Deaths in November 1998

The following is a list of notable deaths in November 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

 * Augusto Magli, 75, Italian football player.
 * Kunitaka Sueoka, 81, Japanese football player.
 * Norbert Wollheim, 85, German-American Holocaust survivor.
 * Stanislav Zhuk, 63, Russian Olympic skater and coach, heart attack.

2

 * Janet Arnold, 66, British clothing historian, costume designer and author, lymphoma.
 * Sverre Brodahl, 89, Norwegian Nordic skier and Olympic medalist.
 * Claude Bramall Burgess, 88, Hong Kong Colonial Secretary.
 * Fred Freer, 82, Australian cricket player.
 * Henry Horton, 75, English sportsman.
 * Rolf Husberg, 90, Swedish film director, screenwriter and actor.
 * Jovelina Pérola Negra, 54, Brazilian samba singer and songwriter, heart attack.
 * Elmo Plaskett, 60, United States Virgin Islands baseball player.
 * Vincent Winter, 50, Scottish child film actor, heart attack.

3

 * Ray Bremser, 64, American poet.
 * Helmuth Johannsen, 78, German football player and manager.
 * Bob Kane, 83, American comic book writer (Batman).
 * John Campbell Merrett, 89, Canadian architect.
 * P. L. Narayana, 63, Indian film actor and playwright.
 * Martha O'Driscoll, 76, American film actress.
 * Oriano Quilici, 68, Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.
 * Nina Youshkevitch, 77, Franco-Russian ballet dancer and teacher.

4

 * Jean de Heinzelin de Braucourt, 78, Belgian geologist.
 * Marion Donovan, 81, American inventor and entrepreneur.
 * Lars Ernster, 78, Swedish biochemist and Nobel Foundation board member.
 * Joyce Lussu, 86, Italian writer and partisan during World War II.
 * Jimmy McGee, 75, Irish basketball player and musician.
 * Jorge Wehbe, 78, Argentine lawyer and economist, Minister of Economy.

5

 * Garlin Murl Conner, 79, United States Army officer during World War II and Medal of Honor recipient.
 * Momoko Kōchi, 66, Japanese actress (Godzilla), cancer.
 * Nagarjun, 87, Indian poet.
 * Jack Stewart, 86, Australian farmer and politician.

6

 * Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim, President of the Comoros.
 * Hélmer Herrera Buitrago, 47, Colombian narco and member of the Cali Cartel, shot.
 * Jack Hartman, 73, American gridiron football player and basketball coach.
 * Bobo Lewis, 72, American comedic actress, cancer.
 * Sky Low Low, 70, Canadian midget wrestler, heart attack.
 * Niklas Luhmann, 70, German sociologist and philosopher of social science.
 * Wolfgang Stresemann, 94, German jurist, orchestra leader, conductor and composer.
 * István Szőts, 86, Hungarian screenwriter and film director.
 * Stan Wright, 77, American track and field coach.

7

 * Jitendra Abhisheki, 69, Indian vocalist, composer and music scholar.
 * Leonard De Paur, 83, American composer and choral director.
 * Agenore Fabbri, 87, Italian sculptor and painter.
 * Margaret Gowing, 77, English historian, Alzheimer's disease.
 * John Hunt, Baron Hunt, 88, British Army officer.
 * Vladimir Matskevich, 88, Soviet apparatchik and ambassador.
 * Börje Mellvig, 86, Swedish actor, screenwriter, director and lyricist.
 * Ted Slevin, English rugby player.
 * Jiwan Singh Umranangal, 84, Indian politician.
 * O. Meredith Wilson, 89, American historian and academic, brain cancer.

8

 * Rumer Godden, 90, English author (Black Narcissus), complications from a series of strokes.
 * Jemal Karchkhadze, Georgian writer.
 * Thomas Henry Manning, 86, British-Canadian Arctic explorer, geographer, zoologist, and author.
 * Jean Marais, 84, French actor, writer and sculptor, cardiovascular disease.
 * Lonnie Pitchford, 43, American blues musician and instrument maker.
 * Erol Taş, 70, Turkish film actor, diabetes.

