Deaths in January 1998
The following is a list of notable deaths in January 1998.
Contents | ||
| ← December | January | February → |
|---|---|---|
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.
January 1998
1
- John F. Bateman, 83, American football player and coach.[1]
- Dennis Hatsell, 67, English footballer.
- Haxhi Lleshi, 84, Albanian military leader and communist politician.
- Zhao Luorui, 85, Chinese poet and translator.
- Alphonse Piché, 80, Canadian poet.
- Åke Seyffarth, 78, Swedish speed skater and road cyclist.[2]
- Helen Wills Moody, 92, American tennis player.[3]
2
- Wolfram Bialas, 62, German chess master.
- Sergei Frolov, 73, Soviet/Russian realist painter and graphic artist.
- Frank Muir, 77, English comedy writer and radio and television personality.[4]
- Nick Venet, 61, American record producer, Burkitt's lymphoma.[5]
3
- Wayne Ambler, 82, American baseball player.[6]
- Eddie Campagnuolo, 70, featherweight professional boxer from Connecticut.
- Essie Coffey, 56, Australian Aboriginal community leader.
- Howard Gilman, 73, American philanthropist and art collector, heart attack.[7]
- William Russell Kelly, 92, American businessman.[8]
- Pappanamkodu Lakshmanan, 61, Indian film director, scriptwriter and lyricist.
- James Weeks, 75, American artist.
4
- Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, 103, Italian film director, complications from a fall.
- Thomas F. Frist Sr., 87, American physician and businessman.[9]
- Joseph Neng Shun Kwong, 81, Chinese-American chemical engineer, pneumonia.
- Ahmed Mohiuddin, 74, Pakistani scientist and scholar.
- Giuseppe Primavera, 80, Italian chess player.
- Sally Purcell, 53, British poet and translator, lymphoma of brain cells.[10]
- Mae Questel, 89, American actress, Alzheimer's disease.[11]
- Soc Rodrigo, 83, Filipino playwright, broadcaster, lawyer and politician.
5
- Hugo Avendaño, 70, Mexican singer and actor.
- David Bairstow, 46, English cricketer, suicide.
- Sonny Bono, 62, American singer-songwriter, actor and politician, skiing accident.[12]
- Alik Cavaliere, 71, Italian sculptor.
- Ana Cortés, 102, Chilean painter.
- Ken Forssi, 54, American musician, brain tumor.[13]
6
- Walt Barnes, 79, American football player and actor.[14]
- Chi-Ming Chu, 80, Chinese virologist.
- Richard Clutterbuck, 80, British army general and military historian.
- Alice Frost, 87, American actress.
- Victorine du Pont Homsey, 97, American architect.[15]
- Otto Schmitt, 84, American inventor, engineer and biophysicist.
- Georgy Sviridov, 82, Soviet/Russian composer.
- Mary Tsukamoto, 82, Japanese-American cultural historian and civil rights activist.
7
- Roger Dean, 84, Australian politician.
- Jacqueline deWit, 85, American actress.
- Richard Hamming, 82, American mathematician, heart attack.[16]
- Dorothy Leavey, 101, American philanthropist.[17]
- Czesław Lenc, 71, Polish footballer.
- Henno Martin, 87, German professor of geology.
- Vladimir Prelog, 91, Croatian-Swiss organic chemist.
- Sir Frank Roberts, 90, British diplomat.
- David Skinner, 77, English cricketer.
- Dorothy Wilson, 88, American film actress.
8
- Doug Anderson, 70, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Bill Corbus, 86, American gridiron football player.
- Walter Diemer, 94, American inventor of bubble gum, congestive heart failure.
- Marie-Madeleine Dienesch, 83, French politician.
- Audun Hetland, 77, Norwegian illustrator.
- Tony Lavelli, 71, American basketball player and musician.[18]
- Max Morris, 72, American basketball and gridiron football player.
- Sir Michael Tippett, 90, English composer.[19]
9
- Esther Brann, 98, American children’s author and illustrator.
- Kenichi Fukui, 79, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.[20]
- Alberto Isaac, 74, Mexican swimmer, film director and screenwriter.
- Eleanor de Laittre, 86, American visual artist.
