Deaths in March 1998

The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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.

March 1998

1

• Jean Marie Balland, 63, French Roman Catholic Cardinal.
• Archie Goodwin, 60, American comic book writer and artist, cancer.[1]
• Garner E. Shriver, 85, American politician.
• Robert Symonette, 73, Bahamian yachtsman and politician.

2

• Maamun al-Kuzbari, Syrian politician and literary personality.
• Henry Steele Commager, 95, American historian, pneumonia.[2]
• Robert A. Grant, 92, American politician and District Judge.
• Darcy O'Brien, 58, American author literary critic, heart attack.[3]

3

• Fred W. Friendly, 82, American television journalist and executive, stroke.[4]
• Edward Luckhoo, 85, Guyanese Governor General.
• Loren MacIver, 89, American painter.[5]
• Hedley Mattingly, 82, British actor, cancer.
• Marc Sautet, 51, French writer, translator and philosopher, brain tumor.

4

• Jim Cullom, 72, American gridiron football player (New York Yanks).
• Ivan Dougherty, 90, Australian Army officer.[6]
• Velmer A. Fassel, 78, American chemist.
• Syed Akbar Jaipuri, 69, Indian poet.
• Alberto Carlos Taquini, 92, Argentine cardiologist and academic.

5

• Jim McGuigan, 74, Canadian politician.
• Carleton Putnam, 96, American businessman, writer and segregationist, pneumonia.[7]
• Donald Woods, 91, Canadian-American actor.

6

• Rue Barclay, 76, Country & Western musician.[8]
• Ted Blake, 76, British trampoline pioneer.
• Benjamin Bowden, 91, British industrial designer.[9]
• Joe Shear, 54, American stock car racing driver, cancer.
• Vanna Vanni, 83, Italian film actress.

7

• Ziad Rafiq Beydoun, Lebanese petroleum geologist.[10]
• Bill Cable, 51, American actor, model and stunt performer, motorcycle accident.
• Josep Escolà, 83, Spanish footballer.
• Adem Jashari, 42, Kosovo Albanian militant separatist, murdered.
• Eleanor Ileen Johnson, 87, American survivor of the sinking of RMS Titanic.[11]
• Bernarr Rainbow, 83, British historian of music education, and choir master.[12]
• Leonie Rysanek, 71, Austrian dramatic soprano.[13]
• Eric Smith, 74, British Army officer and military historian.
• Wanda Tettoni, 87, Italian actress and voice actress.

8

• Laurie Beechman, 44, American actress and singer, cancer.[14]
• Jack Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Kingsbridge, 90, British politician and public servant.
• Jack McQuillan, 77, Irish politician, trade unionist and army officer.
• Beryl Newman, 86, United States Army officer and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
• Ray Nitschke, 61, American football player (Green Bay Packers) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, heart attack.[15]

9

• David MacAdam, 87, American physicist and color scientist.[16]
• Klaus Matthes, 62, German mathematician.
• Alfred Pugsley, 94, British structural engineer.
• Ulrich Schamoni, 58, German film director, screenwriter, actor and media proprietor, cancer.

10

• C. E. Beeby, 95, New Zealand educationalist and psychologist.
• Ilse Bing, 98, German photographer.[17]
• Lloyd Bridges, 85, American actor.[18]
• George Davis, 83, American motion picture art director.
• Alberto Morrocco, 80, Scottish artist.
• Anna Maria Ortese, 83, Italian author and poet.
• Edwin Raub, 76, American television personality.[19]
• Kenkō Satoshi, 30, Japanese Sumo wrestler, pulmonary embolism.

11

• Ilona Banga, 92, Hungarian biochemist.
• Basil Coetzee, 54, South African musician, cancer.
• Buddy Jeannette, 80, American basketball player and coach.[20]
• José Laurel Jr., 85, Filipino politician, pneumonia.

12

• Karrell Fox, 70, American magician and television performer.
• Jozef Kroner, 73, Slovak actor (The Shop on Main Street).
• Peter Nelson, 84, English cricket player and British Army officer.
• Beatrice Wood, 105, American artist and ceramicist.[21]
• David Zeidler, 79, Australian chemist and industrialist.

13

• Pere Alberch, 43, Spanish naturalist, biologist and embryologist.
• Philip Gale, 19, American Internet software pioneer and computer prodigy, suicide.[22]
• Claudio Gora, 84, Italian actor and film director.
• Andrew Gronholdt, 82, American Aleut artist.
• Judge Dread, 52, English musician, heart attack.[23]
• Dave Lewis, 59, American rock and R&B musician, cancer.
• Hans von Ohain, 86, German physicist and the designer of the first operational jet engine.[24]
• Bill Reid, 78, Canadian artist.
• Risen Star, 12, American thoroughbred racehorse.
• Anne Sayre, 74, American writer.[25]
• Peter Sillett, 65, England footballer, cancer.[26]
• Frano Vodopivec, 73, Croatian cinematographer.

14

• Abdul Rahman al-Eryani, 87, President of the Yemen Arab Republic.[27]
• Hugh Coveney, 62, Irish politician, fall.
• Dorothy Geddes, 61, British dental surgeon.
• Dada Kondke, 65, Indian actor and film producer.
• Dave Minor, 76, American basketball player.[28]
• Len Smith, 91, New Zealand swimmer.

15

• Malati Choudhury, 93, Indian civil rights and freedom activist.
• Tim Maia, 55, Brazilian musician and songwriter.
• Dušan Pašek, 37, Slovak ice hockey player, suicide by gunshot.
• Jheri Redding, 91, American hairdresser and businessman.[29]
• Benjamin Spock, 94, American pediatrician and author.[30]

16

• Sir Derek Barton, 79, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.[31]
• Esther Bubley, 77, American photographer, cancer.[32]
• Noel Stephen Paynter, 99, British chief intelligence officer of Bomber Command.

