Deaths in February 1998
The following is a list of notable deaths in February 1998.
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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.
- Sheila Watson, 88, Canadian novelist and literary critic.[1]
2
- Raymond Cattell, 92, British and American psychologist.[2]
- Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber, 86, German-American nuclear physicist.[3]
- Ferdinand A. Hermens, 91, German-American political scientist and economist.
- Duilio Del Prete, 59, Italian actor, dubber and singer-songwriter, cancer.
- Baldev Singh, 93, Indian neurologist.[4]
- Haroun Tazieff, 83, French volcanologist and geologist.
- Manuel Delgado Villegas, 55, Spanish serial killer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
3
- Joey Archibald, 83, American boxer.[5]
- Clark Goff, 80, American gridiron football player.
- Bertram Heyn, 85, Sri Lankan general and a cricketer.
- Davy Kaye, British actor and entertainer.[6]
- Fat Pat, 27, American rapper, shot.
- Karla Faye Tucker, 38, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[7]
4
- Jacques Guillermaz, 87, French diplomat, military officer and Chinese history scholar.
- Margaret Hillis, 76, American conductor.[8]
- Jean Blackwell Hutson, 83, African-American librarian, writer and curator.[9]
- Dragan Joksović, 41, Swedish-Serbian mobster, murdered.
- Zoran Kosanović, 42, Serbian Canadian table tennis player, heart attack.
- Aruna Lama, 52, Nepali singer.[10]
- Menachem Shmuel David Raichik, 79, American Orthodox rabbi.
- Michel Roux, 73, French baritone.
- Rees Stephens, 75, Welsh rugby player.
- Cristóbal Martínez-Bordiú, 75, Spanish aristocrat and son in law of dictator Francisco Franco.
5
- Takahashi Chikuzan, 87, Japanese Tsugaru-jamisen performer and composer.
- Wilbur Coen, 86, American tennis player.
- Tim Kelly, 35, American guitarist for the band Slaughter, car accident.[11]
- Kim Ki-young, 78, South Korean film director, domestic accident.
- Lanier Meaders, 80, American potter.
- Denis Oswald, 87, English cricketer and codebreaker during World War II.
- Eduardo Francisco Pironio, 77, Argentine Roman Catholic cardinal, bone cancer.
- Joe Stubbs, American R&B/Soul singer, heart failure.
- Hans Wallach, 93, German-American experimental psychologist.[12]
6
- Nazim al-Kudsi, 91, former President and Prime Minister of Syria.
- Claude Érignac, 60, French prefect of Corsica, murdered.
- Falco, 40, Austrian singer and songwriter, traffic accident.[13]
- Tony LeVier, 84, American air racer and test pilot.
- Toshiaki Tanaka, 62, Japanese table tennis player.
- Carl Wilson, 51, American musician, singer, and songwriter, lung cancer.[14]
7
- Renée Slotopolsky de Epelbaum, 77, Argentine human rights activist.
- Bobby Kemp, 38, American football player, suicide.
- Lawrence Sanders, 77, American novelist and short story writer.[15]
8
- Betty Foss, 68, American baseball player (AAGPBL).[16]
- Tulsiram Sharma Kashyap, 58, Indian writer and politician.
- Halldór Laxness, 95, Icelandic writer and Nobel Prize laureate.
- Elizabeth Bauer Mock, American professor, curator, author and journalist.
- Enoch Powell, 85, British politician, classical scholar, author and philologist.[17]
- Rocke Robertson, 85, American physician.
- J. B. Salsberg, 95, Canadian politician.
- Julian Simon, 65, American economist and author.[18]
- Fred Smollan, 89, South Africa rugby player.
9
- George Cafego, 82, American football player and coach.
- Bill Froats, 67, American baseball player.
- Dean Griffing, 82, American gridiron football player, coach and executive.
- Alf Jefferies, 76, English footballer.
- Nick Leluk, 62, Canadian politician.
- William Ronald, 71, Canadian painter.
- Maurice Schumann, 86, French politician, journalist and writer.[19]
10
- Air Buddy, 9, American Golden Retriever dog actor, cancer.
- Ramchandran Jaikumar, 53, Indian-American scientist, heart attack.[20]
- Richard Kotuk, 54, American journalist, producer and filmmaker, heart attack.
