Deaths in April 1998

The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.

1

 * Theodore Bloomfield, 74, American conductor, heart attack.
 * Gene Evans, 75, American actor, heart failure.
 * Anne Gullestad, 72, Norwegian actress and theatre director.
 * Janusz Nasfeter, 77, Polish film director, screenwriter and writer.
 * Lucille Norman, 76, American actress, mezzo-soprano and radio personality.
 * Robert Ogle, 69, Canadian Roman Catholic priest and politician.
 * Mary Wynne Warner, 65, Welsh mathematician.
 * Rozz Williams, 34, American singer, poet and artist, suicide by hanging.

2

 * Joan Austin, 95, British tennis player.
 * Dai Davies, 88, Welsh trade unionist.
 * Ronnie Dix, 85, English football player.
 * Hans Eberle, 72, German football player.
 * Jock Gaynor, 68, American television actor and producer.
 * Eberhard Rees, 89, German-American rocketry pioneer and NASA executive.
 * Jackie Sardou, 78, French actress.

3

 * Mary Cartwright, 97, British mathematician.
 * Elmer Iseler, 70, Canadian choir conductor and choral editor.
 * Givi Kartozia, 69, Georgian middleweight Greco-Roman wrestler and Olympic champion.
 * Charles Lang, 96, American cinematographer (Some Like It Hot, A Farewell to Arms, Sabrina), Oscar winner (1934), pneumonia.
 * Harkisan Mehta, 69, Indian author and journalist, heart attack.
 * Rolf Olsen, 78, Austrian actor, screenwriter and film director, cancer.
 * Roby Pilatus, 32, German model, dancer and singer (Milli Vanilli), accidental overdose.
 * Herbert B. Powell, 94, United States Army general and diplomat.
 * John W. Sweeterman, 91, American newspaperman.
 * Alvin Tyler, 72, American R&B and jazz musician.
 * Wolf Vostell, 65, German painter and sculptor.

4

 * Harry Wesley Bass Jr., 71, American businessman, coin collector and philanthropist.
 * George Berry, 84, Australian politician.
 * Kate Bosse-Griffiths, 87, German-British egyptologist.
 * Marshall Fredericks, 90, American sculptor.
 * Kay Hughes, 84, American actress.
 * Pierre Lantier, 87, French composer and pianist.
 * Predrag Milinković, 64, Serbian actor.
 * Ian Percival, 76, British politician.
 * Ganesh Prasad Rijal, 77, Nepali politician, heart attack.

5

 * Frederick Charles Frank, 87, British theoretical physicist.
 * Mick Miller, 61, Australian Aboriginal activist and politician, heart seizure.
 * Elizabeth Mitchell, 79, New Zealand fencer.
 * Cozy Powell, 50, English rock drummer (Rainbow, Whitesnake, Emerson, Lake & Powell, Black Sabbath), car crash.

6

 * Edgar Ablowich, 84, American athlete and Olympian.
 * Reuben Berry, 63, American gridiron football coach.
 * Rudy Dhaenens, 36, Belgian road bicycle racer, car accident.
 * Helen Craig McCullough, 80, American academic, translator and japanologist.
 * Heinz Neuhaus, 71, German boxer and heavyweight champion.
 * Dewey Soriano, 78, American baseball executive.
 * Wendy O. Williams, 48, American singer, songwriter, and actress, suicide by gunshot.
 * John Wyatt, 63, American baseball player, heart attack.
 * Tammy Wynette, 55, American country music singer-songwriter, heart arrhythmia, heart attack.