9

 * Baya, 66, Algerian artist.
 * Henry Dorman, 82, American lawyer and politician.
 * Anura Ranasinghe, 42, Sri Lankan cricketer, heart attack.
 * Ursula Reit, 84, German actress.
 * Francis Scully, 73, American sailor and Olympic medalist.

10

 * Svetlana Beriosova, 66, Lithuanian-British prima ballerina, cancer.
 * Peter Cotes, 86, English actor, writer, and director.
 * Mahmoud Hassan, 78, Egyptian Greco-Roman bantamweight wrestler and Olympic medalist.
 * Henry James, 78, British civil servant (born 1919).
 * Jean Leray, 92, French mathematician.
 * Georg Liebsch, 87, German featherweight weightlifter and Olympian.
 * Mary Millar, 62, British actress (Keeping Up Appearances) and singer, ovarian cancer.
 * Hal Newhouser, 77, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame, respiratory disease.
 * Ellis Robinson, 87, English cricketer.

11

 * Frank Brimsek, 83, American ice hockey player.
 * Patrick Clancy, 76, Irish folk singer, lung cancer.
 * Gérard Grisey, 52, French composer of contemporary classical music, ruptured aneurysm.
 * Ferdinand Kulmer, 73, Croatian abstract painter.
 * Allan Kwartler, 81, American sabre and foil fencer.
 * Sam Melberg, 86, Norwegian sports diver and Olympian.
 * Elvis Jacob Stahr, Jr., 82, American government official and college president.
 * Anicet Utset, 66, Spanish cyclist.

12

 * Janet Alcoriza, 80, American screenwriter and actress.
 * Jack Gelineau, 74, Canadian ice hockey player, cancer.
 * James H. Gray, 92, Canadian journalist, historian and author.
 * Paul Hoffman, 73, American basketball player, brain tumor.
 * Roy Hollis, 72, English football player.
 * Asher Joel, 86, Australian politician and public servant.
 * Kenny Kirkland, 43, American pianist and keyboardist, congestive heart failure.
 * Lu Ann Meredith, 85, American film actress.
 * Sally Shlaer, 59, American mathematician, software engineer and methodologist.

13

 * Don Bishop, 64, American gridiron football player.
 * Joseph C. Brun, 91, French-American cinematographer.
 * Edwige Feuillère, 91, French actress.
 * Valerie Hobson, 81, Irish-born actress, heart attack.
 * Red Holzman, 78, American basketball player and coach, leukemia.
 * Hendrik Timmer, 94, Dutch sportsman and Olympic medalist.
 * Michel Trudeau, 23, Canadian outdoorsman and brother of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, avalanche.
 * Ilie Văduva, 64, Romanian communist politician.
 * Doug Wright, 84, English cricket player.

14

 * Eli Cashdan, 93, British rabbi.
 * Quentin Crewe, 72, English journalist, author, restaurateur and adventurer.
 * Albert Frey, 95, Swiss-American architect.
 * Rachel Holzer, 99, Australian theatre actress and director.

15

 * Stokely Carmichael, 57, Trinidadian-American political activist, prostate cancer.
 * Henryk Chmielewski, 84, Polish boxer and Olympian.
 * Lawrence Krader, 78, American socialist anthropologist and ethnologist.
 * Federico Krutwig, 77, Spanish Basque writer, philosopher, and politician.
 * William T. Miller, 87, American professor of organic chemistry.
 * Doris Niles, 93, American dancer.
 * Leo Aloysius Pursley, 96, American clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church.

16

 * Ludvík Daněk, 61, Czechoslovak discus thrower and Olympic champion, heart attack.
 * Tyrone Delano Gilliam, Jr., 32, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Mohammad-Taqi Ja'fari, 73, Iranian scholar, philosopher and Islamic theologist.
 * Queenie McKenzie, 68, Aboriginal Australian artist.
 * Alexander Smorchkov, 78, Soviet fighter pilot during World War II and the Korean War.
 * J. D. Sumner, 73, American gospel singer and songwriter.

