Deaths in February 1998

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.

February 1998

1

• Robert Creighton Buck, 77, American mathematician.
• Jack T. Collis, 75, American art director.
• Marga Faulstich, 82, German glass chemist.
• Gérard Séty, 75, French actor.
• Sheila Watson, 88, Canadian novelist and literary critic.

2

• Raymond Cattell, 92, British and American psychologist.
• Duilio Del Prete, 59, Italian actor, dubber and singer-songwriter, cancer.
• Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber, 86, German-American nuclear physicist.
• Ferdinand A. Hermens, 91, German-American political scientist and economist.
• Viljo Kajava, 88, Finnish poet and writer.
• Robert McIntyre, 84, Scottish politician.
• Baldev Singh, 93, Indian neurologist.
• Roger L. Stevens, 87, American theatrical producer, arts administrator, and real estate executive.
• Haroun Tazieff, 83, French volcanologist and geologist.
• Manuel Delgado Villegas, 55, Spanish serial killer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
• Zahari Zhandov, 86, Bulgarian film director, script writer and cinematographer.

3

• Joey Archibald, 83, American boxer.
• Clark Goff, 80, American gridiron football player.
• Bertram Heyn, 85, Sri Lankan general and cricketer.
• Davy Kaye, 81, British actor and entertainer.
• Gabriel Laub, 69, Czechoslovak journalist and writer.
• Fat Pat, 27, American rapper, shot.
• Karla Faye Tucker, 38, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.

4

• Eranuhi Aslamazyan, 88, Armenian and Soviet graphic artist.
• Jean Blackwell Hutson, 83, African-American librarian, writer and curator.
• Zoran Kosanović, 42, Serbian Canadian table tennis player, heart attack.
• Aruna Lama, 52, Nepali singer.
• Menachem Shmuel David Raichik, 79, American Orthodox rabbi.
• Michel Roux, 73, French baritone.
• Rees Stephens, 75, Welsh rugby player.
• Cristóbal Martínez-Bordiú, 10th Marquis of Villaverde, 75, Spanish aristocrat and son in law of dictator Francisco Franco.

5

• Wilbur Coen, 86, American tennis player.
• Douglas Gamley, 73, Australian composer.
• Margaret Hillis, 76, American conductor.
• Tim Kelly, 35, American guitarist of the band Slaughter, traffic collision.
• Kim Ki-young, 78, South Korean film director, injuries from a fire.
• Eduardo Francisco Pironio, 77, Argentine Roman Catholic cardinal, bone cancer.
• Joe Stubbs, American R&B/Soul singer, heart failure.
• Chikuzan Takahashi, 87, Japanese Tsugaru-jamisen performer and composer.
• Hans Wallach, 93, German-American experimental psychologist.
• Nick Webb, 43, English acoustic guitarist and composer, pancreatic cancer.

6

• Nazim al-Kudsi, 91, president and prime minister of Syria.
• Falco, 40, Austrian singer and songwriter, traffic collision.
• Tony LeVier, 84, American air racer and test pilot, cancer.
• Ferenc Sidó, 74, Czechoslovak table tennis player.
• Toshiaki Tanaka, 62, Japanese table tennis player.
• Carl Wilson, 51, American musician, singer, and songwriter, lung cancer.
• Claude Érignac, 60, French prefect of Corsica, shot.

7

• Gunther Baumann, 77, German football player and manager.
• Ascanio Cortés, 83, Chilean football player.
• Bobby Kemp, 38, American football player, suicide.
• Norman J. Levy, 67, American lawyer and politician.
• Lawrence Sanders, 77, American novelist and short story writer.

8

• Elizabeth Bauer Mock, 86–87, American professor, curator, author and journalist.
• Tulsiram Sharma Kashyap, 58, Indian writer and politician.
• Halldór Laxness, 95, Icelandic writer and Nobel Prize laureate, Alzheimer's disease.
• Enoch Powell, 85, British politician, classical scholar, author and philologist, Parkinson's disease.
• Rocke Robertson, 85, American physician.
• J. B. Salsberg, 95, Canadian politician.
• Julian Simon, 65, American economist and author, heart attack.

