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

## October 1998
### 1

* Pauline Julien, 70, Quebec singer, songwriter, actress and feminist activist, suicide.
* Sjur Lindebrække, 89, Norwegian banker and politician.
* Vladimir Ossipoff, 90, Russian-American architect.
* Gabriel Sandu, 45, Romanian football player.

### 2

* Gene Autry, 91, American Hall of Fame singer ("Back in the Saddle Again", "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer") and actor (The Gene Autry Show), lymphoma.
* Jerzy Bińczycki, 61, Polish stage and film actor, heart attack.
* DONDI, 37, American graffiti artist, AIDS.
* William J. Eccles, 81, Canadian historian and academic.
* Olin J. Eggen, 79, American astronomer.
* Olivier Gendebien, 74, Belgian racing driver.
* Enrico Pagani, 69, Italian basketball player.
* Korla Pandit, 77, American composer, pianist, and organist, heart attack.
* Raymond Raikes, 88, British theatre producer, director and broadcaster.
* D. French Slaughter, Jr., 73, American politician.
* Adrian Spies, 78, American screenwriter.
* Roger Vivier, 90, French women's shoe designer.
* Richard Way, 84, British civil servant and academic administrator.
* Sanjaasürengiin Zorig, 36, Mongolian politician and revolutionary, assassinated.

### 3

* Hugo Batalla, 72, Uruguayan politician, vice president (1995-1998), lung cancer.
* Arthur Clues, 74, Australian rugby player.
* George Davis, 84, American art director (The Robe, The Diary of Anne Frank, Funny Face), Oscar winner (1954, 1960).
* David C. Evans, 74, American computer scientist.
* Bernard Fox, 81, American figure skater.
* Colin Greenwood, 62, South African rugby player.
* Roddy McDowall, 70, British-American actor (Planet of the Apes, Cleopatra, Fright Night), lung cancer.
* G. S. Venkataraman, 68, Indian botanist.
* Anne-Marie Walters, 75, Swiss-British Special Operations Executive during World War II.
* George Yates, 90, Australian businessman and politician.

### 4

* S. Arasaratnam, 68, Sri Lankan academic, historian and author.
* Jean-Pascal Delamuraz, 62, Swiss politician.
* Lee Grissom, 90, American baseball player.
* Enea Pavani, 77, Italian curler.
* Tony Shelly, 61, New Zealand racing driver.

### 5

* Megs Jenkins, 81, English actress.
* Krzysztof Jung, 47, Polish painter, graphic artist and performer, asthma.
* Pierre Martory, 77, French poet.
* Federico Zeri, 77, Italian art historian.
* Arne Øien, 69, Norwegian economist and politician.

### 6

* Mark Belanger, 54, American baseball player, lung cancer.
* Ambrose Burke, 102, English professor and Catholic priest.
* Rolan Bykov, 68, Soviet and Russian actor, theatre and film director and screenwriter, lung cancer.
* Bob Gude, 80, American football player.
* Jean-François Jenny-Clark, 54, French double bass player, cancer.
* James Larkin, 66, Irish Gaelic football player and politician.
* Samuel Messick, 67, American psychologist.
* Stéphane Morin, 29, Canadian ice hockey player, heart problems.
* Joseph J. Sandler, 71, British psychoanalyst.
* Chuck Walton, 57, American gridiron football player.
* Jerome Weidman, 85, American playwright and novelist.

### 7

* Evelyn Daniel Anderson, 72, American educator and disability rights advocate.
* Richard Cyert, 77, American economist and statistician, cancer.
* Cees de Vreugd, 46, Dutch strongman, heart attack.
* W. B. Gallie, 86, Scottish social theorist and philosopher.
* Arnold Jacobs, 83, American tubist.
* Renato Malavasi, 94, Italian film actor.
* Joseph P. Merlino, 76, American Party politician.
* Lee Nak-hoon, 62, South Korean actor, heart disease and diabetes.
* Ru Zhijuan, 72, Chinese writer.

