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

## January 1998
### 1

* John F. Bateman, 83, American football player and coach.
* Piero Filippone, 86, Italian art director.
* Jack Forsey, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Dennis Hatsell, 67, English football player.
* Alfred Lagarde, 49, Dutch radio personality, stroke.
* Haxhi Lleshi, 84, Albanian military leader and communist politician.
* Xanthe Ryder, 71, British alpine skier and Olympian.
* Åke Seyffarth, 78, Swedish speed skater and road cyclist.
* Helen Wills Moody, 92, American tennis player.

### 2

* Max Colpet, 92, American writer, scriptwriter and lyricist.
* Sergei Frolov, 73, Soviet/Russian realist painter and graphic artist.
* Virginia Galante Garrone, 91, Italian writer.
* Donald McCormick, 86, British journalist and popular historian.
* Frank Muir, 77, English comedy writer and radio and television personality.
* Fred Naumetz, 75, American gridiron football player.
* Rell Sunn, 47, American World surfing champion, cancer.
* Nick Venet, 61, American record producer, Burkitt's lymphoma.

### 3

* Wayne Ambler, 82, American baseball player.
* Essie Coffey, 56, Australian Aboriginal community leader.
* Howard Gilman, 73, American philanthropist and art collector, heart attack.
* William Russell Kelly, 92, American businessman, cancer.
* Margot Lumb, 85, English squash and tennis player.
* George Shaw, 64, American gridiron football player.
* Geoffrey Watson, 76, Australian statistician.

### 4

* Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, 103, Italian film director, complications from a fall.
* Raymond Léopold Bruckberger, 90, French Dominican priest, writer, and screenwriter.
* Thomas F. Frist, Sr., 87, American physician and businessman.
* John Gary, 65, American singer, recording artist, and television host.
* Dini Haryati, 19, Indonesian student.
* Roland Kaiser, 54, German actor and voice actor.
* Ahmed Mohiuddin, 74, Pakistani scientist and scholar.
* Giuseppe Primavera, 80, Italian chess player.
* Sally Purcell, 53, British poet and translator, lymphoma of brain cells.
* Mae Questel, 89, American actress (Betty Boop), Alzheimer's disease.
* Francisco Soc Rodrigo, 83, Filipino playwright, broadcaster, lawyer and politician.
* Rudy Sikich, 76, American gridiron football player.
* Yusif Yusifov, 68, Soviet and Azerbaijani linguist and historian.

### 5

* Hugo Avendaño, 70, Mexican singer and actor, pancreatic cancer.
* David Bairstow, 46, English cricketer, suicide by hanging.
* Sonny Bono, 62, American singer-songwriter, actor and politician, skiing accident.
* Alik Cavaliere, 71, Italian sculptor.
* Ana Cortés, 102, Chilean painter.
* Ken Forssi, 54, American musician, brain tumor, brain cancer.
* Roy Mayne, 62, American stock car racing driver.

### 6

* Walt Barnes, 79, American football player and actor, diabetes.
* Richard Clutterbuck, 80, British army general and military historian.
* Otello Colangeli, 85, Italian film editor.
* Jack T. Conway, 80, American labor unionist.
* Alice Frost, 87, American actress.
* Victorine du Pont Homsey, 97, American architect.
* Murray Salem, 47, American television actor and screenwriter, AIDS-related complications.
* Otto Schmitt, 84, American inventor, engineer and biophysicist.
* Georgy Sviridov, 82, Soviet and Russian composer, heart attack.

### 7

* Owen Bradley, 82, American musician and record producer.
* Roger Dean, 84, Australian politician.
* Jacqueline deWit, 85, American actress.
* Richard Hamming, 82, American mathematician, heart attack.
* Dorothy Leavey, 101, American philanthropist.
* Alva Liles, 41, American gridiron football player.
* Slava Metreveli, 61, Soviet and Georgian football player and manager.
* Hiker Moran, 86, American baseball player
* Valerio Perentin, 88, Italian rower and Olympian.
* Vladimir Prelog, 91, Croatian-Swiss organic chemist.
* Frank Roberts, 90, British diplomat.
* Lawrence Treat, 94, American mystery writer.
* Tere Velázquez, 55, Mexican actress, colorectal cancer.
* 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.
* Tony Lavelli, 71, American basketball player and musician, heart attack.
* Denys Lombard, 59, French historian and sinologist.
* Akihiko Mori, 32, Japanese video game music composer, cancer.
* Max Morris, 72, American basketball and gridiron football player.
* Sam Perrin, 96, American screenwriter.
* Shamima Shaikh, 37, South African journalist and Muslim women's rights activist, breast cancer.
* Raziuddin Siddiqui, 90, Pakistan-born American physicist.
* Michael Tippett, 90, English composer, pneumonia.

