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

## March 1998
### 1

* Jean Marie Balland, 63, French Roman Catholic cardinal, lung cancer.
* Miltiades Caridis, 74, German-Greek conductor, stroke.
* Archie Goodwin, 60, American comic book writer and artist (Luke Cage, Spider-Man, Star Wars), cancer.
* Manolis Hatzidakis, 89, Greek art historian and Byzantinist.
* Alexander Puzanov, 91, Soviet and Russian ambassador and statesman.
* Sabina Sesselmann, 61, German film actress.
* Garner E. Shriver, 85, American politician.
* Robert Symonette, 73, Bahamian yachtsman and politician.

### 2

* Leif Blomberg, 57, Swedish politician.
* Lucien Bodard, 84, French writer and journalist.
* Slick Castleman, 84, American Major League Baseball player.
* Henry Steele Commager, 95, American historian, pneumonia.
* Maamun al-Kuzbari, Syrian politician and literary personality.
* Darcy O'Brien, 58, American author and literary critic, heart attack.
* Herbie Seneviratne, 72, Sri Lankan actor and filmmaker.
* Marzette Watts, 59, American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist.

### 3

* Janet Burston, 63, American child actress, cancer.
* Giuseppe Caron, 94, American politician.
* Fred W. Friendly, 82, American television journalist and executive, stroke.
* Edward Luckhoo, 85, Guyanese Governor General.
* Hedley Mattingly, 82, British actor, cancer.
* Charles Franklin Phillips, 87, American economist.
* Marc Sautet, 51, French writer, translator, and philosopher, brain cancer.

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* Antonio Alsúa Alonso, 78, Spanish football player.
* Betty Bird, 96, Austrian actress.
* Jim Cullom, 72, American gridiron football player (New York Yanks).
* Ivan Dougherty, 90, Australian Army officer.
* Van Edmondson, 98, American football player.
* Jules Fontaine Sambwa, 57, Zairean and Congolese politician and economist.

### 5

* Donald James Cannon, 78, American politician.
* Carleton Putnam, 96, American businessman, writer and segregationist, pneumonia.
* Jerome Walters, 67, American middle distance runner and Olympian.
* Donald Woods, 91, Canadian-American actor.

### 6

* John Allin, 76, American Anglican bishop.
* Rue Barclay, 76, American Country & Western musician.
* Frank Barrett, 84, American baseball player
* Benjamin Bowden, 91, British industrial designer.
* Joe Shear, 54, American stock car racing driver, cancer.
* Vanna Vanni, 83, Italian film actress.

### 7

* Ziad Rafiq Beydoun, Lebanese petroleum geologist.
* Bill Cable, 51, American actor, model and stunt performer, traffic collision.
* Josep Escolà, 83, Spanish footballer.
* Karen Holtsmark, 90, Norwegian painter.
* Adem Jashari, 42, Kosovo Albanian militant separatist, mortar strike.
* Hamëz Jashari, 48, Kosovar Albanian nationalist and guerilla, killed in action.
* Eleanor Ileen Johnson, 87, American survivor of the sinking of RMS Titanic.
* Don Kirkham, 90, American physicists and soil scientist.
* Jack Perkins, 76, American film actor.
* Leonie Rysanek, 71, Austrian dramatic soprano, bone cancer.
* Wanda Tettoni, 87, Italian actress and voice actress.

### 8

* Laurie Beechman, 44, American actress and singer, cancer.
* Alexandre Gemignani, 72, Brazilian basketball player.
* James Haggarty, 83, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Jack Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Kingsbridge, 90, British politician and public servant.
* Jack McQuillan, 77, Irish politician, trade unionist and army officer.
* Peter Nilson, 60, Swedish astronomer and novelist.
* Ray Nitschke, 61, American football player (Green Bay Packers) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, heart attack.
* Susanne Ussing, 57, Danish artist, architect and ceramicist.

### 9

* David MacAdam, 87, American physicist and color scientist.
* Anna Maria Ortese, 83, Italian novelist, poet, and travel writer.
* Colin Patterson, 64, British palaeontologist, heart attack.
* Ulrich Schamoni, 58, German film director, screenwriter, actor and media proprietor, cancer.

### 10

* C. E. Beeby, 95, New Zealand educationalist and psychologist.
* Ilse Bing, 98, German photographer.
* Lloyd Bridges, 85, American actor (Airplane!, Sea Hunt, Hot Shots!).
* Karekin II Kazanjian, 70, Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople, liver cancer.
* Hayim David HaLevi, 74, Israeli rabbi.
* Milton Mallawarachchi, 52, Sri Lankan singer and musician.
* Alberto Morrocco, 80, Scottish artist.
* Richard Plant, 87, German-American historian, Holocaust scholar and writer.
* Kenkō Satoshi, 30, Japanese Sumo wrestler, pulmonary embolism.

