Deaths in March 1998

The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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

 * Jean Marie Balland, 63, French Roman Catholic cardinal, lung cancer.
 * Miltiades Caridis, 74, German-Greek conductor, stroke.
 * Archie Goodwin, 60, American comic book writer and artist (Luke Cage, Spider-Man, Star Wars), cancer.
 * Manolis Hatzidakis, 89, Greek art historian and Byzantinist.
 * Alexander Puzanov, 91, Soviet and Russian ambassador and statesman.
 * Sabina Sesselmann, 61, German film actress.
 * Garner E. Shriver, 85, American politician.
 * Robert Symonette, 73, Bahamian yachtsman and politician.

2

 * Leif Blomberg, 57, Swedish politician.
 * Lucien Bodard, 84, French writer and journalist.
 * Slick Castleman, 84, American Major League Baseball player.
 * Henry Steele Commager, 95, American historian, pneumonia.
 * Maamun al-Kuzbari, Syrian politician and literary personality.
 * Darcy O'Brien, 58, American author and literary critic, heart attack.
 * Herbie Seneviratne, 72, Sri Lankan actor and filmmaker.
 * Marzette Watts, 59, American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist.

3

 * Janet Burston, 63, American child actress, cancer.
 * Giuseppe Caron, 94, American politician.
 * Fred W. Friendly, 82, American television journalist and executive, stroke.
 * Edward Luckhoo, 85, Guyanese Governor General.
 * Hedley Mattingly, 82, British actor, cancer.
 * Charles Franklin Phillips, 87, American economist.
 * Marc Sautet, 51, French writer, translator, and philosopher, brain cancer.

4

 * Antonio Alsúa Alonso, 78, Spanish football player.
 * Betty Bird, 96, Austrian actress.
 * Jim Cullom, 72, American gridiron football player (New York Yanks).
 * Ivan Dougherty, 90, Australian Army officer.
 * Van Edmondson, 98, American football player.
 * Jules Fontaine Sambwa, 57, Zairean and Congolese politician and economist.

5

 * Donald James Cannon, 78, American politician.
 * Carleton Putnam, 96, American businessman, writer and segregationist, pneumonia.
 * Jerome Walters, 67, American middle distance runner and Olympian.
 * Donald Woods, 91, Canadian-American actor.

6

 * John Allin, 76, American Anglican bishop.
 * Rue Barclay, 76, American Country & Western musician.
 * Frank Barrett, 84, American baseball player
 * Benjamin Bowden, 91, British industrial designer.
 * Joe Shear, 54, American stock car racing driver, cancer.
 * Vanna Vanni, 83, Italian film actress.

7

 * Ziad Rafiq Beydoun, Lebanese petroleum geologist.
 * Bill Cable, 51, American actor, model and stunt performer, motorcycle accident.
 * Josep Escolà, 83, Spanish footballer.
 * Karen Holtsmark, 90, Norwegian painter.
 * Adem Jashari, 42, Kosovo Albanian militant separatist, murdered.
 * Hamëz Jashari, 48, Kosovar Albanian nationalist and guerilla, killed in action.
 * Eleanor Ileen Johnson, 87, American survivor of the sinking of RMS Titanic.
 * Don Kirkham, 90, American physicists and soil scientist.
 * Jack Perkins, 76, American film actor.
 * Leonie Rysanek, 71, Austrian dramatic soprano, bone cancer.
 * Wanda Tettoni, 87, Italian actress and voice actress.

8

 * Laurie Beechman, 44, American actress and singer, cancer.
 * Alexandre Gemignani, 72, Brazilian basketball player.
 * James Haggarty, 83, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Jack Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Kingsbridge, 90, British politician and public servant.
 * Jack McQuillan, 77, Irish politician, trade unionist and army officer.
 * Peter Nilson, 60, Swedish astronomer and novelist.
 * Ray Nitschke, 61, American football player (Green Bay Packers) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, heart attack.
 * Susanne Ussing, 57, Danish artist, architect and ceramicist.

9

 * David MacAdam, 87, American physicist and color scientist.
 * Anna Maria Ortese, 83, Italian novelist, poet, and travel writer.
 * Colin Patterson, 64, British palaeontologist, heart attack.
 * Ulrich Schamoni, 58, German film director, screenwriter, actor and media proprietor, cancer.

10

 * C. E. Beeby, 95, New Zealand educationalist and psychologist.
 * Ilse Bing, 98, German photographer.
 * Lloyd Bridges, 85, American actor (Airplane!, Sea Hunt, Hot Shots!).
 * Karekin II Kazanjian, 70, Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople, liver cancer.
 * Hayim David HaLevi, 74, Israeli rabbi.
 * Milton Mallawarachchi, 52, Sri Lankan singer and musician.
 * Alberto Morrocco, 80, Scottish artist.
 * Richard Plant, 87, German-American historian, Holocaust scholar and writer.
 * Kenkō Satoshi, 30, Japanese Sumo wrestler, pulmonary embolism.

