Deaths in September 1998

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

September 1998

1

• Francisco Coching, 78, Filipino comic books illustrator and writer.
• Albert W. Johnson, 92, American politician.
• Harry Knudsen, 79, Danish rower and Olympic medalist.
• Józef Krupiński, 67, Polish poet.
• Cary Middlecoff, 77, American golfer, heart disease.
• Nick Murphy, 31, English footballer, traffic collision.
• Vere Harmsworth, 3rd Viscount Rothermere, 73, British newspaper magnate.
• Osman Fahir Seden, 74, Turkish film director, screenwriter and film producer.
• Ernest Edward Williams, 84, American herpetologist.
• Petar Šegedin, 89, Croatian writer.

2

• Jackie Blanchflower, 65, Northern Irish footballer, cancer.
• Roy Bradford, 77, Northern Irish politician.
• Allen Drury, 80, American novelist and Pullizer Prize winner, cardiac arrest, heart attack.
• Charles A. Ferguson, 77, American linguist.
• Willie Kizart, 66, American electric blues guitarist.
• Walter L. Morgan, 100, American banker
• Danièle Parola, 93, French film actress.
• Tommy J. Smith, 81, Australian racehorse trainer.
• Notable victims of Swissair Flight 111:
• *Mary Lou Clements-Mann, 51, American AIDS researcher.
• *Jonathan Mann, 51, American physician, head of the WHO's AIDS program.

3

• Vince Alascia, 84, American comic book artist.
• Samuel Findlay Clark, 89, Canadian Army general.
• Ellis R. Kerley, 74, American forensic anthropologist.
• Anup Kumar, 68, Indian actor.
• Friedrich Körner, 77, World War II Luftwaffe Flying ace.
• Albert Nemethy, 78, Hungarian-American artist.
• John F. Thornell Jr., 77, World War II United States Army Air Forces Flying ace.

4

• Hans Brenner, 59, Austrian actor.
• Jimmy Constantine, 78, English football player.
• Hernando Durán Dussán, Colombian lawyer and politician, respiratory infection.
• Robert Higgins, 73, American weightlifter.
• Ernst Jaakson, 93, Estonian diplomat.
• Elizabeth Kata, 85, Australian writer under the pseudonym "Elizabeth Kata".
• Charles Kemball, 75, Scottish chemist.
• Tania Long, 85, American journalist and war correspondent during World War II.
• Masato Nakae, 80, Japanese American US Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient.
• Inge Scholl, 81, German activist and resistance member during World War II, cancer.
• Lal Waterson, 55, English folksinger and songwriter, cancer.

5

• Fernando Balzaretti, 52, Mexican actor, cardiovascular disease.
• Leon Dombrowski, 60, American gridiron football player.
• Willem Drees, 75, Dutch politician and son of politician Willem Drees.
• Michael Fleischer, 90, American chemist and mineralogist.
• Sonny Knight, 64, American singer, songwriter and author, complications following a stroke.
• Margaret Lefranc, 91, American visual artist.
• Félix Morisseau-Leroy, 86, Haitian writer.
• Minoru Niizuma, 67, Japanese abstract sculptor, stroke.
• Verner Panton, 72, Danish interior designer.
• Leo Penn, 77, American actor and director, lung cancer.
• Billy Soose, 83, American boxer.

6

• Ernst-Hugo Järegård, 69, Swedish cult actor, multiple myeloma.
• Akira Kurosawa, 88, Japanese film director and screenwriter, stroke.
• Hava Lazarus-Yafeh, 68, German-Israeli orientalist and academic.
• Ric Segreto, 45, American-Filipino singer-songwriter and actor, traffic collision.
• Elaine Shepard, 85, American actress.
• Denise Spencer, 68, Australian freestyle swimmer and Olympian.

7

• Håvard Alstadheim, 62, Norwegian economist and politician.
• Mario Bardi, 77, Italian Realist painter, stroke.
• André Bonin, 89, French fencer and Olympic champion.
• Prof. K.M. Chandy, 77, Indian freedom fighter and politician.
• Valeri Frid, 76, Soviet screenwriter.
• John Osler Chattock Hayes, 85, British Royal Navy officer.

8

• Walter Adams, 76, American economist and college professor, pancreatic cancer.
• Leonid Kinskey, 95, Russian-born actor, complications of a stroke.
• Arsh Muneer, 84, Pakistani actress and singer.
• Marco Rizo, 77, Cuban-American pianist, composer, and arranger, heart attack.
• Bill Shankland, 91, Australian sportsman, heart failure.
• Ewald Tilker, 86, German canoeist and Olympic medalist.
• Tryfon Tzanetis, 80, Greek football player and coach.

