page_title: 1998 in the United Kingdom
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1998 in the United Kingdom / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: Linda McCartney at the Los Angeles Forum Club during the 1976 Wings Over America tour
context_page_description: Events from the year 1998 in the United Kingdom.
context_section_description: 2 January – Frank Muir, actor, comedy writer and raconteur (born 1920)
  5 January – David Bairstow, English cricketer (born 1951)
  13 January – Ian Moores, former footballer (born 1954)
  18 January – Monica Edwards, children's writer (born 1912)
  8 February – Enoch Powell, politician (born 1912)
  7 March – Bernarr Rainbow, historian of music education, organist, and choir master (born 1941)
  10 March – Ian Dunn, gay and paedophile rights activist, founder of the Scottish Minorities Group (born 1943 )
  16 March
  Derek Harold Richard Barton, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)
  Noel Stephen Paynter, Royal Air Force officer (born 1898)
  25 March – Daniel Massey, actor (born 1933)
  5 April – Cozy Powell, rock musician (born 1947)
  11 April – Francis Durbridge, playwright and author (born 1912)
  16 April – Fred Davis, snooker and billiards player (born 1913)
  17 April – Linda McCartney, American-born, British-based photographer and musician (born 1941)
  20 April – Joan Mary Wayne Brown, British author (b. 1906)
  2 May
  Kevin Lloyd, actor (born 1949)
  Justin Fashanu, footballer (born 1961; suicide)
  10 June – Hammond Innes, author (born 1914)
  11 June – Catherine Cookson, author (born 1906)
  13 June – Reg Smythe, cartoonist (born 1917)
  22 June – Benny Green, writer, radio broadcaster and saxophonist (b. 1927).
  18 July – Betty Marsden, comedy actress (born 1919)
  27 July – Binnie Barnes, actress (born 1903)
  4 August – Richard Dunn, CEO of Thames Television (born 1943)
  2 September – Jackie Blanchflower, footballer (born 1933)
  4 September – Lal Waterson, folk singer-songwriter (born 1943)
  3 October – Roddy McDowall, actor (born 1928)
  17 October – Joan Hickson, actress (born 1906)
  20 October – Frank Gillard, radio broadcaster (born 1909)
  22 October – Eric Ambler, novelist and playwright (born 1909)
  28 October – Ted Hughes, poet and children's writer (born 1930)
  12 November – Roy Hollis, footballer (born 1925)
  13 November – Doug Wright, English cricketer (b. 1914)
  29 November – Martin Ruane, British professional wrestler (b. 1947)
  December 2 – Brian Stonehouse, painter and World War II secret agent (born 1918)
  7 December – Michael Craze, actor (born 1942)
  13 December – Lew Grade, showbusiness impresario and television company executive (born 1906 in Ukraine)
  20 December – Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1914)
  21 December
  Roger Avon, British actor (b. 1914)
  Richard Turnbull, British colonial governor (b. 1909)
  30 December – George Webb, actor (born 1911)
caption: Linda McCartney
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