### 9

* Hugo Zepeda Barrios, 90, Chilean politician and lawyer.
* Paul H. Dunn, 73, American Mormon leader.
* Kenichi Fukui, 79, Japanese chemist and Nobel Prize laureate, cancer.
* Alberto Isaac, 74, Mexican swimmer, film director and screenwriter.
* Imi Lichtenfeld, 87, Israeli martial artist.
* Lia Manoliu, 65, Romanian discus thrower and Olympian, heart attack.
* Kathleen Shannon, 62, Canadian film director and producer, lung cancer.
* Charito Solis, 62, Filipino film actress, cardiac arrest.

### 10

* Deng Guangming, 90, Chinese historian, cancer.
* Wolfgang Hahn, 86, German mathematician.
* Mona May Karff, 83, American chess player.
* Victor Papanek, 74, Austrian-American designer.
* Mario Santiago Papasquiaro, 44, Mexican poet, traffic collision.

### 11

* Joe Becker, 89, American baseball player.
* Erik Jarvik, 90, Swedish paleontologist.
* Win Mortimer, 78, Canadian comic book and comic strip artist, cancer.
* Ellis Rabb, 67, American actor and director, heart failure.
* Ronald Rylance, 73, English rugby player.
* Aydan Siyavuş, 50, Turkish basketball player and coach, heart attack.
* Bedri Spahiu, 89, Albanian politician and general.
* Klaus Tennstedt, 71, German conductor, cancer.
* Georgi Vins, 69, Soviet dissident and Baptist pastor.
* John Wells, 61, English actor, writer and satirist.

### 12

* Florence Riefle Bahr, 88, American artist and activist, house fire.
* Ramón Sampedro Cameán, 55, Spanish writer and euthanasia activist, assisted suicide.
* Roger Clark, 58, British rally driver, stroke.
* Rajesh Joshi, 29, Indian film and theator actor.
* Mark MacGuigan, 66, Canadian academic and politician, liver cancer.
* Libuše Moníková, 52, Czech writer.
* Ian Moores, 43, English footballer, cancer.
* Phyllis Nelson, 47, American singer, breast cancer.
* Robert Townsend, 77, American businessman and author, heart attack.

### 13

* Martin Flämig, 84, German church musician.
* Mihovil Logar, 95, Yugoslav composer and music writer.
* Bob Martin, 75, Austrian singer.
* Muslim Mulliqi, Albanian painter.
* Andrew Rutherford, 68, British educationalist.

### 14

* Safiye Ayla, 90, Turkish classical singer.
* Tony De Vita, 65, Italian composer, conductor, arranger and pianist.
* Arturo Enrile, 57, Filipino general, septic shock.
* Mohammad Ghazi, 84, Iranian writer and translator and writer, laryngeal cancer.
* Harry Simmons, 90, American baseball executive, writer and historian.

### 15

* John A. Anderson, 65, American football coach, heart attack.
* Hal Baylor, 79, American actor.
* Marcelline Jayakody, 95, Sri Lankan Catholic priest, musician, author, journalist.
* Gennady Kolbin, 70, Soviet politician.
* Marguerite Kuczynski, 93, German economist and literary scholar.
* Duncan McNaughton, 87, Canadian athlete and Olympian.
* 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.
* Boris Tatushin, 64, Soviet football player and manager.
* Harriet Van Horne, 77, American newspaper columnist and radio/television critic, breast cancer.
* Junior Wells, 63, American blues vocalist and harmonica player, lymphoma.

