Deaths in October 1998

The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.

October 1998

1

• Pauline Julien, 70, singer, songwriter, actress and feminist activist.[1]
• Jim Kearney, 78, New Zealand rugby player.
• Vere Lorrimer, 78, British television producer and director.
• John M. Steeves, 93, American diplomat.

2

• Gene Autry, 91, American actor, singer and sports team owner, lymphoma.[2]
• DONDI, 37, American graffiti artist, AIDS.
• Olin J. Eggen, 79, American astronomer.
• Elfriede Geiringer, 93, Jewish survivor of the World War II.
• Olivier Gendebien, 74, Belgian racing driver.[3]
• Raymond Raikes, 88, British theatre producer, director and broadcaster.
• Sir Richard Way, 84, British civil servant and academic administrator.
• Hoyt Winslett, 94, American college football player and businessman.
• Sanjaasürengiin Zorig, 36, Mongolian politician and revolutionary, assassinated.
• Roger Vivier, 90, French women's shoe designer.[4]

3

• Arthur Clues, 74, Australian rugby player.
• William Girometti, 74, Italian painter.
• Colin Greenwood, 62, South African rugby player.
• Roddy McDowall, 70, British-American actor, film director and photographer, lung cancer.[5]
• G. S. Venkataraman, 68, Indian botanist.
• Anne-Marie Walters, 75, Swiss-British Special Operations Executive during World War II.
• George Yates, 90, Australian businessman and politician.[6]

4

• S. Arasaratnam, 68, Sri Lankan academic, historian and author.
• Lee Grissom, 90, American baseball player.
• Tony Shelly, 61, New Zealand racing driver.[7]

5

• Joe Baum, 78, American restaurateur.
• Glenn A. Burklund, 74, American inventor and politician.
• Megs Jenkins, 81, English actress.[8]
• Krzysztof Jung, 47, Polish painter, graphic artist and performer, asthma.
• Pierre Martory, 77, French poet.
• Federico Zeri, 77, Italian art historian.[9]

6

• Mark Belanger, 54, American baseball player, lung cancer.[10]
• Ambrose Burke, 102, English professor and Catholic priest.
• Rolan Bykov, 68, Soviet and Russian actor, theatre and film director and screenwriter.[11]
• Bob Gude, 80, American football player.
• Samuel Messick, 67, American psychologist.[12]
• Stéphane Morin, 29, Canadian ice hockey player, undetected heart problems.[13]
• Joe Poovey, 57, American rockabilly and country singer and songwriter, heart condition.[14]
• Jerome Weidman, 85, American playwright and novelist.[15]

7

• Nicholas Raymond Cerio, 62, American martial artist.
• Richard Cyert, 77, American economist and statistician, cancer.[16]
• Ronnie Ford, 84, English cricket player and Royal Air Force officer.
• Arnold Jacobs, 83, American tubist.
• Joseph P. Merlino, 76, American Party politician.[17]
• Lee Nak-hoon, 62, South Korean actor, heart disease and diabetes.
• Ru Zhijuan, 72, Chinese writer.[18]
• Cees de Vreugd, 46, Dutch strongman, heart attack.

8

• Mario Ezcurdia Camacho, 73, Mexican journalist and writer.
• Zhang Chongren, 91, Chinese artist and sculptor.[19]
• Mohanlal Lallubhai Dantwala, 89, Indian agricultural economist, academic and writer.[20]
• Jashim, 48, Bangladeshi film actor, producer and freedom fighter, brain haemorrhage.
• Gigi Reder, 70, Italian character actor.

9

• Robert Allen, 92, American actor, cancer.[21]
• Anthony Alonzo, 50, Filipino actor, singer, and councilor of Quezon City, skin cancer.
• Ian Johnson, 80, Australian cricketer.[22]
• Gustavo Petricioli, 70, Mexican economist, heart attack.

