page_title: 1998
section_title: October
hierarchical_section_title: 1998 / Deaths / October
caption_attribution_description: Roddy McDowall at the Academy Awards (cropped)
context_page_description: 1998 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1998th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 998th year of the 2nd millennium, the 98th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1990s decade.
  1998 was designated as the International Year of the Ocean.
context_section_description: October 2
  Gene Autry, American actor, singer, and sports team owner (b. 1907)
  Olin J. Eggen, American astronomer (b. 1919)
  Olivier Gendebien, Belgian race car driver (b. 1924)
  October 3 – Roddy McDowall, British-born American actor (b. 1928)
  October 6 – Rolan Bykov, Soviet and Russian actor, director and producer (b. 1929)
  October 9 – Ian Johnson, Australian cricketer (b. 1917)
  October 10 – Clark Clifford, American lawyer and politician (b. 1906)
  October 11 – Richard Denning, American actor (b. 1914)
  October 12 – Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (b. 1976)
  October 16 – Jon Postel, American Internet pioneer (b. 1943)
  October 17 – Joan Hickson, British actress (b. 1906)
  October 21 – Scott Brower, American ice hockey goaltender (b. 1964)
  October 22 – Eric Ambler, British writer (b. 1909)
  October 24 – Pino Dordoni, Italian athlete (b. 1926)
  October 26 – Kenkichi Iwasawa, Japanese mathematician (b. 1917)
  October 27 – Reidar Kvammen, Norwegian footballer (b. 1914)
  October 28
  Tommy Flowers, English engineer (b. 1905)
  James Goldman, American writer (b. 1927)
  October 29 – Ted Hughes, English poet (b. 1930)
  October 30 – Apo Lazaridès, French cyclist (b. 1925)
caption: Roddy McDowall
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