Deaths in February 1998

The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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

 * Robert Creighton Buck, 77, American mathematician.
 * Jack T. Collis, 75, American art director.
 * Marga Faulstich, 82, German glass chemist.
 * Gérard Séty, 75, a French actor.
 * Sheila Watson, 88, Canadian novelist and literary critic.

2

 * Raymond Cattell, 92, British and American psychologist.
 * Duilio Del Prete, 59, Italian actor, dubber and singer-songwriter, cancer.
 * Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber, 86, German-American nuclear physicist.
 * Ferdinand A. Hermens, 91, German-American political scientist and economist.
 * Viljo Kajava, 88, Finnish poet and writer.
 * Robert McIntyre, 84, Scottish politician.
 * Baldev Singh, 93, Indian neurologist.
 * Roger L. Stevens, 87, American theatrical producer, arts administrator, and real estate executive.
 * Haroun Tazieff, 83, French volcanologist and geologist.
 * Manuel Delgado Villegas, 55, Spanish serial killer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
 * Zahari Zhandov, 86, Bulgarian film director, script writer and cinematographer.

3

 * Joey Archibald, 83, American boxer.
 * Clark Goff, 80, American gridiron football player.
 * Bertram Heyn, 85, Sri Lankan general and cricketer.
 * Davy Kaye, 81, British actor and entertainer.
 * Gabriel Laub, 69, Czechoslovak journalist and writer.
 * Fat Pat, 27, American rapper, murdered.
 * Karla Faye Tucker, 38, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.

4

 * Eranuhi Aslamazyan, 88, Armenian and Soviet graphic artist.
 * Jean Blackwell Hutson, 83, African-American librarian, writer and curator.
 * Zoran Kosanović, 42, Serbian Canadian table tennis player, heart attack.
 * Aruna Lama, 52, Nepali singer.
 * Menachem Shmuel David Raichik, 79, American Orthodox rabbi.
 * Michel Roux, 73, French baritone.
 * Rees Stephens, 75, Welsh rugby player.
 * Cristóbal Martínez-Bordiú, 10th Marquis of Villaverde, 75, Spanish aristocrat and son in law of dictator Francisco Franco.

5

 * Wilbur Coen, 86, American tennis player.
 * Douglas Gamley, 73, Australian composer.
 * Margaret Hillis, 76, American conductor.
 * Tim Kelly, 35, American guitarist of the band Slaughter, car accident.
 * Kim Ki-young, 78, South Korean film director, domestic accident.
 * Eduardo Francisco Pironio, 77, Argentine Roman Catholic cardinal, bone cancer.
 * Joe Stubbs, American R&B/Soul singer, heart failure.
 * Chikuzan Takahashi, 87, Japanese Tsugaru-jamisen performer and composer.
 * Hans Wallach, 93, German-American experimental psychologist.
 * Nick Webb, 43, English acoustic guitarist and composer, pancreatic cancer.

6

 * Nazim al-Kudsi, 91, former President and Prime Minister of Syria.
 * Falco, 40, Austrian singer and songwriter ("Rock Me Amadeus"), traffic accident.
 * Tony LeVier, 84, American air racer and test pilot, cancer.
 * Ferenc Sidó, 74, Czechoslovak table tennis player.
 * Toshiaki Tanaka, 62, Japanese table tennis player.
 * Carl Wilson, 51, American musician, singer, and songwriter (The Beach Boys), lung cancer.
 * Claude Érignac, 60, French prefect of Corsica, murdered.

7

 * Gunther Baumann, 77, German football player and manager.
 * Ascanio Cortés, 83, Chilean football player.
 * Bobby Kemp, 38, American football player, suicide.
 * Norman J. Levy, 67, American lawyer and politician.
 * Lawrence Sanders, 77, American novelist and short story writer.

8

 * Elizabeth Bauer Mock, American professor, curator, author and journalist.
 * Tulsiram Sharma Kashyap, 58, Indian writer and politician.
 * Halldór Laxness, 95, Icelandic writer and Nobel Prize laureate, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Enoch Powell, 85, British politician, classical scholar, author and philologist, Parkinson's disease.
 * Rocke Robertson, 85, American physician.
 * J. B. Salsberg, 95, Canadian politician.
 * Julian Simon, 65, American economist and author, heart attack.

