Deaths in July 1998

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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

 * Francis Ambrière, 90, French author.
 * Margarita Azurdia, 67, Guatemalan sculptor, painter, poet, and performance artist.
 * Jane Bell, 88, Canadian track and field athlete and Olympic champion.
 * Dumitru Berciu, 91, Romanian historian and archaeologist.
 * Ed Connolly, 58, American baseball player.
 * Stig Järrel, 88, Swedish actor, film director and revue artist.
 * Claire Kelly, 64, American actress and model.
 * Dimitris Liantinis, 55, Greek philosopher, writer and university professor, suicide.
 * Martin Seymour-Smith, 70, British poet, literary critic, and biographer.
 * Rodney Smith, Baron Smith, 84, British surgeon.
 * Toyonobori, 67, Japanese sumo wrestler, heart failure.

2

 * Shen Chang-huan, 84, Taiwanese politician and diplomat.
 * Tony De Vit, 40, English DJ and music producer, bronchial failure.
 * Joe Graboski, 68, American basketball player.
 * Miklós Gábor, 79, Hungarian actor.
 * Valter Külvet, 34, Estonian athlete and Olympian, blunt trauma.
 * Juan José Nogués, 89, Spanish football player and manager.
 * Errol Parker, 72, French-Algerian jazz pianist, liver cancer.
 * Sohrab Shahid-Saless, 54, Iranian film director and screenwriter, liver failure.
 * Kay Thompson, 88, American author, actress and singer.

3

 * Arun Kumar Ahuja, 81, Indian film actor and producer.
 * Danielle Bunten Berry, 49, American game designer and programmer, lung cancer.
 * Alf Boyd, 77, Scottish football player.
 * Sadeq Chubak, 81, Iranian author of short fiction, drama, and novels.
 * Al Couppee, 78, American gridiron football player.
 * Louis L. Goldstein, 85, American politician.
 * Billie Hughes, 50, American songwriter, musician and record producer, heart attack.
 * Bernhard Häring, 85, German Catholic theologian, and priest.
 * Carl Koch, 86, American architect.
 * George Lloyd, 85, British composer.
 * Elizabeth Riddell, 88, Australian poet and journalist.
 * Lev Rokhlin, 51, Soviet / Russian army officer, murdered.
 * Kazimierz Sokołowski, 90, Polish ice hockey player.
 * Duncan White, 80, Sri Lankan track and field athlete and Olympic medalist.

4

 * Gladys Ambrose, 67, English actress, cancer.
 * Gregg Burge, 40, American tap dancer and choreographer, brain tumor.
 * Kurt Franz, 84, German SS officer and commander of the Treblinka extermination camp.
 * Denis Ségui Kragbé, 60, Ivorian shot putter and discus thrower.
 * Peter Monteverdi, 64, Swiss carmaker, cancer.
 * M. N. Sathyaardhi, 85, Indian writer and freedom fighter.
 * Jay Taylor, 30, American basketball player, burned.

5

 * Frank Creagh, 74, New Zealand boxer.
 * Cleeve Horne, 86, Canadian portrait painter and sculptor, respiratory-related illness.
 * Sid Luckman, 81, American football player (Chicago Bears) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
 * Maria Mercè Marçal, 45, Catalan poet, professor, writer and translator from Spain, breast cancer.
 * Frank Righeimer, 89, American fencer and Olympic medalist.
 * Johnny Speight, 78, English television scriptwriter, pancreatic cancer.
 * Stevie Hyper D, 30, British drum and bass MC, heart attack.

6

 * Semon Knudsen, 85, American automobile executive.
 * Georges Maton, 84, French cyclist.
 * Alan Revill, 75, English cricketer.
 * Roy Rogers, 86, American singer and actor (The Roy Rogers Show), congestive heart failure.
 * Ed Sanicki, 74, American baseball player.

7

 * Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, 60, Nigerian businessman, politician and aristocrat, homicide.
 * M. Athar Ali, 73, Indian historian, liver cancer.
 * F. Tillman Durdin, 91, American foreign correspondent for The New York Times.
 * Lenore Romney, 89, American actress and political figure, stroke.

