Deaths in August 1998

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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.

## August 1998

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### 1

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* Joel Barr, 82, American spy for the Soviet Union.[1]
* Eva Bartok, 71, Hungarian-British actress.[2]
* Len Duncan, 87, American race car driver.
* Norman Kretzmann, 69, American academic, multiple myeloma.[3]
* Josef Ludl, 82, Czech football player.[4]
* France Mihelič, 91, Slovene painter.[5]
* Ray Rigby, 49, Australian shot putter, weightlifter and Olympian.[6]

### 2

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* Otto Bumbel, 84, Brazilian football player and coach.[7]
* Mapy Cortés, 88, Puerto Rican actress, heart attack.[8]
* Tommy Faile, 69, American songwriter and singer, heart attack.[9]
* Jim Hadnot, 58, American basketball player.[10]
* Shari Lewis, 65, American ventriloquist and puppeteer, viral pneumonia.[11]

### 3

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* Ronnie Boon, 89, Welsh rugby player.[12]
* Francesc Xavier Bultó, 86, Spanish businessman.
* Reizo Koike, 82, Japanese swimmer and Olympic medalist, lung cancer.[13]
* Alfred Schnittke, 63, German-Russian composer, complications from strokes.[14]
* Alan Walsh, 81, British-Australian physicist, originator of atomic absorption spectroscopy.

### 4

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* Yury Artyukhin, 68, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut and engineer, cancer.
* Carmen Delia Dipini, 70, Puerto Rican singer.
* Richard Dunn, 54, British television executive.[15]
* Thomas Joseph McDonough, 86, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.[16]
* Al-Qarshi Abd ur-Raheem Salaam, 62, Yemeni poet and playwright.

### 5

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* Arthur Ceuleers, 82, Belgian footballer.[17]
* Kesab Chandra Gogoi, 73, Indian politician.
* Albert Johnson, 80, English rugby player.
* Otto Kretschmer, 86, German U-boat commander during World War II, boating accident.
* Britt Lindeborg, 70, Swedish lyricist, singer, composer and writer.
* Yevgeny Shabayev, 25, Russian artistic gymnast, heart attack.
* Eldon Shamblin, 82, American guitarist and arranger.[18]
* Eugene L. Stewart, 78, American lawyer and law professor.[19]
* Todor Zhivkov, 86, Bulgarian politician and former president of Bulgaria, pneumonia.[20]

### 6

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* Henk Bosveld, 57, Dutch footballer, heart attack.[21]
* Jack Brickhouse, 82, American sportscaster, heart attack.[22]
* Francesco Capocasale, 81, Italian football player and coach.[23]
* Nat Gonella, 90, English jazz trumpeter, bandleader and vocalist.
* André Weil, 92, French mathematician.[24]
* Deng Zhaoxiang, 95, Chinese naval officer.

### 7

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* Richard W. Fellows, 83, American Air Force officer.
* William Hiesey, 94, American botanist.[25]
* Dick Offenhamer, 85, American football and baseball player and coach.
* Peggy Phango, 69, South African actress and singer.
* Harry Tuzo, 80, British army general.[26]

### 8

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* Sam Balter, 88, American basketball player and sportscaster.[27]
* Giulio Bresci, 76, Italian road racing cyclist.[28]
* Raymond E. Brown, 70, American Catholic priest.[29]
* Barbara Burke, 81, British and South African sprint runner and Olympic medalist.[30]
* Idella Jones Childs, 95, American historian and civil rights activist.
* Anna J. Harrison, 85, American organic chemist and professor of chemistry.[31]
* Satoshi Murayama, 29, Japanese shogi player, bladder cancer.
* Walter Merlo, 33, Italian long-distance runner, mountaineering accident.
* Dagfinn Nilsen, 78, Norwegian football player.
* Germana Paolieri, 91, Italian actress.
* Jess Present, 77, American politician.
* László Szabó, 81, Hungarian chess grandmaster.
* Aang Witarsa, 67, Indonesian football player.[32]

