Deaths in June 1998

The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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

 * Emery Barnes, 68, American-Canadian gridiron football player and politician.
 * Rex Bumgardner, 74, American gridiron football player.
 * Gottfried Dienst, 78, Swiss football referee.
 * Junkyard Dog, 45, American professional wrestler (NWA, WWF), traffic collision.
 * Shigeo Fukushima, 55, Japanese swimmer and Olympian.
 * Godfrey Grayson, 84, English film director.
 * Darwin Joston, 60, American actor (Assault on Precinct 13, Eraserhead, The Fog), leukemia.
 * Bishambhar Nath Pande, 91, Indian freedom fighter, social worker, and politician.
 * José Pedraza, 60, Mexican race walker and Olympic medalist.
 * Jerzy Łoś, 78, Polish mathematician, economist, and philosopher.

2

 * Daniel I. Axelrod, 87, American paleoecologist, heart attack.
 * Helen Carter, 70, American country music singer, heart problems.
 * P. Andrew Cooray, 96, Sri Lankan politician.
 * Oran Henderson, 77, United States Army officer associated with the Mỹ Lai massacre, pancreatic cancer.
 * Ricky Hyslop, 83, Canadian violinist, conductor, composer, and arranger.
 * Brian Johnston, 64, New Zealand field hockey player and Olympian.
 * Gonzalo Martínez Ortega, 64, Mexican actor, screenwriter and producer, traffic collision.
 * Dorothy Stickney, 101, American actress.

3

 * Pat Abbruzzi, 65, American gridiron football player.
 * Poul Bundgaard, 75, Danish actor and singer, kidney failure.
 * Lucien Conein, 78, French-born U.S. Army officer and OSS/CIA operative, heart failure.
 * Douglas Gretzler, 47, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Joseph C. Harsch, 93, American journalist.
 * Ernest Henry, 94, Australian freestyle swimmer and Olympic medalist.
 * William L. Snyder, 80, American film producer, Alzheimer's disease.

4

 * Aarudhra, 72, Indian author, poet, publisher, and playwright.
 * Fred Burchell, 67, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Clancy Carlile, 68, American novelist and screenwriter, cancer.
 * Philippe Charbonneaux, 81, French industrial designer.
 * Josephine Hutchinson, 94, American actress.
 * Ray Montgomery, 76, American actor.
 * Miguel Montuori, 65, Italian Argentine football player.
 * Shirley Povich, 92, American journalist.
 * David Walsh, 52, Canadian businessman, aneurysm.

5

 * Alfred Kazin, 83, American writer and literary critic.
 * Viola Keats, 87, British actress.
 * Jeanette Nolan, 86, American actress, stroke.
 * Dieter Roth, 68, Swiss artist, heart attack.
 * B. M. Shah, Indian theatre director and playwright.
 * Prentiss Walker, 80, American politician.
 * Sam Yorty, 88, American politician, stroke.

6

 * Georg Bayerer, 83, German football player and coach.
 * Louie Bickerton, 95, Female tennis player from Australia.
 * Marshall Green, 82, American diplomat.
 * Jatoe Kaleo, Ghanaian ruler and politician.
 * Svend S. Schultz, 84, Danish composer and conductor.
 * Peter Wong, 66, Canadian politician, heart attack.

7

 * Tom Buskey, 51, American baseball player, complications from heart attack.
 * James Byrd Jr., 49, African American racism victim, murdered.
 * Jerry Capehart, 69, American songwriter and music manager.
 * Wally Gold, 70, American musician and music business executive, colitis.
 * Hans Ramberg, 81, Norwegian-Swedish geologist.

8

 * Sani Abacha, 54, Nigerian Army officer and dictator, poisoned.
 * Harry Lookofsky, 84, American jazz violinist.
 * Jackie McGlew, 69, South African cricket player.
 * Michael John O'Brian, 70, Pakistan Air Force officer.
 * Maria Reich, 95, German-Peruvian mathematician and archaeologist, ovarian cancer.
 * Larisa Yudina, 52, Soviet and Russian journalist and newspaper editor, homicide.

