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The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.

May 1998

1

• Eldridge Cleaver, 62, American writer and political activist, prostate cancer. ^[1]
• Heinie Heltzel, 84, American baseball player (Boston Braves, Philadelphia Phillies). ^[2]
• Daniel Henry Huyett III, 76, American district judge (United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania). ^[3]
• Brian Kendall, 51, New Zealand boxer, cancer.
• J. S. Roskell, 84, English historian of the Middle Ages. ^[4]
• Jozef Schoeters, 50, Belgian Olympic cyclist (1968). ^[5]

2

• Clyde Connell, 96, American abstract expressionist sculptor.
• Justin Fashanu, 37, English footballer, suicide by hanging. ^[6]
• Johnny Grodzicki, 81, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals). ^[7]
• Hide, 33, Japanese musician, suicide by hanging. ^[8]
• Kevin Lloyd, 49, English actor ( The Bill ), alcoholism. ^[9]
• Maidie Norman, 85, American actress and literature and theater teacher, lung cancer. ^[10]
• Charlie Thomason, 79, American baseball player. ^[11]
• Carey Wilber, 81, American journalist and television writer.

3

• Jesse Alto, 71, American poker player.
• Erich Bergel, 67, German flutist and conductor. ^[12]
• Louis Berry, 83, African American civil rights attorney.
• Erika Cheetham, 58, English writer. ^[13]
• Johannes Driessler, 77, German composer, organist, and lecturer. ^[14]
• Tom Elliot, 72, Scottish rugby player.
• Jean-Baptiste Hachème, 68, Beninese military officer and politician.
• Raimund Harmstorf, 58, German actor, suicide by hanging. ^[15]
• David Vincent Hooper, 82, British chess player and writer.
• Venkatesh Kulkarni, Indian-American novelist and academic, leukemia.
• Loren MacIver, 89, American painter. ^[16]
• Luiz Martins, 83, Brazilian Olympic sports shooter (1960). ^[17]
• René Mugica, 88, Argentine actor, film director and screenwriter.
• Gene Raymond, 89, American actor, pneumonia. ^[18]
• Tom Robertson, 80, American football player (Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Yankees). ^[19]
• Les Samuels, 69, English footballer. ^[20]
• Xue Yue, 101, Chinese Nationalist military general. ^[21]
• Gojko Šušak, 53, Croatian politician, lung cancer. ^[22]

4

• Gordon Beningfield, 61, English wildlife artist, broadcaster and naturalist. ^[23]
• Henryk Bobula, 78, Polish footballer. ^[24]
• Alois Estermann, 43, Swiss officer of the Pontifical Swiss Guard, shot.
• Sam Gentile, 81, American baseball player (Boston Braves). ^[25]
• Albert Glasser, 82, American composer, conductor and arranger of B-movie music. ^[26]
• Christine Kurzhals, 47, German politician. ^[27]
• Magda Lenkei, 81, Hungarian swimmer and Olympian (1936). ^[28]
• Theodor Oberländer, 93, German Ostforschung scientist and politician.
• José Olguín, 71, Mexican Olympic water polo player (1948). ^[29]
• Bruce Peever, 66, Australian pole vaulter and Olympian (1956). ^[30]
• Nicolò Rode, 86, Italian sailor and Olympic champion (1948, 1952, 1956). ^[31]

5

• Juan Gimeno, 84, Spanish road cyclist. ^[32]
• Alan Glyn, 79, British politician. ^[33]
• Henrik Hellén, 58, Finnish Olympic high jumper (1964). ^[34]
• Tommy McCook, 71, Jamaican saxophonist, pneumonia and heart failure.
• Eleanor Ragsdale, 72, American civil rights activist. ^[35]
• Frithjof Schuon, 90, Swiss author, poet and painter. ^[36]
• Paul Seymour, 70, American basketball player (Baltimore Bullets, Syracuse Nationals), and coach. ^[37]
• Herb Turner, 87, Australian rower and Olympian (1936). ^[38]