### 9

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* Tony Baker, 53, American football player, traffic collision.[33]
* Bjarne Bø, 91, Norwegian actor.
* Brynhild Haugland, 93, American politician.[34]
* George Child Villiers, 9th Earl of Jersey, 88, English nobleman and politician, heart attack.
* Frankie Ruiz, 40, Puerto Rican singer and songwriter, liver cirrhosis.[35]
* Francisco Zúñiga, 85, Costa Rican-Mexican artist.[36]

### 10

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* Bekim Berisha, 32, Kosovar Albanian soldier, killed in action.
* Chuck Fenenbock, 80, American football player.
* Sidney W. Fox, 86, American biochemist.[37]
* John Murphy, 47, Northern Irish loyalist, traffic collision.
* Premji, 89, Indian actor and social reformer.
* Habib Hassan Touma, 63, Palestinian composer and ethnomusicologist.[38]

### 11

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* Bud Cooper, 85, American gridiron football player.[39]
* Heinz Döpfl, 59, Austrian pair skater.[40]
* Derek Newark, 65, English actor, heart attack following liver failure.[41]
* Nicky Verstappen, 11, Dutch homicide victim[42]
* Sergei Vonsovsky, 87, Soviet physicist.
* Benny Waters, 96, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist.[43]

### 12

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* Jesús Loroño, 72, Spanish road racing cyclist.[44]
* D. R. Nagaraj, 44, Indian writer and cultural critic.[45]
* Gazi Shamsur Rahman, Bangladeshi lawyer, writer and television personality.
* C. Dickerman Williams, American lawyer and free-speech advocate.[46]

### 13

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* Nino Ferrer, 63, French singer, songwriter and author, suicide by gunshot.[47]
* Edward Ginzton, 82, Ukrainian-American engineer.[48]
* Julien Green, 97, American writer.[49]
* Waneta Hoyt, 52, American serial killer, pancreatic cancer.
* Karl Hubenthal, 81, American cartoonist, cancer.
* Rafael Robles, 50, American baseball player.[50]
* Saturday Rosenberg, 46, Australian comedian, writer and actress, traffic collision.[51]

### 14

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* Eve Boswell, 76, British pop singer.[52]
* Gary Evans, 43, American thief and serial killer, suicide by jumping.[53]
* Doug Fleming, 68, Australian rugby league football player.
* Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff, 77, German actor and TV host, pancreatic cancer.[54]
* Rosemary Martin, 61, English actress.
* Xavier Miserachs, 61, Spanish photographer, lung cancer.[55]
* Chalmers Wylie, 77, American politician.[56]

### 15

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* Marc Akerstream, 44, Canadian actor and stuntman, head injuries from special effects explosion, head trauma.[57]
* Marie Meierhofer, 89, Swiss children's psychiatrist and pedagogue.
* Károly Polinszky, 76, Hungarian chemical engineer and politician.[58]
* Bill Shill, 75, Canadian ice hockey player.[59]

### 16

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* Dominique Davray, 79, French actress.[60]
* Wallace Fowlie, 89, American writer and academic.[61]
* Phil Leeds, 82, American actor (Rosemary's Baby, Ally McBeal, Ghost), pneumonia.[62]
* Frank Lewis, 85, American wrestler and Olympic champion.[63]
* Alain Marion, 59, French flutist, and, heart attack.
* Jim Murray, 78, American sportswriter and Pulitzer Prize winner.[64]
* Kenneth Stafford Norris, 74, American marine mammal biologist, conservationist, and naturalist.[65]
* Dorothy West, 91, American novelist and short-story writer.[66]

### 17

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* Robert B. Evans, 92, American automobile industry executive.[67]
* Terry Garvin, 61, Canadian professional wrestler, cancer.[68]
* Władysław Komar, 58, Polish shot putter and actor, traffic collision.
* Johnny Lipon, 75, American baseball player.
* Rita Roland, 83, German-born American film editor.
* Irwin Suall, 73, American socialist, civil rights activist, and investigator, emphysema.[69]

