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

## February 1998
### 1

* Robert Creighton Buck, 77, American mathematician.
* Jack T. Collis, 75, American art director.
* Marga Faulstich, 82, German glass chemist.
* Gérard Séty, 75, French actor.
* Sheila Watson, 88, Canadian novelist and literary critic.

### 2

* Raymond Cattell, 92, British and American psychologist.
* Duilio Del Prete, 59, Italian actor, dubber and singer-songwriter, cancer.
* Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber, 86, German-American nuclear physicist.
* Ferdinand A. Hermens, 91, German-American political scientist and economist.
* Viljo Kajava, 88, Finnish poet and writer.
* Robert McIntyre, 84, Scottish politician.
* Baldev Singh, 93, Indian neurologist.
* Roger L. Stevens, 87, American theatrical producer, arts administrator, and real estate executive.
* Haroun Tazieff, 83, French volcanologist and geologist.
* Manuel Delgado Villegas, 55, Spanish serial killer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
* Zahari Zhandov, 86, Bulgarian film director, script writer and cinematographer.

### 3

* Joey Archibald, 83, American boxer.
* Clark Goff, 80, American gridiron football player.
* Bertram Heyn, 85, Sri Lankan general and cricketer.
* Davy Kaye, 81, British actor and entertainer.
* Gabriel Laub, 69, Czechoslovak journalist and writer.
* Fat Pat, 27, American rapper, shot.
* Karla Faye Tucker, 38, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.

### 4

* Eranuhi Aslamazyan, 88, Armenian and Soviet graphic artist.
* Jean Blackwell Hutson, 83, African-American librarian, writer and curator.
* Zoran Kosanović, 42, Serbian Canadian table tennis player, heart attack.
* Aruna Lama, 52, Nepali singer.
* Menachem Shmuel David Raichik, 79, American Orthodox rabbi.
* Michel Roux, 73, French baritone.
* Rees Stephens, 75, Welsh rugby player.
* Cristóbal Martínez-Bordiú, 10th Marquis of Villaverde, 75, Spanish aristocrat and son in law of dictator Francisco Franco.

### 5

* Wilbur Coen, 86, American tennis player.
* Douglas Gamley, 73, Australian composer.
* Margaret Hillis, 76, American conductor.
* Tim Kelly, 35, American guitarist of the band Slaughter, traffic collision.
* Kim Ki-young, 78, South Korean film director, injuries from a fire.
* Eduardo Francisco Pironio, 77, Argentine Roman Catholic cardinal, bone cancer.
* Joe Stubbs, American R&B/Soul singer, heart failure.
* Chikuzan Takahashi, 87, Japanese Tsugaru-jamisen performer and composer.
* Hans Wallach, 93, German-American experimental psychologist.
* Nick Webb, 43, English acoustic guitarist and composer, pancreatic cancer.

### 6

* Nazim al-Kudsi, 91, former President and Prime Minister of Syria.
* Falco, 40, Austrian singer and songwriter ("Rock Me Amadeus"), traffic collision.
* Tony LeVier, 84, American air racer and test pilot, cancer.
* Ferenc Sidó, 74, Czechoslovak table tennis player.
* Toshiaki Tanaka, 62, Japanese table tennis player.
* Carl Wilson, 51, American musician, singer, and songwriter (The Beach Boys), lung cancer.
* Claude Érignac, 60, French prefect of Corsica, shot.

### 7

* Gunther Baumann, 77, German football player and manager.
* Ascanio Cortés, 83, Chilean football player.
* Bobby Kemp, 38, American football player, suicide.
* Norman J. Levy, 67, American lawyer and politician.
* Lawrence Sanders, 77, American novelist and short story writer.

### 8

* Elizabeth Bauer Mock, 86–87, American professor, curator, author and journalist.
* Tulsiram Sharma Kashyap, 58, Indian writer and politician.
* Halldór Laxness, 95, Icelandic writer and Nobel Prize laureate, Alzheimer's disease.
* Enoch Powell, 85, British politician, classical scholar, author and philologist, Parkinson's disease.
* Rocke Robertson, 85, American physician.
* J. B. Salsberg, 95, Canadian politician.
* Julian Simon, 65, American economist and author, heart attack.