6

• Axel Bloch, 87, Danish Olympic fencer (1932). ^[39]
• Chatchai Chunhawan, 78, Thai army officer, diplomat and politician, liver cancer. ^[40]
• Sybil Connolly, 77, Irish fashion designer. ^[41]
• Juan Antonio García Díez, 57, American politician, liver cancer. ^[42]
• Aleksei Gritsai, 84, Soviet and Russian artist.
• John Joseph, 65, Pakistani Roman Catholic bishop, suicide by gunshot.
• Arvid Laurin, 96, Swedish sailor and Olympic medalist (1936). ^[43]
• Erich Mende, 81, German politician, Vice-Chancellor of West Germany. ^[44]

7

• Blue Lu Barker, 84, American jazz and blues singer. ^[45]
• Allan McLeod Cormack, 74, South African American physicist, cancer. ^[46]
• István Hasznos, 73, Hungarian water polo player and Olympic champion (1952). ^[47]
• Jack Heslop-Harrison, 78, British soldier and botanist, heart attack. ^[48]
• Junie Hovious, 78, American football player (New York Giants). ^[49]
• John Meyers, 58, American football player (Dallas Cowboys, Philadelphia Eagles), heart problems. ^[50]
• Eddie Rabbitt, 56, American singer and songwriter, lung cancer. ^[51]
• Allen Wikgren, 91, American theologian and New Testament scholar.

8

• Donald Stephen Lowell Cardwell, 78, British historian of science and technology.
• Jacques Dumesnil, 94, French film and television actor. ^[52]
• Otto Jung, 67, Argentine Olympic alpine skier (1948, 1952). ^[53]
• Johannes Kotkas, 83, Estonian Greco-Roman wrestler and Olympic champion (1952). ^[54]
• Ray Noble, 79, Cuban baseball player (New York Giants). ^[55]
• Brian Pfaff, 68, South African sportsman. ^[56]
• Raymond Premru, 63, American trombonist and compose, esophageal cancer. ^[57]
• Jennings Randolph, 96, American politician. ^[58]
• Charles Rebozo, 85, American banker and businessman. ^[59]

9

• Lester Butler, 38, American blues harmonica player and singer, drug overdose.
• Frithjof Clausen, 82, Norwegian wrestler and Olympian (1948, 1952). ^[60]
• Donald Conroy, 77, United States Marine Corps colonel. ^[61]
• Bernard Dwork, 74, American mathematician.
• Alice Faye, 83, American actress and singer, stomach cancer. ^[62]
• Rudolf Ismayr, 89, German weightlifter and Olympic champion (1932, 1936). ^[63]
• Rommie Loudd, 64, American gridiron football player (Los Angeles Chargers, Boston Patriots), coach, and executive, diabetes. ^[64]
• Talat Mahmood, 74, Indian playback singer, heart attack.
• Bob Mellish, Baron Mellish, 85, British politician.
• Tom Neville, 36, American football player (Green Bay Packers, San Francisco 49ers). ^[65]
• Earl R. Parker, 85, American engineer and professor.
• Nat Perrin, 93, American comedy screenwriter, producer and director. ^[66]
• R. J. G. Savage, 70, British palaeontologist, pancreatic cancer. ^[67]
• Gerhard Siedl, 69, German football player. ^[68]
• Marianne Strengell, 88, Finnish-American modernist textile designer.

10

• Ricardo Capanema, 64, Brazilian swimmer and Olympian (1952). ^[69]
• Lajos Czinege, 74, Hungarian military officer and politician.
• José Francisco Antonio Peña Gómez, 61, Dominican Republic politician, pulmonary edema. ^[70]
• Robert Jewell, 78, Australian actor ( Doctor Who ).
• Oreste Kirkop, 74, Maltese singer.
• Ken McKenzie, 71, Australian rugby league footballer. ^[71]
• Enrique Molina, 78, Argentine Olympic cyclist (1948). ^[72]
• Cesare Perdisa, 65, Italian racing driver.
• Ronald Ridenhour, 52, American soldier during the Vietnam War, heart attack. ^[73]
• Clara Rockmore, 87, American classical violin prodigy and theremin performer. ^[74]
• Sumitro, 71, Indonesian general.
• Alberto Valdés, 80, Mexican American painter
• George Wright, 77, American organist. ^[75]