8

 * Constance Cox, 85, British script writer and playwright.
 * Kohei Murakoso, 92, Japanese runner and Olympian, respiratory disease.
 * Dušan Vukotić, 71, Yugoslav and Croatian cartoonist and author, heart attack.
 * Lilí Álvarez, 93, Spanish sportswoman, author, feminist and journalist.

9

 * Knut Bergsland, 84, Norwegian linguist.
 * Jim Flora, 84, American artist, stomach cancer.
 * David Fulker, 61, British behavioural geneticist.
 * Lester King, 59, Jamaican cricket player.
 * Katherine Russell, 89, English social worker and university teacher.
 * Halvor J. Sandsdalen, 87, Norwegian farmer, journalist, poet, playwright and children's writer.
 * Aldo Stellita, 50, Italian bassist and songwriter, lung cancer.

10

 * Willie Fry, 43, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), heart attack.
 * Billy Patterson, 79, American football player (Chicago Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers).
 * Elijah Pitts, 60, American football player (Green Bay Packers), stomach cancer.
 * William Preston, 76, American actor.
 * Victor Smith, 85, Royal Australian Navy officer.

11

 * Octav Botnar, 84, Romanian-British businessman and founder of Datsun, stomach cancer.
 * John Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter, 90, British politician.
 * Komla Agbeli Gbedemah, 85, Ghanaian politician.
 * Emma Humphreys, 30, British convict, accidental overdose.
 * Panagiotis Kondylis, 54, Greek philosopher, intellectual and historian.
 * Guy Lafitte, 71, French jazz saxophonist.
 * John J. Tominac, 76, United States Army officer and recipient of the Medal of Honor.

12

 * M. M. S. Ahuja, 69, Indian endocrinologist.
 * Wilson Francisco Alves, 70, Brazilian football player and manager.
 * Jimmy Driftwood, 91, American folk music songwriter and musician, heart attack.
 * Bo Giertz, 92, Swedish theologian, novelist and bishop.
 * Arkady Ostashev, 72, Russian mechanical engineer.
 * Maithripala Senanayake, 82, Sri Lankan politician.

13

 * Watkins Moorman Abbitt, 90, American politician and lawyer, leukemia.
 * Gauri Ayyub, 67, Indian social worker, activist and writer, acute arthritis.
 * Red Badgro, 95, American football player, football coach and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, fall.
 * Stanley Bergerman, 94, American producer of horror films, cancer.
 * John Béchervaise, 88, Australian writer, photographer, artist, historian and explorer.
 * Konstantinos Kollias, 97, Prime Minister of Greece during the military junta.
 * Jean René Célestin Parédès, 83, French film actor, heart attack.
 * Ben Zion Abba Shaul, 73, Israeli Sephardic rabbi.
 * Sigismund von Braun, 87, German diplomat and politician.

14

 * Rex Applegate, 84, American army officer.
 * Beryl Bryden, 78, English jazz singer.
 * Glenn E. Duncan, 80, United States Air Force officer and World War II flying ace.
 * Miroslav Holub, 74, Czech poet and immunologist.
 * Herman David Koppel, 89, Danish composer and pianist.
 * Richard McDonald, 89, American entrepreneur, co-founder of McDonald's and inventor of the fast food system.
 * Nguyen Ngoc Loan, 67, South Vietnamese general, cancer.
 * Robert Augustine Ward Lowndes, 81, American science fiction author and editor.
 * Karl Schirdewan, 91, German communist activist and East German politician.
 * Angus John Mackintosh Stewart, 61, British writer.
 * Thomas Martin Thompson, 43, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.

15

 * Malcolm Booker, 83, Australian diplomat, author and journalist.
 * Henry J. Leir, 98, American industrialist, financier, and philanthropist.
 * Kazimierz Lis, 88, Polish football player.
 * Joseph Desmond O'Connor, 78, British linguist, pneumonia.
 * S. Shanmuganathan, 38, Sri Lankan Tamil militant and politician, assassinated.

