Deaths in June 1998

The following is a list of notable deaths in June 1998.

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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.

June 1998

1

• Rex Bumgardner, 74, American gridiron football player.
• Brojen Das, 70, Bengali swimmer, cancer.
• Darwin Joston, 60, American actor, leukemia.[1]
• Junkyard Dog, 45, American professional wrestler, traffic collision.[2]
• Hernando Tejada, 74, Colombian painter and sculptor.

2

• Helen Carter, 70, American country music singer, heart problems.[3]
• P. Andrew Cooray, 96, Sri Lankan politician.
• Oran Henderson, 77, United States Army brigade commander of the units involved in the Mỹ Lai massacre massacre.[4]
• Gonzalo Martínez Ortega, 64, Mexican actor, screenwriter and producer, traffic collision.
• Dorothy Stickney, 101, American actress.[5]

3

• Pat Abbruzzi, 65, American gridiron football player.
• Poul Bundgaard, 75, Danish actor and singer.
• Joseph C. Harsch, 93, American journalist.[6]
• William L. Snyder, 80, American film producer, Alzheimer's disease.[7]

4

• Aarudhra, 72, Indian author, poet, publisher, and playwright.
• Clancy Carlile, 68, American novelist and screenwriter, cancer.[8]
• Josephine Hutchinson, 94, American actress.[9]
• Ray Montgomery, 76, American actor.
• Miguel Montuori, 65, Italian Argentine football player.
• Shirley Povich, 92, American journalist.[10]
• David Walsh, 52, Canadian businessman, aneurysm.[11]

5

• Alfred Kazin, 83, American writer and literary critic.[12]
• Jeanette Nolan, 86, American actress.[13]
• Claudia Parsons, 97, British engineer, writer and traveller.
• Dieter Roth, 68, Swiss artist, heart attack.[14]
• B. M. Shah, Indian theatre director and playwright.
• Prentiss Walker, 80, American politician.
• Sam Yorty, 88, American politician.[15]

6

• Marshall Green, 82, American diplomat.[16]
• Jatoe Kaleo, Ghanaian traditional ruler and politician.
• Peter Wong, 66, Canadian politician, heart attack.

7

• Tom Buskey, 51, American baseball player, complications from a heart attack.
• James Byrd Jr., 49, African American murder victim, murdered.[17]
• Jerry Capehart, 69, American songwriter and music manager.[18]
• Mildred Horn, 97, American film critic and screenwriter.
• Hans Ramberg, 81, Norwegian-Swedish geologist.

8

• Sani Abacha, 54, Nigerian Army officer and dictator, poisoned.[19]
• George Longridge, 66, Scottish footballer.
• Jackie McGlew, 69, South African cricketer.
• Maria Reiche, 95, German-Peruvian mathematician and archaeologist.[20]

9

• Agostino Casaroli, 83, Italian Catholic priest and diplomat for the Holy See.
• Lois Mailou Jones, 92, American artist and teacher.[21]
• Barton Holland Warnock, 86, American botanist, heart attack.

10

• Paudge Brennan, 76, Irish politician.
• Bobby Bryant, 64, American jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist, heart attack.
• David English, 67, British journalist and newspaper editor.[22]
• Steve Griffiths, 84, English footballer.
• Jim Hearn, 77, American baseball player.[23]
• Hammond Innes, 84, English author.
• Nivedita Jain, 19, Indian beauty contestant and an actress, fall.[24]
• Pat Masulli, 67, American comic book creator.
• Steve Sanders, 45, American musician, singer and songwriter, suicide.
• John G. Smith, 73, American baseball coach, pneumonia.[25]

11

• Thomas Abernethy, 95, American politician.
• Harry Anderson, 66, American baseball player.
• Don Beauvais, 77, Australian rules footballer.
• Dame Catherine Cookson, 91, British author.[26]
• Alexei Eriomin, 79, Russian Soviet realist painter.
• Leopoldo Salcedo, 86, Filipino film actor.
• John Jairo Moreno Torres, 19, Colombian criminal and serial killer, murdered.

