Deaths in October 1998

The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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

 * Pauline Julien, 70, Quebec singer, songwriter, actress and feminist activist, suicide.
 * Sjur Lindebrække, 89, Norwegian banker and politician.
 * Vladimir Ossipoff, 90, Russian-American architect.
 * Gabriel Sandu, 45, Romanian football player.

2

 * Gene Autry, 91, American Hall of Fame singer ("Back in the Saddle Again", "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer") and actor (The Gene Autry Show), lymphoma.
 * Jerzy Bińczycki, 61, Polish stage and film actor, heart attack.
 * DONDI, 37, American graffiti artist, AIDS.
 * William J. Eccles, 81, Canadian historian and academic.
 * Olin J. Eggen, 79, American astronomer.
 * Olivier Gendebien, 74, Belgian racing driver.
 * Enrico Pagani, 69, Italian basketball player.
 * Korla Pandit, 77, American composer, pianist, and organist, heart attack.
 * Raymond Raikes, 88, British theatre producer, director and broadcaster.
 * D. French Slaughter, Jr., 73, American politician.
 * Adrian Spies, 78, American screenwriter.
 * Roger Vivier, 90, French women's shoe designer.
 * Richard Way, 84, British civil servant and academic administrator.
 * Sanjaasürengiin Zorig, 36, Mongolian politician and revolutionary, assassinated.

3

 * Hugo Batalla, 72, Uruguayan politician, vice president (1995-1998), lung cancer.
 * Arthur Clues, 74, Australian rugby player.
 * George Davis, 84, American art director (The Robe, The Diary of Anne Frank, Funny Face), Oscar winner (1954, 1960).
 * David C. Evans, 74, American computer scientist.
 * Bernard Fox, 81, American figure skater.
 * Colin Greenwood, 62, South African rugby player.
 * Roddy McDowall, 70, British-American actor (Planet of the Apes, Cleopatra, Fright Night), lung cancer.
 * G. S. Venkataraman, 68, Indian botanist.
 * Anne-Marie Walters, 75, Swiss-British Special Operations Executive during World War II.
 * George Yates, 90, Australian businessman and politician.

4

 * S. Arasaratnam, 68, Sri Lankan academic, historian and author.
 * Jean-Pascal Delamuraz, 62, Swiss politician.
 * Lee Grissom, 90, American baseball player.
 * Enea Pavani, 77, Italian curler.
 * Tony Shelly, 61, New Zealand racing driver.

5

 * Megs Jenkins, 81, English actress.
 * Krzysztof Jung, 47, Polish painter, graphic artist and performer, asthma.
 * Pierre Martory, 77, French poet.
 * Federico Zeri, 77, Italian art historian.
 * Arne Øien, 69, Norwegian economist and politician.

6

 * Mark Belanger, 54, American baseball player, lung cancer.
 * Ambrose Burke, 102, English professor and Catholic priest.
 * Rolan Bykov, 68, Soviet and Russian actor, theatre and film director and screenwriter, lung cancer.
 * Bob Gude, 80, American football player.
 * Jean-François Jenny-Clark, 54, French double bass player, cancer.
 * James Larkin, 66, Irish Gaelic football player and politician.
 * Samuel Messick, 67, American psychologist.
 * Stéphane Morin, 29, Canadian ice hockey player, heart problems.
 * Joseph J. Sandler, 71, British psychoanalyst.
 * Chuck Walton, 57, American gridiron football player.
 * Jerome Weidman, 85, American playwright and novelist.

7

 * Evelyn Daniel Anderson, 72, American educator and disability rights advocate.
 * Richard Cyert, 77, American economist and statistician, cancer.
 * Cees de Vreugd, 46, Dutch strongman, heart attack.
 * W. B. Gallie, 86, Scottish social theorist and philosopher.
 * Arnold Jacobs, 83, American tubist.
 * Renato Malavasi, 94, Italian film actor.
 * Joseph P. Merlino, 76, American Party politician.
 * Lee Nak-hoon, 62, South Korean actor, heart disease and diabetes.
 * Ru Zhijuan, 72, Chinese writer.