- Imi Lichtenfeld, 87, Israeli martial artist.
- Lia Manoliu, 65, Romanian discus thrower, heart attack.
- Kathleen Shannon, 62, Canadian film director and producer, lung cancer.[21]
- Charito Solis, 62, Filipino film actress, cardiac arrest.
10
- Deng Guangming, 90, Chinese historian.[22]
- Victor Papanek, 74, Austrian-American designer.
- Mario Santiago Papasquiaro, 44, Mexican poet, traffic accident.
- Wolfgang Hahn, 86, German mathematician.
11
- Cecilia Banu, 86, Soviet/Russian scholar of Iranian studies.
- Joe Becker, 89, American baseball player.
- Paul-Henry Chombart de Lauwe, 84, French urban sociologist.
- Win Mortimer, 78, Canadian comic book and comic strip artist.
- Ellis Rabb, 67, American actor and director, heart failure.[23]
- Ron Rylance, 73, English rugby player.
- Aydan Siyavuş, 50, Turkish basketball player and coach, heart attack.[24]
- Klaus Tennstedt, 71, German conductor from Merseburg.
- John Wells, 61, English actor, writer and satirist.[25]
12
- Florence Riefle Bahr, 88, American artist and activist, domestic accident.
- Roger Clark, 58, British rally driver, stroke.
- Mark MacGuigan, 66, Canadian academic and politician, liver cancer.
- Ian Moores, 43, English footballer, cancer.[26]
- Phyllis Nelson, 47, American singer, breast cancer.
- George F. Titterton, 93, American aeronautical engineer.
- Robert Townsend, 77, American businessman and author.[27]
13
- Bob Martin, 75, Austrian singer.
- Muslim Mulliqi, Albanian painter.
- Meduri Nageswara Rao, 87, Indian independence activist and politician.
- Andrew Rutherford, 68, British educationalist.[28]
14
- Safiye Ayla, 90, Turkish classical singer.
- Arturo Enrile, 57, Filipino general, septic shock.
- Arnold Feusi, 85, American-Canadian civil servant and political figure.
- Tony De Vita, 65, Italian composer, conductor, arranger and pianist.
15
- John W. Anderson, 65, American football coach, heart attack.[29]
- Hal Baylor, 79, American actor.
- Wiesław Adam Berger, 71, Polish writer.
- Marcelline Jayakody, 95, Sri Lankan Catholic priest, musician, author, journalist.
- Marguerite Kuczynski, 93, European economist and literary scholar.
- Gulzarilal Nanda, 99, Indian politician and economist.
- E. Jack Neuman, 76, American writer and producer.
- Ahmed Oudjani, 60, Algerian football player.
- William George Pottinger, 81, British convicted fraudster.[30]
- Junior Wells, 63, American blues vocalist and harmonica player.[31]
16
- Alphonse Gangitano, 40, Australian criminal, murdered.
- Hans Grünberg, 80, German Luftwaffe fighter ace during World War II.
- Don Hardy, 71, English cricketer.
- Jock Livingston, 77, Australian cricketer.
- Lorenzo Mongiardino, 81, Italian architect and interior designer.
- Emil Sitka, 83, American actor.[32]
- Cliffie Stone, 80, American musician and radio and TV personality.[33]
- Luggi Waldleitner, 84, German film producer.
17
- Zygmunt Czyżewski, 87, Polish ice hockey and football player and manager.
- Helvi Hämäläinen, 90, Finnish writer.[34]
- Junior Kimbrough, 67, American blues musician, heart attack.[35]
- Joseph S. Murphy, 64, American political scientist and university administrator, car accident.[36]
- Earle Rafuse, 67, Canadian politician.
- Hannibal Tavares, 78, American politician.
18
- Byron Bailey, 67, American gridiron and Canadian football player.
- Joan Banks, 79, American actress, lung cancer.
- Jose Calugas, 90, Filipino-American Philippine Scout and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
- Guy Charbonneau, 75, Canadian politician.
- Monica Edwards, 85, English children's writer.[37]
- Antoine "T.C.D." Lundy, 34, American singer, ALS.
- Benjamin Hoskins Paddock, 71, American bank robber and con man, FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive, heart attack.
- Boris Smelov, 46, Russian/Soviet photographer.
