Deaths in March 1998

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

March 1998

1

• Jean Marie Balland, 63, French Roman Catholic cardinal, lung cancer.
• Miltiades Caridis, 74, German-Greek conductor, stroke.
• Archie Goodwin, 60, American comic book writer and artist, cancer.
• Manolis Hatzidakis, 89, Greek art historian and Byzantinist.
• Alexander Puzanov, 91, Soviet and Russian ambassador and statesman.
• Sabina Sesselmann, 61, German film actress.
• Garner E. Shriver, 85, American politician.
• Robert Symonette, 73, Bahamian yachtsman and politician.

2

• Leif Blomberg, 57, Swedish politician.
• Lucien Bodard, 84, French writer and journalist.
• Slick Castleman, 84, American Major League Baseball player.
• Henry Steele Commager, 95, American historian, pneumonia.
• Robert A. Grant, 92, American judge.
• Maamun al-Kuzbari, 83/84, Syrian politician and literary personality.
• Darcy O'Brien, 58, American author and literary critic, heart attack.
• Herbie Seneviratne, 72, Sri Lankan actor and filmmaker.
• Marzette Watts, 59, American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist.

3

• Janet Burston, 63, American child actress, cancer.
• Giuseppe Caron, 94, Italian politician.
• Fred W. Friendly, 82, American television journalist and executive, stroke.
• Edward Luckhoo, 85, Guyanese Governor General.
• Hedley Mattingly, 82, British actor, cancer.
• Charles Franklin Phillips, 87, American economist.
• Marc Sautet, 51, French writer, translator, and philosopher, brain cancer.

4

• Antonio Alsúa Alonso, 78, Spanish football player.
• Betty Bird, 96, Austrian actress.
• Jim Cullom, 72, American gridiron football player.
• Ivan Dougherty, 90, Australian Army officer.
• Van Edmondson, 98, American football player.
• Jules Fontaine Sambwa, 57, Zairean and Congolese politician and economist.

5

• Donald James Cannon, 78, American politician.
• Carleton Putnam, 96, American businessman, writer and segregationist, pneumonia.
• Jerome Walters, 67, American middle distance runner and Olympian.
• Donald Woods, 91, Canadian-born American actor.

6

• John Allin, 76, American Anglican bishop.
• Rue Barclay, 76, American Country & Western musician.
• Frank Barrett, 84, American baseball player
• Benjamin Bowden, 91, British industrial designer.
• Joe Shear, 54, American stock car racing driver, cancer.
• Vanna Vanni, 83, Italian film actress.

7

• Ziad Rafiq Beydoun, Lebanese petroleum geologist.
• Bill Cable, 51, American actor, model and stunt performer, traffic collision.
• Josep Escolà, 83, Spanish footballer.
• Karen Holtsmark, 90, Norwegian painter.
• Adem Jashari, 42, Kosovo Albanian militant separatist, mortar strike.
• Hamëz Jashari, 48, Kosovar Albanian nationalist and guerilla, killed in action.
• Eleanor Ileen Johnson, 87, American survivor of the sinking of.
• Don Kirkham, 90, American physicists and soil scientist.
• Jack Perkins, 76, American film actor.
• Leonie Rysanek, 71, Austrian dramatic soprano, bone cancer.
• Wanda Tettoni, 87, Italian actress and voice actress.

8

• Laurie Beechman, 44, American actress and singer, cancer.
• Alexandre Gemignani, 72, Brazilian basketball player.
• James Haggarty, 83, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Jack Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Kingsbridge, 90, British politician and public servant.
• Jack McQuillan, 77, Irish politician, trade unionist and army officer.
• Peter Nilson, 60, Swedish astronomer and novelist.
• Ray Nitschke, 61, American football player and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, heart attack.
• Susanne Ussing, 57, Danish artist, architect and ceramicist.

9

• David MacAdam, 87, American physicist and color scientist.
• Anna Maria Ortese, 83, Italian novelist, poet, and travel writer.
• Colin Patterson, 64, British palaeontologist, heart attack.
• Ulrich Schamoni, 58, German film director, screenwriter, actor and media proprietor, cancer.

10

• C. E. Beeby, 95, New Zealand educationalist and psychologist.
• Ilse Bing, 98, German photographer.
• Lloyd Bridges, 85, American actor.
• Karekin II Kazanjian, 70, Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople, liver cancer.
• Hayim David HaLevi, 74, Israeli rabbi.
• Milton Mallawarachchi, 52, Sri Lankan singer and musician.
• Alberto Morrocco, 80, Scottish artist.
• Richard Plant, 87, German-American historian, Holocaust scholar and writer.
• Kenkō Satoshi, 30, Japanese Sumo wrestler, pulmonary embolism.

