# Deaths in April 1998
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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.
* 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.
* Robert Ogle, 69, Canadian Roman Catholic priest and politician.
* Mary Wynne Warner, 65, Welsh mathematician.
* Rozz Williams, 34, American singer, poet and artist, suicide by hanging.

### 2

* Joan Austin, 95, British tennis player.
* Dai Davies, 88, Welsh trade unionist.
* Ronnie Dix, 85, English football player.
* Hans Eberle, 72, German football player.
* Jock Gaynor, 68, American television actor and producer.
* Eberhard Rees, 89, German-American rocketry pioneer and NASA executive.
* Jackie Sardou, 78, French actress.

### 3

* Mary Cartwright, 97, British mathematician.
* Elmer Iseler, 70, Canadian choir conductor and choral editor.
* Givi Kartozia, 69, Georgian middleweight Greco-Roman wrestler and Olympic champion.
* Charles Lang, 96, American cinematographer (Some Like It Hot, A Farewell to Arms, Sabrina), Oscar winner (1934), pneumonia.
* Harkisan Mehta, 69, Indian author and journalist, heart attack.
* Rolf Olsen, 78, Austrian actor, screenwriter and film director, cancer.
* Rob Pilatus, 33, German model, dancer and singer (Milli Vanilli), accidental overdose.
* Herbert B. Powell, 94, United States Army general and diplomat.
* John W. Sweeterman, 91, American newspaperman.
* Alvin Tyler, 72, American R&B and jazz musician.
* Wolf Vostell, 65, German painter and sculptor.

### 4

* Harry Wesley Bass Jr., 71, American businessman, coin collector and philanthropist.
* George Berry, 84, Australian politician.
* Kate Bosse-Griffiths, 87, German-British egyptologist.
* Marshall Fredericks, 90, American sculptor.
* Kay Hughes, 84, American actress.
* Pierre Lantier, 87, French composer and pianist.
* Predrag Milinković, 64, Serbian actor.
* Ian Percival, 76, British politician.
* Ganesh Prasad Rijal, 77, Nepali politician, heart attack.

### 5

* Charles Frank, 87, British theoretical physicist.
* Mick Miller, 61, Australian Aboriginal activist and politician, heart seizure.
* Elizabeth Mitchell, 79, New Zealand fencer.
* Cozy Powell, 50, English rock drummer (Rainbow, Whitesnake, Emerson, Lake & Powell, Black Sabbath), traffic collision.

### 6

* Edgar Ablowich, 84, American athlete and Olympian.
* Reuben Berry, 63, American gridiron football coach.
* Rudy Dhaenens, 36, Belgian road bicycle racer, traffic collision.
* Helen Craig McCullough, 80, American academic, translator and japanologist.
* Heinz Neuhaus, 71, German boxer and heavyweight champion.
* Dewey Soriano, 78, American baseball executive.
* Wendy O. Williams, 48, American singer, songwriter, and actress, suicide by gunshot.
* John Wyatt, 63, American baseball player, heart attack.
* Tammy Wynette, 55, American country music singer-songwriter, heart arrhythmia, heart attack.

### 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.
* Vitaly Galkov, 58, Soviet and Russian sprint canoer and Olympian.
* Sirous Ghayeghran, 36, Iranian football player and, traffic collision.
* John Kasper, 69, American Ku Klux Klan member and segregationist, boating accident.
* Ronald William John Keay, 77, British botanist, cancer.
* Pancho Magalona, 76, Filipino actor, emphysema.
* Nick Auf der Maur, 55, Canadian journalist and politician, esophageal cancer.
* James McIntosh Patrick, 91, Scottish painter.
* Paul Sarringhaus, 77, American gridiron football player.
* Alex Schomburg, 92, Puerto Rican comic-book artist and painter.
* Carlos Vega, 41, Cuban-American session drummer, suicide by gunshot.
* S. V. Venkatraman, 86, Indian actor, singer and music director.

### 8

* Anatole Dauman, 73, French film producer.
* Charlie Drinkwater, 83, English football player and manager.
* Lee Elias, 77, British-American comics artist.
* Florence Virginia Foose Wilson Mayberry, 91, American writer and Baháʼí Faith convert.
* René Pellos, 98, French artist, cartoonist and writer.
* Kurt Weinreich, 89, German football manager.

### 9

* Tom Cora, 44, American cellist and composer, malignant melanoma.
* 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.
* John Tate, 43, American heavyweight boxer, traffic collision.
* David Vigor, 58, Australian politician, heart attack.