- James Villiers, 64, English actor, cancer.[38]
19
- Al Negratti, 76, American basketball player and coach, cancer.
- David Orlikow, 79, Canadian politician.
- Carl Perkins, 65, American singer-songwriter.[39]
- Brahm Sarup Singh, 57, Indian vichitra veena player.
- Abraham Sinkov, 90, American cryptanalyst.
- DeWitt Weaver, 85, American football player and coach.
20
- Harry Ashmore, 81, American journalist.
- Bobo Brazil, 73, American professional wrestler, known as "Bobo Brazil", stroke.[40]
- Alfonso D'Artega, 90, Mexican-American songwriter, conductor, arranger and actor.
- Zevulun Hammer, 61, Israeli politician, cancer.
21
- Larry Gilbert, 55, American golfer, lung cancer.
- Friedrich Kessler, 96, American law professor.
- Yoshifumi Kondō, 47, Japanese animator, aortic dissection.
- Ken Liddle, 69, English footballer.
- Jack Lord, 77, American actor, director and producer, congestive heart failure.[41]
- John P. McGoff, 73, American newspaper publisher, cancer.[42]
- Ralph C. Smith, 104, United States Army officer, lung ailment.
- Louis Thiétard, 87, French cyclist.
22
- C. Elmer Anderson, 85, American politician.
- Chilla Christ, 86, Australian cricket player.
- Hendrick de Cocq, 91, Dutch Roman Catholic bishop.[43]
- George Marks, 82, English football player.
- George W. Reese Jr., 74, American lawyer and politician.
23
- Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, 79, German nobleman.
- Ralf Kirsten, 67, German film director and screenwriter.
- Hilla Limann, 63, former President of Ghana.
- Roy McKasson, 58, American football player, kidney transplant complications.[44]
- Alfredo Ormando, 39, Italian writer and gay rights activist, Burns from self-immolation.
- Victor Pasmore, 89, British artist and architect.[45]
- Lionel Wilson, 82, American politician.[46]
24
- Nodar Akhalkatsi, 60, Georgian football manager, heart attack.
- Walter Bishop Jr., 70, American jazz pianist, heart attack.[47]
- Walter D. Edmonds, 94, American writer, [48]
- Xenia Field, 103, British prison reformer, philanthropist, horticulturist and author, stroke.
- Bob Russell, 90, American entertainer [49]
- Justin Tubb, 62, American country music singer and songwriter.
25
- Hamid Algadri, 85, Indonesian independence pioneer.[50]
- Olive Brasno, 80, American dwarf dancer and actress.
- Fred Briggs, 89, English footballer.
- Penn Jones Jr., 83, American journalist and author.
- Attila Zoller, 70, Hungary-American jazz guitarist.[51]
26
- Hogan Bassey, 65, Nigerian-British boxer.
- Orlando DiGirolamo, 73, American jazz musician, car accident.
- Bob Hay, 77, Australian Army general.
- Lord Nicholas Hervey, 36, British aristocrat and political activist, suicide by hanging.[52]
- Ethelreda Leopold, 83, American film actress, pneumonia.[53]
- Gerry Lester, 82, English cricketer.
- Lee Moses, 56, American R&B and soul singer and guitarist, lung cancer.
- Shinichi Suzuki, 99, Japanese musician, philosopher and educator.
27
- Sir Alan Davies, 73, British air marshal.
- Tamio Kageyama, 50, Japanese novelist, house fire.
- Elizabeth Mantell, 56, Scottish midwife and nurse.[54]
- Erik Albert Mennega, 75, Dutch botanist and author, heart attack.
- Geoffrey Trease, 88, British writer.
28
- Joe Holup, 63, American basketball player.[55]
- Shotaro Ishinomori, 60, Japanese manga artist, "Father of Henshin heroes", heart failure.[56]
- Dagny Tande Lid, 94, Norwegian painter, illustrator and poet.
- John Morton-Finney, 108, American lawyer, and civil rights activist.
- Eddie Sargent, 82, Canadian politician.
- Lee Ya-Ching, 85, Chinese film actress, aviator and philanthropist.
29
- Joseph Alioto, 81, American politician, Mayor of San Francisco.
