Deaths in January 1998

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

January 1998

1

• John F. Bateman, 83, American football player and coach.
• Piero Filippone, 86, Italian art director.
• Jack Forsey, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Dennis Hatsell, 67, English football player.
• Alfred Lagarde, 49, Dutch radio personality, stroke.
• Haxhi Lleshi, 84, Albanian military leader and communist politician.
• Xanthe Ryder, 71, British alpine skier and Olympian.
• Åke Seyffarth, 78, Swedish speed skater and road cyclist.
• Helen Wills, 92, American tennis player.

2

• Max Colpet, 92, American writer, scriptwriter and lyricist.
• Sergei Frolov, 73, Soviet/Russian realist painter and graphic artist.
• Virginia Galante Garrone, 91, Italian writer.
• Donald McCormick, 86, British journalist and popular historian.
• Frank Muir, 77, English comedy writer and radio and television personality.
• Fred Naumetz, 75, American gridiron football player.
• Rell Sunn, 47, American World surfing champion, cancer.
• Nick Venet, 61, American record producer, Burkitt's lymphoma.

3

• Wayne Ambler, 82, American baseball player.
• Essie Coffey, 56, Australian Aboriginal community leader.
• Howard Gilman, 73, American philanthropist and art collector, heart attack.
• William Russell Kelly, 92, American businessman, cancer.
• Margot Lumb, 85, English squash and tennis player.
• George Shaw, 64, American gridiron football player.
• Geoffrey Watson, 76, Australian statistician.

4

• Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, 103, Italian film director, complications from a fall.
• Raymond Léopold Bruckberger, 90, French Dominican priest, writer, and screenwriter.
• Thomas F. Frist, Sr., 87, American physician and businessman.
• John Gary, 65, American singer, recording artist, and television host.
• Dini Haryati, 19, Indonesian student.
• Roland Kaiser, 54, German actor and voice actor.
• Ahmed Mohiuddin, 74, Pakistani scientist and scholar.
• Giuseppe Primavera, 80, Italian chess player.
• Sally Purcell, 53, British poet and translator, lymphoma of brain cells.
• Mae Questel, 89, American actress, Alzheimer's disease.
• Francisco Soc Rodrigo, 83, Filipino playwright, broadcaster, lawyer and politician.
• Rudy Sikich, 76, American gridiron football player.
• Yusif Yusifov, 68, Soviet and Azerbaijani linguist and historian.

5

• Hugo Avendaño, 70, Mexican singer and actor, pancreatic cancer.
• David Bairstow, 46, English cricketer, suicide by hanging.
• Sonny Bono, 62, American singer-songwriter, actor and politician, skiing accident.
• Alik Cavaliere, 71, Italian sculptor.
• Ana Cortés, 102, Chilean painter.
• Ken Forssi, 54, American musician, brain tumor, brain cancer.
• Roy Mayne, 62, American stock car racing driver.

6

• Walt Barnes, 79, American football player and actor, diabetes.
• Richard Clutterbuck, 80, British army general and military historian.
• Otello Colangeli, 85, Italian film editor.
• Jack T. Conway, 80, American labor unionist.
• Alice Frost, 87, American actress.
• Victorine du Pont Homsey, 97, American architect.
• Murray Salem, 47, American television actor and screenwriter, AIDS-related complications.
• Otto Schmitt, 84, American inventor, engineer and biophysicist.
• Georgy Sviridov, 82, Soviet and Russian composer, heart attack.

7

• Owen Bradley, 82, American musician and record producer.
• Roger Dean, 84, Australian politician.
• Jacqueline deWit, 85, American actress.
• Richard Hamming, 82, American mathematician, heart attack.
• Dorothy Leavey, 101, American philanthropist.
• Alva Liles, 41, American gridiron football player.
• Slava Metreveli, 61, Soviet and Georgian football player and manager.
• Hiker Moran, 86, American baseball player
• Valerio Perentin, 88, Italian rower and Olympian.
• Vladimir Prelog, 91, Croatian-born Swiss organic chemist.
• Frank Roberts, 90, British diplomat.
• Lawrence Treat, 94, American mystery writer.
• Tere Velázquez, 55, Mexican actress, colorectal cancer.
• Dorothy Wilson, 88, American film actress.

