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The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.

April 1998

1

• Theodore Bloomfield, 74, American conductor, heart attack.
• Gene Evans, 75, American actor, heart failure. ^[1]
• Anne Gullestad, 72, Norwegian actress and theatre director.
• Janusz Nasfeter, 77, Polish film director, screenwriter and writer.
• Lucille Norman, 76, American actress, mezzo-soprano and radio personality. ^[2]
• Robert Ogle, 69, Canadian Roman Catholic priest and politician. ^[3]
• Igor Ostashov, 60, Soviet Russian Olympic speed skater (1964). ^[4]
• Dave Smith, 83, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics). ^[5]
• Johnny Stevenson, 84, American basketball player. ^[6]
• Mary Wynne Warner, 65, Welsh mathematician. ^[7]
• Rozz Williams, 34, American singer, poet and artist, suicide by hanging. ^[8]

2

• Joan Austin, 95, British tennis player. ^[9]
• Dai Davies, 88, Welsh trade unionist.
• Ronnie Dix, 85, English football player. ^[10]
• Hans Eberle, 72, German football player and Olympian (1952). ^[11]
• Jock Gaynor, 68, American television actor and producer.
• Eberhard Rees, 89, German-American rocketry pioneer and NASA executive. ^[12]
• Jackie Sardou, 78, French actress. ^[13]
• Frank Steen, 84, American football player (Green Bay Packers). ^[14]
• Alf Westman, 77, Swedish Olympic hurdler (1948). ^[15]

3

• Mary Cartwright, 97, British mathematician. ^[16]
• Caroline Fletcher, 91, American Olympic diver (1924). ^[17]
• Elmer Iseler, 70, Canadian choir conductor and choral editor. ^[18]
• Givi Kartozia, 69, Georgian middleweight Greco-Roman wrestler and Olympic champion (1956, 1960). ^[19]
• Charles Lang, 96, American cinematographer ( Some Like It Hot , A Farewell to Arms , Sabrina ), Oscar winner (1934), pneumonia. ^[20]
• Harkisan Mehta, 69, Indian author and journalist, heart attack.
• Rolf Olsen, 78, Austrian actor, screenwriter and film director, cancer. ^[21]
• Rob Pilatus, 33, German model, dancer and singer (Milli Vanilli), accidental overdose. ^[22]
• Herbert B. Powell, 94, United States Army general and diplomat. ^[23]
• Jean-Pierre Roche, 73, Swiss Olympic field hockey player (1948, 1952). ^[24]
• Josef Staudinger, 91, Austrian diver and Olympian (1928, 1932). ^[25]
• John W. Sweeterman, 91, American newspaperman. ^[26]
• Alvin Tyler, 72, American R&B and jazz musician. ^[27]
• Wolf Vostell, 65, German painter and sculptor. ^[28]

4

• Harry Wesley Bass Jr., 71, American businessman, coin collector and philanthropist. ^[29]
• George Berry, 84, Australian politician. ^[30]
• Kate Bosse-Griffiths, 87, German-British egyptologist.
• Marshall Fredericks, 90, American sculptor. ^[31]
• Kay Hughes, 84, American actress.
• Pierre Lantier, 87, French composer and pianist. ^[32]
• Predrag Milinković, 64, Serbian actor. ^[33]
• Ian Percival, 76, British politician.
• Ganesh Prasad Rijal, 77, Nepali politician, heart attack.
• Ángel Schandlein, 67, Argentine footballer. ^[34]

5

• Nick Forkovitch, 79, American football player (Brooklyn Dodgers). ^[35]
• Charles Frank, 87, British theoretical physicist. ^[36]
• Mick Miller, 61, Australian Aboriginal activist and politician, heart seizure. ^[37]
• Elizabeth Mitchell, 79, New Zealand fencer.
• Cozy Powell, 50, English rock drummer ( Rainbow , Whitesnake , Emerson, Lake & Powell , Black Sabbath ), traffic collision. ^[38]