9

 * Agostino Casaroli, 83, Italian Catholic priest and diplomat for the Holy See.
 * Loïs Mailou Jones, 92, American artist and teacher.
 * Edmund Koller, 67, West German bobsledder and Olympian.
 * Barton Holland Warnock, 86, American botanist, heart attack.

10

 * Paudge Brennan, 76, Irish politician.
 * Bobby Bryant, 64, American jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist, heart attack.
 * Leroy Chollet, 74, American basketball player.
 * David English, 67, British journalist and newspaper editor.
 * Fernando Germani, 92, Italian organist of the St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
 * Steve Griffiths, 84, English footballer.
 * Jim Hearn, 77, American baseball player.
 * Hammond Innes, 84, English author.
 * Nivedita Jain, 19, Indian beauty contestant and actress, complications after fall.
 * Steve Sanders, 45, American musician, singer and songwriter, suicide.
 * John G. Smith, 73, American baseball coach, pneumonia.

11

 * Thomas Abernethy, 95, American politician.
 * Harry Anderson, 66, American baseball player.
 * Catherine Cookson, 91, British author.
 * Gevorg Emin, 78, Armenian poet, essayist, and translator.
 * Jacques Emmanuel, 78, French actor, screenwriter and librettist.
 * Alexei Eriomin, 79, Soviet and Russian realist painter.
 * Jože Privšek, 61, Slovene jazz and pop musician.
 * Leopoldo Salcedo, 86, Filipino film actor.
 * Lucia Valentini Terrani, 51, Italian coloratura mezzo-soprano, leukemia.

12

 * Leo Buscaglia, 74, American author and motivational speaker, heart attack.
 * John Gutmann, 93, German-American photographer and painter.
 * Charles "Teenie" Harris, 90, American photographer.
 * Jon Leirfall, 98, Norwegian politician.
 * Theresa Merritt, 75, American actress (That's My Mama, The Wiz, Billy Madison) and singer, skin cancer.
 * Paul Michael Stephani, 53, American serial killer, skin cancer.
 * Richard Thompson, 83, American animator.
 * Lucienne Velu, 96, French athlete, basketball player and Olympian.

13

 * Nisim Aloni, 71, Israeli playwright and translator.
 * Lucio Costa, 96, Brazilian architect and urban planner.
 * Gil Duthie, 86, Australian politician.
 * Buddy Elrod, 79, American football player.
 * Alfred Horace Gerrard, 99, English modernist sculptor.
 * Birger Ruud, 86, Norwegian ski jumper.
 * Fernand Sastre, 74, French football official, cancer.
 * Kadamba Simmons, 24, British actress and model, murdered.
 * Reg Smythe, 80, British cartoonist (Andy Capp), lung cancer.
 * Yoshio Sugino, 93, Japanese martial artist and film choreographer.
 * Éric Tabarly, 86, French naval officer and yachtsman, drowned.
 * Henry Tatana, 53, New Zealand rugby player.

14

 * Camillo Achilli, 76, Italian footballer.
 * Hans W. Brimi, 80, Norwegian farmer and traditional folk musician.
 * Ginette Mathiot, 91, French food writer.
 * Oliver Treyz, 80, American network television executive.

15

 * Hartmut Boockmann, 63, German historian.
 * Suzanne Eisendieck, 91, German painter.
 * Jason Holliday, 74, American hustler and nightclub performer.
 * Morris Kestelman, 92, British artist.
 * Thierry Salmon, 41, Belgian actor and theatre director, traffic accident.
 * Anton van Wilderode, 79, Belgian priest, writer and poet.

