Deaths in April 1998
The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.
April 1998
1
- Theodore Bloomfield, 74, American conductor, heart attack.
- Gene Evans, 75, American actor, heart failure.[1]
- Anne Gullestad, 72, Norwegian actress and theatre director.
- Janusz Nasfeter, 77, Polish film director, screenwriter and writer.
- Lucille Norman, 76, American actress, mezzo-soprano and radio personality.[2]
- Robert Ogle, 69, Canadian Roman Catholic priest and politician.[3]
- Igor Ostashov, 60, Soviet Russian Olympic speed skater (1964).[4]
- Dave Smith, 83, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).[5]
- Johnny Stevenson, 84, American basketball player.[6]
- Mary Wynne Warner, 65, Welsh mathematician.[7]
- Rozz Williams, 34, American singer, poet and artist, suicide by hanging.[8]
2
- Joan Austin, 95, British tennis player.[9]
- Dai Davies, 88, Welsh trade unionist.
- Ronnie Dix, 85, English football player.[10]
- Hans Eberle, 72, German football player and Olympian (1952).[11]
- Jock Gaynor, 68, American television actor and producer.
- Eberhard Rees, 89, German-American rocketry pioneer and NASA executive.[12]
- Jackie Sardou, 78, French actress.[13]
- Frank Steen, 84, American football player (Green Bay Packers).[14]
- Alf Westman, 77, Swedish Olympic hurdler (1948).[15]
3
- Mary Cartwright, 97, British mathematician.[16]
- Caroline Fletcher, 91, American Olympic diver (1924).[17]
- Elmer Iseler, 70, Canadian choir conductor and choral editor.[18]
- Givi Kartozia, 69, Georgian middleweight Greco-Roman wrestler and Olympic champion (1956, 1960).[19]
- Charles Lang, 96, American cinematographer (Some Like It Hot, A Farewell to Arms, Sabrina), Oscar winner (1934), pneumonia.[20]
- Harkisan Mehta, 69, Indian author and journalist, heart attack.
- Rolf Olsen, 78, Austrian actor, screenwriter and film director, cancer.[21]
- Rob Pilatus, 33, German model, dancer and singer (Milli Vanilli), accidental overdose.[22]
- Herbert B. Powell, 94, United States Army general and diplomat.[23]
- Jean-Pierre Roche, 73, Swiss Olympic field hockey player (1948, 1952).[24]
- Josef Staudinger, 91, Austrian diver and Olympian (1928, 1932).[25]
- John W. Sweeterman, 91, American newspaperman.[26]
- Alvin Tyler, 72, American R&B and jazz musician.[27]
- Wolf Vostell, 65, German painter and sculptor.[28]
4
- Harry Wesley Bass Jr., 71, American businessman, coin collector and philanthropist.[29]
- George Berry, 84, Australian politician.[30]
- Kate Bosse-Griffiths, 87, German-British egyptologist.
- Marshall Fredericks, 90, American sculptor.[31]
- Kay Hughes, 84, American actress.
- Pierre Lantier, 87, French composer and pianist.[32]
- Predrag Milinković, 64, Serbian actor.[33]
- Ian Percival, 76, British politician.
- Ganesh Prasad Rijal, 77, Nepali politician, heart attack.
- Ángel Schandlein, 67, Argentine footballer.[34]
5
- Nick Forkovitch, 79, American football player (Brooklyn Dodgers).[35]
- Charles Frank, 87, British theoretical physicist.[36]
- Mick Miller, 61, Australian Aboriginal activist and politician, heart seizure.[37]
- Elizabeth Mitchell, 79, New Zealand fencer.
- Cozy Powell, 50, English rock drummer (Rainbow, Whitesnake, Emerson, Lake & Powell, Black Sabbath), traffic collision.[38]
6
- Edgar Ablowich, 84, American athlete and Olympian (1932).[39]
- Reuben Berry, 63, American gridiron football coach.