9

• Lucio Battisti, 55, Italian singer-songwriter and composer, cancer.
• Bill Cratty, 47, American modern dancer and choreographer, liver cancer.
• Eleanor Garatti, 89, American swimmer and Olympic gold medalist.
• Mariano Martín, 78, Spanish footballer.
• Catherine Turney, 91, American writer and screenwriter.
• Jerry Zimmerman, 63, American baseball player and coach.

10

• Carl Forgione, 54, British actor.
• Freddie Green, 82, English professional footballer.
• Adolfe de Hoernle, 96, German-American philanthropist.
• Noshirvan Nagarwala, 88, Indian cricket umpire.
• Frederick Rosier, 82, British Royal Air Force commander.
• Kedar Man Vyathit, 84, Nepali poet.

11

• Paku Alam VIII, 88, Indonesian royal and Governor of Yogyakarta.
• Sofía Bassi, 85, Mexican painter and writer, heart failure.
• Dane Clark, 86, American actor.
• Stephie D'Souza, 61, Indian athlete and Olympian.
• Carlos Guimard, 85, Argentine chess Grandmaster.
• Rolando Morán, 68, Guatemalan revolutionary leader, heart attack.
• P. S. Veerappa, 87, Indian actor and film producer.

12

• George E. Danielson, 83, American politician and judge, heart failure.
• Hans Grimm, 93, German film director and screenwriter.
• Azem Hajdari, 35, Albanian student leader, shot.
• Awang Hassan, 87, Malaysian politician.
• John Holliman, 49, American broadcast journalist, traffic collision.
• Henry Spira, 71, Belgian-American animal rights activist, esophageal cancer.

13

• Talimeren Ao, 80, Indian footballer and physician.
• Denys Buckley, 92, English barrister and judge.
• Necdet Calp, 76, Turkish civil servant and politician, heart attack.
• Aloys Grillmeier, 88, German Jesuit priest and theologian.
• Frans Hogenbirk, 80, Dutch football player.
• Owen Horwood, 81, South African economist and politician, heart attack.
• Antonio Núñez Jiménez, 75, Cuban revolutionary and academic.
• Harry Lumley, 71, Canadian ice hockey goaltender in the National Hockey League.
• Phil Ridings, 80, Australian cricket player.
• George Wallace, 79, American politician and populist, Parkinson's disease.

14

• Johnny Adams, 66, American blues, jazz and gospel singer, prostate cancer.
• Hahn William Capps, 95, American entomologist.
• Sue Geh, 39, Australian women's basketball player, heart failure.
• Fred Korth, 89, United States Secretary of the Navy.
• George Scott, 69, English snooker player.
• Yang Shangkun, 91, President of the People's Republic of China.

15

• Fred Alderman, 93, American sprint runner and Olympic champion.
• Barrett Deems, 84, American swing drummer, pneumonia.
• Charles George Drake, 78, Canadian neurosurgeon.
• René Ferrier, 61, French football midfielder.
• Viljo Heino, 84, Finnish long-distance runner and Olympian.
• Reynold B. Johnson, 92, American inventor and computer pioneer, melanoma.
• Carl Larpenter, 62, American gridiron football player.
• Caroline Mikkelsen, 91, Danish-Norwegian explorer.
• Don Perkins, 80, American football player.
• Louis Rasminsky, 90, Canadian banker.
• Eva Gabriele Reichmann, 101, German historian and sociologist.

16

• Egidio Ariosto, 87, Italian politician.
• Jane Marsh Beveridge, 82, Canadian artist.
• John Eakins, 75, Canadian politician.
• Mazhar Khan, 43, Indian actor and producer, renal failure.
• Bjørn Stenersen, 28, Norwegian racing cyclist and Olympian.
• John Systad, 86, Norwegian long-distance runner and Olympian.
• Andrzej Trzaskowski, 65, Polish jazz composer and musicologist.
• Pak Tu-jin, 82, Korean poet.
• Harold Vokes, 90, American malacologist and paleontologist.
• John Woyat, 65, Canadian football player.

17

• William Albright, 53, American composer, pianist and organist.
• Ted Binion, 54, American gambling executive.
• Geoffrey Dutton, 76, Australian author and historian.
• Win Elliot, 83, American television and radio sportscaster and game show host.
• April FitzLyon, 78, English translator, biographer, and historian.
• Gerold Frank, 91, American author and ghostwriter.
• Red Hoff, 107, American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball, fall.
• Gustav Nezval, 90, Czech stage and film actor.
• Ralph Pappier, 84, Argentine production designer and film director.
• Celia Rooke, 96, English printmaker and book illustrator.

18

• Francelia Butler, 85, American scholar and children's author.
• Charlie Foxx, 64, American musician.
• Kurt Hager, 86, East German politician.
• Erik Holmberg, 76, Norwegian football player.
• Sam Locke, 81, American writer and director.
• Harun Nasution, 79, Indonesian scholar.
• Vadim Rogovin, 61, Russian Trotskyist historian and sociologist.
• John Baptist Mugisha, 43, Ugandan Police Officer Political scientist, Father.