7

 * Muhammad Karam Shah al-Azhari, 79, Pakistani Islamic scholar.
 * Modesta Bor, 71, Venezuelan composer.
 * Luis Díez del Corral, 86, Spanish jurist, writer and political scientist.
 * Vitaly Galkov, 58, Soviet and Russian sprint canoer and Olympian.
 * Sirous Ghayeghran, 36, Iranian football player and, traffic collision.
 * John Kasper, 69, American Ku Klux Klan member and segregationist.
 * Ronald William John Keay, 77, British botanist, cancer.
 * Pancho Magalona, 77, Filipino actor, emphysema.
 * Nick Auf der Maur, 55, Canadian journalist and politician, esophageal cancer.
 * James McIntosh Patrick, 91, Scottish painter.
 * Paul Sarringhaus, 77, American gridiron football player.
 * Alex Schomburg, 92, Puerto Rican comic-book artist and painter.
 * Carlos Vega, 41, Cuban-American session drummer, suicide.
 * S. V. Venkatraman, 86, Indian actor, singer and music director.

8

 * Anatole Dauman, 73, French film producer.
 * Charlie Drinkwater, 83, English football player and manager.
 * Lee Elias, 77, British-American comics artist.
 * Florence Virginia Foose Wilson Mayberry, 91, American writer and Baháʼí Faith convert.
 * René Pellos, 98, French artist, cartoonist and writer.
 * Kurt Weinreich, 89, German football manager.

9

 * Tom Cora, 44, American cellist and composer, malignant melanoma.
 * Mihai Grecu, 81, Moldovan painter.
 * Vishnu Bhikaji Kolte, 89, Indian writer.
 * Lü Shuxiang, 93, Chinese linguist, lexicographer and educator.
 * Ronald Vernon Southcott, 79, Australian medical zoologist.
 * Aleksey Spiridonov, 46, Soviet athlete and Olympic medalist.
 * John Tate, 43, American heavyweight boxer, car accident.
 * David Vigor, 58, Australian politician, heart attack.

10

 * Archbishop Serafim of Athens, 84, Greek archbishop.
 * Alan Burgess, 83, English RAF pilot and author.
 * Jean Chapot, 67, French screenwriter and film director.
 * Campos de Carvalho, 81, Brazilian writer.
 * Dieter Erler, 58, German footballer.
 * Basil James, 77, American jockey.
 * Zezé Moreira, 90, Brazilian footballer and coach.
 * Nguyen Co Thach, 76, Vietnamese revolutionary, diplomat, and politician.

11

 * Lillian Briggs, 65, American rock 'n roll musician, lung cancer.
 * Francis Durbridge, 85, English playwright and author.
 * Tex Geddes, 78, Scottish author and adventurer.
 * Rodney Harvey, 30, American actor, model and dancer, drug overdose.
 * Kristaq Rama, 66, Albanian sculptor, art educator and politician.
 * Ivan Tcherepnin, 55, French-American composer.
 * Rover Thomas, 72, Aboriginal Australian artist.

12

 * Xin Fengxia, Chinese pingju opera performer, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Robert Ford, 83, Canadian poet and diplomat.
 * Dorothea Jameson, 77, American cognitive psychologist, lung cancer.
 * Frederick Lenz, 48, American businessman and spiritual teacher, suicide by drowning.
 * Felicitas Mendez, Puerto Rican-American civil right activist, heart failure.
 * Bruno Rodzik, 62, French football player.
 * Charles Sibley, 80, American ornithologist and molecular biologist.
 * Marvin Wolfgang, 73, American sociologist and criminologist.

13

 * Alec Albiston, 80, Australian rules footballer and coach.
 * Patrick de Gayardon, 38, French skydiver and skysurfing pioneer, skydiving accident.
 * Nyta Dover, 70, Swiss actress.
 * Bahi Ladgham, 85, Tunisian politician and Prime minister.
 * Ian MacGregor, 85, Scottish-American metallurgist and industrialist.
 * Pat Rainey, 72, American singer and actress.

14

 * Jake Colhouer, 76, American gridiron football player.
 * Weldon Humble, 76, American gridiron football player.
 * Harry Lee, 90, British tennis player.
 * Dorothy Squires, 83, Welsh singer, lung cancer.
 * Maurice Stans, 90, American civil servant and politician, congestive heart failure.