9

• George Cafego, 82, American football player and coach.
• Cyrille Delannoit, 71, Belgian middleweight boxing champion.
• Bill Froats, 67, American baseball player.
• Gabriel Gobin, 94, Belgian film actor.
• Dean Griffing, 82, American gridiron football player, coach and executive.
• Alf Jefferies, 76, English footballer.
• Panagiotis Katsouris, 21, Greek footballer, traffic collision.
• Nick Leluk, 62, Canadian politician.
• William Ronald, 71, Canadian painter.
• Maurice Schumann, 86, French politician, journalist and writer.

10

• Ramchandran Jaikumar, 53, Indian-American scientist, heart attack.
• Richard Kotuk, 54, American journalist, producer and filmmaker, heart attack.
• Alex Kramer, 94, Canadian songwriter.
• Peter Longbottom, 38, British cyclist, traffic collision.
• Paul MacKendrick, 83, American classicist, author, and teacher.
• Erich Mückenberger, 87, German socialist politician.
• Félix Reina, 76, Cuban violinist, arranger and composer, stroke.

11

• Joy Buba, 93, American sculptor and illustrator.
• Patrick Clark, 42, American chef, amyloidosis.
• Tanvir Dar, 50, Pakistani field hockey player and Olympian.
• Thomas Gerard Dunn, 76, American politician.
• Mike Fornieles, 66, Cuban-American baseball player.
• Lily Harmon, American visual artist.
• Jonathan Hole, 93, American actor.
• Josef Issels, 90, German physician, pneumonia.
• Radhanath Rath, 101, Indian journalist, activist and politician.

12

• Gardner Ackley, 82, American economist and diplomat.
• Lionel Aldridge, 56, American gridiron football player.
• Lauri Kivekäs, 94, Finnish businessman and politician.
• George Humphrey Middleton, 88, British diplomat.
• Ralf Reichenbach, 47, German shot putter and Olympian.
• Notable victims of the 1998 Sudanese Air Force Antonov An-32 crash:
• *Zubair Mohamed Salih, 53-54. Sudanese military officer and politician, vice president
• *Arok Thon Arok, South Sudanese rebel leader

13

• José Barraquer, 82, Spanish ophthalmologist.
• Thomas Chapin, 40, American composer and musician, leukemia.
• Jo Clayton, 58, American fantasy and science fiction author, multiple myeloma.
• John Cowley, 74, Irish actor.
• Hans Diergaardt, 70, Namibian politician.
• Bryan MacMahon, 88, Irish writer.
• Alfred Struwe, 70, German actor, pneumonia.
• Ladislav Štípek, 73, Czechoslovak table tennis.

14

• Badrul Haider Chowdhury, 73, Chief Justice of Bangladesh.
• Edgar Granville, Baron Granville of Eye, 100, British politician.
• Thomas McKimson, 90, American animator.
• Hansel Mieth, 88, German-American photojournalist.
• Denise Paulme, 88, French Africanist and anthropologist.
• Manuel Pérez, 54, Colombian guerrilla leader, hepatitis.

15

• Sir Samuel Curran, 85, British physicist and university administrator.
• Martha Gellhorn, 89, American novelist, travel writer, and journalist, suicide by cyanide poisoning.
• B. Calvin Jones, 59, American archaeologist.
• Louie Spicolli, 27, American professional wrestler, overdose.
• George White, 86, American film editor.

16

• Mary Amdur, 76, American toxicologist, heart attack.
• Boris Blumin, 90, Canadian-American chess master.
• Harry Hinsley, 79, British historian and cryptanalyst.
• Fernando Abril Martorell, 61, former Spanish Deputy Prime Minister, lung cancer.
• Sheu Yuan-dong, 70, Taiwanese politician and governor of the Central Bank, plane crash.