11

• Van E. Chandler, 73, American Air Force pilot and flying ace, cancer.
• Basil Coetzee, 54, South African musician, cancer.
• Buddy Jeannette, 80, American basketball player and coach, stroke.
• José Laurel, Jr., 85, Filipino politician, pneumonia.
• Manuel Piñeiro Losada, 64, Cuban revolutionary, politician and spymaster, traffic collision.
• Sachio Sakai, 72, Japanese actor.
• Nino Konis Santana, 41, East Timorese freedom fighter, killed in action.
• Jean Shiley, 86, American high jumper and Olympian.
• Koos Verdam, 83, Dutch politician.

12

• Ovid Demaris, 78, American writer and journalist.
• Karrell Fox, 70, American magician and television performer.
• Jozef Kroner, 73, Slovak actor.
• Red Richards, 85, American jazz pianist.
• Kate Ross, 41, American mystery author, breast cancer.
• Beatrice Wood, 105, American artist and ceramicist.

13

• Judge Dread, 52, English musician, heart attack.
• Peter Feller, 78, American theatrical set builder.
• Philip Gale, 19, American Internet software pioneer and computer prodigy, suicide by jumping.
• Claudio Gora, 84, Italian actor and film director.
• Dave Lewis, 59, American rock and R&B musician, cancer.
• Bill Reid, 78, Canadian artist, Parkinson's disease.
• Risen Star, 12, American thoroughbred racehorse.
• Anne Sayre, 74, American writer.
• Peter Sillett, 65, England footballer, cancer.
• Kōshō Uchiyama, 86, Japanese buddhist monk and origami master.
• Frano Vodopivec, 73, Croatian cinematographer.
• Hans von Ohain, 86, German physicist and jet engine designer, thyroiditis.
• Ma Yueliang, 96, Chinese martial artist.

14

• Abdul Rahman al-Iryani, 87, President of the Yemen Arab Republic.
• Ed Boell, 81, American football player, coach, and official.
• Hugh Coveney, 62, Irish politician, fall.
• Dada Kondke, 65, Indian actor and film producer.
• Dave Minor, 76, American basketball player.
• Leo Sotorník, 71, Czech gymnast and Olympian.

15

• Malati Choudhury, 93, Indian civil rights and freedom activist.
• Tim Maia, 55, Brazilian musician and songwriter, cardiovascular disease.
• Maud Mannoni, 74, Belgian-French psychoanalyst.
• Dušan Pašek, 37, Slovak ice hockey player, suicide by gunshot.
• Jheri Redding, 91, American hairdresser and businessman.
• Carolyn Schnurer, 90, American fashion designer and sportswear pioneer.
• Benjamin Spock, 94, American pediatrician and author.
• Gennady Yevryuzhikhin, 54, Russian football player.

16

• Derek Barton, 79, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• Pertev Naili Boratav, 90, Turkish folklorist.
• Esther Bubley, 77, American photographer, cancer.
• Lydia Délrctorsckaya, 87, Russian-French refugee and model.
• Noel Stephen Paynter, 99, British chief intelligence officer of Bomber Command during World War II.

17

• Cliff Barker, 77, American basketball player.
• Alain Bosquet, 78, French poet.
• Milo Candini, 80, American baseball player.
• Douglas Harold Copp, 83, Canadian scientist.
• Bernarr Rainbow, 83, British historian of music education, and choir master.
• Helen Westcott, 70, American actor and former child actor, cancer.
• Dorothy Weston, 98, Australian tennis player.

18

• Siegfried Franz, 84, German composer of film and television scores.
• Joan Freeman, 80, Australian physicist.
• Ted Jolliffe, 89, Canadian politician.
• Klaus Mollenhauer, 69, German pedagogical theorist.
• Hideo Shima, 96, Japanese engineer and bullet train pioneer.
• Dwight Sloan, 83, American gridiron football player.
• Robert E. Woodside, 93, American politician and judge.

19

• Simon Diedong Dombo, Ghanaian politician and king.
• Samuel Dzhundrin, 77, Bulgarian Roman Catholic prelate and monk.
• Klaus Havenstein, 75, German actor, cabaret artist, and television presenter.
• E. M. S. Namboodiripad, 88, Indian communist politician and theorist.
• Jimmy Scoular, 73, Scottish football player and manager.
• Hanzade Sultan, 74, Ottoman princess and Turkish expatriate.

20

• B. N. Adarkar, 87, Indian economist.
• Yemima Avidar-Tchernovitz, 88, Israeli author.
• Beverley Cross, 66, English playwright, librettist and screenwriter.
• Anthony Fell, 83, British politician.
• Agustín Gómez-Arcos, 65, Spanish writer, cancer.
• George Howard, 41, American jazz saxophonist, colon cancer.
• Laddie Lucas, 82, British Air Force officer and politician.
• Beth Mitchell, 25, American shag dancer and elementary school teacher.
• Catherine Sauvage, 68, French singer and actress.
• Ivor Slaney, 76, British musical composer and conductor.
• Maciej Słomczyński, 75, Polish translator and writer.

