Deaths in November 1998
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The following is a list of notable deaths in November 1998.
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.
November 1998
1
- César Castellanos, 51, Honduran politician, mayor of Tegucigalpa (since 1998), helicopter crash.[1]
- Augusto Magli, 75, Italian football player.
- Kunitaka Sueoka, 81, Japanese football player.
- Norbert Wollheim, 85, German-American Holocaust survivor.[2]
- Stanislav Zhuk, 63, Russian Olympic skater and coach, heart attack.[3]
2
- Janet Arnold, 66, British clothing historian, costume designer and author, lymphoma.[4]
- Sverre Brodahl, 89, Norwegian Nordic skier and Olympic medalist.[5]
- Claude Bramall Burgess, 88, Hong Kong Colonial Secretary.
- Fred Freer, 82, Australian cricket player.
- Henry Horton, 75, English sportsman.
- Rolf Husberg, 90, Swedish film director, screenwriter and actor.
- Jovelina Pérola Negra, 54, Brazilian samba singer and songwriter, heart attack.
- Elmo Plaskett, 60, United States Virgin Islands baseball player.[6]
- Vincent Winter, 50, Scottish child film actor, heart attack.[7]
3
- Ray Bremser, 64, American poet.[8]
- Helmuth Johannsen, 78, German football player and manager.[9]
- Bob Kane, 83, American comic book writer (Batman).[10]
- John Campbell Merrett, 89, Canadian architect.[11]
- P. L. Narayana, 63, Indian film actor and playwright.
- Martha O'Driscoll, 76, American film actress.[12]
- Oriano Quilici, 68, Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.
- Nina Youshkevitch, 77, Franco-Russian ballet dancer and teacher.[13]
4
- Jean de Heinzelin de Braucourt, 78, Belgian geologist.[14]
- Marion Donovan, 81, American inventor and entrepreneur.[15]
- Lars Ernster, 78, Swedish biochemist and Nobel Foundation board member.
- Joyce Lussu, 86, Italian writer and partisan during World War II.[16]
- Jimmy McGee, 75, Irish basketball player and musician.
- Jorge Wehbe, 78, Argentine lawyer and economist, Minister of Economy.
5
- Garlin Murl Conner, 79, United States Army officer during World War II and Medal of Honor recipient.[17]
- Momoko Kōchi, 66, Japanese actress (Godzilla), cancer.[18]
- Nagarjun, 87, Indian poet.
- Jack Stewart, 86, Australian farmer and politician.
6
- Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim, President of the Comoros.
- Hélmer Herrera Buitrago, 47, Colombian narco and member of the Cali Cartel, shot.[19]
- Jack Hartman, 73, American gridiron football player and basketball coach.[20]
- Bobo Lewis, 72, American comedic actress, cancer.[21]
- Sky Low Low, 70, Canadian midget wrestler, heart attack.[22]
- Niklas Luhmann, 70, German sociologist and philosopher of social science.[23]
- Wolfgang Stresemann, 94, German jurist, orchestra leader, conductor and composer.[24]
- István Szőts, 86, Hungarian screenwriter and film director.
- Stan Wright, 77, American track and field coach.[25]
7
- Jitendra Abhisheki, 69, Indian vocalist, composer and music scholar.
- Leonard De Paur, 83, American composer and choral director.[26]
- Agenore Fabbri, 87, Italian sculptor and painter.
- Margaret Gowing, 77, English historian, Alzheimer's disease.[27]
- John Hunt, Baron Hunt, 88, British Army officer.[28]
- Vladimir Matskevich, 88, Soviet apparatchik and ambassador.
- Börje Mellvig, 86, Swedish actor, screenwriter, director and lyricist.
- Ted Slevin, English rugby player.
- Jiwan Singh Umranangal, 84, Indian politician.
- O. Meredith Wilson, 89, American historian and academic, brain cancer.[29]
8
- Rumer Godden, 90, English author (Black Narcissus), complications from a series of strokes.[30]
- Jemal Karchkhadze, Georgian writer.
- Thomas Henry Manning, 86, British-Canadian Arctic explorer, geographer, zoologist, and author.[31]
- Jean Marais, 84, French actor, writer and sculptor, cardiovascular disease.[32]
- Lonnie Pitchford, 43, American blues musician and instrument maker.[33]
- Erol Taş, 70, Turkish film actor, diabetes.
