, American government official and college president.^[49]
• Anicet Utset, 66, Spanish cyclist.

12

• Janet Alcoriza, 80, American screenwriter and actress.
• Jack Gelineau, 74, Canadian ice hockey player, cancer.^[50]
• James H. Gray, 92, Canadian journalist, historian and author.^[51]
• Paul Hoffman, 73, American basketball player, brain tumor.^[52]
• Roy Hollis, 72, English football player.^[53]
• Asher Joel, 86, Australian politician and public servant.
• Kenny Kirkland, 43, American pianist and keyboardist, congestive heart failure.^[54]
• Lu Ann Meredith, 85, American film actress.
• Sally Shlaer, 59, American mathematician, software engineer and methodologist.^[55]

13

• Don Bishop, 64, American gridiron football player.^[56]
• Joseph C. Brun, 91, French-American cinematographer.^[57]
• Edwige Feuillère, 91, French actress.^[58]
• Valerie Hobson, 81, Irish-born actress, heart attack.^[59]
• Red Holzman, 78, American basketball player and coach, leukemia.^[60]
• Hendrik Timmer, 94, Dutch sportsman and Olympic medalist.^[61]
• Michel Trudeau, 23, Canadian outdoorsman and brother of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, avalanche.^[62]
• Ilie Văduva, 64, Romanian communist politician.^[63]
• Doug Wright, 84, English cricket player.

14

• Eli Cashdan, 93, British rabbi.
• Quentin Crewe, 72, English journalist, author, restaurateur and adventurer.^[64]
• Albert Frey, 95, Swiss-American architect.^[65]
• Rachel Holzer, 99, Australian theatre actress and director.

15

• Stokely Carmichael, 57, Trinidadian-American political activist, prostate cancer.^[66]
• Henryk Chmielewski, 84, Polish boxer and Olympian.^[67]
• Lawrence Krader, 78, American socialist anthropologist and ethnologist.^[68]
• Federico Krutwig, 77, Spanish Basque writer, philosopher, and politician.
• William T. Miller, 87, American professor of organic chemistry.^[69]
• Doris Niles, 93, American dancer.^[70]
• Leo Aloysius Pursley, 96, American clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church.

16

• Ludvík Daněk, 61, Czechoslovak discus thrower and Olympic champion, heart attack.^[71]
• Tyrone Delano Gilliam, Jr., 32, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.^[72]
• Mohammad-Taqi Ja'fari, 73, Iranian scholar, philosopher and Islamic theologist.
• Queenie McKenzie, 68, Aboriginal Australian artist.
• Alexander Smorchkov, 78, Soviet fighter pilot during World War II and the Korean War.
• J. D. Sumner, 73, American gospel singer and songwriter.^[73]

17

• Kea Bouman, 94, Dutch tennis player.^[74]
• Weeb Ewbank, 91, American football coach (Baltimore Colts, New York Jets) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, heart problems.^[75]
• Efim Geller, 73, Soviet chess player and grandmaster.^[76]
• Jean Herly, 78, Monegasque diplomat and ambassador.
• Reinette L'Oranaise, 80, Algerian singer.
• Kenneth McDuff, 52, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.^[77]
• Jacques Médecin, 70, French politician, cardiac arrest.^[78]
• Miguel A. García Méndez, 96, Puerto Rican lawyer and politician.
• Dick O'Neill, 70, American actor (The Jerk, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Cagney & Lacey).^[79]
• Esther Rolle, 78, American actress (Good Times, Maude, Driving Miss Daisy), Emmy winner (1979), diabetes.^[80]
• Bill Ward, 79, American cartoonist (Torchy).

