page_title: 1998
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1998 / Deaths / January
caption_attribution_description: English: US Congressional picture of Sonny Bono
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: January 1
  Åke Seyffarth, Swedish speed skater (b. 1919)
  Helen Wills, American tennis player (b. 1905)
  January 4
  Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, Italian film director (b. 1894)
  Mae Questel, American actress (b. 1908)
  January 5 – Sonny Bono, American singer, actor, and politician (b. 1935)
  January 6 – Georgy Sviridov, Soviet and Russian composer (b. 1915)
  January 7 – Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist (b. 1906)
  January 8 – Michael Tippett, English composer (b. 1905)
  January 9 – Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist (b. 1918)
  January 11 – Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (b. 1926)
  January 15
  Duncan McNaughton, Canadian Olympic athlete (b. 1910)
  Gulzarilal Nanda, Indian politician and economist (b. 1898)
  Junior Wells, American harmonica player (b. 1934)
  January 19 – Carl Perkins, American guitarist (b. 1932)
  January 21 – Jack Lord, American actor (b. 1920)
  January 23 – Alfredo Ormando, Italian writer (b. 1958)
  January 26 – Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese musician and educator (b. 1898)
  January 28 – Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese manga artist (b. 1938)
caption: Sonny Bono
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