The following is a list ofnotable deaths in October 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.

• Pauline Julien, 70, Quebec singer, songwriter, actress andfeminist activist, suicide.^[1]
• Sjur Lindebrække, 89, Norwegian banker and politician.^[2]
• Vladimir Ossipoff, 90, Russian-American architect.
• Gabriel Sandu, 45, Romanian football player.

• Gene Autry, 91, AmericanHall of Fame singer ("Back in the Saddle Again", "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer") and actor (The Gene Autry Show), lymphoma.^[3]
• Jerzy Bińczycki, 61, Polish stage and film actor, heart attack.^[4]
• DONDI, 37, Americangraffiti artist,AIDS.^[5]
• William J. Eccles, 81, Canadian historian and academic.^[6]
• Olin J. Eggen, 79, Americanastronomer.
• Olivier Gendebien, 74, Belgian racing driver.^[7]
• Enrico Pagani, 69, Italian basketball player.^[8]
• Korla Pandit, 77, American composer, pianist, and organist, heart attack.
• Raymond Raikes, 88, British theatre producer, director and broadcaster.
• D. French Slaughter, Jr., 73, American politician.^[9]
• Adrian Spies, 78, American screenwriter.^[10]
• Roger Vivier, 90, French women's shoe designer.^[11]
• Richard Way, 84, British civil servant and academic administrator.
• Sanjaasürengiin Zorig, 36, Mongolian politician and revolutionary, assassinated.

• Hugo Batalla, 72, Uruguayan politician,vice president (1995-1998),lung cancer.
• Arthur Clues, 74, Australian rugby player.^[12]
• George Davis, 84, American art director (The Robe,The Diary of Anne Frank,Funny Face),Oscar winner (1954,1960).
• David C. Evans, 74, American computer scientist.^[13]
• Bernard Fox, 81, American figure skater.
• Colin Greenwood, 62, South African rugby player.
• Roddy McDowall, 70, British-American actor (Planet of the Apes,Cleopatra,Fright Night), lung cancer.^[14]
• G. S. Venkataraman, 68, Indian botanist.
• Anne-Marie Walters, 75, Swiss-BritishSpecial Operations Executive during World War II.
• George Yates, 90, Australian businessman and politician.^[15]

• S. Arasaratnam, 68, Sri Lankan academic, historian and author.^[16]
• Jean-Pascal Delamuraz, 62, Swiss politician.
• Lee Grissom, 90, American baseball player.^[17]
• Enea Pavani, 77, Italian curler.
• Tony Shelly, 61, New Zealand racing driver.^[18]

• Megs Jenkins, 81, English actress.^[19]
• Krzysztof Jung, 47, Polish painter, graphic artist and performer,asthma.
• Pierre Martory, 77, French poet.^[20]
• Federico Zeri, 77, Italianart historian.^[21]
• Arne Øien, 69, Norwegian economist and politician.

• Mark Belanger, 54, American baseball player, lung cancer.^[22]
• Ambrose Burke, 102, English professor and Catholic priest.
• Rolan Bykov, 68, Soviet and Russian actor, theatre and film director and screenwriter, lung cancer.^[23]
• Bob Gude, 80, American football player.^[24]
• Jean-François Jenny-Clark, 54, Frenchdouble bass player, cancer.^[25]
• James Larkin, 66, IrishGaelic football player and politician.
• Samuel Messick, 67, American psychologist.^[26]
• Stéphane Morin, 29, Canadian ice hockey player, heart problems.^[27]
• Joseph J. Sandler, 71, Britishpsychoanalyst.^[28]
• Chuck Walton, 57, American gridiron football player.
• Jerome Weidman, 85, American playwright and novelist.^[29]

• Evelyn Daniel Anderson, 72, American educator anddisability rights advocate.
• Richard Cyert, 77, American economist and statistician, cancer.^[30]
• Cees de Vreugd, 46, Dutch strongman, heart attack.
• W. B. Gallie, 86, Scottishsocial theorist and philosopher.^[31]
• Arnold Jacobs, 83, American tubist.
• Renato Malavasi, 94, Italian film actor.
• Joseph P. Merlino, 76, American Party politician.^[32]
• Lee Nak-hoon, 62, South Korean actor, heart disease and diabetes.
• Ru Zhijuan, 72, Chinese writer.^[33]