- Sam Chaffey, 63, New Zealand Olympic alpine skier (1960).[40]
- Rudy Dhaenens, 36, Belgian road bicycle racer, traffic collision.[41]
- Helen Craig McCullough, 80, American academic, translator and japanologist.[42]
- Heinz Neuhaus, 71, German boxer and heavyweight champion.
- Antonio Randi, 77, Italian Olympic wrestler (1952).[43]
- Dewey Soriano, 78, American baseball executive.[44]
- Wendy O. Williams, 48, American singer, songwriter, and actress, suicide by gunshot.[45]
- John Wyatt, 63, American baseball player, heart attack.[46]
- Tammy Wynette, 55, American country music singer-songwriter, heart arrhythmia, heart attack.[47]
7
- Muhammad Karam Shah al-Azhari, 79, Pakistani Islamic scholar.
- Modesta Bor, 71, Venezuelan composer.
- Luis Díez del Corral, 86, Spanish jurist, writer and political scientist.[48]
- Vitaly Galkov, 58, Soviet and Russian sprint canoer and Olympian (1968).[49]
- Sirous Ghayeghran, 36, Iranian football player, traffic collision.[50]
- John Kasper, 69, American Ku Klux Klan member and segregationist, boating accident.
- Ronald William John Keay, 77, British botanist, cancer.[51]
- Ibrahim Khalil, 88-89, Egyptian Olympic diver (1936).[52]
- John Larking, 76, English cricketer.[53]
- Pancho Magalona, 76, Filipino actor, emphysema.
- Nick Auf der Maur, 55, Canadian journalist and politician, esophageal cancer.
- James McIntosh Patrick, 91, Scottish painter.[54]
- Paul Sarringhaus, 77, American gridiron football player (Chicago Cardinals, Detroit Lions).[55]
- Alex Schomburg, 92, Puerto Rican comic-book artist and painter.[56]
- Carlos Vega, 41, Cuban-American session drummer, suicide by gunshot.[57]
- S. V. Venkatraman, 86, Indian actor, singer and music director.
8
- Anatole Dauman, 73, French film producer.[58]
- Charlie Drinkwater, 83, English football player and manager.[59]
- Lee Elias, 77, British-American comics artist.
- Florence Virginia Foose Wilson Mayberry, 91, American writer and Baháʼí Faith convert.[60]
- René Pellos, 98, French artist, cartoonist, writer, and Olympian (1928).[61]
- Kurt Weinreich, 89, German football manager.[62]
9
- Tom Cora, 44, American cellist and composer, melanoma.[63]
- Mihai Grecu, 81, Moldovan painter.
- Vishnu Bhikaji Kolte, 89, Indian writer.
- Lü Shuxiang, 93, Chinese linguist, lexicographer and educator.
- Ronald Vernon Southcott, 79, Australian medical zoologist.
- Aleksey Spiridonov, 46, Soviet athlete and Olympic medalist (1976).[64]
- John Tate, 43, American heavyweight boxer and Olympian (1976), traffic collision.[65]
- David Vigor, 58, Australian politician, heart attack.
10
- Archbishop Serafim of Athens, 84, Greek archbishop.
- Alan Burgess, 83, English RAF pilot and author.[66]
- Jean Chapot, 67, French screenwriter and film director.[67]
- Campos de Carvalho, 81, Brazilian writer.
- Dieter Erler, 58, German footballer.[68]
- Basil James, 77, American jockey.
- Charles Kessler, 87, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player (1936).[69]
- Zezé Moreira, 90, Brazilian footballer and coach.
- Nguyen Co Thach, 76, Vietnamese revolutionary, diplomat, and politician.[70]
- Horst Scheeser, 85, Romanian Olympic alpine skier (1936).[71]
11
- Lillian Briggs, 65, American rock 'n roll musician, lung cancer.
- Pierre Cottier, 89, Swiss Olympic weightlifter (1936).[72]
- Francis Durbridge, 85, English playwright and author.[73]
- Tex Geddes, 78, Scottish author and adventurer.[74]
- Rodney Harvey, 30, American actor, model and dancer, drug overdose.[75]
- Leland Clure Morton, 82, American district judge (United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee).[76]
- Kristaq Rama, 66, Albanian sculptor, art educator and politician.