### 9

* George Cafego, 82, American football player and coach.
* Cyrille Delannoit, 71, Belgian middleweight boxing champion.
* Bill Froats, 67, American baseball player.
* Gabriel Gobin, 94, Belgian film actor.
* Dean Griffing, 82, American gridiron football player, coach and executive.
* Alf Jefferies, 76, English footballer.
* Panagiotis Katsouris, 21, Greek footballer, traffic collision.
* Nick Leluk, 62, Canadian politician.
* William Ronald, 71, Canadian painter.
* Maurice Schumann, 86, French politician, journalist and writer.

### 10

* Ramchandran Jaikumar, 53, Indian-American scientist, heart attack.
* Richard Kotuk, 54, American journalist, producer and filmmaker, heart attack.
* Alex Kramer, 94, Canadian songwriter.
* Peter Longbottom, 38, British cyclist, traffic collision.
* Paul MacKendrick, 83, American classicist, author, and teacher.
* Erich Mückenberger, 87, German socialist politician.
* Félix Reina, 76, Cuban violinist, arranger and composer, stroke.

### 11

* Joy Buba, 93, American sculptor and illustrator.
* Patrick Clark, 42, American chef, amyloidosis.
* Tanvir Dar, 50, Pakistani field hockey player and Olympian.
* Thomas Gerard Dunn, 76, American politician.
* Mike Fornieles, 66, Cuban-American baseball player.
* Lily Harmon, American visual artist.
* Jonathan Hole, 93, American actor.
* Josef Issels, 90, German physician, pneumonia.
* Radhanath Rath, 101, Indian journalist, activist and politician.

### 12

* Gardner Ackley, 82, American economist and diplomat.
* Lionel Aldridge, 56, American gridiron football player.
* Lauri Kivekäs, 94, Finnish businessman and politician.
* George Humphrey Middleton, 88, British diplomat.
* Ralf Reichenbach, 47, German shot putter and Olympian.

### 13

* José Barraquer, 82, Spanish ophthalmologist.
* Thomas Chapin, 40, American composer and musician, leukemia.
* Jo Clayton, 58, American fantasy and science fiction author, multiple myeloma.
* John Cowley, 74, Irish actor.
* Hans Diergaardt, 70, Namibian politician.
* Bryan MacMahon, 88, Irish writer.
* Alfred Struwe, 70, German actor, pneumonia.
* Ladislav Štípek, 73, Czechoslovak table tennis.

### 14

* Badrul Haider Chowdhury, 73, Chief Justice of Bangladesh.
* Edgar Granville, Baron Granville of Eye, 100, British politician.
* Thomas McKimson, 90, American animator.
* Hansel Mieth, 88, German-American photojournalist.
* Denise Paulme, 88, French Africanist and anthropologist.
* Manuel Pérez, 54, Colombian guerrilla leader, hepatitis.

### 15

* Sir Samuel Curran, 85, British physicist and university administrator.
* Martha Gellhorn, 89, American novelist, travel writer, and journalist, suicide by cyanide poisoning.
* B. Calvin Jones, 59, American archaeologist.
* Louie Spicolli, 27, American professional wrestler, overdose.
* George White, 86, American film editor.

### 16

* Mary Amdur, 76, American toxicologist, heart attack.
* Boris Blumin, 90, Canadian-American chess master.
* Harry Hinsley, 79, British historian and cryptanalyst.
* Fernando Abril Martorell, 61, former Spanish Deputy Prime Minister, lung cancer.
* Sheu Yuan-dong, 70, Taiwanese politician and governor of the Central Bank, plane crash.