12

• Leo Buscaglia, 74, American author and motivational speaker, heart attack.[27]
• Retta Davidson, 76, American animator.
• John Gutmann, 93, German-American photographer and painter.[28]
• Theresa Merritt, 75, American actress and singer, skin cancer.[29]
• Christina Marie Williams, 13, American murder victim, homicide.[30]

13

• Nisim Aloni, 71, Israeli playwright and translator.
• Lúcio Costa, 96, Brazilian architect and urban planner.[31]
• Gil Duthie, 86, Australian politician.
• Buddy Elrod, 79, American football player.
• Alfred Horace Gerrard, 99, English modernist sculptor.[32]
• Birger Ruud, 86, Norwegian ski jumper.
• Reg Smythe, 80, British cartoonist.[33]
• Yoshio Sugino, 93, Japanese martial artist and film choreographer.
• Éric Tabarly, 86, French naval officer and yachtsman, drowning.
• Henry Tatana, 53, New Zealand rugby league player.
• Walter H. Williams, 77, America artist, painter, printmaker, and sculptor.

14

• Camillo Achilli, 76, Italian footballer.
• Hans W. Brimi, 80, Norwegian farmer and traditional folk musician.[34]
• Ginette Mathiot, 91, French food writer.[35]
• Ajit Sarkar, 50/51, Indian politician.
• Kadamba Simmons, 24, British actress and model, murdered.
• Oliver Treyz, 80, American network television executive.[36]

15

• Suzanne Eisendieck, 91, German painter.
• Morris Kestelman, 92, British artist.[37]
• Thierry Salmon, 41, Belgian actor and theatre director, traffic accident.
• Anton van Wilderode, 79, Belgian priest, writer and poet.

16

• Roberto Cañedo, 80, Mexican actor.
• Keith Newton, 56, English footballer.[38]
• Jafar Sharif-Emami, 85, Iranian politician.
• Fitzroy Talbot, 88, British Royal Navy officer.
• Teresa Martínez de Varela, 84, Colombian writer.

17

• John Carberry, 93, American Roman Catholic prelate.[39]
• Eric G. Hall, 75, Pakistan Air Force bomber and fighter pilot.
• Gianni Lunadei, 60, Italian Argentine actor.
• Dina de Marco, 60, Mexican actress and television director, cancer.
• Muhammad Metwally Al Shaarawy, 87, Egyptian Muslim jurist.
• Mohammad Sabir, 54, Pakistani cricketer.

18

• Otto Baum, 86, German commander of the Waffen-SS during World War II.
• Paul van Buren, 74, American theologian and author, cancer.[40]
• Archie Edwards, 79, American blues guitarist.
• Edward Eliscu, 96, American lyricist, playwright, producer and actor.[41]
• Ernesto Grillo, 68, Argentine footballer.
• Svein Heglund, 79, Norwegian engineer, RAF officer and flying ace.
• Kim Jin-kyu, 76, South Korean actor, film director and producer.
• Felix Knight, 89, American tenor, actor, and vocal teacher.[42]
• Charles Korvin, 90, Hungarian-born American actor, photographer and master chef.[43]
• Nigel Maynard, 76, British Royal Air Force commander.
• Nazim Panipati, Pakistani film song lyricist and film script writer.
• Herbert J. Sweet, 78, United States Marine Sergeant Major, respiratory failure.[44]

19

• John Camkin, 75, English journalist and sports commentator, cancer.
• Anatoly Kasheida, 69, Ukrainian-Soviet writer, poet and journalist.
• John Krushenick, 71, American painter and gallery owner.
• Elio Ragni, 87, Italian athlete.
• Howard J. Whitmore Jr., 93, American politician.[45]