- Ugo Bologna, 80, Italian actor and voice actor, heart attack.
- Anna May Hutchison, 72, American baseball player (AAGPBL).[57]
- Karin Jonzen, 83, British figure sculptor.[58]
- Rob Mulders, 30, Dutch road racing cyclist, car crash.
- Ed Smith, 84, American gridiron football player (Boston Redskins, Green Bay Packers).
30
- Jim Barber, 85, American gridiron football player (Boston Redskins, Washington Redskins).
- Lucille Colacito, 76, American baseball player (AAGPBL).[59]
- Samuel Eilenberg, 84, Polish-American mathematician.[60]
- Ferdy Mayne, 81, German-British actor.[61]
- Lesslie Newbigin, 88, British theologian, missionary and author.
- Héctor Campos Parsi, 75, Puerto Rican composer.
31
- Greta Arwidsson, 91, Swedish archaeologist.
- Alice Miel, 91, American educator.[62]
- Karol Stryja, 82, Polish conductor and teacher.
References
- "John Bateman, Coach of Rutgers' 1st perfect season". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. January 4, 1998. Retrieved November 4, 2019.
- Åke Seyffarth. sports-reference.com, Retrieved 4 November 2019
- Julie Cart (January 3, 1998). "Tennis Legend Helen Wills Moody Dies". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 4, 2019.
- Took, Barry & Vosburgh, Dick (January 3, 1998). "Obituary: Frank Muir". The Independent. Retrieved November 4, 2019.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
- Hochman, Steve (January 6, 1998). "Nik Venet; Record Producer for the Beach Boys". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 4, 2019.
- Sargent, Jim. "Wayne Ambler Biography". The Baseball Biography Project. The Society for American Baseball Research. Retrieved November 4, 2019.
- Pace, Eric (January 5, 1998). "Howard Gilman, Executive And Philanthropist, Dies at 73". The New York Times. Retrieved November 4, 2019.
- Eaton, Leslie (January 8, 1998). "William Kelly, 92, Founder Of Temporary Jobs Company". The New York Times. Retrieved November 4, 2019.
- Kenneth N. Gilpin, Dr. Thomas Frist Sr., HCA Founder, Dies at 87, The New York Times, 8 January 1998. Retrieved 8 November 2019
- Jay, Peter (January 29, 1998). "Obituary: Sally Purcell". The Independent. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
- Actress, voice of cartoon characters, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 9th, 1998. Retrieved 8 November 2019
- Claiborne, William (January 7, 1998). "Sonny Bono Is Killed in Ski Crash". The Washington Post. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
- Talevski, Nick (2010). Rock Obituaries: Knocking On Heaven's Door. Omnibus. p. 181. ISBN 9780857121172. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
- "Walt Barnes". pro-football-reference.com. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
- Hager, Mary (January 9, 1998). "Victorine du Pont Homsey, architect". The News Journal. p. 5. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
- Morgan, Samuel P. (September 1998). "Richard Wesley Hamming (1915–1998)" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 45 (8): 972–977. ISSN 0002-9920. Retrieved November 8, 2019.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Myrna Oliver, Longtime Philanthropist Dorothy Leavey Dies, The Los Angeles Times, 9 January 1998. Retrieved 8 November 2019
- Goldstein, Richard (January 13, 1998). "Tony Lavelli, 71, musician with a memorable hook shot". New York Times: D21. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
- Driver, Paul; Revill, David (January 10, 1998). "Obituary: Sir Michael Tippett". The Independent. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
- Buckingham, A. D.; Nakatsuji, H. (2001). "Kenichi Fukui. 4 October 1918 -- 9 January 1998: Elected F.R.S. 1989". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 47: 223. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2001.0013.
- Tam, Pauline (January 17, 1998). "Kathleen Shannon: Filmmaker 'paved way' for women: [Final Edition]". The Ottawa Citizen.