### 18

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* Protima Bedi, 49, Indian model, landslide.
* Bernice Bing, 62, Chinese-American artist.
* Harry J. Cargas, 66, American scholar and author.[70]
* Hoyt C. Hottel, 95, American chemical engineer and academic.
* Persis Khambatta, 49, Indian model and actress (Star Trek: The Motion Picture), heart attack.[71]
* Kurt Schütte, 88, German mathematician.
* Shane Shamrock, 23, American professional wrestler, altercation with police.[72]
* Otto Wichterle, 84, Czech chemist.[73]

### 19

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* Vasili Arkhipov, 72, Soviet Navy officer during the Cuban Missile Crisis, kidney cancer.
* Anne Asquith, 81, British code breaker.[74]
* Lawrence J. Fuller, 83, American Army major general, heart attack.[75]
* Max Holste, 84, French aeronautical engineer.[76]
* Boris Borisovich Kadomtsev, 69, Russian plasma physicist.
* Ilva Ligabue, 66, Italian operatic soprano.[77]
* Sylvia Stahlman, 69, American soprano.[78]
* Yuri Yappa, 70, Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist.

### 20

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* Jimmy Brewster, 96, American gridiron football player.
* Vivian Brown, 56, American sprinter and Olympian.[79]
* Ivan Godlevsky, 90, Soviet and Russian painter.
* Oleg Prokofiev, 69, Soviet and Russian artist, sculptor and poet.[80]
* Fred Sington, 88, American football and baseball player.[81]
* Haydée Tamzali, 91, Tunisian actress, writer, and filmmaker.
* Vu Van Mau, 84, last Prime Minister of South Vietnam.[82]

### 21

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* Hans van Abeelen, 61, Dutch behaviour geneticist.
* Luis Dávila, 71, Argentine actor, heart attack.[83]
* Franz Eisenach, 80, German flying ace during World War II and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
* John Stopford, 61, English rugby player.[84]
* Juanita Kidd Stout, 79, American attorney and jurist.[85]
* Wanda Toscanini, 90, Italian wife of pianist Vladimir Horowitz.[86]

### 22

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* Jack Briggs, 78, American actor.
* Sam Cooper, 89, American gridiron football player.[87]
* Evelyn Denington, Baroness Denington, 91, British politician, heart failure.[88]
* Sergio Fiorentino, 70, Italian classical pianist, heart attack.[89]
* Elena Garro, 81, Mexican screenwriter, journalist, and novelist, heart attack.[90]
* Minoru Murayama, 61, Japanese baseball player.[91]
* Jimmy Skidmore, 82, English jazz tenor saxophonist.
* Woody Stephens, 84, American thoroughbred horse racing trainer, emphysema.[92]

### 23

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* Ahmet Hamdi Boyacıoğlu, 78, Turkish judge.
* Nikolay Kolesov, 42, Russian footballer.[93]
* Asadollah Lajevardi, Iranian conservative politician and warden, shot.
* Rolf Søder, 80, Norwegian film actor.[94]
* John Woodcock, 44, American football player, heart attack.

### 24

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* Alexey Andreevich Anselm, 64, Russian theoretical physicist.
* Manuel Azcárate, 81, Spanish journalist and communist politician, cancer.[95]
* Jerry Clower, 71, American stand-up comedian.
* Charles Diggs, 75, American politician, stroke.[96]
* Manuel Álvarez Jiménez, 70, Chilean football player.
* E. G. Marshall, 84, American actor (12 Angry Men, Tora! Tora! Tora!, The Defenders), Emmy winner (1962, 1963), lung cancer.[97]
* Gene Page, 58, American composer, arranger and record producer.[98]
* Levan Sanadze, 70, Georgian athlete and Olympic medalist.[99]
* Georges Senfftleben, 75, French track cyclist.[100]
* Jack Richard Williams, 88, American radio announcer and politician, cancer.[101]