8

 * Curtis Cassell, 85, German-British rabbi.
 * Zhang Chongren, 91, Chinese artist and sculptor.
 * Mohanlal Lallubhai Dantwala, 89, Indian agricultural economist, academic and writer.
 * Jashim, 48, Bangladeshi film actor, producer and freedom fighter, brain haemorrhage.
 * West Nkosi, 58, South African music producer, saxophonist and songwriter, car crash.
 * Gigi Reder, 70, Italian character actor.
 * Glenn Spearman, 51, American jazz tenor saxophonist, cancer.
 * Anatol Vieru, 72, Romanian music theoretician, pedagogue, and composer.

9

 * Robert Allen, 92, American actor, cancer.
 * Anthony Alonzo, 50, Filipino actor, singer, and councilor of Quezon City, skin cancer.
 * Beth Bonner, 46, American long-distance runner, traffic accident.
 * George Rankine Irwin, 91, American scientist in the field of fracture mechanics and strength of materials.
 * Ian Johnson, 80, Australian cricketer.
 * John Geddes MacGregor, 88, British-American author, scholar, and priest.
 * Nagbhushan Patnaik, 63, Indian communist revolutionary and politician.
 * Gustavo Petricioli, 70, Mexican economist, heart attack.
 * Xiao Yang, 69, Chinese politician.

10

 * Clark Clifford, 91, American lawyer and politician.
 * Jackie Forster, 71, English news reporter, actress and lesbian rights activist.
 * Marvin Gay Sr., 84, American minister and father of Marvin Gaye, pneumonia.
 * Pierce Lyden, 90, American actor.
 * William Markowitz, 91, American astronomer,.
 * Tony Marvin, 86, American radio and television announcer.
 * Rachel Cosgrove Payes, 75, American novelist and author.
 * Konstantin Petrzhak, 91, Russian nuclear physicist.
 * Tommy Quaid, 41, Irish hurler, injuries sustained from a fall.
 * Berta Rahm, 88, Swiss architect, writer and feminist activist.
 * El Tappe, 71, American baseball player and coach, cancer.

11

 * Richard Denning, 84, American actor, heart attack.
 * Fred Harris, 86, English footballer.
 * Lars Theodor Jonsson, 94, Swedish cross-country skier.
 * Michael Wynn, 7th Baron Newborough, 81, British peer and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve officer.
 * Spottswood William Robinson III, 82, American civil rights attorney and US Circuit Judge.
 * Gaius Shaver, 88, American football player and Olympian.

12

 * Jürgen Aschoff, 85, German physician, biologist and behavioral physiologist.
 * Bernhard Minetti, 93, German actor.
 * Julio Saraceni, 86, Argentine film director.
 * Ineko Sata, 94, Japanese author and communist.
 * Matthew Shepard, 21, American murder victim, beaten to death.
 * Wilson Allen Wallis, 85, American economist and statistician.

13

 * Thomas Byberg, 82, Norwegian speed skater and Olympic medalist.
 * Dmitry Nikolayevich Filippov, 54, Soviet and Russian politician and industrialist, assassinated, homicide.
 * P. T. Narasimhachar, 93, Indian Kannada playwright and poet.
 * Bojan Pečar, 38, Serbian/Yugoslav musician, heart attack.
 * Jeremy Vargas Sagastegui, 27, American criminal, execution by lethal injection.
 * Gérard Charles Édouard Thériault, 66, Canadian pilot and Chief of the Defence Staff.

14

 * Cleveland Amory, 81, American author, reporter and animal rights activist, abdominal aortic aneurysm.
 * Leopoldina Bălănuță, 63, Romanian actress.
 * Dasarath Deb, 82, Indian communist politician.
 * Betty Gillies, 90, American aviation pioneer.
 * Giorgio Oberweger, 84, Italian discus thrower and Olympic medalist.
 * Frankie Yankovic, 93, American polka musician, heart failure.

