Deaths in September 1998

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

Contents
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
← August	September	October →

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.

September 1998

1

• Francisco Coching, 78, Filipino comic books illustrator and writer.
• Cary Middlecoff, 77, American golfer, heart disease.[1]
• Nick Murphy, 31, English footballer, car crash.[2]
• Vere Harmsworth, 3rd Viscount Rothermere, 73, British newspaper magnate.
• Ernest Edward Williams, 84, American herpetologist.

2

• Jackie Blanchflower, 65, Northern Irish footballer.
• Roy Bradford, 77, Northern Irish politician.
• Mary Lou Clements-Mann, 51, AIDS researcher, plane crash of Swissair Flight 111.[3]
• Allen Drury, 80, American novelist and Pullizer Prize winner, cardiac arrest.[4]
• Alastair Dunnett, 89, Scottish journalist and newspaper editor.
• Jonathan Mann, 51, American physician and former head of the WHO's AIDS program, plane crash of Swissair Flight 111.[3]
• Fwanyanga Mulikita, 69, Zambian politician.
• Tommy J. Smith, 81, Australian racehorse trainer.
• Sir Arthur Vick, 87, British physicist and university administrator.

3

• Vince Alascia, 84, American comic book artist.
• Harry Jannotti, 74, Democratic politician, cancer.
• Ellis R. Kerley, 74, American forensic anthropologist.[5]
• John F. Thornell Jr, 77, World War II USAF Flying ace.
• Friedrich Körner, 77, World War II Luftwaffe Flying ace.
• Albert Nemethy, 78, Hungarian-born American artist.[6]

4

• Henri Bource, 64, Dutch-Australian scuba diver and underwater filmmaker.
• Hernando Durán Dussán, Colombian lawyer and politician, respiratory infection.
• Elizabeth Kata, 85, Australian writer under the pseudonym "Elizabeth Kata".
• Tania Long, 85, American journalist and war correspondent during World War II.[7]
• Masato Nakae, 80, Japanese American US Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient.
• Allen C. Skorepa, 57, American lichenologist.
• Lal Waterson, 55, English folksinger and songwriter, cancer.[8]

5

• Willem Drees Jr., 75, Dutch politician and son of politician Willem Drees.[9]
• Michael Fleischer, 90, American chemist and mineralogist.
• Sonny Knight, 64, American singer, songwriter and author, complications following a stroke.
• Margaret Lefranc, 91, American visual artist.[10]
• Minoru Niizuma, 67, Japanese abstract sculptor. stroke.[11]
• Verner Panton, 72, Danish interior designer.[12]
• Leo Penn, 77, American actor and director, lung cancer.[13]

6

• Akira Kurosawa, 88, Japanese film director and screenwriter.[14]
• Joe McCarthy, 79, American aviator.
• Ric Segreto, 45, American-Filipino recording artist, singer-songwriter and actor, motorcycle accident.
• Elaine Shepard, 85, American Broadway and film actress.

7

• Håvard Alstadheim, 62, Norwegian economist and politician.
• Mario Bardi, 77, Italian Realist painter, stroke.
• Sir John Hayes, 85, British Royal Navy officer.[15]

8

• Walter Adams, 76, American economist and college professor, pancreatic cancer.
• Leonid Kinskey, 95, Russian-born actor, complications of a stroke.[16]
• Marco Rizo, 77, Cuban-American pianist, composer, and arranger, heart attack.[17]
• Bill Shankland, 91, Australian sportsman, heart failure.

9

• Lucio Battisti, 55, Italian singer-songwriter and composer, cancer.[18]
• Bill Cratty, 47, American modern dancer and choreographer, liver cancer.[19]
• Eleanor Garatti, 89, American swimmer and Olympic gold medalist.
• Chadayan Govindan, 69, Indian politician.
• Mariano Martín, 78, Spanish footballer.
• Catherine Turney, 91, American writer and screenwriter.[20]
• Jerry Zimmerman, 63, American baseball player and coach.

10

• Carl Forgione, 54, British actor.
• Freddie Green, 82, English professional footballer.
• Adolfe de Hoernle, 96, German-born American philanthropist.[21]
• Frederick Rosier, 82, British Royal Air Force commander.