16

 * Roberto Cañedo, 80, Mexican actor.
 * Lewis Leonard Forman, 68, British botanist.
 * Jorge Toriello Garrido, 90, Guatemalan politician and President of Guatemala.
 * Frank Kristufek, 82, American football player.
 * Keith Newton, 56, English footballer, laryngeal cancer.
 * Ricardo Núñez, 93, Spanish actor, screenwriter, producer and film director.
 * Jafar Sharif-Emami, 85, Iranian politician.
 * Fred Wacker, 79, American businessman and racecar driver.

17

 * John Carberry, 93, American Roman Catholic prelate.
 * Dina de Marco, 60, Mexican actress and television director, cancer.
 * Aage Eriksen, 81, Norwegian Greco-Roman wrestler and Olympic medalist.
 * Joe Kelly, 91, Australian rules football player and coach.
 * Carlos Loredo, 46, Cuban football player and Olympian.
 * Gianni Lunadei, 60, Italian-Argentine actor, suicide.
 * Gyula László, 88, Hungarian historian, archaeologist and artist.
 * Muhammad Metwally Al Shaarawy, 87, Egyptian Muslim jurist.

18

 * Otto Baum, 86, German commander of the Waffen-SS during World War II.
 * André Chorda, 60, French football player.
 * Archie Edwards, 79, American blues guitarist.
 * Edward Eliscu, 96, American lyricist, playwright, producer and actor.
 * Ernesto Grillo, 68, Argentine footballer, pancreatic cancer.
 * Kim Jin-kyu, 76, South Korean actor, film director and producer, cancer.
 * Felix Knight, 89, American tenor, actor, and vocal teacher.
 * Charles Korvin, 90, Hungarian-born American actor, photographer and master chef.
 * Adel Osseiran, 93, Lebanese statesman and founding father of the Lebanese Republic.
 * Nazim Panipati, Pakistani film song lyricist and film script writer.
 * Karl-Heinz Spikofski, 71, German football player and coach.
 * Herbert J. Sweet, 78, United States Marine Sergeant Major, respiratory failure.
 * Paul van Buren, 74, American theologian and author, cancer.

19

 * John Camkin, 75, English journalist and sports commentator, cancer.
 * Novice Gail Fawcett, 89, American academic administrator.
 * Anatoly Kasheida, 69, Soviet and Ukrainian writer, poet, and journalist.
 * Howard J. Whitmore, Jr., 93, American politician.

20

 * Bruno Barnabe, 93, English film and stage actor.
 * Ernst Brugger, 84, Swiss politician.
 * Robert James Clayton, 82, English electronics engineer.
 * Heinz Ditgens, 83, German football player and manager.
 * Per Anders Fogelström, 80, Swedish writer.
 * Bobby Gimby, 79, Canadian orchestra leader, trumpeter, and singer-songwriter.
 * Kali, 79, Polish-American painter.
 * Elio Ragni, 87, Italian athlete.
 * Conrad Schumann, 56, East German border guard, suicide by hanging.
 * George Van Peursem, American politician.

21

 * Harry Cranbrook Allen, 81, British historian of the United States.
 * Anastasio Ballestrero, 84, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal.
 * Al Campanis, 81, American baseball executive, coronary artery disease.
 * Emma Danieli, 61, Italian actress and television personality.
 * Gerhard Gundermann, 43, German singer-songwriter and rock musician, stroke.
 * François Lehideux, 94, French industrialist and member of the Vichy government.
 * Peter Mander, 69, New Zealand yachtsman and Olympic gold medal winner.
 * Elio Morille, 70, Italian rower and Olympic champion.
 * Tom Smith, 88, Scottish football player and manager.

22

 * Phil Campbell, 81, American farmer and politician.
 * Brian Davis, 63, New Zealand Anglican archbishop.
 * Juliusz Bogdan Deczkowski, 74, Polish soldier during World War II, and later inventor and writer.
 * Benny Green, 70, British writer, radio broadcaster and saxophonist, cancer.
 * Norberto Doroteo Méndez, 75, Argentine football player.

