# Deaths in July 1998
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The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.

## July 1998
### 1

* Francis Ambrière, 90, French author.
* Margarita Azurdia, 67, Guatemalan sculptor, painter, poet, and performance artist.
* Jane Bell, 88, Canadian track and field athlete and Olympic champion.
* Dumitru Berciu, 91, Romanian historian and archaeologist.
* Ed Connolly, 58, American baseball player.
* Stig Järrel, 88, Swedish actor, film director and revue artist.
* Claire Kelly, 64, American actress and model.
* Dimitris Liantinis, 55, Greek philosopher, writer and university professor, suicide.
* Martin Seymour-Smith, 70, British poet, literary critic, and biographer.
* Rodney Smith, Baron Smith, 84, British surgeon.
* Toyonobori, 67, Japanese sumo wrestler, heart failure.

### 2

* Shen Chang-huan, 84, Taiwanese politician and diplomat.
* Tony De Vit, 40, English DJ and music producer, bronchial failure.
* Joe Graboski, 68, American basketball player.
* Miklós Gábor, 79, Hungarian actor.
* Valter Külvet, 34, Estonian athlete and Olympian, beaten.
* Juan José Nogués, 89, Spanish football player and manager.
* Errol Parker, 72, French-Algerian jazz pianist, liver cancer.
* Sohrab Shahid-Saless, 54, Iranian film director and screenwriter, liver failure.
* Kay Thompson, 88, American author, actress and singer.

### 3

* Arun Kumar Ahuja, 81, Indian film actor and producer.
* Danielle Bunten Berry, 49, American game designer and programmer, lung cancer.
* Alf Boyd, 77, Scottish football player.
* Sadeq Chubak, 81, Iranian author of short fiction, drama, and novels.
* Al Couppee, 78, American gridiron football player.
* Louis L. Goldstein, 85, American politician.
* Billie Hughes, 50, American songwriter, musician and record producer, heart attack.
* Bernhard Häring, 85, German Catholic theologian, and priest.
* Carl Koch, 86, American architect.
* George Lloyd, 85, British composer.
* Elizabeth Riddell, 88, Australian poet and journalist.
* Lev Rokhlin, 51, Soviet / Russian army officer, shot.
* Kazimierz Sokołowski, 90, Polish ice hockey player.
* Duncan White, 80, Sri Lankan track and field athlete and Olympic medalist.

### 4

* Gladys Ambrose, 67, English actress, cancer.
* Gregg Burge, 40, American tap dancer and choreographer, brain tumor.
* Kurt Franz, 84, German SS officer and commander of the Treblinka extermination camp.
* Denis Ségui Kragbé, 60, Ivorian shot putter and discus thrower.
* Peter Monteverdi, 64, Swiss carmaker, cancer.
* M. N. Sathyaardhi, 85, Indian writer and freedom fighter.
* Jay Taylor, 30, American basketball player, burned.

### 5

* Frank Creagh, 74, New Zealand boxer.
* Cleeve Horne, 86, Canadian portrait painter and sculptor, respiratory-related illness.
* Sid Luckman, 81, American football player (Chicago Bears) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
* Maria Mercè Marçal, 45, Catalan poet, professor, writer and translator from Spain, breast cancer.
* Frank Righeimer, 89, American fencer and Olympic medalist.
* Johnny Speight, 78, English television scriptwriter, pancreatic cancer.
* Stevie Hyper D, 31, British drum and bass MC, heart attack.

### 6

* Semon Knudsen, 85, American automobile executive.
* Georges Maton, 84, French cyclist.
* Alan Revill, 75, English cricketer.
* Roy Rogers, 86, American singer and actor (The Roy Rogers Show), congestive heart failure.
* Ed Sanicki, 74, American baseball player.

### 7

* Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, 60, Nigerian businessman, politician and aristocrat, homicide.
* M. Athar Ali, 73, Indian historian, liver cancer.
* F. Tillman Durdin, 91, American foreign correspondent for The New York Times.
* Lenore Romney, 89, American actress and political figure, stroke.

