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

## December 1998
### 1

* Aisha Abd al-Rahman, 85, Egyptian author and professor of literature, heart attack.
* Janet Lewis, 99, American novelist, poet, and librettist.
* Bertil Nordahl, 81, Swedish football player and manager.
* Vincenzo Pappalettera, 79, Italian writer and historian.
* Donald Smith, 78, Australian operatic tenor.
* Freddie Young, 96, British cinematographer (Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter), Oscar winner (1963, 1966, 1971).

### 2

* Theodora Mead Abel, 99, American clinical psychologist.
* Ben Guintini, 79, American baseball player.
* Bob Haggart, 84, American dixieland jazz musician.
* Cleopa Ilie, 86, Romanian abbot.
* Mikio Oda, 93, Japanese athlete and the first Japanese Olympic gold medalist.
* Brian Stonehouse, 80, British painter and SEO agent during World War II.

### 3

* Pierre Hétu, 62, Canadian conductor, pianist and politician, cancer.
* Albert Leman, 83, Soviet composer of classical music.
* Mohammad Mokhtari, 56, Iranian writer, poet and activist, homicide.
* George Murcell, 73, British actor.
* Robert Rothschild, 86, Belgian diplomat.
* Ed Widseth, 88, American football player.

### 4

* Percy Ames, 66, English footballer.
* Egil Johansen, 64, Norwegian-Swedish jazz musician.
* Suzanne Jovin, 21, German-born American student, stabbed.
* Milton Marks, 78, American politician.
* Yury Vengerovsky, 60, Ukrainian volleyball player and Olympic champion.

### 5

* Hazel Bishop, 92, American chemist.
* Jack Connor, 78, English footballer.
* Jean Fenwick, 91, Trinidad-American actress.
* Albert Arnold Gore, 90, American politician and father of Al Gore.
* John Lions, 61, Australian computer scientist.
* Cheung Tze-keung, 43, Chinese criminal, execution by firing squad.

### 6

* César Baldaccini, 77, French sculptor.
* Georges Borgeaud, 84, Swiss writer and publisher.
* Robert Marasco, 62, American horror novelist and playwright, lung cancer.
* Pierre Mousel, 83, Luxembourgish football player.
* Peg Leg Bates, 91, American entertainer.
* Radomir Šaper, 72, Yugoslav/Serbian basketball player and executive.
* Hoshiar Singh, 62, Indian Army officer.
* Michael Zaslow, 56, American actor, cancer.

### 7

* John Addison, 78, British composer.
* Carlos Oviedo Cavada, 71, Chilean cardinal of the Catholic Church.
* Daniel Lee Corwin, 40, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
* Voitto Hellstén, 66, Finnish sprinter and Olympic medalist.
* Tim Kelly, 61, American playwright.
* Martin Rodbell, 73, American scientist and Nobel prize recipient, multiple organ failure.

### 8

* Peg Leg Bates, 91, American entertainer.
* Michael Craze, 56, British actor (Doctor Who), heart attack.
* Hamilton H. Howze, 89, American general and commander of the 82nd Airborne Division.
* George Roden, 60, American leader of the Branch Davidian sect, heart attack.

### 9

* Christine Fulwylie-Bankston, 82, American poet, publisher, and civil rights activist.
* Bill Looby, 67, American soccer player.
* Archie Moore, 81, American boxing champion, heart failure.
* Mohammad-Ja'far Pouyandeh, 44, Iranian writer and activist, strangled.

### 10

* Wim Hora Adema, 84, Dutch children's author and feminist.
* Bob Brown, 59, American gridiron football player.
* Bob Dille, 81, American basketball player.
* Buddy Feyne, 86, American lyricist.
* Wang Ganchang, 91, Chinese nuclear physicist.
* Ray Goossens, 74, Belgian artist, animator, writer and film director (Hergé's Adventures of Tintin).
* Trygve Haugeland, 84, Norwegian politician .
* Kamel Messaoudi, 37, Algerian Chaabi musician, traffic collision.
* Charles D. Mize, 77, United States Marine Corps officer, leukemia.
* Berta Singerman, 97, Belarusian-Argentine singer and actress, cardiovascular disease.
* Vida Tomšič, 85, Slovenian communist and World War II partisan fighter.

