The following is a list ofnotable deaths in November 1998.

Entries for each day are listedalphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

• César Castellanos, 51, Honduran politician, mayor of Tegucigalpa (since 1998), helicopter crash.^[1]
• Augusto Magli, 75, Italian football player.
• Kunitaka Sueoka, 81, Japanese football player.
• Norbert Wollheim, 85, German-AmericanHolocaust survivor.^[2]
• Stanislav Zhuk, 63, Russian Olympic skater and coach, heart attack.^[3]

• Janet Arnold, 66, British clothing historian, costume designer and author,lymphoma.^[4]
• Sverre Brodahl, 89, NorwegianNordic skier and Olympic medalist.^[5]
• Claude Bramall Burgess, 88, Hong KongColonial Secretary.
• Fred Freer, 82, Australian cricket player.
• Henry Horton, 75, English sportsman.
• Rolf Husberg, 90, Swedish film director, screenwriter and actor.
• Jovelina Pérola Negra, 54, Braziliansamba singer and songwriter, heart attack.
• Elmo Plaskett, 60,United States Virgin Islands baseball player.^[6]
• Vincent Winter, 50, Scottish child film actor, heart attack.^[7]

• Ray Bremser, 64, American poet.^[8]
• Helmuth Johannsen, 78, German football player and manager.^[9]
• Bob Kane, 83, American comic book writer (Batman).^[10]
• John Campbell Merrett, 89, Canadian architect.^[11]
• P. L. Narayana, 63, Indian film actor and playwright.
• Martha O'Driscoll, 76, American film actress.^[12]
• Oriano Quilici, 68, Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.
• Nina Youshkevitch, 77, Franco-Russian ballet dancer and teacher.^[13]

• Jean de Heinzelin de Braucourt, 78, Belgian geologist.^[14]
• Marion Donovan, 81, American inventor and entrepreneur.^[15]
• Lars Ernster, 78, Swedish biochemist andNobel Foundation board member.
• Joyce Lussu, 86, Italian writer andpartisan during World War II.^[16]
• Jimmy McGee, 75, Irish basketball player and musician.
• Jorge Wehbe, 78, Argentine lawyer and economist,Minister of Economy.

• Garlin Murl Conner, 79, United States Army officer during World War II andMedal of Honor recipient.^[17]
• Momoko Kōchi, 66, Japanese actress (Godzilla), cancer.^[18]
• Nagarjun, 87, Indian poet.
• Jack Stewart, 86, Australian farmer and politician.

• Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim,President of the Comoros.
• Hélmer Herrera Buitrago, 47, Colombiannarco and member of theCali Cartel, shot.^[19]
• Jack Hartman, 73, American gridiron football player and basketball coach.^[20]
• Bobo Lewis, 72, American comedic actress, cancer.^[21]
• Sky Low Low, 70, Canadian midget wrestler, heart attack.^[22]
• Niklas Luhmann, 70, German sociologist and philosopher of social science.^[23]
• Wolfgang Stresemann, 94, German jurist, orchestra leader, conductor and composer.^[24]
• István Szőts, 86, Hungarian screenwriter and film director.
• Stan Wright, 77, Americantrack and field coach.^[25]

• Jitendra Abhisheki, 69, Indian vocalist, composer and music scholar.
• Leonard De Paur, 83, American composer and choral director.^[26]
• Agenore Fabbri, 87, Italian sculptor and painter.
• Margaret Gowing, 77, English historian,Alzheimer's disease.^[27]
• John Hunt, Baron Hunt, 88,British Army officer.^[28]
• Vladimir Matskevich, 88, Sovietapparatchik and ambassador.
• Börje Mellvig, 86, Swedish actor, screenwriter, director and lyricist.
• Ted Slevin, English rugby player.
• Jiwan Singh Umranangal, 84, Indian politician.
• O. Meredith Wilson, 89, American historian and academic, brain cancer.^[29]

• Rumer Godden, 90, English author (Black Narcissus), complications from a series of strokes.^[30]
• Jemal Karchkhadze, Georgian writer.
• Thomas Henry Manning, 86, British-Canadian Arctic explorer, geographer, zoologist, and author.^[31]
• Jean Marais, 84, French actor, writer and sculptor,cardiovascular disease.^[32]
• Lonnie Pitchford, 43, American blues musician and instrument maker.^[33]
• Erol Taş, 70, Turkish film actor,diabetes.