19

• Susan Barrantes, 61, British film producer and mother of Sarah, Duchess of York, traffic collision.
• Patricia Hayes, 88, English actress.
• Ran Laurie, 83, British physician, Olympic gold medalist and father of Hugh Laurie, Parkinson's disease.
• John Norby, 88, American gridiron football player.

20

• Audrey Alexandra Brown, 93, Canadian poet.
• Muriel Humphrey Brown, 86, American politician and wife of Vice President Hubert Humphrey.
• Robert Malachy Burke, 91, Irish socialist and philanthropist.
• Lila Katzen, 72, American abstract sculptor, liver cancer.
• Alan Prescott, 71, English rugby league footballer.
• Raoul Schránil, 88, Czech film actor.

21

• Margaret Allan, 89, Scottish motor racing driver.
• Oz Bach, 59, American folk musician, cancer.
• Clara Calamai, 89, Italian actress, stroke.
• Florence Griffith Joyner, 38, American track and field athlete, and Olympic champion, epilepsy.
• Vladimir Pokhilko, 44, Soviet-Russian entrepreneur, suicide by throat-cutting.
• Arto Tiainen, 68, Finnish cross-country skier and politician.

22

• Semira Adamu, 20, Nigerian asylum seeker.
• Ymer Dishnica, 86, Albanian politician and physician.
• Michel Dubé, 39, Canadian outlaw biker and gangster, suicide.
• Otakhon Latifi, 62, Tajikistan journalist and politician, shot.
• Henry Mayer, 72, German composer.
• Doug Smith, 73, Scottish rugby union player.

23

• Søren Andersen, 72, Danish football player.
• Ray Bowden, 89, English footballer.
• Mary Frann, 55, American actress, heart attack.
• Brian Masters, 65, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Fulham and Edmonton.
• Héctor Vilches, 72, Uruguayan football player.
• Robert Wells, 75, American songwriter and television producer.

24

• Genrich Altshuller, 71, Soviet engineer, inventor, and writer, Parkinson's disease.
• Rosendo Balinas Jr., 57, Filipino chess grandmaster.
• Frank Curran, 81, English footballer.
• Jeff Moss, 56, American composer, playwright and television writer, colon cancer.
• Ernie Pannell, 81, American gridiron football player.

25

• Billy Giles, 41, Northern Irish UVF volunteer, suicide by hanging.
• Shaukat Hayat Khan, 83, Pakistani politician, activist and military officer.
• Johnny McGrory, 83, Scottish boxer.
• Wim Schepers, 55, Dutch road cyclist, cardiac arrest.
• Cas Walker, 96, American politician and radio and TV personality.
• Caspar Wrede, 69, Finnish theatre and film director.

26

• Giovanni Barbini, 97, Italian naval officer during World War II.
• Betty Carter, 69, American jazz singer, pancreatic cancer.
• Jack Haskell, 79, American singer and announcer.
• Jerome D. Mack, 77, American banker, fundraiser and philanthropist, cancer.
• Harald Vock, 73, German television producer and director.

27

• Alex Joseph, 62, American outspoken polygamist and founder of the Confederate Nations of Israel, a Mormon fundamentalist sect, liver cancer.
• Karlheinz Kaske, 70, German manager and CEO of the Siemens AG from 1981 to 1992.
• Narita Bryan, 7, Japanese racehorse, gastric rupture.
• Shawn Phelan, 23, American actor, brain injury.
• Doak Walker, 71, American football player and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, skiing accident.

28

• Eric Malling, 52, Canadian television journalist, brain hemorrhage after fall.
• Joan Maude, 90, English actress.
• Marcel Pourbaix, 94, Belgian chemist.
• Louis L. Redding, 96, American lawyer and civil rights advocate.
• Shiv Prasaad Singh, 70, Indian writer and academic.
• George Tranter, 83, English football player.

29

• Tom Bradley, 80, American politician and police officer, heart attack.
• Valston Hancock, 91, Australian commander in the Royal Australian Air Force.
• Gordon W. Richards, 68, British racehorse trainer.
• Joachim Count of Schönburg-Glauchau, 69, German nobleman.

30

• D. Bruce Berry, 74, American comic book artist.
• Laurie Brown, 61, English football player and manager.
• Frank Forberger, 55, East German rower and Olympic champion, brain cancer.
• Marius Goring, 86, English actor, cancer.
• Nechama Hendel, 62, Israeli singer.
• Émile Krieps, 78, Luxembourgish army officer and politician.
• Bruno Munari, 90, Italian artist and designer.
• Stephen Pearlman, 63, American actor, cancer.
• Dan Quisenberry, 45, American baseball player, brain cancer.
• Robert R. Squires, 45, American chemist.
• Robert Lewis Taylor, 86, American author and Pullizer Prize winner.
• Pavel Štěpán, 73, Czech pianist.