- "Deng Guangming - Obituary, 15th January 1998". hartford-hwp.com. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
- Gussow, Mel. "Ellis Rabb, Actor and Director, Is Dead at 67". The New York Times. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
- "Basketbol öksüz kaldı". Sabah (in Turkish). January 12, 1998. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
- Satirist John Wells dies – BBC News, 11 January 1998. Retrieved 9 November 2019
- "Ex-Wanderer loses his cancer battle". Bolton Evening News. This is Lancashire. 14 January 1998. Archived from the original on 25 October 2008. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
- Pace, Eric (January 14, 1998). "Robert Townsend, 77, Dies; Wrote 'Up the Organization'". The New York Times. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
- Andrew Hook, Obituary: Andrew Rutherford, The Independent, 29 January 1998, accessed 9 November 2019
- "John Anderson, 65, Brown Football Coach". The New York Times. January 15, 1998. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
- 'Pottinger, player in Poulson scandal, dies at 81', Herald Scotland, 19 January 1998. Accessed 9 November 2019.
- "Junior Wells biography". AllMusic.com. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
- Thomas Jr., Robert McG (January 25, 1998). "Emil Sitka, Favorite Foil Of 3 Stooges, Dies at 83". The New York Times. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
- "Cliffie Stone biography". AllMusic.com. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
- "Hämäläinen, Helvi". Biografiskt lexikon för Finland (in Swedish). Svenska litteratursällskapet. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
- "Junior Kimbrough biography". AllMusic.com. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
- Brier, Stephen (May 1, 1998). "In Memoriam: Joseph S. Murphy". Radical History Review. 1998 (71): 226–228. doi:10.1215/01636545-1998-71-226. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
- Tucker, Nicholas (February 13, 1998). "Obituary: Monica Edwards". The Independent. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
- Vallance, Tom (January 21, 1998). "Obituary: James Villiers". The Independent. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
- "Carl Perkins - American musician and songwriter". britannica.com. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
- "Ex-Pro Wrestler Bobo Brazil Dies". AP News. January 24, 1998. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
- Vallance, Tom (January 23, 1998). "Obituary: Jack Lord". Retrieved November 9, 2019.
- "Newsman John McGoff victim of cancer at age 73". The Herald-Palladium. Saint Joseph, Michigan. January 22, 1998. p. 9. Retrieved March 6, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
- Cheney, David M. "Bishop Hendrick Joseph Cornelius Maria de Cocq [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
- Carole Beers (January 30, 1998). "Former Husky Lineman Roy Mckasson Dies". The Seattle Times. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
- Alley, Ronald (January 26, 1998). "Obituary: Victor Pasmore". The Independent. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
- Thomas, Jr., Robert McG. (January 31, 1998). "Lionel Wilson, 82, a Mayor Of Oakland for Three Terms". The New York Times. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
- Ratliff, Ben (January 29, 1998). "Walter Bishop Jr., 70, Jazz Pianist Who Rode Be-Bop's First Wave". Retrieved November 9, 2019.
- Boxer, Sarah (January 28, 1998). "W. D. Edmonds Dies at 94 – Author of Historical Novels". The New York Times. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
- Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 1998, Harris M. Lentz, III, McFarland & Co., 1999, page 197.
- "Independence pioneer Hamid Algadri dies aged 87". The Jakarta Post. January 26, 1998. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
- Kelsey, Chris. "Attila Zoller | Biography & History". AllMusic. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
- Utley, Tom (January 29, 1998). "Marquess of Bristol's heir found hanged". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on March 13, 2007. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
- Galloway, Doug (February 24, 1998). "Ethelreda Leopold dies at 80". Variety. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
- "Elizabeth Mantell". Herald Scotland. February 6, 1998. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
- Joe Holup Stats. basketball-reference.com. Retrieved on 9 November 2019.
- "SFE: Shotaro Ishinomori". sf-encyclopedia.com. October 14, 2019. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
- "Anna Mae Hutchison". All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
- Edward Lucie-Smith (February 2, 1998). "Obituary: Karin Jonzen". The Independent. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
- "Lucille Colacito". All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Retrieved April 2, 2019.
- Pace, Eric (February 3, 1998), "Samuel Eilenberg, 84, Dies; Mathematician at Columbia", The New York Times, retrieved November 9, 2019
- Hal Erickson. "Ferdinand "Ferdy" Mayne – Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos – AllMovie". AllMovie. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
- Saxon, Wolfgang (February 15, 1998). "Alice Miel, 91, Expert on Role of Wider World in Curriculum". The New York Times. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.