15

 * William Congdon, 86, American painter.
 * Pompeo D'Ambrosio, 81, Italian-Venezuelan businessman.
 * Kenny Duckett, 38, American football player (New Orleans Saints, Dallas Cowboys), renal failure.
 * William K. Jones, 81, United States Marine Corps lieutenant general.
 * Rose Maddox, 72, American country singer-songwriter.
 * Pol Pot, 72, Cambodian politician. General secretary of the CPK

16

 * Kazimieras Antanavičius, 60, Lithuanian economist and politician.
 * Djibo Bakary, 76, Nigerian nationalist and politician.
 * Alberto Calderón, 77, Argentinian mathematician.
 * Fernande Caroen, 77, Belgian freestyle swimmer and Olympian.
 * Fred Davis, 84, English snooker and billiards player.
 * Marie-Louise Meilleur, 117, Canadian supercentenarian, oldest living person at the time of her death.
 * Ronald Millar, 78, English actor, scriptwriter, and dramatist.

17

 * Michael Ashikodi Agbamuche, 77, Nigerian Attorney General and politician.
 * Alberto Bovone, 75, Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church.
 * Frances Clark, 93, American pianist, pedagogue, and academic.
 * Geraldo de Barros, 75, Brazilian painter and photographer.
 * Linda McCartney, 56, American musician, photographer and animal rights activist, breast cancer.
 * William C. Scott, 76, Canadian politician.

18

 * Stoffel Botha, 69, South African politician, heart attack.
 * Ferenc Deák, 76, Hungarian football player.
 * William Edmondson, 91, American sound engineer.
 * Nelson Gonçalves, 78, Brazilian singer and songwriter, heart attack.
 * Johan Richter, 73, Danish architect and engineer.
 * Terry Sanford, 80, American university administrator and politician, esophageal cancer.
 * Linda Schele, 55, American Mesoamerican archaeologist, pancreatic cancer.

19

 * Gardner Dickinson, 70, American golfer.
 * J.C. Harrington, 96, American historical archaeologist.
 * Denis Howell, Baron Howell, 74, British politician.
 * Octavio Paz, 84, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate, cancer.
 * Vladimir Sokolov, 70, Russian scientist.
 * Liam Sullivan, 74, American actor and singer, heart attack.

20

 * Severo Cominelli, 82, Italian football player.
 * Trevor Huddleston, 84, English Anglican bishop.
 * Yoshio Inaba, 77, Japanese actor (Seven Samurai), heart attack.
 * Alfredo Palacio Moreno, 85, Ecuadorian sculptor and painter.
 * Othmar Wessely, 75, Austrian musicologist and university teacher.

21

 * Ivan Chtcheglov, 65, French political theorist, activist and poet.
 * Peter Lind Hayes, 82, American vaudeville entertainer, songwriter and actor, vascular problems.
 * Vernon Holland, 49, American gridiron football player (Cincinnati Bengals, Detroit Lions and New York Giants), heart attack.
 * Egill Jacobsen, 87, Danish painter.
 * Jean-François Lyotard, 73, French philosopher and sociologist, leukemia.
 * Gábor Preisich, 88, Hungarian architect.
 * Bruno Roth, 86, German racing cyclist.
 * Irene Vernon, 76, American actress, congestive heart failure and coronary artery disease.
 * Helen Ward, 84, American jazz singer.
 * Frank Wootton, 86, British aviation artist.

22

 * Edward Brongersma, 86, Dutch politician and doctor of law, voluntary euthanasia.
 * Kitch Christie, 58, South African rugby coach, leukemia.
 * Alfredo da Motta, 77, Brazilian basketball player.
 * Carlo Donida, 77, Italian composer and pianist.
 * Guy Henn, 88, Australian doctor and politician.
 * Vadym Hetman, 62, Ukrainian statesman and banker, murdered.
 * León Najnudel, 56, Argentine basketball player and basketball coach, leukemia.
 * Georges Paillard, 94, French cyclist.
 * Régine Pernoud, 88, French historian and archivist.
 * Shalimar Seiuli, 21, American-Samoan transgender dancer, accidental fall.
 * Marvin Worth, 72, American film producer, screenwriter and actor, lung cancer.