- Peter Longbottom, 38, British cyclist.[21]
- Félix Reina, 76, Cuban violinist, arranger and composer, stroke.
- Yorgos Vrasivanopoulos, 74, Greek actor.
11
- Joy Buba, 93, American sculptor and illustrator.[22]
- Patrick Clark, 42, American chef, amyloidosis.[23]
- Thomas G. Dunn, 76, American politician.[24]
- Mike Fornieles, 66, Cuban-American baseball player.
- William Franklin, 81, British Anglican bishop.
- Lily Harmon, American visual artist.
- Jonathan Hole, 93, American actor.
- Josef Issels, 90, German physician.
- Radhanath Rath, 101, Indian journalist, activist and politician.
12
- Gardner Ackley, 82, American economist and diplomat.[25]
- Lionel Aldridge, 56, American gridiron football player.
- Tanvir Dar, 50, Pakistani field hockey player.
- Sir George Middleton, 88, British diplomat.
- Les Parish, 42, Australian rules footballer, cancer.
13
- José Barraquer, 82, Spanish ophthalmologist.
- Jo Clayton, 58, American fantasy and science fiction author, multiple myeloma.[26]
- John Cowley, 74, Irish actor.[27]
- Antoine Dresse, 95, Belgian deaf sport activist.
- Bryan MacMahon, 88, Irish writer.
- Douglas Meakin, 68, English cricket player and Royal Air Force officer.
- Brij Mangal Rai, 84, Indian freedom fighter.
14
- Badrul Haider Chowdhury, 73, Chief Justice of Bangladesh.
- Thomas McKimson, 90, American animator.
- Hansel Mieth, 88, German-American photojournalist.
- Denise Paulme, 88, French Africanist and anthropologist.[28]
- Manuel Pérez Martínez, 54, Colombian guerrilla leader.[29]
15
- Martha Gellhorn, 89, American novelist, travel writer, and journalist, suicide.[30]
- B. Calvin Jones, 59, American archaeologist.[31]
- Louie Spicolli, 27, American professional wrestler, overdose.
- George White, 86, American film editor.
16
- Mary Amdur, 76, American toxicologist, heart attack.
- Sir Harry Hinsley, 79, British historian and cryptanalyst.[32]
- Fernando Abril Martorell, 61, former Spanish Deputy Prime Minister, lung cancer.
- Donald MacKeen Smith, 74, Canadian politician.
17
- Marie-Louise von Franz, 83, Swiss Jungian psychologist and scholar.
- Ernst Jünger, 102, German World War I hero, author and entomologist.[33]
- Ernst Käsemann, 91, German Lutheran theologian, murdered around 24 May 1977.
- Lionel Fernández Méndez, 83, Puerto Rican attorney and politician.
- Bob Merrill, American songwriter, theatrical composer and screenwriter, suicide.[34]
- Sheila Raynor, 91, British actress.
- Ruth Robertson, 92, American photojournalist.
- Albert Wass, 90, Hungarian nobleman, novelist and poet.
18
- James E. Boyd, 91, American physicist and mathematician.
- Harry Caray, 83, American television and radio broadcaster.[35]
- Robbie James, 40, Welsh footballer.[36]
- Scott O'Hara, 36, American pornographic performer, author, poet and publisher, AIDS.
- Messias Timula, 50, Portuguese footballer.
- Mya Than Tint, 68, Myanmar writer, brain hemorrhage.
- Richard Crawford White, 74, American politician.
19
- S. S. DeWitt, 83, American politician, pancreatic cancer.
- Wolfgang Händler, 77, German mathematician and pioneering computer scientist.
- Grandpa Jones, 84, American "old time" country and gospel music singer.[37]
- George Male, 87, English footballer.
- Mancur Olson, 66, American economist and social scientist.[38]
- Leo Righetti, 72, American baseball player.
- Thomas F. Riley, 85, United States Marine Corps brigadier general, cardiac arrest.
- Talish, Pakistani actor.
- Lola de la Torre, 95, Spanish musician.
- Lantz Womack, 83, American politician.
20
- Francis Coulson, 78, British chef and hotelier.[39]
- Bob McBride, 51, Canadian rock singer-songwriter, heart failure.[40]
- David McClure, 72, Scottish artist and lecturer.