### 11

* Van E. Chandler, 73, American Air Force pilot and flying ace, cancer.
* Basil Coetzee, 54, South African musician, cancer.
* Buddy Jeannette, 80, American basketball player and coach, stroke.
* José Laurel, Jr., 85, Filipino politician, pneumonia.
* Manuel Piñeiro Losada, 64, Cuban revolutionary, politician and spymaster, traffic collision.
* Sachio Sakai, 72, Japanese actor.
* Nino Konis Santana, 41, East Timorese freedom fighter, killed in action.
* Jean Shiley, 86, American high jumper and Olympian.
* Koos Verdam, 83, Dutch politician.

### 12

* Ovid Demaris, 78, American writer and journalist.
* Karrell Fox, 70, American magician and television performer.
* Jozef Kroner, 73, Slovak actor (The Shop on Main Street).
* Red Richards, 85, American jazz pianist.
* Kate Ross, 41, American mystery author, breast cancer.
* Beatrice Wood, 105, American artist and ceramicist.

### 13

* Judge Dread, 52, English musician, heart attack.
* Peter Feller, 78, American theatrical set builder.
* Philip Gale, 19, American Internet software pioneer and computer prodigy, suicide by jumping.
* Claudio Gora, 84, Italian actor and film director.
* Dave Lewis, 59, American rock and R&B musician, cancer.
* Bill Reid, 78, Canadian artist, Parkinson's disease.
* Risen Star, 12, American thoroughbred racehorse.
* Anne Sayre, 74, American writer.
* Peter Sillett, 65, England footballer, cancer.
* Kōshō Uchiyama, 86, Japanese buddhist monk and origami master.
* Frano Vodopivec, 73, Croatian cinematographer.
* Hans von Ohain, 86, German physicist and jet engine designer, thyroiditis.
* Ma Yueliang, 96, Chinese martial artist.

### 14

* Abdul Rahman al-Iryani, 87, President of the Yemen Arab Republic.
* Ed Boell, 81, American football player, coach, and official.
* Hugh Coveney, 62, Irish politician, fall.
* Dada Kondke, 65, Indian actor and film producer.
* Dave Minor, 76, American basketball player.
* Leo Sotorník, 71, Czech gymnast and Olympian.

### 15

* Malati Choudhury, 93, Indian civil rights and freedom activist.
* Tim Maia, 55, Brazilian musician and songwriter, cardiovascular disease.
* Maud Mannoni, 74, Belgian-French psychoanalyst.
* Dušan Pašek, 37, Slovak ice hockey player, suicide by gunshot.
* Jheri Redding, 91, American hairdresser and businessman.
* Carolyn Schnurer, 90, American fashion designer and sportswear pioneer.
* Benjamin Spock, 94, American pediatrician and author.
* Gennady Yevryuzhikhin, 54, Russian football player.

### 16

* Derek Barton, 79, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
* Pertev Naili Boratav, 90, Turkish folklorist.
* Esther Bubley, 77, American photographer, cancer.
* Lydia Délrctorsckaya, 87, Russian-French refugee and model.
* Noel Stephen Paynter, 99, British chief intelligence officer of Bomber Command during World War II.

### 17

* Cliff Barker, 77, American basketball player.
* Alain Bosquet, 78, French poet.
* Milo Candini, 80, American baseball player.
* Douglas Harold Copp, 83, Canadian scientist.
* Bernarr Rainbow, 83, British historian of music education, and choir master.
* Helen Westcott, 70, American actor and former child actor, cancer.
* Dorothy Weston, 98, Australian tennis player.

### 18

* Siegfried Franz, 84, German composer of film and television scores.
* Joan Freeman, 80, Australian physicist.
* Ted Jolliffe, 89, Canadian politician.
* Klaus Mollenhauer, 69, German pedagogical theorist.
* Hideo Shima, 96, Japanese engineer and bullet train pioneer.
* Dwight Sloan, 83, American gridiron football player.
* Robert E. Woodside, 93, American politician and judge.

### 19

* Simon Diedong Dombo, Ghanaian politician and king.
* Samuel Dzhundrin, 77, Bulgarian Roman Catholic prelate and monk.
* Klaus Havenstein, 75, German actor, cabaret artist, and television presenter.
* E. M. S. Namboodiripad, 88, Indian communist politician and theorist.
* Jimmy Scoular, 73, Scottish football player and manager.
* Hanzade Sultan, 74, Ottoman princess and Turkish expatriate.

### 20

* B. N. Adarkar, 87, Indian economist.
* Yemima Avidar-Tchernovitz, 88, Israeli author.
* Beverley Cross, 66, English playwright, librettist and screenwriter (Clash of the Titans, Jason and the Argonauts).
* Anthony Fell, 83, British politician.
* Agustín Gómez-Arcos, 65, Spanish writer, cancer.
* George Howard, 41, American jazz saxophonist, colon cancer.
* Laddie Lucas, 82, British Air Force officer and politician.
* Beth Mitchell, 25, American shag dancer and elementary school teacher.
* Catherine Sauvage, 68, French singer and actress.
* Ivor Slaney, 76, British musical composer and conductor.
* Maciej Słomczyński, 75, Polish translator and writer.