11

• Willy Corsari, 100, Dutch actor, author and composer. ^[76]
• Gene Fowler Jr., 80, American film editor ( It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World , Hang 'Em High ). ^[77]
• Ernst Ising, 98, German physicist.
• John Morrison, 94, Australian novelist and short story writer. ^[78]
• Antonio Quistelli, 48, Italian Olympic wrestler (1976). ^[79]
• Hans van Zon, 56, Dutch serial killer, alcohol poisoning. ^[80]

12

• Ulf Berendt, 67, Swedish Olympic figure skater (1952). ^[81]
• Myoung Hwa Cho, 44, American murder victim, homicide by asphyxiation. ^[82]
• Hermann Lenz, 85, German writer, poet, and novelist. ^[83]
• John McCarthy, 81, American gridiron football player (Card-Pitt). ^[84]
• Graham Shaw, 63, English football player. ^[85]

13

• Gunnar Jansson, 90, Swedish football player. ^[86]
• Oscar G. Johnson, 77, United States Army soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
• Chantal Mauduit, 34, French alpinist, climbing accident. ^[87]
• Uolevi Raade, 85, Finnish industrialist. ^[88]
• Frank Ragano, 75, American mafia lawyer. ^[89]

14

• Mabel Esther Allan, 83, British children's author.
• Bill Bishop, 67, American gridiron football player (Chicago Bears, Minnesota Vikings). ^[90]
• Garth Boesch, 77, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs). ^[91]
• Tom D'Andrea, 88, American actor. ^[92]
• Marjory Stoneman Douglas, 108, American journalist, writer and conservationist. ^[93]
• Charlie Hall, 50, American gridiron football player (Green Bay Packers). ^[94]
• Geoffrey Kendal, 88, English actor.
• Floyd Lounsbury, 84, American linguist, anthropologist and epigrapher. ^[95]
• George McAvoy, 66, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens). ^[96]
• Yitzhak Moda'i, 72, Israeli politician.
• Shawkat Osman, 81, Bangladeshi novelist and short story writer.
• Jack Salscheider, 73, American football player (New York Giants). ^[97]
• Karl Schmid, 87, Swiss rower and Olympic medalist (1936). ^[98]
• Frank Sinatra, 82, American singer ("My Way", "That's Life") and actor ( From Here to Eternity ), Oscar winner (1954), heart attack. ^[99]
• Bill Sodd, 83, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians). ^[100]
• Mahmud of Terengganu, 68, Malaysian sultan.
• Jade Wilson, 21, New Zealand squash player, suicide.

15

• Rudolfs Baumanis, 88, Latvian Olympic sports shooter (1936). ^[101]
• Alan Cain, 75, Australian Olympic sailor (1960). ^[102]
• Joe Cibulas, 77, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers). ^[103]
• Gunter d'Alquen, 87, German nazi correspondent.
• Marcel Fillion, 75, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins). ^[104]
• John Hawkes, 72, American novelist. ^[105]
• Richard Jaeger, 85, German politician.
• Earl Manigault, 53, American basketball player, congestive heart failure. ^[106]
• Packy Rogers, 85, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers), manager and scout. ^[107]
• Naim Talu, 78, Turkish politician and former Prime Minister of Turkey. ^[108]
• Patrick Wall, 81, British commando during World War II and later a politician.

16

• Pierre Cardinal, 73, French screenwriter and director. ^[109]
• Idov Cohen, 88, Romanian-Israeli politician and journalist.
• Milan Creighton, 90, American football player and coach (Chicago Cardinals). ^[110]
• William Alexander Hewitt, 83, American diplomat and businessman. ^[111]
• Rufino Linares, 47, American baseball player (Atlanta Braves, California Angels), traffic collision. ^[112]

17

• Genie Chance, 71, American journalist, radio broadcaster and politician. ^[113]
• Hugh Cudlipp, 84, British journalist and newspaper editor. ^[114]
• Nina Dorliak, 89, Russian soprano and a voice teacher.
• Gasper Urban, 75, American gridiron football player (Chicago Rockets). ^[115]
• Sarojini Yogeswaran, 97, Sri Lankan politician.