21
- Ramón Bravo, 72, Mexican diver, photographer and underwater filmmaker, heart attack.[41]
- Santos Colón, 75, Puerto Rican bolero and mambo singer.
- Ellis Credle, 95, American children's author and illustrator.
- James M. Edie, 70, American philosopher, cancer.
- Yoshio Miyajima, 89, Japanese cinematographer.
- John Nicolella, 52, American film, television director and producer.
- Om Prakash, 78, Indian actor.
- William Wheeler, 87, English Roman Catholic prelate and bishop.[42]
22
- José María de Areilza, 88, former Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs.
- Prabhas Kumar Choudhary, 57, Indian author, editor and publisher, heart attack.
- Alfred Hales, 88, Canadian businessman and politician.
- Sandy Hume, 28, American journalist, suicide.[43]
- Emmy Lou Packard, 83, Californian artist.[44]
- Russell Reeder, 95, United States Army officer and author.[45]
- Abraham Ribicoff, 87, American Democratic Party Party politician.
- Warren B. Woodson, 94, American football, basketball, and baseball coach, colon cancer.[46]
- Han Youwen, 85, Chinese general in the National Revolutionary Army.
23
- Philip Abbott, 73, American actor, cancer.[47]
- Marie Adams, 72, American gospel and R&B singer.
- Augusta Braxton Baker, 86, African-American librarian and storyteller.[48]
- Richard Bernard, 59, English cricketer.
- Keith Christopher, 40, American actor, singer/songwriter and AIDS activist, AIDS.
- Chuck Hayward, 78, American motion picture stuntman and actor, Hodgkin's Disease.
- Elizabeth Jaranyi, 80, Hungarian-American Holocaust survivor and author.
- Raman Lamba, 38, Indian cricketer, hit by a cricket ball.
- Sean A. Moore, 33, American fantasy and science fiction writer, car crash.[49]
- Ashot Petrosian, 67, Soviet Armenian mathematician.
- Potti Prasad, 69, Indian actor.
- Ray Stoviak, 82, American baseball player.
24
- Geoffrey Bush, 77, British composer and music scholar.[50]
- Leonard Daniels, 88, British artist and teacher.
- Ernst Gutstein, 73, Austrian operatic baritone.
- Milicent Patrick, 82, American actress, makeup artist and animator.
- Lalita Pawar, 81, Indian actress.
- Antonio Prohías, 77, Cuban cartoonist, lung cancer.
- Abraham Shneior, 69, Israeli basketball player.
- Henny Youngman, 91, English-American comedian.[51]
25
- Francesca Braggiotti, 95, Italian dancer and actress.
- Daniel J. Crowley, 76, American art historian and cultural anthropologist, congestive heart failure.[52]
- Sir Samuel Curran, 85, British physicist and university administrator.[53]
- Joe Gallagher, 83, American baseball player.
- Wanda Jakubowska, 90, Polish film director.
- W. O. Mitchell, 83, Canadian writer and broadcaster.[54]
- Arthur Potter, 92, British Indian Army officer, civil servant and diplomat.
- Rockin' Sidney, 59, American R&B, zydeco and soul musician, throat cancer.
26
- James Algar, 85, American film director, screenwriter and producer.[55]
- Jaap ter Haar, 75, Dutch children's author.[56]
- Jimmy Hagan, 80, English football player and manager.
- 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.[57]
- Stepan Neustroev, 75, Soviet officer and World War II hero.
- Theodore Schultz, 95, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate.[58]
27
- Larry Friend, 62, American basketball player, prostate cancer.
- John Harman, 65, Australian politician.
- George H. Hitchings, 92, American scientist, Nobel Prize laureate.[59]
- Martin Hollis, 59, British philosopher.[60]
- Gerald David Lascelles, 73, British nobleman.
- Henry Munyaradzi, 66/67, Zimbabwean sculptor.
- Alice Rivaz, 96, Swiss author and feminist.
- J. T. Walsh, 54, American actor, heart attack.[61]
28
- Emilia Conde, 66/67, Puerto Rican musician.
- Todd Duncan, 95, American opera singer and actor, heart ailment.[62]
- Hildegarde Howard, 96, American paleontologist.
- Dermot Morgan, 45, Irish comedian and actor, heart attack.[63]
- Antonio Quarracino, 74, Argentine Roman Catholic cardinal and archbishop, cardiac arrest.
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