### 10

* Archbishop Serafim of Athens, 84, Greek archbishop.
* Alan Burgess, 83, English RAF pilot and author.
* Jean Chapot, 67, French screenwriter and film director.
* Campos de Carvalho, 81, Brazilian writer.
* Dieter Erler, 58, German footballer.
* Basil James, 77, American jockey.
* Zezé Moreira, 90, Brazilian footballer and coach.
* Nguyen Co Thach, 76, Vietnamese revolutionary, diplomat, and politician.

### 11

* Lillian Briggs, 65, American rock 'n roll musician, lung cancer.
* Francis Durbridge, 85, English playwright and author.
* Tex Geddes, 78, Scottish author and adventurer.
* Rodney Harvey, 30, American actor, model and dancer, drug overdose.
* Kristaq Rama, 66, Albanian sculptor, art educator and politician.
* Ivan Tcherepnin, 55, French-American composer.
* Rover Thomas, 72, Aboriginal Australian artist.

### 12

* Xin Fengxia, Chinese pingju opera performer, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Robert Ford, 83, Canadian poet and diplomat.
* Dorothea Jameson, 77, American cognitive psychologist, lung cancer.
* Frederick Lenz, 48, American businessman and spiritual teacher, suicide by drowning.
* Felicitas Mendez, Puerto Rican-American civil right activist, heart failure.
* Bruno Rodzik, 62, French football player.
* Charles Sibley, 80, American ornithologist and molecular biologist.
* Marvin Wolfgang, 73, American sociologist and criminologist.

### 13

* Alec Albiston, 80, Australian rules footballer and coach.
* Patrick de Gayardon, 38, French skydiver and skysurfing pioneer, skydiving accident.
* Nyta Dover, 70, Swiss actress.
* Bahi Ladgham, 85, Tunisian politician and Prime minister.
* Ian MacGregor, 85, Scottish-American metallurgist and industrialist.
* Pat Rainey, 72, American singer and actress.

### 14

* Jake Colhouer, 76, American gridiron football player.
* Weldon Humble, 76, American gridiron football player.
* Harry Lee, 90, British tennis player.
* Dorothy Squires, 83, Welsh singer, lung cancer.
* Maurice Stans, 90, American civil servant and politician, congestive heart failure.

### 15

* William Congdon, 86, American painter.
* Pompeo D'Ambrosio, 81, Italian-Venezuelan businessman.
* Kenny Duckett, 38, American football player (New Orleans Saints, Dallas Cowboys), renal failure.
* William K. Jones, 81, United States Marine Corps lieutenant general.
* Rose Maddox, 72, American country singer-songwriter.
* Pol Pot, 72, Cambodian politician. General secretary of the CPK

### 16

* Kazimieras Antanavičius, 60, Lithuanian economist and politician.
* Djibo Bakary, 76, Nigerian nationalist and politician.
* Alberto Calderón, 77, Argentinian mathematician.
* Fernande Caroen, 77, Belgian freestyle swimmer and Olympian.
* Fred Davis, 84, English snooker and billiards player.
* Marie-Louise Meilleur, 117, Canadian supercentenarian, oldest living person at the time of her death.
* Ronald Millar, 78, English actor, scriptwriter, and dramatist.

### 17

* Michael Ashikodi Agbamuche, 77, Nigerian Attorney General and politician.
* Alberto Bovone, 75, Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church.
* Frances Clark, 93, American pianist, pedagogue, and academic.
* Geraldo de Barros, 75, Brazilian painter and photographer.
* Linda McCartney, 56, American musician, photographer and animal rights activist, breast cancer.
* William C. Scott, 76, Canadian politician.

### 18

* Stoffel Botha, 69, South African politician, heart attack.
* Ferenc Deák, 76, Hungarian football player.
* William Edmondson, 91, American sound engineer.
* Nelson Gonçalves, 78, Brazilian singer and songwriter, heart attack.
* Johan Richter, 73, Danish architect and engineer.
* Terry Sanford, 80, American university administrator and politician, esophageal cancer.
* Linda Schele, 55, American Mesoamerican archaeologist, pancreatic cancer.

### 19

* Gardner Dickinson, 70, American golfer.
* J.C. Harrington, 96, American historical archaeologist.
* Denis Howell, Baron Howell, 74, British politician.
* Octavio Paz, 84, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate, cancer.
* Vladimir Sokolov, 70, Russian scientist.
* Liam Sullivan, 74, American actor and singer, heart attack.

### 20

* Severo Cominelli, 82, Italian football player.
* Trevor Huddleston, 84, English Anglican bishop.
* 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.