6

• Edgar Ablowich, 84, American athlete and Olympian (1932). ^[39]
• Reuben Berry, 63, American gridiron football coach.
• Sam Chaffey, 63, New Zealand Olympic alpine skier (1960). ^[40]
• Rudy Dhaenens, 36, Belgian road bicycle racer, traffic collision. ^[41]
• Helen Craig McCullough, 80, American academic, translator and japanologist. ^[42]
• Heinz Neuhaus, 71, German boxer and heavyweight champion.
• Antonio Randi, 77, Italian Olympic wrestler (1952). ^[43]
• Dewey Soriano, 78, American baseball executive. ^[44]
• Wendy O. Williams, 48, American singer, songwriter, and actress, suicide by gunshot. ^[45]
• John Wyatt, 63, American baseball player, heart attack. ^[46]
• Tammy Wynette, 55, American country music singer-songwriter, heart arrhythmia, heart attack. ^[47]

7

• Muhammad Karam Shah al-Azhari, 79, Pakistani Islamic scholar.
• Modesta Bor, 71, Venezuelan composer.
• Luis Díez del Corral, 86, Spanish jurist, writer and political scientist. ^[48]
• Vitaly Galkov, 58, Soviet and Russian sprint canoer and Olympian (1968). ^[49]
• Sirous Ghayeghran, 36, Iranian football player, traffic collision. ^[50]
• John Kasper, 69, American Ku Klux Klan member and segregationist, boating accident.
• Ronald William John Keay, 77, British botanist, cancer. ^[51]
• Ibrahim Khalil, 88-89, Egyptian Olympic diver (1936). ^[52]
• John Larking, 76, English cricketer. ^[53]
• Pancho Magalona, 76, Filipino actor, emphysema.
• Nick Auf der Maur, 55, Canadian journalist and politician, esophageal cancer.
• James McIntosh Patrick, 91, Scottish painter. ^[54]
• Paul Sarringhaus, 77, American gridiron football player (Chicago Cardinals, Detroit Lions). ^[55]
• Alex Schomburg, 92, Puerto Rican comic-book artist and painter. ^[56]
• Carlos Vega, 41, Cuban-American session drummer, suicide by gunshot. ^[57]
• S. V. Venkatraman, 86, Indian actor, singer and music director.

8

• Anatole Dauman, 73, French film producer. ^[58]
• Charlie Drinkwater, 83, English football player and manager. ^[59]
• Lee Elias, 77, British-American comics artist.
• Florence Virginia Foose Wilson Mayberry, 91, American writer and Baháʼí Faith convert. ^[60]
• René Pellos, 98, French artist, cartoonist, writer, and Olympian (1928). ^[61]
• Kurt Weinreich, 89, German football manager. ^[62]

9

• Tom Cora, 44, American cellist and composer, melanoma. ^[63]
• Mihai Grecu, 81, Moldovan painter.
• Vishnu Bhikaji Kolte, 89, Indian writer.
• Lü Shuxiang, 93, Chinese linguist, lexicographer and educator.
• Ronald Vernon Southcott, 79, Australian medical zoologist.
• Aleksey Spiridonov, 46, Soviet athlete and Olympic medalist (1976). ^[64]
• John Tate, 43, American heavyweight boxer and Olympian (1976), traffic collision. ^[65]
• David Vigor, 58, Australian politician, heart attack.

10

• Archbishop Serafim of Athens, 84, Greek archbishop.
• Alan Burgess, 83, English RAF pilot and author. ^[66]
• Jean Chapot, 67, French screenwriter and film director. ^[67]
• Campos de Carvalho, 81, Brazilian writer.
• Dieter Erler, 58, German footballer. ^[68]
• Basil James, 77, American jockey.
• Charles Kessler, 87, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player (1936). ^[69]
• Zezé Moreira, 90, Brazilian footballer and coach.
• Nguyen Co Thach, 76, Vietnamese revolutionary, diplomat, and politician. ^[70]
• Horst Scheeser, 85, Romanian Olympic alpine skier (1936). ^[71]

11

• Lillian Briggs, 65, American rock 'n roll musician, lung cancer.
• Pierre Cottier, 89, Swiss Olympic weightlifter (1936). ^[72]
• Francis Durbridge, 85, English playwright and author. ^[73]
• Tex Geddes, 78, Scottish author and adventurer. ^[74]
• Rodney Harvey, 30, American actor, model and dancer, drug overdose. ^[75]
• Leland Clure Morton, 82, American district judge (United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee). ^[76]
• Kristaq Rama, 66, Albanian sculptor, art educator and politician.
• Ivan Tcherepnin, 55, French-American composer. ^[77]
• Doris Tetzlaff, 77, American baseball player. ^[78]
• Rover Thomas, 72, Aboriginal Australian artist.

