Deaths in May 1998


Deaths in May 1998


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.
  • Heinie Heltzel, 84, American baseball player.
  • Brian Kendall, 51, New Zealand boxer, cancer.
  • J. S. Roskell, 84, English historian of the Middle Ages.

2

  • Clyde Connell, 96, American abstract expressionist sculptor.
  • Justin Fashanu, 37, English footballer, suicide.
  • Johnny Grodzicki, 81, American baseball player.
  • Hide, 33, Japanese musician, suicide by hanging.
  • Kevin Lloyd, 49, English actor (The Bill), alcoholism.
  • Maidie Norman, 85, American actress and literature and theater teacher, lung cancer.
  • Carey Wilber, 81, American journalist and television writer.

3

  • Jesse Alto, 71, American poker player.
  • Erich Bergel, 67, German flutist and conductor.
  • Louis Berry, 83, African American civil rights attorney.
  • Erika Cheetham, 58, English writer.
  • Johannes Driessler, 77, German composer, organist, and lecturer.
  • Tom Elliot, 72, Scottish rugby player.
  • Jean-Baptiste Hachème, 68, Beninese military officer and politician.
  • Raimund Harmstorf, 58, German actor, suicide by hanging.
  • David Vincent Hooper, 82, British chess player and writer.
  • Venkatesh Kulkarni, Indian-American novelist and academic, leukemia.
  • Loren MacIver, 89, American painter.
  • René Mugica, 88, Argentine actor, film director and screenwriter.
  • Gene Raymond, 89, American actor, pneumonia.
  • Les Samuels, 69, English footballer.
  • Xue Yue, 101, Chinese Nationalist military general.
  • Gojko Šušak, 53, Croatian politician, lung cancer.

4

  • Gordon Beningfield, 61, English wildlife artist, broadcaster and naturalist.
  • Alois Estermann, 43, Swiss officer of the Pontifical Swiss Guard, murdered.
  • Albert Glasser, 82, American composer, conductor and arranger of B-movie music.
  • Theodor Oberländer, 93, German Ostforschung scientist and politician.
  • Nicolò Rode, 86, Italian sailor and Olympic champion.

5

  • Juan Gimeno, 84, Spanish road cyclist.
  • Alan Glyn, 79, British politician.
  • Tommy McCook, 71, Jamaican saxophonist, pneumonia and heart failure.
  • Eleanor Ragsdale, 72, American civil rights activist.
  • Frithjof Schuon, 90, Swiss author, poet and painter.
  • Paul Seymour, 70, American basketball player and coach.

6

  • Chatchai Chunhawan, 78, Thai army officer, diplomat and politician, liver cancer.
  • Sybil Connolly, 77, Irish fashion designer.
  • Juan Antonio García Díez, 57, American politician, liver cancer.
  • Aleksei Gritsai, 84, Soviet and Russian artist.
  • John Joseph, 65, Pakistani Roman Catholic bishop, suicide.
  • Arvid Laurin, 96, Swedish sailor and Olympic medalist.
  • Erich Mende, 81, German politician, Vice-Chancellor of West Germany.

7

  • Blue Lu Barker, 84, American jazz and blues singer.
  • Allan McLeod Cormack, 74, South African American physicist, cancer.
  • István Hasznos, 73, Hungarian water polo player and Olympic champion (1952).
  • Jack Heslop-Harrison, 78, British soldier and botanist, heart attack.
  • John Meyers, 58, American football player, heart problems.
  • Eddie Rabbitt, 56, American singer and songwriter, lung cancer.
  • 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.
  • Johannes Kotkas, 83, Estonian Greco-Roman wrestler and Olympic champion (1952).
  • Raymond Premru, 63, American trombonist and compose, esophageal cancer.
  • Jennings Randolph, 96, American politician.
  • Charles Rebozo, 85, American banker and businessman.