### 16

* Gayane C'ebotaryan, 79, Armenian composer and musicologist.
* Hans Grünberg, 80, German Luftwaffe fighter ace during World War II.
* Dimitris Horn, 76, Greek-Austrian actor, cancer.
* Matti Kuusi, 83, Finnish folklorist, paremiographer and paremiologist.
* Lorenzo Mongiardino, 81, Italian architect and interior designer, pneumonia.
* Tommy Pederson, 77, American jazz trombonist and composer.
* Emil Sitka, 83, American actor, stroke.
* Luggi Waldleitner, 84, German film producer.

### 17

* Alan E. Cober, 62, American illustrator.
* Zygmunt Czyżewski, 87, Polish ice hockey and football player and manager.
* Helvi Hämäläinen, 90, Finnish writer.
* Junior Kimbrough, 67, American blues musician, heart attack.
* Joseph S. Murphy, 64, American political scientist and university administrator, traffic collision.
* Cliffie Stone, 80, American musician and radio and TV personality.
* Luís Trochillo, 67, Brazilian football player.

### 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.
* Maria Judite de Carvalho, 76, Portuguese author.
* Monica Edwards, 85, English children's writer.
* Dan Georgiadis, 75, Greek football player and manager.
* Antoine "T.C.D." Lundy, 34, American singer, ALS.
* Gerry Ottenheimer, 63, Canadian politician.
* Benjamin Hoskins Paddock, 71, American bank robber and con man, FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive, heart attack.
* Skeets Quinlan, 69, American gridiron football player.
* Wilhelm Törsleff, 91, Swedish sailor and Olympian.
* Josip Uhač, 73, Yugoslav-Croatian Apostolic nuncio.
* James Villiers, 64, English actor, cancer.

### 19

* Bengt Eklund, 73, Swedish actor.
* Cornelis Kalkman, 69, Dutch botanist.
* Al Negratti, 76, American basketball player and coach, cancer.
* David Orlikow, 79, Canadian politician.
* Carl Perkins, 65, American singer-songwriter, esophageal cancer.
* Abraham Sinkov, 90, American cryptanalyst.
* DeWitt Weaver, 85, American football player and coach.
* Larisa Tarkovskaya, 64, Soviet film director and actress, lung cancer.

### 20

* Harry Ashmore, 81, American journalist.
* Bobo Brazil, 73, American professional wrestler, known as "Bobo Brazil", stroke.
* Jacob Cohen, 74, American psychologist and statistician.
* Zevulun Hammer, 61, Israeli politician, cancer.

### 21

* Mary Bunting, 87, American academic and college president.
* Edward Carrick, 93, English art designer, author and illustrator.
* Larry Gilbert, 55, American golfer, lung cancer.
* Pakoda Kadhar, 58, Indian actor.
* Friedrich Kessler, 96, American law professor.
* Yoshifumi Kondō, 47, Japanese animator (Kiki's Delivery Service, Princess Mononoke) and film director (Whisper of the Heart), aortic dissection.
* Donald H. LeBrun, 85, American politician.
* Jack Lord, 77, American actor (Hawaii Five-O, Dr. No, Stoney Burke), congestive heart failure.
* Ralph C. Smith, 104, United States Army officer, lung ailment.
* Louis Thiétard, 87, French cyclist.

### 22

* C. Elmer Anderson, 85, American politician.
* Edward F. Arn, 91, American lawyer and politician.
* Hendrick Joseph Cornelius Maria de Cocq, 91, Dutch Roman Catholic bishop.
* Harold Lindsell, 84, American evangelical author and scholar.
* George Marks, 82, English football player.
* Nino Pirrotta, 89, Italian musicologist.
* Bill Sortet, 85, American gridiron football player.

### 23

* Donald Davis, 69, Canadian actor.
* John Forbes, 47, Australian poet.
* Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, 79, German nobleman.
* Ralf Kirsten, 67, German film director and screenwriter.
* Hilla Limann, 63, President of Ghana, diabetes.
* Roy McKasson, 58, American football player, kidney transplant complications.
* Alfredo Ormando, 39, Italian writer and gay rights activist, burns from self-immolation.
* Victor Pasmore, 89, British artist and architect.
* Ernest Peirce, 88, South African boxer.
* Sajjad Hussain Qureshi, 101, Indian politician.
* Lionel Wilson, 82, American politician, cancer.
* Mohammad Yusuf, 81, Prime Minister of Afghanistan.