12

• Xin Fengxia, Chinese pingju opera performer, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Robert Ford, 83, Canadian poet and diplomat. ^[79]
• Dorothea Jameson, 77, American cognitive psychologist, lung cancer. ^[80]
• Frederick Lenz, 48, American businessman and spiritual teacher, suicide by drowning.
• Felicitas Mendez, Puerto Rican-American civil right activist, heart failure. ^[81]
• Bruno Rodzik, 62, French football player. ^[82]
• Charles Sibley, 80, American ornithologist and molecular biologist. ^[83]
• Marvin Wolfgang, 73, American sociologist and criminologist. ^[84]

13

• Alec Albiston, 80, Australian rules footballer and coach.
• Jack Bolling, 81, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, Brooklyn Dodgers). ^[85]
• Randy Brown, 54, American baseball player (California Angels). ^[86]
• Patrick de Gayardon, 38, French skydiver and skysurfing pioneer, skydiving accident.
• Nyta Dover, 70, Swiss actress.
• David Foster, 43, Irish equestrian and Olympian (1984, 1988, 1996). ^[87]
• Bahi Ladgham, 85, Tunisian politician and Prime minister. ^[88]
• Ian MacGregor, 85, Scottish-American metallurgist and industrialist. ^[89]
• Pat Rainey, 72, American singer and actress. ^[90]
• Jack Vard, 71, Irish wrestler and Olympian (1952). ^[91]

14

• Roberts Bluķis, 85, Latvian basketball, ice hockey player, and Olympian (1936). ^[92]
• Jake Colhouer, 76, American gridiron football player (Chicago Cardinals, New York Giants). ^[93]
• Brian Crago, 71, Australian Olympic equestrian (1956, 1960). ^[94]
• Weldon Humble, 76, American gridiron football player (Cleveland Browns, Dallas Texans). ^[95]
• Harry Lee, 90, British tennis player.
• Dorothy Squires, 83, Welsh singer, lung cancer. ^[96]
• Maurice Stans, 90, American civil servant and politician, congestive heart failure. ^[97]

15

• William Congdon, 86, American painter. ^[98]
• Pompeo D'Ambrosio, 81, Italian-Venezuelan businessman.
• Kenny Duckett, 38, American football player (New Orleans Saints, Dallas Cowboys), renal failure. ^[99]
• William K. Jones, 81, United States Marine Corps lieutenant general. ^[100]
• Rose Maddox, 72, American country singer-songwriter. ^[101]
• Pol Pot, 72, Cambodian politician. General secretary of the CPK ^[102]
• Kayo Wnorowski, 76, American basketball player. ^[103]

16

• Kazimieras Antanavičius, 60, Lithuanian economist and politician.
• Djibo Bakary, 76, Nigerian nationalist and politician. ^[104]
• Alberto Calderón, 77, Argentinian mathematician. ^[105]
• Fernande Caroen, 77, Belgian freestyle swimmer and Olympian (1948). ^[106]
• Leif Dahlgren, 92, Swedish athlete and Olympian (1936). ^[107]
• Fred Davis, 84, English snooker and billiards player. ^[108]
• Marie-Louise Meilleur, 117, Canadian supercentenarian, oldest living person at the time of her death. ^[109]
• Ronald Millar, 78, English actor, scriptwriter, and dramatist. ^[110]
• Esko Salminen, 77, Finnish Olympic field hockey player (1952). ^[111]

17

• Michael Agbamuche, 77, Nigerian Attorney General and politician.
• Alberto Bovone, 75, Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church.
• Frances Clark, 93, American pianist, pedagogue, and academic. ^[112]
• Geraldo de Barros, 75, Brazilian painter and photographer. ^[113]
• Linda McCartney, 56, American musician, photographer and animal rights activist, breast cancer. ^[114]
• William C. Scott, 76, Canadian politician.