15

 * Rolf Agop, 90, German conductor and academic.
 * Colette Darfeuil, 92, French actress.
 * Mãe Cleusa Millet, 75, Brazilian physician and spiritual leader.
 * Ike Owens, 79, Welsh rugby player.
 * Iain Crichton Smith, 70, Scottish poet and novelist.

16

 * Carlos Aldabe, 79, Argentine football player and coach.
 * Frank Carswell, 78, American baseball player and manager.
 * Jon Postel, 55, American computer scientist, complications from heart surgery.
 * Joseph Stamler, 86, American lawyer and judge.
 * M. Vasalis, 89, Dutch poet and psychiatrist.

17

 * Antonio Agri, 66, Argentine musician, cancer.
 * Germán List Arzubide, 100, Mexican poet and revolutionary.
 * Brian Dickson, 82, Canadian military officer and judge.
 * Muhammad Abdullah Ghazi, 63, Pakistani religious leader, assassinated, homicide.
 * Joan Hickson, 92, English actress (Miss Marple).
 * Carmen Molina, 78, Mexican actress, singer, and dancer.
 * Hakim Said, 78, Pakistani scholar and philanthropist, murdered.
 * Tron, 26, German hacker and phreaker, suicide.
 * Karel Vohralík, 53, Czech ice hockey player.

18

 * Frédéric Fitting, 96, Swiss fencer and Olympian.
 * Peter A. Griffin, 61, American mathematician, author, and blackjack expert.
 * Alfred Praks, 96, Estonian wrestler and Olympian.
 * Dick Sheppard, 53, English footballer.
 * George Shaw Wheeler, 90, American advisor to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and defector.

19

 * Arnold M. Auerbach, 86, American comedy writer.
 * Frank J. Brasco, 66, American politician.
 * Tommy Burks, 58, American farmer and politician, murdered.
 * Chaduranga, 82, Indian Kannada writer.
 * Edward Flannery, 86, American Roman Catholic priest and author, pancreatic cancer.
 * Fritz Honka, 63, German serial killer.
 * Charlton Ogburn, 87, American journalist and author, suicide.
 * Compton I. White, Jr., 77, American politician.

20

 * John Mowbray Didcott, 67, South African lawyer and judge, cancer.
 * Frank Gillard, 89, British BBC reporter and radio pioneer.
 * Gerhard Jahn, 71, German politician, cancer.
 * Spike Nelson, 92, American football player and coach.
 * René Pleimelding, 73, French football player and manager.

21

 * Josef Bremm, 84, Nazi Germany Wehrmacht officer.
 * Scott Brower, 34, American ice hockey player, traffic accident.
 * Alexander Cairncross, 87, British economist;.
 * John Hazen, 71, American basketball player.
 * Nicholas Kemmer, 86, Russian-British nuclear physicist.
 * Hans Alfred Nieper, 70, German alternative medicine practitioner.
 * Alan Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury, 96, British businessman.
 * Tatiana Tolmacheva, 91, Soviet figure skater and figure skating coach.

22

 * Eric Ambler, 89, English thriller author.
 * Nathalia Crane, 85, American poet and novelist.
 * Burton M. Cross, 95, American businessman, politician and governor.
 * Ajit Khan, 76, Indian actor.
 * Molly O'Day, 87, American film actress.
 * Violet Owen, 96, British tennis and hockey player.
 * Ángel Picazo, 81, Spanish film actor, cancer.
 * Francis W. Sargent, 83, American politician and governor.

23

 * Noel Carroll, 56, Irish middle distance runner and Olympian, heart attack.
 * Christopher Gable, 58, English ballet dancer, choreographer and actor, cancer.
 * Winnie Ruth Judd, 93, American convicted murderer.
 * Zangeres Zonder Naam, 79, Dutch levenslied singer, heart attack.
 * Barnett Slepian, 52, American physician, homicide.
 * Silviu Stănculescu, 66, Romanian actor, leukemia.