### 8

* Constance Cox, 85, British script writer and playwright.
* Kohei Murakoso, 92, Japanese runner and Olympian, respiratory disease.
* Dušan Vukotić, 71, Yugoslav and Croatian cartoonist and author, heart attack.
* Lilí Álvarez, 93, Spanish sportswoman, author, feminist and journalist.

### 9

* Knut Bergsland, 84, Norwegian linguist.
* Jim Flora, 84, American artist, stomach cancer.
* David Fulker, 61, British behavioural geneticist.
* Lester King, 59, Jamaican cricket player.
* Katherine Russell, 89, English social worker and university teacher.
* Halvor J. Sandsdalen, 87, Norwegian farmer, journalist, poet, playwright and children's writer.
* Aldo Stellita, 50, Italian bassist and songwriter, lung cancer.

### 10

* Willie Fry, 43, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), heart attack.
* Billy Patterson, 79, American football player (Chicago Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers).
* Elijah Pitts, 60, American football player (Green Bay Packers), stomach cancer.
* William Preston, 76, American actor.
* Victor Smith, 85, Royal Australian Navy officer.

### 11

* Octav Botnar, 84, Romanian-British businessman and founder of Datsun, stomach cancer.
* John Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter, 90, British politician.
* Komla Agbeli Gbedemah, 85, Ghanaian politician.
* Emma Humphreys, 30, British convict, accidental overdose.
* Panagiotis Kondylis, 54, Greek philosopher, intellectual and historian.
* Guy Lafitte, 71, French jazz saxophonist.
* John J. Tominac, 76, United States Army officer and recipient of the Medal of Honor.

### 12

* M. M. S. Ahuja, 69, Indian endocrinologist.
* Wilson Francisco Alves, 70, Brazilian football player and manager.
* Jimmy Driftwood, 91, American folk music songwriter and musician, heart attack.
* Bo Giertz, 92, Swedish theologian, novelist and bishop.
* Arkady Ostashev, 72, Russian mechanical engineer.
* Maithripala Senanayake, 82, Sri Lankan politician.

### 13

* Watkins Moorman Abbitt, 90, American politician and lawyer, leukemia.
* Gauri Ayyub, 67, Indian social worker, activist and writer, acute arthritis.
* Red Badgro, 95, American football player, football coach and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, fall.
* Stanley Bergerman, 94, American producer of horror films, cancer.
* John Béchervaise, 88, Australian writer, photographer, artist, historian and explorer.
* Konstantinos Kollias, 97, Prime Minister of Greece during the military junta.
* Jean René Célestin Parédès, 83, French film actor, heart attack.
* Ben Zion Abba Shaul, 73, Israeli Sephardic rabbi.
* Sigismund von Braun, 87, German diplomat and politician.

### 14

* Rex Applegate, 84, American army officer.
* Beryl Bryden, 78, English jazz singer.
* Glenn E. Duncan, 80, United States Air Force officer and World War II flying ace.
* Miroslav Holub, 74, Czech poet and immunologist.
* Herman David Koppel, 89, Danish composer and pianist.
* Richard McDonald, 89, American entrepreneur, co-founder of McDonald's and inventor of the fast food system.
* Nguyen Ngoc Loan, 67, South Vietnamese general, cancer.
* Robert Augustine Ward Lowndes, 81, American science fiction author and editor.
* Karl Schirdewan, 91, German communist activist and East German politician.
* Angus John Mackintosh Stewart, 61, British writer.
* Thomas Martin Thompson, 43, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.

### 15

* Malcolm Booker, 82, Australian diplomat, author and journalist.
* Henry J. Leir, 98, American industrialist, financier, and philanthropist.
* Kazimierz Lis, 88, Polish football player.
* Joseph Desmond O'Connor, 78, British linguist, pneumonia.
* S. Shanmuganathan, 38, Sri Lankan Tamil militant and politician, assassinated.