18

• Obaidullah Aleem, Indian poet, heart failure.
• Odd Engström, 56, Swedish politician, heart attack.
• Roy Evans, 88, Welsh table tennis player. ^[116]
• Enid Marx, 95, English painter and designer. ^[117]
• Dal Bahadur Ranamagar, 36, Nepalese Olympic boxer (1984, 1988). ^[118]

19

• Edwin Astley, 76, British composer. ^[119]
• Hank Earl Carr, 30, American murderer and spree killer, suicide by gunshot.
• László Decker, 75, Hungarian Olympic rower (1952). ^[120]
• Leela Devi, 66, Indian writer, translator, and teacher.
• Dorothy Donegan, 76, American jazz pianist and vocalist, cancer. ^[121]
• Teresa Prekerowa, 76, Polish historian and author.
• Bello Snyder, 86, American basketball player. ^[122]
• Riccardo Steinleitner, 83, Italian Olympic rower (1936). ^[123]
• Sōsuke Uno, 75, Japanese politician and Prime Minister of Japan, lung cancer. ^[124]

20

• Chuck Bloedorn, 85, American basketball player. ^[125]
• Tom Bolack, 80, American businessman and politician.
• Linwood G. Dunn, 93, American visual effects artist ( West Side Story , It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World , Mighty Joe Young ).
• Ricardo Franco, 48, Spanish screenwriter and film director, heart attack.
• Thomas Fraser, 80, New Zealand cricketer. ^[126]
• George F. Gunn Jr., 70, American district judge (United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri). ^[127]
• Jacob Katz, 93, Israeli historian and educator. ^[128]
• Wolf Mankowitz, 73, English writer, playwright and screenwriter, cancer. ^[129]
• Walter McKinnon, 87, New Zealand Army officer.
• Robert Normann, 81, Norwegian jazz guitarist. ^[130]
• Alfredo Yabrán, 53, Argentine businessman and associate of Carlos Menem, suicide by gunshot. ^[131]
• Santiago Álvarez, 79, Cuban filmmaker, Parkinson's disease. ^[132]

21

• Erik Bladström, 80, Swedish sprint canoeist and Olympic champion (1936). ^[133]
• Li Bo, 69, Chinese ecologist, traffic collision. ^[134]
• Pedro Escartín, 95, Spanish football player, referee, coach, and author. ^[135]
• Douglas Fowley, 86, American actor ( Singin' in the Rain , The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp , Mighty Joe Young ). ^[136]
• Robert Gist, 80, American actor and film director. ^[137]
• Jan Gullberg, 62, Swedish surgeon and science writer, stroke. ^[138]
• Tibor Oross, 38, Hungarian handball player and Olympian (1988). ^[139]
• Jim Power, 102, Irish hurler.
• Rajanala Kaleswara Rao, 73, Indian film actor.
• Torgny Säve-Söderbergh, 83, Swedish writer and professor of Egyptology.

22

• Domenico Cantatore, 82, Italian painter.
• John Derek, 71, American actor and film director, heart failure. ^[140]
• Arthur R. Gralla, 85, United States Navy Vice Admiral, pneumonia. ^[141]
• Fred Hatfield, 73, American baseball player. ^[142]
• Eddie MacCabe, 71, Canadian sports journalist and writer.
• Robert W. Morgan, 60, American radio personality, lung cancer. ^[143]
• José Enrique Moyal, 87, Australian mathematical physicist.
• Francisco Lucas Pires, 53, Portuguese lawyer, and politician. ^[144]
• Jack Watkins, 74, American basketball player. ^[145]

23

• Akiel Chambers, 11, Trinidadian murder victim. ^[146]
• Jacques Dietrichstein, 91, Austrian ice hockey player and Olympian (1928). ^[147]
• Tony Halik, 77, Polish documentary film maker, author of travel books, and explorer.
• Grace Hartman, Canadian social activist and politician.
• Vic Kulbitski, 76, American gridiron football player (Buffalo Bisons/Bills). ^[148]
• Andreas Liebenberg, 60, South African military commander.
• Ebbe Rode, 88, Danish stage and film actor, pneumonia. ^[149]
• Monroe K. Spears, American university professor and literary critic. ^[150]
• Telford Taylor, 90, American lawyer. ^[151]