### 8

* Curtis Cassell, 85, German-British rabbi.
* Zhang Chongren, 91, Chinese artist and sculptor.
* Mohanlal Lallubhai Dantwala, 89, Indian agricultural economist, academic and writer.
* Jashim, 48, Bangladeshi film actor, producer and freedom fighter, brain haemorrhage.
* West Nkosi, 58, South African music producer, saxophonist and songwriter, traffic collision.
* Gigi Reder, 70, Italian character actor.
* Glenn Spearman, 51, American jazz tenor saxophonist, cancer.
* Anatol Vieru, 72, Romanian music theoretician, pedagogue, and composer.

### 9

* Robert Allen, 92, American actor, cancer.
* Anthony Alonzo, 50, Filipino actor, singer, and councilor of Quezon City, skin cancer.
* Beth Bonner, 46, American long-distance runner, traffic collision.
* George Rankine Irwin, 91, American scientist in the field of fracture mechanics and strength of materials.
* Ian Johnson, 80, Australian cricketer.
* John Geddes MacGregor, 88, British-American author, scholar, and priest.
* Nagbhushan Patnaik, 63, Indian communist revolutionary and politician.
* Gustavo Petricioli, 70, Mexican economist, heart attack.
* Xiao Yang, 69, Chinese politician.

### 10

* Clark Clifford, 91, American lawyer and politician.
* Jackie Forster, 71, English news reporter, actress and lesbian rights activist.
* Marvin Gay Sr., 84, American minister and father of Marvin Gaye, pneumonia.
* Pierce Lyden, 90, American actor.
* William Markowitz, 91, American astronomer.
* Tony Marvin, 86, American radio and television announcer.
* Rachel Cosgrove Payes, 75, American novelist and author.
* Konstantin Petrzhak, 91, Russian nuclear physicist.
* Tommy Quaid, 41, Irish hurler, injuries sustained from a fall.
* Berta Rahm, 88, Swiss architect, writer and feminist activist.
* El Tappe, 71, American baseball player and coach, cancer.

### 11

* Richard Denning, 84, American actor, heart attack.
* Fred Harris, 86, English footballer.
* Lars Theodor Jonsson, 94, Swedish cross-country skier.
* Michael Wynn, 7th Baron Newborough, 81, British peer and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve officer.
* Spottswood William Robinson III, 82, American civil rights attorney and US Circuit Judge.
* Gaius Shaver, 88, American football player and Olympian.

### 12

* Jürgen Aschoff, 85, German physician, biologist and behavioral physiologist.
* Bernhard Minetti, 93, German actor.
* Julio Saraceni, 86, Argentine film director.
* Ineko Sata, 94, Japanese author and communist.
* Matthew Shepard, 21, American murder victim, beaten to death.
* Wilson Allen Wallis, 85, American economist and statistician.

### 13

* Thomas Byberg, 82, Norwegian speed skater and Olympic medalist.
* Dmitry Nikolayevich Filippov, 54, Soviet and Russian politician and industrialist, assassinated.
* P. T. Narasimhachar, 93, Indian Kannada playwright and poet.
* Bojan Pečar, 38, Serbian/Yugoslav musician, heart attack.
* Jeremy Vargas Sagastegui, 27, American criminal, execution by lethal injection.
* Gérard Charles Édouard Thériault, 66, Canadian pilot and Chief of the Defence Staff.

### 14

* Cleveland Amory, 81, American author, reporter and animal rights activist, abdominal aortic aneurysm.
* Leopoldina Bălănuță, 63, Romanian actress.
* Dasarath Deb, 82, Indian communist politician.
* Betty Gillies, 90, American aviation pioneer.
* Giorgio Oberweger, 84, Italian discus thrower and Olympic medalist.
* Frankie Yankovic, 93, American polka musician, heart failure.