11

• Sofía Bassi, 85, Mexican painter and writer, heart failure.
• Dane Clark, 86, American actor.[22]
• Carlos Guimard, 85, Argentine chess Grandmaster.
• Rolando Morán, 68, Guatemalan revolutionary leader.
• P. S. Veerappa, 87, Indian actor and film producer.

12

• George E. Danielson, 83, American politician and judge, heart failure.[23]
• Azem Hajdari, 35, Albanian student leader, murdered.[24]
• Awang Hassan, 87, Malaysian politician.
• Henry Spira, 71, Belgian-American animal rights activist.[25]

13

• Talimeren Ao, 80, Indian footballer and physician.
• Denys Buckley, 92, English barrister and judge.[26]
• Necdet Calp, 76, Turkish civil servant and politician, heart attack.
• Aloys Grillmeier, 88, German Jesuit priest and theologian.
• Owen Horwood, 81, South African economist and politician, heart attack.
• Harry Lumley, 71, Canadian ice hockey goaltender in the National Hockey League.[27]
• Dave Ridley, 81, Welsh footballer.
• José María Rivarola Matto, 80, Paraguayan writer.
• George Wallace, 79, American politician and populist.[28]

14

• Johnny Adams, 66, American blues, jazz and gospel singer, prostate cancer.[29]
• Lance Duldig, 76, Australian cricketer.
• Sue Geh, 39, Australian women's basketball player, heart failure.
• Fred Korth, 89, United States Secretary of the Navy.
• George Scott, 69, English snooker player.
• Yang Shangkun, 91, President of the People's Republic of China.[30]

15

• Charles George Drake, 78, Canadian neurosurgeon.
• Amy Merania Harper, 98, New Zealand photographer.
• Reynold B. Johnson, 92, American inventor and computer pioneer, melanoma.[31]
• Don Perkins, 80, American football player.

16

• Jane Marsh Beveridge, 82, Canadian artist.[32]
• John Eakins, 75, Canadian politician.
• Mazhar Khan, Indian actor and producer, renal failure.
• Herman Kull, 68, American basketball coach.
• Pak Tu-jin, 82, Korean poet.
• Harold Vokes, 90, American malacologist and paleontologist.[33]

17

• Geoffrey Dutton, 76, Australian author and historian.[34]
• Win Elliot, 83, American television and radio sportscaster and game show host.[35]
• Celia Fiennes, 96, English printmaker and book illustrator.[36]
• April FitzLyon, 78, English translator, biographer, and historian.[37]
• Gerold Frank, 91, American author and ghostwriter.[38]

18

• Bryan Nicholson Brooke, 83, British surgeon and ulcerative colitis surgery pioneer.
• Francelia Butler, 85, American scholar and writer of children's literature.[39]
• Kurt Hager, 86, East German politician.
• Sam Locke, 81, American writer and director.[40]
• Carl-Olof Wrang, 81, Swedish Army officer.

19

• Susan Barrantes, 61, British film producer and mother of Sarah, Duchess of York, traffic accident.
• Patricia Hayes, 88, English actress.[41]
• Ran Laurie, 83, British physician, Olympic gold medallist and father of Hugh Laurie, Parkinson's disease.[42]
• George Adam Nixon, 75, Canadian politician, stroke.
• George H. Steuart, 90, American diplomat.

20

• Audrey Alexandra Brown, 93, Canadian poet.
• Muriel Humphrey Brown, 86, American politician and wife of Vice President Hubert Humphrey.[43]
• Helen Dyer, 103, American biochemist and cancer researcher.
• Lila Katzen, 72, American abstract sculptor, liver cancer.[44]
• Alan Prescott, 71, English rugby league footballer.
• Cecil Williams, 72, Barbadian cricketer, cancer.

21

• Margaret Allan, 89, Scottish motor racing driver.[45]
• Oz Bach, 59, American folk musician, cancer.
• Martha Bass, 77, American gospel singer.
• Abdelghani Bousta, 49, Moroccan politician, cancer.
• Clara Calamai, 89, Italian actress, stroke.
• Florence "Flo-Jo" Griffith-Joyner, 38, American track and field athlete, epileptic seizure.[46]

22

• Ymer Dishnica, 86, Albanian politician and physician.
• Michael Kaye, 82, English cricketer and British Army officer.
• Otakhon Latifi, 62, Tajikistan journalist and politician, murdered.[47]
• Doug Smith, 73, Scottish rugby union player.
• Terry Winter, 57, Brazilian singer and songwriter, pneumonia.