23

 * Leonard Jones, 74, Canadian lawyer and politician.
 * Kurt Kren, 68, Austrian avant-garde filmmaker.
 * Ida Krottendorf, 71, Austrian actress, cancer.
 * Bill Lee, 86, American gridiron football player.
 * Paul O'Dwyer, 90, Irish-American politician and lawyer.
 * Maureen O'Sullivan, 87, American actress, heart attack.

24

 * Francine Agazarian, 85, French spy during World War II.
 * Canito, 67, Spanish footballer.
 * Beatrice Mandelman, 85, American abstract artist, cancer.
 * Henry G. Saperstein, 80, American film producer and distributor.

25

 * David Ayalon, 84, Israeli historian of Islam and the Middle East.
 * Hans Friedrich, 81, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
 * Arthur Lewis, 81, British politician.
 * Lounès Matoub, 42, Algerian Berber singer, poet and political activist, assassinated.
 * Jirō Takamatsu, 62, Japanese artist.

26

 * Pierre Angénieux, 90, French engineer and optician.
 * Frank Arkell, 62, Australian politician, murdered.
 * John Malcolm Brinnin, 81, Canadian-American poet and literary critic.
 * Bobby Cairns, 69, Scottish football player.
 * Sero Khanzadyan, 82, Armenian writer.
 * Vladimir Petukhov, 48, Russian mayor of Nefteyugansk, killed.
 * Luciano Pezzi, 77, Italian road bicycle racer.
 * Derek Rayner, Baron Rayner, 72, English businessman and life peer.
 * Hacı Sabancı, 63, Turkish businessman and philanthropist, lung cancer.
 * Dick Schulz, 81, American basketball player.
 * William R. Sears, 70, American politician.

27

 * Pierre Boutang, 81, French philosopher, poet and translator.
 * David Laitt, 67, English cricketer.
 * Sumati Morarjee, 91, Indian businessman.
 * Gilles Rocheleau, 62, Canadian politician.
 * Homi J.H. Taleyarkhan, 86, Indian politician and Gandhian.
 * Joyce Wieland, 67, Canadian experimental visual artist, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Peter H. Wyden, 74, American journalist and writer.

28

 * Jonathan Benair, 47, American actor (The Brave Little Toaster), cerebral hemorrhage and heart attack.
 * Marion Eugene Carl, 82, American flying ace during World War II and record-setting test pilot, shot during robbery.
 * Bill Elias, 75, American football coach.
 * Božidar Ferjančić, 69, Serbian historian.
 * Louis Hostin, 90, French weightlifter and Olympic champion.
 * Glenn Montgomery, 31, American gridiron football player, ALS.
 * Brita Collett Paus, 80, Norwegian humanitarian leader.
 * Jean-Yves Raimbaud, 40, French animator and cartoonist, lung cancer.
 * Jack Rowley, 79, English footballer.
 * Birger Sandberg, 80, Swedish football player and manager.
 * Kamala Sohonie, 85, Indian biochemist.
 * Denis Williams, 75, Guyanese painter, author and archaeologist.

29

 * Slavko Dokmanović, 48, Croatian Serbian war criminal, suicide by hanging.
 * Joseph G. Galway, 75, American meteorologist.
 * Jess Hahn, 76, American-French actor.
 * Horst Jankowski, 62, German classical pianist, lung cancer.
 * Küllo Kõiv, 25, Estonian wrestler, car accident.
 * Kamalakara Kameshwara Rao, 86, Indian film director, cardiac arrest.
 * Frank Rowlett, 90, American cryptologist.

30

 * Galina Brezhneva, 69, Soviet and Russian socialite and daughter of General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, cerebrovascular disease.
 * Renato Capecchi, 74, Italian baritone, actor, and opera director.
 * Giorgio Carpi, 89, Italian football player.
 * George Parsons, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * John Peter, 61, Indian field hockey player.
 * Bob Pryde, 85, Scottish football player.