Deaths in September 1998

The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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

 * Francisco Coching, 78, Filipino comic books illustrator and writer.
 * Albert W. Johnson, 92, American politician.
 * Harry Knudsen, 79, Danish rower and Olympic medalist.
 * Józef Krupiński, 67, Polish poet.
 * Cary Middlecoff, 77, American golfer, heart disease.
 * Nick Murphy, 31, English footballer, car crash.
 * Vere Harmsworth, 3rd Viscount Rothermere, 73, British newspaper magnate.
 * Osman Fahir Seden, 74, Turkish film director, screenwriter and film producer.
 * Ernest Edward Williams, 84, American herpetologist.
 * Petar Šegedin, 89, Croatian writer.

2

 * Jackie Blanchflower, 65, Northern Irish footballer, cancer.
 * Roy Bradford, 77, Northern Irish politician.
 * Mary Lou Clements-Mann, 51, American AIDS researcher, plane crash.
 * Allen Drury, 80, American novelist and Pullizer Prize winner, cardiac arrest, heart attack.
 * Charles A. Ferguson, 77, American linguist.
 * Willie Kizart, 66, American electric blues guitarist.
 * Jonathan Mann, 51, American physician, head of the WHO's AIDS program, plane crash.
 * Walter L. Morgan, 100, American banker
 * Danièle Parola, 93, French film actress.
 * Tommy J. Smith, 81, Australian racehorse trainer.

3

 * Vince Alascia, 84, American comic book artist (Captain America).
 * Samuel Findlay Clark, 89, Canadian Army general.
 * Ellis R. Kerley, 74, American forensic anthropologist.
 * Anup Kumar, 68, Indian actor.
 * Friedrich Körner, 77, World War II Luftwaffe Flying ace.
 * Albert Nemethy, 78, Hungarian-American artist.
 * John F. Thornell Jr., 77, World War II United States Army Air Forces Flying ace.

4

 * Hans Brenner, 59, Austrian actor.
 * Jimmy Constantine, 78, English football player.
 * Hernando Durán Dussán, Colombian lawyer and politician, respiratory infection.
 * Robert Higgins, 73, American weightlifter.
 * Ernst Jaakson, 93, Estonian diplomat.
 * Elizabeth Kata, 85, Australian writer under the pseudonym "Elizabeth Kata".
 * Charles Kemball, 75, Scottish chemist.
 * Tania Long, 85, American journalist and war correspondent during World War II.
 * Masato Nakae, 80, Japanese American US Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient.
 * Inge Scholl, 81, German activist and resistance member during World War II, cancer.
 * Lal Waterson, 55, English folksinger and songwriter, cancer.

5

 * Fernando Balzaretti, 52, Mexican actor, cardiovascular disease.
 * Leon Dombrowski, 60, American gridiron football player.
 * Willem Drees, 75, Dutch politician and son of politician Willem Drees.
 * Michael Fleischer, 90, American chemist and mineralogist.
 * Sonny Knight, 64, American singer, songwriter and author, complications following a stroke.
 * Margaret Lefranc, 91, American visual artist.
 * Félix Morisseau-Leroy, 86, Haitian writer.
 * Minoru Niizuma, 67, Japanese abstract sculptor, stroke.
 * Verner Panton, 72, Danish interior designer.
 * Leo Penn, 77, American actor and director, lung cancer.
 * Billy Soose, 83, American boxer.

6

 * Ernst-Hugo Järegård, 69, Swedish cult actor, multiple myeloma.
 * Akira Kurosawa, 88, Japanese film director and screenwriter (Seven Samurai, Rashomon, Throne of Blood), stroke.
 * Hava Lazarus-Yafeh, 68, German-Israeli orientalist and academic.
 * Ric Segreto, 45, American-Filipino singer-songwriter and actor, motorcycle accident.
 * Elaine Shepard, 85, American actress.
 * Denise Spencer, 68, Australian freestyle swimmer and Olympian.

7

 * Håvard Alstadheim, 62, Norwegian economist and politician.
 * Mario Bardi, 77, Italian Realist painter, stroke.
 * André Bonin, 89, French fencer and Olympic champion.
 * Prof. K.M. Chandy, 77, Indian freedom fighter and politician.
 * Valeri Frid, 76, Soviet screenwriter.
 * John Osler Chattock Hayes, 85, British Royal Navy officer.

8

 * Walter Adams, 76, American economist and college professor, pancreatic cancer.
 * Leonid Kinskey, 95, Russian-born actor, complications of a stroke.
 * Arsh Muneer, 84, Pakistani actress and singer.
 * Marco Rizo, 77, Cuban-American pianist, composer, and arranger, heart attack.
 * Bill Shankland, 91, Australian sportsman, heart failure.
 * Ewald Tilker, 86, German canoeist and Olympic medalist.
 * Tryfon Tzanetis, 80, Greek football player and coach.