9

 * George Cafego, 82, American football player and coach.
 * Cyrille Delannoit, 71, Belgian middleweight boxing champion.
 * Bill Froats, 67, American baseball player.
 * Gabriel Gobin, 94, Belgian film actor.
 * Dean Griffing, 82, American gridiron football player, coach and executive.
 * Alf Jefferies, 76, English footballer.
 * Panagiotis Katsouris, 21, Greek footballer, traffic collision.
 * Nick Leluk, 62, Canadian politician.
 * William Ronald, 71, Canadian painter.
 * Maurice Schumann, 86, French politician, journalist and writer.

10

 * Ramchandran Jaikumar, 53, Indian-American scientist, heart attack.
 * Richard Kotuk, 54, American journalist, producer and filmmaker, heart attack.
 * Alex Kramer, 94, Canadian songwriter.
 * Peter Longbottom, 38, British cyclist, traffic collision.
 * Paul MacKendrick, 83, American classicist, author, and teacher.
 * Erich Mückenberger, 87, German socialist politician.
 * Félix Reina, 76, Cuban violinist, arranger and composer, stroke.

11

 * Joy Buba, 93, American sculptor and illustrator.
 * Patrick Clark, 42, American chef, amyloidosis.
 * Tanvir Dar, 50, Pakistani field hockey player and Olympian.
 * Thomas Gerard Dunn, 76, American politician.
 * Mike Fornieles, 66, Cuban-American baseball player.
 * Lily Harmon, American visual artist.
 * Jonathan Hole, 93, American actor.
 * Josef Issels, 90, German physician, pneumonia.
 * Radhanath Rath, 101, Indian journalist, activist and politician.

12

 * Gardner Ackley, 82, American economist and diplomat.
 * Lionel Aldridge, 56, American gridiron football player.
 * Lauri Kivekäs, 94, Finnish businessman and politician.
 * George Humphrey Middleton, 88, British diplomat.
 * Ralf Reichenbach, 47, German shot putter and Olympian.

13

 * José Barraquer, 82, Spanish ophthalmologist.
 * Thomas Chapin, 40, American composer and musician, leukemia.
 * Jo Clayton, 58, American fantasy and science fiction author, multiple myeloma.
 * John Cowley, 74, Irish actor.
 * Hans Diergaardt, 70, Namibian politician.
 * Bryan MacMahon, 88, Irish writer.
 * Alfred Struwe, 70, German actor, pneumonia.
 * Ladislav Štípek, 73, Czechoslovak table tennis.

14

 * Badrul Haider Chowdhury, 73, Chief Justice of Bangladesh.
 * Edgar Granville, Baron Granville of Eye, 100, British politician.
 * Thomas McKimson, 90, American animator.
 * Hansel Mieth, 88, German-American photojournalist.
 * Denise Paulme, 88, French Africanist and anthropologist.
 * Manuel Pérez, 54, Colombian guerrilla leader, hepatitis.

15

 * Sir Samuel Curran, 85, British physicist and university administrator.
 * Martha Gellhorn, 89, American novelist, travel writer, and journalist, suicide.
 * B. Calvin Jones, 59, American archaeologist.
 * Louie Spicolli, 27, American professional wrestler, overdose.
 * George White, 86, American film editor.

16

 * Mary Amdur, 76, American toxicologist, heart attack.
 * Boris Blumin, 90, Canadian-American chess master.
 * Harry Hinsley, 79, British historian and cryptanalyst.
 * Fernando Abril Martorell, 61, former Spanish Deputy Prime Minister, lung cancer.
 * Sheu Yuan-dong, 70, Taiwanese politician and governor of the Central Bank, plane crash.