18

• Telemaco Arcangeli, 75, Italian racewalker and Olympian.^[81]
• Norma Connolly, 71, American actress.^[82]
• Hal Davis, 65, American songwriter and record producer.^[83]
• Robin Hall, 62, Scottish folksinger.
• Jeanine Moulin, 86, Belgian poet and literary scholar.^[84]
• Aurélio de Lira Tavares, 93, Brazilian Army general.^[85]

19

• Louis Dumont, French anthropologist.^[86]
• Ted Fujita, 78, Japanese-American meteorologist.^[87]
• Alfred 'Ken' Gatward, 84, British Royal Air Force pilot during World War II.^[88]
• Earl Kim, 78, American composer, and music pedagogue, lung cancer.^[89]
• William J. McCarthy, 79, American labor leader.
• Alan J. Pakula, 70, American film director and producer (All the President's Men, The Parallax View, To Kill a Mockingbird), traffic collision.^[90]

20

• Roland Alphonso, 67, Jamaican tenor saxophonist.^[91]
• Marian Brandys, 86, Polish writer and screenwriter.
• George Brophy, 72, American baseball executive.^[92]
• Howard Wilson Emmons, 86, American professor in Mechanical Engineering.^[93]
• Meredith Gourdine, 69, American physicist, athlete and Olympic medalist.^[94]
• John Grimek, 88, American bodybuilder and weightlifter.^[95]
• Cec Luining, 67, Canadian football player.
• Mario Orozco Rivera, 68, Mexican muralist and painter.
• Dick Sisler, 78, American baseball player, coach and manager.^[96]
• Galina Starovoytova, 52, Soviet dissident, assassinated, firearm.^[97]

21

• Thomas V. Bermingham, American Jesuit priest and Classical scholar.^[98]
• Dariush Forouhar, 69–70, Iranian pan-Iranist politician, murdered.
• Otto Frankel, 98, Austrian-Australian geneticist.^[99]
• Dave Huffman, 41, American football player, traffic collision.^[100]
• Giles Pellerin, 91, American gridiron football player.
• Alvin P. Shapiro, 77, American physician and professor, complications of kidney failure.^[101]
• Ormond R. Simpson, 83, United States Marine Corps officer.^[102]
• Fabian Ver, 78, Filipino military officer, pulmonary complications.
• Nosson Meir Wachtfogel, 88, Russian-American Orthodox rabbi.

22

• Harlan Parker Banks, 85, American paleobotanist and phycologist.
• Vladimir Demikhov, 82, Soviet scientist and organ transplantation pioneer.^[103]
• Henry Hampton, 58, American filmmaker.^[104]
• Mikołaj Kozakiewicz, 74, Polish politician, publicist and sociologist.
• Harry Lehmann, 74, German physicist.
• Celeste Mendoza, 68, Cuban singer.^[105]
• Holt Rast, 81, American football player.
• Jack Shadbolt, 89, Canadian painter.^[106]
• Stu Ungar, 45, American professional poker, blackjack, and gin rummy player, heart problems.^[107]

23

• Lamar McHan, 65, American football player and coach, heart attack.^[108]
• Gene Moore, 88, American designer and window dresser.^[109]
• Dan Osman, 35, American extreme sport practitioner, rock climbing accident.
• Ralph S. Phillips, 85, American mathematician and academic.
• Don Ray, 77, American basketball player.^[110]
• Eugen Seiterle, 84, Swiss field handball player and Olympic medalist.^[111]

24

• Len Barnum, 86, American gridiron football player.^[112]
• John Chadwick, 78, English linguist and classical scholar who deciphered Linear B.^[113]
• Minnette de Silva, 80, Sri Lankan architect.
• Eprime Eshag, 80, Iranian economist.^[114]
• Guido Figone, 71, Italian gymnast.^[115]
• Nicholas Kurti, 90, Hungarian-British physicist.^[116]
• George F. Sprague, 96, American geneticist and researcher.
• Theodore Strongin, 79, American music critic, composer, flautist, and entomologist.^[117]
• Nikola Tanhofer, 71, Croatian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer.^[118]