10

• Al Beadle, 71, American architect.
• Clark Clifford, 91, American lawyer and politician.[23]
• Jackie Forster, 71, English news reporter, actress and lesbian rights activist.[24]
• Marvin Gay Sr., 84, American minister and father/murderer of Marvin Gaye, pneumonia.[25]
• Tony Marvin, 86, American radio and television announcer.[26]
• Konstantin Petrzhak, 91, Russian nuclear physicist.[27]
• Tommy Quaid, 41, Irish hurler, injuries sustained from a fall.
• Berta Rahm, 88, Swiss architect, writer and feminist activist.
• El Tappe, 71, American baseball player and coach, cancer.

11

• Richard Denning, 84, American actor, heart attack.[28]
• Fred Harris, 86, English footballer.
• Michael Wynn, 7th Baron Newborough, 81, British peer and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve officer.[29]
• Spottswood William Robinson III, 82, American civil rights attorney and US Circuit Judge.
• Gaius Shaver, 88, American football player.

12

• Jürgen Aschoff, 85, German physician, biologist and behavioral physiologist.
• Denny Galehouse, 87, American baseball player.
• Harold G. Long, 68, American martial artist and Isshinryu karate pioneer, cancer.
• Ineko Sata, 94, Japanese author and communist.
• Matthew Shepard, 21, American murder victim, injuries sustained from blunt force trauma.[30]
• W. Allen Wallis, 85, American economist and statistician.[31]

13

• Dmitry Nikolayevich Filippov, 54, Soviet/Russian politician and industrialist, assassinated.
• P. T. Narasimhachar, 93, Indian playwright and poet.
• Gérard Charles Édouard Thériault, 66, Canadian pilot and Chief of the Defence Staff.
• Khánh Trắng, Vietnamese labor leader and mobster, execution by firing squad.
• Jeremy Vargas Sagastegui, 27, American criminal, execution by lethal injection.[32]

14

• Cleveland Amory, 81, American author, reporter and animal rights activist, abdominal aortic aneurysm.[33]
• Betty Gillies, 90, American aviation pioneer.
• Giorgio Oberweger, 84, Italian discus thrower.
• Om Prakash Sharma, 73, Indian writer.
• Frankie Yankovic, 93, American polka musician, heart failure.

15

• Perry Bullard, American politician.
• Colette Darfeuil, 92, French actress.
• Claire Madden, 93, Irish librarian, feminist and political activist.
• Ike Owens, 79, Welsh rugby player.[34]

16

• Frank Carswell, 78, American baseball player and manager.
• Douglas C. Gordon, American whitewater kayaker.
• Jon Postel, 55, American computer scientist, complications from heart surgery.[35]
• Joseph Stamler, 86, American lawyer and judge.[36]

17

• Antonio Agri, 66, Argentine musician.
• Brian Dickson, 82, Canadian military officer and judge.
• Muhammad Abdullah Ghazi, 63, Pakistani religious leader, assassinated.
• Joan Hickson, 92, English actress.[37]
• Hakim Said, 78, Pakistani scholar and philanthropist, murdered.

18

• Ilse von Randow, 97, New Zealand weaver.
• Dick Sheppard, 53, English footballer.
• George Shaw Wheeler, 90, American advisor to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and defector.[38]

19

• Tommy Burks, 58, American farmer and politician, murdered.
• Edward Flannery, 86, American Roman Catholic priest and author, pancreatic cancer.[39]
• Fritz Honka, 63, German serial killer.
• Charlton Ogburn, 87, American journalist and author, suicide.[40]
• Compton I. White Jr., 77, American politician.

20

• John Didcott, 67, South African lawyer and judge, cancer.[41]
• Frank Gillard, 89, British BBC reporter and radio innovator.[42]
• Gerhard Jahn, 71, German politician.
• Nitza Villapol, 74, Cuban chef, cookbook writer and television host.

21

• Josef Bremm, 84, Nazi Germany Wehrmacht officer.
• Scott Brower, 34, American ice hockey goaltender, traffic accident.[43]
• Nicholas Kemmer, 86, Russian-British nuclear physicist.[44]
• Vivienne McAuliffe, 50, English singer and songwriter (Affinity).
• Hans Alfred Nieper, 70, German alternative medicine practitioner.
• Alan Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury, 96, British businessman and member of the supermarket Sainsbury family.
• Tatyana Tolmachova, 91, Soviet figure skater and figure skating coach.