- Ivan Tcherepnin, 55, French-American composer.[77]
- Doris Tetzlaff, 77, American baseball player.[78]
- Rover Thomas, 72, Aboriginal Australian artist.
12
- Xin Fengxia, Chinese pingju opera performer, cerebral hemorrhage.
- Robert Ford, 83, Canadian poet and diplomat.[79]
- Dorothea Jameson, 77, American cognitive psychologist, lung cancer.[80]
- Frederick Lenz, 48, American businessman and spiritual teacher, suicide by drowning.
- Felicitas Mendez, Puerto Rican-American civil right activist, heart failure.[81]
- Bruno Rodzik, 62, French football player.[82]
- Charles Sibley, 80, American ornithologist and molecular biologist.[83]
- Marvin Wolfgang, 73, American sociologist and criminologist.[84]
13
- Alec Albiston, 80, Australian rules footballer and coach.
- Jack Bolling, 81, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, Brooklyn Dodgers).[85]
- Randy Brown, 54, American baseball player (California Angels).[86]
- Patrick de Gayardon, 38, French skydiver and skysurfing pioneer, skydiving accident.
- Nyta Dover, 70, Swiss actress.
- David Foster, 43, Irish equestrian and Olympian (1984, 1988, 1996).[87]
- Bahi Ladgham, 85, Tunisian politician and Prime minister.[88]
- Ian MacGregor, 85, Scottish-American metallurgist and industrialist.[89]
- Pat Rainey, 72, American singer and actress.[90]
- Jack Vard, 71, Irish wrestler and Olympian (1952).[91]
14
- Roberts Bluķis, 85, Latvian basketball, ice hockey player, and Olympian (1936).[92]
- Jake Colhouer, 76, American gridiron football player (Chicago Cardinals, New York Giants).[93]
- Brian Crago, 71, Australian Olympic equestrian (1956, 1960).[94]
- Weldon Humble, 76, American gridiron football player (Cleveland Browns, Dallas Texans).[95]
- Harry Lee, 90, British tennis player.
- Dorothy Squires, 83, Welsh singer, lung cancer.[96]
- Maurice Stans, 90, American civil servant and politician, congestive heart failure.[97]
15
- William Congdon, 86, American painter.[98]
- Pompeo D'Ambrosio, 81, Italian-Venezuelan businessman.
- Kenny Duckett, 38, American football player (New Orleans Saints, Dallas Cowboys), renal failure.[99]
- William K. Jones, 81, United States Marine Corps lieutenant general.[100]
- Rose Maddox, 72, American country singer-songwriter.[101]
- Pol Pot, 72, Cambodian politician. General secretary of the CPK[102]
- Kayo Wnorowski, 76, American basketball player.[103]
16
- Kazimieras Antanavičius, 60, Lithuanian economist and politician.
- Djibo Bakary, 76, Nigerian nationalist and politician.[104]
- Alberto Calderón, 77, Argentinian mathematician.[105]
- Fernande Caroen, 77, Belgian freestyle swimmer and Olympian (1948).[106]
- Leif Dahlgren, 92, Swedish athlete and Olympian (1936).[107]
- Fred Davis, 84, English snooker and billiards player.[108]
- Marie-Louise Meilleur, 117, Canadian supercentenarian, oldest living person at the time of her death.[109]
- Ronald Millar, 78, English actor, scriptwriter, and dramatist.[110]
- Esko Salminen, 77, Finnish Olympic field hockey player (1952).[111]
17
- Michael Agbamuche, 77, Nigerian Attorney General and politician.
- Alberto Bovone, 75, Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church.
- Frances Clark, 93, American pianist, pedagogue, and academic.[112]
- Geraldo de Barros, 75, Brazilian painter and photographer.[113]
- Linda McCartney, 56, American musician, photographer and animal rights activist, breast cancer.[114]
- William C. Scott, 76, Canadian politician.