9
- Baya, 66, Algerian artist.
- Henry Dorman, 82, American lawyer and politician.[34]
- Phillip Paske, 45, American child pornographer, AIDS.[35]
- Anura Ranasinghe, 42, Sri Lankan cricketer, heart attack.
- Ursula Reit, 84, German actress.[36]
- Francis Scully, 73, American sailor and Olympic medalist.[37]
10
- Svetlana Beriosova, 66, Lithuanian-British prima ballerina, cancer.[38]
- Peter Cotes, 86, English actor, writer, and director.[39]
- Mahmoud Hassan, 78, Egyptian Greco-Roman bantamweight wrestler and Olympic medalist.[40]
- Henry James, 78, British civil servant (born 1919).
- Jean Leray, 92, French mathematician.[41]
- Georg Liebsch, 87, German featherweight weightlifter and Olympian.[42]
- Mary Millar, 62, British actress (Keeping Up Appearances) and singer, ovarian cancer.[43]
- Hal Newhouser, 77, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame, respiratory disease.[44]
- Ellis Robinson, 87, English cricketer.
11
- Frank Brimsek, 83, American ice hockey player.[45]
- Patrick Clancy, 76, Irish folk singer, lung cancer.[46]
- Gérard Grisey, 52, French composer of contemporary classical music, ruptured aneurysm.[47]
- Ferdinand Kulmer, 73, Croatian abstract painter.[48]
- Allan Kwartler, 81, American sabre and foil fencer.[49]
- Sam Melberg, 86, Norwegian sports diver and Olympian.[50]
- Elvis Jacob Stahr, Jr., 82, American government official and college president.[51]
- Anicet Utset, 66, Spanish cyclist.
12
- Janet Alcoriza, 80, American screenwriter and actress.
- Jack Gelineau, 74, Canadian ice hockey player, cancer.[52]
- James H. Gray, 92, Canadian journalist, historian and author.[53]
- Paul Hoffman, 73, American basketball player, brain tumor.[54]
- Roy Hollis, 72, English football player.[55]
- Asher Joel, 86, Australian politician and public servant.
- Kenny Kirkland, 43, American pianist and keyboardist, congestive heart failure.[56]
- Lu Ann Meredith, 85, American film actress.
- Sally Shlaer, 59, American mathematician, software engineer and methodologist.[57]
13
- Don Bishop, 64, American gridiron football player.[58]
- Joseph C. Brun, 91, French-American cinematographer.[59]
- Edwige Feuillère, 91, French actress.[60]
- Valerie Hobson, 81, Irish-born actress, heart attack.[61]
- Red Holzman, 78, American basketball player and coach, leukemia.[62]
- Hendrik Timmer, 94, Dutch sportsman and Olympic medalist.[63]
- Michel Trudeau, 23, Canadian outdoorsman, and son of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and brother of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, avalanche.[64]
- Ilie Văduva, 64, Romanian communist politician.[65]
- Doug Wright, 84, English cricket player.
14
- Eli Cashdan, 93, British rabbi.
- Quentin Crewe, 72, English journalist, author, restaurateur and adventurer.[66]
- Albert Frey, 95, Swiss-American architect.[67]
- Rachel Holzer, 99, Australian theatre actress and director.
15
- Stokely Carmichael, 57, Trinidadian-American political activist, prostate cancer.[68]
- Henryk Chmielewski, 84, Polish boxer and Olympian.[69]
- Lawrence Krader, 78, American socialist anthropologist and ethnologist.[70]
- Federico Krutwig, 77, Spanish Basque writer, philosopher, and politician.
- William T. Miller, 87, American professor of organic chemistry.[71]
- Doris Niles, 93, American dancer.[72]
- Leo Aloysius Pursley, 96, American clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church.
16
- Ludvík Daněk, 61, Czechoslovak discus thrower and Olympic champion, heart attack.[73]
- Tyrone Delano Gilliam, Jr., 32, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[74]
- Mohammad-Taqi Ja'fari, 73, Iranian scholar, philosopher and Islamic theologist.
- Queenie McKenzie, 68, Aboriginal Australian artist.
- Alexander Smorchkov, 78, Soviet fighter pilot during World War II and the Korean War.
