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

## August 1998
### 1

* Joel Barr, 82, American spy for the Soviet Union.
* Eva Bartok, 71, Hungarian-British actress.
* Len Duncan, 87, American race car driver.
* Norman Kretzmann, 69, American academic, multiple myeloma.
* Josef Ludl, 82, Czech football player.
* France Mihelič, 91, Slovene painter.
* Ray Rigby, 49, Australian shot putter, weightlifter and Olympian.

### 2

* Otto Bumbel, 84, Brazilian football player and coach.
* Mapy Cortés, 88, Puerto Rican actress, heart attack.
* Tommy Faile, 69, American songwriter and singer, heart attack.
* Jim Hadnot, 58, American basketball player.
* Shari Lewis, 65, American ventriloquist and puppeteer, viral pneumonia.

### 3

* Ronnie Boon, 89, Welsh rugby player.
* Francesc Xavier Bultó, 86, Spanish businessman.
* Reizo Koike, 82, Japanese swimmer and Olympic medalist, lung cancer.
* Alfred Schnittke, 63, German-Russian composer, complications from strokes.
* Alan Walsh, 81, British-Australian physicist, originator of atomic absorption spectroscopy.

### 4

* Yury Artyukhin, 68, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut and engineer, cancer.
* Carmen Delia Dipini, 70, Puerto Rican singer.
* Richard Dunn, 54, British television executive.
* Thomas Joseph McDonough, 86, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
* Al-Qarshi Abd ur-Raheem Salaam, 62, Yemeni poet and playwright.

### 5

* Arthur Ceuleers, 82, Belgian footballer.
* Kesab Chandra Gogoi, 73, Indian politician.
* Albert Johnson, 80, English rugby player.
* Otto Kretschmer, 86, German U-boat commander during World War II, boating accident.
* Britt Lindeborg, 70, Swedish lyricist, singer, composer and writer.
* Yevgeny Shabayev, 25, Russian artistic gymnast, heart attack.
* Eldon Shamblin, 82, American guitarist and arranger.
* Eugene L. Stewart, 78, American lawyer and law professor.
* Todor Zhivkov, 86, Bulgarian politician and former president of Bulgaria, pneumonia.

### 6

* Henk Bosveld, 57, Dutch footballer, heart attack.
* Jack Brickhouse, 82, American sportscaster, heart attack.
* Francesco Capocasale, 81, Italian football player and coach.
* Nat Gonella, 90, English jazz trumpeter, bandleader and vocalist.
* André Weil, 92, French mathematician.
* Deng Zhaoxiang, 95, Chinese naval officer.

### 7

* Richard W. Fellows, 83, American Air Force officer.
* William Hiesey, 94, American botanist.
* Dick Offenhamer, 85, American football and baseball player and coach.
* Peggy Phango, 69, South African actress and singer.
* Harry Tuzo, 80, British army general.

### 8

* Sam Balter, 88, American basketball player and sportscaster.
* Giulio Bresci, 76, Italian road racing cyclist.
* Raymond E. Brown, 70, American Catholic priest.
* Barbara Burke, 81, British and South African sprint runner and Olympic medalist.
* Idella Jones Childs, 95, American historian and civil rights activist.
* Anna J. Harrison, 85, American organic chemist and professor of chemistry.
* Satoshi Murayama, 29, Japanese shogi player, bladder cancer.
* Walter Merlo, 33, Italian long-distance runner, mountaineering accident.
* Dagfinn Nilsen, 78, Norwegian football player.
* Germana Paolieri, 91, Italian actress.
* Jess Present, 77, American politician.
* László Szabó, 81, Hungarian chess grandmaster.
* Aang Witarsa, 67, Indonesian football player.

### 9

* Tony Baker, 53, American football player, traffic collision.
* Bjarne Bø, 91, Norwegian actor.
* Brynhild Haugland, 93, American politician.
* George Child Villiers, 9th Earl of Jersey, 88, English nobleman and politician, heart attack.
* Frankie Ruiz, 40, Puerto Rican singer and songwriter, liver cirrhosis.
* Francisco Zúñiga, 85, Costa Rican-Mexican artist.

### 10

* Bekim Berisha, 32, Kosovar Albanian soldier, killed in action.
* Chuck Fenenbock, 80, American football player.
* Sidney W. Fox, 86, American biochemist.
* John Murphy, 47, Northern Irish loyalist, traffic collision.
* Premji, 89, Indian actor and social reformer.
* Habib Hassan Touma, 63, Palestinian composer and ethnomusicologist.

### 11

* Bud Cooper, 85, American gridiron football player.
* Heinz Döpfl, 59, Austrian pair skater.
* Derek Newark, 65, English actor, heart attack following liver failure.
* Nicky Verstappen, 11, Dutch homicide victim
* Sergei Vonsovsky, 87, Soviet physicist.
* Benny Waters, 96, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist.