24

 * Rafael Alonso, 78, Spanish actor.
 * Dennis Ayling, 81, British cinematographer.
 * Charles Barnes, 96, Australian politician.
 * Mary Calderone, 94, American physician and sexual education advocate.
 * Pino Dordoni, 72, Italian race walker and Olympic champion.
 * Ardalion Ignatyev, 67, Soviet track and field athlete and Olympic medalist.

25

 * Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth, 93, British mycologist and scientific historian.
 * Robin Brook, 90, British banker and Olympic fencer.
 * Geoff Crain, 67, Canadian football player.
 * Dick Higgins, 60, American artist, composer, poet, and publisher, heart attack.
 * John Hyland, 86, United States Navy admiral.
 * Gavriil Malish, 91, Soviet and Russian painter, watercolorist and graphic artist.
 * Susan Strange, 75, British scholar and political scientist.
 * Warren Wiebe, 45, American vocalist and session musician, suicide.

26

 * Nicholas Budgen, 60, British politician, liver cancer.
 * Rick Dior, 51, American sound engineer (Apollo 13, Dirty Dancing, Ransom), Oscar winner (1996), heart attack.
 * Kenkichi Iwasawa, 81, Japanese mathematician.
 * Margaret Keay, 87, British phytopathologist.
 * José Cardoso Pires, 73, Portuguese author.
 * Hugh David Stevenson, 80, Royal Australian Navy officer.
 * Terry Thomas, 45, American basketball player.
 * Selvarajan Yesudian, 82, Swiss yogi and author.

27

 * Alfred Gray, 59, American mathematician, heart attack.
 * Rosamund John, 85, English film and stage actress.
 * Reidar Kvammen, 84, Norwegian footballer.
 * Daniel Pedoe, 87, English mathematician and geometer.
 * Luis Prendes, 85, Spanish actor, cancer.
 * Gene Taylor, 70, American politician.
 * Klári Tolnay, 84, Hungarian actress.
 * Winnie van Weerdenburg, 52, Dutch swimmer and Olympic medalist.

28

 * Ghulam Ahmed, 76, Indian cricket player.
 * Cuthbert Alport, Baron Alport, 86, British politician, minister and life peer.
 * Sherman Block, 74, American politician and sheriff.
 * James L. Day, 73, United States Marine Corps major general.
 * Tommy Flowers, 92, English engineer and electronic computing pioneer.
 * James Goldman, 71, American screenwriter (The Lion in Winter, Nicholas and Alexandria) and playwright (Follies), Oscar winner (1969), heart attack.
 * Ted Hughes, 68, English poet and children's writer, heart attack.
 * Margaret Marley Modlin, 71, American painter, sculptor and photographer.
 * Wang Shuming, 92, Chinese airforce colonel general.

29

 * Anthony J. Celebrezze, 88, American politician.
 * Alvin M. Johnston, 84, American jet-age test pilot, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Gilda Lousek, 60, Argentine actress.
 * Paul Misraki, 90, French composer of music and film scores.
 * Harry Weese, 83, American architect, stroke.

30

 * Vishram Bedekar, 92, Indian writer and movie director.
 * Guido De Santi, 75, Italian racing cyclist.
 * Apo Lazaridès, 73, French cyclist.
 * Bulldog Turner, 79, American football player and coach.
 * Lam Van Phat, Army of the Republic of Vietnam officer.
 * Elmer Vasko, 62, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks, Minnesota North Stars).
 * Heinz Westphal, 74, German politician.

31

 * Kenneth Darling, 89, British Army general.
 * María de la Purísima de la Cruz, 72, Spanish Roman Catholic nun.
 * Bernard J. Dwyer, 77, American Democratic Party politician, heart attack.
 * Vassar Miller, 74, Writer and poet.
 * Noah Mullins, 80, American gridiron football player.
 * Lou Rymkus, 78, American football player and coach, stroke.
 * Bob Thurman, 81, American baseball player.