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

## September 1998
### 1

* Francisco Coching, 78, Filipino comic books illustrator and writer.
* Albert W. Johnson, 92, American politician.
* Harry Knudsen, 79, Danish rower and Olympic medalist.
* Józef Krupiński, 67, Polish poet.
* Cary Middlecoff, 77, American golfer, heart disease.
* Nick Murphy, 31, English footballer, traffic collision.
* Vere Harmsworth, 3rd Viscount Rothermere, 73, British newspaper magnate.
* Osman Fahir Seden, 74, Turkish film director, screenwriter and film producer.
* Ernest Edward Williams, 84, American herpetologist.
* Petar Šegedin, 89, Croatian writer.

### 2

* Jackie Blanchflower, 65, Northern Irish footballer, cancer.
* Roy Bradford, 77, Northern Irish politician.
* Mary Lou Clements-Mann, 51, American AIDS researcher, plane crash.
* Allen Drury, 80, American novelist and Pullizer Prize winner, cardiac arrest, heart attack.
* Charles A. Ferguson, 77, American linguist.
* Willie Kizart, 66, American electric blues guitarist.
* Jonathan Mann, 51, American physician, head of the WHO's AIDS program, plane crash.
* Walter L. Morgan, 100, American banker
* Danièle Parola, 93, French film actress.
* Tommy J. Smith, 81, Australian racehorse trainer.

### 3

* Vince Alascia, 84, American comic book artist (Captain America).
* Samuel Findlay Clark, 89, Canadian Army general.
* Ellis R. Kerley, 74, American forensic anthropologist.
* Anup Kumar, 68, Indian actor.
* Friedrich Körner, 77, World War II Luftwaffe Flying ace.
* Albert Nemethy, 78, Hungarian-American artist.
* John F. Thornell Jr., 77, World War II United States Army Air Forces Flying ace.

### 4

* Hans Brenner, 59, Austrian actor.
* Jimmy Constantine, 78, English football player.
* Hernando Durán Dussán, Colombian lawyer and politician, respiratory infection.
* Robert Higgins, 73, American weightlifter.
* Ernst Jaakson, 93, Estonian diplomat.
* Elizabeth Kata, 85, Australian writer under the pseudonym "Elizabeth Kata".
* Charles Kemball, 75, Scottish chemist.
* Tania Long, 85, American journalist and war correspondent during World War II.
* Masato Nakae, 80, Japanese American US Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient.
* Inge Scholl, 81, German activist and resistance member during World War II, cancer.
* Lal Waterson, 55, English folksinger and songwriter, cancer.

### 5

* Fernando Balzaretti, 52, Mexican actor, cardiovascular disease.
* Leon Dombrowski, 60, American gridiron football player.
* Willem Drees, 75, Dutch politician and son of politician Willem Drees.
* Michael Fleischer, 90, American chemist and mineralogist.
* Sonny Knight, 64, American singer, songwriter and author, complications following a stroke.
* Margaret Lefranc, 91, American visual artist.
* Félix Morisseau-Leroy, 86, Haitian writer.
* Minoru Niizuma, 67, Japanese abstract sculptor, stroke.
* Verner Panton, 72, Danish interior designer.
* Leo Penn, 77, American actor and director, lung cancer.
* Billy Soose, 83, American boxer.

### 6

* Ernst-Hugo Järegård, 69, Swedish cult actor, multiple myeloma.
* Akira Kurosawa, 88, Japanese film director and screenwriter (Seven Samurai, Rashomon, Throne of Blood), stroke.
* Hava Lazarus-Yafeh, 68, German-Israeli orientalist and academic.
* Ric Segreto, 45, American-Filipino singer-songwriter and actor, traffic collision.
* Elaine Shepard, 85, American actress.
* Denise Spencer, 68, Australian freestyle swimmer and Olympian.

### 7

* Håvard Alstadheim, 62, Norwegian economist and politician.
* Mario Bardi, 77, Italian Realist painter, stroke.
* André Bonin, 89, French fencer and Olympic champion.
* Prof. K.M. Chandy, 77, Indian freedom fighter and politician.
* Valeri Frid, 76, Soviet screenwriter.
* John Osler Chattock Hayes, 85, British Royal Navy officer.

### 8

* Walter Adams, 76, American economist and college professor, pancreatic cancer.
* Leonid Kinskey, 95, Russian-born actor, complications of a stroke.
* Arsh Muneer, 84, Pakistani actress and singer.
* Marco Rizo, 77, Cuban-American pianist, composer, and arranger, heart attack.
* Bill Shankland, 91, Australian sportsman, heart failure.
* Ewald Tilker, 86, German canoeist and Olympic medalist.
* Tryfon Tzanetis, 80, Greek football player and coach.

### 9

* Lucio Battisti, 55, Italian singer-songwriter and composer, cancer.
* Bill Cratty, 47, American modern dancer and choreographer, liver cancer.
* Eleanor Garatti, 89, American swimmer and Olympic gold medalist.
* Mariano Martín, 78, Spanish footballer.
* Catherine Turney, 91, American writer and screenwriter.
* Jerry Zimmerman, 63, American baseball player and coach.