9

  • Lester Butler, 38, American blues harmonica player and singer, drug overdose.
  • Donald Conroy, 77, United States Marine Corps colonel.
  • Bernard Dwork, 74, American mathematician.
  • Alice Faye, 83, American actress and singer, stomach cancer.
  • Rudolf Ismayr, 89, German weightlifter and Olympic champion.
  • Rommie Loudd, 64, American gridiron football player, coach, and executive, diabetes.
  • Talat Mahmood, 74, Indian playback singer, heart attack.
  • Bob Mellish, Baron Mellish, 85, British politician.
  • Earl R. Parker, 85, American engineer and professor.
  • Nat Perrin, 93, American comedy screenwriter, producer and director.
  • R. J. G. Savage, 70, British palaeontologist, pancreatic cancer.
  • Gerhard Siedl, 69, German football player.
  • Marianne Strengell, 88, Finnish-American modernist textile designer.

10

  • Lajos Czinege, 74, Hungarian military officer and politician.
  • José Francisco Antonio Peña Gómez, 61, Dominican Republic politician, pulmonary edema.
  • Robert Jewell, 78, Australian actor (Doctor Who).
  • Oreste Kirkop, 74, Maltese singer.
  • Cesare Perdisa, 65, Italian racing driver.
  • Ronald Ridenhour, 52, American soldier during the Vietnam War, heart attack.
  • Clara Rockmore, 87, American classical violin prodigy and theremin performer.
  • Sumitro, 71, Indonesian general.
  • Alberto Valdés, 80, Mexican American painter
  • George Wright, 77, American organist.

11

  • Willy Corsari, 100, Dutch actor, author and composer.
  • Gene Fowler Jr., 80, American film editor (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Hang 'Em High).
  • Ernst Ising, 98, German physicist.
  • John Morrison, 94, Australian novelist and short story writer.
  • Hans van Zon, 57, Dutch serial killer, alcohol poisoning.

12

  • Myoung Hwa Cho, 44, American murder victim, homicide by asphyxiation.
  • Hermann Lenz, 85, German writer, poet, and novelist.
  • John McCarthy, 81, American gridiron football player.
  • Graham Shaw, 63, English football player.

13

  • Gunnar Jansson, 90, Swedish football player.
  • Oscar G. Johnson, 77, United States Army soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
  • Chantal Mauduit, 34, French alpinist, climbing accident.
  • Frank Ragano, 75, American mafia lawyer.

14

  • Mabel Esther Allan, 83, British children's author.
  • Bill Bishop, 67, American gridiron football player.
  • Garth Boesch, 77, American ice hockey player.
  • Tom D'Andrea, 88, American actor.
  • Marjory Stoneman Douglas, 108, American journalist, writer and conservationist.
  • Charlie Hall, 50, American gridiron football player.
  • Geoffrey Kendal, 88, English actor.
  • Floyd Lounsbury, 84, American linguist, anthropologist and epigrapher.
  • Yitzhak Moda'i, 72, Israeli politician.
  • Shawkat Osman, 81, Bangladeshi novelist and short story writer.
  • Karl Schmid, 87, Swiss rower and Olympic medalist.
  • Frank Sinatra, 82, American singer ("My Way", "That's Life") and actor (From Here to Eternity), Oscar winner (1954), heart attack.
  • Mahmud of Terengganu, 68, Malaysian sultan.
  • Jade Wilson, 21, New Zealand squash player, suicide.

15

  • Joe Cibulas, 77, American football player.
  • Gunter d'Alquen, 87, German nazi correspondent.
  • John Hawkes, 72, American novelist.
  • Richard Jaeger, 85, German politician.
  • Earl Manigault, 53, American basketball player, congestive heart failure.
  • Packy Rogers, 85, American baseball player, manager and scout.
  • Naim Talu, 78, Turkish politician and former Prime Minister of Turkey.
  • Patrick Wall, 81, British commando during World War II and later a politician.

16

  • Pierre Cardinal, 73, French screenwriter and director.
  • Idov Cohen, 88, Romanian-Israeli politician and journalist.
  • Milan Creighton, 90, American football player and coach.
  • William Alexander Hewitt, 83, American diplomat and businessman.
  • Rufino Linares, 47, American baseball player, traffic collision.

17

  • Genie Chance, 71, American journalist, radio broadcaster and politician.
  • Hugh Cudlipp, 84, British journalist and newspaper editor.
  • Nina Dorliak, 89, Russian soprano and a voice teacher.
  • Gasper Urban, 75, American gridiron football player.
  • 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.
  • Enid Marx, 95, English painter and designer.