17

• Arnold Aronson, 86, American civil rights leader.
• Nicolas Bouvier, 68, Swiss writer, artist, and photographer.
• Maurice Bucaille, 77, French physician and author.
• Hilaire Couvreur, 73, Belgian cyclist.
• Ernst Jünger, 102, German World War I hero, author and entomologist.
• Ernst Käsemann, 91, German Lutheran theologian, murdered around 24 May 1977.
• Bob Merrill, 76, American songwriter, theatrical composer and screenwriter, suicide.
• Sheila Raynor, 91, British actress.
• Ruth Robertson, 92, American photojournalist.
• Marie-Louise von Franz, 83, Swiss Jungian psychologist and scholar.
• Albert Wass, 90, Hungarian nobleman, novelist and poet, suicide.

18

• Lidia Bongiovanni, 83, Italian versatile athlete.
• James E. Boyd, 91, American physicist and mathematician.
• Harry Caray, 83, American television and radio broadcaster, heart attack.
• David Crouch, 78, British politician.
• Antonio Escuriet, 88, Spanish road cyclist.
• Robbie James, 40, Welsh footballer, heart attack.
• Scott O'Hara, 36, American pornographic performer, author, poet and publisher, AIDS.
• Messias Timula, 49, Portuguese footballer.
• Mya Than Tint, 68, Myanmar writer, brain hemorrhage.
• Richard Crawford White, 74, American politician, heart attack.

19

• Wolfgang Händler, 77, German mathematician and pioneering computer scientist.
• Grandpa Jones, 84, American "old time" country and gospel music singer, stroke.
• George Male, 87, English footballer.
• Charlie Martin, 84, Welsh racing driver.
• Mancur Olson, 66, American economist and social scientist.
• Leo Righetti, 72, American baseball player.
• Thomas F. Riley, 85, United States Marine Corps brigadier general, cardiac arrest.
• Talish, Pakistani actor.

20

• Francis Coulson, 78, British chef and hotelier.
• John Fulton, 65, American bullfighter, heart attack.
• Henry Livings, 68, English playwright and screenwriter.
• David McClure, 72, Scottish artist and lecturer.
• Ivor Mairants, 90, Polish jazz and classical guitarist, teacher and composer.
• Bob McBride, 51, Canadian rock singer-songwriter, heart failure.
• Virgilio Tommasi, 92, Italian long jumper and Olympian.

21

• Archie Aikman, 72, Scottish football player.
• Ramón Bravo, 72, Mexican diver, photographer and underwater filmmaker, heart attack.
• Santos Colon, 75, Puerto Rican bolero and mambo singer.
• Ellis Credle, 95, American children's author and illustrator.
• James M. Edie, 70, American philosopher, cancer.
• George Fant, 81, Swedish actor, director and theater manager, pneumonia.
• Karl Geyer, 98, Austrian football player and coach.
• Yoshio Miyajima, 89, Japanese cinematographer.
• John Nicolella, 52, American film, television director and producer.
• Baboo Nimal, 89, Indian field hockey player and Olympian.
• Om Prakash, 78, Indian actor.
• William Wheeler, 87, English Roman Catholic prelate and bishop.

22

• Carlo Dionisotti, 89, Italian literary critic, philologist and essayist.
• Alfred Hales, 88, Canadian businessman and politician.
• Sandy Hume, 28, American journalist, suicide by gunshot.
• José María de Areilza, Count of Motrico, 88, former Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs.
• Emmy Lou Packard, 83, American artist.
• Russell Reeder, 95, United States Army officer and author.
• Abraham A. Ribicoff, 87, American Democratic Party Party politician.
• Athol Rowan, 77, South African international cricket player.
• Donald S. Russell, 92, American judge and politician.
• Warren B. Woodson, 94, American football, basketball, and baseball coach, colon cancer.
• Han Youwen, 85, Chinese general in the National Revolutionary Army.