### 21

* Ivan Chtcheglov, 65, French political theorist, activist and poet.
* Peter Lind Hayes, 82, American vaudeville entertainer, songwriter and actor, vascular problems.
* Vernon Holland, 49, American gridiron football player (Cincinnati Bengals, Detroit Lions and New York Giants), heart attack.
* Egill Jacobsen, 87, Danish painter.
* Jean-François Lyotard, 73, French philosopher and sociologist, leukemia.
* Gábor Preisich, 88, Hungarian architect.
* Bruno Roth, 86, German racing cyclist.
* Irene Vernon, 76, American actress, congestive heart failure and coronary artery disease.
* Helen Ward, 84, American jazz singer.
* Frank Wootton, 86, British aviation artist.

### 22

* Edward Brongersma, 86, Dutch politician and doctor of law, voluntary euthanasia.
* Kitch Christie, 58, South African rugby coach, leukemia.
* Alfredo da Motta, 77, Brazilian basketball player.
* Carlo Donida, 77, Italian composer and pianist.
* 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.
* Régine Pernoud, 88, French historian and archivist.
* Shalimar Seiuli, 21, American-Samoan transgender dancer, accidental fall.
* Marvin Worth, 72, American film producer, screenwriter and actor, lung cancer.

### 23

* Hattie Moseley Austin, 97-98, African-American entrepreneur, restaurateur
* Konstantinos Karamanlis, 91, Greek politician, Prime Minister and President.
* James Earl Ray, 70, American convict and assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., liver failure.
* Sartaj Singh, Indian Army general.
* Red Stacy, 86, American gridiron football player.
* Gregor von Rezzori, 83, Austrian-Romanian journalist, actor, writer and art collector.

### 24

* Froduald Karamira, 50, Rwandan politician, execution by firing squad.
* Yakov Malkiel, 83, Russian-American etymologist and philologist.
* Mel Powell, 75, American composer and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, liver cancer.
* Christiane Rochefort, 80, French feminist writer.
* Leslie Stevens, 74, American producer, writer and director, angioplasty.

### 25

* Jorge Dominichi, 51, Argentine football player and manager, heart attack.
* Wright Morris, 88, American novelist, photographer and essayist, esophageal cancer.
* Christian Mortensen, 115, Danish-American supercentenarian, Alzheimer's disease.
* Don Petersen, 70, American playwright and screenwriter.
* Stanley Brehaut Ryerson, 87, Canadian historian, educator, political activist.

### 26

* Alan Boxer, 81, British Royal Air Force officer.
* Theodor Broch, 94, Norwegian lawyer and politician.
* Juan José Gerardi Conedera, 75, Guatemalan Roman Catholic bishop and human rights activist, bludgeoned.
* 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.
* 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.

### 27

* John W. H. Bassett, 82, Canadian media proprietor and politician.
* Carlos Castañeda, 72, American author, hepatocellular cancer.
* Anne Desclos, 90, French journalist and novelist.
* Edris Eckhardt, 93, American artist.
* Louis S. Peterson, 75, American playwright, actor, screenwriter and professor, lung cancer.
* Ralph Raphael, 77, British organic chemist, ischaemic heart disease.
* Browning Ross, 74, American long-distance runner and Olympian.
* Geoffrey Serle, 76, Australian historian.
* Nguyen Van Linh, 82, Vietnamese revolutionary and politician, liver cancer.

### 28

* Jerome Bixby, 75, American short story writer and scriptwriter.
* Ramakant Desai, 58, Indian cricket player, complications following cardiac arrest.
* Roger Eason, 79, American gridiron football player.
* Dorothy Lovett, 83, American film actress.
* Reed C. Rollins, 86, American botanist and professor.
* Mum Shirl, 76, Australian Wiradjuri humanitarian activist.

### 29

* Mary Castle, 67, American actress, lung cancer.
* Charley Cowan, 59, American gridiron football player.
* Mário de Castro, 92, Brazilian footballer.
* Harold Devine, 88, American boxer.
* V. Gopalakrishnan, Indian actor.
* Hal Laycoe, 75, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.

### 30

* Guy Anderson, 91, American painter.
* Curly Chalker, 66, American pedal steel guitarist, brain tumor.
* Lise Gervais, 64, Canadian abstract painter and sculptor.
* Edwin Thompson Jaynes, 75, American physicist and statistician.
* Nizar Qabbani, 75, Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher, heart attack.
* Jopie Selbach, 79, Dutch freestyle swimmer and Olympian.