• Curtis Cassell, 85, German-Britishrabbi.
• Zhang Chongren, 91, Chinese artist and sculptor.^[34]
• Mohanlal Lallubhai Dantwala, 89, Indian agricultural economist, academic and writer.^[35]
• Jashim, 48, Bangladeshi film actor, producer and freedom fighter, brain haemorrhage.
• West Nkosi, 58, South African music producer,saxophonist and songwriter, traffic collision.^[36]
• Gigi Reder, 70, Italian character actor.
• Glenn Spearman, 51, American jazztenor saxophonist, cancer.^[37]
• Anatol Vieru, 72, Romanianmusic theoretician, pedagogue, and composer.^[38]

• Robert Allen, 92, American actor, cancer.^[39]
• Anthony Alonzo, 50, Filipino actor, singer, and councilor ofQuezon City, skin cancer.
• Beth Bonner, 46, American long-distance runner, traffic collision.
• George Rankine Irwin, 91, American scientist in the field of fracture mechanics and strength of materials.^[40]
• Ian Johnson, 80, Australian cricketer.^[41]
• John Geddes MacGregor, 88, British-American author, scholar, and priest.
• Nagbhushan Patnaik, 63, Indiancommunistrevolutionary and politician.
• Gustavo Petricioli, 70, Mexican economist, heart attack.
• Xiao Yang, 69, Chinese politician.

• Clark Clifford, 91, American lawyer and politician.^[42]
• Jackie Forster, 71, English news reporter, actress andlesbian rights activist.^[43]
• Marvin Gay Sr., 84, American minister and father ofMarvin Gaye,pneumonia.^[44]
• Pierce Lyden, 90, American actor.
• William Markowitz, 91, American astronomer.^[45]
• Tony Marvin, 86, American radio and television announcer.^[46]
• Rachel Cosgrove Payes, 75, American novelist and author.
• Konstantin Petrzhak, 91, Russian nuclear physicist.^[47]
• Tommy Quaid, 41, Irishhurler, injuries sustained from a fall.
• Berta Rahm, 88, Swiss architect, writer and feminist activist.^[48]
• El Tappe, 71, American baseball player and coach, cancer.^[49]

• Richard Denning, 84, American actor, heart attack.^[50]
• Fred Harris, 86, English footballer.^[51]
• Lars Theodor Jonsson, 94, Swedish cross-country skier.^[52]
• Michael Wynn, 7th Baron Newborough, 81, British peer andRoyal Naval Volunteer Reserve officer.^[53]
• Spottswood William Robinson III, 82, Americancivil rights attorney andUS Circuit Judge.
• Gaius Shaver, 88, American football player and Olympian.^[54]

• Jürgen Aschoff, 85, German physician, biologist and behavioral physiologist.^[55]
• Bernhard Minetti, 93, German actor.^[56]
• Julio Saraceni, 86, Argentine film director.
• Ineko Sata, 94, Japanese author and communist.^[57]
• Matthew Shepard, 21, American murder victim, beaten to death.^[58]
• Wilson Allen Wallis, 85, American economist and statistician.^[59]

• Thomas Byberg, 82, Norwegian speed skater and Olympic medalist.^[60]
• Dmitry Nikolayevich Filippov, 54, Soviet and Russian politician and industrialist, assassinated.
• P. T. Narasimhachar, 93, IndianKannada playwright and poet.^[61]
• Bojan Pečar, 38, Serbian/Yugoslav musician, heart attack.
• Jeremy Vargas Sagastegui, 27, American criminal,execution by lethal injection.^[62]
• Gérard Charles Édouard Thériault, 66, Canadian pilot andChief of the Defence Staff.

