Deaths in August 1998

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.

1

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

2

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

3

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

4

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

5

 * Arthur Ceuleers, 82, Belgian footballer.
 * 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.
 * Eugene L. Stewart, 78, American lawyer and law professor.
 * Todor Zhivkov, 86, Bulgarian politician and former president of Bulgaria, pneumonia.

6

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

7

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

8

 * Sam Balter, 88, American basketball player and sportscaster.
 * Giulio Bresci, 76, Italian road racing cyclist.
 * Raymond E. Brown, 70, American Catholic priest.
 * Barbara Burke, 81, British and South African sprint runner and Olympic medalist.
 * Idella Jones Childs, 95, American historian and civil rights activist.
 * Anna J. Harrison, 85, American organic chemist and professor of chemistry.
 * 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.

9

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

10

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

11

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

12

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

13

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

14

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

15

 * Marc Akerstream, 44, Canadian actor and stuntman, head injuries from special effects explosion, head trauma.
 * Károly Polinszky, 76, Hungarian chemical engineer and politician.
 * Bill Shill, 75, Canadian ice hockey player.

16

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

17

 * Robert B. Evans, 92, American automobile industry executive.
 * Terry Garvin, 61, Canadian professional wrestler, cancer.
 * Władysław Komar, 58, Polish shot putter and actor, car crash.
 * 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.

18

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

19

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

20

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

21

 * Hans van Abeelen, 61, Dutch behaviour geneticist.
 * Luis Dávila, 71, Argentine actor, heart attack.
 * 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.
 * Juanita Kidd Stout, 79, American attorney and jurist.
 * Wanda Toscanini, 90, Italian wife of pianist Vladimir Horowitz.

22

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

23

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

24

 * Alexey Andreevich Anselm, 64, Russian theoretical physicist.
 * Manuel Azcárate, 81, Spanish journalist and communist politician, cancer.
 * Jerry Clower, 71, American stand-up comedian.
 * Charles Diggs, 75, American politician, stroke.
 * 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.
 * Gene Page, 58, American composer, arranger and record producer.
 * Levan Sanadze, 70, Georgian athlete and Olympic medalist.
 * Georges Senfftleben, 75, French track cyclist.
 * Jack Richard Williams, 88, American radio announcer and politician, cancer.

25

 * Mildred L. Batchelder, 96, American librarian.
 * Lamar Crowson, 72, American concert pianist and a chamber musician.
 * Lee Gunther, 63, American film editor and co-founder of Marvel Productions, stroke.
 * Floyd K. Haskell, 82, American lawyer and politician, pneumonia.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * Gagik Sargsyan, 72, Armenian historian.

26

 * 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.
 * Remo Giazotto, 87, Italian musicologist, music critic, and composer.
 * Jack Harlan, 81, American botanist, agronomist, and plant collector.
 * Robert Huebner, 84, American physician and virologist, pneumonia.
 * Jaanus Kuum, 33, Estonian-Norwegian racing cyclist, suicide.
 * Margaret Potter, 72, British writer.
 * Frederick Reines, 80, American physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
 * Ryūichi Tamura, 75, Japanese poet, essayist and translator, esophageal cancer.

27

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

28

 * George Büchi, 77, Swiss organic chemist and academic.
 * Lu Dadong, 83, Chinese politician, governor of Sichuan province.
 * Hirokazu Kobayashi, 69, Japanese aikido teacher.
 * Rajarethinam Arokiasamy Sundaram, 93, Roman Catholic bishop.
 * 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

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

30

 * Archie Glen, 69, Scottish football player.
 * 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.
 * Toss Woollaston, 88, New Zealand painter.

31

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