17

• Alain Bosquet, 78, French poet.[33]
• Milo Candini, 80, American baseball player.
• Douglas Harold Copp, 83, Canadian scientist.
• Len Toyne, 75, Australian rules footballer.
• Helen Westcott, 70, American actor and former child actor.[34]

18

• Joan Maie Freeman, 80, Australian physicist.
• Ted Jolliffe, 89, Canadian politician.[35]
• Klaus Mollenhauer, 69, German pedagogical theorist.
• Hideo Shima, 96, Japanese engineer and bullet train pioneer.[36]
• Robert E. Woodside, 93, American politician and judge.

19

• Simon Diedong Dombo, Ghanaian politician and king.
• Reuben Kelto, 78, American gridiron football player, complications of Alzheimer's disease.
• E. M. S. Namboodiripad, 88, Indian communist politician and theorist.[37]
• Jimmy Scoular, 73, Scottish football player and manager.

20

• Yemima Avidar-Tchernovitz, 88, Israeli author.
• Beverley Cross, 66, English playwright, librettist and screenwriter.[38]
• Sir Anthony Fell, 83, British politician.
• Agustín Gómez-Arcos, 65, Spanish writer, cancer.
• George Howard, 41, American jazz saxophonist, colon cancer.[39]
• Laddie Lucas, 82, British Air Force officer and politician.
• Catherine Sauvage, 68, French singer and actress.[40]

21

• Harry Arlanson, 88, American football and baseball coach.
• Ben Bagley, 64, American record producer and musical producer.[41]
• Ramanathapuram C. S. Murugabhoopathy, 84, Indian Mridanga maestro.
• Galina Ulanova, 88, Russian ballet dancer.[42]

22

• Jack R. Howard, 87, American broadcasting executive.[43]
• Shoichi Nishimura, Japanese football player and manager, pneumonia.
• Rube Reiswerg, 85, American basketball player.[44]

23

• Louis Arbessier, 90, French actor.
• Chuck Hunsinger, 72, American gridiron football player.
• Thomas MacDonald, 89, Irish cricketer.
• Hilda Morley, 81, American poet.[45]
• Ray Scott, 78, American sportscaster.[46]
• Gerald Stano, 46, American serial killer, execution by electrocution.[47]

24

• Åke Mangård, 81, Swedish Air Force major general.
• António Ribeiro, 69, Portuguese Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, cancer.
• Torben Tryde, 81, Danish writer, olympian and resistance fighter during World War II.
• Jill Ann Weatherwax, 27, American model and aspiring singer, homicide.[48]

25

• Daniel Massey, 64, English actor and performer, Hodgkin's lymphoma.[49]
• Clive Osborne, 75, Australian politician.
• Steven Schiff, 51, American politician, squamous-cell carcinoma.
• Chris Trickle, 24, American stock car racing driver, drive-by shooting.
• Wilfred Watson, 86, Canadian professor and author.
• Betsey Cushing Roosevelt Whitney, 88, American philanthropist.[50]

26

• Denis Charles, 64, American jazz drummer.[51]
• Kate Cruise O'Brien, 49, Irish writer.[52]
• Shantinath Desai, 69, Indian author.
• Beatrice Laura Goff, 94, American archaeologist and biblical scholar.
• Arthur S. Link, 77, Arthur S. Link, lung cancer.[53]
• Asha Posley, Pakistani actress.

27

• John William Comber, 92, American Catholic missionary and bishop.
• Chu Hsi-ning, 70, Taiwanese writer.
• Chen Jin, 90, Taiwanese painter.
• Joan Lestor, 66, British politician.[54]
• Joan Maynard, 76, English politician and trade unionist, cancer.[55]
• David McClelland, 80, American psychologist.[56]
• Steve Nemeth, 75, American gridiron football player.
• Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, 88, Austrian auto designer and businessman.[57]

28

• Else Elster, 88, German actress.
• Takekuni Hirayoshi, 61, Japanese classical composer.
• David Powers, 85, Special Assistant and secretary to John F. Kennedy.[58]
• Larry Stephens, 59, American gridiron football player (Cleveland Browns, Los Angeles Rams, Dallas Cowboys).

29

• Giuliano Biagetti, 72, Italian film director and screenwriter.
• Kvitka Cisyk, 44, American coloratura soprano.[59]
• David Nightingale Hicks, 69, English interior decorator and designer, lung cancer.
• Loreta, Iranian Armenian actress.
• Dick Phillips, 66, American baseball player, manager and coach.
• Carol Schlosberg, 40, American painter, murdered.[60]
• Eugene Walter, 76, American screenwriter, poet, actor, puppeteer and chef, liver cancer.[61]
• Harold E. Wilson, 76, United States Marine and recipient of the Medal of Honor.[62]
• Dudley Wysong, 58, American golfer, aneurysm.

30

• Michèle Arnaud, 79, French singer and director.
• Judy Buenoano, 54, American convicted murderer, executed by electrocution.[63]*Sir Frank King, 79, British Army officer.[64]
• Mordechai Olmert, 90, Israeli politician.
• Athelstan Spilhaus, 86, South African-American geophysicist and oceanographer.[65]

31

• Bella Abzug, 77, American lawyer, politician and social activist.[66]
• Yolanda Burkhard, 67, Canadian politician.
• John H. Cooke, 86, American lawyer and politician.
• Tim Flock, 73, American racecar driver and member of the NASCAR Hall of Fame, liver and throat cancer.[67]
• Henry George Glyde, 91, Canadian painter.
• Joel Ryce-Menuhin, 64, American pianist.
• Pete Tillman, 75, American football player and coach.

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