• Cleveland Amory, 81, American author, reporter andanimal rights activist,abdominal aortic aneurysm.^[63]
• Leopoldina Bălănuță, 63, Romanian actress.^[64]
• Dasarath Deb, 82, Indiancommunist politician.
• Betty Gillies, 90, American aviation pioneer.
• Giorgio Oberweger, 84, Italian discus thrower and Olympic medalist.^[65]
• Frankie Yankovic, 93, Americanpolka musician, heart failure.^[66]

• Rolf Agop, 90, German conductor and academic.
• Colette Darfeuil, 92, French actress.^[67]
• Mãe Cleusa Millet, 75, Brazilian physician and spiritual leader.
• Ike Owens, 79, Welsh rugby player.^[68]
• Iain Crichton Smith, 70, Scottish poet and novelist.^[69]

• Carlos Aldabe, 79, Argentinefootball player and coach.
• Frank Carswell, 78, American baseball player and manager.^[70]
• Jon Postel, 55, American computer scientist, complications from heart surgery.^[71]
• Joseph Stamler, 86, American lawyer and judge.^[72]
• M. Vasalis, 89, Dutch poet andpsychiatrist.^[73]

• Antonio Agri, 66, Argentine musician, cancer.
• Germán List Arzubide, 100, Mexican poet and revolutionary.^[74]
• Brian Dickson, 82, Canadian military officer and judge.
• Muhammad Abdullah Ghazi, 63, Pakistani religious leader, shot.
• Joan Hickson, 92, English actress (Miss Marple).^[75]
• Carmen Molina, 78, Mexican actress, singer, and dancer.
• Hakim Said, 78, Pakistani scholar and philanthropist, murdered.^[76]
• Tron, 26, German hacker and phreaker, suicide by hanging.
• Karel Vohralík, 53, Czech ice hockey player.^[77]

• Frédéric Fitting, 96, Swissfencer and Olympian.^[78]
• Peter A. Griffin, 61, American mathematician, author, andblackjack expert.
• Alfred Praks, 96, Estonian wrestler and Olympian.^[79]
• Dick Sheppard, 53, English footballer.^[80]
• George Shaw Wheeler, 90, American advisor to PresidentFranklin Delano Roosevelt anddefector.^[81]

• Arnold M. Auerbach, 86, American comedy writer.^[82]
• Frank J. Brasco, 66, American politician.^[83]
• Tommy Burks, 58, American farmer and politician, murdered.
• Chaduranga, 82, IndianKannada writer.
• Edward Flannery, 86, AmericanRoman Catholic priest and author,pancreatic cancer.^[84]
• Fritz Honka, 63, German serial killer.
• Charlton Ogburn, 87, American journalist and author, suicide.^[85]
• Compton I. White, Jr., 77, American politician.^[86]

• John Mowbray Didcott, 67, South African lawyer and judge, cancer.^[87]
• Frank Gillard, 89, BritishBBC reporter and radio pioneer.^[88]
• Gerhard Jahn, 71, German politician, cancer.^[89]
• Spike Nelson, 92, American football player and coach.
• René Pleimelding, 73, French football player and manager.^[90]

• Josef Bremm, 84,Nazi GermanyWehrmacht officer.
• Scott Brower, 34, American ice hockey player, traffic collision.^[91]
• Alexander Cairncross, 87, British economist.^[92]
• Cheng Lianzhen, 77, Chinese politician and bandit leader.^[93]
• John Hazen, 71, American basketball player.^[94]
• Nicholas Kemmer, 86, Russian-British nuclear physicist.^[95]
• Hans Alfred Nieper, 70, Germanalternative medicine practitioner.
• Alan Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury, 96, British businessman.
• Tatiana Tolmacheva, 91, Sovietfigure skater and figure skating coach.

• Eric Ambler, 89, Englishthriller author.^[96]
• Nathalia Crane, 85, American poet and novelist.^[97]
• Burton M. Cross, 95, American businessman, politician andgovernor.
• Ajit Khan, 76, Indian actor.^[98]
• Molly O'Day, 89, American film actress.
• Violet Owen, 96, British tennis and hockey player.^[99]
• Ángel Picazo, 81, Spanish film actor, cancer.
• Francis W. Sargent, 83, American politician andgovernor.^[100]

• Noel Carroll, 56, Irish middle distance runner and Olympian, heart attack.^[101]
• Christopher Gable, 58, English ballet dancer, choreographer and actor, cancer.^[102]
• Winnie Ruth Judd, 93, American convicted murderer.^[103]
• Zangeres Zonder Naam, 79, Dutchlevenslied singer, heart attack.^[104]
• Barnett Slepian, 52, Americanphysician, homicide.^[105]
• Silviu Stănculescu, 66, Romanian actor, leukemia.^[106]