### 11

* Jack Coleman, 74, American basketball player.
* Irma Hünerfauth, 90, German painter and sculptor.
* Gunnar Johansson, 79, Swedish sprint canoeist and Olympian.
* André Lichnerowicz, 83, French differential geometer and mathematical physicist.
* Jimmy Mackay, 54, Scottish-Australian football player.
* Kavi Pradeep, 83, Indian poet and songwriter.
* Chen Puru, 80, Chinese politician.
* Anton Stankowski, 92, German graphic designer, photographer and painter.
* Lynn Strait, 30, American singer and vocalist of band Snot, traffic collision.
* Max Streibl, 66, German politician.

### 12

* Max Boydston, 66, American gridiron football player.
* Lawton Chiles, 68, American politician, heart attack.
* Marco Denevi, 76, Argentine novelist, lawyer and journalist.
* Jimmy "Orion" Ellis, 53, American singer, shot.
* Denny Galehouse, 87, American baseball player.
* Willis J. Gertsch, 92, American arachnologist.
* Vadim Gulyaev, 57, Russian water polo player and Olympic champion.
* William A. Marra, 70, American politician.
* Don Patterson, 88, American producer, animator, and director.
* Mo Udall, 76, American politician, Parkinson's disease.

### 13

* Helen Adolf, 102, Austrian–American linguist and literature scholar.
* Willem den Toom, 87, Dutch politician.
* Dean Fausett, 85, American painter.
* Lew Grade, 91, British impresario.
* Harvey Jones, 77, American gridiron football player.
* Richard Thomas, 66, British admiral and Black Rod.
* Ariadna Welter, 68, Mexican movie actress.
* Liang Xiang, 79, Chinese politician.
* Norbert Zongo, 49, Burkinabé investigative journalist, shot. (body discovered on this date)

### 14

* Vittorio Cottafavi, 84, Italian film director and screenwriter.
* Norman Fell, 74, American actor (Three's Company, The Graduate, Bullitt), bone marrow cancer.
* A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., 70, African-American civil rights advocate, author and judge, stroke.
* Yuriy Hromak, 50, Ukrainian backstroke swimmer and Olympic medalist.
* James A. Jensen, 80, American paleontologist.
* Brian Lewis, 55, English footballer.
* Annette Strauss, 74, American philanthropist and mayor of Dallas, cancer.
* Will Tremper, 70, German journalist and filmmaker, heart attack.

### 15

* Daniel Langrand, 77, French football player and coach.
* Jan Meyerowitz, 85, American composer, conductor, pianist and writer.
* Rowena Moore, 88, American civil rights activist.
* Robert Paul, 88, French sprinter and Olympian.
* Dean Peters, 40, American professional wrestler and referee, traffic collision.
* Ján Podhradský, 82, Slovak football player.
* Johnny Riddle, 93, American baseball player and coach.
* Paul Rivière, 86, French Resistance fighter during World War II and politician.

### 16

* Clay Blair, 73, American journalist and author, heart attack.
* Jocelyn Crane, 89, American carcinologist.
* Jean de Montrémy, 85, French industrialist, racing driver, and race car designer.
* William Gaddis, 75, American novelist, prostate cancer.
* Johnny Gorsica, 83, American baseball player.
* Lee Tai-young, 84, Korean lawyer and judge.
* Maneklal Sankalchand Thacker, 94, Indian engineer and academic.
* Philip True, 50, American foreign correspondent, homicide. (body discovered on this date)

### 17

* Kevin Brennan, 78, Australian-born British-based film and television actor.
* John Burns Brooksby, 83, Scottish veterinarian.
* Allan D'Arcangelo, 68, American artist and printmaker.
* Joseph Esherick, 86, American architect, heart failure.
* Antonina Khudyakova, 81, Soviet Air Force officer during World War II.
* Dorothy Nyembe, 66, South African activist and politician.
* Harry Osman, 87, English football player.