9

 * Lucio Battisti, 55, Italian singer-songwriter and composer, cancer.
 * Bill Cratty, 47, American modern dancer and choreographer, liver cancer.
 * Eleanor Garatti, 89, American swimmer and Olympic gold medalist.
 * Mariano Martín, 78, Spanish footballer.
 * Catherine Turney, 91, American writer and screenwriter.
 * Jerry Zimmerman, 63, American baseball player and coach.

10

 * Carl Forgione, 54, British actor.
 * Freddie Green, 82, English professional footballer.
 * Adolfe de Hoernle, 96, German-American philanthropist.
 * Noshirvan Nagarwala, 88, Indian cricket umpire.
 * Frederick Rosier, 82, British Royal Air Force commander.
 * Kedar Man Vyathit, 84, Nepali poet.

11

 * Paku Alam VIII, 88, Indonesian royal and Governor of Yogyakarta.
 * Sofía Bassi, 85, Mexican painter and writer, heart failure.
 * Dane Clark, 86, American actor.
 * Stephie D'Souza, 61, Indian athlete and Olympian.
 * Carlos Guimard, 85, Argentine chess Grandmaster.
 * Rolando Morán, 68, Guatemalan revolutionary leader, heart attack.
 * P. S. Veerappa, 87, Indian actor and film producer.

12

 * George E. Danielson, 83, American politician and judge, heart failure.
 * Hans Grimm, 93, German film director and screenwriter.
 * Azem Hajdari, 35, Albanian student leader, murdered.
 * Awang Hassan, 87, Malaysian politician.
 * John Holliman, 49, American broadcast journalist, traffic accident.
 * Henry Spira, 71, Belgian-American animal rights activist, esophageal cancer.

13

 * Talimeren Ao, 80, Indian footballer and physician.
 * Denys Buckley, 92, English barrister and judge.
 * Necdet Calp, 76, Turkish civil servant and politician, heart attack.
 * Aloys Grillmeier, 88, German Jesuit priest and theologian.
 * Frans Hogenbirk, 80, Dutch football player.
 * Owen Horwood, 81, South African economist and politician, heart attack.
 * Antonio Núñez Jiménez, 75, Cuban revolutionary and academic.
 * Harry Lumley, 71, Canadian ice hockey goaltender in the National Hockey League.
 * Phil Ridings, 80, Australian cricket player.
 * George Wallace, 79, American politician and populist, Parkinson's disease.

14

 * Johnny Adams, 66, American blues, jazz and gospel singer, prostate cancer.
 * Hahn William Capps, 95, American entomologist.
 * Sue Geh, 39, Australian women's basketball player, heart failure.
 * Fred Korth, 89, United States Secretary of the Navy.
 * George Scott, 69, English snooker player.
 * Yang Shangkun, 91, President of the People's Republic of China.

15

 * Fred Alderman, 93, American sprint runner and Olympic champion.
 * Barrett Deems, 84, American swing drummer, pneumonia.
 * Charles George Drake, 78, Canadian neurosurgeon.
 * René Ferrier, 61, French football midfielder.
 * Viljo Heino, 84, Finnish long-distance runner and Olympian.
 * Reynold B. Johnson, 92, American inventor and computer pioneer, melanoma.
 * Carl Larpenter, 62, American gridiron football player.
 * Caroline Mikkelsen, 91, Danish-Norwegian explorer.
 * Don Perkins, 80, American football player.
 * Louis Rasminsky, 90, Canadian banker.
 * Eva Gabriele Reichmann, 101, German historian and sociologist.

16

 * Egidio Ariosto, 87, Italian politician.
 * Jane Marsh Beveridge, 82, Canadian artist.
 * John Eakins, 75, Canadian politician.
 * Mazhar Khan, Indian actor and producer, renal failure.
 * Bjørn Stenersen, 28, Norwegian racing cyclist and Olympian.
 * John Systad, 86, Norwegian long-distance runner and Olympian.
 * Andrzej Trzaskowski, 65, Polish jazz composer and musicologist.
 * Pak Tu-jin, 82, Korean poet.
 * Harold Vokes, 90, American malacologist and paleontologist.
 * John Woyat, 65, Canadian football player.

17

 * William Albright, 53, American composer, pianist and organist.
 * Ted Binion, 54, American gambling executive.
 * Geoffrey Dutton, 76, Australian author and historian.
 * Win Elliot, 83, American television and radio sportscaster and game show host.
 * April FitzLyon, 78, English translator, biographer, and historian.
 * Gerold Frank, 91, American author and ghostwriter.
 * Red Hoff, 107, American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball, fall.
 * Gustav Nezval, 90, Czech stage and film actor.
 * Ralph Pappier, 84, Argentine production designer and film director.
 * Celia Rooke, 96, English printmaker and book illustrator.

18

 * Francelia Butler, 85, American scholar and children's author.
 * Charlie Foxx, 64, American musician.
 * Kurt Hager, 86, East German politician.
 * Erik Holmberg, 76, Norwegian football player.
 * Sam Locke, 81, American writer and director.
 * Harun Nasution, 79, Indonesian scholar.
 * Vadim Rogovin, 61, Russian Trotskyist historian and sociologist.