18
- Stoffel Botha, 69, South African politician, heart attack.
- Ferenc Deák, 76, Hungarian football player.[115]
- William Edmondson, 91, American sound engineer (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Twilight Zone, Vanishing Point).
- Nelson Gonçalves, 78, Brazilian singer and songwriter, heart attack.[116]
- Johan Richter, 73, Danish architect and engineer.
- Terry Sanford, 80, American university administrator and politician, esophageal cancer.[117]
- Linda Schele, 55, American Mesoamerican archaeologist, pancreatic cancer.[118]
- Walter Sessi, 79, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals).[119]
19
- Gardner Dickinson, 70, American golfer.[120]
- J.C. Harrington, 96, American historical archaeologist.[121]
- Denis Howell, Baron Howell, 74, British politician.[122]
- Octavio Paz, 84, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate, cancer.[123]
- Vladimir Sokolov, 70, Russian scientist.
- Liam Sullivan, 74, American actor and singer, heart attack.[124]
20
- Severo Cominelli, 82, Italian football player.[125]
- Trevor Huddleston, 84, English Anglican bishop.[126]
- Yoshio Inaba, 77, Japanese actor (Seven Samurai), heart attack.
- Alfredo Palacio Moreno, 85, Ecuadorian sculptor and painter.
- Othmar Wessely, 75, Austrian musicologist and university teacher.[127]
21
- Ivan Chtcheglov, 65, French political theorist, activist and poet.[128]
- Rabi Das, Indian footballer and Olympian (1948).[129]
- Peter Lind Hayes, 82, American vaudeville entertainer, songwriter and actor, vascular problems.[130]
- Vernon Holland, 49, American gridiron football player (Cincinnati Bengals, Detroit Lions and New York Giants), heart attack.[131]
- Egill Jacobsen, 87, Danish painter.[132]
- Jean-François Lyotard, 73, French philosopher and sociologist, leukemia.[133]
- Gábor Preisich, 88, Hungarian architect.
- Bruno Roth, 86, German racing cyclist.[134]
- Irene Vernon, 76, American actress, congestive heart failure and coronary artery disease.
- Helen Ward, 84, American jazz singer.[135]
- Frank Wootton, 86, British aviation artist.[136]
22
- Edward Brongersma, 86, Dutch politician and doctor of law, voluntary euthanasia.[137]
- Kitch Christie, 58, South African rugby coach, leukemia.
- Alfredo da Motta, 77, Brazilian basketball player and Olympian (1948, 1952).[138]
- Carlo Donida, 77, Italian composer and pianist.
- Helena Dow, 80, American Olympic fencer (1948).[139]
- Guy Henn, 88, Australian doctor and politician.
- Vadym Hetman, 62, Ukrainian statesman and banker, shot.
- León Najnudel, 56, Argentine basketball player and basketball coach, leukemia.
- Georges Paillard, 94, French cyclist and Olympian (1920).[140]
- Régine Pernoud, 88, French historian and archivist.[141]
- Shalimar Seiuli, 21, American-Samoan transgender dancer, accidental fall.[142]
- Norm Wagner, 86, American basketball player.[143]
- Marvin Worth, 72, American film producer, screenwriter and actor, lung cancer.[144]
23
- Hattie Moseley Austin, 97-98, African-American entrepreneur, restaurateur[145]
- Konstantinos Karamanlis, 91, Greek politician, Prime Minister and President.[146]
- James Earl Ray, 70, American convict and assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., liver failure.[147]
- Héctor Rensonnet, 73, Argentine Olympic weightlifter (1952).[148]
- Sartaj Singh, Indian Army general.
- Red Stacy, 86, American gridiron football player (Detroit Lions).[149]
- Gregor von Rezzori, 83, Austrian-Romanian journalist, actor, writer and art collector.[150]
24
- Froduald Karamira, 50, Rwandan politician, execution by firing squad.