23

 * Konstantinos Karamanlis, 91, Greek politician and former Prime Minister and President.
 * James Earl Ray, 70, American convict and assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., liver failure.
 * Sartaj Singh, Indian Army general.
 * Red Stacy, 86, American gridiron football player.
 * Gregor von Rezzori, 83, Austrian-Romanian journalist, actor, writer and art collector.

24

 * Froduald Karamira, 50, Rwandan politician, execution by firing squad.
 * Yakov Malkiel, 83, Russian-American etymologist and philologist.
 * Mel Powell, 75, American composer and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, liver cancer.
 * Christiane Rochefort, 80, French feminist writer.
 * Leslie Stevens, 74, American producer, writer and director, angioplasty.

25

 * Jorge Dominichi, 51, Argentine football player and manager, heart attack.
 * Wright Morris, 88, American novelist, photographer and essayist, esophageal cancer.
 * Christian Mortensen, 115, Danish-American supercentenarian, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Don Petersen, 70, American playwright and screenwriter.
 * Stanley Brehaut Ryerson, 87, Canadian historian, educator, political activist.

26

 * Alan Boxer, 81, British Royal Air Force officer.
 * Juan José Gerardi Conedera, 75, Guatemalan Roman Catholic bishop and human rights activist, assassinated, homicide.
 * David Fasold, 59, United States Merchant Marine officer and salvage expert, cancer.
 * Gamini Jayasuriya, 73, Sri Lankan politician.
 * Sven Olov Lindholm, 95, Swedish anti-communist and Nazi politician.
 * Gabe Paul, 88, American Major League Baseball executive.
 * Arif Pašalić, 54, Bosnian military officer, traffic collision.
 * Ivy May Pearce, 83, Australian aerobatic pilot.

27

 * John Bassett, 82, Canadian media proprietor and politician.
 * Carlos Castañeda, 72, American author, hepatocellular cancer.
 * Anne Desclos, 90, French journalist and novelist.
 * Edris Eckhardt, 93, American artist.
 * Louis S. Peterson, 75, American playwright, actor, screenwriter and professor, lung cancer.
 * Ralph Raphael, 77, British organic chemist, ischaemic heart disease.
 * Browning Ross, 74, American long-distance runner and Olympian.
 * Geoffrey Serle, 76, Australian historian.
 * Nguyen Van Linh, 82, Vietnamese revolutionary and politician, liver cancer.

28

 * Jerome Bixby, 75, American short story writer and scriptwriter.
 * Ramakant Desai, 58, Indian cricket player, complications following cardiac arrest.
 * Roger Eason, 79, American gridiron football player.
 * Dorothy Lovett, 83, American film actress.
 * Reed C. Rollins, 86, American botanist and professor.
 * Mum Shirl, 76, Australian Wiradjuri humanitarian activist.

29

 * Mary Castle, 67, American actress, lung cancer.
 * Charley Cowan, 59, American gridiron football player.
 * Mário de Castro, 92, Brazilian footballer.
 * Harold Devine, 88, American boxer.
 * V. Gopalakrishnan, Indian actor.
 * Hal Laycoe, 75, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.

30

 * Guy Anderson, 91, American painter.
 * Curly Chalker, 66, American pedal steel guitarist, brain tumor.
 * Lise Gervais, 64, Canadian abstract painter and sculptor.
 * Edwin Thompson Jaynes, 75, American physicist and statistician.
 * Nizar Qabbani, 75, Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher, heart attack.
 * Jopie Selbach, 79, Dutch freestyle swimmer and Olympian.