16

 * John Ball, 73, English footballer.
 * Gisella Caccialanza, 83, American prima ballerina, stroke.
 * John Henrik Clarke, 83, African-American historian and professor, heart attack.
 * Philip J. Corso, 83, American Army officer, heart attack.
 * Jess Dobernic, 80, American baseball player.
 * Mahbub ul Haq, 64, Pakistani economist and politician.
 * Lucien Lamoureux, 77, Canadian politician and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada.

17

 * Lamberto Gardelli, 82, Italian-Swedish conductor.
 * Gladstone Guest, 81, English football player.
 * Lillian Hoban, 73, American illustrator and children's writer.
 * Marc Hunter, 44, New Zealand singer, songwriter and record producer, cancer.
 * Karl-Heinz Höcker, 82, German theoretical nuclear physicist.
 * Paul H. Kocher, 91, American academic and writer.
 * James Lighthill, 74, British mathematician.
 * Joseph Maher, 64, Irish-American actor, playwright and director, brain tumor, brain cancer.
 * Hervé Mirouze, 73, French football player and coach.
 * Hugh Reilly, 82, American actor, emphysema.
 * Claudia Testoni, 82, Italian hurdler, sprinter and long jumper.

18

 * Emilio Alfaro, 65, Argentine actor, and theatre and film director.
 * Florence Bird, 90, Canadian broadcaster, journalist, and senator.
 * Hans Feibusch, 99, German painter and sculptor.
 * Mykola Lebed, 89, Ukrainian political activist, nationalist and guerrilla fighter.
 * Betty Marsden, 79, English comedy actress.
 * Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Thero, 101, Sri Lankan Buddhist monk.

19

 * Giliana Berneri, French communist activist.
 * Antoine Tisné, 65, French composer.
 * Ralph Toohy, 71, Canadian Football League player.
 * Elmer Valo, 77, Slovak American baseball player and coach.

20

 * Norah Borges, 97, Argentine artist.
 * June Byers, 76, American women's professional wrestler, pneumonia.
 * Alberto Cavallari, 70, Italian journalist and writer.
 * Tossy Spivakovsky, 91, Russian-American violin virtuoso.

21

 * Doug Miller, 28, American gridiron football player, lightning strike.
 * Alan Shepard, 74, American astronaut, naval aviator and test pilot, complications from leukemia.
 * Kenneth Watson, 66, British television actor, pancreatic cancer.
 * Robert Young, 91, American actor (Marcus Welby, M.D., Father Knows Best, Window on Main Street), Emmy winner (1957, 1958, 1970), respiratory failure.

22

 * Eugene Aserinsky, 77, American sleep researcher, traffic collision.
 * Fritz Buchloh, 88, German football manager and football player.
 * Michael Denison, 82, English actor.
 * Don Dunphy, 90, American television and radio sports announcer.
 * Judy Malcolm, 87, American film actress.
 * Corbett Monica, 68, American comedian, cancer.
 * Hermann Prey, 69, German bass-baritone, heart attack.
 * Antonio Saura, 67, Spanish artist and writer.
 * Tjokropranolo, 74, Indonesian politician and military officer.

23

 * Harvie Branscomb, 103, American theologian and academic.
 * Vladimir Dudintsev, 79, Russian writer.
 * André Gertler, 90, Hungarian classical violinist.
 * Mark Hampton, 58, American designer.
 * John Hopkins, 67, English film, stage and television writer, domestic accident.
 * R. Tudur Jones, 77, Welsh nationalist theologian.
 * Northrup Rand Knox, 69, American banker and community leader.
 * Djibril Diop Mambéty, 53, Senegalese actor, film director and poet, lung cancer.
 * Matteo Manuguerra, 73, Tunisian-French baritone.
 * Med Park, 65, American basketball player.
 * Muzz Patrick, 83, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
 * Wilbur Schwandt, 94, American musician, songwriter.
 * Manuel Mejía Vallejo, 75 Colombian writer.