### 16

* John Ball, 73, English footballer.
* Gisella Caccialanza, 83, American prima ballerina, stroke.
* John Henrik Clarke, 83, African-American historian and professor, heart attack.
* Philip J. Corso, 83, American Army officer, heart attack.
* Jess Dobernic, 80, American baseball player.
* Mahbub ul Haq, 64, Pakistani economist and politician.
* Lucien Lamoureux, 77, Canadian politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada.

### 17

* Lamberto Gardelli, 82, Italian-Swedish conductor.
* Gladstone Guest, 81, English football player.
* Lillian Hoban, 73, American illustrator and children's writer.
* Marc Hunter, 44, New Zealand singer, songwriter and record producer, cancer.
* Karl-Heinz Höcker, 82, German theoretical nuclear physicist.
* Paul H. Kocher, 91, American academic and writer.
* James Lighthill, 74, British mathematician.
* Joseph Maher, 64, Irish-American actor, playwright and director, brain tumor, brain cancer.
* Hervé Mirouze, 73, French football player and coach.
* Hugh Reilly, 82, American actor, emphysema.
* Claudia Testoni, 82, Italian hurdler, sprinter and long jumper.

### 18

* Emilio Alfaro, 65, Argentine actor, and theatre and film director.
* Florence Bird, 90, Canadian broadcaster, journalist, and senator.
* Hans Feibusch, 99, German painter and sculptor.
* Mykola Lebed, 89, Ukrainian political activist, nationalist and guerrilla fighter.
* Betty Marsden, 79, English comedy actress.
* Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Thero, 101, Sri Lankan Buddhist monk.

### 19

* Giliana Berneri, French communist activist.
* Antoine Tisné, 65, French composer.
* Ralph Toohy, 71, Canadian Football League player.
* Elmer Valo, 77, Slovak American baseball player and coach.

### 20

* Norah Borges, 97, Argentine artist.
* June Byers, 76, American women's professional wrestler, pneumonia.
* Alberto Cavallari, 70, Italian journalist and writer.
* Tossy Spivakovsky, 91, Russian-American violin virtuoso.

### 21

* Doug Miller, 28, American gridiron football player, lightning strike.
* Alan Shepard, 74, American astronaut, naval aviator and test pilot, complications from leukemia.
* Kenneth Watson, 66, British television actor, pancreatic cancer.
* Robert Young, 91, American actor (Marcus Welby, M.D., Father Knows Best, Window on Main Street), Emmy winner (1957, 1958, 1970), respiratory failure.

### 22

* Eugene Aserinsky, 77, American sleep researcher, traffic collision.
* Fritz Buchloh, 88, German football manager and football player.
* Michael Denison, 82, English actor.
* Don Dunphy, 90, American television and radio sports announcer.
* Judy Malcolm, 87, American film actress.
* Corbett Monica, 68, American comedian, cancer.
* Hermann Prey, 69, German bass-baritone, heart attack.
* Antonio Saura, 67, Spanish artist and writer.
* Tjokropranolo, 74, Indonesian politician and military officer.

### 23

* Harvie Branscomb, 103, American theologian and academic.
* Vladimir Dudintsev, 79, Russian writer.
* André Gertler, 90, Hungarian classical violinist.
* Mark Hampton, 58, American designer.
* John Hopkins, 67, English film, stage and television writer, fall.
* R. Tudur Jones, 77, Welsh nationalist theologian.
* Northrup Rand Knox, 69, American banker and community leader.
* Djibril Diop Mambéty, 53, Senegalese actor, film director and poet, lung cancer.
* Matteo Manuguerra, 73, Tunisian-French baritone.
* Med Park, 65, American basketball player.
* Muzz Patrick, 83, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
* Wilbur Schwandt, 94, American musician, songwriter.
* Manuel Mejía Vallejo, 75, Colombian writer.