24

• Francys Arsentiev, 40, American mountaineer, hypothermia and/or cerebral edema.
• Ľudovít Dubovský, 79, Slovak footballer. ^[152]
• George Kelly, 82, American jazz tenor saxophonist. ^[153]
• Tommy Moore, 35, American golfer, primary amyloidosis. ^[154]
• Premnath Moraes, 75, Sri Lankan actor, film director and scriptwriter.
• Lucio Muñoz, 68, Spanish painter and engraver. ^[155]
• Charles Rycroft, 83, British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. ^[156]

25

• Steve Michael, 42, American HIV/AIDS activist, complications from AIDS.
• Gary Thomas Row, 64, American informant for the FBI, heart attack. ^[157]
• Claude Stubbs, 93, Australian politician.
• Todd Witsken, 34, American tennis player, brain cancer. ^[158]

26

• Emil Braginsky, 76, Soviet and Russian screenwriter. ^[159]
• Linda Hayes, 74, American rhythm and blues singer.
• Edgar A. Silinsh, 71, Soviet and Latvian scientist. ^[160]
• Charlie White, 70, American baseball player (Milwaukee Braves). ^[161]
• Sergey Yablonsky, 73, Soviet and Russian mathematician. ^[162]

27

• Minoo Masani, 92, Indian politician. ^[163]
• Robert Muller, 72, German-British journalist and screenwriter. ^[164]
• Ghazaros Saryan, 77, Armenian composer.
• Shu Tong, 92, Chinese politician.

28

• Chung-Yao Chao, 95, Chinese theoretical physicist.
• Ragnar Fjørtoft, 84, Norwegian meteorologist.
• Bill Giles, 66, American football player and coach.
• Cyril Harrison, 82, English cricketer. ^[165]
• Phil Hartman, 49, Canadian-American comedian and actor ( Saturday Night Live , NewsRadio , The Simpsons ), Emmy winner (1989), shot. ^[166]
• Anatoliy Kabayda, 85, Ukrainian community and political activist.
• Bill Meek, 77, American football player and coach.
• Lana Morris, 68, British actress, heart attack. ^[167]
• George T. Oubre, 80, American politician.
• Dieter Renner, 48, German football player and coach. ^[168]
• Giovanni Valetti, 84, Italian road racing cyclist. ^[169]
• Bill Williams, 37, American game designer, programmer and author, cystic fibrosis. ^[170]

29

• Orlando Anderson, 23, American gangster and suspected murderer of rapper Tupac Shakur, shot. ^[171]
• Eric Atkinson, 70, Barbados cricket player. ^[172]
• Ted Dunbar, 61, American jazz guitarist and composer, stroke. ^[173]
• Barry Goldwater, 89, American politician and author, complications from a stroke. ^[174]
• Hazel P. Heath, 88, American politician and entrepreneur.
• Marion Milner, 98, British author and psychoanalyst. ^[175]
• Philip O'Connor, 81, British writer and surrealist poet. ^[176]

30

• Sam Aaronovitch, 78, British economist, academic and communist.
• Anatoly Badrankov, 57, Soviet Kazakh Olympic long-distance runner (1972). ^[177]
• Jozef Baláži, 78, Slovak football player and manager. ^[178]
• Leon Bender, 22, American football player, epilepsy. ^[179]
• Walter Carr, 73, Scottish actor and comedian.
• William Moreton Condry, 80, English naturalist, kidney failure. ^[180]
• Robin Jackson, 49, Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary, lung cancer. ^[181]
• Jan Pickard, 70, South African rugby player.
• Max Prieto, 79, Mexican football player.
• Wolfram Röhrig, 81, German pianist, composer and conductor.

31

• Sammy Collins, 75, English football player.
• Lotti Huber, 85, German actress. ^[182]
• Valeriy Hubulov, 31, South Ossetian politician, shot. ^[183]
• Walter de Paula, 82, Brazilian Olympic fencer (1948, 1952). ^[184]
• Michio Suzuki, 71, Japanese mathematician. ^[185]
• Charles Van Acker, 86, Belgian-American racecar driver. ^[186]
• Stanisław Wisłocki, 76, Polish conductor of classical music.

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External links

• List of May 1998 deaths at IMDb