21

• Ben Bagley, 64, American record producer and musical producer.
• Horst Korsching, 85, German physicist.
• Ramanathapuram C S Murugabhoopathy, 84, Indian Mridanga maestro.
• Maciej Słomczyński, 75, Polish writer and translator.
• Galina Ulanova, 88, Russian ballet dancer.

22

• Simon Wingfield Digby, 88, British politician.
• Jack R. Howard, 87, American broadcasting executive.
• John Richard Keating, 63, American prelate of the Roman [Catholic Church].
• Shoichi Nishimura, Japanese football player and manager, pneumonia.
• Rube Reiswerg, 85, American basketball player.

23

• Louis Arbessier, 90, French actor.
• Chuck Hunsinger, 72, American gridiron football player.
• Hilda Morley, 81, American poet.
• Ray Scott, 78, American sportscaster.
• Gerald Stano, 46, American serial killer, execution by electric chair.
• Marie-Laure Tardieu-Blot, 95, French botanist and pteridologist.

24

• Åke Mangård, 81, Swedish Air Force major general.
• António Ribeiro, 69, Portuguese Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, cancer.
• Torben Tryde, 81, Danish writer, Olympian and resistance fighter during World War II.
• Jill Ann Weatherwax, 27, American model and aspiring singer, stabbed.

25

• Daniel Massey, 64, English actor and performer, Hodgkin's lymphoma.
• Clive Osborne, 75, Australian politician.
• Asha Posley, 71, Pakistani actress, she acted in Pakistani's first film Teri Yaad
• Micheál Prendergast, 77, Irish farmer, businessman and politician.
• Steven Schiff, 51, American politician, squamous-cell carcinoma, skin cancer.
• Chris Trickle, 25, American stock car racing driver, drive-by shooting.
• Wilfred Watson, 86, Canadian professor and author.
• Betsey Cushing Roosevelt Whitney, 88, American philanthropist.

26

• Denis Charles, 64, American jazz drummer, pneumonia.
• Shantinath Desai, 69, Indian author.
• Nikolay Dubinin, 91, Soviet and Russian biologist and academician.
• Arthur S. Link, 77, American historian and educator, lung cancer.
• Rukhsana Naz, 19, British Pakistani murder victim.
• Kate Cruise O'Brien, 49, Irish writer.

27

• Nadija Hordijenko Andrianova, 76, Ukrainian writer and translator of the language Esperanto.
• Julio César Britos, 71, Uruguayan football player.
• John William Comber, 92, American Catholic missionary and bishop.
• Joan Lestor, Baroness Lestor of Eccles, 66, British politician, ALS.
• Chen Jin, 90, Taiwanese painter.
• Aghajani Kashmeri, 89, Indian screenwriter, actor and Urdu poet.
• Joan Maynard, 76, English politician and trade unionist, cancer.
• David McClelland, 80, American psychologist.
• Steve Nemeth, 75, American gridiron football player.
• Ferry Porsche, 88, Austrian auto designer and businessman.
• Otto Freiherr von Feury, 91, German politician.
• Karl-Adolf Zenker, 90, German officer in the Kriegsmarine during World War II.

28

• Else Elster, 88, German actress.
• Albert Levan, 93, Swedish botanist and geneticist.
• David Powers, 85, Special Assistant and secretary to John F. Kennedy.
• Larry Stephens, 59, American gridiron football player.

29

• Giuliano Biagetti, 72, Italian film director and screenwriter.
• Kvitka Cisyk, 44, American coloratura soprano, breast cancer.
• David Nightingale Hicks, 69, English interior decorator and designer, lung cancer.
• Loreta, 86-87, Iranian Armenian actress.
• Dick Phillips, 66, American baseball player, manager and coach.
• Eugene Walter, 76, American screenwriter, poet, actor, puppeteer and chef, liver cancer.
• Harold E. Wilson, 76, United States Marine and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
• Dudley Wysong, 58, American golfer, aneurysm.

30

• Ramsay Ames, 79, 1940s American B movie actress, model, pin-up girl and television host, lung cancer.
• Michèle Arnaud, 79, French singer and director.
• Judy Buenoano, 54, American convicted murderer, execution by electric chair.
• Max Cosyns, 91, Belgian physicist, inventor and explorer.
• Massimo Franciosa, 73, Italian screenwriter and film director.
• Frank King, 79, British Army officer.
• Mordechai Olmert, 90, Israeli politician.
• Athelstan Spilhaus, 86, South African-American geophysicist and oceanographer.

31

• Bella Abzug, 77, American lawyer, politician and social activist.
• John H. Cooke, 86, American lawyer and politician.
• Tim Flock, 73, American racecar driver and member of the NASCAR Hall of Fame, liver and throat cancer.
• Henry George Glyde, 91, Canadian painter.
• Blanche Montel, 95, French actress.
• Joel Ryce-Menuhin, 64, American pianist, cancer.
• Pete Tillman, 75, American football player and coach.