23

• Trevor Berghan, 84, New Zealand rugby player.
• Leonid Biberman, 83, Soviet and Russian physicist.
• Ray Bowden, 89, English footballer.
• Mary Frann, 55, American actress, heart attack.[48]
• Brian Masters, 65, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Fulham and Edmonton.
• Victor Ransom, 81, English cricketer.
• Robert Wells, 75, American songwriter and television producer.[49]

24

• Frank Curran, 81, English footballer.
• Pery Igel, 76, Brazilian businessman.
• Jeff Moss, 56, composer, playwright and television writer, colon cancer.[50]

25

• Billy Giles, 41, Northern Irish volunteer of the UVF, suicide by hanging.
• Shaukat Hayat Khan, 83, Pakistani politician, activist and military officer.
• Wim Schepers, 55, Dutch road cyclist, cardiac arrest.
• Cas Walker, 96, American politician and radio and TV personality.
• Caspar Wrede, 69, Finnish theatre and film director.[51]

26

• Giovanni Barbini, 97, Italian naval officer during World War II.
• Betty Carter, 68, American jazz singer, pancreatic cancer.[52]
• Jack Haskell, 79, American singer and announcer.[53]
• John Howard Locke, 74, British civil servant.
• Jerome D. Mack, 77, American banker, fundraiser and philanthropist, cancer.[54]

27

• Narita Bryan, 7, Japanese racehorse, gastric rupture.
• Shawn Phelan, 23, American actor, brain injury.
• Renate Schottelius, 76, German dancer and choreographer.
• Doak Walker, 71, American football player (Detroit Lions) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, skiing accident.[55]

28

• Joan Maude, 90, English actress.[56]
• Eric Malling, 52, Canadian television journalist, brain hemorrhage after fall.
• Marcel Pourbaix, 94, Belgian chemist.
• Louis L. Redding, 96, American lawyer and civil rights advocate.[57]
• Hripsime Simonyan, 82, Armenian artist and sculptor.
• Shiv Prasaad Singh, 70, Indian writer, university professor and scholar.
• George Tranter, 83, English football player.

29

• Tom Bradley, 80, American politician and police officer, heart attack.[58]
• Valston Hancock, 91, Australian commander in the Royal Australian Air Force.[59]
• Nechama Hendel, 62, Israeli singer, cardiac arrest.
• C. David Marsden, 60, British neurologist, congenital coronary anomaly.[60]
• Pat Raftery, 72, English footballer.
• Joachim, Count of Schönburg-Glauchau, 69, Geman nobleman.

30

• D. Bruce Berry, 74, American comic book artist.
• Laurie Brown, 61, English football player and manager.[61]
• Marius Goring, 86, English actor.[62]
• Émile Krieps, 78, Luxembourgish army officer and politician.
• Bruno Munari, 90, Italian artist and designer.
• Stephen Pearlman, 63, American actor, cancer.[63]
• Dan Quisenberry, 45, American baseball player, brain cancer.[64]
• Pavel Štěpán, 73, Czech pianist.
• Robert Lewis Taylor, 86, American author and Pullizer Prize winner.[65]