• Rafael Alonso, 78, Spanish actor.^[107]
• Dennis Ayling, 81, Britishcinematographer.
• Charles Barnes, 96, Australian politician.^[108]
• Mary Calderone, 94, American physician and sexual education advocate.^[109]
• Pino Dordoni, 72, Italianrace walker and Olympic champion.^[110]
• Ardalion Ignatyev, 67, Soviettrack and field athlete and Olympic medalist.^[111]

• Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth, 93, Britishmycologist and scientific historian.^[112]
• Robin Brook, 90, British banker and Olympic fencer.^[113]
• Geoff Crain, 67, Canadian football player.
• Dick Higgins, 60, American artist, composer, poet, and publisher, heart attack.^[114]
• John Hyland, 86,United States Navy admiral.^[115]
• Gavriil Malish, 91, Soviet and Russian painter,watercolorist and graphic artist.
• Susan Strange, 75, British scholar and political scientist.^[116]
• Warren Wiebe, 45, American vocalist andsession musician, suicide.

• Nicholas Budgen, 60, British politician, liver cancer.^[117]
• Rick Dior, 51, American sound engineer (Apollo 13,Dirty Dancing,Ransom),Oscar winner (1996), heart attack.^[118]
• Kenkichi Iwasawa, 81, Japanese mathematician.^[119]
• Margaret Keay, 87, Britishphytopathologist.^[120]
• José Cardoso Pires, 73, Portuguese author.
• Hugh David Stevenson, 80,Royal Australian Navy officer.
• Terry Thomas, 45, American basketball player.^[121]
• Selvarajan Yesudian, 82, Swissyogi and author.

• Alfred Gray, 59, American mathematician, heart attack.
• Rosamund John, 85, English film and stage actress.^[122]
• Reidar Kvammen, 84, Norwegian footballer.^[123]
• Daniel Pedoe, 87, English mathematician andgeometer.
• Luis Prendes, 85, Spanish actor, cancer.^[124]
• Gene Taylor, 70, American politician.
• Klári Tolnay, 84, Hungarian actress.
• Winnie van Weerdenburg, 52, Dutch swimmer and Olympic medalist.^[125]

• Ghulam Ahmed, 76, Indian cricket player.
• Cuthbert Alport, Baron Alport, 86, British politician, minister andlife peer.^[126]
• Sherman Block, 74, American politician andsheriff.
• James L. Day, 73,United States Marine Corps major general.^[127]
• Tommy Flowers, 92, English engineer and electronic computing pioneer.^[128]
• James Goldman, 71, American screenwriter (The Lion in Winter,Nicholas and Alexandria) and playwright (Follies),Oscar winner (1969), heart attack.^[129]
• Ted Hughes, 68, English poet and children's writer, heart attack.^[130]
• Margaret Marley Modlin, 71, American painter, sculptor and photographer.^[131]
• Wang Shuming, 92, Chineseairforce colonel general.

• Anthony J. Celebrezze, 88, American politician.^[132]
• Alvin M. Johnston, 84, American jet-age test pilot, Alzheimer's disease.^[133]
• Gilda Lousek, 60, Argentine actress.
• Paul Misraki, 90, French composer of music andfilm scores.^[134]
• Harry Weese, 83, American architect, stroke.^[135]

• Vishram Bedekar, 92, Indian writer and movie director.
• Guido De Santi, 75, Italian racing cyclist.^[136]
• Apo Lazaridès, 73, French cyclist.^[137]
• Bulldog Turner, 79, American football player and coach.^[138]
• Lam Van Phat,Army of the Republic of Vietnam officer.
• Elmer Vasko, 62, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks,Minnesota North Stars).^[139]
• Heinz Westphal, 74, German politician.

• Kenneth Darling, 89,British Army general.^[140]
• María de la Purísima de la Cruz, 72, SpanishRoman Catholic nun.
• Bernard J. Dwyer, 77, AmericanDemocratic Party politician, heart attack.^[141]
• Vassar Miller, 74, American writer and poet.^[142]
• Noah Mullins, 80, American gridiron football player.^[143]
• Lou Rymkus, 78, American football player and coach, stroke.^[144]
• Bob Thurman, 81, American baseball player.^[145]

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