### 17

* Arnold Aronson, 86, American civil rights leader.
* Nicolas Bouvier, 68,Swiss writer, artist, and photographer.
* Maurice Bucaille, 77, French physician and author.
* Hilaire Couvreur, 73, Belgian cyclist.
* Ernst Jünger, 102, German World War I hero, author and entomologist.
* Ernst Käsemann, 91, German Lutheran theologian, murdered around 24 May 1977.
* Bob Merrill, 76, American songwriter, theatrical composer and screenwriter, suicide.
* Sheila Raynor, 91, British actress.
* Ruth Robertson, 92, American photojournalist.
* Marie-Louise von Franz, 83, Swiss Jungian psychologist and scholar.
* Albert Wass, 90, Hungarian nobleman, novelist and poet, suicide.

### 18

* Lidia Bongiovanni, 83, Italian versatile athlete.
* James E. Boyd, 91, American physicist and mathematician.
* Harry Caray, 83, American television and radio broadcaster, heart attack.
* David Crouch, 78, British politician.
* Antonio Escuriet, 88, Spanish road cyclist.
* Robbie James, 40, Welsh footballer, heart attack.
* Scott O'Hara, 36, American pornographic performer, author, poet and publisher, AIDS.
* Messias Timula, 49, Portuguese footballer.
* Mya Than Tint, 68, Myanmar writer, brain hemorrhage.
* Richard Crawford White, 74, American politician, heart attack.

### 19

* Wolfgang Händler, 77, German mathematician and pioneering computer scientist.
* Grandpa Jones, 84, American "old time" country and gospel music singer, stroke.
* George Male, 87, English footballer.
* Charlie Martin, 84, Welsh racing driver.
* Mancur Olson, 66, American economist and social scientist.
* Leo Righetti, 72, American baseball player.
* Thomas F. Riley, 85, United States Marine Corps brigadier general, cardiac arrest.
* Talish, Pakistani actor.

### 20

* Francis Coulson, 78, British chef and hotelier.
* John Fulton, 65, American bullfighter, heart attack.
* Henry Livings, 68, English playwright and screenwriter.
* David McClure, 72, Scottish artist and lecturer.
* Ivor Mairants, 90, Polish jazz and classical guitarist, teacher and composer.
* Bob McBride, 51, Canadian rock singer-songwriter, heart failure.
* Virgilio Tommasi, 92, Italian long jumper and Olympian.

### 21

* Archie Aikman, 72, Scottish football player.
* Ramón Bravo, 72, Mexican diver, photographer and underwater filmmaker, heart attack.
* Santos Colon, 75, Puerto Rican bolero and mambo singer.
* Ellis Credle, 95, American children's author and illustrator.
* James M. Edie, 70, American philosopher, cancer.
* George Fant, 81, Swedish actor, director and theater manager, pneumonia.
* Karl Geyer, 98, Austrian football player and coach.
* Yoshio Miyajima, 89, Japanese cinematographer.
* John Nicolella, 52, American film, television director and producer.
* Baboo Nimal, 89, Indian field hockey player and Olympian.
* Om Prakash, 78, Indian actor.
* William Wheeler, 87, English Roman Catholic prelate and bishop.

### 22

* Carlo Dionisotti, 89, Italian literary critic, philologist and essayist.
* Alfred Hales, 88, Canadian businessman and politician.
* Sandy Hume, 28, American journalist, suicide by gunshot.
* José María de Areilza, Count of Motrico, 88, former Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs.
* Emmy Lou Packard, 83, American artist.
* Russell Reeder, 95, United States Army officer and author.
* Abraham A. Ribicoff, 87, American Democratic Party Party politician.
* Athol Rowan, 77, South African international cricket player.
* Donald S. Russell, 92, American judge and politician.
* Warren B. Woodson, 94, American football, basketball, and baseball coach, colon cancer.
* Han Youwen, 85, Chinese general in the National Revolutionary Army.