8

• Doug Anderson, 70, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Bill Corbus, 86, American gridiron football player.
• Walter Diemer, 94, American inventor of bubble gum, congestive heart failure.
• Marie-Madeleine Dienesch, 83, French politician.
• Tony Lavelli, 71, American basketball player and musician, heart attack.
• Denys Lombard, 59, French historian and sinologist.
• Akihiko Mori, 32, Japanese video game music composer, cancer.
• Max Morris, 72, American basketball and gridiron football player.
• Sam Perrin, 96, American screenwriter.
• Shamima Shaikh, 37, South African journalist and Muslim women's rights activist, breast cancer.
• Raziuddin Siddiqui, 90, Pakistan-born American physicist.
• Sir Michael Tippett, 90, English composer, pneumonia.

9

• Hugo Zepeda Barrios, 90, Chilean politician and lawyer.
• Paul H. Dunn, 73, American Mormon leader.
• Kenichi Fukui, 79, Japanese chemist and Nobel Prize laureate, cancer.
• Richard Graff, 60, American winemaker, plane crash.
• Alberto Isaac, 74, Mexican swimmer, film director and screenwriter.
• Imi Lichtenfeld, 87, Israeli martial artist.
• Lia Manoliu, 65, Romanian discus thrower and Olympian, heart attack.
• Kathleen Shannon, 62, Canadian film director and producer, lung cancer.
• Charito Solis, 62, Filipino film actress, cardiac arrest.

10

• Deng Guangming, 90, Chinese historian, cancer.
• Wolfgang Hahn, 86, German mathematician.
• Mona May Karff, 83, American chess player.
• Victor Papanek, 74, Austrian-American designer.
• Mario Santiago Papasquiaro, 44, Mexican poet, traffic collision.

11

• Joe Becker, 89, American baseball player.
• Erik Jarvik, 90, Swedish paleontologist.
• Win Mortimer, 78, Canadian comic book and comic strip artist, cancer.
• Ellis Rabb, 67, American actor and director, heart failure.
• Ronald Rylance, 73, English rugby player.
• Aydan Siyavuş, 50, Turkish basketball player and coach, heart attack.
• Bedri Spahiu, 89, Albanian politician and general.
• Klaus Tennstedt, 71, German conductor, cancer.
• Georgi Vins, 69, Soviet dissident and Baptist pastor.
• John Wells, 61, English actor, writer and satirist.

12

• Florence Riefle Bahr, 88, American artist and activist, house fire.
• Ramón Sampedro Cameán, 55, Spanish writer and euthanasia activist, assisted suicide.
• Roger Clark, 58, British rally driver, stroke.
• Kyle Dinkheller, 22, American deputy sheriff, multiple gunshot wounds.
• Rajesh Joshi, 29, Indian film and theater actor.
• Mark MacGuigan, 66, Canadian academic and politician, liver cancer.
• Libuše Moníková, 52, Czech writer.
• Ian Moores, 43, English footballer, cancer.
• Phyllis Nelson, 47, American singer, breast cancer.
• Robert Townsend, 77, American businessman and author, heart attack.

13

• Martin Flämig, 84, German church musician.
• Mihovil Logar, 95, Yugoslav composer and music writer.
• Bob Martin, 75, Austrian singer.
• Muslim Mulliqi, Albanian painter.
• Andrew Rutherford, 68, British educationalist.

14

• Safiye Ayla, 90, Turkish classical singer.
• Tony De Vita, 65, Italian composer, conductor, arranger and pianist.
• Arturo Enrile, 57, Filipino general, septic shock.
• Mohammad Ghazi, 84, Iranian writer and translator and writer, laryngeal cancer.
• Harry Simmons, 90, American baseball executive, writer and historian.

15

• John A. Anderson, 65, American football coach, heart attack.
• Hal Baylor, 79, American actor.
• Marcelline Jayakody, 95, Sri Lankan Catholic priest, musician, author, journalist.
• Gennady Kolbin, 70, Soviet politician.
• Marguerite Kuczynski, 93, German economist and literary scholar.
• Duncan McNaughton, 87, Canadian athlete and Olympian.
• Gulzarilal Nanda, 99, Indian politician and economist.
• E. Jack Neuman, 76, American writer and producer.
• Ahmed Oudjani, 60, Algerian football player.
• William George Pottinger, 81, British convicted fraudster.
• Boris Tatushin, 64, Soviet football player and manager.
• Harriet Van Horne, 77, American newspaper columnist and radio/television critic, breast cancer.
• Junior Wells, 63, American blues vocalist and harmonica player, lymphoma.