23

• Philip Abbott, 73, American actor, cancer.
• Marie Adams, 72, American gospel and R&B singer.
• Augusta Braxton Baker, 86, African-American librarian and storyteller.
• Keith Christopher, 40, American actor, singer/songwriter and AIDS activist, AIDS.
• Chuck Hayward, 78, American motion picture stuntman and actor, Hodgkin's Disease.
• Raman Lamba, 38, Indian cricketer, cricket accident.
• Sean A. Moore, 33, American fantasy and science fiction writer, traffic collision.
• Potti Prasad, 69, Indian actor.
• Ray Stoviak, 82, American baseball player.
• Billy Sullivan, 82, American businessman, prostate cancer.

24

• Geoffrey Bush, 77, British composer and music scholar, prostate cancer.
• Daniel J. Crowley, 76, American art historian and cultural anthropologist, congestive heart failure.
• Leonard Daniels, 88, British artist and teacher.
• Elinor Field, 96, American film actress.
• Clara Fraser, 74, American marxist, feminist and activist, emphysema.
• Ernst Gutstein, 73, Austrian operatic baritone.
• Harold Keith, 95, American author.
• Terry Langford, 31, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Milicent Patrick, 82, American actress, makeup artist and animator.
• Lalita Pawar, 81, Indian actress.
• Antonio Prohías, 77, Cuban cartoonist, lung cancer.
• Abraham Shneior, 69, Israeli basketball player.
• Henny Youngman, 91, English-American comedian.

25

• Frans Bonduel, 90, Belgian road bicycle racer.
• Francesca Braggiotti, 95, Italian dancer and actress.
• Joe Gallagher, 83, American baseball player.
• Harlan Hatcher, 99, American novelist and university president.
• Wanda Jakubowska, 90, Polish film director.
• Umberto Mastroianni, 87, Italian abstract sculptor.
• W. O. Mitchell, 83, Canadian writer and broadcaster, prostate cancer.
• Pruden, 81, Spanish football player.
• B. A. Santamaria, 82, Australian anti-communist political activist and journalist, brain cancer.
• Rockin' Sidney, 59, American R&B, zydeco and soul musician, throat cancer.
• Vico Torriani, 77, Swiss actor and Schlager singer, cancer.
• Luigi Veronesi, 89, Italian photographer, painter, and film director.

26

• James Algar, 85, American film director, screenwriter and producer.
• Jaap ter Haar, 75, Dutch children's author.
• Jimmy Hagan, 80, English football player and manager.
• Otto Haxel, 88, German nuclear physicist.
• Robert Jones, 67, American lawyer, politician and civil rights litigator.
• Josef Knottenbelt, 87, Dutch tennis player.
• Shirley Ardell Mason, 75, American psychiatric patient and art teacher, breast cancer.
• Stepan Neustroev, 75, Soviet officer and World War II hero.
• Theodore Schultz, 95, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate.

27

• Larry Friend, 62, American basketball player, prostate cancer.
• John Harman, 65, Australian politician.
• George H. Hitchings, 92, American scientist and Nobel Prize laureate.
• Martin Hollis, 59, British philosopher.
• Elsy Jacobs, 64, Luxembourgish road bicycle racer.
• Gerald David Lascelles, 73, British nobleman.
• Jack Micheline, 68, American painter and poet.
• Henry Munyaradzi, 66/67, Zimbabwean sculptor.
• Alice Rivaz, 96, Swiss author and feminist.
• J. T. Walsh, 54, American actor, heart attack.

28

• Ivan Arkhipov, 90, Soviet and Russian statesman.
• Todd Duncan, 95, American opera singer and actor, heart ailment.
• Hildegarde Howard, 96, American paleontologist.
• Daniel Katz, 94, American psychologist.
• Marie Kettnerová, 86, Czech table tennis player.
• Dermot Morgan, 45, Irish comedian and actor, heart attack.
• Antonio Quarracino, 74, Argentine Roman Catholic cardinal and archbishop, heart attack.
• Arkady Shevchenko, 67, Russian/Soviet diplomat and defector, liver cirrhosis.
• Injac Zamputi, 88, Albanian scholar, writer, and historian.