### 12

* Jesús Loroño, 72, Spanish road racing cyclist.
* D. R. Nagaraj, 44, Indian writer and cultural critic.
* Gazi Shamsur Rahman, Bangladeshi lawyer, writer and television personality.
* C. Dickerman Williams, American lawyer and free-speech advocate.

### 13

* Nino Ferrer, 63, French singer, songwriter and author, suicide by gunshot.
* Edward Ginzton, 82, Ukrainian-American engineer.
* Julien Green, 97, American writer.
* Waneta Hoyt, 52, American serial killer, pancreatic cancer.
* Karl Hubenthal, 81, American cartoonist, cancer.
* Rafael Robles, 50, American baseball player.
* Saturday Rosenberg, 46, Australian comedian, writer and actress, traffic collision.

### 14

* Eve Boswell, 76, British pop singer.
* Gary Evans, 43, American thief and serial killer, suicide by jumping.
* Doug Fleming, 68, Australian rugby league football player.
* Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff, 77, German actor and TV host, pancreatic cancer.
* Rosemary Martin, 61, English actress.
* Xavier Miserachs, 61, Spanish photographer, lung cancer.
* Chalmers Wylie, 77, American politician.

### 15

* Marc Akerstream, 44, Canadian actor and stuntman, head injuries from special effects explosion, head trauma.
* Marie Meierhofer, 89, Swiss children's psychiatrist and pedagogue.
* Károly Polinszky, 76, Hungarian chemical engineer and politician.
* Bill Shill, 75, Canadian ice hockey player.

### 16

* Dominique Davray, 79, French actress.
* Wallace Fowlie, 89, American writer and academic.
* Phil Leeds, 82, American actor (Rosemary's Baby, Ally McBeal, Ghost), pneumonia.
* Frank Lewis, 85, American wrestler and Olympic champion.
* Alain Marion, 59, French flutist, and, heart attack.
* Jim Murray, 78, American sportswriter and Pulitzer Prize winner.
* Kenneth Stafford Norris, 74, American marine mammal biologist, conservationist, and naturalist.
* Dorothy West, 91, American novelist and short-story writer.

### 17

* Robert B. Evans, 92, American automobile industry executive.
* Terry Garvin, 61, Canadian professional wrestler, cancer.
* Władysław Komar, 58, Polish shot putter and actor, traffic collision.
* Johnny Lipon, 75, American baseball player.
* Rita Roland, 83, German-born American film editor.
* Irwin Suall, 73, American socialist, civil rights activist, and investigator, emphysema.

### 18

* Protima Bedi, 49, Indian model, landslide.
* Bernice Bing, 62, Chinese-American artist.
* Harry J. Cargas, 66, American scholar and author.
* Hoyt C. Hottel, 95, American chemical engineer and academic.
* Persis Khambatta, 49, Indian model and actress (Star Trek: The Motion Picture), heart attack.
* Kurt Schütte, 88, German mathematician.
* Shane Shamrock, 23, American professional wrestler, altercation with police.
* Otto Wichterle, 84, Czech chemist.

### 19

* Vasili Arkhipov, 72, Soviet Navy officer during the Cuban Missile Crisis, kidney cancer.
* Anne Asquith, 81, British code breaker.
* Lawrence J. Fuller, 83, American Army major general, heart attack.
* Max Holste, 84, French aeronautical engineer.
* Boris Borisovich Kadomtsev, 69, Russian plasma physicist.
* Ilva Ligabue, 66, Italian operatic soprano.
* Sylvia Stahlman, 69, American soprano.
* Yuri Yappa, 70, Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist.

### 20

* Jimmy Brewster, 96, American gridiron football player.
* Vivian Brown, 56, American sprinter and Olympian.
* Ivan Godlevsky, 90, Soviet and Russian painter.
* Oleg Prokofiev, 69, Soviet and Russian artist, sculptor and poet.
* Fred Sington, 88, American football and baseball player.
* Haydée Tamzali, 91, Tunisian actress, writer, and filmmaker.
* Vu Van Mau, 84, last Prime Minister of South Vietnam.

### 21

* Hans van Abeelen, 61, Dutch behaviour geneticist.
* Luis Dávila, 71, Argentine actor, heart attack.
* Franz Eisenach, 80, German flying ace during World War II and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
* John Stopford, 61, English rugby player.
* Juanita Kidd Stout, 79, American attorney and jurist.
* Wanda Toscanini, 90, Italian wife of pianist Vladimir Horowitz.

### 22

* Jack Briggs, 78, American actor.
* Sam Cooper, 89, American gridiron football player.
* Evelyn Denington, Baroness Denington, 91, British politician, heart failure.
* Sergio Fiorentino, 70, Italian classical pianist, heart attack.
* Elena Garro, 81, Mexican screenwriter, journalist, and novelist, heart attack.
* Minoru Murayama, 61, Japanese baseball player.
* Jimmy Skidmore, 82, English jazz tenor saxophonist.
* Woody Stephens, 84, American thoroughbred horse racing trainer, emphysema.