16

• Gayane C'ebotaryan, 79, Armenian composer and musicologist.
• Hans Grünberg, 80, German Luftwaffe fighter ace during World War II.
• Dimitris Horn, 76, Greek-Austrian actor, cancer.
• Matti Kuusi, 83, Finnish folklorist, paremiographer and paremiologist.
• Lorenzo Mongiardino, 81, Italian architect and interior designer, pneumonia.
• Tommy Pederson, 77, American jazz trombonist and composer.
• Emil Sitka, 83, American actor, stroke.
• Luggi Waldleitner, 84, German film producer.

17

• Alan E. Cober, 62, American illustrator.
• Zygmunt Czyżewski, 87, Polish ice hockey and football player and manager.
• Helvi Hämäläinen, 90, Finnish writer.
• Junior Kimbrough, 67, American blues musician, heart attack.
• Joseph S. Murphy, 64, American political scientist and university administrator, traffic collision.
• Cliffie Stone, 80, American musician and radio and TV personality.
• Luís Trochillo, 67, Brazilian football player.

18

• Byron Bailey, 67, American gridiron and Canadian football player.
• Joan Banks, 79, American actress, lung cancer.
• Jose Calugas, 90, Filipino-American Philippine Scout and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
• Guy Charbonneau, 75, Canadian politician.
• Maria Judite de Carvalho, 76, Portuguese author.
• Monica Edwards, 85, English children's writer.
• Dan Georgiadis, 75, Greek football player and manager.
• Antoine "T.C.D." Lundy, 34, American singer, ALS.
• Gerry Ottenheimer, 63, Canadian politician.
• Benjamin Hoskins Paddock, 71, American bank robber and con man, FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive, heart attack.
• Skeets Quinlan, 69, American gridiron football player.
• Wilhelm Törsleff, 91, Swedish sailor and Olympian.
• Josip Uhač, 73, Yugoslav-Croatian Apostolic nuncio.
• James Villiers, 64, English actor, cancer.

19

• Bengt Eklund, 73, Swedish actor.
• Cornelis Kalkman, 69, Dutch botanist.
• Al Negratti, 76, American basketball player and coach, cancer.
• David Orlikow, 79, Canadian politician.
• Carl Perkins, 65, American singer-songwriter, esophageal cancer.
• Abraham Sinkov, 90, American cryptanalyst.
• DeWitt Weaver, 85, American football player and coach.
• Larisa Tarkovskaya, 64, Soviet film director and actress, lung cancer.

20

• Harry Ashmore, 81, American journalist.
• Bobo Brazil, 73, American professional wrestler, known as "Bobo Brazil", stroke.
• Jacob Cohen, 74, American psychologist and statistician.
• Zevulun Hammer, 61, Israeli politician, cancer.

21

• Mary Bunting, 87, American academic and college president.
• Edward Carrick, 93, English art designer, author and illustrator.
• Larry Gilbert, 55, American golfer, lung cancer.
• Pakoda Kadhar, 58, Indian actor.
• Friedrich Kessler, 96, American law professor.
• Yoshifumi Kondō, 47, Japanese animator and film director, aortic dissection.
• Donald H. LeBrun, 85, American politician.
• Jack Lord, 77, American actor, congestive heart failure.
• Ralph C. Smith, 104, United States Army officer, lung ailment.
• Louis Thiétard, 87, French cyclist.

22

• C. Elmer Anderson, 85, American politician.
• Edward F. Arn, 91, American lawyer and politician.
• Hendrick Joseph Cornelius Maria de Cocq, 91, Dutch Roman Catholic bishop.
• Harold Lindsell, 84, American evangelical author and scholar.
• George Marks, 82, English football player.
• Nino Pirrotta, 89, Italian musicologist.
• Bill Sortet, 85, American gridiron football player.