References

1. Frank Litsky (September 3, 1998). "Cary Middlecoff, 77, Dentist Who Became Top Pro Golfer". The New York Times. p. C 20. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
2. "Car victim was ex-City player". York Evening Press. September 3, 1998. Retrieved August 25, 2019.
3. Tarantola, Daniel (September 5, 1998). "Obituary: Jonathan Mann and Mary Lou Clements-Mann". The Independent. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
4. Dinitia Smith (September 3, 1998). "Allen Drury, 80, Novelist; Wrote 'Advise and Consent'". The New York Times. p. C 20. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
5. Ford Burkhart (September 12, 1998). "Ellis R. Kerley Is Dead at 74; A Forensic Sherlock Holmes". The New York Times. p. A 17. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
6. "Albert Nemethy Obituary". tributes.com. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
7. Jim Yardley (September 6, 1998). "Tania Long, 85, a Reporter For The Times in World War II". The New York Times. p. 1 42. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
8. "Lal Waterson Obituary". mainlynorfolk.info. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
9. (in Dutch) Willem Drees jr. (75) in Den Haag overleden, Volkskrant, 8 September 1998. Retrieved August 21, 2019
10. Sharyn Udall (September 1998). "Artist Margaret Lefranc Schoonover Dies". The Santa Fe New Mexican.
11. "Minoru Niizuma, 67, Sculptor and Teacher". The New York Times. September 29, 1998. p. B 9. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
12. Julie V. Iovine (October 28, 1998). "Verner Panton, 72, Is Dead; Dane Designed Stacking Chair". The New York Times. p. A 27. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
13. Kelly, Richard T. (2004). Sean Penn: His Life and Times. New York: Canongate Books. p. 26. ISBN 1-84195-623-6.
14. Adair, Gilbert (September 7, 1998). "Obituary: Akira Kurosawa". The Independent. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
15. Obituary: Admiral Sir John Hayes The Independent, 29 September 1998. Retrieved August 21, 2019
16. Oliver, Myrna (1998). "Leonid Kinskey; Actor in 'Casablanca'", obituary. Los Angeles Times, September 11, 1998. Retrieved April 24, 2019.
17. Peter Watrous (September 12, 1998). "Marco Rizo, 78, Cuban Pianist And Composer for 'I Love Lucy'". The New York Times. p. A 17. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
18. "Lucio Battisti, 55, Italian Pop Performer". The New York Times. September 24, 1998. p. C 24. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
19. "Bill Cratty, 47, Choreographer and Dancer". The New York Times. September 23, 1998. p. B 12. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
20. "Catherine Tunrey, writer of 1940s screenplays for women, dead at 92". Observer-Reporter. Google News. September 12, 1998.
21. Lundy, Sarah (September 11, 1998). "Boca Benefactor A. De Hoernle Dies. Count Gave Millions To Charitable Causes". Sun-Sentinel. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
22. Lawrence Van Gelder (September 16, 1998). "Dane Clark, Actor, 85, Dies; Starred in World War II Films". The New York Times. p. B 11. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
23. Barbara Stewart (September 19, 1998). "George Danielson, 83; Urged Nixon's Removal". The New York Times. p. A 13. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
24. Partos, Gabriel (September 23, 1998). "Obituary: Azem Hajdari". The Independent. London. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
25. Barnaby J. Feder (September 15, 1998). "Henry Spira, 71, Animal Rights Crusader". The New York Times. p. B 9. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
26. Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 4247. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
27. Bloomberg News (September 16, 1998). "Harry Lumley, 71, Star Hockey Goalie". The New York Times. p. B 11. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
28. Cornwell, Rupert (September 15, 1998). "Obituary: George Wallace". The Independent. Retrieved August 23, 2019.
29. Obituary, The Scotsman, at Jazzhouse.org. Retrieved 23 August 2019
30. Erik Eckholm (September 15, 1998). "Yang Shangkun, 91, Ex-China Chief, Dies". The New York Times. p. B 9. Retrieved August 23, 2019.
31. Lawrence M. Fisher (September 18, 1998). "Reynold Johnson, 92, Pioneer In Computer Hard Disk Drives". The New York Times. p. A 27. Retrieved August 23, 2019.