19

 * Susan Barrantes, 61, British film producer and mother of Sarah, Duchess of York, traffic accident.
 * Patricia Hayes, 88, English actress (The NeverEnding Story, Willow, A Fish Called Wanda).
 * Ran Laurie, 83, British physician, Olympic gold medalist and father of Hugh Laurie, Parkinson's disease.
 * John Norby, 88, American gridiron football player.

20

 * Audrey Alexandra Brown, 93, Canadian poet.
 * Muriel Humphrey Brown, 86, American politician and wife of Vice President Hubert Humphrey.
 * Robert Malachy Burke, 91, Christian socialist and philanthropist.
 * Lila Katzen, 72, American abstract sculptor, liver cancer.
 * Alan Prescott, 71, English rugby league footballer.
 * Raoul Schránil, 88, Czech film actor.

21

 * Margaret Allan, 89, Scottish motor racing driver.
 * Oz Bach, 59, American folk musician, cancer.
 * Clara Calamai, 89, Italian actress, stroke.
 * Florence Griffith Joyner, 38, American track and field athlete, and Olympic champion, epileptic seizure, epilepsy.
 * Vladimir Pokhilko, 44, Soviet-Russian entrepreneur, suicide.
 * Arto Tiainen, 68, Finnish cross-country skier and politician.

22

 * Ymer Dishnica, 86, Albanian politician and physician.
 * Michel Dubé, 39, Canadian outlaw biker and gangster, suicide.
 * Otakhon Latifi, 62, Tajikistan journalist and politician, murdered.
 * Henry Mayer, 72, German composer.
 * Doug Smith, 73, Scottish rugby union player.

23

 * Søren Andersen, 72, Danish football player.
 * Ray Bowden, 89, English footballer.
 * Mary Frann, 55, American actress (Newhart, Days of Our Lives, Knots Landing), heart attack.
 * Brian Masters, 65, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Fulham and Edmonton.
 * Héctor Vilches, 72, Uruguayan football player.
 * Robert Wells, 75, American songwriter and television producer.

24

 * Genrich Altshuller, 71, Soviet engineer, inventor, and writer, Parkinson's disease.
 * Rosendo Balinas Jr., 57, Filipino chess grandmaster.
 * Frank Curran, 81, English footballer.
 * Jeff Moss, 56, American composer, playwright and television writer, colon cancer.
 * Ernie Pannell, 81, American gridiron football player.

25

 * Billy Giles, 41, Northern Irish UVF volunteer, suicide by hanging.
 * Shaukat Hayat Khan, 83, Pakistani politician, activist and military officer.
 * Johnny McGrory, 83, Scottish boxer.
 * Wim Schepers, 55, Dutch road cyclist, cardiac arrest.
 * Cas Walker, 96, American politician and radio and TV personality.
 * Caspar Wrede, 69, Finnish theatre and film director.

26

 * Giovanni Barbini, 97, Italian naval officer during World War II.
 * Betty Carter, 68, American jazz singer, pancreatic cancer.
 * Jack Haskell, 79, American singer and announcer.
 * Jerome D. Mack, 77, American banker, fundraiser and philanthropist, cancer.
 * Harald Vock, 73, German television producer and director.

27

 * Alex Joseph, 62, American outspoken polygamist and founder of the Confederate Nations of Israel, a Mormon fundamentalist sect, liver cancer.
 * Karlheinz Kaske, 70, German manager and CEO of the Siemens AG from 1981 to 1992.
 * Narita Bryan, 7, Japanese racehorse, gastric rupture.
 * Shawn Phelan, 23, American actor (Toy Soldiers), brain injury.
 * Doak Walker, 71, American football player (Detroit Lions) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, skiing accident.

28

 * Eric Malling, 52, Canadian television journalist, brain hemorrhage after fall.
 * Joan Maude, 90, English actress.
 * Marcel Pourbaix, 94, Belgian chemist.
 * Louis L. Redding, 96, American lawyer and civil rights advocate.
 * Shiv Prasaad Singh, 70, Indian writer and academic.
 * George Tranter, 83, English football player.

29

 * Tom Bradley, 80, American politician and police officer, heart attack.
 * Valston Hancock, 91, Australian commander in the Royal Australian Air Force.
 * Gordon W. Richards, 68, British racehorse trainer.
 * Joachim Count of Schönburg-Glauchau, 69, German nobleman.

30

 * D. Bruce Berry, 74, American comic book artist (Captain America).
 * Laurie Brown, 61, English football player and manager.
 * Frank Forberger, 55, East German rower and Olympic champion, brain cancer.
 * Marius Goring, 86, English actor, cancer.
 * Nechama Hendel, 62, Israeli singer.
 * Émile Krieps, 78, Luxembourgish army officer and politician.
 * Bruno Munari, 90, Italian artist and designer.
 * Stephen Pearlman, 63, American actor (Die Hard with a Vengeance, Pi, Quiz Show), cancer.
 * Dan Quisenberry, 45, American baseball player, brain cancer.
 * Robert R. Squires, 45, American chemist.
 * Robert Lewis Taylor, 86, American author and Pullizer Prize winner.
 * Pavel Štěpán, 73, Czech pianist.