### 15

* Rolf Agop, 90, German conductor and academic.
* Colette Darfeuil, 92, French actress.
* Mãe Cleusa Millet, 75, Brazilian physician and spiritual leader.
* Ike Owens, 79, Welsh rugby player.
* Iain Crichton Smith, 70, Scottish poet and novelist.

### 16

* Carlos Aldabe, 79, Argentine football player and coach.
* Frank Carswell, 78, American baseball player and manager.
* Jon Postel, 55, American computer scientist, complications from heart surgery.
* Joseph Stamler, 86, American lawyer and judge.
* M. Vasalis, 89, Dutch poet and psychiatrist.

### 17

* Antonio Agri, 66, Argentine musician, cancer.
* Germán List Arzubide, 100, Mexican poet and revolutionary.
* Brian Dickson, 82, Canadian military officer and judge.
* Muhammad Abdullah Ghazi, 63, Pakistani religious leader, shot.
* Joan Hickson, 92, English actress (Miss Marple).
* Carmen Molina, 78, Mexican actress, singer, and dancer.
* Hakim Said, 78, Pakistani scholar and philanthropist, murdered.
* Tron, 26, German hacker and phreaker, suicide by hanging.
* Karel Vohralík, 53, Czech ice hockey player.

### 18

* Frédéric Fitting, 96, Swiss fencer and Olympian.
* Peter A. Griffin, 61, American mathematician, author, and blackjack expert.
* Alfred Praks, 96, Estonian wrestler and Olympian.
* Dick Sheppard, 53, English footballer.
* George Shaw Wheeler, 90, American advisor to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and defector.

### 19

* Arnold M. Auerbach, 86, American comedy writer.
* Frank J. Brasco, 66, American politician.
* Tommy Burks, 58, American farmer and politician, murdered.
* Chaduranga, 82, Indian Kannada writer.
* Edward Flannery, 86, American Roman Catholic priest and author, pancreatic cancer.
* Fritz Honka, 63, German serial killer.
* Charlton Ogburn, 87, American journalist and author, suicide.
* Compton I. White, Jr., 77, American politician.

### 20

* John Mowbray Didcott, 67, South African lawyer and judge, cancer.
* Frank Gillard, 89, British BBC reporter and radio pioneer.
* Gerhard Jahn, 71, German politician, cancer.
* Spike Nelson, 92, American football player and coach.
* René Pleimelding, 73, French football player and manager.

### 21

* Josef Bremm, 84, Nazi Germany Wehrmacht officer.
* Scott Brower, 34, American ice hockey player, traffic collision.
* Alexander Cairncross, 87, British economist.
* Cheng Lianzhen, 77, Chinese politician and bandit leader.
* John Hazen, 71, American basketball player.
* Nicholas Kemmer, 86, Russian-British nuclear physicist.
* Hans Alfred Nieper, 70, German alternative medicine practitioner.
* Alan Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury, 96, British businessman.
* Tatiana Tolmacheva, 91, Soviet figure skater and figure skating coach.

### 22

* Eric Ambler, 89, English thriller author.
* Nathalia Crane, 85, American poet and novelist.
* Burton M. Cross, 95, American businessman, politician and governor.
* Ajit Khan, 76, Indian actor.
* Molly O'Day, 89, American film actress.
* Violet Owen, 96, British tennis and hockey player.
* Ángel Picazo, 81, Spanish film actor, cancer.
* Francis W. Sargent, 83, American politician and governor.

### 23

* Noel Carroll, 56, Irish middle distance runner and Olympian, heart attack.
* Christopher Gable, 58, English ballet dancer, choreographer and actor, cancer.
* Winnie Ruth Judd, 93, American convicted murderer.
* Zangeres Zonder Naam, 79, Dutch levenslied singer, heart attack.
* Barnett Slepian, 52, American physician, homicide.
* Silviu Stănculescu, 66, Romanian actor, leukemia.