• Baya, 66, Algerian artist.
• Henry Dorman, 82, American lawyer and politician.^[34]
• Phillip Paske, 45, American child pornographer,AIDS.^[35]
• Anura Ranasinghe, 42, Sri Lankan cricketer, heart attack.
• Ursula Reit, 84, German actress.^[36]
• Francis Scully, 73, American sailor and Olympic medalist.^[37]

• Svetlana Beriosova, 66, Lithuanian-Britishprima ballerina, cancer.^[38]
• Peter Cotes, 86, English actor, writer, and director.^[39]
• Mahmoud Hassan, 78, Egyptian Greco-Romanbantamweight wrestler and Olympic medalist.^[40]
• Henry James, 78, British civil servant (born 1919).
• Jean Leray, 92, French mathematician.^[41]
• Georg Liebsch, 87, Germanfeatherweight weightlifter and Olympian.^[42]
• Mary Millar, 62, British actress (Keeping Up Appearances) and singer, ovarian cancer.^[43]
• Hal Newhouser, 77, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers) and member of theMLB Hall of Fame, respiratory disease.^[44]
• Ellis Robinson, 87, English cricketer.

• Frank Brimsek, 83, American ice hockey player.^[45]
• Patrick Clancy, 76, Irish folk singer, lung cancer.^[46]
• Gérard Grisey, 52, French composer ofcontemporary classical music, rupturedaneurysm.^[47]
• Ferdinand Kulmer, 73, Croatian abstract painter.^[48]
• Allan Kwartler, 81, Americansabre andfoilfencer.^[49]
• Sam Melberg, 86, Norwegian sports diver and Olympian.^[50]
• Elvis Jacob Stahr, Jr., 82, American government official and college president.^[51]
• Anicet Utset, 66, Spanish cyclist.

• Janet Alcoriza, 80, American screenwriter and actress.
• Jack Gelineau, 74, Canadian ice hockey player, cancer.^[52]
• James H. Gray, 92, Canadian journalist, historian and author.^[53]
• Paul Hoffman, 73, American basketball player, brain tumor.^[54]
• Roy Hollis, 72, English football player.^[55]
• Asher Joel, 86, Australian politician and public servant.
• Kenny Kirkland, 43, American pianist andkeyboardist, congestive heart failure.^[56]
• Lu Ann Meredith, 85, American film actress.
• Sally Shlaer, 59, Americanmathematician, software engineer andmethodologist.^[57]

• Don Bishop, 64, American gridiron football player.^[58]
• Joseph C. Brun, 91, French-Americancinematographer.^[59]
• Edwige Feuillère, 91, French actress.^[60]
• Valerie Hobson, 81, Irish-born actress, heart attack.^[61]
• Red Holzman, 78, American basketball player and coach, leukemia.^[62]
• Hendrik Timmer, 94, Dutch sportsman and Olympic medalist.^[63]
• Michel Trudeau, 23, Canadian outdoorsman, and son ofPrime MinisterPierre Trudeau and brother of Prime MinisterJustin Trudeau,avalanche.^[64]
• Ilie Văduva, 64, Romaniancommunist politician.^[65]
• Doug Wright, 84, English cricket player.

• Eli Cashdan, 93, British rabbi.
• Quentin Crewe, 72, English journalist, author, restaurateur and adventurer.^[66]
• Albert Frey, 95, Swiss-American architect.^[67]
• Rachel Holzer, 99, Australian theatre actress and director.

• Stokely Carmichael, 57, Trinidadian-American political activist, prostate cancer.^[68]
• Henryk Chmielewski, 84, Polish boxer and Olympian.^[69]
• Lawrence Krader, 78, American socialist anthropologist and ethnologist.^[70]
• Federico Krutwig, 77, SpanishBasque writer, philosopher, and politician.
• William T. Miller, 87, American professor oforganic chemistry.^[71]
• Doris Niles, 93, American dancer.^[72]
• Leo Aloysius Pursley, 96, American clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church.

• Ludvík Daněk, 61, Czechoslovak discus thrower and Olympic champion, heart attack.^[73]
• Tyrone Delano Gilliam, Jr., 32, American convicted murderer,execution by lethal injection.^[74]
• Mohammad-Taqi Ja'fari, 73, Iranian scholar, philosopher and Islamic theologist.
• Queenie McKenzie, 68,Aboriginal Australian artist.
• Alexander Smorchkov, 78, Soviet fighter pilot during World War II and theKorean War.
• J. D. Sumner, 73, Americangospel singer and songwriter.^[75]