19

  • Edwin Astley, 76, British composer.
  • Hank Earl Carr, 30, American murderer and spree killer, suicide by gunshot.
  • Leela Devi, 66, Indian writer, translator, and teacher.
  • Dorothy Donegan, 76, American jazz pianist and vocalist, cancer.
  • Teresa Prekerowa, 76, Polish historian and author.
  • Sōsuke Uno, 75, Japanese politician and Prime Minister of Japan, lung cancer.

20

  • Chuck Bloedorn, 85, American basketball player.
  • 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.
  • Jacob Katz, 93, Israeli historian and educator.
  • Wolf Mankowitz, 73, English writer, playwright and screenwriter, cancer.
  • Walter McKinnon, 87, New Zealand Army officer.
  • Robert Normann, 81, Norwegian jazz guitarist.
  • Alfredo Yabrán, 53, Argentine businessman and associate of Carlos Menem, suicide.
  • Santiago Álvarez, 79, Cuban filmmaker, Parkinson's disease.

21

  • Erik Bladström, 80, Swedish sprint canoeist and Olympic champion.
  • Li Bo, 69, Chinese ecologist, traffic collision.
  • Pedro Escartín, 95, Spanish football player, referee, coach, and author.
  • Douglas Fowley, 86, American actor (Singin' in the Rain, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Mighty Joe Young).
  • Robert Gist, 80, American actor and film director.
  • Jan Gullberg, 62, Swedish surgeon and science writer, stroke.
  • 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.
  • Arthur R. Gralla, 85, United States Navy Vice Admiral, pneumonia.
  • Fred Hatfield, 73, American baseball player.
  • Eddie MacCabe, 71, Canadian sports journalist and writer.
  • Robert W. Morgan, 60, American radio personality, lung cancer.
  • José Enrique Moyal, 87, Australian mathematical physicist.
  • Francisco Lucas Pires, 53, Portuguese lawyer, and politician.

23

  • 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.
  • Andreas Liebenberg, 60, South African military commander.
  • Ebbe Rode, 88, Danish stage and film actor, pneumonia.
  • Monroe K. Spears, American university professor and literary critic.
  • Telford Taylor, 90, American lawyer.

24

  • Francys Arsentiev, 40, American mountaineer, hypothermia and/or cerebral edema.
  • George Kelly, 82, American jazz tenor saxophonist.
  • Tommy Moore, 35, American golfer, primary amyloidosis.
  • Premnath Moraes, 75, Sri Lankan actor, film director and scriptwriter.
  • Lucio Muñoz, 68, Spanish painter and engraver.
  • Charles Rycroft, 83, British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.

25

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

26

  • Emil Braginsky, 76, Soviet and Russian screenwriter.
  • Linda Hayes, 74, American rhythm and blues singer.
  • Edgar A. Silinsh, 71, Soviet and Latvian scientist.
  • Charlie White, 70, American baseball player.
  • Sergey Yablonsky, 73, Soviet and Russian mathematician.

27

  • Minoo Masani, 92, Indian politician.
  • Robert Muller, 72, German-British journalist and screenwriter.
  • 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.
  • Phil Hartman, 49, Canadian-American comedian and actor (Saturday Night Live, NewsRadio, The Simpsons), Emmy winner (1989), shot.
  • Anatoliy Kabayda, 85, Ukrainian community and political activist.
  • Bill Meek, 77, American football player and coach.
  • Lana Morris, 68, British actress, heart attack.
  • George T. Oubre, 80, American politician.
  • Dieter Renner, 48, German football player and coach.
  • Giovanni Valetti, 84, Italian road racing cyclist.
  • Bill Williams, 37, American game designer, programmer and author, cystic fibrosis.

29

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

30

  • Sam Aaronovitch, 78, British economist, academic and communist.
  • Jozef Baláži, 78, Slovak football player and manager.
  • Leon Bender, 22, American football player, epilepsy.
  • Walter Carr, 73, Scottish actor and comedian.
  • William Moreton Condry, 80, English naturalist, kidney failure.
  • Robin Jackson, 49, Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary, lung cancer.
  • 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.
  • Valeriy Hubulov, 31, South Ossetian politician, murdered.
  • Michio Suzuki, 71, Japanese mathematician.
  • Charles Van Acker, 86, Belgian-American racecar driver.
  • Stanisław Wisłocki, 76, Polish conductor of classical music.

References


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