32. "Jane Marsh." Canadian Women Film Directors Database (femfilm.ca). Retrieved: August 23, 2019.
33. Vokes, Emily H. "Harold Ernest Vokes". American Conchologist, vol. 26, no. 4 (December 1998), p. 22. (Obituary).
34. Semmler, Clement (September 25, 1998). "Obituary: Geoffrey Dutton". The Independent. Retrieved August 23, 2019.
35. Richard Sandomir (September 20, 1998). "Win Elliot, Who Broadcast Sports With Flair, Dies at 83". The New York Times. p. 1 51. Retrieved August 23, 2019.
36. HCG Matthew & Brian Harrison (Editors) (2004). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Vol 47 (Rippon-Rowe). Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-861397-0.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
37. John Calder (September 24, 1998). "Obituary: April FitzLyon". The Independent. Retrieved August 23, 2019.
38. Gerold Frank Is Dead at 91; Author of Celebrity Memoirs
39. Robert Mcg. Thomas Jr. (September 25, 1998). "Francelia Butler Is Dead at 85; Children's Literature Champion". The New York Times. p. B 10. Retrieved August 23, 2019.
40. Douglas Martin (September 29, 1998). "Sam Locke, Writer for Radio, TV and Theater, Is Dead at 81". The New York Times. p. B 9. Retrieved August 23, 2019.
41. GRO Register of Deaths: SEP 1998 A5B 70 WEST SURREY – Patricia Lawlor Brook, DoB 22 Dec 1909 aged 88
42. Dodd, Christopher (October 10, 1998). "Obituary: Dr Ran Laurie". The Independent. Retrieved August 23, 2019.
43. Irvin Molotsky (September 21, 1998). "Muriel Humphrey Brown, Senator, Dies at 86". The New York Times. p. B 12. Retrieved August 23, 2019.
44. "Lila Katzen, 72, Sculptor of Abstract Works". The New York Times. October 4, 1998. p. 1 49. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
45. Venables, David (November 6, 1998). "Obituary: Margaret Jennings". The Independent. Retrieved August 24, 2019.
46. Penner, Mike (September 22, 1998). "From the Archives: Track Olympian Florence Griffith Joyner Dies at 38". latimes.com. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 25, 2019.
47. "Opposition Chief Dies in Tajikistan". AP News. September 22, 1998. Retrieved August 24, 2019.
48. "Coroner: 'Newhart's Mary Frann died of heart attack". cnn.com. November 5, 1998. Retrieved August 24, 2019.
49. Vosburgh, Dick (October 27, 1998). "Obituary: Robert Wells". The Independent. Retrieved August 24, 2019.
50. "Jeff Moss dies of colon cancer". muppetcentral.com. September 25, 1998. Retrieved August 24, 2019.
51. Trevor Peacock, Obituary: Caspar Wrede, The Independent, 30 September 1998, Retrieved 24 August 2019.
52. Peter Watrous (September 28, 1998). "Betty Carter, Innovative Jazz Vocalist, Is Dead at 69". The New York Times. p. B 8. Retrieved August 24, 2019.
53. "Jack Haskell, 79, a Singer and TV Announcer". The New York Times. October 1, 1998. p. B 12. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
54. LV civic leader Mack dies, Las Vegas Sun, September 28, 1998, Retrieved August 24, 2019
55. "Former Lion, college star Doak Walker dies at 71". Detroit Free Press. September 28, 1998. p. 2D. Retrieved August 24, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
56. Mollison, Avril (October 22, 1998). "Obituary: Joan Maude". The Independent. Retrieved August 25, 2019.
57. Eric Pace (October 2, 1998). "L. L. Redding, 96, Desegregation Lawyer, Dies". The New York Times. p. C 19. Retrieved August 25, 2019.
58. Jane Fritsch (September 30, 1998). "Tom Bradley, Mayor in Era Of Los Angeles Growth, Dies". The New York Times. p. A 1. Retrieved November 1, 2020.
59. Stein, Tristan (October 6, 1998). "Airforce ace promoted Pilbara". The West Australian. p. 24.
60. Fahn, Stanley (1999). "Professor C. David Marsden". Archives of Neurology. 56 (1): 119. doi:10.1001/archneur.56.1.119.
61. "Deaths in September 1998". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved August 25, 2019.
62. Tom Vallence Obituary: Marius Goring, The Independent, 2 October 1998. Retrieved 25 August 2019
63. "Stephen Pearlman, 63, Actor In Movies, TV and Theater". The New York Times. Retrieved August 24, 2019.
64. Henderson, Heather (1999). "Dan Quisenberry – In His Own Words". The 1999 Big Bad Baseball Annual. Retrieved August 25, 2019.
65. Barbara Stewart (October 4, 1998). "Robert Lewis Taylor Is Dead, Novelist and Biographer, 88". The New York Times. p. 1 49. Retrieved November 18, 2020.