### 18

* Agustín Barboza, 85, Paraguayan singer and composer.
* C. S. Chellappa, 86, Indian writer, journalist and political activist.
* Lev Dyomin, 72, Soviet cosmonaut, cancer.
* Mohammad Taghi Falsafi, 90, Iranian ayatollah and preacher.
* Harry Haddock, 73, Scottish footballer.
* Abdurajak Abubakar Janjalani, 38–39, Filipino militant, founder of Abu Sayyaf, shot.
* Vinod Mishra, 51, Indian communist politician, heart attack.
* Edwin E. Moise, 79, American mathematician.
* Gilberto Muñoz, 75, Chilean football player.
* Tadeusz Rybczynski, 75, Polish-English economist.
* Max Wehrli, 89, Swiss literary scholar and germanist.

### 19

* Garry Blaine, 65, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Cully Dahlstrom, 86, American ice hockey player.
* Mel Fisher, 76, American treasure hunter.
* Gordon Gunter, 89, American marine biologist and fisheries scientist.
* Antonio Ordóñez, 66, Spanish bullfighter, liver cancer.
* Bernhard Tessmann, 86, German rocket scientist during and after World War II.
* Ron Turner, 76, British illustrator and comic book artist, stroke and heart attack.
* Qian Zhongshu, 88, Chinese literary scholar and writer, cancer.

### 20

* André Dewavrin, 87, French officer and resistance member during World War II.
* E. W. Etchells, 87, American sailor and sailboat designer.
* Angelo Grizzetti, 82, French-Italian football player and coach.
* Irene Hervey, 89, American actress, heart failure.
* Bindy Johal, 27, Indo-Canadian gangster.
* Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, 84, British scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
* Kazimierz Kropidłowski, 67, Polish long jumper and Olympian.
* Bangalore Venkata Raman, 86, Indian astrologer.
* Miklós Sárkány, 90, Hungarian water polo player and Olympic champion.

### 21

* Roger Avon, 84, British actor.
* Gilbert Charles-Picard, 85, French historian and archaeologist.
* Avril Coleridge-Taylor, 95, English pianist, conductor, and composer.
* Adelaide Hawley Cumming, 93, American vaudeville performer, radio host, and television personality.
* Karl Denver, 67, Scottish singer, brain tumor.
* Anne Ferguson, 57, Scottish physician and clinical researcher, pancreatic cancer.
* Sándor Ivády, 95, Hungarian water polo player and Olympic champion.
* Ernst Günther Schenck, 94, German doctor and member of the SS.
* Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy, 85, Hungarian mathematician.
* Jerzy Topolski, 70, Polish historian.
* Richard Turnbull, 89, British colonial governor.

### 22

* Pedro Araya, 73, Chilean basketball player.
* Leif Erickson, 92, American attorney and politician.
* Virginia Graham, 86, American talk show host, heart attack.
* Robert Haynes, 67, Canadian geneticist and biophysicist.
* Jean Malaquais, 90, French novelist.
* Subhashis Nag, 43, Indian mathematician.
* Donald Soper, 95, British methodist minister and pacifist.

### 23

* Mark Chatfield, 45, American breaststroke swimmer, lymphoma.
* Jack Hilton, 77, English rugby player.
* Peggy Kelman, 89, Australian aviation pioneer.
* Ratnappa Kumbhar, 89, Indian independence activist.
* David Manners, 98, Canadian-American actor (Dracula, The Mummy, A Bill of Divorcement).
* Joe Orlando, 71, Italian American illustrator, writer and cartoonist.
* Anatoly Rybakov, 87, Soviet and Russian writer.
* Michelle Thomas, 30, American actress (Family Matters, The Young and the Restless, The Cosby Show) and comedian, cancer.
* Pierre Vallières, 60, Québécois journalist and writer, heart failure.

### 24

* Syl Apps, 83, Canadian ice hockey player, heart attack.
* Viola Farber, 67, American choreographer and dancer.
* Matt Gillies, 77, Scottish football player and manager.
* Peter Janssens, 64, German musician and composer.
* Daan Kagchelland, 84, Dutch sailor and Olympic champion.
* William R. Perl, 92, American lawyer and psychologist.
* Raemer Schreiber, 88, American physicist.
* Estelle Witherspoon, 82, American artist, civil rights activist and quilter.