### 24

* Gus Alex, 82, Greek-American mobster, heart attack.
* Alta Allen, 93, American silent film actress.
* Ronnie Grieveson, 88, South African cricketer.
* Berta Hrubá, 52, Czech field hockey player and Olympic medalist.
* Henri Ziegler, 91, French aerospace engineers, aviation pioneer and first president of Airbus.

### 25

* Les Dodson, 82, American gridiron football player.
* David Durand, 77, American actor.
* Tal Farlow, 77, American jazz guitarist, esophageal cancer.
* Tiny Rowland, 80, British businessman and corporate raider, cancer.

### 26

* Sava Antić, 68, Serbian football player and manager.
* Manzoor Alam Beg, 66, Bangladeshi photographer.
* Rainey Bennett, 91, American artist, illustrator and muralist.
* Seán Ó hEinirí, 83, Irish seanchaí and monolingual Irish speaker.
* Zeki Kuneralp, 83, Turkish diplomat, multiple sclerosis.
* Aymoré Moreira, 86, Brazilian football player and coach.

### 27

* Binnie Barnes, 95, English actress.
* Zlatko Čajkovski, 74, Croatian football player and coach (1948 silver medal, 1952 silver medal).
* Russell M. Carneal, 80, American politician and judge.
* Elio Augusto Di Carlo, 79, Italian ornithologist, historian and physician.
* John Gilliland, 62, American radio broadcaster and documentarian.
* Gísli Halldórsson, 71, Icelandic actor.
* Elizabeth Karlin, 54, American doctor and advocate for women's reproductive rights, brain tumor.
* William McChesney Martin, 91, American businessman and Chair of the Federal Reserve.
* Robin Richmond, 86, English cinema organist and BBC Radio presenter.
* Farid Shawqi, 77, Egyptian actor, screenwriter and film producer.
* Bill Tuttle, 69, American baseball player, cancer.

### 28

* Mykola Bakay, 67, Ukrainian singer, composer, poet and author.
* Wilson Teixeira Beraldo, 81, Brazilian physician and physiologist.
* Zbigniew Herbert, 73, Polish poet, essayist, drama writer and moralist.
* Adam Hollanek, 75, Polish science fiction writer and journalist.
* David Jones, 84, English cricket player.
* Olga de Blanck Martín, 82, Cuban pianist, guitarist and composer.
* Lenny McLean, 49, English boxer, bodyguard and actor, brain cancer, lung cancer.
* Consalvo Sanesi, 87, Italian racecar driver.

### 29

* Jorge Pacheco Areco, 78, Uruguayan politician.
* Doris Nolan, 82, American actress.
* Jerome Robbins, 79, American choreographer, director and dancer (West Side Story), stroke.
* Fabrice Simon, 47, Haitian artist and fashion designer, AIDS.
* Oothout Zabriskie Whitehead, 87, American actor, cancer.

### 30

* Maurice Bardèche, 90, French art critic and journalist.
* Bharathan, 51, Indian film director and artist.
* Donald C. Davis, 77, United States Navy admiral, heart attack.
* Orestes Marengo, 91, Italian Roman Catholic prelate.
* Laila Schou Nilsen, 79, Norwegian sportsperson and Olympic medalist.
* Buffalo Bob Smith, 80, American children's television host, cancer.
* Kenneth A. Walsh, 81, United States Marine Corps officer, World War II flying ace and Medal of Honor recipient, heart attack.

### 31

* Leroy Edgar Burney, 91, American physician and public health official.
* Jean de Baroncelli, 84, French writer.
* Erling Evensen, 84, Norwegian cross-country skier and Olympic medalist.
* Sylvia Field, 97, American actress.
* Arvid Hanssen, 66, Norwegian journalist, newspaper editor, poet, novelist and children's writer.
* Ioan Ploscaru, 86, Romanian bishop of the Greek-Catholic Church.
* John E. Powers, 87, American politician.
* Richie Powers, 67, American basketball referee, stroke.
* Herbert Widmayer, 84, German football player and manager.