Deaths in June 1998

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

June 1998

1

• Emery Barnes, 68, American-Canadian gridiron football player and politician.
• Rex Bumgardner, 74, American gridiron football player.
• Gottfried Dienst, 78, Swiss football referee.
• Junkyard Dog, 45, American professional wrestler, traffic collision.
• Shigeo Fukushima, 55, Japanese swimmer and Olympian.
• Godfrey Grayson, 84, English film director.
• Darwin Joston, 60, American actor, leukemia.
• Bishambhar Nath Pande, 91, Indian freedom fighter, social worker, and politician.
• José Pedraza, 60, Mexican race walker and Olympic medalist.
• Jerzy Łoś, 78, Polish mathematician, economist, and philosopher.

2

• Daniel I. Axelrod, 87, American paleoecologist, heart attack.
• Helen Carter, 70, American country music singer, heart problems.
• P. Andrew Cooray, 96, Sri Lankan politician.
• Oran Henderson, 77, United States Army officer associated with the Mỹ Lai massacre, pancreatic cancer.
• Ricky Hyslop, 83, Canadian violinist, conductor, composer, and arranger.
• Brian Johnston, 64, New Zealand field hockey player and Olympian.
• Gonzalo Martínez Ortega, 64, Mexican actor, screenwriter and producer, traffic collision.
• Dorothy Stickney, 101, American actress.

3

• Pat Abbruzzi, 65, American gridiron football player.
• Poul Bundgaard, 75, Danish actor and singer, kidney failure.
• Lucien Conein, 78, French-born U.S. Army officer and OSS/CIA operative, heart failure.
• Douglas Gretzler, 47, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
• Joseph C. Harsch, 93, American journalist.
• Ernest Henry, 94, Australian freestyle swimmer and Olympic medalist.
• William L. Snyder, 80, American film producer, Alzheimer's disease.

4

• Aarudhra, 72, Indian author, poet, publisher, and playwright.
• Fred Burchell, 67, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Clancy Carlile, 68, American novelist and screenwriter, cancer.
• Philippe Charbonneaux, 81, French industrial designer.
• Harry H. Gleaton, 92, American politician.
• Josephine Hutchinson, 94, American actress.
• Ray Montgomery, 76, American actor.
• Miguel Montuori, 65, Italian Argentine football player.
• Shirley Povich, 92, American sports journalist.
• David Walsh, 52, Canadian businessman, aneurysm.

5

• Alfred Kazin, 83, American writer and literary critic.
• Viola Keats, 87, British actress.
• Jeanette Nolan, 86, American actress, stroke.
• Dieter Roth, 68, Swiss artist, heart attack.
• B. M. Shah, Indian theatre director and playwright.
• Prentiss Walker, 80, American politician.
• Sam Yorty, 88, American politician, stroke.

6

• Georg Bayerer, 83, German football player and coach.
• Louie Bickerton, 95, Australian tennis player.
• Marshall Green, 82, American diplomat.
• Jatoe Kaleo, Ghanaian ruler and politician.
• Svend S. Schultz, 84, Danish composer and conductor.
• Peter Wong, 66, Canadian politician, heart attack.

7

• Tom Buskey, 51, American baseball player, complications from heart attack.
• James Byrd Jr., 49, African American lynching victim, dragged.
• Jerry Capehart, 69, American songwriter and music manager.
• Wally Gold, 70, American musician and music business executive, colitis.
• Hans Ramberg, 81, Norwegian-Swedish geologist.

8

• Sani Abacha, 54, Nigerian Army officer and dictator, poisoned.
• Harry Lookofsky, 84, American jazz violinist.
• Jackie McGlew, 69, South African cricket player.
• Michael John O'Brian, 70, Pakistan Air Force officer.
• Maria Reich, 95, German-Peruvian mathematician and archaeologist, ovarian cancer.
• Larisa Yudina, 52, Soviet and Russian journalist and newspaper editor, homicide.

9

• Agostino Casaroli, 83, Italian Catholic priest and diplomat for the Holy See.
• Loïs Mailou Jones, 92, American artist and teacher.
• Edmund Koller, 67, West German bobsledder and Olympian.
• Barton Holland Warnock, 86, American botanist, heart attack.

10

• Paudge Brennan, 76, Irish politician.
• Bobby Bryant, 64, American jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist, heart attack.
• Leroy Chollet, 74, American basketball player.
• David English, 67, British journalist and newspaper editor.
• Fernando Germani, 92, Italian organist of the St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
• Steve Griffiths, 84, English footballer.
• Jim Hearn, 77, American baseball player.
• Hammond Innes, 84, English author.
• Nivedita Jain, 19, Indian beauty contestant and actress, complications after fall.
• Steve Sanders, 45, American musician, singer and songwriter, suicide by gunshot.
• John G. Smith, 73, American baseball coach, pneumonia.