### 23

* Philip Abbott, 73, American actor, cancer.
* Marie Adams, 72, American gospel and R&B singer.
* Augusta Braxton Baker, 86, African-American librarian and storyteller.
* Keith Christopher, 40, American actor, singer/songwriter and AIDS activist, AIDS.
* Chuck Hayward, 78, American motion picture stuntman and actor, Hodgkin's Disease.
* Raman Lamba, 38, Indian cricketer, cricket accident.
* Sean A. Moore, 33, American fantasy and science fiction writer, traffic collision.
* Potti Prasad, 69, Indian actor.
* Ray Stoviak, 82, American baseball player.
* Billy Sullivan, 82, American businessman, prostate cancer.

### 24

* Geoffrey Bush, 77, British composer and music scholar, prostate cancer.
* Daniel J. Crowley, 76, American art historian and cultural anthropologist, congestive heart failure.
* Leonard Daniels, 88, British artist and teacher.
* Elinor Field, 96, American film actress.
* Clara Fraser, 74, American marxist, feminist and activist, emphysema.
* Ernst Gutstein, 73, Austrian operatic baritone.
* Harold Keith, 95, American author.
* Terry Langford, 31, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* Milicent Patrick, 82, American actress, makeup artist and animator.
* Lalita Pawar, 81, Indian actress.
* Antonio Prohías, 77, Cuban cartoonist (Spy vs. Spy), lung cancer.
* Abraham Shneior, 69, Israeli basketball player.
* Henny Youngman, 91, English-American comedian.

### 25

* Frans Bonduel, 90, Belgian road bicycle racer.
* Francesca Braggiotti, 95, Italian dancer and actress.
* Joe Gallagher, 83, American baseball player.
* Harlan Hatcher, 99, American novelist and university president.
* Wanda Jakubowska, 90, Polish film director.
* Umberto Mastroianni, 87, Italian abstract sculptor.
* W. O. Mitchell, 83, Canadian writer and broadcaster, prostate cancer.
* Pruden, 81, Spanish football player.
* B. A. Santamaria, 82, Australian anti-communist political activist and journalist, brain cancer.
* Rockin' Sidney, 59, American R&B, zydeco and soul musician, throat cancer.
* Vico Torriani, 77, Swiss actor and Schlager singer, cancer.
* Luigi Veronesi, 89, Italian photographer, painter, and film director.

### 26

* James Algar, 85, American film director, screenwriter and producer.
* Jaap ter Haar, 75, Dutch children's author.
* Jimmy Hagan, 80, English football player and manager.
* Otto Haxel, 88, German nuclear physicist.
* Robert Jones, 67, American lawyer, politician and civil rights litigator.
* Josef Knottenbelt, 87, Dutch tennis player.
* Shirley Ardell Mason, 75, American psychiatric patient and art teacher, breast cancer.
* Stepan Neustroev, 75, Soviet officer and World War II hero.
* Theodore Schultz, 95, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate.

### 27

* Larry Friend, 62, American basketball player, prostate cancer.
* John Harman, 65, Australian politician.
* George H. Hitchings, 92, American scientist and Nobel Prize laureate.
* Martin Hollis, 59, British philosopher.
* Elsy Jacobs, 64, Luxembourgish road bicycle racer.
* Gerald David Lascelles, 73, British nobleman.
* Jack Micheline, 68, American painter and poet.
* Henry Munyaradzi, 66/67, Zimbabwean sculptor.
* Alice Rivaz, 96, Swiss author and feminist.
* J. T. Walsh, 54, American actor (A Few Good Men, Sling Blade, Backdraft), heart attack.

### 28

* Ivan Arkhipov, 90, Soviet and Russian statesman.
* Todd Duncan, 95, American opera singer and actor, heart ailment.
* Hildegarde Howard, 96, American paleontologist.
* Daniel Katz, 94, American psychologist.
* Marie Kettnerová, 86, Czech table tennis player.
* Dermot Morgan, 45, Irish comedian and actor (Father Ted), heart attack.
* Antonio Quarracino, 74, Argentine Roman Catholic cardinal and archbishop, heart attack.
* Arkady Shevchenko, 67, Russian/Soviet diplomat and defector, liver cirrhosis.
* Injac Zamputi, 88, Albanian scholar, writer, and historian.