17

 * Kea Bouman, 94, Dutch tennis player.
 * Weeb Ewbank, 91, American football coach (Baltimore Colts, New York Jets) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, heart problems.
 * Efim Geller, 73, Soviet chess player and grandmaster.
 * Jean Herly, 78, Monegasque diplomat and ambassador.
 * Reinette L'Oranaise, 80, Algerian singer.
 * Kenneth McDuff, 52, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Jacques Médecin, 70, French politician, cardiac arrest.
 * Miguel A. García Méndez, 96, Puerto Rican lawyer and politician.
 * Dick O'Neill, 70, American actor (The Jerk, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Cagney & Lacey).
 * Esther Rolle, 78, American actress (Good Times, Maude, Driving Miss Daisy), Emmy winner (1979), diabetes.
 * Bill Ward, 79, American cartoonist (Torchy).

18

 * Telemaco Arcangeli, 75, Italian racewalker and Olympian.
 * Norma Connolly, 71, American actress.
 * Hal Davis, 65, American songwriter and record producer.
 * Robin Hall, 62, Scottish folksinger.
 * Jeanine Moulin, 86, Belgian poet and literary scholar.
 * Aurélio de Lira Tavares, 93, Brazilian Army general.

19

 * Louis Dumont, French anthropologist.
 * Ted Fujita, 78, Japanese-American meteorologist.
 * Alfred 'Ken' Gatward, 84, British Royal Air Force pilot during World War II.
 * Earl Kim, 78, American composer, and music pedagogue, lung cancer.
 * William J. McCarthy, 79, American labor leader.
 * Alan J. Pakula, 70, American film director and producer (All the President's Men, The Parallax View, To Kill a Mockingbird), traffic collision.

20

 * Roland Alphonso, 67, Jamaican tenor saxophonist.
 * Marian Brandys, 86, Polish writer and screenwriter.
 * George Brophy, 72, American baseball executive.
 * Howard Wilson Emmons, 86, American professor in Mechanical Engineering.
 * Meredith Gourdine, 69, American physicist, athlete and Olympic medalist.
 * John Grimek, 88, American bodybuilder and weightlifter.
 * Cec Luining, 67, Canadian football player.
 * Mario Orozco Rivera, 68, Mexican muralist and painter.
 * Dick Sisler, 78, American baseball player, coach and manager.
 * Galina Starovoytova, 52, Soviet dissident, assassinated, firearm.

21

 * Thomas V. Bermingham, American Jesuit priest and Classical scholar.
 * Dariush Forouhar, 69–70, Iranian pan-Iranist politician, murdered.
 * Otto Frankel, 98, Austrian-Australian geneticist.
 * Dave Huffman, 41, American football player, traffic collision.
 * Giles Pellerin, 91, American gridiron football player.
 * Alvin P. Shapiro, 77, American physician and professor, complications of kidney failure.
 * Ormond R. Simpson, 83, United States Marine Corps officer.
 * Fabian Ver, 78, Filipino military officer, pulmonary complications.
 * Nosson Meir Wachtfogel, 88, Russian-American Orthodox rabbi.

22

 * Harlan Parker Banks, 85, American paleobotanist and phycologist.
 * Vladimir Demikhov, 82, Soviet scientist and organ transplantation pioneer.
 * Henry Hampton, 58, American filmmaker.
 * Mikołaj Kozakiewicz, 74, Polish politician, publicist and sociologist.
 * Harry Lehmann, 74, German physicist.
 * Celeste Mendoza, 68, Cuban singer.
 * Holt Rast, 81, American football player.
 * Jack Shadbolt, 89, Canadian painter.
 * Stu Ungar, 45, American professional poker, blackjack, and gin rummy player, heart problems.

23

 * Lamar McHan, 65, American football player and coach, heart attack.
 * Gene Moore, 88, American designer and window dresser.
 * Dan Osman, 35, American extreme sport practitioner, rock climbing accident.
 * Ralph S. Phillips, 85, American mathematician and academic.
 * Don Ray, 77, American basketball player.
 * Eugen Seiterle, 84, Swiss field handball player and Olympic medalist.