11

• Thomas Abernethy, 95, American politician.
• Harry Anderson, 66, American baseball player.
• Dame Catherine Cookson, 91, British author.
• Gevorg Emin, 78, Armenian poet, essayist, and translator.
• Jacques Emmanuel, 78, French actor, screenwriter and librettist.
• Alexei Eriomin, 79, Soviet and Russian realist painter.
• Jože Privšek, 61, Slovene jazz and pop musician.
• Leopoldo Salcedo, 86, Filipino film actor.
• Lucia Valentini Terrani, 51, Italian coloratura mezzo-soprano, leukemia.

12

• Leo Buscaglia, 74, American author and motivational speaker, heart attack.
• John Gutmann, 93, German-American photographer and painter.
• Charles "Teenie" Harris, 90, American photographer.
• Jon Leirfall, 98, Norwegian politician.
• Theresa Merritt, 75, American actress and singer, skin cancer.
• Paul Michael Stephani, 53, American serial killer, skin cancer.
• Richard Thompson, 83, American animator.
• Lucienne Velu, 96, French athlete, basketball player and Olympian.

13

• Nisim Aloni, 71, Israeli playwright and translator.
• Lucio Costa, 96, Brazilian architect and urban planner.
• Gil Duthie, 86, Australian politician.
• Buddy Elrod, 79, American football player.
• Alfred Horace Gerrard, 99, English modernist sculptor.
• Birger Ruud, 86, Norwegian ski jumper.
• Fernand Sastre, 74, French football official, cancer.
• Kadamba Simmons, 24, British actress and model, strangled.
• Reg Smythe, 80, British cartoonist, lung cancer.
• Yoshio Sugino, 93, Japanese martial artist and film choreographer.
• Éric Tabarly, 86, French naval officer and yachtsman, drowned.
• Henry Tatana, 53, New Zealand rugby player.

14

• Camillo Achilli, 76, Italian footballer.
• Hans W. Brimi, 80, Norwegian farmer and traditional folk musician.
• Ginette Mathiot, 91, French food writer.
• Oliver Treyz, 80, American network television executive.

15

• Hartmut Boockmann, 63, German historian.
• Suzanne Eisendieck, 91, German painter.
• Jason Holliday, 74, American hustler and nightclub performer.
• Morris Kestelman, 92, British artist.
• Thierry Salmon, 41, Belgian actor and theatre director, traffic collision.
• Anton van Wilderode, 79, Belgian priest, writer and poet.

16

• Roberto Cañedo, 80, Mexican actor.
• Lewis Leonard Forman, 68, British botanist.
• Jorge Toriello Garrido, 90, Guatemalan politician and President of Guatemala.
• Frank Kristufek, 82, American football player.
• Keith Newton, 56, English footballer, laryngeal cancer.
• Ricardo Núñez, 93, Spanish actor, screenwriter, producer and film director.
• Jafar Sharif-Emami, 85, Iranian politician.
• Fred Wacker, 79, American businessman and racecar driver.

17

• John Carberry, 93, American Roman Catholic prelate.
• Dina de Marco, 60, Mexican actress and television director, cancer.
• Aage Eriksen, 81, Norwegian Greco-Roman wrestler and Olympic medalist.
• Joe Kelly, 91, Australian rules football player and coach.
• Carlos Loredo, 46, Cuban football player and Olympian.
• Gianni Lunadei, 60, Italian-Argentine actor, suicide by gunshot.
• Gyula László, 88, Hungarian historian, archaeologist and artist.
• Muhammad Metwally Al Shaarawy, 87, Egyptian Muslim jurist.

18

• Otto Baum, 86, German commander of the Waffen-SS during World War II.
• André Chorda, 60, French football player.
• Archie Edwards, 79, American blues guitarist.
• Edward Eliscu, 96, American lyricist, playwright, producer and actor.
• Ernesto Grillo, 68, Argentine footballer, pancreatic cancer.
• Kim Jin-kyu, 76, South Korean actor, film director and producer, cancer.
• Felix Knight, 89, American tenor, actor, and vocal teacher.
• Charles Korvin, 90, Hungarian-born American actor, photographer and master chef.
• Adel Osseiran, 93, Lebanese statesman and founding father of the Lebanese Republic.
• Nazim Panipati, Pakistani film song lyricist and film script writer.
• Karl-Heinz Spikofski, 71, German football player and coach.
• Herbert J. Sweet, 78, United States Marine Sergeant Major, respiratory failure.
• Paul van Buren, 74, American theologian and author, cancer.

19

• John Camkin, 75, English journalist and sports commentator, cancer.
• Novice Gail Fawcett, 89, American academic administrator.
• Anatoly Kasheida, 69, Soviet and Ukrainian writer, poet, and journalist.
• Howard J. Whitmore, Jr., 93, American politician.

20

• Bruno Barnabe, 93, English film and stage actor.
• Ernst Brugger, 84, Swiss politician.
• Robert James Clayton, 82, English electronics engineer.
• Heinz Ditgens, 83, German football player and manager.
• Per Anders Fogelström, 80, Swedish writer.
• Bobby Gimby, 79, Canadian orchestra leader, trumpeter, and singer-songwriter.
• Kali, 79, Polish-American painter.
• Elio Ragni, 87, Italian athlete.
• Conrad Schumann, 56, East German border guard, suicide by hanging.
• George Van Peursem, American politician.