18

• Stoffel Botha, 69, South African politician, heart attack.
• Ferenc Deák, 76, Hungarian football player. ^[115]
• William Edmondson, 91, American sound engineer ( Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , The Twilight Zone , Vanishing Point ).
• Nelson Gonçalves, 78, Brazilian singer and songwriter, heart attack. ^[116]
• Johan Richter, 73, Danish architect and engineer.
• Terry Sanford, 80, American university administrator and politician, esophageal cancer. ^[117]
• Linda Schele, 55, American Mesoamerican archaeologist, pancreatic cancer. ^[118]
• Walter Sessi, 79, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals). ^[119]

19

• Gardner Dickinson, 70, American golfer. ^[120]
• J.C. Harrington, 96, American historical archaeologist. ^[121]
• Denis Howell, Baron Howell, 74, British politician. ^[122]
• Octavio Paz, 84, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate, cancer. ^[123]
• Vladimir Sokolov, 70, Russian scientist.
• Liam Sullivan, 74, American actor and singer, heart attack. ^[124]

20

• Severo Cominelli, 82, Italian football player. ^[125]
• Trevor Huddleston, 84, English Anglican bishop. ^[126]
• Yoshio Inaba, 77, Japanese actor ( Seven Samurai ), heart attack.
• Alfredo Palacio Moreno, 85, Ecuadorian sculptor and painter.
• Othmar Wessely, 75, Austrian musicologist and university teacher. ^[127]

21

• Ivan Chtcheglov, 65, French political theorist, activist and poet. ^[128]
• Rabi Das, Indian footballer and Olympian (1948). ^[129]
• Peter Lind Hayes, 82, American vaudeville entertainer, songwriter and actor, vascular problems. ^[130]
• Vernon Holland, 49, American gridiron football player (Cincinnati Bengals, Detroit Lions and New York Giants), heart attack. ^[131]
• Egill Jacobsen, 87, Danish painter. ^[132]
• Jean-François Lyotard, 73, French philosopher and sociologist, leukemia. ^[133]
• Gábor Preisich, 88, Hungarian architect.
• Bruno Roth, 86, German racing cyclist. ^[134]
• Irene Vernon, 76, American actress, congestive heart failure and coronary artery disease.
• Helen Ward, 84, American jazz singer. ^[135]
• Frank Wootton, 86, British aviation artist. ^[136]

22

• Edward Brongersma, 86, Dutch politician and doctor of law, voluntary euthanasia. ^[137]
• Kitch Christie, 58, South African rugby coach, leukemia.
• Alfredo da Motta, 77, Brazilian basketball player and Olympian (1948, 1952). ^[138]
• Carlo Donida, 77, Italian composer and pianist.
• Helena Dow, 80, American Olympic fencer (1948). ^[139]
• Guy Henn, 88, Australian doctor and politician.
• Vadym Hetman, 62, Ukrainian statesman and banker, shot.
• León Najnudel, 56, Argentine basketball player and basketball coach, leukemia.
• Georges Paillard, 94, French cyclist and Olympian (1920). ^[140]
• Régine Pernoud, 88, French historian and archivist. ^[141]
• Shalimar Seiuli, 21, American-Samoan transgender dancer, accidental fall. ^[142]
• Norm Wagner, 86, American basketball player. ^[143]
• Marvin Worth, 72, American film producer, screenwriter and actor, lung cancer. ^[144]

23

• Hattie Moseley Austin, 97-98, African-American entrepreneur, restaurateur ^[145]
• Konstantinos Karamanlis, 91, Greek politician, Prime Minister and President. ^[146]
• James Earl Ray, 70, American convict and assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., liver failure. ^[147]
• Héctor Rensonnet, 73, Argentine Olympic weightlifter (1952). ^[148]
• Sartaj Singh, Indian Army general.
• Red Stacy, 86, American gridiron football player (Detroit Lions). ^[149]
• Gregor von Rezzori, 83, Austrian-Romanian journalist, actor, writer and art collector. ^[150]

24

• Froduald Karamira, 50, Rwandan politician, execution by firing squad.
• Yakov Malkiel, 83, Russian-American etymologist and philologist. ^[151]
• Mel Powell, 75, American composer and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, liver cancer. ^[152]
• Christiane Rochefort, 80, French feminist writer. ^[153]
• Leslie Stevens, 74, American producer, writer and director, angioplasty. ^[154]