### 25

* Katharina Brauren, 88, German actress.
* Alfredo Covelli, 84, Italian politician.
* Damita Jo DeBlanc, 68, American actress, comedian, and singer, respiratory disease.
* Bryan MacLean, 52, American singer, guitarist and songwriter, heart attack.
* Mike McAlary, 41, American journalist and columnist, colorectal cancer.
* John McGrath, 60, English football player and manager.
* Hans Oeschger, 71, Swiss climatologist.
* Richard Paul, 58, American actor, cancer.
* John Pulman, 75, English snooker player, fall.

### 26

* Cathal Goulding, 75, Northern Irish Republican and IRA member, cancer.
* Dick Grove, 71, American musician, composer, and arranger.
* Hurd Hatfield, 81, American actor, heart attack.
* Helmut Mahlke, 85, German Oberstleutnant in the Luftwaffe during World War II.
* Michael Sherard, 88, British fashion designer.
* Ram Swarup, 78, Indian author.

### 27

* Kevork Ajemian, 66, Lebanese-Armenian writer, journalist, novelist and activist.
* Dany Bustros, 39, Lebanese belly dancer, socialite and stage actress, suicide by gunshot.
* Anita Hoffman, 56, American writer and activist, breast cancer.
* Anne Holm, 76, Danish journalist and children's writer.
* Robert S. Johnson, 78, American fighter pilot during World War II.
* Joe Parker, 75, American gridiron football player.
* Roy Powell, English rugby league player, heart attack.
* Ralegh Radford, 98, English archaeologist and historian.
* Ricardo Tormo, 46, Spanish motorcycle road racer, leukemia.

### 28

* André Bizette-Lindet, 92, French sculptor.
* Herbert Fechner, 85, East German politician.
* William Frankfather, 54, American actor (Death Becomes Her, Harry and the Hendersons, Mouse Hunt), complications from liver disease.
* Edgar Hovhannisyan, 68, Armenian composer.
* Ron Huntington, 77, Canadian politician.
* Werner Müller, 78, German composer and conductor of classical music.
* Shorty Rollins, 69, American racing driver.
* Robert Rosen, 64, American theoretical biologist.
* Harold Schindler, 69, American journalist and historian.
* Ouang Te Tchao, 93, Chinese physicist.
* Mary Ann Unger, 53, American abstract sculptor, breast cancer.
* Bjørn Watt-Boolsen, 75, Danish film actor.

### 29

* Geoff Crawford, 82, Australian politician.
* George Curran, 80, English rugby league football player.
* Hubert Deschamps, 75, French actor, heart attack.
* Phyllis Kennedy, 84, American film actress.
* Jack D. Moore, 92, American set decorator.
* Don Taylor, 78, American actor and film director, heart failure.

### 30

* Joan Brossa, 79, Catalan poet, playwright and visual artist.
* Jean-Claude Forest, 68, French writer and illustrator of comics, asthma.
* Jack Graham, 82, American baseball player.
* Walker Hancock, 97, American sculptor and teacher.
* Rune Johansson, 78, Swedish ice hockey player.
* Keisuke Kinoshita, 86, Japanese film director, stroke.
* Johnny Moore, 64, American R&B singer with The Drifters, pneumonia.
* Sam Muchnick, 93, American professional wrestling promoter.
* Ansar Razak, 24, Indonesian football player, traffic collision.
* Karl Heinz Rechinger, 92, Austrian botanist and phytogeographer.
* Otto Wachs, 89, German sailor and Olympic medalist.
* George Webb, 86, British actor.

### 31

* Kirsty Bentley, 15, New Zealand teenager, blunt force trauma.
* George Lynn Cross, 93, American botanist and author.
* H. Dunlop Dawbarn, 83, American businessman, philanthropist and politician.
* Ted Glossop, 64, Australian rugby player and coach, cancer.
* Les Hammond, 90, Canadian politician.
* Gene Harlow, 79, American football player and coach.
* Alan Morris, 44, English football player, homicide.
* Erling Norvik, 70, Norwegian politician.
* Arnold Stickley, 72, English golfer.
* Jerry Williams, 75, American football player and coach, leukemia.