17

 * Arnold Aronson, 86, American civil rights leader.
 * Nicolas Bouvier, 68,Swiss writer, artist, and photographer.
 * Maurice Bucaille, 77, French physician and author.
 * Hilaire Couvreur, 73, Belgian cyclist.
 * Ernst Jünger, 102, German World War I hero, author and entomologist.
 * Ernst Käsemann, 91, German Lutheran theologian, murdered around 24 May 1977.
 * Bob Merrill, 76, American songwriter, theatrical composer and screenwriter, suicide.
 * Sheila Raynor, 91, British actress.
 * Ruth Robertson, 92, American photojournalist.
 * Marie-Louise von Franz, 83, Swiss Jungian psychologist and scholar.
 * Albert Wass, 90, Hungarian nobleman, novelist and poet, suicide.

18

 * Lidia Bongiovanni, 83, Italian versatile athlete.
 * James E. Boyd, 91, American physicist and mathematician.
 * Harry Caray, 83, American television and radio broadcaster, heart attack.
 * David Crouch, 78, British politician.
 * Antonio Escuriet, 88, Spanish road cyclist.
 * Robbie James, 40, Welsh footballer, heart attack.
 * Scott O'Hara, 36, American pornographic performer, author, poet and publisher, AIDS.
 * Messias Timula, 50, Portuguese footballer.
 * Mya Than Tint, 68, Myanmar writer, brain hemorrhage.
 * Richard Crawford White, 74, American politician, heart attack.

19

 * Wolfgang Händler, 77, German mathematician and pioneering computer scientist.
 * Grandpa Jones, 84, American "old time" country and gospel music singer, stroke.
 * George Male, 87, English footballer.
 * Charlie Martin, 84, Welsh racing driver.
 * Mancur Olson, 66, American economist and social scientist.
 * Leo Righetti, 72, American baseball player.
 * Thomas F. Riley, 85, United States Marine Corps brigadier general, cardiac arrest.
 * Talish, Pakistani actor.

20

 * Francis Coulson, 78, British chef and hotelier.
 * John Fulton, 65, American bullfighter, heart attack.
 * Henry Livings, 68, English playwright and screenwriter.
 * David McClure, 72, Scottish artist and lecturer.
 * Ivor Mairants, 90, Polish jazz and classical guitarist, teacher and composer.
 * Bob McBride, 51, Canadian rock singer-songwriter, heart failure.
 * Virgilio Tommasi, 92, Italian long jumper and Olympian.

21

 * Archie Aikman, 72, Scottish football player.
 * Ramón Bravo, 72, Mexican diver, photographer and underwater filmmaker, heart attack.
 * Santos Colon, 75, Puerto Rican bolero and mambo singer.
 * Ellis Credle, 95, American children's author and illustrator.
 * James M. Edie, 70, American philosopher, cancer.
 * George Fant, 81, Swedish actor, director and theater manager, pneumonia.
 * Karl Geyer, 98, Austrian football player and coach.
 * Yoshio Miyajima, 89, Japanese cinematographer.
 * John Nicolella, 52, American film, television director and producer.
 * Baboo Nimal, 89, Indian field hockey player and Olympian.
 * Om Prakash, 78, Indian actor.
 * William Wheeler, 87, English Roman Catholic prelate and bishop.

22

 * Carlo Dionisotti, 89, Italian literary critic, philologist and essayist.
 * Alfred Hales, 88, Canadian businessman and politician.
 * Sandy Hume, 28, American journalist, suicide.
 * José María de Areilza, Count of Motrico, 88, former Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs.
 * Emmy Lou Packard, 83, Californian artist.
 * Russell Reeder, 95, United States Army officer and author.
 * Abraham A. Ribicoff, 87, American Democratic Party Party politician.
 * Athol Rowan, 77, South African international cricket player.
 * Donald S. Russell, 92, American judge and politician.
 * Warren B. Woodson, 94, American football, basketball, and baseball coach, colon cancer.
 * Han Youwen, 85, Chinese general in the National Revolutionary Army.