### 24

* Rafael Alonso, 78, Spanish actor.
* Dennis Ayling, 81, British cinematographer.
* Charles Barnes, 96, Australian politician.
* Mary Calderone, 94, American physician and sexual education advocate.
* Pino Dordoni, 72, Italian race walker and Olympic champion.
* Ardalion Ignatyev, 67, Soviet track and field athlete and Olympic medalist.

### 25

* Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth, 93, British mycologist and scientific historian.
* Robin Brook, 90, British banker and Olympic fencer.
* Geoff Crain, 67, Canadian football player.
* Dick Higgins, 60, American artist, composer, poet, and publisher, heart attack.
* John Hyland, 86, United States Navy admiral.
* Gavriil Malish, 91, Soviet and Russian painter, watercolorist and graphic artist.
* Susan Strange, 75, British scholar and political scientist.
* Warren Wiebe, 45, American vocalist and session musician, suicide.

### 26

* Nicholas Budgen, 60, British politician, liver cancer.
* Rick Dior, 51, American sound engineer (Apollo 13, Dirty Dancing, Ransom), Oscar winner (1996), heart attack.
* Kenkichi Iwasawa, 81, Japanese mathematician.
* Margaret Keay, 87, British phytopathologist.
* José Cardoso Pires, 73, Portuguese author.
* Hugh David Stevenson, 80, Royal Australian Navy officer.
* Terry Thomas, 45, American basketball player.
* Selvarajan Yesudian, 82, Swiss yogi and author.

### 27

* Alfred Gray, 59, American mathematician, heart attack.
* Rosamund John, 85, English film and stage actress.
* Reidar Kvammen, 84, Norwegian footballer.
* Daniel Pedoe, 87, English mathematician and geometer.
* Luis Prendes, 85, Spanish actor, cancer.
* Gene Taylor, 70, American politician.
* Klári Tolnay, 84, Hungarian actress.
* Winnie van Weerdenburg, 52, Dutch swimmer and Olympic medalist.

### 28

* Ghulam Ahmed, 76, Indian cricket player.
* Cuthbert Alport, Baron Alport, 86, British politician, minister and life peer.
* Sherman Block, 74, American politician and sheriff.
* James L. Day, 73, United States Marine Corps major general.
* Tommy Flowers, 92, English engineer and electronic computing pioneer.
* James Goldman, 71, American screenwriter (The Lion in Winter, Nicholas and Alexandria) and playwright (Follies), Oscar winner (1969), heart attack.
* Ted Hughes, 68, English poet and children's writer, heart attack.
* Margaret Marley Modlin, 71, American painter, sculptor and photographer.
* Wang Shuming, 92, Chinese airforce colonel general.

### 29

* Anthony J. Celebrezze, 88, American politician.
* Alvin M. Johnston, 84, American jet-age test pilot, Alzheimer's disease.
* Gilda Lousek, 60, Argentine actress.
* Paul Misraki, 90, French composer of music and film scores.
* Harry Weese, 83, American architect, stroke.

### 30

* Vishram Bedekar, 92, Indian writer and movie director.
* Guido De Santi, 75, Italian racing cyclist.
* Apo Lazaridès, 73, French cyclist.
* Bulldog Turner, 79, American football player and coach.
* Lam Van Phat, Army of the Republic of Vietnam officer.
* Elmer Vasko, 62, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks, Minnesota North Stars).
* Heinz Westphal, 74, German politician.

### 31

* Kenneth Darling, 89, British Army general.
* María de la Purísima de la Cruz, 72, Spanish Roman Catholic nun.
* Bernard J. Dwyer, 77, American Democratic Party politician, heart attack.
* Vassar Miller, 74, American writer and poet.
* Noah Mullins, 80, American gridiron football player.
* Lou Rymkus, 78, American football player and coach, stroke.
* Bob Thurman, 81, American baseball player.