22

• Eric Ambler, 89, English author of thrillers.[45]
• Nathalia Crane, 85, American poet and novelist.
• Ajit Khan, 76, Indian actor.[46]
• Violet Owen, 96, British tennis and hockey player.[47]
• Francis Sargent, 83, American politician.[48]

23

• Noel Carroll, 56, Irish middle distance runner, heart attack.
• Christopher Gable, 58, English ballet dancer, choreographer and actor, cancer.[49]
• Adrian Gonzales, Filipino comics artist.
• Winnie Ruth Judd, 93, American convicted murderer.[50]
• Zangeres Zonder Naam, 79, Dutch levenslied singer, cardiac arrest.

24

• Dennis Ayling, 81, British cinematographer.
• Charles Barnes, 96, Australian politician.
• Mary Calderone, 94, American physician and sexual education advocate.[51]
• Pino Dordoni, 72, Italian athlete.
• Geoffrey John Kirkby, 80, British Royal Navy officer during World War II.

25

• Sir Robin Brook, 90 British businessman, banker and Olympic fencer.[52]
• Dick Higgins, 60, American artist, composer, poet, and publisher, heart attack.[53]
• John Hyland, 86, United States Navy admiral.
• Gavriil Malish, 91, Soviet/Russian painter, watercolorist and graphic artist.
• Susan Strange, 75, British scholar of international relations.
• Warren Wiebe, 45, American vocalist and session artist, suicide.

26

• Ofélia Ramos Anunciato, 73, Brazilian chef.
• Nicholas Budgen, 60, British politician, liver cancer.[54]
• Kenkichi Iwasawa, 81, Japanese mathematician.
• Margaret Keay, 87, British phytopathologist.[55]
• George Kelly, 65, Scottish footballer.
• José Cardoso Pires, 73, Portuguese author.
• David Stevenson, 80, Royal Australian Navy officer.

27

• Stirling Dickinson, 89, American artist, car accident.[56]
• Rosamund John, 85, English film and stage actress.[57]
• Reidar Kvammen, 84, Norwegian footballer.
• Klári Tolnay, 84, Hungarian actress.

28

• Ghulam Ahmed, 76, Indian former cricket captain.
• Cuthbert Alport, 86, British politician, minister and life peer.
• James L. Day, 73, United States Marine Corps major general.[58]
• Tommy Flowers, 92, English engineer and electronic computing pioneer.[59]
• James Goldman, 71, American screenwriter, playwright and brother of William Goldman, heart attack.[60]
• Ted Hughes, 68, English poet and children's writer, heart attack.[61]
• Bessie Loo, 95, American actress and casting director.
• Margaret Modlin, 71, American painter, sculptor and photographer.
• Wang Shuming, 92, Republic of China Air Force colonel general.

29

• Anthony J. Celebrezze, 88, American politician.[62]
• Sjoerdtsje Faber, 83, Dutch speed skater.[63]
• Alvin M. Johnston, 84, American jet-age test pilot.[64]
• Paul Misraki, 90, French composer of music and film scores.[65]
• Harry Weese, 83, American architect, stroke.[66]

30

• Vishram Bedekar, 92, Indian writer and movie director.
• Apo Lazaridès, 73, French cyclist.
• Spike Nelson, 92, American football player and coach.
• Lâm Văn Phát, Army of the Republic of Vietnam officer.
• Bulldog Turner, 79, American football player and coach.[67][68]

31

• Noel Beadle, 83, Australian botanist and plant ecologist.
• Helmut Brandt, (East) German politician and political prisoner.
• William F. Carr, 88, American politician.
• Sir Kenneth Darling, 89, British Army general.[69]
• Bernard J. Dwyer, 77, American Democratic Party politician.[70]
• María de la Purísima Salvat Romero, 72, Spanish Roman Catholic nun.
• Lou Rymkus, 78, American football player and coach, stroke.[71]
• Rosemary Stjernstedt, 86, English architect and town planner.

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