• Kea Bouman, 94, Dutch tennis player.^[76]
• Weeb Ewbank, 91, American football coach (Baltimore Colts,New York Jets) and member of thePro Football Hall of Fame, heart problems.^[77]
• Efim Geller, 73, Soviet chess player andgrandmaster.^[78]
• Jean Herly, 78, Monegasque diplomat and ambassador.
• Reinette L'Oranaise, 80, Algerian singer.
• Kenneth McDuff, 52, American serial killer,execution by lethal injection.^[79]
• Jacques Médecin, 70, French politician, cardiac arrest.^[80]
• Miguel A. García Méndez, 96, Puerto Rican lawyer and politician.
• Dick O'Neill, 70, American actor (The Jerk,The Taking of Pelham One Two Three,Cagney & Lacey).^[81]
• Esther Rolle, 78, American actress (Good Times,Maude,Driving Miss Daisy),Emmy winner (1979), diabetes.^[82]
• Bill Ward, 79, American cartoonist (Torchy).

• Telemaco Arcangeli, 75, Italian racewalker and Olympian.^[83]
• Norma Connolly, 71, American actress.^[84]
• Hal Davis, 65, American songwriter and record producer.^[85]
• Robin Hall, 62, Scottish folksinger.
• Jeanine Moulin, 86, Belgian poet and literary scholar.^[86]
• Aurélio de Lira Tavares, 93,Brazilian Army general.^[87]

• Louis Dumont, French anthropologist.^[88]
• Ted Fujita, 78, Japanese-American meteorologist.^[89]
• Alfred 'Ken' Gatward, 84, BritishRoyal Air Force pilot during World War II.^[90]
• Earl Kim, 78, American composer, andmusic pedagogue,lung cancer.^[91]
• William J. McCarthy, 79, American labor leader.
• Alan J. Pakula, 70, American film director and producer (All the President's Men,The Parallax View,To Kill a Mockingbird), traffic collision.^[92]

• Roland Alphonso, 67, Jamaicantenor saxophonist.^[93]
• Marian Brandys, 86, Polish writer and screenwriter.
• George Brophy, 72, American baseball executive.^[94]
• Howard Wilson Emmons, 86, American professor inMechanical Engineering.^[95]
• Meredith Gourdine, 69, American physicist, athlete and Olympic medalist.^[96]
• John Grimek, 88, Americanbodybuilder andweightlifter.^[97]
• Cec Luining, 67, Canadian football player.
• Mario Orozco Rivera, 68, Mexicanmuralist and painter.
• Dick Sisler, 78, American baseball player, coach and manager.^[98]
• Galina Starovoytova, 52, Soviet dissident, shot.^[99]

• Thomas V. Bermingham, American Jesuit priest andClassical scholar.^[100]
• Dariush Forouhar, 69–70, Iranianpan-Iranist politician,stabbed.
• Otto Frankel, 98, Austrian-Australiangeneticist.^[101]
• Dave Huffman, 41, American football player, traffic collision.^[102]
• Giles Pellerin, 91, American gridiron football player.
• Alvin P. Shapiro, 77, American physician and professor, complications ofkidney failure.^[103]
• Ormond R. Simpson, 83,United States Marine Corps officer.^[104]
• Fabian Ver, 78, Filipino military officer, pulmonary complications.
• Nosson Meir Wachtfogel, 88, Russian-AmericanOrthodox rabbi.

• Harlan Parker Banks, 85, Americanpaleobotanist andphycologist.
• Vladimir Demikhov, 82, Soviet scientist and organ transplantation pioneer.^[105]
• Henry Hampton, 58, American filmmaker.^[106]
• Mikołaj Kozakiewicz, 74, Polish politician, publicist and sociologist.
• Harry Lehmann, 74, German physicist.
• Celeste Mendoza, 68, Cuban singer.^[107]
• Holt Rast, 81, American football player.
• Jack Shadbolt, 89, Canadian painter.^[108]
• Stu Ungar, 45, American professionalpoker,blackjack, andgin rummy player, heart problems.^[109]

• Lamar McHan, 65, American football player and coach, heart attack.^[110]
• Gene Moore, 88, American designer and window dresser.^[111]
• Dan Osman, 35, American extreme sport practitioner,rock climbing accident.
• Ralph S. Phillips, 85, American mathematician and academic.
• Don Ray, 77, American basketball player.^[112]
• Eugen Seiterle, 84, Swiss field handball player and Olympic medalist.^[113]