25

• Jorge Dominichi, 51, Argentine football player and manager, heart attack. ^[155]
• Wright Morris, 88, American novelist, photographer and essayist, esophageal cancer. ^[156]
• Christian Mortensen, 115, Danish-American supercentenarian, Alzheimer's disease. ^[157]
• Don Petersen, 70, American playwright and screenwriter. ^[158]
• Dave Ross, 80, Australian rugby league footballer. ^[159]
• Stanley Brehaut Ryerson, 87, Canadian historian, educator, political activist. ^[160]

26

• Alan Boxer, 81, British Royal Air Force officer.
• Theodor Broch, 94, Norwegian lawyer and politician. ^[161]
• Juan José Gerardi Conedera, 75, Guatemalan Roman Catholic bishop and human rights activist, bludgeoned. ^[162]
• David Fasold, 59, United States Merchant Marine officer and salvage expert, cancer.
• Gamini Jayasuriya, 73, Sri Lankan politician.
• Sven Olov Lindholm, 95, Swedish anti-communist and Nazi politician.
• Gabe Paul, 88, American Major League Baseball executive. ^[163]
• Arif Pašalić, 54, Bosnian military officer, traffic collision.
• Ivy May Pearce, 83, Australian aerobatic pilot.
• Billy Strachan, 77, British communist, civil rights activist, and pilot. ^[164]

27

• John W. H. Bassett, 82, Canadian media proprietor and politician. ^[165]
• Carlos Castañeda, 72, American author, hepatocellular cancer. ^[166]
• Ramakant Desai, 58, Indian cricketer. ^[167]
• Anne Desclos, 90, French journalist and novelist. ^[168]
• Edris Eckhardt, 93, American artist. ^[169]
• John Kennedy, 71, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies). ^[170]
• Louis S. Peterson, 75, American playwright, actor, screenwriter and professor, lung cancer. ^[171]
• Ralph Raphael, 77, British organic chemist, ischaemic heart disease. ^[172]
• Browning Ross, 74, American long-distance runner and Olympian (1948, 1952). ^[173]
• Geoffrey Serle, 76, Australian historian. ^[174]
• Nguyen Van Linh, 82, Vietnamese revolutionary and politician, liver cancer. ^[175]

28

• Jerome Bixby, 75, American short story writer and scriptwriter. ^[176]
• Frank Damiani, 75, American football player (New York Giants), and coach. ^[177]
• Ramakant Desai, 58, Indian cricket player, complications following cardiac arrest.
• Roger Eason, 79, American gridiron football player (Cleveland/Los Angeles Rams, Green Bay Packers). ^[178]
• Dorothy Lovett, 83, American film actress. ^[179]
• Reed C. Rollins, 86, American botanist and professor. ^[180]
• Mum Shirl, 76, Australian Wiradjuri humanitarian activist.
• Bogdan Sirotanović, 82, Croatian Olympic rower (1948). ^[181]

29

• Ron Blackburn, 63, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates). ^[182]
• Mary Castle, 67, American actress, lung cancer. ^[183]
• Charley Cowan, 59, American gridiron football player (Los Angeles Rams). ^[184]
• Mário de Castro, 92, Brazilian footballer.
• Harold Devine, 88, American boxer and Olympian (1928). ^[185]
• V. Gopalakrishnan, Indian actor.
• Hal Laycoe, 75, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers, Montreal Canadiens, Boston Bruins), and coach. ^[186]

30

• Guy Anderson, 91, American painter. ^[187]
• Curly Chalker, 66, American pedal steel guitarist, brain tumor. ^[188]
• Lise Gervais, 64, Canadian abstract painter and sculptor. ^[189]
• Edwin Thompson Jaynes, 75, American physicist and statistician. ^[190]
• Daniel V. Jones, 40, American maintenance worker, suicide by gunshot. ^[191]
• Vora Mackintosh, 68, British Olympic alpine skier (1952). ^[192]
• Nizar Qabbani, 75, Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher, heart attack. ^[193]
• Jopie Selbach, 79, Dutch freestyle swimmer and Olympian (1936). ^[194]

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External links

• List of April 1998 deaths at IMDb