24

 * Len Barnum, 86, American gridiron football player.
 * John Chadwick, 78, English linguist and classical scholar who deciphered Linear B.
 * Minnette de Silva, 80, Sri Lankan architect.
 * Eprime Eshag, 80, Iranian economist.
 * Guido Figone, 71, Italian gymnast.
 * Nicholas Kurti, 90, Hungarian-British physicist.
 * George F. Sprague, 96, American geneticist and researcher.
 * Theodore Strongin, 79, American music critic, composer, flautist, and entomologist.
 * Nikola Tanhofer, 71, Croatian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer.

25

 * Robert Eisner, 76, American author and economist, bone marrow disorder.
 * Nelson Goodman, 92, American philosopher.
 * Parmeshwar Narayan Haksar, 85, Indian diplomat.
 * Anwar Mesbah, 85, Egyptian weightlifter and Olympic champion.
 * Enrico Sabbatini, 66, Italian costume designer (The Mission, Seven Years in Tibet, Cutthroat Island) and production designer, traffic collision.
 * Fiatau Penitala Teo, 87, Tuvalu political figure.
 * Flip Wilson, 64, American comedian and actor, liver cancer.

26

 * Gerald Battrick, 51, Welsh tennis player.
 * Charles Moihi Te Arawaka Bennett, 85, New Zealand broadcaster, military leader and public servant.
 * Mike Calvert, 85, British Army officer.
 * M. T. Cheng, 81, Chinese mathematician.
 * Ox Emerson, 90, American football player.
 * Gyo Fujikawa, 90, American illustrator and children's author.
 * Tom Lyon, 83, Scottish footballer.
 * Ed Smith, 69, American basketball player (New York Knicks).

27

 * Barbara Acklin, 55, American soul singer and songwriter, pneumonia.
 * William Baxter, 69, American professor of law.
 * Gloria Fuertes, 81, Spanish poet and children's author, lung cancer.
 * Jozef IJsewijn, 65, Flemish Latinist.
 * Douglas LePan, 84, Canadian diplomat, poet, novelist and professor of literature.
 * Herman Murray, 89, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Andrey Sergeev, 65, Russian writer and translator, traffic accident.
 * Vicki Viidikas, 50, Australian poet.

28

 * Dante Fascell, 81, American politician, colorectal cancer.
 * Frederick William Freking, 85, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, emphysema.
 * M. Donald Grant, 94, American baseball executive (New York Mets).
 * Roberta Kevelson, 67, American academic and semiotician.
 * James C. Lucas, 86, American criminal and inmate of Alcatraz penitentiary.
 * Augie Scott, 77, English football player and manager.
 * Maurice Seynaeve, 91, Belgian cyclo-cross rider.
 * John Stanford, 60, American Army officer.
 * Kerry Wendell Thornley, 60, American counterculture figure and writer, heart attack.

29

 * Roy Benavidez, 63, United States Army Special Forces member and Medal of Honor recipient, complications of diabetes.
 * Gino De Dominicis, 51, Italian artist.
 * Maus Gatsonides, 87, Dutch rally driver and inventor.
 * Jack Gilbert, 80, Australian World War II veteran and rugby player.
 * Giant Haystacks, 52, British professional wrestler, lymphoma.
 * Pépé Kallé, 46, Congolese musician, heart attack.
 * Frank Latimore, 73, American actor.
 * Živojin Pavlović, 65, Yugoslav and Serbian film director, writer, and painter.
 * Robin Ray, 64, English broadcaster, actor, and musician, lung cancer.
 * Jim Turner, 95, American baseball player.
 * George Van Eps, 85, American swing and jazz guitarist, pneumonia.

30

 * Pentti Aalto, 81, Finnish linguist, heart disease.
 * Abdullah Al-Muti, 68, Bangladeshi educationist and writer.
 * Ruth Clifford, 98, American actress.
 * Alfo Ferrari, 74, Italian cyclist.
 * Jesse Levan, 72, American baseball player.
 * Ad Liska, 92, American baseball pitcher.
 * Simon Nkoli, 41, South African anti-apartheid and gay rights activist, AIDS.
 * Johnny Roventini, 88, American actor.
 * Philip Sterling, 76, American actor.
 * James Strauch, 77, American Olympic fencer.
 * Margaret Walker, 83, American poet and writer, breast cancer.