### 10

* Carl Forgione, 54, British actor.
* Freddie Green, 82, English professional footballer.
* Adolfe de Hoernle, 96, German-American philanthropist.
* Noshirvan Nagarwala, 88, Indian cricket umpire.
* Frederick Rosier, 82, British Royal Air Force commander.
* Kedar Man Vyathit, 84, Nepali poet.

### 11

* Paku Alam VIII, 88, Indonesian royal and Governor of Yogyakarta.
* Sofía Bassi, 85, Mexican painter and writer, heart failure.
* Dane Clark, 86, American actor.
* Stephie D'Souza, 61, Indian athlete and Olympian.
* Carlos Guimard, 85, Argentine chess Grandmaster.
* Rolando Morán, 68, Guatemalan revolutionary leader, heart attack.
* P. S. Veerappa, 87, Indian actor and film producer.

### 12

* George E. Danielson, 83, American politician and judge, heart failure.
* Hans Grimm, 93, German film director and screenwriter.
* Azem Hajdari, 35, Albanian student leader, shot.
* Awang Hassan, 87, Malaysian politician.
* John Holliman, 49, American broadcast journalist, traffic collision.
* Henry Spira, 71, Belgian-American animal rights activist, esophageal cancer.

### 13

* Talimeren Ao, 80, Indian footballer and physician.
* Denys Buckley, 92, English barrister and judge.
* Necdet Calp, 76, Turkish civil servant and politician, heart attack.
* Aloys Grillmeier, 88, German Jesuit priest and theologian.
* Frans Hogenbirk, 80, Dutch football player.
* Owen Horwood, 81, South African economist and politician, heart attack.
* Antonio Núñez Jiménez, 75, Cuban revolutionary and academic.
* Harry Lumley, 71, Canadian ice hockey goaltender in the National Hockey League.
* Phil Ridings, 80, Australian cricket player.
* George Wallace, 79, American politician and populist, Parkinson's disease.

### 14

* Johnny Adams, 66, American blues, jazz and gospel singer, prostate cancer.
* Hahn William Capps, 95, American entomologist.
* Sue Geh, 39, Australian women's basketball player, heart failure.
* Fred Korth, 89, United States Secretary of the Navy.
* George Scott, 69, English snooker player.
* Yang Shangkun, 91, President of the People's Republic of China.

### 15

* Fred Alderman, 93, American sprint runner and Olympic champion.
* Barrett Deems, 84, American swing drummer, pneumonia.
* Charles George Drake, 78, Canadian neurosurgeon.
* René Ferrier, 61, French football midfielder.
* Viljo Heino, 84, Finnish long-distance runner and Olympian.
* Reynold B. Johnson, 92, American inventor and computer pioneer, melanoma.
* Carl Larpenter, 62, American gridiron football player.
* Caroline Mikkelsen, 91, Danish-Norwegian explorer.
* Don Perkins, 80, American football player.
* Louis Rasminsky, 90, Canadian banker.
* Eva Gabriele Reichmann, 101, German historian and sociologist.

### 16

* Egidio Ariosto, 87, Italian politician.
* Jane Marsh Beveridge, 82, Canadian artist.
* John Eakins, 75, Canadian politician.
* Mazhar Khan, 43, Indian actor and producer, renal failure.
* Bjørn Stenersen, 28, Norwegian racing cyclist and Olympian.
* John Systad, 86, Norwegian long-distance runner and Olympian.
* Andrzej Trzaskowski, 65, Polish jazz composer and musicologist.
* Pak Tu-jin, 82, Korean poet.
* Harold Vokes, 90, American malacologist and paleontologist.
* John Woyat, 65, Canadian football player.

### 17

* William Albright, 53, American composer, pianist and organist.
* Ted Binion, 54, American gambling executive.
* Geoffrey Dutton, 76, Australian author and historian.
* Win Elliot, 83, American television and radio sportscaster and game show host.
* April FitzLyon, 78, English translator, biographer, and historian.
* Gerold Frank, 91, American author and ghostwriter.
* Red Hoff, 107, American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball, fall.
* Gustav Nezval, 90, Czech stage and film actor.
* Ralph Pappier, 84, Argentine production designer and film director.
* Celia Rooke, 96, English printmaker and book illustrator.

### 18

* Francelia Butler, 85, American scholar and children's author.
* Charlie Foxx, 64, American musician.
* Kurt Hager, 86, East German politician.
* Erik Holmberg, 76, Norwegian football player.
* Sam Locke, 81, American writer and director.
* Harun Nasution, 79, Indonesian scholar.
* Vadim Rogovin, 61, Russian Trotskyist historian and sociologist.