• Len Barnum, 86, American gridiron football player.^[114]
• John Chadwick, 78, Englishlinguist and classical scholar who decipheredLinear B.^[115]
• Minnette de Silva, 80,Sri Lankan architect.
• Eprime Eshag, 80, Iranian economist.^[116]
• Guido Figone, 71, Italian gymnast.^[117]
• Nicholas Kurti, 90, Hungarian-British physicist.^[118]
• George F. Sprague, 96, American geneticist and researcher.
• Theodore Strongin, 79, American music critic, composer, flautist, andentomologist.^[119]
• Nikola Tanhofer, 71, Croatian film director, screenwriter andcinematographer.^[120]

• Robert Eisner, 76, American author and economist,bone marrow disorder.^[121]
• Nelson Goodman, 92, American philosopher.^[122]
• Parmeshwar Narayan Haksar, 85, Indian diplomat.^[123]
• Anwar Mesbah, 85, Egyptian weightlifter and Olympic champion.^[124]
• Enrico Sabbatini, 66, Italian costume designer (The Mission,Seven Years in Tibet,Cutthroat Island) and production designer, traffic collision.^[125]
• Fiatau Penitala Teo, 87, Tuvaluan political figure.
• Flip Wilson, 64, American comedian and actor,liver cancer.^[126]

• Gerald Battrick, 51, Welsh tennis player.^[127]
• Charles Moihi Te Arawaka Bennett, 85, New Zealand broadcaster, military leader and public servant.
• Mike Calvert, 85,British Army officer.
• M. T. Cheng, 81, Chinese mathematician.
• Ox Emerson, 90, American football player.^[128]
• Gyo Fujikawa, 90, American illustrator and children's author.^[129]
• Tom Lyon, 83, Scottish footballer.^[130]
• Ed Smith, 69, American basketball player (New York Knicks).^[131]

• Barbara Acklin, 55, American soul singer and songwriter, pneumonia.^[132]
• William Baxter, 69, American professor of law.^[133]
• Gloria Fuertes, 81, Spanish poet and children's author, lung cancer.^[134]
• Jozef IJsewijn, 65, BelgianLatinist.^[135]
• Douglas LePan, 84, Canadian diplomat, poet, novelist and professor of literature.^[136]
• Herman Murray, 89, Canadian ice hockey player.^[137]
• Andrey Sergeev, 65, Russian writer and translator, traffic collision.^[138]
• Vicki Viidikas, 50, Australian poet.^[139]

• Dante Fascell, 81, American politician,colorectal cancer.^[140]
• Frederick William Freking, 85, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church,emphysema.
• M. Donald Grant, 94, American baseball executive (New York Mets).^[141]
• Roberta Kevelson, 67, American academic andsemiotician.^[142]
• James C. Lucas, 86, American criminal and inmate ofAlcatraz penitentiary.
• Augie Scott, 77, English football player and manager.^[143]
• Maurice Seynaeve, 91, Belgiancyclo-cross rider.^[144]
• John Stanford, 60,American Army officer.^[145]
• Kerry Wendell Thornley, 60, Americancounterculture figure and writer, heart attack.^[146]

• Roy Benavidez, 63,United States Army Special Forces member andMedal of Honor recipient, complications ofdiabetes.^[147]
• Gino De Dominicis, 51, Italian artist.
• Maus Gatsonides, 87, Dutch rally driver and inventor.
• Jack Gilbert, 80, Australian World War II veteran and rugby player.
• Giant Haystacks, 52, British professional wrestler,lymphoma.
• Pépé Kallé, 46,Congolese musician, heart attack.^[148]
• Frank Latimore, 73, American actor.^[149]
• Živojin Pavlović, 65, Yugoslav and Serbian film director, writer, and painter.
• Robin Ray, 64, English broadcaster, actor, and musician, lung cancer.^[150]
• Jim Turner, 95, American baseball player.^[151]
• George Van Eps, 85, Americanswing andjazz guitarist,pneumonia.^[152]

• Pentti Aalto, 81, Finnishlinguist, heart disease.^[153]
• Abdullah Al-Muti, 68, Bangladeshi educationist and writer.
• Ruth Clifford, 98, American actress.^[154]
• Alfo Ferrari, 74, Italian cyclist.
• Jesse Levan, 72, American baseball player.^[155]
• Ad Liska, 92, American baseball pitcher.^[156]
• Simon Nkoli, 41, South African anti-apartheid andgay rights activist, AIDS.
• Johnny Roventini, 88, American actor.^[157]
• Philip Sterling, 76, American actor.^[158]
• James Strauch, 77, American Olympicfencer.^[159]
• Margaret Walker, 83, American poet and writer,breast cancer.^[160]

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