11

 * Van E. Chandler, 73, American Air Force pilot and flying ace, cancer.
 * Basil Coetzee, 54, South African musician, cancer.
 * Buddy Jeannette, 80, American basketball player and coach, stroke.
 * José Laurel, Jr., 85, Filipino politician, pneumonia.
 * Manuel Piñeiro Losada, 64, Cuban revolutionary, politician and spymaster, traffic collision.
 * Sachio Sakai, 72, Japanese actor.
 * Nino Konis Santana, 41, East Timorese freedom fighter, killed in action.
 * Jean Shiley, 86, American high jumper and Olympian.
 * Koos Verdam, 83, Dutch politician.

12

 * Ovid Demaris, 78, American writer and journalist.
 * Karrell Fox, 70, American magician and television performer.
 * Jozef Kroner, 73, Slovak actor (The Shop on Main Street).
 * Red Richards, 85, American jazz pianist.
 * Kate Ross, 41, American mystery author, breast cancer.
 * Beatrice Wood, 105, American artist and ceramicist.

13

 * Judge Dread, 52, English musician, heart attack.
 * Peter Feller, 78, American theatrical set builder.
 * Philip Gale, 19, American Internet software pioneer and computer prodigy, suicide.
 * Claudio Gora, 84, Italian actor and film director.
 * Dave Lewis, 59, American rock and R&B musician, cancer.
 * Bill Reid, 78, Canadian artist, Parkinson's disease.
 * Risen Star, 12, American thoroughbred racehorse.
 * Anne Sayre, 74, American writer.
 * Peter Sillett, 65, England footballer, cancer.
 * Kōshō Uchiyama, 86, Japanese buddhist monk and origami master.
 * Frano Vodopivec, 73, Croatian cinematographer.
 * Hans von Ohain, 86, German physicist and jet engine designer, thyroiditis.
 * Ma Yueliang, 96, Chinese martial artist.

14

 * Abdul Rahman al-Iryani, 87, President of the Yemen Arab Republic.
 * Ed Boell, 81, American football player, coach, and official.
 * Hugh Coveney, 62, Irish politician, fall.
 * Dada Kondke, 65, Indian actor and film producer.
 * Dave Minor, 76, American basketball player.
 * Leo Sotorník, 71, Czech gymnast and Olympian.

15

 * Malati Choudhury, 93, Indian civil rights and freedom activist.
 * Tim Maia, 55, Brazilian musician and songwriter, cardiovascular disease.
 * Maud Mannoni, 74, Belgian-French psychoanalyst.
 * Dušan Pašek, 37, Slovak ice hockey player, suicide by gunshot.
 * Jheri Redding, 91, American hairdresser and businessman.
 * Carolyn Schnurer, 90, American fashion designer and sportswear pioneer.
 * Benjamin Spock, 94, American pediatrician and author.
 * Gennady Yevryuzhikhin, 54, Russian football player.

16

 * Derek Barton, 79, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
 * Pertev Naili Boratav, 90, Turkish folklorist.
 * Esther Bubley, 77, American photographer, cancer.
 * Lydia Délrctorsckaya, 87, Russian-French refugee and model.
 * Noel Stephen Paynter, 99, British chief intelligence officer of Bomber Command during World War II.

17

 * Cliff Barker, 77, American basketball player.
 * Alain Bosquet, 78, French poet.
 * Milo Candini, 80, American baseball player.
 * Douglas Harold Copp, 83, Canadian scientist.
 * Bernarr Rainbow, 83, British historian of music education, and choir master.
 * Reza Sadeghi, 20, Iranian mathematician.
 * Helen Westcott, 70, American actor and former child actor, cancer.
 * Dorothy Weston, 98, Australian tennis player.

18

 * Siegfried Franz, 84, German composer of film and television scores.
 * Joan Freeman, 80, Australian physicist.
 * Ted Jolliffe, 89, Canadian politician.
 * Klaus Mollenhauer, 69, German pedagogical theorist.
 * Hideo Shima, 96, Japanese engineer and bullet train pioneer.
 * Dwight Sloan, 83, American gridiron football player.
 * Robert E. Woodside, 93, American politician and judge.

19

 * Simon Diedong Dombo, Ghanaian politician and king.
 * Samuel Dzhundrin, 77, Bulgarian Roman Catholic prelate and monk.
 * Klaus Havenstein, 75, German actor, cabaret artist, and television presenter.
 * E. M. S. Namboodiripad, 88, Indian communist politician and theorist.
 * Jimmy Scoular, 73, Scottish football player and manager.
 * Hanzade Sultan, 74, Ottoman princess and Turkish expatriate.

20

 * B. N. Adarkar, 87, Indian economist.
 * Yemima Avidar-Tchernovitz, 88, Israeli author.
 * Beverley Cross, 66, English playwright, librettist and screenwriter (Clash of the Titans, Jason and the Argonauts).
 * Anthony Fell, 83, British politician.
 * Agustín Gómez-Arcos, 65, Spanish writer, cancer.
 * George Howard, 41, American jazz saxophonist, colon cancer.
 * Laddie Lucas, 82, British Air Force officer and politician.
 * Beth Mitchell, 25, American shag dancer and elementary school teacher.
 * Catherine Sauvage, 68, French singer and actress.
 * Ivor Slaney, 76, Musical composer and conductor.
 * Maciej Słomczyński, 75, Polish translator and writer.