### 19

* Susan Barrantes, 61, British film producer and mother of Sarah, Duchess of York, traffic collision.
* Patricia Hayes, 88, English actress (The NeverEnding Story, Willow, A Fish Called Wanda).
* Ran Laurie, 83, British physician, Olympic gold medalist and father of Hugh Laurie, Parkinson's disease.
* John Norby, 88, American gridiron football player.

### 20

* Audrey Alexandra Brown, 93, Canadian poet.
* Muriel Humphrey Brown, 86, American politician and wife of Vice President Hubert Humphrey.
* Robert Malachy Burke, 91, Irish socialist and philanthropist.
* Lila Katzen, 72, American abstract sculptor, liver cancer.
* Alan Prescott, 71, English rugby league footballer.
* Raoul Schránil, 88, Czech film actor.

### 21

* Margaret Allan, 89, Scottish motor racing driver.
* Oz Bach, 59, American folk musician, cancer.
* Clara Calamai, 89, Italian actress, stroke.
* Florence Griffith Joyner, 38, American track and field athlete, and Olympic champion, epilepsy.
* Vladimir Pokhilko, 44, Soviet-Russian entrepreneur, suicide by throat-cutting.
* Arto Tiainen, 68, Finnish cross-country skier and politician.

### 22

* Semira Adamu, 20, Nigerian asylum seeker.
* Ymer Dishnica, 86, Albanian politician and physician.
* Michel Dubé, 39, Canadian outlaw biker and gangster, suicide.
* Otakhon Latifi, 62, Tajikistan journalist and politician, shot.
* Henry Mayer, 72, German composer.
* Doug Smith, 73, Scottish rugby union player.

### 23

* Søren Andersen, 72, Danish football player.
* Ray Bowden, 89, English footballer.
* Mary Frann, 55, American actress (Newhart, Days of Our Lives, Knots Landing), heart attack.
* Brian Masters, 65, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Fulham and Edmonton.
* Héctor Vilches, 72, Uruguayan football player.
* Robert Wells, 75, American songwriter and television producer.

### 24

* Genrich Altshuller, 71, Soviet engineer, inventor, and writer, Parkinson's disease.
* Rosendo Balinas Jr., 57, Filipino chess grandmaster.
* Frank Curran, 81, English footballer.
* Jeff Moss, 56, American composer, playwright and television writer, colon cancer.
* Ernie Pannell, 81, American gridiron football player.

### 25

* Billy Giles, 41, Northern Irish UVF volunteer, suicide by hanging.
* Shaukat Hayat Khan, 83, Pakistani politician, activist and military officer.
* Johnny McGrory, 83, Scottish boxer.
* Wim Schepers, 55, Dutch road cyclist, cardiac arrest.
* Cas Walker, 96, American politician and radio and TV personality.
* Caspar Wrede, 69, Finnish theatre and film director.

### 26

* Giovanni Barbini, 97, Italian naval officer during World War II.
* Betty Carter, 69, American jazz singer, pancreatic cancer.
* Jack Haskell, 79, American singer and announcer.
* Jerome D. Mack, 77, American banker, fundraiser and philanthropist, cancer.
* Harald Vock, 73, German television producer and director.

### 27

* Alex Joseph, 62, American outspoken polygamist and founder of the Confederate Nations of Israel, a Mormon fundamentalist sect, liver cancer.
* Karlheinz Kaske, 70, German manager and CEO of the Siemens AG from 1981 to 1992.
* Narita Bryan, 7, Japanese racehorse, gastric rupture.
* Shawn Phelan, 23, American actor (Toy Soldiers), brain injury.
* Doak Walker, 71, American football player (Detroit Lions) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, skiing accident.

### 28

* Eric Malling, 52, Canadian television journalist, brain hemorrhage after fall.
* Joan Maude, 90, English actress.
* Marcel Pourbaix, 94, Belgian chemist.
* Louis L. Redding, 96, American lawyer and civil rights advocate.
* Shiv Prasaad Singh, 70, Indian writer and academic.
* George Tranter, 83, English football player.

### 29

* Tom Bradley, 80, American politician and police officer, heart attack.
* Valston Hancock, 91, Australian commander in the Royal Australian Air Force.
* Gordon W. Richards, 68, British racehorse trainer.
* Joachim Count of Schönburg-Glauchau, 69, German nobleman.

### 30

* D. Bruce Berry, 74, American comic book artist (Captain America).
* Laurie Brown, 61, English football player and manager.
* Frank Forberger, 55, East German rower and Olympic champion, brain cancer.
* Marius Goring, 86, English actor, cancer.
* Nechama Hendel, 62, Israeli singer.
* Émile Krieps, 78, Luxembourgish army officer and politician.
* Bruno Munari, 90, Italian artist and designer.
* Stephen Pearlman, 63, American actor (Die Hard with a Vengeance, Pi, Quiz Show), cancer.
* Dan Quisenberry, 45, American baseball player, brain cancer.
* Robert R. Squires, 45, American chemist.
* Robert Lewis Taylor, 86, American author and Pullizer Prize winner.
* Pavel Štěpán, 73, Czech pianist.