- J. D. Sumner, 73, American gospel singer and songwriter.[75]
17
- Kea Bouman, 94, Dutch tennis player.[76]
- Weeb Ewbank, 91, American football coach (Baltimore Colts, New York Jets) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, heart problems.[77]
- Efim Geller, 73, Soviet chess player and grandmaster.[78]
- Jean Herly, 78, Monegasque diplomat and ambassador.
- Reinette L'Oranaise, 80, Algerian singer.
- Kenneth McDuff, 52, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.[79]
- Jacques Médecin, 70, French politician, cardiac arrest.[80]
- Miguel A. García Méndez, 96, Puerto Rican lawyer and politician.
- Dick O'Neill, 70, American actor (The Jerk, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Cagney & Lacey).[81]
- Esther Rolle, 78, American actress (Good Times, Maude, Driving Miss Daisy), Emmy winner (1979), diabetes.[82]
- Bill Ward, 79, American cartoonist (Torchy).
18
- Telemaco Arcangeli, 75, Italian racewalker and Olympian.[83]
- Norma Connolly, 71, American actress.[84]
- Hal Davis, 65, American songwriter and record producer.[85]
- Robin Hall, 62, Scottish folksinger.
- Jeanine Moulin, 86, Belgian poet and literary scholar.[86]
- Aurélio de Lira Tavares, 93, Brazilian Army general.[87]
19
- Louis Dumont, French anthropologist.[88]
- Ted Fujita, 78, Japanese-American meteorologist.[89]
- Alfred 'Ken' Gatward, 84, British Royal Air Force pilot during World War II.[90]
- Earl Kim, 78, American composer, and music pedagogue, lung cancer.[91]
- William J. McCarthy, 79, American labor leader.
- Alan J. Pakula, 70, American film director and producer (All the President's Men, The Parallax View, To Kill a Mockingbird), traffic collision.[92]
20
- Roland Alphonso, 67, Jamaican tenor saxophonist.[93]
- Marian Brandys, 86, Polish writer and screenwriter.
- George Brophy, 72, American baseball executive.[94]
- Howard Wilson Emmons, 86, American professor in Mechanical Engineering.[95]
- Meredith Gourdine, 69, American physicist, athlete and Olympic medalist.[96]
- John Grimek, 88, American bodybuilder and weightlifter.[97]
- Cec Luining, 67, Canadian football player.
- Mario Orozco Rivera, 68, Mexican muralist and painter.
- Dick Sisler, 78, American baseball player, coach and manager.[98]
- Galina Starovoytova, 52, Soviet dissident, shot.[99]
21
- Thomas V. Bermingham, American Jesuit priest and Classical scholar.[100]
- Dariush Forouhar, 69–70, Iranian pan-Iranist politician, stabbed.
- Otto Frankel, 98, Austrian-Australian geneticist.[101]
- Dave Huffman, 41, American football player, traffic collision.[102]
- Giles Pellerin, 91, American gridiron football player.
- Alvin P. Shapiro, 77, American physician and professor, complications of kidney failure.[103]
- Ormond R. Simpson, 83, United States Marine Corps officer.[104]
- Fabian Ver, 78, Filipino military officer, pulmonary complications.
- Nosson Meir Wachtfogel, 88, Russian-American Orthodox rabbi.
22
- Harlan Parker Banks, 85, American paleobotanist and phycologist.
- Vladimir Demikhov, 82, Soviet scientist and organ transplantation pioneer.[105]
- Henry Hampton, 58, American filmmaker.[106]
- Mikołaj Kozakiewicz, 74, Polish politician, publicist and sociologist.
- Harry Lehmann, 74, German physicist.
- Celeste Mendoza, 68, Cuban singer.[107]
- Holt Rast, 81, American football player.
- Jack Shadbolt, 89, Canadian painter.[108]
- Stu Ungar, 45, American professional poker, blackjack, and gin rummy player, heart problems.[109]
23
- Lamar McHan, 65, American football player and coach, heart attack.[110]
- Gene Moore, 88, American designer and window dresser.[111]
- Dan Osman, 35, American extreme sport practitioner, rock climbing accident.
- Ralph S. Phillips, 85, American mathematician and academic.
- Don Ray, 77, American basketball player.[112]
- Eugen Seiterle, 84, Swiss field handball player and Olympic medalist.[113]
24
- Len Barnum, 86, American gridiron football player.[114]
- John Chadwick, 78, English linguist and classical scholar who deciphered Linear B.[115]
- Minnette de Silva, 80, Sri Lankan architect.