### 25

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* Mildred L. Batchelder, 96, American librarian.[102]
* Lamar Crowson, 72, American concert pianist and a chamber musician.[103]
* Lee Gunther, 63, American film editor and co-founder of Marvel Productions, stroke.
* Floyd K. Haskell, 82, American lawyer and politician, pneumonia.[104]
* Vyacheslav Kochemasov, 79, Russian diplomat and politician.
* Allan Macartney, 57, Scottish politician, heart attack.
* Barbara Mandell, 78, British journalist, broadcaster, newsreader and travel writer.
* Bob Montgomery, 79, American boxer, complications from a stroke.[105]
* Lennart Nyman, 81, Swedish football coach and sports administrator.
* Jerry Wayne Parrish, 54, United States Army corporal and defector, kidney failure.
* Lewis F. Powell, Jr., 90, American lawyer and jurist, pneumonia.[106]
* Gagik Sargsyan, 72, Armenian historian.

### 26

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* Genaro Ruiz Camacho, 43, American criminal, execution by lethal injection.
* Wade Domínguez, 32, American actor, model, singer and dancer, respiratory failure.
* Penny Edwards, 70, American actress, lung cancer.[107]
* Remo Giazotto, 87, Italian musicologist, music critic, and composer.
* Jack Harlan, 81, American botanist, agronomist, and plant collector.[108]
* Robert Huebner, 84, American physician and virologist, pneumonia.[109]
* Jaanus Kuum, 33, Estonian-Norwegian racing cyclist, suicide.[110]
* Margaret Potter, 72, British writer.[111]
* Frederick Reines, 80, American physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.[112]
* Ryūichi Tamura, 75, Japanese poet, essayist and translator, esophageal cancer.

### 27

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* Babalu, 56, Filipino comedian and actor, liver cancer.
* Garry E. Brown, 75, American politician.[113]
* Kelly Chan, 41, Singaporean windsurfer, traffic collision.[114]
* Harry Jensen, 85, Australian politician.
* Hunter Johnson, 92, American composer.[115]
* Gianni Hecht Lucari, 76, Italian film producer, and production manager.[116]
* Syd Owen, 76, English football player and coach.[117]
* Essie Summers, 86, New Zealand author.[118]
* Margaret Dauler Wilson, 59, American philosopher and academic.[119]

### 28

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* George Büchi, 77, Swiss organic chemist and academic.[120]
* Lu Dadong, 83, Chinese politician, governor of Sichuan province.
* Hirokazu Kobayashi, 69, Japanese aikido teacher.
* Rajarethinam Arokiasamy Sundaram, 93, Roman Catholic bishop.[121]
* Jack Wright, 71, Australian politician and Deputy Premier of South Australia (1982-1985).
* Nikolai Vladimirovich Zateyev, 72, Russian submariner and Soviet Navy officer, lung cancer.

### 29

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* Erik Asmussen, 84, Danish architect.
* Antoinette Becker, 78, French-German children's author.
* Richard Beebe, 68, American radio personality, lung cancer.[122]
* Minerva Bernardino, Dominican Republic diplomat and feminist.[123]
* Charlie Feathers, 66, American country music and rockabilly musician, stroke.[124]
* John Langston Gwaltney, 69, American writer and anthropologist.[125]
* Frances Hamerstrom, 90, American author, naturalist and ornithologist, cancer.[126]
* Ralph Pappier, 84, Argentine production designer, set decorator and film director.

### 30

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* Archie Glen, 69, Scottish football player.[127]
* Dan Kubiak, 60, American politician and businessman, cardiovascular disease.
* Mykhaylo Mykhalyna, 74, Soviet-Ukrainian football manager and coach.
* Denniz Pop, 35, Swedish DJ, music producer and songwriter, stomach cancer.
* Irving Segal, 79, American mathematician.[128]
* Toss Woollaston, 88, New Zealand painter.[129]

### 31

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* Sabiha Gökçül Erbay, Turkish school teacher and politician.
* Keith Oxlee, 63, South African rugby player, complications following surgery.[130]
* Aage Poulsen, 79, Danish long-distance runner and Olympian.[131]
* Shigezō Sasaoka, 50, Japanese voice actor, typhoid fever.

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