24

 * Gus Alex, 82, Greek-American mobster, heart attack.
 * Alta Allen, 93, American silent film actress.
 * Ronnie Grieveson, 88, South African cricketer.
 * Berta Hrubá, 52, Czech field hockey player and Olympic medalist.
 * Henri Ziegler, 91, French aerospace engineers, aviation pioneer and first president of Airbus.

25

 * Les Dodson, 82, American gridiron football player.
 * David Durand, 77, American actor.
 * Tal Farlow, 77, American jazz guitarist, esophageal cancer.
 * Tiny Rowland, 80, British businessman and corporate raider, cancer.

26

 * Sava Antić, 68, Serbian football player and manager.
 * Manzoor Alam Beg, 67, Bangladeshi photographer.
 * Rainey Bennett, 91, American artist, illustrator and muralist.
 * Seán Ó hEinirí, 83, Irish seanchaí and monolingual Irish speaker.
 * Zeki Kuneralp, 83, Turkish diplomat, multiple sclerosis.
 * Aymoré Moreira, 86, Brazilian football player and coach.

27

 * Binnie Barnes, 95, English actress.
 * Zlatko Čajkovski, 74, Croatian football player and coach (1948 silver medal, 1952 silver medal).
 * Russell M. Carneal, 80, American politician and judge.
 * Elio Augusto Di Carlo, 79, Italian ornithologist, historian and physician.
 * John Gilliland, 62, American radio broadcaster and documentarian.
 * Gísli Halldórsson, 71, Icelandic actor.
 * Elizabeth Karlin, 54, American doctor and advocate for women's reproductive rights, brain tumor.
 * William McChesney Martin, 91, American businessman and Chair of the Federal Reserve.
 * Robin Richmond, 86, English cinema organist and BBC Radio presenter.
 * Farid Shawqi, 77, Egyptian actor, screenwriter and film producer.
 * Bill Tuttle, 69, American baseball player, cancer.

28

 * Mykola Bakay, 67, Ukrainian singer, composer, poet and author.
 * Wilson Teixeira Beraldo, 81, Brazilian physician and physiologist.
 * Zbigniew Herbert, 73, Polish poet, essayist, drama writer and moralist.
 * Adam Hollanek, 75, Polish science fiction writer and journalist.
 * Olga de Blanck Martín, 82, Cuban pianist, guitarist and composer.
 * Lenny McLean, 49, English boxer, bodyguard and actor, brain cancer, lung cancer.
 * Consalvo Sanesi, 87, Italian racecar driver.

29

 * Jorge Pacheco Areco, 78, Uruguayan politician.
 * Doris Nolan, 82, American actress.
 * Jerome Robbins, 79, American choreographer, director and dancer (West Side Story), stroke.
 * Fabrice Simon, 47, Haitian artist and fashion designer, AIDS.
 * Oothout Zabriskie Whitehead, 87, American actor, cancer.

30

 * Maurice Bardèche, 90, French art critic and journalist.
 * Bharathan, 51, Indian film director and artist.
 * Donald C. Davis, 77, United States Navy admiral, heart attack.
 * Orestes Marengo, 91, Italian Roman Catholic prelate.
 * Laila Schou Nilsen, 79, Norwegian sportsperson and Olympic medalist.
 * Buffalo Bob Smith, 80, American children's television host, cancer.
 * Kenneth A. Walsh, 81, United States Marine Corps officer, World War II flying ace and Medal of Honor recipient, heart attack.

31

 * Leroy Edgar Burney, 91, American physician and public health official.
 * Jean de Baroncelli, 84, French writer.
 * Erling Evensen, 84, Norwegian cross-country skier and Olympic medalist.
 * Sylvia Field, 97, American actress.
 * Arvid Hanssen, 66, Norwegian journalist, newspaper editor, poet, novelist and children's writer.
 * Ioan Ploscaru, 86, Romanian bishop of the Greek-Catholic Church.
 * John E. Powers, 87, American politician.
 * Richie Powers, 67, American basketball referee, stroke.
 * Herbert Widmayer, 84, German football player and manager.