- Eprime Eshag, 80, Iranian economist.[116]
- Guido Figone, 71, Italian gymnast.[117]
- Nicholas Kurti, 90, Hungarian-British physicist.[118]
- George F. Sprague, 96, American geneticist and researcher.
- Theodore Strongin, 79, American music critic, composer, flautist, and entomologist.[119]
- Nikola Tanhofer, 71, Croatian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer.[120]
25
- Robert Eisner, 76, American author and economist, bone marrow disorder.[121]
- Nelson Goodman, 92, American philosopher.[122]
- Parmeshwar Narayan Haksar, 85, Indian diplomat.[123]
- Anwar Mesbah, 85, Egyptian weightlifter and Olympic champion.[124]
- Enrico Sabbatini, 66, Italian costume designer (The Mission, Seven Years in Tibet, Cutthroat Island) and production designer, traffic collision.[125]
- Fiatau Penitala Teo, 87, Tuvaluan political figure.
- Flip Wilson, 64, American comedian and actor, liver cancer.[126]
26
- Gerald Battrick, 51, Welsh tennis player.[127]
- Charles Moihi Te Arawaka Bennett, 85, New Zealand broadcaster, military leader and public servant.
- Mike Calvert, 85, British Army officer.
- M. T. Cheng, 81, Chinese mathematician.
- Ox Emerson, 90, American football player.[128]
- Gyo Fujikawa, 90, American illustrator and children's author.[129]
- Tom Lyon, 83, Scottish footballer.[130]
- Ed Smith, 69, American basketball player (New York Knicks).[131]
27
- Barbara Acklin, 55, American soul singer and songwriter, pneumonia.[132]
- William Baxter, 69, American professor of law.[133]
- Gloria Fuertes, 81, Spanish poet and children's author, lung cancer.[134]
- Jozef IJsewijn, 65, Belgian Latinist.[135]
- Douglas LePan, 84, Canadian diplomat, poet, novelist and professor of literature.[136]
- Herman Murray, 89, Canadian ice hockey player.[137]
- Andrey Sergeev, 65, Russian writer and translator, traffic collision.[138]
- Vicki Viidikas, 50, Australian poet.[139]
28
- Dante Fascell, 81, American politician, colorectal cancer.[140]
- Frederick William Freking, 85, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, emphysema.
- M. Donald Grant, 94, American baseball executive (New York Mets).[141]
- Roberta Kevelson, 67, American academic and semiotician.[142]
- James C. Lucas, 86, American criminal and inmate of Alcatraz penitentiary.
- Augie Scott, 77, English football player and manager.[143]
- Maurice Seynaeve, 91, Belgian cyclo-cross rider.[144]
- John Stanford, 60, American Army officer.[145]
- Kerry Wendell Thornley, 60, American counterculture figure and writer, heart attack.[146]
29
- Roy Benavidez, 63, United States Army Special Forces member and Medal of Honor recipient, complications of diabetes.[147]
- Gino De Dominicis, 51, Italian artist.
- Maus Gatsonides, 87, Dutch rally driver and inventor.
- Jack Gilbert, 80, Australian World War II veteran and rugby player.
- Giant Haystacks, 52, British professional wrestler, lymphoma.
- Pépé Kallé, 46, Congolese musician, heart attack.[148]
- Frank Latimore, 73, American actor.[149]
- Živojin Pavlović, 65, Yugoslav and Serbian film director, writer, and painter.
- Robin Ray, 64, English broadcaster, actor, and musician, lung cancer.[150]
- Jim Turner, 95, American baseball player.[151]
- George Van Eps, 85, American swing and jazz guitarist, pneumonia.[152]
30
- Pentti Aalto, 81, Finnish linguist, heart disease.[153]
- Abdullah Al-Muti, 68, Bangladeshi educationist and writer.
- Ruth Clifford, 98, American actress.[154]
- Alfo Ferrari, 74, Italian cyclist.
- Jesse Levan, 72, American baseball player.[155]
- Ad Liska, 92, American baseball pitcher.[156]
- Simon Nkoli, 41, South African anti-apartheid and gay rights activist, AIDS.
- Johnny Roventini, 88, American actor.[157]
- Philip Sterling, 76, American actor.[158]
- James Strauch, 77, American Olympic fencer.[159]
- Margaret Walker, 83, American poet and writer, breast cancer.[160]
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