Famous People Who Died In 1998
Discover the most famous people died who died in the year 1998. This list includes people like Frank Sinatra, Phil Hartman, Sonny Bono, Linda McCartney, Pol Pot and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, poets, artists and composers who died in 1998. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, India & Germany and many more countries.
Frank Sinatra12 December 1915, American
Singer and Actor
Phil Hartman24 September 1948, Canadian, American
Actor, Voice Actor, Comedian
Matthew Shepard01 December 1976, American
Gay Hate Murder Victim
Pol Pot19 May 1925, Cambodian
Dictator, War Criminal
Sonny Bono16 February 1935, American
Singer-songwriter
Linda McCartney24 September 1941, American
Photographer, Musician
James Earl Ray10 March 1928, American
Assassin
George Wallace25 August 1919, American
Stokely Carmichael29 June 1941, Guinean, Trinidadian, American
Lloyd Bridges15 January 1913, American
Film & TV Actor
Akira Kurosawa23 March 1910, Japanese
Filmmaker
John Derek12 August 1926, American
Actor
Roddy McDowall17 September 1928, British
Actor
Roy Rogers05 November 1911, American
King of the Cowboys
Alan Shepard18 November 1923, American
Astronaut, Aviator, Entrepreneur
Tammy Wynette05 May 1942, American
Singer
Michelle Thomas23 September 1968, American
Actress
Enoch Powell16 June 1912, British
Ted Hughes17 August 1930, British
Poet and Children's Writer
Rob Pilatus08 June 1965, German
Singer
Gulzarilal Nanda04 July 1898, Indian
Former Prime Minister of India
Harry Caray01 March 1914, American
Jack Lord30 December 1920, American
Television actor
Flip Wilson08 December 1933, American
Comedian & Actor
Carlos Castaneda25 December 1925, American
Author
Karla Faye Tucker18 November 1959, American
First woman to be executed in the US since 1984
Martha Gellhorn08 November 1908, American
Journalist & Writer
Eldridge Cleaver31 August 1935, American
Jeanette Nolan30 December 1911, American
Actress
Persis Khambatta02 October 1948, Indian
Actress, Model
Michel Trudeau02 October 1975, Canadian
Pierre Trudeau's son
Leo Penn27 August 1921, American
Actor
Benjamin Spock02 May 1903, American
Pediatrician and Political Activist
Jerome Robbins11 October 1918, American
Dance Choreographer
Mary Frann27 February 1943, American
Actress
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Octavio Paz31 March 1914, Mexican
Writer, Poet, Diplomat and Noble Prize Laureate
Vasili Arkhipov30 January 1926, Russian
Naval Officer
Vladimir Demikhov18 July 1916, Russian
Organ Transplant Pioneer
Henny Youngman16 March 1906, American
Comedian
Michael Tippett02 January 1905, British
Composer
Nizar Qabbani21 March 1923, Syrian
Diplomat
Galina Ulanova08 January 1910, Russian
Ballet Dancer, Choreographer
Alfred Schnittke24 November 1934, German, Russian
Composer
Helen Carter19 September 1927, American
Singer-Songwriter
Frederick Reines16 March 1918, American
Physicist
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin05 February 1914, British
Biophysicist & Physiologist
Theodore Schultz30 April 1902, American
Economist
Allan McLeod Cormack23 February 1924, British, American, South African
Physicist
Kenichi Fukui04 October 1918, Japanese
Chemist
Vladimir Prelog23 July 1906, Swiss
Chemist
Derek Barton08 September 1918, British
Chemist
Martin Rodbell01 December 1925, American
Biochemist
George H. Hitchings18 April 1905, American
Physiologist
Andre Weil06 May 1906, French
Mathematician
Barry Morris Goldwater02 January 1909, American
Former United States Senator
Raman Lamba02 January 1960, Indian
Cricketer
Florence Griffith Joyner21 December 1959, American
Sprinter
Carl Wilson21 December 1946, American
Musician, Guitarist, Record producer, Composer
Francys Arsentiev18 January 1958, American
Mountaineer
Esther Rolle08 November 1920, American
Theater Actress, Film Actress, Television Actress
Wendy O. Williams28 May 1949, American
Singer
Lenny McLean09 April 1949, British
Actor, Boxer
Gene Autry29 September 1907, American
Actor, Singer, Singer-songwriter, Musician,
Sani Abacha20 September 1943, Nigerian
Politician, Military personnel
Roy Benavidez05 August 1935, American
Soldier
Carl Perkins1932 AD
Guitarist, Songwriter
Shari Lewis17 January 1933, American
Actor, Television presenter, Puppeteer,
Norman Fell24 March 1924, American
Actor
Beverley Cross13 April 1931, British
Screenwriter, Librettist
Cozy Powell29 December 1947, British
Drummer
Bob Kane24 October 1915, American
Painter, Artist, Writer, Screenwriter
Justin Fashanu19 February 1961, British
Association football player
Shirley Ardell Mason25 January 1923, American
Artist
Archie Moore13 December 1916, American
Professional boxer
Ernst Jünger29 March 1895, German
Soldier, Author, Entomologist
Yang Shangkun05 July 1907
Politician
Marjory Stoneman Douglas07 April 1890, American
Journalist, Feminist
Protima Bedi12 October 1948, Indian
Model
Alan J. Pakula07 April 1928, American
American film director
Bharathan14 November 1947, Indian
film director
Jean-François Lyotard10 August 1924, French
Philosopher, Philologist, Writer, Linguist,
Dan Osman11 February 1963, American
Rock climber
Grandpa Jones20 October 1913, American
Banjoist, Singer, Songwriter
Florence Griffith-Joyner21 December 1959, American
American track and field athlete
Niklas Luhmann08 December 1927, German
Philosopher, Scientist, Sociologist, University
Raymond Cattell20 March 1905, British, American
Psychologist, University teacher
Jean Marais11 December 1913, French
Film actor, Actor, Sculptor, Painter, Theatre
Otto Kretschmer01 May 1912, German
Soldier, Submariner
Conrad Schumann28 March 1942, German
Soldier
Christian Mortensen16 August 1882, Danish, American
Tailor
Todor Zhivkov07 September 1911, Bulgarian
Politician
Talat Mahmood24 February 1924, Indian
Actor, Singer
David McClelland20 May 1917, American
Psychologist, University teacher, Sociologist
Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche19 September 1909, Austrian
Entrepreneur, Engineer
Mahbub ul Haq22 February 1934, Pakistani
Economist, Politician, Financier, Banker
Jon Postel06 August 1943, American
Computer scientist