### 24

* Nodar Akhalkatsi, 60, Georgian football manager, heart attack.
* Walter Bishop Jr., 70, American jazz pianist, heart attack.
* Walter D. Edmonds, 94, American writer.
* Mirosław Justek, 49, Polish football player.
* Bob Russell, 90, American entertainer.
* Elizabeth Sneyers, 84, Belgian lawyer and feminist.
* Justin Tubb, 62, American country music singer and songwriter.

### 25

* Hamid Algadri, 85, Indonesian independence pioneer.
* Olive Brasno, 80, American dwarf dancer and actress.
* Sidney Cole, 89, British film and television producer.
* Dilawar Figar, 68, Pakistani writer, poet, and humorist.
* Attia Hosain, 85, British-Indian novelist, author, journalist and actor.
* Fritz Langner, 85, German football player and manager.
* Roy Porter, 74, American jazz drummer.
* Herman Stokes, 65, American athlete and Olympian.
* Attila Zoller, 70, Hungary-American jazz guitarist.

### 26

* Hogan Bassey, 65, Nigerian-British boxer.
* Lord Nicholas Hervey, 36, British aristocrat and political activist, suicide by hanging.
* Olaf Kortner, 77, Norwegian politician.
* Ethelreda Leopold, 83, American film actress, pneumonia.
* Lee Moses, 56, American R&B and soul singer and guitarist, lung cancer.
* Mario Schifano, 63, Italian painter and collagist.
* Shin'ichi Suzuki, 99, Japanese musician, philosopher and educator.

### 27

* Alan Davies, 73, British air marshal.
* Tamio Kageyama, 50, Japanese novelist, house fire.
* Elizabeth Mantell, 56, Scottish midwife and nurse.
* Assia Noris, 85, Russian-Italian film actress.
* Mykola Mykolaĭovych Shcherbak, 70, Soviet-Ukrainian zoologist, ecologist, and herpetologist.
* Geoffrey Trease, 88, British writer.
* Miklos Udvardy, 78, Hungarian biologist and biogeographer.

### 28

* Louis Chaillot, 83, French cyclist and Olympian.
* Bernard Joseph Flanagan, 89, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
* Joe Holup, 63, American basketball player.
* Shōtarō Ishinomori, 60, Japanese manga artist (Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, Cyborg 009), heart failure.
* Ken Jackson, 68, American gridiron football player.
* Dagny Tande Lid, 94, Norwegian painter, illustrator and poet.
* Lee Ya-Ching, 85, Chinese film actress, aviator and philanthropist.
* John Morton-Finney, 108, American civil rights activist, lawyer and educator.

### 29

* Joseph Alioto, 81, American politician, Mayor of San Francisco, prostate cancer.
* Ugo Bologna, 80, Italian actor and voice actor, heart attack.
* Karin Jonzen, 83, British figure sculptor.
* Rob Mulders, 30, Dutch road racing cyclist, traffic collision.
* Ed Smith, 84, American gridiron football player (Boston Redskins, Green Bay Packers).

### 30

* Jim Barber, 85, American gridiron football player (Boston Redskins, Washington Redskins).
* Héctor Campos-Parsi, 75, Puerto Rican composer.
* Richard Cassilly, 70, American operatic tenor, cerebral hemorrhage after fall.
* Samuel Eilenberg, 84, Polish-American mathematician.
* Pappanamkodu Lakshmanan, 61, Indian film director, scriptwriter and lyricist.
* Ferdy Mayne, 81, German-British actor, Parkinson's disease.
* Lesslie Newbigin, 88, British theologian, missionary and author.
* Emmette Redford, 93, American political scientist.
* Luise Walker, 87, Austrian classical guitarist and composer.

### 31

* Greta Arwidsson, 91, Swedish archaeologist.
* Georges Combret, 91, French film director, producer and screenwriter.
* Leho Laurine, 93, Estonian chess master.
* Alice Miel, 91, American educator.
* Karol Stryja, 82, Polish conductor and teacher.