- Yakov Malkiel, 83, Russian-American etymologist and philologist.[151]
- Mel Powell, 75, American composer and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, liver cancer.[152]
- Christiane Rochefort, 80, French feminist writer.[153]
- Leslie Stevens, 74, American producer, writer and director, angioplasty.[154]
25
- Jorge Dominichi, 51, Argentine football player and manager, heart attack.[155]
- Wright Morris, 88, American novelist, photographer and essayist, esophageal cancer.[156]
- Christian Mortensen, 115, Danish-American supercentenarian, Alzheimer's disease.[157]
- Don Petersen, 70, American playwright and screenwriter.[158]
- Dave Ross, 80, Australian rugby league footballer.[159]
- Stanley Brehaut Ryerson, 87, Canadian historian, educator, political activist.[160]
26
- Alan Boxer, 81, British Royal Air Force officer.
- Theodor Broch, 94, Norwegian lawyer and politician.[161]
- Juan José Gerardi Conedera, 75, Guatemalan Roman Catholic bishop and human rights activist, bludgeoned.[162]
- David Fasold, 59, United States Merchant Marine officer and salvage expert, cancer.
- Gamini Jayasuriya, 73, Sri Lankan politician.
- Sven Olov Lindholm, 95, Swedish anti-communist and Nazi politician.
- Gabe Paul, 88, American Major League Baseball executive.[163]
- Arif Pašalić, 54, Bosnian military officer, traffic collision.
- Ivy May Pearce, 83, Australian aerobatic pilot.
- Billy Strachan, 77, British communist, civil rights activist, and pilot.[164]
27
- John W. H. Bassett, 82, Canadian media proprietor and politician.[165]
- Carlos Castañeda, 72, American author, hepatocellular cancer.[166]
- Ramakant Desai, 58, Indian cricketer.[167]
- Anne Desclos, 90, French journalist and novelist.[168]
- Edris Eckhardt, 93, American artist.[169]
- John Kennedy, 71, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).[170]
- Louis S. Peterson, 75, American playwright, actor, screenwriter and professor, lung cancer.[171]
- Ralph Raphael, 77, British organic chemist, ischaemic heart disease.[172]
- Browning Ross, 74, American long-distance runner and Olympian (1948, 1952).[173]
- Geoffrey Serle, 76, Australian historian.[174]
- Nguyen Van Linh, 82, Vietnamese revolutionary and politician, liver cancer.[175]
28
- Jerome Bixby, 75, American short story writer and scriptwriter.[176]
- Frank Damiani, 75, American football player (New York Giants), and coach.[177]
- Ramakant Desai, 58, Indian cricket player, complications following cardiac arrest.
- Roger Eason, 79, American gridiron football player (Cleveland/Los Angeles Rams, Green Bay Packers).[178]
- Dorothy Lovett, 83, American film actress.[179]
- Reed C. Rollins, 86, American botanist and professor.[180]
- Mum Shirl, 76, Australian Wiradjuri humanitarian activist.
- Bogdan Sirotanović, 82, Croatian Olympic rower (1948).[181]
29
- Ron Blackburn, 63, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).[182]
- Mary Castle, 67, American actress, lung cancer.[183]
- Charley Cowan, 59, American gridiron football player (Los Angeles Rams).[184]
- Mário de Castro, 92, Brazilian footballer.
- Harold Devine, 88, American boxer and Olympian (1928).[185]
- V. Gopalakrishnan, Indian actor.
- Hal Laycoe, 75, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers, Montreal Canadiens, Boston Bruins), and coach.[186]
30
- Guy Anderson, 91, American painter.[187]
- Curly Chalker, 66, American pedal steel guitarist, brain tumor.[188]
- Lise Gervais, 64, Canadian abstract painter and sculptor.[189]
- Edwin Thompson Jaynes, 75, American physicist and statistician.[190]
- Daniel V. Jones, 40, American maintenance worker, suicide by gunshot.[191]
- Vora Mackintosh, 68, British Olympic alpine skier (1952).[192]
- Nizar Qabbani, 75, Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher, heart attack.[193]
- Jopie Selbach, 79, Dutch freestyle swimmer and Olympian (1936).[194]
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