### 21

* Ben Bagley, 64, American record producer and musical producer.
* Horst Korsching, 85, German physicist.
* Ramanathapuram C S Murugabhoopathy, 84, Indian Mridanga maestro.
* Maciej Słomczyński, 75, Polish writer and translator.
* Galina Ulanova, 88, Russian ballet dancer.

### 22

* Simon Wingfield Digby, 88, British politician.
* Jack R. Howard, 87, American broadcasting executive.
* John Richard Keating, 63, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
* Shoichi Nishimura, Japanese football player and manager, pneumonia.
* Rube Reiswerg, 85, American basketball player.

### 23

* Louis Arbessier, 90, French actor.
* Chuck Hunsinger, 72, American gridiron football player.
* Hilda Morley, 81, American poet.
* Ray Scott, 78, American sportscaster.
* Gerald Stano, 46, American serial killer, execution by electric chair.
* Marie-Laure Tardieu-Blot, 95, French botanist and pteridologist.

### 24

* Åke Mangård, 81, Swedish Air Force major general.
* António Ribeiro, 69, Portuguese Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, cancer.
* Torben Tryde, 81, Danish writer, Olympian and resistance fighter during World War II.
* Jill Ann Weatherwax, 27, American model and aspiring singer, stabbed.

### 25

* Daniel Massey, 64, English actor and performer, Hodgkin's lymphoma.
* Clive Osborne, 75, Australian politician.
* Asha Posley, 71, Pakistani actress.
* Micheál Prendergast, 77, Irish farmer, businessman and politician.
* Steven Schiff, 51, American politician, squamous-cell carcinoma, skin cancer.
* Chris Trickle, 25, American stock car racing driver, drive-by shooting.
* Wilfred Watson, 86, Canadian professor and author.
* Betsey Cushing Roosevelt Whitney, 88, American philanthropist.

### 26

* Denis Charles, 64, American jazz drummer, pneumonia.
* Shantinath Desai, 69, Indian author.
* Nikolay Dubinin, 91, Soviet and Russian biologist and academician.
* Arthur S. Link, 77, American historian and educator, lung cancer.
* Rukhsana Naz, 19, British Pakistani murder victim.
* Kate Cruise O'Brien, 49, Irish writer.

### 27

* Nadija Hordijenko Andrianova, 76, Ukrainian writer and translator of the language Esperanto.
* Julio César Britos, 71, Uruguayan football player.
* John William Comber, 92, American Catholic missionary and bishop.
* Joan Lestor, Baroness Lestor of Eccles, 66, British politician, ALS.
* Chen Jin, 90, Taiwanese painter.
* Aghajani Kashmeri, 89, Indian screenwriter, actor and Urdu poet.
* Joan Maynard, 76, English politician and trade unionist, cancer.
* David McClelland, 80, American psychologist.
* Steve Nemeth, 75, American gridiron football player.
* Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, 88, Austrian auto designer and businessman.
* Otto Freiherr von Feury, 91, German politician.
* Karl-Adolf Zenker, 90, German officer in the Kriegsmarine during World War II.

### 28

* Else Elster, 88, German actress.
* Albert Levan, 93, Swedish botanist and geneticist.
* David Powers, 85, Special Assistant and secretary to John F. Kennedy.
* Larry Stephens, 59, American gridiron football player (Cleveland Browns, Los Angeles Rams, Dallas Cowboys).

### 29

* Giuliano Biagetti, 72, Italian film director and screenwriter.
* Kvitka Cisyk, 44, American coloratura soprano, breast cancer.
* David Nightingale Hicks, 69, English interior decorator and designer, lung cancer.
* Loreta, 86-87, Iranian Armenian actress.
* Dick Phillips, 66, American baseball player, manager and coach.
* Eugene Walter, 76, American screenwriter, poet, actor, puppeteer and chef, liver cancer.
* Harold E. Wilson, 76, United States Marine and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
* Dudley Wysong, 58, American golfer, aneurysm.

### 30

* Ramsay Ames, 79, 1940s American B movie actress, model, pin-up girl and television host, lung cancer.
* Michèle Arnaud, 79, French singer and director.
* Judy Buenoano, 54, American convicted murderer, execution by electric chair.
* Max Cosyns, 91, Belgian physicist, inventor and explorer.
* Massimo Franciosa, 73, Italian screenwriter and film director.
* Frank King, 79, British Army officer.
* Mordechai Olmert, 90, Israeli politician.
* Athelstan Spilhaus, 86, South African-American geophysicist and oceanographer.

### 31

* Bella Abzug, 77, American lawyer, politician and social activist.
* John H. Cooke, 86, American lawyer and politician.
* Tim Flock, 73, American racecar driver and member of the NASCAR Hall of Fame, liver and throat cancer.
* Henry George Glyde, 91, Canadian painter.
* Blanche Montel, 95, French actress.
* Joel Ryce-Menuhin, 64, American pianist, cancer.
* Pete Tillman, 75, American football player and coach.