21

 * Ben Bagley, 64, American record producer and musical producer.
 * Horst Korsching, 85, German physicist.
 * Ramanathapuram C S Murugabhoopathy, 84, Indian Mridanga maestro.
 * Maciej Słomczyński, 75, Polish writer and translator.
 * Galina Ulanova, 88, Russian ballet dancer.

22

 * Simon Wingfield Digby, 88, British politician.
 * Jack R. Howard, 87, American broadcasting executive.
 * John Richard Keating, 63, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
 * Shoichi Nishimura, Japanese football player and manager, pneumonia.
 * Rube Reiswerg, 85, American basketball player.

23

 * Louis Arbessier, 90, French actor.
 * Chuck Hunsinger, 72, American gridiron football player.
 * Hilda Morley, 81, American poet.
 * Ray Scott, 78, American sportscaster.
 * Gerald Stano, 46, American serial killer, execution by electric chair.
 * Marie-Laure Tardieu-Blot, 95, French botanist and pteridologist.

24

 * Åke Mangård, 81, Swedish Air Force major general.
 * António Ribeiro, 69, Portuguese Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, cancer.
 * Torben Tryde, 81, Danish writer, Olympian and resistance fighter during World War II.
 * Jill Ann Weatherwax, 27, American model and aspiring singer, homicide.

25

 * Daniel Massey, 64, English actor and performer, Hodgkin's lymphoma.
 * Clive Osborne, 75, Australian politician.
 * Asha Posley, 71, Pakistani actress.
 * Micheál Prendergast, 77, Irish farmer, businessman and politician.
 * Steven Schiff, 51, American politician, squamous-cell carcinoma, skin cancer.
 * Chris Trickle, 24, American stock car racing driver, drive-by shooting.
 * Wilfred Watson, 86, Canadian professor and author.
 * Betsey Cushing Roosevelt Whitney, 88, American philanthropist.

26

 * Denis Charles, 64, American jazz drummer, pneumonia.
 * Shantinath Desai, 69, Indian author.
 * Nikolay Dubinin, 91, Soviet and Russian biologist and academician.
 * Arthur S. Link, 77, American historian and educator, lung cancer.
 * Kate Cruise O'Brien, 49, Irish writer.

27

 * Nadija Hordijenko Andrianova, 76, Ukrainian writer and translator of the language Esperanto.
 * Julio César Britos, 71, Uruguayan football player.
 * John William Comber, 92, American Catholic missionary and bishop.
 * Joan Lestor, Baroness Lestor of Eccles, 66, British politician, ALS.
 * Chen Jin, 90, Taiwanese painter.
 * Aghajani Kashmeri, 89, Indian screenwriter, actor and Urdu poet.
 * Joan Maynard, 76, English politician and trade unionist, cancer.
 * David McClelland, 80, American psychologist.
 * Steve Nemeth, 75, American gridiron football player.
 * Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, 88, Austrian auto designer and businessman.
 * Otto Freiherr von Feury, 91, MGerman politician.
 * Karl-Adolf Zenker, 90, German officer in the Kriegsmarine during World War II.

28

 * Else Elster, 88, German actress.
 * Albert Levan, 93, Swedish botanist and geneticist.
 * David Powers, 85, Special Assistant and secretary to John F. Kennedy.
 * Larry Stephens, 59, American gridiron football player (Cleveland Browns, Los Angeles Rams, Dallas Cowboys).

29

 * Giuliano Biagetti, 72, Italian film director and screenwriter.
 * Kvitka Cisyk, 44, American coloratura soprano, breast cancer.
 * David Nightingale Hicks, 69, English interior decorator and designer, lung cancer.
 * Loreta, 86-87, Iranian Armenian actress.
 * Dick Phillips, 66, American baseball player, manager and coach.
 * Eugene Walter, 76, American screenwriter, poet, actor, puppeteer and chef, liver cancer.
 * Harold E. Wilson, 76, United States Marine and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
 * Dudley Wysong, 58, American golfer, aneurysm.

30

 * Ramsay Ames, 79, 1940s American B movie actress, model, pin-up girl and television host, lung cancer.
 * Michèle Arnaud, 79, French singer and director.
 * Judy Buenoano, 54, American convicted murderer, execution by electric chair.
 * Max Cosyns, 91, Belgian physicist, inventor and explorer.
 * Massimo Franciosa, 73, Italian screenwriter and film director.
 * Frank King, 79, British Army officer.
 * Mordechai Olmert, 90, Israeli politician.
 * Athelstan Spilhaus, 86, South African-American geophysicist and oceanographer.

31

 * Bella Abzug, 77, American lawyer, politician and social activist.
 * John H. Cooke, 86, American lawyer and politician.
 * Tim Flock, 73, American racecar driver and member of the NASCAR Hall of Fame, liver and throat cancer.
 * Henry George Glyde, 91, Canadian painter.
 * Blanche Montel, 95, French actress.
 * Joel Ryce-Menuhin, 64, American pianist, cancer.
 * Pete Tillman, 75, American football player and coach.