25

• Robert Eisner, 76, American author and economist, bone marrow disorder.^[119]
• Nelson Goodman, 92, American philosopher.^[120]
• Parmeshwar Narayan Haksar, 85, Indian diplomat.^[121]
• Anwar Mesbah, 85, Egyptian weightlifter and Olympic champion.^[122]
• Enrico Sabbatini, 66, Italian costume designer (The Mission, Seven Years in Tibet, Cutthroat Island) and production designer, traffic collision.^[123]
• Fiatau Penitala Teo, 87, Tuvalu political figure.
• Flip Wilson, 64, American comedian and actor, liver cancer.^[124]

26

• Gerald Battrick, 51, Welsh tennis player.^[125]
• Charles Moihi Te Arawaka Bennett, 85, New Zealand broadcaster, military leader and public servant.
• Mike Calvert, 85, British Army officer.
• M. T. Cheng, 81, Chinese mathematician.
• Ox Emerson, 90, American football player.^[126]
• Gyo Fujikawa, 90, American illustrator and children's author.^[127]
• Tom Lyon, 83, Scottish footballer.^[128]
• Ed Smith, 69, American basketball player (New York Knicks).^[129]

27

• Barbara Acklin, 55, American soul singer and songwriter, pneumonia.^[130]
• William Baxter, 69, American professor of law.^[131]
• Gloria Fuertes, 81, Spanish poet and children's author, lung cancer.^[132]
• Jozef IJsewijn, 65, Flemish Latinist.^[133]
• Douglas LePan, 84, Canadian diplomat, poet, novelist and professor of literature.^[134]
• Herman Murray, 89, Canadian ice hockey player.^[135]
• Andrey Sergeev, 65, Russian writer and translator, traffic accident.^[136]
• Vicki Viidikas, 50, Australian poet.^[137]

28

• Dante Fascell, 81, American politician, colorectal cancer.^[138]
• Frederick William Freking, 85, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, emphysema.
• M. Donald Grant, 94, American baseball executive (New York Mets).^[139]
• Roberta Kevelson, 67, American academic and semiotician.^[140]
• James C. Lucas, 86, American criminal and inmate of Alcatraz penitentiary.
• Augie Scott, 77, English football player and manager.^[141]
• Maurice Seynaeve, 91, Belgian cyclo-cross rider.^[142]
• John Stanford, 60, American Army officer.^[143]
• Kerry Wendell Thornley, 60, American counterculture figure and writer, heart attack.^[144]

29

• Roy Benavidez, 63, United States Army Special Forces member and Medal of Honor recipient, complications of diabetes.^[145]
• Gino De Dominicis, 51, Italian artist.
• Maus Gatsonides, 87, Dutch rally driver and inventor.
• Jack Gilbert, 80, Australian World War II veteran and rugby player.
• Giant Haystacks, 52, British professional wrestler, lymphoma.
• Pépé Kallé, 46, Congolese musician, heart attack.^[146]
• Frank Latimore, 73, American actor.^[147]
• Živojin Pavlović, 65, Yugoslav and Serbian film director, writer, and painter.
• Robin Ray, 64, English broadcaster, actor, and musician, lung cancer.^[148]
• Jim Turner, 95, American baseball player.^[149]
• George Van Eps, 85, American swing and jazz guitarist, pneumonia.^[150]

30

• Pentti Aalto, 81, Finnish linguist, heart disease.^[151]
• Abdullah Al-Muti, 68, Bangladeshi educationist and writer.
• Ruth Clifford, 98, American actress.^[152]
• Alfo Ferrari, 74, Italian cyclist.
• Jesse Levan, 72, American baseball player.^[153]
• Ad Liska, 92, American baseball pitcher.^[154]
• Simon Nkoli, 41, South African anti-apartheid and gay rights activist, AIDS.
• Johnny Roventini, 88, American actor.^[155]
• Philip Sterling, 76, American actor.^[156]
• James Strauch, 77, American Olympic fencer.^[157]
• Margaret Walker, 83, American poet and writer, breast cancer.^[158]