23

• Donald Davis, 69, Canadian actor.
• John Forbes, 47, Australian poet.
• Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, 79, German nobleman.
• Ralf Kirsten, 67, German film director and screenwriter.
• Hilla Limann, 63, President of Ghana, diabetes.
• Roy McKasson, 58, American football player, kidney transplant complications.
• Alfredo Ormando, 39, Italian writer and gay rights activist, burns from self-immolation.
• Victor Pasmore, 89, British artist and architect.
• Ernest Peirce, 88, South African boxer.
• Sajjad Hussain Qureshi, 101, Indian politician.
• Lionel Wilson, 82, American politician, cancer.
• Mohammad Yusuf, 81, Prime Minister of Afghanistan.

24

• Nodar Akhalkatsi, 60, Georgian football manager, heart attack.
• Walter Bishop Jr., 70, American jazz pianist, heart attack.
• Walter D. Edmonds, 94, American writer.
• Mirosław Justek, 49, Polish football player.
• Bob Russell, 90, American entertainer.
• Elizabeth Sneyers, 84, Belgian lawyer and feminist.
• Justin Tubb, 62, American country music singer and songwriter.

25

• Hamid Algadri, 85, Indonesian independence pioneer.
• Olive Brasno, 80, American dwarf dancer and actress.
• Sidney Cole, 89, British film and television producer.
• Dilawar Figar, 68, Pakistani writer, poet, and humorist.
• Attia Hosain, 85, British-Indian novelist, author, journalist and actor.
• Fritz Langner, 85, German football player and manager.
• Roy Porter, 74, American jazz drummer.
• Herman Stokes, 65, American athlete and Olympian.
• Attila Zoller, 70, Hungary-American jazz guitarist.

26

• Hogan Bassey, 65, Nigerian-British boxer.
• Lord Nicholas Hervey, 36, British aristocrat and political activist, suicide by hanging.
• Olaf Kortner, 77, Norwegian politician.
• Ethelreda Leopold, 83, American film actress, pneumonia.
• Lee Moses, 56, American R&B and soul singer and guitarist, lung cancer.
• Mario Schifano, 63, Italian painter and collagist.
• Shin'ichi Suzuki, 99, Japanese musician, philosopher and educator.

27

• Alan Davies, 73, British air marshal.
• Tamio Kageyama, 50, Japanese novelist, house fire.
• Elizabeth Mantell, 56, Scottish midwife and nurse.
• Assia Noris, 85, Russian-Italian film actress.
• Mykola Mykolaĭovych Shcherbak, 70, Soviet-Ukrainian zoologist, ecologist, and herpetologist.
• Geoffrey Trease, 88, British writer.
• Miklos Udvardy, 78, Hungarian biologist and biogeographer.

28

• Louis Chaillot, 83, French cyclist and Olympian.
• Bernard Joseph Flanagan, 89, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Joe Holup, 63, American basketball player.
• Shōtarō Ishinomori, 60, Japanese manga artist, heart failure.
• Ken Jackson, 68, American gridiron football player.
• Dagny Tande Lid, 94, Norwegian painter, illustrator and poet.
• Lee Ya-Ching, 85, Chinese film actress, aviator and philanthropist.
• John Morton-Finney, 108, American civil rights activist, lawyer and educator.

29

• Joseph Alioto, 81, American politician, Mayor of San Francisco, prostate cancer.
• Ugo Bologna, 80, Italian actor and voice actor, heart attack.
• Karin Jonzen, 83, British figure sculptor.
• Rob Mulders, 30, Dutch road racing cyclist, traffic collision.
• Ed Smith, 84, American gridiron football player.

30

• Jim Barber, 85, American gridiron football player.
• Héctor Campos-Parsi, 75, Puerto Rican composer.
• Richard Cassilly, 70, American operatic tenor, cerebral hemorrhage after fall.
• Samuel Eilenberg, 84, Polish-American mathematician.
• Pappanamkodu Lakshmanan, 61, Indian film director, scriptwriter and lyricist.
• Ferdy Mayne, 81, German-British actor, Parkinson's disease.
• Lesslie Newbigin, 88, British theologian, missionary and author.
• Emmette Redford, 93, American political scientist.
• Luise Walker, 87, Austrian classical guitarist and composer.

31

• Greta Arwidsson, 91, Swedish archaeologist.
• Georges Combret, 91, French film director, producer and screenwriter.
• Leho Laurine, 93, Estonian chess master.
• Alice Miel, 91, American educator.
• Karol Stryja, 82, Polish conductor and teacher.