20

• Bruno Barnabe, 93, English film and stage actor.
• Bobby Gimby, 79, Canadian orchestra leader, trumpeter, and singer-songwriter.
• Kali, 79, Polish-born American painter.
• Morris Muskat, 92, American petroleum engineer.
• George Van Peursem, American politician.
• Conrad Schumann, 56, East German border guard, suicide by hanging.[46]

21

• Harry Cranbrook Allen, 81, British historian of the United States.
• Emma Danieli, 61, Italian actress and television personality.
• Gerhard Gundermann, 43, German singer-songwriter and rock musician, stroke.[47]
• François Lehideux, 94, French industrialist and member of the Vichy government.
• Peter Mander, 69, New Zealand yachtsman and Olympic gold medal winner.*Sir Foley Newns, 79, British colonial administrator.[48]

22

• Narciso Abeyta, Navajo painter and silversmith, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Phil Campbell, 81, American farmer and politician.[49]
• Juliusz Bogdan Deczkowski, 74, Polish soldier during World War II, and later inventor and writer.
• Benny Green, 70, British writer, radio broadcaster and saxophonist, cancer.[50]
• Norberto Doroteo Méndez, 75, Argentine football player.
• Elisabeth Schooling, British ballet dancer.

23

• Leonard Jones, 74, Canadian lawyer and politician.
• Walter M. D. Kern, 61, American politician.
• Maureen O'Sullivan, 87, American actress.[51]
• Johnny Walsh, 88, Irish Gaelic footballer.

24

• Francine Agazarian, 85, French spy during World War II.
• Canito, 67, Spanish footballer.
• Beatrice Mandelman, 85, American abstract artist, cancer.[52]
• B. G. Prasada Rao, 81, Indian bishop in Medak.
• Vittorio Trancanelli, 54, Italian physician and Roman Catholic Venerable.

25

• David Ayalon, 84, Israeli historian of Islam and the Middle East.[53]
• Claudia Cockburn, 65, American-British disability activist.
• Peter Kamnitzer, 77, German-born American architect, heart attack.
• Lounès Matoub, 42, Algerian Berber singer, poet and political activist, assassinated.[54]

26

• Frank Arkell, 62, Australian politician, murdered.[55]
• Bobby Cairns, 69, Scottish football player.
• Eugene F. Clark, 86, U.S. Navy officer.
• Sero Khanzadyan, 82, Armenian writer.
• Vladimir Petukhov, 48, Russian mayor and murder victim, killed.
• Derek Rayner, Baron Rayner, 72, English businessman and life peer.[56]
• William R. Sears, 70, American politician.

27

• Pierre Boutang, 81, French philosopher, poet and translator.
• Sir Desmond Heap, 90, British lawyer and town planner.
• David Laitt, 67, English cricketer.
• Gilles Rocheleau, 62, Canadian politician.
• Joyce Wieland, 67, Canadian experimental visual artist.[57]
• Peter H. Wyden, 74, American journalist and writer.[58]

28

• Jonathan Benair, 47, American actor, cerebral hemorrhage and heart attack.[59]
• Marion Eugene Carl, 82, American flying ace during World War II and record-setting test pilot, shot during robbery.[60]
• Bill Elias, 75, American football coach.
• Božidar Ferjančić, 69, Serbian historian.
• Jack Rowley, 79, English footballer.
• Kamala Sohonie, 85, Indian biochemist.
• Denis Williams, 75, Guyanese painter, author and archaeologist.

29

• Slavko Dokmanović, 48, Croatian Serbian war criminal, suicide by hanging.
• Joseph G. Galway, 75, American meteorologist.[61]
• Küllo Kõiv, 25, Estonian wrestler, car accident.[62]
• Roy Milne, 77, Scottish-American football player.
• Kamalakara Kameswara Rao, 86, Indian film director, cardiac arrest.

30

• Galina Brezhneva, 69, Russian/Soviet socialite and daughter of General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev.
• George Parsons, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.
• John Peter, 61, Indian field hockey player.[63]
• Edward L. Varney, 83, American Modernist architect.

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