21

• Harry Cranbrook Allen, 81, British historian of the United States.
• Anastasio Ballestrero, 84, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal.
• Al Campanis, 81, American baseball executive, coronary artery disease.
• Emma Danieli, 61, Italian actress and television personality.
• Gerhard Gundermann, 43, German singer-songwriter and rock musician, stroke.
• François Lehideux, 94, French industrialist and member of the Vichy government.
• Peter Mander, 69, New Zealand yachtsman and Olympic gold medal winner.
• Elio Morille, 70, Italian rower and Olympic champion.
• Tom Smith, 88, Scottish football player and manager.

22

• Phil Campbell, 81, American farmer and politician.
• Brian Davis, 63, New Zealand Anglican archbishop.
• Juliusz Bogdan Deczkowski, 74, Polish soldier during World War II, and later inventor and writer.
• Benny Green, 70, British writer, radio broadcaster and saxophonist, cancer.
• Norberto Doroteo Méndez, 75, Argentine football player.

23

• Leonard Jones, 74, Canadian lawyer and politician.
• Kurt Kren, 68, Austrian avant-garde filmmaker.
• Ida Krottendorf, 71, Austrian actress, cancer.
• Bill Lee, 86, American gridiron football player.
• Paul O'Dwyer, 90, Irish-American politician and lawyer.
• Maureen O'Sullivan, 87, American actress, heart attack.

24

• Francine Agazarian, 85, French spy during World War II.
• Canito, 67, Spanish footballer.
• Beatrice Mandelman, 85, American abstract artist, cancer.
• Henry G. Saperstein, 80, American film producer and distributor.

25

• David Ayalon, 84, Israeli historian of Islam and the Middle East.
• Hans Friedrich, 81, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
• Arthur Lewis, 81, British politician.
• Lounès Matoub, 42, Algerian Berber singer, poet and political activist, assassinated.
• Jirō Takamatsu, 62, Japanese artist.

26

• Pierre Angénieux, 90, French engineer and optician.
• Frank Arkell, 62, Australian politician, homicide.
• Alioune Blondin Béye, 59, Malian politician, minister of foreign affairs, plane crash.
• John Malcolm Brinnin, 81, Canadian-American poet and literary critic.
• Bobby Cairns, 69, Scottish football player.
• Sero Khanzadyan, 82, Armenian writer.
• Vladimir Petukhov, 48, Russian mayor of Nefteyugansk, killed.
• Luciano Pezzi, 77, Italian road bicycle racer.
• Derek Rayner, Baron Rayner, 72, English businessman and life peer.
• Hacı Sabancı, 63, Turkish businessman and philanthropist, lung cancer.
• Dick Schulz, 81, American basketball player.
• William R. Sears, 70, American politician.

27

• Pierre Boutang, 81, French philosopher, poet and translator.
• David Laitt, 67, English cricketer.
• Sumati Morarjee, 91, Indian businessman.
• Gilles Rocheleau, 62, Canadian politician.
• Homi J.H. Taleyarkhan, 86, Indian politician and Gandhian.
• Joyce Wieland, 67, Canadian experimental visual artist, Alzheimer's disease.
• Peter H. Wyden, 74, American journalist and writer.

28

• Jonathan Benair, 47, American actor, cerebral hemorrhage and heart attack.
• Marion Eugene Carl, 82, American flying ace during World War II and record-setting test pilot, shot during robbery.
• Bill Elias, 75, American football coach.
• Božidar Ferjančić, 69, Serbian historian.
• Louis Hostin, 90, French weightlifter and Olympic champion.
• Glenn Montgomery, 31, American gridiron football player, ALS.
• Brita Collett Paus, 80, Norwegian humanitarian leader.
• Jean-Yves Raimbaud, 40, French animator and cartoonist, lung cancer.
• Jack Rowley, 79, English footballer.
• Birger Sandberg, 80, Swedish football player and manager.
• Kamala Sohonie, 85, Indian biochemist.
• Denis Williams, 75, Guyanese painter, author and archaeologist.

29

• Slavko Dokmanović, 48, Croatian Serbian war criminal, suicide by hanging.
• Joseph G. Galway, 75, American meteorologist.
• Jess Hahn, 76, American-French actor.
• Horst Jankowski, 62, German classical pianist, lung cancer.
• Küllo Kõiv, 25, Estonian wrestler, traffic collision.
• Kamalakara Kameshwara Rao, 86, Indian film director, cardiac arrest.
• Frank Rowlett, 90, American cryptologist.

30

• Galina Brezhneva, 69, Soviet and Russian socialite and daughter of General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, cerebrovascular disease.
• Renato Capecchi, 74, Italian baritone, actor, and opera director.
• Giorgio Carpi, 89, Italian football player.
• George Parsons, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.
• John Peter, 61, Indian field hockey player.
• Bob Pryde, 85, Scottish football player.