### 23

* Ahmet Hamdi Boyacıoğlu, 78, Turkish judge.
* Nikolay Kolesov, 42, Russian footballer.
* Asadollah Lajevardi, Iranian conservative politician and warden, shot.
* Rolf Søder, 80, Norwegian film actor.
* John Woodcock, 44, American football player, heart attack.

### 24

* Alexey Andreevich Anselm, 64, Russian theoretical physicist.
* Manuel Azcárate, 81, Spanish journalist and communist politician, cancer.
* Jerry Clower, 71, American stand-up comedian.
* Charles Diggs, 75, American politician, stroke.
* Manuel Álvarez Jiménez, 70, Chilean football player.
* E. G. Marshall, 84, American actor (12 Angry Men, Tora! Tora! Tora!, The Defenders), Emmy winner (1962, 1963), lung cancer.
* Gene Page, 58, American composer, arranger and record producer.
* Levan Sanadze, 70, Georgian athlete and Olympic medalist.
* Georges Senfftleben, 75, French track cyclist.
* Jack Richard Williams, 88, American radio announcer and politician, cancer.

### 25

* Mildred L. Batchelder, 96, American librarian.
* Lamar Crowson, 72, American concert pianist and a chamber musician.
* Lee Gunther, 63, American film editor and co-founder of Marvel Productions, stroke.
* Floyd K. Haskell, 82, American lawyer and politician, pneumonia.
* Vyacheslav Kochemasov, 79, Russian diplomat and politician.
* Allan Macartney, 57, Scottish politician, heart attack.
* Barbara Mandell, 78, British journalist, broadcaster, newsreader and travel writer.
* Bob Montgomery, 79, American boxer, complications from a stroke.
* Lennart Nyman, 81, Swedish football coach and sports administrator.
* Jerry Wayne Parrish, 54, United States Army corporal and defector, kidney failure.
* Lewis F. Powell, Jr., 90, American lawyer and jurist, pneumonia.
* Gagik Sargsyan, 72, Armenian historian.

### 26

* Genaro Ruiz Camacho, 43, American criminal, execution by lethal injection.
* Wade Domínguez, 32, American actor, model, singer and dancer, respiratory failure.
* Penny Edwards, 70, American actress, lung cancer.
* Remo Giazotto, 87, Italian musicologist, music critic, and composer.
* Jack Harlan, 81, American botanist, agronomist, and plant collector.
* Robert Huebner, 84, American physician and virologist, pneumonia.
* Jaanus Kuum, 33, Estonian-Norwegian racing cyclist, suicide.
* Margaret Potter, 72, British writer.
* Frederick Reines, 80, American physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
* Ryūichi Tamura, 75, Japanese poet, essayist and translator, esophageal cancer.

### 27

* Babalu, 56, Filipino comedian and actor, liver cancer.
* Garry E. Brown, 75, American politician.
* Kelly Chan, 41, Singaporean windsurfer, traffic collision.
* Harry Jensen, 85, Australian politician.
* Hunter Johnson, 92, American composer.
* Gianni Hecht Lucari, 76, Italian film producer, and production manager.
* Syd Owen, 76, English football player and coach.
* Essie Summers, 86, New Zealand author.
* Margaret Dauler Wilson, 59, American philosopher and academic.

### 28

* George Büchi, 77, Swiss organic chemist and academic.
* Lu Dadong, 83, Chinese politician, governor of Sichuan province.
* Hirokazu Kobayashi, 69, Japanese aikido teacher.
* Rajarethinam Arokiasamy Sundaram, 93, Roman Catholic bishop.
* Jack Wright, 71, Australian politician and Deputy Premier of South Australia (1982-1985).
* Nikolai Vladimirovich Zateyev, 72, Russian submariner and Soviet Navy officer, lung cancer.

### 29

* Erik Asmussen, 84, Danish architect.
* Antoinette Becker, 78, French-German children's author.
* Richard Beebe, 68, American radio personality, lung cancer.
* Minerva Bernardino, Dominican Republic diplomat and feminist.
* Charlie Feathers, 66, American country music and rockabilly musician, stroke.
* John Langston Gwaltney, 69, American writer and anthropologist.
* Frances Hamerstrom, 90, American author, naturalist and ornithologist, cancer.
* Ralph Pappier, 84, Argentine production designer, set decorator and film director.

### 30

* Archie Glen, 69, Scottish football player.
* Dan Kubiak, 60, American politician and businessman, cardiovascular disease.
* Mykhaylo Mykhalyna, 74, Soviet-Ukrainian football manager and coach.
* Denniz Pop, 35, Swedish DJ, music producer and songwriter, stomach cancer.
* Irving Segal, 79, American mathematician.
* Toss Woollaston, 88, New Zealand painter.

### 31

* Sabiha Gökçül Erbay, Turkish school teacher and politician.
* Keith Oxlee, 63, South African rugby player, complications following surgery.
* Aage Poulsen, 79, Danish long-distance runner and Olympian.
* Shigezō Sasaoka, 50, Japanese voice actor, typhoid fever.