23

 * Philip Abbott, 73, American actor, cancer.
 * Marie Adams, 72, American gospel and R&B singer.
 * Augusta Braxton Baker, 86, African-American librarian and storyteller.
 * Keith Christopher, 40, American actor, singer/songwriter and AIDS activist, AIDS.
 * Chuck Hayward, 78, American motion picture stuntman and actor, Hodgkin's Disease.
 * Raman Lamba, 38, Indian cricketer, cricket accident.
 * Sean A. Moore, 33, American fantasy and science fiction writer, car crash.
 * Potti Prasad, 69, Indian actor.
 * Ray Stoviak, 82, American baseball player.
 * Billy Sullivan, 82, American businessman, prostate cancer.

24

 * Geoffrey Bush, 77, British composer and music scholar, prostate cancer.
 * Daniel J. Crowley, 76, American art historian and cultural anthropologist, congestive heart failure.
 * Leonard Daniels, 88, British artist and teacher.
 * Elinor Field, 96, American film actress.
 * Clara Fraser, 74, American marxist, feminist and activist, emphysema.
 * Ernst Gutstein, 73, Austrian operatic baritone.
 * Harold Keith, 95, American author.
 * Terry Langford, 31, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Milicent Patrick, 82, American actress, makeup artist and animator.
 * Lalita Pawar, 81, Indian actress.
 * Antonio Prohías, 77, Cuban cartoonist (Spy vs. Spy), lung cancer.
 * Abraham Shneior, 69, Israeli basketball player.
 * Henny Youngman, 91, English-American comedian.

25

 * Frans Bonduel, 90, Belgian road bicycle racer.
 * Francesca Braggiotti, 95, Italian dancer and actress.
 * Joe Gallagher, 83, American baseball player.
 * Harlan Hatcher, 99, American novelist and university president.
 * Wanda Jakubowska, 90, Polish film director.
 * Umberto Mastroianni, 87, Italian abstract sculptor.
 * W. O. Mitchell, 83, Canadian writer and broadcaster, prostate cancer.
 * Pruden, 81, Spanish football player.
 * B. A. Santamaria, 82, Australian anti-communist political activist and journalist, brain cancer.
 * Rockin' Sidney, 59, American R&B, zydeco and soul musician, throat cancer.
 * Vico Torriani, 77, Swiss actor and Schlager singer, cancer.
 * Luigi Veronesi, 89, Italian photographer, painter, and film director.

26

 * James Algar, 85, American film director, screenwriter and producer.
 * Jaap ter Haar, 75, Dutch children's author.
 * Jimmy Hagan, 80, English football player and manager.
 * Otto Haxel, 88, German nuclear physicist.
 * Robert Jones, 67, American lawyer, politician and civil rights litigator.
 * Josef Knottenbelt, 87, Dutch tennis player.
 * Shirley Ardell Mason, 75, American psychiatric patient and art teacher, breast cancer.
 * Stepan Neustroev, 75, Soviet officer and World War II hero.
 * Theodore Schultz, 95, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate.

27

 * Larry Friend, 62, American basketball player, prostate cancer.
 * John Harman, 65, Australian politician.
 * George H. Hitchings, 92, American scientist and Nobel Prize laureate.
 * Martin Hollis, 59, British philosopher.
 * Elsy Jacobs, 64, Luxembourgish road bicycle racer.
 * Gerald David Lascelles, 73, British nobleman.
 * Jack Micheline, 68, American painter and poet.
 * Henry Munyaradzi, 66/67, Zimbabwean sculptor.
 * Alice Rivaz, 96, Swiss author and feminist.
 * J. T. Walsh, 54, American actor (A Few Good Men, Sling Blade, Backdraft), heart attack.

28

 * Ivan Arkhipov, 90, Soviet and Russian statesman.
 * Todd Duncan, 95, American opera singer and actor, heart ailment.
 * Hildegarde Howard, 96, American paleontologist.
 * Daniel Katz, 94, American psychologist.
 * Marie Kettnerová, 86, Czech table tennis player.
 * Dermot Morgan, 45, Irish comedian and actor (Father Ted), heart attack.
 * Antonio Quarracino, 74, Argentine Roman Catholic cardinal and archbishop, heart attack.
 * Arkady Shevchenko, 67, Russian/Soviet diplomat and defector, liver cirrhosis.
 * Injac Zamputi, 88, Albanian scholar, writer, and historian.